"We won't make an issue of the sale of indulgences, but liberal politics, that's a no-no."

Alas, not *everything* Trump touches dies, or at any rate not quickly enough. Trump's crime enterprises are highly profitable and show no sign of collapsing.

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

List of countries by GDP (PPP) - Wikipedia

So is 10th correct, would you say? Seems plausible to me.

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Screenshot of a tweet by Pop Base (@PopBase) reporting that The Onion has successfully acquired Alex Jones' Infowars after 17 months of legal battles, with plans to turn it into a parody of itself with support from Sandy Hook families. The post includes a photo of a visibly distressed Alex Jones and the new rainbow-colored Infowars logo.

Karma is a betch, Alex Jones.

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.

We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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and which
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they were stupid
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Netanyahu claimed last week that Magyar invited him to Hungary.

Today Magyar said that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary:

“I made it clear to the Israeli PM — we will not back down... If a state is an ICC member and a person who is wanted enters that territory, they must be detained”

The records of the #1926Census were released on 18 April '26, exactly 100 years after the first census of the #IrishFreeState was conducted. This landmark collection is now freely searchable on the National Archives of Ireland: nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

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1/ Ukraine's success this year in stalling Russia's offensive, and driving Russian forces back in some places, has prompted increasingly bleak assessments from Russian warbloggers. In a lengthy series of posts, Yuri Kotenok warns that Russia's war effort is faltering badly. ⬇️

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

The most influential person in history was the one who first decided to up stakes and leave the Great Rift Valley.

Breda O'Brien: The audacity of newbie Catholic JD Vance lecturing Pope Leo is breathtaking It has been disconcerting to see US Catholics belatedly turning on Trump. Where was the outrage before now?

When you've lost Breda O'Brien....

Well you haven't lost anything much really, but it's good for a giggle.

I wasn't aware that he ever said such a thing. It's quite shocking. Did it cause an outcry at the time?

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.

"What happened in Gaza is not the Holocaust. What happened in Gaza is a particular genocide that happened in Gaza. Very different from the Holocaust, but conforming to the definition of genocide by the UN, which... is the only one that matters." - Omer Bartov www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough review – like one of our last meetings with an adored relative

The naturalist revisits the family of apes he had a goosebump-inducingly famous encounter with 50 years ago. You’ll find yourself overcome with awe for the man

Henceforth the Strait will have the same opening hours as the stock market, to prevent panic selling.

Lovely footage of the first bear born in Aragon in more than 50 years, shortly after emerging from hibernation. Part of the slow recovery of brown bears in the Pyrenees. Via Aragón TV.

Deploy the Board of Peace!

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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Refreshing, and always a bit surprising, when judges deploy a little robust common sense.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Analysis | Instead of squabbling with the Catholic Church, President Trump must focus on what they have in common, such as a legacy of protecting pedophiles.

Holodomor genocide denial is rampant and despicable. Please, if you see accounts spreading denial, recommend this free online course as push back: holodomor.ca/new-online-c...

NEW: Ukraine’s Fortress Belt is the cornerstone of a militarily defensible frontline in eastern Ukraine. The Fortress Belt is optimized for defense across nearly every possible topographical and geographical characteristic relevant for military terrain analysis. 🧵(1/7) isw.pub/FortressBelt...

In 1938 it was the Hitler's annexation of the Sudatenland that took away Czechoslovakia's defensive belt

Ukraine cannot give away its fortress belt in any peace deal with Russia 👇

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Issuing correction on a previous post, regarding the Fed nominee Warsh. You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta assume he's not doing it for the money"

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

NEW: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?

just a wild country