These two should be named and shamed for life. #Pinks

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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Nothing honourable about this guy.

Trump is at all-time lows on inflation across polls, with a net approval of -42 points.

Among independents, Donald Trump was favored by 10 points over Kamala Harris in 2024 on inflation. His net approval with that group is now -60 points—a 70-point shift away from him.

Spain has recently outpaced the US in GDP growth, emerging as one of the fastest-growing major advanced economies. As of 2024–2025, Spain’s economy is growing at a rate over 3% annually, exceeding the US (~2%) and Eurozone (~1%) averages.

Donald is such an uninformed idiot.

Ex-oncologist and one time UKIP candidate turned conspiracy theorist Angus Dalgleish is standing for Reform UK in local elections in Sutton, just months after the party supposedly distanced itself from his claim that covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer.

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Breaking conservative news:

On Day 50 of Trump's Iran war, the president finally obliterated something:

The right of any Republicans to call themselves "fiscal conseratives".
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If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

Wow. Donald Trump bypasses Congress to launch a war that’s rattling the global economy, and now Russell Vought is in a Senate budget hearing playing careful like he just needs more time to “get the numbers right.”

This isn’t about dotting i’s and crossing t’s — it’s dodging accountability.

January 6 was a violent assault on our democracy, and those responsible must be held accountable.

Erasing these convictions undermines the rule of law and disrespects the law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line defending the Capitol.

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

Some wonderful news

Once hunted to near extinction, humpback whales are rebounding

"We've stopped killing them," said wildlife photographer Chris Fallows. "Since the late 1960s,the population that was reduced to just a couple of thousand animals has come back to several hundred thousand animals"

If you want to understand why our economy is rigged for the super rich, look at this graph.

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

Canadians Visiting U.S. By Car Down 35% In 2 Years Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

Hillary Clinton: "I think our allies believe we've lost our minds because they wake up in the morning like we do and see the rants from the president making no sense half the time"

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Between MAGA coming to the realization that Trump is a child rapist, his disastrous war of choice against Iran, his attack against Pope Leo, and his mocking of Jesus by insinuating that he is Christ... support for Trump has imploded. 😳👇

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

10 years after Farage's Brexit lies: £350m for NHS? Gone. Economy 6-8% smaller. 63% would rejoin. Sunlit uplands? More like fog of failure. 🇬🇧 #BrexitBetrayal

Rachel Campbell (New Zealand/American b.1964), For the Morning People I, 2021-22, Oil on panel

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war Demand at online marketplaces could settle at a new, higher normal, with the crisis leaving consumers ‘scarred’

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is doing something a decade of subsidies and mandates struggled to achieve:

making millions of people want an EV who previously discounted them.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal.

Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November.

It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).