On July 2, 1976, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the constitutionality of the death penalty in the case of Gregg v. Georgia, Profitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, & Roberts v. Louisiana. Join us in demanding that the U.S abolish the death penalty: https://bit.ly/4tQTHRj

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

💪 Take action with us today to end overfishing! act.oceana.org/page/178303/... 🎣 5/

🚨🐟 Warning lights are flashing red across UK seas as population after population of our fish are driven towards COLLAPSE The latest scientific advice on the status of UK fish and how much we can safely take is in, and the picture is grim 🔽1/ oceanographicmagazine.com/news/the-sta...

Have you never heard of library books?

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

Tour de France braced for historic stage cancellations amid 44C European heatwave

It’s like the 1970s again, but with mobile phones

Solar and wind are currently meeting 90% of Britain's electricity demand. grid.iamkate.com

Clown country. Both of them. So angry

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

“Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe (Great Yarmouth) was called out by Lib Dem Lisa Smart for receiving over £70,000 from Elon Musk-owned platform X since the last election, with the algorithm effectively incentivising him and other MPs to stir up rage for cash.” bylinetimes.com/2026/07/02/k...

Sri Lanka: PEN International calls on authorities to release the seized books of Tamil writer Theepachelvan Piratheepan. Censorship has no place in a free society. Read our full statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/sri-lan...

The new InfoWars site, which is insane and heavily influenced by shawarma machines, will debut later on tonight at theonion.info. Here's a sneak peek from FastCompany.

Air to Ground Message: MORNING... FOR WHAT ITS WORTH I WOULD SUGGEST NOT USING THIS ACRFT TO HOT/HUMID DESTINATIONS UNTIL THE APU IS FIXED. WE CAME CLOSE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO OPERATE Area: Caernarfon, Wales, UK Type: Boeing 777-200 A: #a8e2da30d81 F: #f04a01c25fc

Zelensky called air defense "an absolutely primary and critical issue," urged partners to contribute to the PURL program, and said he is counting on a US decision on Patriot licenses and joint anti-ballistic production — "this is what can stop the war and attacks like these."

Children at the climate strike in 2019 pleading with adults to safeguard their futures. These kids would now all be criminals under Labour’s new anti-protest law which came into force this week as climbing on a memorial is now a criminal offence.

Hear hear

So weird how this keeps happening

Elon Musk endorses an open call for violence which frames refugees as "invaders". This is why we need to #makehatecostmore www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-...

2 July 1898 | Czech Jewish woman, Marie Hermína Metzlová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive. --- The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

In memory of: Hamza Jamal Ali Asaliya / حمزه جمال علي عسليه Age: 32 We will not forget you.

#OtD 1 Jul 1919 prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the US was due to come into force. Workers in New York and New Jersey voted to strike if the law was enforced, wearing "No beer no work" pins. We've reproduced the graphics to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Harvard Faces Pressure To Fire Confederate Generals https://theonion.com/harvard-faces-pressure-to-fire-confederate-generals/

Maybe get him to invest in better locks for the downstairs loo?

Too kind

Maybe he should buy Boeing and move it to the US then?

An unimprovable synopsis

Mainstream media know they are increasingly criticized for their one-sided narratives. Yet instead of asking why or trying to regain public trust, they double down with more opinion pieces defending those same narratives. This is self-destruction.

I feel like roughly 80% of the time I hear about something being done for “women’s safety,” it’s actually a conservative dog whistle for something that will put women in more danger.

Six months on from the Govt's VAWG Strategy, the structural barriers determining whether migrant women can actually reach safety remain largely unaddressed. This month, we assess progress across key policy areas in our six-month accountability report. southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/vawg-st...

Is there a better word than abhorrent? Any language

In May 2025, health inspectors found 18 health violations at Trump Bedminister and scored it 32/100—the second lowest score in the county that month. It made him $37.6 million that year. (p.858)

Swapping the stranglehold of regulation for the puke bucket of food poisoning

Today, on the anniversary of Victoria Amelina's death, we remember her through her words. Poem About a Crow was inspired by her interviews with women who lived through Russian occupation. Translated by Uilleam Blacker.

“In September 2025, Farage publicly namechecked Tether & Bitfinex – companies in which Harborne is major shareholder & announced he was going to the Bank of England to argue against restrictions on crypto” BoE just ditched proposed limit on stablecoin holdings thedailybritain.co.uk/farage-harbo...

A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/

Trump borrowed more than $50 million from Charles Schwab Bank last year. But what we don't know— 💰️ why he needed the funds 💰️ how he used the funds 💰️ what assets he pledged as collateral 💰️ the exact amount he borrowed 💰️ when it's due ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @danalexander21.bsky.social for Forbes

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Joy

So half a day of consumption in August has been covered. 61 more half days left. bsky.app/profile/spec...

A security researcher using Claude Opus 4.7 found the AI tool could independently code an exploit to hack into Front Gate Tickets, the ticketing platform for almost every major US music festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo. He could then issue any tickets at will. www.wired.com/story/claude...

The sins of our fathers. Wasn’t there an Archers storyline about this?

A ha ha ha

"The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs” between June 2022 and March 2025" so basically most of the biden presidency how weird

Hear hear

Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office. High office is now the key to personal and family riches. Former US President Harry Truman once said: "Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook."

If only it was funny

The drop is a Europe-wide trend, which reduces onward journeys to UK Crossings at 20-25k not 40k c unlikely to change reporting or politics. But a big policy opportunity: this scale of flow could be cut 75% + eliminated via more ambitious routes for returns deal of 25k+ bsky.app/profile/jame...