Turkey’s latest finds at Göbeklitepe & Karahantepe push the story of civilization back over 11,000 years: hunter-gatherers building monumental temples, rich with symbolism, long before cities or farming took off. Science keeps rewriting our origins. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Science

Turkey’s latest finds at Göbeklitepe & Karahantepe push the story of civilization back over 11,000 years: hunter-gatherers building monumental temples, rich with symbolism, long before cities or farming took off. Science keeps rewriting our origins. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Science

Kenyan farmers just won a huge victory, the High Court has upheld their right to save and share indigenous seeds instead of bowing to corporate seed laws. A big step for food sovereignty, climate resilience and farmer power. #GreenSky #Kenya

COP30 in Belem delivered more climate finance and a “just transition” mechanism, but dodged a clear fossil fuel phase-out. Foreign-policy win on funds for vulnerable states, but a big loss for 1.5°C credibility and leverage on petrostates. #COP30 #Climate #ForeignPolicy #GreenSky #Brazil

Snubbing South Africa from the G20 weakens any claim that the US still leads a rules-based order. It looks petty and vindictive, and tells the Global South that Washington’s commitments depend on Trump’s grudges, not shared principles. #ForeignPolicy #G20 #Trump #SouthAfrica

A supposed dormant volcano erupts in Ethiopia after being inactive for at least 12.000 years. www.scientificamerican.com/article/hayl...

Trump’s “tough on China” act gave Xi time and leverage. Tariffs, photo-op “deals,” and mixed signals left the U.S. with more friction but less real power. Short-term showmanship, long-term foreign policy failure. In doing setting a course for further policy failures. #Trump #China #ForeignPolicy

Trump’s “tough on China” act gave Xi time and leverage. Tariffs, photo-op “deals,” and mixed signals left the U.S. with more friction but less real power. Short-term showmanship, long-term foreign policy failure. In doing setting a course for further policy failures. #Trump #China #ForeignPolicy

Japan’s PM Takaichi is tying Japan’s security to Taiwan while Trump sends mixed signals to both Tokyo and Beijing. His unpredictability complicates deterrence and raises the risk of miscalculation in the Pacific. #ForeignPolicy #Taiwan #Trump

Trump is bleeding support in his own party over health care, a mess Republicans created by obsessively trying to rip coverage away from millions. Now even GOP lawmakers are scrambling to distance themselves from the damage. #GOP #Trump #HealthCare #ACA #Corruption

JWST in February caught a baby star in the making in Herbig-Haro 30: jets of fire, a dark disk of dust, light echoing in blue arcs. Pure science, pure poetry, gravity, gas and time sculpting a new sun and maybe new worlds. We’re watching creation in real time. ✨🌀 #JWST #Astronomy #Science #NASA

BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine looks like surrender dressed up as diplomacy. Dangling aid while demanding Kyiv give up land and NATO hopes is not peacemaking, it’s betrayal, so he can claim a “win” while leaving Ukraine exposed. #Ukraine #Trump #ForeignPolicy

Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.

Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine looks like surrender dressed up as diplomacy. Dangling aid while demanding Kyiv give up land and NATO hopes is not peacemaking, it’s betrayal, so he can claim a “win” while leaving Ukraine exposed. #Ukraine #Trump #ForeignPolicy

China’s economic threats against Japan over Taiwan aren’t just a trade spat, they’re a foreign policy crisis in real time. Beijing is signaling what a Taiwan move would look like for the whole Pacific, coercion, pressure, and a test of who blinks first. #ForeignPolicy #Taiwan #China #Japan

China’s economic threats against Japan over Taiwan aren’t just a trade spat, they’re a foreign policy crisis in real time. Beijing is signaling what a Taiwan move would look like for the whole Pacific, coercion, pressure, and a test of who blinks first. #ForeignPolicy #Taiwan #China #Japan

Trump on Khashoggi: “Things happen.” Defending a Saudi-led murder of a journalist while threatening the press at home isn’t strength, it’s contempt for a free press. Authoritarians cheer; U.S. credibility bleeds. #Trump #PressFreedom #SaudiArabia #ForeignPolicy

A federal judge slammed “profound missteps” in DOJ’s case against James Comey and ordered grand-jury materials turned over, scrutinizing Trump’s handpicked prosecutor. The DOJ should not be a tool to use again people Trump considers his enemy. #Trump #Comey #RuleOfLaw #DueProcess

UK suspending Caribbean intel sharing with Washington is what Trump’s “America First” really looks like: allies lose trust, courts are sidelined, and the U.S. stops looking like a nation of laws. Our influence is bleeding away. #ForeignPolicy #RuleOfLaw #ForeignPolicy #Military #UK #US

WaPo shows Chinese chemical exporters fueling a meth tsunami across Asia. If Beijing looks away, expect sanctions, tighter controls and deep mistrust, an eerie echo of the Opium Wars once imposed on China, only now it’s on the exporting side. #ForeignPolicy #China #Asia-Pacific #Myanmar #Drugs

It is time to give up on the Dems, its time to vote out all these old people. Holy hell, I can't believe they collapsed on this and got nothing in return. #Dems #GOP #Trump #3rdParty #Betrayed #Senate #Congress

What a joke...

