[3ème canicule] Il apparaît désormais très probable qu’une troisième canicule s’installe en France dès la fin de semaine. Les incertitudes portent encore sur son intensité et son extension géographique. 1/7

Uptown [E] trains are running with delays while we perform track maintenance near 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Quick take a break from the horrors and feast your eyes on what’s in this grandma‘s binder www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSMW6r4S/

Meet the Italian Socialist Who Just Might Take Down Giorgia Meloni newrepublic.com/article/2122... via @newrepublic.com

"There’s simply no future for real democratic self-government in the United States with this corrupt Court in place." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

Congress wants to ban AI companies from selling your health data

Can they vaccinate hegseth against stupidity whilst they’re at it

[N][W] trains are running with delays in both directions, severely downtown, after we addressed a signal problem at Queensboro Plaza.

Uptown [A][C][F] trains are running with delays after we removed a train in need of cleaning from service at East Broadway.

Why?

[A][H] trains are running with delays in both directions after the South Channel Bridge opened for marine traffic to pass.

The real divide is between those people who butter all of the bread right to the edges and the other, wrong, people.

Bill Cassidy on Iran: "The fact is that a medium-sized power is perceived to have fought a superpower to a draw…We spent $29 billion and we have 13 Americans dead. We hope to get back to status quo."

Despite being a lot smaller than Ireland, the Netherlands has already deployed 15 times more solar PV capacity than us, with plans to quadruple this in the years ahead, as I discovered on a recent visit. My report is in today’s @businesspost.bsky.social www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

More cameras and speakers than crowd at Manchester’s reform gig today. A more risible bunch of fuck-wits you could not hope to meet. The idiot on mic was desperately trying to bait people into a row.

That's awe it was. Rumblings. So the BBC could say 'Well we reported it, But no one acted upon it''. It's just nuts, Why are we not more outraged about that than we are about migrants & refugees. If we had that money they stole, They could invest on more border police if they were half determined.

Dominic Grieve argues that under President Trump, the United States is shifting toward a more nationalist, transactional approach to international relations, marking a significant change in tone that has major implications for Western democracies across Europe.

Heat-pumps will also save money in the winter as well as lives in the summer.

Honestly, people are so shallow 😏 youtube.com/shorts/DGrHH...

Negative Patriotism strikes again. A belief that your culture is exceptionally bad and thus, by definition, exceptional... when actually that's just how it works and every other fucker does the exact same thing

Reflecting on the two big issues today: climate change and our failure to adapt and the care crisis and our inability to fix it. You realise both are down to our politicians seeing little electoral value in addressing them. Whose fault is that? 🤷‍♂️

The Pentagon covered up the massive damage Iran inflicted on the US Navy Base in Bahrain, including the Fifth Fleet headquarters, the WSJ reports. Satellite imagery revealed the extent of the destruction which could cost $400 million to repair. Total cost for US base damage is now $2 billion.

This is remarkable.

“Propaganda always fails when the gap between the fantasy and the reality becomes so large that even the uninformed and uneducated can see it.”

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

New Survation poll: Rejoin: 63% Stay Out: 37%

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

[A][H] trains are running with delays in both directions after the South Channel Bridge opened for marine traffic to pass.

AI models are not dangerous because they can think— they cannot— but deeply worrying because poor thinkers posing as historians and legal experts can flood the field and get LLMs to spit out their distortions, provided they’re just loud enough and persistent enough.

Queens-bound [E][F][M][R] trains are disrupted in both directions between Manhattan and Queens.

It took 11.5 years for Elizabeth II to reach her 4th PM. Her heir Charles III will reach the same point in 3 years and 9 months.

For so many reasons, I wanted Starmer to succeed and build a powerful political project. He didn’t. And I’ve written about one of the simplest reasons why: you have to actually enjoy practising politics- and appear to do so. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Tommy will be 72 years old when he gets out of Gitmo.

NYC, today is Primary Day. Polls are open NOW and close at 9 PM tonight. Be sure to get your vote in before then. For your polling site and more information, go to vote.nyc. Make your voice heard, New York City.

Putin: “The Western countries haven't yet reached the point where they'd launch anything from their own territories. “They understand that there would be a retaliatory strike. I think everyone understands that, or should understand. 1/

The political commentators and journalists are out in force giving us the benefit of their analysis on Starmer's faults, the usual stuff about not talking to people, no charisma etc. I really don't think Jo public is interested in any of those traits, but what we think appesrs to be irrelevant.

AMAZING: Protesters are now tearing down barricades at a beach in southern Albania, saying that the land belongs to the people and not to oligarchs like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Share everywhere to show your support! substack.com/@rawstory/no...

[N] trains are delayed in both directions while we address a signal problem at Coney Island-Stillwell Av.

If you can't stem voter polarization, both the center-left and center-right get into real electoral trouble

Look! Sealant Team 6 is guarding the Strait of Warm-Ooze. 🤣🤣 #trump #ReflectingPool #algae #uspol #uspolitics

We got rain! Non-forecast, petrichor rousing rain. 🎉

They’re coming for him.

I want to see the one in thirty years where Lamine is giving Lionel his bath

Amazing. At age 20, Lionel Messi did a UNICEF Barcelona photo shoot for a calendar, of him giving a baby a bath. That baby was Lamine Yamal. It’s his first World Cup, and Messi’s last. They’ll play against each other. What a crazy story.

As a Swede in here to tell you that the social welfare had declined at the same place as the number of billionaires have risen

I'm sure this is true. Just the slight problem that getting the economy growing and public services improving are as I keep writing probably not something immediately under the power of the PM, and if they were we wouldn't be having so many of them.