People spreading completely unfounded rumours about the Russians poisoning/assassinating Sen Graham in Ukraine are doing the Ukrainians a big disservice, as it means that the Ukrainians could not protect a US Senator on an official trip.

TheESP – Ep. #538 – Happily Biased Towards Science! theesp.eu/podcast_arch...

important 🧵on threats to academic freedom. I suspect many/many academics will have similar stories rn.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Meet Willi, one of the world's last genetically wild horses, who arrived in Kazakhstan. Absent from this landscape for 200 years, Przewalski's horses are returning to the wilderness of the steppe. On #WorldHorseDay, learn more about this #GenerationRestoration success story: tinywebs.site/UXeYzO

In February, it was already clear that the administration would make multiple attempts to manipulate the elections. From the Autocracy in America podcast: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

“A major role of corporate governance rules & arrangements is to limit the extent to which public company insiders can split the pie in their favour.”

Europa gedraagt zich als een ‘eigendom’ van de Verenigde Staten, zo vindt journalist Dave Keating. Die afhankelijkheid is volgens hem niet alleen militair, maar ook economisch en cultureel. Aan FTM vertelt hij hoe die afhankelijkheid is ontstaan, en hoe Europa weer op eigen benen kan staan.

Even Fervent Musk Fans Should Worry About the SpaceX Governance Risks Bebchuk and Kastiel, Harvard Law School, ProMarket www.promarket.org/2026/07/07/e...

“Across democracies, the central dynamic is not two poles drifting apart but the transformation of the political right into authoritarianism, norm breaking, & openness to political violence. Social democratic & center-right parties tend to respond…by accommodating rightward.”

Europe is increasingly looking to learn from Ukraine's battlefield experience — and drone warfare, one of the fastest-evolving areas of the conflict, is a prime example.

IPI is proud to announce @elclip.bsky.social as one of this year’s Free Media Pioneer Award recipients. Connecting the dots across borders, CLIP is pioneering a new model for cross-border investigative journalism in Latin America. Read about their work: buff.ly/xDl2tDU

Happy Mass Dems convention weekend! Here’s a reminder of why you should vote for Ed Markey and not Seth Moulton. jonathancohn.medium.com/ma-elects-fi...

☠️ Russia loses 1,310 soldiers over past day

Der AfD-Landtagsabgeordente Ralf Stadler wurde heute vom Amtsgericht Passau zu einer Geldstrafe von 26.400 Euro verurteilt. Das Urteil ist noch nicht rechtskräftig. Der Hauptvorwurf: Volksverhetzung durch ein Video vom Bahnhof Moosburg.

A rapid succession of major heatwaves since May suggests that extreme heat is no longer an isolated event, but an increasingly prolonged feature of European summers. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/uNtq

Canicules: le mois de juin 2026 a été le plus chaud enregistré en Europe occidentale dans l'histoire, a dévoilé jeudi l'observatoire climatique de l'UE Copernicus.

“Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr – Head of Policy at Reform UK.”

Oil prices have risen after the US carried out fresh strikes on Iran, denting hopes for talks to end their war and for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of pre-war global oil supplies

🇩🇪🇺🇦 "I wonder, why do you, from the AfD, hate Ukraine so much? What have the people of Ukraine actually done to you that you're on Putin's side? Putin is harming the German people. Putin is harming Europe. ” - Jürgen Hardt Member of the German Bundestag

​Hundreds of ships with around 6,000 seafarers remain stranded in the Persian Gulf since the beginning of the conflict in the Middle East. www.imo.org/en/mediacent...

Le firme sono le più note della galassia hacker che guarda al Cremlino: CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR) e Z-Pentest, spesso coinvolte nelle “campagne” dal collettivo NoName057(16).

Arrestato in Spagna hacker italiano, lavorava per i gruppi filorussi https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/07/08/news/hacker_italiano_arrestato_spagna_russia-425458271/?rss

Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has charged two executives that allegedly helped China’s cyber spies target Taiwanese officials and scholars, violating the personal data protection act, among other crimes. The spies impersonated reporters affiliated with ICIJ.

It is amazing and depressing how often Trump has ridden to Putin's aid since becoming President. Just some of his actions include: 1) Cutting off all US military and economic aid for Ukraine 2) Slow walking vital military sales to Ukraine 3) Rehabilitating Putin by inviting him to the USA .

