If the US had honest negotiators . . .

EU optimistic over approval of €90bn loan for Ukraine following Orbán defeat - Europe live EU expects 'some positive decisions' on €90bn loan for Ukraine on Wednesday But it looks like there is some movement on Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has just confirmed that she expects “some positive decisions tomorrow” on the €90bn loan. “Ukraine really needs this loan and it is also a sign that Russia cannot outlast Ukraine. This is extremely important at this moment.” Share Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Martin Scorsese’s film about Pope Francis to receive world premiere in Vatican City Andrew Pulver Associate editor, film Martin Scorsese’s documentary about Pope Francis is to have its world premiere in the Vatican today as one of a set of events commemorating the first anniversary of Francis’s death. The screening of the film, titled Aldeas, The Final Dream of Pope Francis, is being staged by Scholas Occurrentes, an international organisation aiming to “to encourage social integration ‎and the culture of encounter through sports, arts and technology”, which was set up in Argentina by Francis in 2001 while he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and made into a foundation when he became pope in 2013. Scorsese announced the film, which he...

EU optimistic over approval of €90bn loan for Ukraine following Orbán defeat - Europe live
->The Guardian | More on "EU Ukraine loan Orbán defeat" at BigEarthData.ai | #RussiaUkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

Enough is enough.

Starmer must go.

The solution is simple, but they're too greedy to implement it. Just imagine what life would be like if the oligarchs paid their fair share of taxes.

truthout.org House Judiciary Investigating Jared Kushner’s Investments From Saudi Arabia

House Judiciary Investigating Jared Kushner’s Investments From Saudi Arabia #TruthOut

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.

Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%

Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

in 2025 all new electricity demand globally was met by wind, water, solar and nuclear power. This resulted in a reduction in global fossil fuel use for electricity generation. Solar alone met 3/4 of the electricity demand.

Global Electricity Update: In 2025, EMBER reports that "Clean" or low carbon power (Wind, Water, Solar & Nuclear) met 100% of new global electricity demand. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 Source: ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

Workers clear the rubble from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre as a ceasefire took effect on 17 April, 2026. (AFP - Kawnat Haju)

“Israel’s failure to prosecute settlers who attacked Palestinians in the West Bank led to the country’s former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, calling for the international criminal court to intervene to save Palestinians from “Jewish terrorists”, in an interview with the Guardian.”

This is damning.

Brilliant woman!

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it."
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky Wake TFU

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

Intent | TheatreRoyal On 17 December 2025 the 180-year long history of the case of the Nelson Tenths was settled in court. The possibilities, the questions, the dreams: Taonga Pūoruo, Waiata and Pūrākau written by a grandm...

Hello lovely people. I know this is very regionally specific, but for anyone in Nelson/Tasman...

Theatre Royal is hosting a play about the Nelson Tenths as told by the wonderful Donna McLeod and I'm going to see it tomorrow. If you see me, please say hi!

www.theatreroyalnelson.co.nz/event/intent/

God bless this protestor!!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#NoKings

You’re saying he should never have been appointed and I agree with you,” Miliband told Sky News. “I steered well clear of Peter Mandelson when I became Labour leader in 2010.” Asked what he thought about Mandelson’s initial appointment, he said: “That it could blow up, that it could go wrong … I had a conversation with David Lammy about it before the appointment, and I said I was worried about it … I think he was worried about it too.” But Miliband said he was not asked directly what his views were of the appointment. “Maybe I wasn’t the person that people would necessarily ask. I think people knew my view on Peter Mandelson,” he added. Miliband said he did not think it was a resigning matter for the prime minister. “No, I don’t think he should. Because I think if every time a prime minister made a mistake they resigned, we would shuttle through prime ministers like nobody’s business.

something deeply relatable at the undisguised tone of I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO pervading these statements

Stupidity around AI knows no ends. I am still pondering the multiple potential repercussions of AI 'friends' for people with depression which is now apparently 'a thing'

Hello, here I am again asking the same question I do every day: has any "AI" CEO even *discussed*, let alone attempted to solve, even a single one of the numerous harms being imposed on society by their product?

I stand by my prediction: "AI" is going to make the current Internet unusable.

Luxon lives on as leader. Public perception is a tougher challenge Research shows the most effective leaders are good listeners and aware of their own biases. Above all, people must believe they are ‘one of us’.

#nzpol #leadership

My take on why I think #Luxon is still a dead man walking, regardless of the caucus vote:

theconversation.com/luxon-lives-...

Swedish Air Force says it intercepted two Russian Tu-22M3 intermediate-range (not “strategic”) bombers over the Baltic today. One photo shows a nuclear-capable Kh-32 air-to-surface missile under the belly of one of the bombers.

It was good to know that someone out there was having fun. Get well soon.

What the fuck are we doing?

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Sheer stupidity. It doesn't even save money. Just visits #cruelty on animals. Water managers are being lobbied. We don't "need" irrigated crops. Life comes before business. @knitnannassyd.bsky.social

Israeli soldier photographed beheading a statue of Jesus with a hammer: IDF immediately posts multiple English-language condemnations and "we will investigate" "this is not who we are" etc

Israeli soldiers videotaped throwing a tied up and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner off a roof: 🦗🦗🦗🦗

Why this man risked crocodiles, storms and jail to fish in Australian waters
->Australian Broadcasting Corporation | More on "Indonesian fisherman illegal Australian waters" at BigEarthData.ai | #Water #Fish

OMG

Japanese Government collects more tax from Australian gas than Australian Government New Australia Institute research published today shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the

This is rather shocking. But yes - Japan has a gas import tax
australiainstitute.org.au/post/japanes...

BREAKING: Donald Trump just boosted Democrats’ chances of taking the House.

He said the quiet part out loud, “fair elections” means he loses power.

That’s not a warning, that’s a confession.

THIS @albomp.bsky.social #ExpelIsraeliAmbassadorNow #BDSIsrael for genocide and other war crimes. Australians want to see your government uphold international law.

Hungary Must Arrest Visiting Leaders Sought by ICC, Magyar Says Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect ...

After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.

[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".

'We're gonna get killed': White House in full-blown panic as economic outlook darkens As the U.S. war against Iran rages on, strategists “in and around the White House” are growing increasingly panicked over rising energy costs and their impact on voters, who they fear will overwhelmin...

'We're gonna get killed': White House in full-blown panic as economic outlook darkens

www.rawstory.com/midterm-2676...