During an authorized red-team exercise: "Anthropic’s Mythos model broke into almost all classified systems run by the NSA and US Cyber Command in a matter of hours" thoughtcatalog.com/chris-laverg... Based on original reporting by the @economist.com #polisky

Marcia McNutt lamented what she called the ‘abrupt downsizing’ of US science agencies, saying this has left them ‘very lean and unable to fulfil their missions’. @rebeccatrager.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/outgoin...

Commentary: China's new supply-chain regulations could force multinational companies to choose between complying with foreign laws and avoiding legal liability in China, creating major risks for global business operations.

Like with previous generations of skilled craft workers, intellectual and creative skill is being expropriated unpaid, injected into systems that obscure the origins of their own acumen. AI is just another opportunity for capitalist theft.

"The $100 million cost of the arch could instead provide 10,000 Philadelphia families with $10,000 first-time homebuyer grants." ASA member Gregory D. Squires contributes to this look at what investments could replace the administration's current choices. @inquirer.com

Finnish lawmakers have voted by a margin of 125 to 61 to lift the country’s longstanding ban on nuclear weapons, marking a major shift in Helsinki’s security posture as it deepens its integration with NATO.

The defence of imprisoned Georgian opposition politician Elene Khoshtaria has raised concerns about her deteriorating health. Khoshtaria’s lawyer warned that without proper medical care, the politician could face ‘irreversible harm’. oc-media.org/jailed-georg...

In sum: 1. There probably still isn't a real or meaningful deal 2. Iran will be stronger and probably keeps its uranium, with the US weaker and its partnerships diminished 3. Iran claims the US and others will give at least $300 billion @theconversation.com theconversation.com/a-peace-deal... #irsky

Bobby Charles also suggested that schools provide litter boxes for students who identify as animals, repeating an old and debunked conspiracy theory.

Fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of trying to insert “falsehoods and bias” into a report about the Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings in Minneapolis.

The newest DOJ voting section’s lawyer not only played an active role in seeking to overturn Biden’s 2020 presidential victory — he also represented former police officer Derek Chauvin who was convicted for murdering George Floyd.

It was more than just cut. The airbag sensors were removed and his car was re-wired so that it wouldn't alert him to the airbags not working www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

Tl;dr "I've often been accused of auto-antisemitism. But when right-wingers attack leftists in the same way the Nazis talked about the Jews, it's not seen as self-hatred. To our horror, the global wave of antisemitism has not spared Israel" www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026... @haaretzcom.bsky.social

Here is a man (who later became a Church of Ireland bishop) who wrote about how witchtrials were complete superstition in 1718. Guess he was one of those feminists she's talking about. irishphilosophy.com/2014/10/31/e...

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Kyrgyzstan is set to serve a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after defeating the Philippines in a tightly matched ballot on June 3 to represent the Asia-Pacific region on the body.

Great. replacement. theory.

At the same time Congress is debating giving billions in more funding to DHS, police departments across the country are signing up to partner with ICE through the 287(g) program. Tell Congress to put a stop to ICE’s rein of terror at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

Americans believe corruption is a serious problem throughout politics and government. The good news: Across party lines, voters overwhelmingly support reforms to curb concentrated wealth in politics and unchecked self-enrichment by those in power. bit.ly/4apvVns

Great Day 2 for the T20 at today's Global Solutions Summit with the launch of the Advisory Council and a rich Workstreams exchange too. Knowledge products are in the works for both, with a focus on delivering impactful, actionable proposals for the G20 & beyond. Stay tuned for the synthesis report!

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Trump's senseless attacks on Iran are plunging the world into another economic crisis. The UK's dependence on fossil fuels has left us particularly exposed to the energy shock from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. 1/3

"Surveillance is something that happens with you; your data is not observed but extracted, processed and packaged and sold." ICYMI: The brilliant quest to find the Billionaire Behind Britain’s Digital ID, from @thedreydossier.bsky.social 👇

Ukraine unveiled a drone that can be flown from anywhere in the world via satellite, so operators never have to be near the front line. The Adis carries 10kg of payload 20km into enemy territory and can also deliver supplies or lay mines remotely. defence-blog.com/ukraines-new...

