The weather didn't even show up

Now officially out of the World Cup, it seems the odds were stacked against Iran's team. CNN's Don Riddell shares why.

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Orange shitgibbon 🤣 Love this girl's comeback! 👇

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. Hannah Arendt

I fear a ground war. I fear troops on the ground. I fear a draft. An 80 year old man lacking full mental acuity, with his chosen crew of completely unqualified thugs, provide zero confidence that all will be well

UN finds Israeli has deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity & war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the West Bank www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

I don’t know who did this—but it wins the internet! … And, it may explain what’s happening at the Reflecting Pool.

Trump kicks off America's 250th celebration with a bunch of old favourites: I'm the most popular President ever, It's my pool and I'll algae if I want to…

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness. – The Next Web, via 100.news

This feels… portentous?

Very good summary of Brexit and the mangling of the information system

It's even more gorgeous at night. And appropriate colour. 💙🌊💙🌊💙

So Trump shows the new Air Force one and the luxury of it for some reason believing Americans will love that he has such a plush plane. He really believes we are proud of his grift

Trump Was Right. The War Ended With a Surrender. ByNickKristof www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug - Ars Technica

Man of the people. Rich people. Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business' Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business'

Ten years ago today Britain voted by a narrow majority (51.9%) to leave the EU Most Brits living in other EU countries couldn’t vote. Commonwealth citizens in UK could The Leave campaign featured a pack of lies and promises that did not materialise Today, a growing majority want to rejoin the EU

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No sooner than Starmer announces his resignation than Farage demands a general election and the BBC highlights Burnham’s lack of a mandate. Can anyone see a pattern here?

Pete Hegseth is sending the message that Black service members are not welcome. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

New study analyzing data from more than 1 million U.S. veterans shows updated COVID-19 vaccines reduce risk of severe cardiovascular events like heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure by almost 40%. . x.com/shiningscien...

I see people are writing Burnham's political obituary already. It's almost as if they want this cycle of chaos. Personally I want progress and a functioning country and really have had my fill of shitweaselery

This:

#speirghorm🇮🇪 Peter Thiel is the mad billionaire behind Palantir, a surveillance platform planning to turn the planet into Big Brother’s paradise. Gay but gives #$M’s to anti-🏳️‍🌈 politicians. Plans to end women voting & to ‘eliminate’ “useless” humans, meaning 90% of us. Also funded JD Vance’s career.

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Florida Surgeon General announced ALL vaccine mandates will be ended As a polio survivor, i was joyous when a vaccine became available. No other child would endure such fear & suffering. He said "who am i to tell u what to put in your body. it's God's business". Hes a doctor! This is lunacy

What does this mean?

I could tell you a very unpleasant true story about ferrets kept as "pets", that you would never forget. But I won't. Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison - The Guardian

This is the behavior of a madman who is also the potus.

I think there’ll probably be slime in the reflecting pool as long as there’s slime in the White House.

Maybe stop reporting like the president is telling the truth. Since he’s not telling the truth about really anything.

Brexit “exposed a political class that appears unable to govern, sitting atop a state no longer fit for purpose. We voted to take back control, but discovered our leaders couldn’t handle it” … and that our media was largely unwilling to call it out or hold Brexiters to account. (Sunday Times)

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Vance: "My understanding talking to Steve and Jared is that things are going well, the US has all the cards. The straits are now open" The strait, per IRGC, is closed. Folks with direct access to Putin are directing US negotiations with Iran & we wonder why any move ends up profitable for Russia.

So they're arresting people for taking a piece of the paint that's peeling off the Reflecting Pool while allowing the people who rape kids with jeffrey epstein to walk free?????

You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House. The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.

Rep. Glenn Grothman is so close to figuring it out on Iran: "Sometimes they don't act like they lost this war"

Does everyone feel great that discussions & decisions re the Iran war are left to 2 slum lords (Kushner snd Witkoff )

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Trip by Italian foreign minister to US cancelled, after Trump's fantasy claims.

Meloni rebukes Trump over claim she begged for a photo with him. Says he made up the story. Which is quite plausible, based on his previous.

Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab - The Guardian

“We’re seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities,” said Hegseth in April. Et voilà: Nearly 160 sick with flu at US air force base after Hegseth ends mandatory vaccines - The Guardian

“We’re seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities,” said Hegseth in April. Et voilà: Nearly 160 sick with flu at US air force base after Hegseth ends mandatory vaccines - The Guardian

I love this. #BarackHusseinObamaAvenjue

Vance: If you give Donald Trump an IQ test, with the other 45 presidents that the United States has had, he'd be either near the top or at the top.

Trump Admini. Paying $765 Million to cancel 4 more offshore wind turbines It’s the third such deal they have struck to pay firms roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects. Trump's billionaire oil buddies are getting even wealthier www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor - The Guardian