Ukraine will receive Swedish Gripen jets for the first time, along with new F-16s and Mirages, — Ministry of Defense. Gripen’s edge: versatile as a fighter, strike, and recon jet, cheaper to maintain than the F-16, highly maneuverable, and fast to deploy.

Tulsi Gabbard revoked my security clearance after learning I'm considering a Senate run. Laura Loomer and right-wing trolls unleashed a wave of attacks. Then came death threats. The Trump machine wants to shut me up. But I won't: I'm running to be Kentucky's next senator.

Feels like the first genuinely interesting thing from Apple in a few years TBH. Apple will be significantly safer by design. Honestly enough for me to consider switching everything the old parents use to new Apple Products. Online targeting of Seniors is scary, Apple here doing stuff to mitigate.

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer is very bad at politics isn't he?

Perfect comment

I will never understand why anyone buys the stock or this companies products. I will also never understand why people will later be surprised that Starlink isn't as secure as advertised, it's so obvious it isn't based on every other product this man touches.

Everyone who has written a long read about Britain being at boiling point should be required to write a follow-up in October about what actually materialised.

I have updated the infographic of Russian equipment losses provided by @valka_online in the Oryx loss list article

Ongoing construction of Ukrainian defense lines.

This is an interesting health discovery.

Not an exaggeration. @newyorker.com

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

I've been listening to The Rest Is History Podcasts on the French Revolution and reading Citizens by Simon Schama again. I am increasingly alarmed by the prospect of an American Revolution within the next five years. I mean a real, bloody, nasty affair. Feels scarily plausible. A lot of parallels.

How exciting

You will never guess what the second photo in this listing is of (or why). www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Periodic reminder that every day is STFU Friday Also, sharing the location of cops in the public performance of their jobs is ironclad First Amendment-protected expression If you're concerned something you've said has you on the Government's radar, call your lawyer instead of posting through it

AUS reporter in US shot with rubber bullet while covering protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles - www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

US Federal Agents and sadly now the LAPD / National Guard are giving a textbook demonstration of how not to manage civil unrest for the world to see. The only thing they know what to do is 'escalate to de-escalate'. This simply does not work. If they keep this up people are going to start dying.

Kids, if you're gonna go protest, take a trip to the hardware store first.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

to the man in the NHS car who saw me running along the pavement and drove deliberately slowly in the middle of the road so I could get to the bus stop before the bus did: I hope today that your coffee is hot, your lunch is delicious and your meetings are short and productive 💫

Just brilliant

fundamentally every microblogging site will always find itself split between people going "I LIVE TO FIGHT ON THE COMPUTER" and the ones going "huh, I don't"

Russia delenda est www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Asking UK Universities to find ways to drive income to themselves beyond Student Fees is not madness, evil or the end of HE. Some of the takes on here are completely unhinged. Someone has to pay for you to be a Historian of Art. Perpetually raising the fees on every student isn't the answer

Richard Littlejohn mostly lives in a gated mansion in Florida. Andrew Neil mostly lives in Grasse in the South of France.

On Sky #PressPreview, The Sun's Harry Cole launches into a five-minute scathing, partisan monologue with "they done us up like a kipper". No real pushback. Guardian's Jessica Elgot is invited to come in. Opens with "I think... a lot of what Harry thinks." And this is why we cannot have nice things.

American legislators do this near daily. I will never understand how this is ok. Anyone else inside trades, straight to jail. US legislators? Totally fine. Both sides do it and take lobby money, it is insanely corrupt.

cool new development, the cat has started lying like this. Stupid little loaf. I gasp every time

"Gen Jenkins was made aware of allegations that the SAS was committing extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan, but he failed to report the allegations to military police - Panorama has previously revealed - despite a legal obligation to do so. The suspected unlawful killings continued."

If the UK was a serious country it would disband the SAS and SBS stating the current men are not worth the name. Then create a new UKSF on a clean slate that needs to earn it's status as an elite disciplined unit, because clearly the existing forces are not. Australia should do the same.

Deeply disturbing and demands accountability, not cover ups. “Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

everyone who thinks Tesla can somehow be saved from Elon Musk needs to wake tf up

There is something bordering on abusive in the way ministers today are talking about public services – Jacqui Smith on universities, and Yvette Cooper on care homes. They are blaming institutions for decisions forced on them by government, without admitting they or changing anything.

I think this is largely a function of them being trapped by the fiscal situation. They can't fix anything so trying to blame others. It won't work any better than it did for the Tories.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Since 2022, the UK has provided Ukraine with 8 Raven short-range air defense systems and plans to deliver 5 more, per the UK Ministry of Defence. Over 400 ASRAAM missiles were also supplied, downing over 70% of targets.

It was precisely the Gordon Brown-Gillian Duffy moment

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People are talking about his Pope trolling and Alcatraz, rather than the billion dollar corruption scheme.

"Labour ministers have privately told backbenchers that the government will whip against a new swift brick amendment tabled for the controversial infrastructure and planning bill" These cost £35 per house you effing idiots What is the matter with you Starmer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Russian GRU Behind DHL Parcel Bombings in UK, Germany & Poland Alexander Bezrukavy, a Russian with a criminal past, coordinated the DHL parcel bombings in 2024 under GRU guidance, per The Guardian. He’s now in custody in Poland.

WTI :)