Yup

Motherfuckers

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.

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Orcott sits stage left with guitar, Shelley stage centre with drum kit, Miller stage right with bass. Between me and them an audience. A small room with a BIG PA. A psychedelic freak out

A sign says “Castle and Falcon Presents Orcott Shelley Miller” black letters on pink

They brought fire, fury and feedback

i'm starting a side business as a tour guide for new york's worst sodas. i know which corner stores have the dustiest and most expired sodas, but my real ace in the hole is the one with a really loud fridge that doesn't work and stores room-temperature bottles that reek. $35 for the stinky pop tour

Canadian Media Platforms Atlas Network Groups Pushing Fossil Fuels in Response to Iran War The think tank representatives are making variations of a similar argument: Trump’s illegal military incursions serve as an opportunity for Canada to expand oil and gas infrastructure.

"Wondering why there are so many 'experts' in the news talking about expanding oil and gas in response to the Iran War?

According to our new DeSmog analysis, there's a common thread linking all those experts: a little known US group called Atlas Network."

Hear hear

'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' YouTube video by Middle East Eye

‘Soaked in Blood,’ the Middle East Eye documentary that just won a Webby award, was produced by a team that included cameraman Mohamed Salama, who was killed before its release in an Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.

Still shaping the concept of untermensch.

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest and deadliest battle for U.S. troops in WWI, resulted in approximately 26,277 American deaths. In comparison, the flu killed roughly 30,000 American soldiers in stateside training camps before they even reached Europe

AI-generated videos of upturned dinghies in the English Channel circulate online – Full Fact Six people are known to have died so far in April attempting to cross the English Channel. But viral videos claiming to show overturned dinghies are not real and were made with AI.

Viral videos of overturned dinghies in the Channel have been shared with claims that over 100 people have died.

It’s true that six people have died attempting to cross the English Channel this month, but these videos are fake and were made using AI.

Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, who is serving a seven-year sentence on bogus espionage charges, marks his 64th birthday in prison today. A month ago, Dong was transferred from a prison in Beijing to another location further away from his family. cpj.org?p=580506

Tormented by the fact he lied for him about the 2020 election?

Notably, this incident does not correspond to any of the videos posted online by SOUTHCOM.

Genocide lingers

Hundreds of Beavers. Such a unique spectacle, I would like to relive the experience. The only film in 25 years that made me wish I still smoked weed

Stan and Hilda, Coronation Street set, 1968, photo by Sefton Samuels.

Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids Martin Shipton A Reform UK Senedd candidate shocked those attending a hustings meeting by suggesting that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of going out to work. Mark Law...

A Reform UK Senedd candidate shocked those attending a hustings meeting by suggesting that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of going out to work ✍️Martin Shipton

Reading the article, it looks like this was the only way to get a critical bill through the HoL. The government has stated that a law in this subject was unnecessary because schools already prohibit phone use in classrooms. There will probably be no bet change due to these changes

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege.

What is it doing in the UK? Will any regulator even investigate?

Exec pay linked to profits. Every incentive to rig the market, fleece customers.

Dozens of American veterans and military family members were detained after they started protesting the Iran war inside a congressional office building in Washington D.C.

Indeed

Trump's Hormuz blockade is a Catch-22 Successfully blocking Iran's ports will drive up global energy prices even more.

“If it works, it’s not great for the US. And if it doesn’t work, it’s also not great.”

“Becoming”.

Reform UK’s refusal to counter its own supporters hate and racism is a huge part of the problem that’s existed for years.

Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Gaza, the US. None of them merit a BBC news headline this morning apparently

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

Fuck me. That’s a catastrophe. Interest charged on top. US holed beneath the waterline

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

learning from the aaa boycott In 2023, the American Anthropological Association passed a boycott resolution very similar (though not identical) to the one proposed by Sociologists 4 Palestine. Some of the materials produced by …

In 2023, the American Anthropological Association debated, passed, and implemented a resolution for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Many of the conversations and materials produced in that debate are useful for thinking about the current debate in @asanews.bsky.social.

Not going to dwell on this for long ……