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poor Vladimir, show me on the ICC arrest warrant where the mean G7 hurt you

Extraordinary cockpit footage of Iran launching its ballistic missiles at Israel last night. This was taken from the flight deck of a commercial aircraft flying over Dubai at the time. (🎥 Osint Defender)

I live in a world where I am supposed to just accept that this sentence exists

Trump team is doing literal information warfare around intensified political violence and Democrats are still confirming nominees and cooperating on bipartisan legislation

Amazingly positive news

Coming soon to a primary school near you

Trump will be disappointed when someone explains that a ballroom is different from a ballpit

“A woman who was wrongly accused of shoplifting toilet roll due to an apparent mix-up with a facial recognition system was left "fuming" after being ejected from two Home Bargains stores” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reportedly,this video shows the launch of Iranian ballistic missiles towards Israel,filmed by passengers of a plane that was flying over Dubai Many people are now trying to flee the conflict zone now.Friends,have you seen information how the refugee issues will develop,especially regarding Europe?

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Is this the future? Are we going to see more issues like this?

Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Word of the Day: HYPERNORMALISATION - the state of a society where people continue to live according to rules that they know are not actually working.

‼️ A building used by Boeing in Kyiv was badly damaged in a Russian air attack, in what appeared to be a deliberate strike on the US aerospace company, - FT

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

This is, for me, where the Nazi/fascist parallels work best. ‘Good’ people did nothing as the awfulness escalated because they were justifiably terrified of getting their heads kicked in or killed. It’s about comparing similar points in the process as opposed to comparing end days with early ones.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

US state politician and husband killed in ‘targeted’ attacks on two Democrats

The guy who was "detained" by the US Marines (hands zip tied) was a U.S. Veteran just trying to cross the street to go to the VA hospital. 🙄 LA Times interviewed him […]

A number of Irish people who were detained by Egyptian authorities, including People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy, have all been released.

Is the whole world going to go blind…

If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

Republic may need to consider nuclear power to meet energy demand and climate goals, says EirGrid chairman www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Did you know that you can put yogurt in your car instead of oil? You shouldn't but you can

This would not have happened if Donald was president...

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

Dolphins in the Shannon! REPEAT: DOLPHINS IN THE SHANNON! #SpéirGorm

Thank GOD www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

US warns nations against attending UN conference on two-state solution

Newsom on Trump: "He's lost it. He hasn't lost a step. And I saw him trip on the steps today. This is serious. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago. And he's incapable now of even a train of thought. He's making things up and he's putting people's lives at risk."

"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...

FYI... "The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all." www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare. Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home. Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl

In moments like these, I go to Frederick Douglass. Here are his words in a letter written after visiting Robert E. Lee’s abandoned plantation in 1863: