SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China." latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

lol we committed daylight robbery on city with Jess park #MUWomen

Takaichi has shattered the highest glass ceiling of public office in Japan by becoming the first female leader of the male-dominated and patriarchal Asian nation. But she is not known to be an advocate of gender equality. Gift link: wapo.st/477DfTv

“.. a sign that the narrative is shifting again — that companies realize they need to find their red lines .. “.. it’s a realization that submitting may come with a higher price than pushing back.” @opinion.bloomberg.com $DIS www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

@reuters.com has just launched an Arabic language site. See it here: reuters.com/ar/ Big thanks to Muhammad Yamany and the Reuters Arabic language service team. Tremendous work! #News #Arabic #Mideast

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 2-4 August 2025 Approve: 13% (-1 from 19-21 July) Disapprove: 67% (+1) Net: -54 (-2) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Markets will just love the idea of unreliable govt data.

After deriding the massive price tag of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" for weeks, Sen. Mike Lee voted to pass it anyway. He isn't saying why.

DALAI LAMA TRUST OFFICIAL: DALAI LAMA SUCCESSOR CAN BE OF ANY GENDER (Reuters)

MI6 has appointed its next Chief: Blaise Metreweli, currently Director General 'Q', responsible for technology and innovation. “She is a career intelligence officer, having joined the Service as a case officer in 1999.” Most of her career spent in Europe and the Middle East.

Percentage getting significant - There are 193 countries in the UN. // Trump administration weighs adding 36 countries to travel ban - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"Now Mr. Trump is attacking the judiciary and testing the Constitution, and Justice Barrett, appointed to clinch a 50-year conservative legal revolution, is showing signs of leftward drift." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

Exclusive: China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar reut.rs/3SMO7hK

Trump warns protests at Army parade will be met with force reut.rs/3TjlwRm

Fire in building next to South Korea's main Buddhist Jogye temple in Seoul, Reuters witness says reut.rs/4mOXHOR

India's $80 bln coal-power boom is running short of water reut.rs/4l2rDWh

In his first month, Pope Leo has kept a busy schedule but not made notable appointments, nor announced plans for foreign trips, nor said where he will live at the Vatican. It's a stark contrast to the late Pope Francis, who made major decisions right away. For @reuters.com:

'We refuse to forget history', Taiwan president says on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary reut.rs/4dKKgLX

Welcome to Donald Trump's trade policy. Nobody knows anything. In this case nobody even knows what he means. How has China "TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT"? Nobody knows. 94/n

today in efficient markets $ELF has traded $77 -$104 since announcing the $1b of Haley Bieber's makeup biz last night

The US economy shrank by an annualised 0.2% during the first quarter of 2025, according to revised official statistics that confirmed its first contraction since 2022. https://on.ft.com/4juWVnt

India and Pakistan's drone battles mark new arms race in Asia reut.rs/4dzmlyE

Thinking my interview with Rangel before he retired in 2016: "On Nov. 30 1950, I was surrounded by tens of thousands of Communist Chinese. 20 below 0. I was shot and left for dead. I prayed that if I overcame that, I’d have no complaints. Believe it or not, since then, I've not had a bad day."

"Singaporeans, affluent, digitally advanced and compliant, are particularly vulnerable to these scams. As one person involved in the recovery of assets put it: “They are rich and naive”." www.ft.com/content/3299...

"Modern Japan was designed — and then honed — around the constant, progressively more sophisticated accommodation of epic crowding and population density." www.ft.com/content/0efb...

🧮 https://www.reuters.com/data/how-many-foreign-students-are-every-us-college-2025-05-22/?foo=bar

Because international students do not qualify for federal financial aid, and typically pay more for their education, they contribute disproportionately to the university’s revenue, in addition to bringing diverse perspectives that enrich campus life. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who were killed by a gunman outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday, met while working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, her father said. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring and planned to propose next week, an official said. nyti.ms/43AqG0i

*US 30-YEAR YIELD RISES TO 5.02%, HIGHEST SINCE NOVEMBER 2023

#MUWomen just didn't show up today and Skinner got everything but the first 10 minutes wrong. Two more years of this... #WomensFACupFinal

Exclusive: India weighs plan to slash Pakistan water supply with new Indus river project reut.rs/43ko0nl

“Security sources claimed that a former senior MI6 officer who made the long list for the director-general’s job called for a return to classic recruitment of penetration agents” www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🇩🇪 Merz: On the way to Kyiv. Ukraine can rely on us.

The key question now is whether Pakistan believes it has to respond in kind to yesterday’s drone attacks on Karachi/Lahore/Rawalpindi & an air-defence site, or whether its own intense drone/rocket fire over LoC/IB over the last day—reportedly incl military targets—suffices.

China wants a counterweight to India, even an irritant. It does not want Pakistan dragging it into a war with India.

The quantity of UK goods exports is lower now than in 2016 or 2021. The UK is the only country in the G7 that has this record. #Brexit

I see we've moved on to putting tariffs on services industries where the US has historically enjoyed a trade surplus with the rest of the world. Looking forward to the formula they conjur up to justify this one.

Italy has had a ~2% CAGR in GDP/Working Age Adult (15-64 population) in EUR terms from the prior cycle peak (2007) Spain and France are ~20bps higher, both have seen working age populations go up

Still love this man www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Une presse forte, indépendante et libre caractérise et défend nos valeurs en tant que Canadiens et Canadiennes. Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, nous devons protéger nos tribunes publiques et défendre les voix fortes et fiables du Canada. #JournéeMondialeDeLaLibertéDeLaPresse

Just incredible

Inside the U.S. battle with China over an island paradise deep in the Pacific reut.rs/3RFzCM8

Among the replies here: “We are flyover country now.”

Liberals will form next government, CBC News projects. It is too soon to say whether it will be a minority or majority, but the CBC Decision Desk is projecting another term for the Liberals.

Trump has been great for BlueSky Love this place now Well done team

OK, well 73% of Republicans believe Trump should obey court orders even if he doesn't agree with them. New polling from IPSOS/Reuters www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...