Hey Google, does threatening genocide qualify as ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’?

Something many astronauts/cosmonauts have in common: they attest to what we all have in common.

"You look amazing. You look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing."

Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’ Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say

Fourteen years of Tories dishing out North Sea oil & gas licences led to "20 new and relicensed fields that have the potential, over their lifetime, to produce enough gas to supply the UK for only six months".

A great thing about renewables: they're renewable.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows

Feels like a day to reup this recent Democracy for Sale story

Tony Blair’s Institute privately pressed a top European Union official working on the rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

Feel bad for the Channel 4 reporter reporting live from "deep underground in the Foreign Office 24/7 Crisis Centre". He dramatically points out all the important agencies present. And on all the big screens they're tuned into the news ... from the BBC.

Phthonocracy | phthonos (Envy/Grudge) | Rule by resentment and spite Mikropsychocracy | mikros (small) + psyche (soul) | Rule by the small-souled/petty Achariocracy | Acharis (Graceless/Mean) | Rule by the mean-spirited Kakistocracy | Kakistos (Worst/Incompetent) | Rule by the least qualified.

Feels like another day for Fun With Fake Greek Terms

If you drew a venn diagram of "People who have had a subscription to x" and "People who have threatened online to cancel their subscription to x", I wonder if there would be any overlap?

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive Courtsdesk, which supports the media in monitoring records, is an important tool for journalists and the move raises concerns over open justice

The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive.

This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts.

www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How could the Nobel committee have overlooked the guy who uses armed forces to kill civilians while threatening to use armed forces to kill those who use armed forces to kill civilians, which, no doubt, will result in the killing of civilians? It's such a mystery

Good vs. Ice YouTube video by Jesse Welles

youtu.be/El0CLduLgew?...

And we're back. Thanks

The Guardian SecureDrop onion site is briefly offline for maintenance. Will be back soon.

theguardian.securedrop.tor.onion

Is peiratocracy a word by any chance?

Has anyone ever read something about a post on Truth Social that wasn't from Twump?

Does it even have other posters?

Never heard of Chuck Redd. Buying an album now

AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025 Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gains

We're such suckers

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Front page of US Department of Commerce website, advertising the Trump Gold Card (prices starting at $1 million)

www.commerce.gov website barely has space to squeeze in its mission statement of 'opportunity for all' below the massive advert for an opportunity available exclusively to millionaires.

sherlock holmes; grenadier's bearskin; plague mask; uk police 'custodian' helmet; davie crockett; crocodile dundee; santa.

You'll be amazed at who won

Likewise

DoD Laws of War 18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal

Two stories; two sentences.

US Department of Defense Law of War Manual
apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

I'm sure I'm not alone in having WB Yeats living rent free in my head this year.

But these charlatans aren't full of passionate intensity. Their entitlement has made them stupid and lazy.

And it's such a laughably rubbish website. Most of the widgets don't actually do anything. And none of the content actually proves the points they're trying to make. Risible.

Front page of https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/ citing The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent

This week's inaugural award for fair and accurate reporting goes to The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent.

US Department of Homeland Security post on X calling for "Remigration now."

It's going to get awfully busy in the Great Rift Valley

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

"Things happen." Chump makes light of the state-sanctioned murder and dismemberment of a journalist for doing journalism.