Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

Throwing in a bit of defamation to top off the corruption.

On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness

there is a very real risk, should football finally "come home" - as has oft been prophesised - at the same time, or even around the same time, that Andrew Burnham ascends the steps of no. 10 Downing Street to become prime minister, that we could see the dawn of the Second Age of Britpop

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

I avoid using online companies which only use Evri as their delivery partner.

Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House.

Storm protocols activated at the Azteca. Lightning strikes and bucketing rain. Play would be suspended if it kicked off now. Luckily it doesn’t. 3 hours to go.

Air Force Major Jason Watson, 20-year active duty veteran, wore his uniform to the Capitol steps July 1 holding a sign reading "Impeach Convict Remove." He was arrested. His defense fund raised $139,000. Watson: "The greatest threat to our Democratic Republic is not a foreign one. It is domestic."

I am sure Infantino has done worse but he really must go. There should be an attempt to create various ways to normalise, amplify disrespect for him everwhere he goes

Erika Lee Sears Orange Slice (2022) painting #WomensArt

The Observer reports today that political donors will have to sign a formal declaration confirming their contribution wasn't converted from crypto, building on the existing crypto donation moratorium. False declarations could mean an unlimited fine or up to a year in prison.

Ten years of the US failing to bring back manufacturing might have provided some sort of clue. Another one might have been that in places which did get factories they struggled to find the labour. Reindustrialisation is an ageing society wondering where their childhood went.

Today is the 167th anniversary of the first sign that bankrupted businessman Joshua Norton had gone a bit funny – because he published in a San Francisco newspaper a 58-word manifesto for the United States, and then declared himself US Emperor two months later 🧵

Good thing that isn’t happening with capitalism.

According to sources close to the Kremlin, Putin particularly values ​​his personal relationship with Witkoff. According to them, the Kremlin considers this channel important for achieving goals that only the United States can achieve, including an agreement "to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO."

The Freedom 250 rehearsal stage falling apart is the perfect analogy for the Trump administration.

Christ alive

Today's newsletter is about how the AI industry is losing - its economics don't work, its leaders can only sell its product through swindling and egregious forward-looking statements, and the largest financial institutions in the world are wising up. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/

Of course, the point about France is absolute horseshit. 8% of all French citizens are of Italian origin; upwards of 500,000 descend from Polish coalminers...

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This is the best financial news universities have had for years. In some ways I read this as a move to cool the month-by-month emergency situation now developing, but it's welcome all the same. Doesn't avert the end for most in trouble, but buys a bit of time.

The US is the only country in the world where the quality of healthcare declines as spend increases. Will the UK end up becoming the second? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Gotta love the way these Great Replacement ethno-nationalists are consigning themselves to early extinction. 🤣

"Women have always had children without any help" The NHS was founded after WW2 See the stark difference Before WW2 - over 400 deaths per 100,000 In the 2000's - around 9 deaths per 100,000

Except not:

The differences between the responses to this article on Bluesky and X would fuel a dissertation on social media and information silos

Yes please www.carscoops.com/2026/06/cars...

Anyone fancy a bargain? Ends 2 July.

Or we could have this, from Copenhagen

We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_... A short video about what your donations will fund www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vzb...

I'm sorry, what?

The three largest RAM manufacturers in the world are being sued for allegedly working together to fix the supply and price of memory, leading to the recent surge in price for consumers. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ram-man...

Every year breakdown recovery firm offers renewal quote up 35% on previous year despite me never using their service Every year I make a tortuous call where they roleplay looking through screens & beard stroking before giving me same price as last year Every year I make this post on social media

In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

I mean the main reason it is 'unwritten' rule is that it doesn't actually exist. Of the last five Prime Ministers to take over mid-term, only one called a general election soon after

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

People across North America want to make World Cup pedestrian zones permanent. We should be doing this in Seattle too.

honestly i saw this ad 20 years ago and ive never forgotten it OR how to pronounce Łódź

"NHS England admits key data does not prove Palantir’s effectiveness" "England’s health service has acknowledged that some of its main claims about the benefits of Palantir’s software are not causationally robust, leading to calls for an independent audit of the tech company’s impact"

🚨🚨 "In today's surprise, surprise" the world does not at all trust #trump's America as reputation plunges in new international poll by @pewresearch.org : www.aol.com/articles/tru...

Wrong in every regard. First, asylum seekers are fellow human beings and should be treated as such. Concentrating them in camps amplifies the Far Right's prejudice and bigotry. Second, military barracks should be being upgraded and filled with military personnel, given Russia's plans for the UK.

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

This "This is a man who recently claimed Britain was "defenceless," demanding answers from Number 10. Yet when Parliament held an hours-long debate on exactly that, Farage was nowhere to be seen." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-loves-shout-issues-37343854