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Too late to respond, too pressured to ignore? Path dependency and institutional change in the UK’s response to Russian hostile activities - https://cup.org/4dNPVTa - Ethem Ilbiz, Atakan Yilmaz & Mike Edwards #FirstView

#Russia: We condemn the six-year prison sentence handed in absentia to Alexandra Pugach for allegedly spreading “false information” about the Russian military. Now living in Georgia, Pugach fled Russia because of her anti-war views: meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Last week, we learned that the number of young people not in employment, education or training in the UK reached a grim milestone of 1 million earlier this year. The UK now has the highest NEET rate of any European country in the OECD and the only EU country with a higher rate than us is Romania.

I had pointed out that one organizer of the "remigration" summit had written that "Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions." Ian McMath, spokesperson for the Young Republicans, did not challenge this, saying only: "Global problems must have a global response."

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

“armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks”

A decade since “the biggest documented methane leak in US history,” the smellier greenhouse gas’s “part in the climate crisis remains largely overlooked, even though it is responsible for around 30 percent of all global warming to date.” —Jonathan Mingle

3 month old video by @warfrontsweekly.bsky.social on the history and changing status of Morocco's illegal annexation of Western Sahara, as well as the Sahwari people there youtu.be/giUf3_zWN3s?... #polisky #irsky

Turkish police storm opposition CHP party HQ amid power struggle | DW News share.google/kOTSXnF8Ag2C...

Project 2025’s education agenda is becoming federal policy, with allies inside the government targeting universities & civil-rights protections, while elevating institutions tied to Christian nationalist networks. This push reflects an ideological campaign to bring education under far-right control.

📢May #GGIN Update: T20 U.S. E-Consultation Recs, Policy Briefs & ACUNS AM'26 Update ✅T20 U.S. E-Consultation Synthesis Report ✅Priorities for Africa: AI Governance at the Global and National Level ✅Registration still open: ACUNS 2026 (1-3 July) Click: mailchi.mp/stimson.org/...

New policy brief: “Two-Tier Climate Multilateralism: The Legacy of COP30” by @mafolly.bsky.social @plataformacipo.bsky.social Has COP30 shifted climate governance from pledges to delivery without compromising consensus-based legitimacy and multilateral credibility? ➡️ ggin.stimson.org/lib/policy-b...

Tax world gawks at Trump audit agreement: 'Never seen anything like this'

President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 billion fund to pay claims made by his friends for purported “unfair persecution.”

New book exposes how US military is using religion encourage more violence Military reporter Jasper Craven exposes how the U.S. military has weaponized religion and hyper-masculinity to manufacture brutal obedience — and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is its poster child. In his explosive new book,

The Hantavirus isn’t the biggest threat we’re facing. The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is. https://bit.ly/4ucgQh4

For my latest in The Nation, I talk about how when the rich rob the poor, it's just shrugged away as business as usual. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The vision of total prediction-market takeover, as Kalshi's CEO Tarek Mansour has stated, is to make every difference of opinion tradable, not just sporting outcomes, but politics, economics, celebrity, science, culture. https://bit.ly/4uGIL8L

Standing athwart political and theological rivals who, in his followers' apocalyptic telling, are actual demons seeking to wreak destruction and mayhem on Christian believers, Trump is channeling the righteous fury of the divine elect. https://bit.ly/3Pi16df

“The loss of Black representation in the South cannot be offset with a few more liberal white representatives from Wisconsin.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at the coordinated assault on Black studies. https://bit.ly/4nA1S1P

“Conditions inside of ICE detention have always been egregious and deplorable. All of these things are just being exacerbated, and part of that is because the number of people in detention has risen so rapidly over the last few months.” https://bit.ly/43h2gZI

Two recent verdicts represent monumental progress in the decades-long struggle to hold Big Tech accountable for harming children and teenagers: https://bit.ly/49SSyAo

Over 10,000 out of 11,000 cases. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05... #legalsky #polisky

A 565-page DOJ report frames enforcement of the law as “anti-Christian bias,” attacking LGBTQ+ protections, FACE Act prosecutions, and IRS rules on churches, while elevating Christian nationalist arguments and portraying the recognition of transgender people as opposition to “God’s created order.”