The interesting thing about why Norway dominates at international sports is that they have a culture of not permitting ranking or competition in kids before they turn 12. It promotes cooperation and enjoyment instead. Along with affordable access, it means sports there are more equitable.

💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.

Not totally surprised by this, but YIKES 🚨 NEW EPSTEIN CLAIM: A former Miss Switzerland contestant who previously accused Donald Trump of misconduct now alleges that Ivana Trump recruited women in the same way Ghislaine Maxwell did.

This really does change everything. Nigel Farage’s crypto-gambler ally used Reform UK business cards

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

Farage is toast, which is nice, shame it took the majority of our media over a DECADE to actually investigate the motherfucker though, could have prevented his shitty Brexit, the rise of the far right, and not emboldened so many goddamn racists. Fuckin lumps.

“Alistair Graham, the former chair of the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life said Greenberg should investigate the two sets of allegations alongside each other…they raised “serious doubts about the integrity of Nigel Farage as a senior politician” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As the revelations pile up, the excuses get thinner and thinner. But this is always the story with the extreme right. It's a racket, a deception perpetrated against the public. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

101 Former Judges Ask the New York Bar to Investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Because you allowed the media and bloody opinion polls to spook you about something which is 3+ years away. The first 2 years were always going to be hard, Starmer held his nerve, kept calm and carried on too many others behaved like headless chickens.

Remember when Brexiters got very angry we wouldn't all say ok you won, we'll never mention it again. That's exactly who those telling us to just accept the way Starmer was treated and how Burnham engineered his way to the top job are behaving, how's that working out.

‼️ Preprint paper (not yet peer reviewed or accepted for publication) by climate scientist Dr Christopher Callahan, Assistant Professor of Indiana University Bloomington: "I calculate that June 22-28 saw 20,390 heat-related deaths across Europe." zenodo.org/records/2108... #ClimateChange #heatwave

Why 'dual-core Europe' (EU and Nato) needs to reconstruct – that is, Europeanise - its second core. My commentary in advance of NATO summit in Ankara this week.... www.ft.com/content/14e1...

🇫🇷🇺🇦 Zelensky: I spoke with the President of France. Emmanuel clearly knows all the details of what the diplomatic prospects are now. Our position is that Europe must be in the process of diplomacy, and Europe's voice must matter. We discussed protection of life and need for additional air defense.

Love this projecting stained glass fanlight above the entrance to the Hat-Rack at 144 Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #hatrack #stainedglass

❗ LIVE THREAD - CAN-SG conference counterprotest There are 7 members of TKDB (Trans Kids Deserve Better) already here at present, with placards, speakers and lots of sound equipment.

2013: More innocent times...

Farage’s appetite for seemingly endless self-enrichment reminds me of a former PM whose greed eventually caught up with him…

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Your children's medical records are in the hands of the descendant of a friend of Hitler and the best friend of a prolific rapist, paedophile, sex-trafficker, blackmailer of the rich & powerful #EpsteinFiles

I always thought that if the Cottrell story cut through it would hurt Farage because it's not just corruption, it's weird. The guy calls him "Daddy".

That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

This Sunday times story about Farage is properly extraordinary Confirms so much of what I - and many others - have been hearing for a long time and begs *massive* questions about Farage’s finances, rule breeches and more www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

1/ I've known quite a bit about Posh George Cottrell for a long time. Until now, most of the UK media has studiously ignored Farage's extremely close associaton with this aristo-criminal, whose background (before crypto) is in hyper-dodgy offshore "money business" for Russian oligarchs.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

The amazing Sandi Toksvig says #TransRights at #Pride.

Wrote a happy, positive piece this time. Happy Pride, everyone! Even if you like food with weird mouthfeel!

This week Spain announced it was banning Palantir from public & private state-controlled entities. It joins Other European countries including Holland, Germany & France, who have taken similar steps. Andy Burnham must do the right thing and immediately ban Palantir from the UK! #stoppalantir ⛔️🇬🇧👁

A Big Win For Truth, Democracy, And The Rule Of Law.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!

Every morning, this critically endangered Red Ruffed Lemur spreads its arms and sunbathes for up to 40 minutes to warm up instead of burning internal energy. Only 2,500 left in the wild.

Wonderful news... An avocet ringed as a nestling at Titchwell Marsh reserve in Norfolk on 2 July 1990 has been spotted 36 years on... Via BBC News

Just a quick reminder that it was 491 days ago that strategic genius Donald Trump lectured Zelensky about Ukraine having "no cards".

The Nerve's @luciaoc.bsky.social sat down with Beeban, who has made it her mission to defend children from the ills of big tech, to discuss her new book: a manifesto, a roadmap – and a call to arms www.thenerve.news/p/beeban-kid...

‼️ A Russian airstrike on Sumy killed 4 people&injured 33 more,including 7 children.Medics tried to save a 5-yr-old girl,but she didn’t survive Her mom was killed beside her little girl.Her older daughter was injured,as well,is now in the hospital Deepest condolences.This’s too awful.This damned war

"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

“The speakers list is a who’s who of the transatlantic radical right: Liz Truss…a host of MAGA influencers, & headline act, Reform’s Nigel Farage…Several of the speakers at CPAC’s London debut, meanwhile, have documented links to pro-Kremlin networks” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

Nixon: “People have got to know whether their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” Trump, in effect: Sure, I’m a crook. What are you going to do about it?

At Least Someone is Reporting some of his Corruption…. “BREAKING: NBC News is reporting that President Trump's investment accounts purchased over 300 stocks on the day before his tariffs were paused. Naked corruption.”

Sleek and splendid jungle royalty - #leopards 🐆💛 are adaptable, yet are now #extinct in places due to #palmoil #deforestation, #poaching and other threats. Fight for them in the supermarket and be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-199

What could be more Prime Ministerial than making money by encouraging people to make dodgy investments? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stunning vividly coloured Philippine Sailfin #Lizards 🦎😍 of #WestPapua and #Philippines 🇵🇭 need you to fight for them! Use your wallet as a weapon in the supermarket @palmoildetect #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🚫🧐 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/12/p...

Exactly Lisa! Find out how you can #BoycottGold and #BoycottPalmOil on the website and ignore the #greenwashing on here from #palmoil shills for so-called "sustainable" palm oil which is as real as clean fossil fuels palmoildetectives.com/2023/07/26/p...