“Ireland’s parliament has voted to remove a mandatory three-day wait for abortion during early pregnancy after campaigners said the rule was an unnecessary restriction.” 👍👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.

Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Peter Thiel is coming to Ireland in August and bringing his anti-Democratic, pro/surveillance gang with him…. Here’s a profile of him from 2025: Peter Thiel, big tech’s chief conspiracy theorist, says the state is keeping big secrets from us. And he should know. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

80% of all journalism jobs have disappeared in the 20 years that I have been a reporter paydayreport.com/8/

This is worth a read. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/16/trillionaires-dire-democracy

Geo Group, one of the largest private prison contractors in the country, asked ICE to make it easier for them to mistreat immigrants in their custody — and ICE went along with it. Our government should be on the side of the people, not helping private corporations violate our rights.

BREAKING: Georgia lawmakers have taken redistricting off the table as a result of public pressure. The state will no longer consider a new, racist map that would have diluted Black voting power. This victory makes it loud and clear: Our demands are working.

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

America's roughly 1,100 billionaires (and 1 trillionaire) are collectively worth a record $9.24 trillion. The wealth of the bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households? $4.3 trillion. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue.

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Time to get this out again… @sylvialeatham.bsky.social

A little light reading for Irish people who think we’re unlikely to fall for fascism or anti-democratic, anti-human rights behaviours here.

Red Alert for Ireland: Thiel’s secretive Dialog group which promotes racist “remigration” theories (among other human rights limiting beliefs) coming to Dublin in August. Members exposed in this story by the mighty team @wired www.wired.com/story/leak-e...

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

"russ_and_stacie_sullivan: Good morning, friends! Last night at WaterFire in #Providence, 🔥a bunch of friends from different groups got together for a Signs of Fascism awareness event Signs of #Fascism is an event that highlights historical warning signs of #authoritarianism..." Threads 2-3 👇

The State of American Resistance Is Stronger Than You Think www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/o...

Did Jared Kushner Inadvertently Touch Off an Albanian Revolution? newrepublic.com/article/2118...

Misogyny, authoritarianism and climate change… the data.

Portugal is advancing #waveenergy projects along its Atlantic coast. Point absorbers, oscillating water columns, and attenuator devices transform the motion of waves into electricity. #ActOnClimate #Renewables #KatharinaReiche #DonaldTrump www.youtube.com/watch?v=csg9...

Getting ready to honor our Champions.

“You got rights coming out the wazoo …and don’t ever give ‘em up”. Listen to Saul.

Elon Musk has just become the world’s first trillionaire. Donald Trump is America’s first dictator. But they have more in common than their economic and political dominance. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-era-of-the-super-asholes

NEW LAW IN OKLAHOMA Data Centers Can't Pass Their Energy Costs to Consumers The law requires large-load customers adding 75 megawatts or more of demand to sign long-term agreements covering infrastructure costs tied to their projects, rather than spreading those costs across the general rate base.

Love to see these! The right to repair is so important for how we interact with our belongings. We reduce so much unnecessary waste and save money when buying something means buying it for life.

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall

Americans have a bleak outlook on the nation’s future ahead of its 250th birthday next month, with most saying the U.S. has already seen its best days and a record-low number saying they are extremely proud to be Americans, according to a new NBC News poll.

NEW: Meta is testing facial recognition for its smart glasses using software built by a Pentagon and police surveillance vendor with deep ties to the US intelligence community. My latest w/ @dmehro.bsky.social

Haberman and Swan saved this until their book was about to come out. I’m so sick of this shit.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Anyone who still thinks there will be mid-term elections in the USA isn’t paying attention.

Quick clip of Alicia Keys singing 'Empire State of Mind' ❤️celebrating the Knicks championship win last night while at the 25th Anniversary of the Tribeca Festival.

Aerial footage of the celebration in New York: You see people out on their fire escapes, on their balconies, clinging on the side

The beautiful back story of this Knicks team - www.instagram.com/reel/DZiK0mV...

When good people succeed, they spread the joy & the financial reward …https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7358437/2026/06/14/jalen-brunson-greatest-knicks-nba-championship/

“When the Knicks won the NBA Cup this season, Brunson devised a plan to make sure that the peripheral people in the Knicks organization—medical staff, locker-room attendants, etc.—received a portion of the money that the players get for winning the in-season tournament. This is who Brunson is.” 🎁

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews | WIRED www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

The British imported men and techniques from Ireland to Palestine. This is the subject of Khalidi’s new book: the transfer of counterinsurgency strategy by the British from its African colonies, first to Ireland, and then to Palestine during the 1930s Arab Revolt against the British Mandate.

Jalen Brunson is your NBA Finals MVP 🏆

"The closer you look at the SpaceX IPO, the more it looks like Musk’s ill-fated Doge," writes @rbreich.bsky.social. "All of it is arbitrary – based on the hype and will of one man with a giant ego and an insatiable thirst for money and power."

"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2