www.commerce.gov website barely has space to squeeze in its mission statement of 'opportunity for all' below the massive advert for an opportunity available exclusively to millionaires.

Two stories; two sentences. US Department of Defense Law of War Manual apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

This week's inaugural award for fair and accurate reporting goes to The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent.

It's going to get awfully busy in the Great Rift Valley

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

"Things happen." Chump makes light of the state-sanctioned murder and dismemberment of a journalist for doing journalism.

🤣🤣🤣 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This app is a must for journalists who receive material of dubious origin. Great stuff @micahflee.com for now making it much easier to use. (It no longer requires Docker.)

Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock reut.rs/4nF6nXs

Grokipedia is a really good advert for Wikipedia

Want to send the Guardian a confidential news tip? If you have the Guardian app, choose 'Secure Messaging' from the app menu. If you don't, download it. It's free. If you’re happy using Tor, there’s also our SecureDrop site: theguardian.securedrop.tor.onion More details: theguardian.com/tips

... While one the largest demonstrations in the history of the US gets one single, below-the-fold article in the New York Times. Oh and they dug out a five-month-old sidebar on how numbers don't count, or something. The NYT's editorial decisions can be difficult to understand.

As every day more satirists ponder new careers, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

... is that up out of the sewer that the Mail drove it into?

🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch. This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates. This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]

This is heartwarming www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In 2024 91% of renewable energy was cheaper than a fossil fuel alternative. 'Drill baby drill' makes sense on one metric alone: vested interests. rmi.org/affordabilit...

Pains me to say "I agree with Nick", but "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" is a pretty good line. However. He speaks like someone emerging from stockholm syndrome in this interview. But he was no prisoner. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US civil war, World Wars I and II, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined." watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

This is the era of unlearning, isn’t it?

How many times can Laurence Fox post adverts that violate Google's policies before Google realise that taking them down *after* they've had hundreds of thousands of views isn't really working as a deterrent? adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

From the dictionary of politics: INTOLERABLE (adj): tolerable

This trip's getting weird www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Conspiracy beliefs are mostly associated with reduced public health ... weakened social cohesion ... deteriorated basic human rights ... lower support for reducing carbon emissions, clean energy & preserving delicate ecosystems; & with reduced trust & cooperation..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

The news: * Me: when a species evolves to the extent that it becomes an existential threat to the overall biosphere, does an evolutionary inflexion point occur, after which the species is mysteriously compelled to behave in ways that ensure its own demise? Gaia: vote Trump

"Bomb 'em till they like us" hasn't got a great track record

Wish I had thought of nominating the kumquat-in-chief for a Nobel Peace Prize first. He's such a pushover for ass-kissers; I'd be minted.

This is a decent read on the 3.5% thing if, like me, you're new to it www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

The Guardian app’s own data flows make leaks indistinguishable from regular traffic — cutting off one of the easiest ways for a repressive government or a corporate boss to identify a leaker. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...

The Guardian's Secure Messaging tool is an implementation of the CoverDrop protocol, which was invented by researchers at www.cst.cam.ac.uk We have published our code under an Apache 2.0 licence at github.com/guardian/cov... There's a technical paper on how it works at www.coverdrop.org

Introducing a new tool that allows sources to contact journalists under the cover of the normal activity of a news app. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

It has been a pleasure to work with Cambridge researchers on this project. Thanks especially to @lambda.bsky.social‬ and ‪@arberesford.bsky.social‬

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Formatting Issues are the new Alternative Facts

“The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read.” So to make him attend his "daily" briefings (he's only done 14 in 132 days) they're contemplating adding animations with explosions like a video game. Or faking a Fox & Friends show. Because he likes watching those. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

The Telegraph has now taken down this bizarre and seemingly fake bit of trolling. Was it meant to be a joke? (You can still see it at archive.is/s1GPF )

This is just ... beautiful www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It's the stupid economy

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Just look at these wallies

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data micahflee.com/despite-misl...

This man is an inspiration and a treasure. Happy birthday David Attenborough www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...