Japan protesting a Chinese envoy’s “cut off that dirty neck” threat over PM Takaichi’s Taiwan comments shows how toxic the rhetoric is getting. As both sides harden positions on Taiwan, the risk isn’t just hurt feelings, it’s a deterrence spiral in East Asia. #ForeignPolicy #China #Japan #Taiwan #中国

WaPo shows Chinese chemical exporters fueling a meth tsunami across Asia. If Beijing looks away, expect sanctions, tighter controls and deep mistrust, an eerie echo of the Opium Wars once imposed on China, only now it’s on the exporting side. #ForeignPolicy #China #Asia-Pacific #Myanmar #Drugs

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

A US carrier in Busan, new security talks with Seoul, and Pyongyang vowing “offensive action”, the peninsula is stuck in a deterrence spiral. Washington’s support steadies the region but also ties US foreign policy to every flare-up here. #ForeignPolicy #KoreanPeninsula #IndoPacific #USA #Navy

If Guam became the 51st state, it wouldn’t just change the map of the U.S., it would reshape Indo-Pacific geopolitics. A state in China’s missile envelope would lock in America’s forward military presence and raise the stakes in any Pacific crisis. #ForeignPolicy #Guam #IndoPacific #China

A US carrier in Busan, new security talks with Seoul, and Pyongyang vowing “offensive action”, the peninsula is stuck in a deterrence spiral. Washington’s support steadies the region but also ties US foreign policy to every flare-up here. #ForeignPolicy #KoreanPeninsula #IndoPacific #USA #Navy

China is facing its first real space crisis: 3 taikonauts stuck on Tiangong after debris reportedly damaged their return capsule. A reminder that space power isn’t just prestige, it’s risk. One mishap in orbit can turn triumph into tragedy. #China #Space #Tiangong #Science

China is facing its first real space crisis: 3 taikonauts stuck on Tiangong after debris reportedly damaged their return capsule. A reminder that space power isn’t just prestige, it’s risk. One mishap in orbit can turn triumph into tragedy. #China #Space #Tiangong #Science

As Vietnam races China in island-building across the South China Sea, the map is filling with overlapping claims, U.S. patrols, ASEAN splits and new security deals. It’s not just rocks and sand anymore, it’s a slow-motion foreign policy crisis. #China #Vietnam #ForeignPolicy #SouthChinaSea

Taiwan, Singapore & Hong Kong just seized hundreds of millions in assets tied to Cambodia’s Prince Group cyber-scam empire. This is more than crime busting, it’s digital foreign policy, as states push back on transnational scam networks weaponizing their citizens. #AsiaPacific #US #ForeignPolicy

China reaching out to NASA to prevent a satellite crash shows how far its space program has come and how crowded orbit is getting. As Beijing takes its place as a space power, diplomacy, norms and deconfliction hotlines may matter as much as rockets. #China #NASA #ForeignPolicy #Diplomancy

Taiwan, Singapore & Hong Kong just seized hundreds of millions in assets tied to Cambodia’s Prince Group cyber-scam empire. This is more than crime busting, it’s digital foreign policy, as states push back on transnational scam networks weaponizing their citizens. #AsiaPacific #US #ForeignPolicy

Canada just signed a defense pact with the Philippines as Manila leans on more partners to push back on China in the South China Sea. What began as a regional dispute is turning into a web of alliances where one miscalculation could spiral into a wider war. #SouthChinaSea #IndoPacific #ForeignPolicy

India’s toxic trash mountains in Delhi show what happens when a booming population, runaway consumption and weak environmental policy collide. Communities are forced to live, and die, on landfills. This is a policy failure, not an accident. #India #ClimateCrisis #Waste #HumanRights

This is big. The new anti-Trump coalition depends on the very working families that billionaire-ran monopolies exploit. Mamdani having antitrust enforcer Lina Khan on his team is going to keep monopolies and hedge fund managers like Bill Ackman (stay in your lane) in NYC up at night :)

Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC. Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA. Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ. Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.

Israel has jailed its former top military lawyer, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, after she leaked video of soldiers torturing a bound Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman. Whistleblowers go to prison, abusers walk free. #Israel #Gaza #HumanRights #WarCrimes

More attacks on free speech. Kimmel did nothing wrong. #ABC #CharlieKirk #CancelCulture #FreeSpeech #Fascism #BananaRepublic

More attacks on free speech. Kimmel did nothing wrong. #ABC #CharlieKirk #CancelCulture #FreeSpeech #Fascism #BananaRepublic

A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)

The situation in Gaza is dire. As Israel begins is ground invasion of Gaza City a city of one million people with no where to go. When will the world finally act? #Israel #Genocide #Netanyahu #Gaza

She just wants the Right to be able to say whatever it wants and then prosecute those that say what Trump and the GOP don't like... #GOP #Fascism #Trump #FreeSpeech

It is time to shut down the government. Dems should not sit idly by while Trump and his allies wield the government as their personal chiefdom. If Dems can't stand up to him, we need new leaders. #Dems #GovernmentShutDown

It is time to shut down the government. Dems should not sit idly by while Trump and his allies wield the government as their personal chiefdom. If Dems can't stand up to him, we need new leaders. #Dems #GovernmentShutDown

Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)

Billionaires have been arrested before in China, but the process is rarely this messy. Li Yonghui’s saga has illuminated the risks facing entrepreneurs in China, especially outside the biggest cities

Banksy’s latest mural on the Royal Courts of Justice, a judge striking a protester, speaks volumes about the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protestors. 900 were arrested under terror laws for peaceful dissent. This isn’t security, it’s oppression. #FreeSpeech #Protest #UK #Palestine