The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

Great journalism here: "The BBC... found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.

Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading..."

I want an EU passport and I want it now. I want to buy a little house in Sintra where I will plant nine bean rows. Nine. Stand not in my way, Globe and Mail sticklers.

Pic shows 8 tulips if full bloom, together with their leaves. The red and orange tulips are Slawa, the deep red Ronaldo and the very dark purple are Queen of Night.

It’s that time again.

Ex-UCP candidate who says she was branded a racist hopes 'truth can be aired in full' at trial | CBC News Caylan Ford is hoping a Calgary courtroom will deliver her justice seven years after her private Facebook messages were leaked to media outlets, a move she says branded her a white supremacist and dev...

CBC story is new to me but the hearing is of interest to all journalists (and anyone on social media). Libel cases are hard to follow but www.cancelcultureontrial.com will provide basic daily info. Golly. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

LondonCentric reports that shoplifting is so bad in London that thieves complain when sandwiches aren't on the shelves quickly enough for them to steal. GREAT local reporting.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Jaw dropping article by @kayewiggins.ft.com and Stefania Palma on how the Trump administration’s disinterest in white-collar crime has caused a bear market for defence lawyers. The quotes are all 😮from the intro down. www.ft.com/content/befa...

Did Steve Bannon, um, pee himself? Someone else can check the video, I'm not doing that.

One lesson from the Alek Minassian van slaughter in Toronto is that young males with autism should not be online learning how to hate and kill. Loving but oblivious parents have to ban hate screens at home and report violent intentions to police.

Are Axel Rudakubana’s parents responsible for his terrible crime? It’s a question many families will fear to answer | Gaby Hinsliff Children could have been saved, had some of the adults involved acted differently. To protect lives in future, families must be able – and willing – to seek help, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Good column about UK autistic boy fed by online misogny who slaughtered little girls at Southport dance class. He was enabled by parents in denial. It's the Nancy Lanza dilemma. What should bullied parents do? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ex-Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and wife found dead in murder-suicide, police say Fairfax was a favorite for Virginia governor in 2021 before his campaign imploded over sexual abuse allegations. The couple’s teenage son called 911, officials said.

I just cannot emphasize enough and it's frustrating how people don't get it: sexual violence is a strong predictor of other kinds of violence and abuse, especially against women and children.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Last month in The Onion:

The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

New media alert!

Editor Alison Uncles 💛 at the helm.

@be-giant.bsky.social
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"Reform Judaism has accepted Jews by patrilineal descent since a Central Conference of American Rabbis resolution in 1983."

reformjudaism.org/glossary/pat...

Well put.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Couldn’t Donald just deem the strait closed with his Jesus laser?

Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary.

The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.

One thing hasn't changed. Boomers or millennials, male bosses still want young female staff in their hotel rooms and women still don't have the power to say absolutely not. Women are still hunted like prey. Hey Swalwell.

Remarkable. Paper products for 50 million people up in smoke because:

This is a dreadful story about dishonesty. There are a lot of people who want very badly to be "writers." But they don't want to write. AI is their partner in fraud. Maybe they genuinely can't see that though.

John Milius is 82.
Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski was partly based on the Coens' friend, the mercurial & brilliant Milius, thus creating one of the greatest movie characters ever.
'This is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.’

A good man defends a brave woman from a man like Eric Swalwell. There are many good men and they're our allies.

‘It’s as if there’s no ceasefire at all’: Six months into fragile truce, Gazans still in limbo From disarming Hamas to deploying an international stabilization force and beginning vast reconstruction, most of the ceasefire work remains to be done

"It’s as if there’s no ceasefire at all."

Israeli attacks have killed 738 people in the six months since the ceasefire, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The fuck is this shit? What is she getting out ahead of?

A Statement by First Lady Melania Trump YouTube video by The White House

Everybody should watch this insane presser. It's like a bad scene in a Netflix thriller right before shit is about to go down.

Was this her mother who was buried on a golf course?

From the drop-intro about the drop-intro to these three perfect paragraphs, this from @bryce.lol is one of the most truly pleasing things I have read in a while

www.ft.com/content/94bb... (free because @alphaville.ft.com is always free)