Ukraine smells blood in the water and is amping up drone attacks. Putin is spending recklessly, increasingly focused only on surviving to tomorrow. We shouldn't exaggerate this, but these dynamics build slowly then slip all at once. The wheels are coming off the wagon in Russia. 🎁:

21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Oil producers flared off more natural gas in 2025 than all the gas exported via the Strait of Hormuz that year, according to the World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Tracker Report, released yesterday. PDF here: thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/b34e0...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

"Undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist" ... who knew words could even be twisted so far? 😵‍💫

"Industry estimates show [Nigeria] spends about $14bn annually running generators. ... But the economics of self-generation have changed." With solar now cheaper and more reliable than generators, more and more Nigerian households are making the switch. The presidential villa just joined them.

Well when you put it like that...

The Iranians have finally hit upon a demand that sounds reasonable to international audiences but is anathema—literally unthinkable—to Donald John Trump: apologizing

There’s a sweet, sweet irony in the most narcissistic president in history getting obsessed with a reflecting pool.

It’s the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and it marks the moment to celebrate #EuropeanSolarDay ☀️ In the EU, solar made up 13% of electricity in 2025, is the fastest growing power source and is expanding in every member state 🇪🇺 ember-energy.org/lat...

Nice of the editors to accompany this story with a photo of a pro-Palestine rally, thereby reinforcing the ugly stereotype (sadly common here in Germany) that to care about Palestinians' humanity is to be anti-Semitic 😑

Not the most important lesson of the US-Iran war or of its Israel-Hezbollah offshoot, but an obvious one they both share: A "ceasefire" intended to end a conflict isn't worth shit if all parties don't negotiate and sign it.

"As far as the details and their implications, let’s just say I’m sure that by unfreezing the currency and removing sanctions, we can simply trust Romulan leadership to stop creating system-destroying weapons and funding proxy terrorist militants, right?"

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

A surrender treaty at Versailles, you say?

Electrification jumps up corporate agenda after energy crisis, survey of 2000 executives finds - 91% believed the switch from fossil fuel equipment to electric furnaces, #heatpumps or #ElectricVehicles, would improve their energy security www.ft.com/content/336a... via @FT #investors #ActOnClimate

The world's first trillionaire did this

"I have no idea whether Musk is an engineering genius, or just a savvy and lucky venture capitalist. The scientific world is divided on that question. I do know that he is a monstrous human being."

The Germans have a word for this: "verschlimmbesserung." To make something worse by trying to make it better.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Americans Joyously Pretend To Understand, Enjoy Soccer

ICE shouldn't be at schools. Period. This is horrific, it's unacceptable. These parents should be immediately released and we must all collectively demand that ICE stay out of schools. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

*taps sign*

Ted Lasso actor Sudeikis will deliver a cheery opening to the tournament "at a time when the World Cup host is simultaneously bombing the second-ranked country in Group G, having recently murdered its head of state."

Giving classified war plans to the press by Signal is so 2025

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

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Quote of the week: "There are three things you can’t predict: God, sex, and the EU." — Albanian PM Edi Rama, showing his impatience with the slow pace of EU accession talks

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

US oil execs "are also raising the alarm publicly, warning last week that fuel prices are poised to jump if inventory levels continue their rapid decline. The US average gasoline price was $4.26 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA, $1.28 a gallon higher than before the war started..."

"Ruh-roh" for those of us in northern Europe

Three months since the Iran War started, what have countries done to deal with fossil-fuel disruptions? We took a deep dive looking at policy changes made now and how deep shocks in history have led to profound changes in the energy mix. Please read and share! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

On this June 4th, wishing for a world with more people willing to stand in front of the tanks, and less who are willing to drive them.

🔖A few months into the Iran War, @akshatrathi.bsky.social @sstapczynski.bsky.social and co tie together threads from Europe and Asia here, showing the significant accelerations in the energy transition that are underway, featuring loads of cool data, history &📊 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

unless they just play ‘Swan Lake’ on a loop

Because everyone knows, the surest way to solve a problem is to stop measuring it

Obama's fault specifically, for negotiating JCPOA back in 2015. After withdrawing from it in 2018 out of reactionary incompetence, today Trump has learned the hard way what a good deal it was – but can't renegotiate it for fear of eating crow. And so, he flails.

"Turkey is now home to one of the biggest solar facilities in the world as well as one of Europe's largest battery storage pipelines. Since 2022, the country has required new wind and solar projects to be paired with equivalent battery capacity."

JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh

This is what impunity looks like

Further evidence that the Hormuz crisis is accelerating the energy transition:

Chris Van Hollen says that Biden & other Democrats have enabled Israeli apartheid while pretending to support two states, so he calls for •Recognizing State of Palestine •End all taxpayer funded assistance to Israel •Impose sanctions •Blacklist complicit US officials •Endorse Arab Peace Initiative

"High energy prices and initiatives to slash fuel use are not popular. But until supplies normalise, the risk of shortages leaves govts with few painless options. It is in many cases, after all, the price of failing to invest adequately in energy security and the green transition in the 1st place."