I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back. The genocide is ongoing

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years. They'll do a worse job than humans, but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers, but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies. Lose-lose-lose.

Probably doesn’t need saying, but no law was broken. Israel broke international law by abducting people in international waters, people who were seeking to break Israel’s illegal siege, itself part of the genocide

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

And Italian relatives of mine only learned in their 20s, I’m talking 2010s, that it was neo-Nazis and not anarchists. They lived their whole lives in Italy thinking it was anarchists. Their parents likely still think that.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

European security depends on Ukraine, by @anderspucknielsen.dk

More peaceful protesters in London being arrested for holding placards that read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” Under a Labour government, UK 2025 www.instagram.com/reel/DORiNmE...

No pretense that US is somehow engaged in an armed conflict that might justify lethal targeting in this manner. As I told @npr.org this morning, we have a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict: murder. (Also the administration has not substantiated any of its factual claims.)

A very hot summer in Kyoto, Japan

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

Citizen-led proposal in Berlin to create the biggest car-free area in the world. This is the area within the S-bahn ring, which is larger than Manhattan. Only 14% of trips in that area are made via car, but 60% of street space is dedicated to them. The economics? Savings largely outweigh costs

3. I'm constantly struck by the extent to which people take their freedoms for granted - the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, workers' rights, weekends, holidays, pensions ... - as if they simply fell out of the sky. They were achieved at great cost by our political ancestors.

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

“south park is irrelevant” - sent from the white house

Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos on protest ⬇️ The crackdown on our right to protest started with rhetoric- ministers saying peaceful protests are “hate marches”. Now it’s in policy, expanding police powers to crackdown on our right to speak truth to power.

Imagine using these resources (energy, money and talent) for something that actually matters. Something chosen by the people, for the people, instead of a vanity poisonous dumpster fire. Abolish billionaires.

The makers of our film ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ tell the shocking inside story of how the BBC basically failed at journalism and at being informant, and refused to air the documentary on Gaza that we at Zeteo, with Channel 4, then acquired:

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

With 30% tariffs aimed at the EU, it might be time to explore measures other than counter-tariffs or anti-coercion instruments. Earlier this year, we published an oped with a radical proposal: the EU should respond by banning US social media. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Dear residents and visitors, We have received complaints about adults driving motor vehicles on local streets. This can cause damage to people and property. If anyone you know is driving on local streets, please speak with them and ask them not to.

“International law may well be buried with the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.” “We have a moral and legal imperative to fight the criminalisation and repression of civil disobedience and solidarity because saving lives is not a crime.” - @amnesty.org Secretary General, Agnes Callamard

So the head of the BBC is implying that British Jews are somehow connected to a chant about the Israeli army? Does the BBC apologise to British Muslims when armies of self-described Muslim states are criticised? How are we still at this level of the discourse? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza.

Over the past month, 549 people were murdered at the Gaza 'aid distribution sites'. More than 4000 were injured. This blatantly obvious weaponisation of aid is illegal under international humanitarian law and must be stopped. (1/2)

This is what they want you to be distracted from when they write 1000 op-eds about the appropriate way to condemn genocide at a concert

Rant alert. Mega rant alert. How about our leaders stop wringing hands, issuing feeble denunciations, and actually DO something? Stop the moral equivalency. Stop pretending we’re helpless. There’s plenty we could do if genuinely committed. Here’s some suggestions for starters. 🧵

La più grande catena di supermercati del consorzio Coop Italia smetterà di vendere prodotti israeliani

I stand with #PalestineAction. Lock me up as a terrorist, Yvette Cooper. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Cosa diceva Trump sulla guerra con l’Iran nel 2011

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

A core part of the Israeli genocide in Gaza is for Israel to maintain a semblance of normality. That’s why they say they ‘investigate’ ‘incidents’. Media outlets continue to play that game, which makes them directly complicit in the genocide.

The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.

Reality check: If we were so concerned about countries having nuclear weapons and not participating in IAEA inspections or the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we'd be going after Israel. Iran has participated in inspections and was willing to limit nuclear energy programs in exchange for sanction relief.

On his first Father’s Day, Mahmoud Khalil will sit in a detention center 1,500 miles away from his wife and newborn son, as punishment for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.

Three months of Israeli siege on Gaza. The starvation of 2m people, half of them children, continues. The bombing continues The shooting continues The demolition of entire towns continues. Pictured: the destruction of Gaza's only Dialysis centre in Beit Lahiya.

Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.

ActiveStills photojournalist Youssef Alzanoun catches the moment of an Israeli strike on Gaza. Alzanoun was injured here. They bombed Al Yazi residential buildings and shops. At least 34 Palestinians were killed yesterday alone. Stop the genocide. www.instagram.com/reel/DKSLTx5...

Colonel General Andrey Mordvichev, who considers the war in Ukraine a "stepping stone" before the march on Europe, is now the new commander of the Russian Ground Forces. He gave this interview in July 2023 to Russian propagandist Solovyev.

The EU has launched a formal review of whether Israel's human rights abuses merit trade sanctions, after 17 member states called for the move.

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

75 days of Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip Starving 2.1m people, almost half of them are children