UK tax system makes poor poorer Wage taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45%, national insurance (NI) paid. Capital gains & dividends taxed at the marginal rates of 18% to 24%, and 10.75% to 39.35%. No NI. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.

Hi All, just finished a detailed chat with Andriy Zagorodnyuk and Edward Stringer. We delved into the creation of Ukraine's new paradigm of airpower, how the mid strike campaign is working and how western militaries still have a ways to go…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Lines of graves are prepared for unidentified victims of the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, killing at least 3,500 people and injuring more than 16,700

Two views of the UK's approach to trade negotiations with the US. Fwiw and not just because he quotes me in the next paragraph, I tend towards @alanbeattie.bsky.social left rather than the anonymous US official... and no the UK does not have a uniquely fabulous US deal.

Interpol issues a red notice for Anastastiia Berezovska: 39 yo, female, born in Ukraine, tattoo of a snake, expertise in munitions. She is wanted for an explosion at an apartment building entrance in Monaco wounding a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Russia. www.interpol.int/en/How-we-wo...

🇬🇧❗️Russian hackers have obtained email accounts of British civil servants and Foreign Office employees working abroad, - The Telegraph. The data is reportedly already up for sale on the dark web for over £40,000. 1/3

"For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions, than it did for cases argued in open court." www.propublica.org/article/supr...

Robert Jenrick bounced from studio to studio in defence of Nigel Farage on Sunday, just hours after The Times dropped a damning exposé on the Reform leader and his suspicious sources of funding. It's safe to say, Jenrick didn't have a great time...

Netherlands confirms it will host Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia kyivindependent.com/netherlands-...

Americans: this 👇person was a candidate for the presidency of the United States! Take a look at yourselves; it’s high time you reevaluate your priorities. You wouldn’t get people like this if you didn’t in some way help to bring it on.

“The former PM will join figures from Reform and the AfD at a conference organised by the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.”

Student borrowing limits U.S. Capping federal (student) loans without addressing rising tuition fees could effectively cap educational opportunity, especially for middle- & low-income students who rely on these loans. Is this a step toward fiscal responsibility or a barrier to upward mobility?

The reality of the situation after the coordinated attacks between JNIM & FLA. Which military barracks were attacks and where does the Africa Corps stand as the battles is still unfolding in central and northern #Mali @france24.com youtu.be/IyTWe0Crfjw?...

“We should not speak only about espionage. We tend to see espionage exclusively as the problem. Yet we must admit that it is also dangerous to feed harmful information into our country, to lobby or to spread propaganda in favour of authoritarian regimes. These are agents of influence.” 👇👇👇

Austrian expert on Russian hybrid warfare Pichler warns that Austria’s cult‑like neutrality and apathetic middle class have turned the country into a playground for Kremlin spin.

I can’t stop laughing. Ukrainians have started a new challenge: for people to log into a Russian app (via VPN) that tracks fuel availability and falsely report that gas is available at stations. Russians are wasting what little gas they have driving to these stations only to find out there’s no gas🤣

Just a quick reminder that it was 491 days ago that strategic genius Donald Trump lectured Zelensky about Ukraine having "no cards".

“Emissions of benzene, which is highly carcinogenic, are among the highest in the US here. Methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide are among other pollutants from which there is little shield.”

Welcome to Scotland in 2026, where Blackshirts parade openly on the streets There’s now been two parades by far-right extremists clad in black in Scottish cities Parties like Reform have whipped up division to boiling point. Citizens need to wake up and take action In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Interview with @kaburbank.bsky.social on the expansion of mass #surveillance, how #Flock has embedded itself in local governments with remarkably little public scrutiny, and why its growth poses a profound threat to democratic freedoms. 📄 www.currentaffairs.org/news/jessica... #deflock #alpr

“One study…found that at least eight Washington law enforcement agencies shared their Flock data networks directly with ICE in 2025, and 10 more departments allowed ICE backdoor access without explicitly granting the agency permission.” #surveillance www.cnet.com/home/securit...

Across the river from Kherson, Russian forces turned commercial drones into a blockade. They called it hunting. Our CEO Yuriy Boyechko joined The Power Vertical Podcast to talk about how Hope For Ukraine answered. 🎧 www.powervertical.org/2026/07/02/w... @powervertical.bsky.social

Ukrainian civil society has revolutionized civil defense. On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, I speak with Yuriy Boyechko of Hope For Ukraine (@hfu.org) about how this is the case in Kherson. www.powervertical.org/2026/07/02/w...