Ecologists say a Russian shadow tanker is the likely source of a new oil spill in the Black Sea near Anapa, where 100 mi of coastline is polluted again, & cleanup crews have already collected some 28 tons of oily water. Local officials previously blamed Ukrainian drone attacks.
I thought I'd kick off the weekend with a horror movie but read this far scarier report instead
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
👇🎯 Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Shadow fleet tankers are increasingly avoiding Sweden and authorities and opting for a relatively safer Germany route, if todays trend is anything to go by.
5 of them just in this thread.
The pattern of Russia-affiliated tankers avoiding hostile south Baltic Swedish waters have strengthened.
No outbound tankers has passed north of Bornholm since Sat and today inbound tankers started showing the same pattern.
This is brand new behavior, at least since Jan 1 2026.
This is a fun dilemma for Keir Starmer: having just sacked Olly Robbins for not telling him about Mandelson's vetting, it now turns out his new Cabinet Secretary also didn't immediately tell him about it.
One suspects Robbins' already high chances of getting a payout just increased.
Koreans hate Japan in the abstract but actually like Japanese people and also visiting actual Japan. It's complicated. (It's not complicated; wanting accountability is not the same as virulent bigotry, another thing that Israel doesn't know about)
Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
It looks like a big drone attack by Ukraine.
Seven regions/districts have been placed on red alert, including Oryol - we may have another airport closure there soon.
Smolensk, Rostov, Bryansk, Voronezh, Krasnodar and all of the occupied territories inc Crimea are under UAV attack
🔴This is pretty serious:
"According to intelligence, the construction of roads toward Ukrainian territory and the development of artillery positions are underway in the Belarusian border areas. We believe that Russia may once again attempt to drag Belarus into its war."
(President Zelenskyy)
Elmo is WEAK on securities regulation
DOLLY PARTON IS WEAK ON ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR EXPORT CONTROLS
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
“Margarita claims her fourth pregnancy was sabotaged by people with opposing political views. They knew her weaknesses and tried to repeat the same thing during her third pregnancy.”
Everyone got that?
Are you ready for the extra crazy?
Meanwhile in Russia: head of RT Margarita Simonyan said she's building a glass sarcophagus on her property, to house the remains of her deceased husband Tigran Keosayan—mixed with her own. Simonyan said she misses their late-night chats about taking Odesa.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsHw...
It’s a special kind of pleasure to see a Russian investment and a MAGA endorsement backfire massively ☺️
Peter Thiel realizing his protégé JD Vance is a loser no one respects
Rep. Mike Lawler: "I don't support making a whole civilization die, but ... "
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
And our findings are likely an undercount. Half the inspections were done in Russia, finding 2.9 deficiencies average. But in the 20 inspections carried out in China, 6.9 deficiencies were found. Just two inspections were carried out within the EU and in those cases 32 and 40 failings were found.
☠️ They are knocking out the Russians evil spirits in the Pokrovsk direction.
Gorgeous footage of the combat work of drone operators of the "BLACK SKY" unmanned systems battalion.
Following Viktor Orbán's apparent blame of Ukraine for the alleged sabotage of a gas pipeline transporting russian natural gas to Hungary and Serbia, Serbian authorities reportedly found no evidence of a 'Ukrainian trace', according to Serbian media outlet 'Kurir'
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Not ironic but malignant doublespeak.
They are happy when somebody gets fooled by their lie.
They however don’t mind if somebody sees through their lie.
They are even thrilled and feel more powerful when we see through their lies and see them continue lying anyhow.
Obsessive-compulsive disinfo.
Today one Russian paper concedes that Ukrainian drone attacks “…on [Russian] oil refining facilities did not pass without trace…the government had to freeze petrol exports until July 1. Euphoria over extra revenues from high oil prices is unjustified.” #ReadingRussia
Meanwhile in Russian Media…
“Russians' salaries have skyrocketed fivefold.”
1. No it hasn’t
www.mk.ru/economics/20...
Here is an updated press report citing information received from the Swedish Coast Guard
maritime-executive.com/article/swed...
A major satellite imagery provider, Planet Labs, is indefinitely withholding access to imagery over Iran and the conflict region more broadly, citing a request from the U.S. government.
Air BP Italia has issued NOTAMs (official aeronautical notices) announcing reduced or limited availability of Jet A1 fuel at four
northern Italian airports:
• Milan Linate (LIN)
• Bologna (BLQ)
• Venice Marco Polo (VCE)
• Treviso (TSF)
