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Latest Maybe I'm Amazed Substack from me: on neurodiversity, creativity, genius & Brian Wilson. It's free, as are subscriptions maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/neurodiver...

Native American women tell border patrol to fuck off.

Since Monday morning, 32 notifications have been sent by the BBC News app by my count and, as of writing, not a single one has been about the rioting in Northern Ireland that began four days ago

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed. This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.

Don’t blow past Trump’s admission of fear & defeat last night: farmers, restaurant trade assoc and hotels have been all over him about loss of immigrant workers. Stephen Miller in his snarling zeal (“arrest everyone) screwed up & is getting slapped back by Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

Musk is a mass murderer whose criminal actions continue to wreak havoc around the world. These protests are foremost about fighting Musk through his financial ties to Tesla. His reckless incompetence as a CEO is gravy. Join a #TeslaTakedown protest or create one in your city at TeslaTakedown.com!

some important tesla news you may have missed on a very busy news day www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/s... swedish pension fund ap7 blacklists tesla & has sold entire stake

BREAKING: The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.

Shameful.

BREAKING: Iran has started what it called a “crushing” retaliation against the Israeli attacks, according to the official news agency IRNA. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x8i9aa

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“People are very worried, especially older people. They often ask, where is the shelter?” For Estonians the nightmare of a Russian invasion might become reality. Could the country defend itself? https://econ.trib.al/djJmYUe

We need answers about what happened on Alderaan and assurances from the Empire that it won’t happen again.

Rachel Reeves proving an unlucky Chancellor. Week after Budget: Trump elected. Week after Spring Statement: “Liberation Day”. Two days after Spending Review: Israel strikes Iran, biggest oil price spike since 2022.

✍️ Martial law in America With troops deployed on spurious grounds in Los Angeles, are we seeing the first step towards military oppression in the US? By J 'Masharubu' Strauss

ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

President Trump. Rapist.

Republicans passed a package that guts $9.4 BILLION in critical funding. They’re coming for global health, humanitarian aid, national security—& even PBS & NPR. Let me be real clear: What they’re cutting saves lives, keeps the world stable, and tells the truth.

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

As jaded as I am, I still wasn't prepared for how sanguine the US media would be about the appearance of gangs of masked gunmen abducting people in broad daylight all across America.

US has contingency plans to invade Greenland and Panama, Hegseth reveals www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

🇪🇺 Top 5 League Midfielders ↑ Progressive carries per 90 → Assists per 90 📊 Plot more: datamb.football

There needs to be a new portmanteau word for the posting of nostalgic revisionist memes about how places used to be whiter posted by people who didn't know any non-white people in the past and don't know any now.

As the worlds attention is drawn to Israels unprovoked attack on Iran, Israel is escalating its actions across the Gaza strip. Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting.

Racist bigots like Rupert Lowe who eulogise a lost, one nation England were cheering on Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s as she took a sledgehammer to countless working class communities across the country, describing them as "the enemy within".

More than 200 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army. More than the number killed in World war I & 2 combined.   Israel is targeting the media to suppress news of their daily atrocities. When will we act against this criminal regime?   1/4

“It is not your testimony today that there are plans at the Pentagon for taking by force or invading Greenland?” Republican Rep. Mike Turner asked Hegseth. “Cause I sure as hell hope that it is not your testimony—” “We look forward to working with Greenland,” Hegseth responded.

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Incredible ground gained. We have a sitting MP interacting with our guys publicly' writes Steve Laws of Homeland Party (a racist campaign to remove all ethnic minorities from Britain) of Rupert Lowe's response to far right blogger Morgoth, who was challenging Reform's rejection of overt racism

Kemi Badenoch will today announce that she would ditch the windfall tax on fossil fuel companies that have amassed massive profits in recent years. In other news, the Conservative Party recently received £250k from oil investors and climate science deniers…

I keep hearing from media elites how much better The Discourse is over at the Nazi site so I went to check it out and

Holy fucking shit. No surprise to find the Boeing whistleblower who ‘died by suicide’ mentioned in this article, nor that another ex-employee specifically warned about the shitshow quality of planes sent to Air India, but still … fucking horrific. Boeing is a corporation soaked in blood.

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

I’m proud that the ULEZ scrappage scheme, the biggest in the UK, has supported so many Londoners to switch to cleaner, greener forms of transport. It has made a huge difference to our air quality.