SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
lol we committed daylight robbery on city with Jess park #MUWomen
Takaichi has shattered the highest glass ceiling of public office in Japan by becoming the first female leader of the male-dominated and patriarchal Asian nation. But she is not known to be an advocate of gender equality.
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“.. a sign that the narrative is shifting again — that companies realize they need to find their red lines ..
“.. it’s a realization that submitting may come with a higher price than pushing back.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com $DIS
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@reuters.com has just launched an Arabic language site. See it here: reuters.com/ar/
Big thanks to Muhammad Yamany and the Reuters Arabic language service team. Tremendous work! #News #Arabic #Mideast
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.
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ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”
@wsj.com
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Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 2-4 August 2025
Approve: 13% (-1 from 19-21 July)
Disapprove: 67% (+1)
Net: -54 (-2)
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Markets will just love the idea of unreliable govt data.
After deriding the massive price tag of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" for weeks, Sen. Mike Lee voted to pass it anyway. He isn't saying why.
DALAI LAMA TRUST OFFICIAL: DALAI LAMA SUCCESSOR CAN BE OF ANY GENDER (Reuters)
MI6 has appointed its next Chief: Blaise Metreweli, currently Director General 'Q', responsible for technology and innovation. “She is a career intelligence officer, having joined the Service as a case officer in 1999.” Most of her career spent in Europe and the Middle East.
Percentage getting significant - There are 193 countries in the UN. // Trump administration weighs adding 36 countries to travel ban - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
"Now Mr. Trump is attacking the judiciary and testing the Constitution, and Justice Barrett, appointed to clinch a 50-year conservative legal revolution, is showing signs of leftward drift."
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Fire in building next to South Korea's main Buddhist Jogye temple in Seoul, Reuters witness says reut.rs/4mOXHOR
In his first month, Pope Leo has kept a busy schedule but not made notable appointments, nor announced plans for foreign trips, nor said where he will live at the Vatican. It's a stark contrast to the late Pope Francis, who made major decisions right away. For @reuters.com:
'We refuse to forget history', Taiwan president says on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary reut.rs/4dKKgLX
Welcome to Donald Trump's trade policy. Nobody knows anything.
In this case nobody even knows what he means. How has China "TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT"? Nobody knows.
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today in efficient markets
$ELF has traded $77 -$104 since announcing the $1b of Haley Bieber's makeup biz last night
The US economy shrank by an annualised 0.2% during the first quarter of 2025, according to revised official statistics that confirmed its first contraction since 2022. https://on.ft.com/4juWVnt
Thinking my interview with Rangel before he retired in 2016:
"On Nov. 30 1950, I was surrounded by tens of thousands of Communist Chinese. 20 below 0. I was shot and left for dead. I prayed that if I overcame that, I’d have no complaints. Believe it or not, since then, I've not had a bad day."
lol:
"Scams have become so widespread that Singapore’s government has even discussed corporal punishment for offenders. “We believe in caning as a strong deterrent,” said Loretta Yuen of the Association of Banks in Singapore. “It’s a deterrent, but there is also a sense of revenge to it.”
"Singaporeans, affluent, digitally advanced and compliant, are particularly vulnerable to these scams. As one person involved in the recovery of assets put it: “They are rich and naive”."
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"Modern Japan was designed — and then honed — around the constant, progressively more sophisticated accommodation of epic crowding and population density." www.ft.com/content/0efb...
