A slow-burning environmental disaster: “As prey became scarce, blue whale vocalisations dropped by nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations. ‘It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,’ Ryan adds. ‘They were spending all their time just trying to find food.’”

This is my friend. His name is Christian Smalls. He founded the Amazon Labor union Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough. Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF And no one in the MSM is talking about it. paydayreport.com/amazon-union...

i am going to die in a world that is more antisemitic than the one i was born into and it will be entirely thanks to what the israeli state has done in the name of fighting antisemitism. i think about this constantly.

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

lol

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation https://on.ft.com/4o5I46b

Nearly two years into this war, Israeli government propaganda is only just being exposed as baseless No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...

The rest of the comments are an open expression of ethnic cleansing. They are confirmation of a war crime.

Opaque supply chains, uncontrolled borders, logging operations stretching over a thousand kilometers into the center of the DRC, and the language barrier facilitate the illegal trade.

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The embodiment of entitlement apnews.com/video/hunter...

Twenty-five countries including Britain, France and a host of European nations say the war in Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.

I'm quitting everything and sitting life out for a while because it all seems such an exercise in futility right now.

BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says 73 people have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza.

It only gets better apnews.com/article/trum...

BP offloads US onshore wind business as it pivots back to oil https://on.ft.com/46PrBwR

The Brief – Ursula von der Leyen is cooking the books on climate funding

What you risk reveals what you value.

🗣️Today we're launching a campaign to raise $250,000 to keep Global Voices alive and thriving. 👉🏿We’re ad-free, paywall-free, and community-powered — but funding cuts and a tough media landscape are putting us at risk. #KeepGVStrong🌱 globalvoices.org/2025/07/09/s...

Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption in the New Statesman: Israel's conduct in Gaza is a war crime www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

You can't use a holocaust to justify a genocide.

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ https://on.ft.com/3IGEGOY

At least 798 people have been killed at Gaza aid points, the UN says

Live now. An examination of the catastrophic economic pain Trump has inflicted on the US in just six months - simply by shooting his mouth off. It’s equal to the entire 2023 budget for the now-gutted USAid.

An Israeli airstrike killed 15 people, including 10 children, waiting for help outside a medical clinic, footage from the incident shows. The Israeli military said it was targeting a militant when it struck near the clinic.

"That's illegal"

What a British surgeon saw in Gaza: “Children were coming in with knees missing and feet missing and hands missing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Israeli soldiers 'psychologically broken' after 'confronting the reality' in Gaza, UN expert says

Gaza on brink of running out of fuel in Israeli siege https://on.ft.com/4lfs7sD

The UN human rights office said it has recorded 613 killings in Gaza near humanitarian convoys and at aid distribution points run by an Israeli-backed U.S. organization since it first began operations in late May.

review of the documentary that the BBC didn't want you to see - or at least not on its channels www.ft.com/content/d21f...

I used to believe in humanity but I lost hope after living in Iraq in 2016, and not because of ISIS.

A recent analysis of Gaza casualties data by Sky's Data & Forensics shows that aid distributions by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) are associated with a significant increase in deaths. youtu.be/mVa0IUq1y9o

BREAKING: Airstrikes and shootings killed 82 Palestinians in Gaza, including 38 people while waiting to get aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said.

Make TV Bland Again.

American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.

Daniel Ek won’t pay artists a fair rate, but raised $700M for a military AI company. Starving musicians, funding war machines. Literal poverty wages while he helps to builds Skynet. You’ve earned your place in hell, congrats Daniel. 👏

Morning Bluesky. Turkish demonstrators have clashed with riot police at a rally marking the 100th day since the detention of jailed Istanbul Mayor and Erdogan rival Ekrem Imamoglu.

“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone...If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked...Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.”

"Following decades of Republican tradition,Trump's budget robs tomorrow to help the rich today. It is also classic bait and switch. He promised blue-collar America lower prices and rising incomes and is delivering the opposite." My column. www.ft.com/content/119f...

Trump's USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths, report warns

Equality is an ideal, not a reality. So can we please stop behaving like it's real.

2005: Republican president ends search for weapons in Iraq, because they don't exist. 2025: Republican president ends search for potential elements for weapons in Iran, because they do exist.

At least 60 killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza, health staff say

After one of the most peaceful eras in modern history, a new weapon has made war cheaper and easier. Has this made war contagious? https://on.ft.com/3ZRTWOU

Why are there so many wars? The most at any one time since 1946. I try to answer the question in 720 words @FinancialTimes on.ft.com/4nqd2WA

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Paid internship at The Economist. Put a lot of effort into the piece. Be original and write it well. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

There's been a lot of talk of oil prices as the 'dog that didn't bark' over the past couple of weeks — but what happened to prices during and after previous crises in the Middle East? Our latest draw your own chart game with @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c618...