How it started / How it’s going The greatest geopolitical disaster & failure of any president in the history of the Republic
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h agoThis has to be a Pulitzer finalist. @gettyimages.com
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Don’t follow me - I have no idea where I’m going. Neither a captain, nor a cat, nor a fish.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h ago
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump
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I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.
“Drought causes 'collapse' in France's vegetable production: 'Even with irrigation, young plants have not survived' Cauliflower, peas and lettuce are suffering from a lack of water and successive heatwaves. The industry describes the situation as a 'disaster,' …” 8/2/26
Drought causes 'collapse' in France's vegetable production: 'Even with irrigation, young plants have not survived'
Cauliflower, peas and lettuce are suffering from a lack of water and successive heatwaves. The industry describes the situation as a 'disaster,' especially across western France, as the ability to sow...
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How Brain Donation Is Helping Unlock the Mysteries of Alzheimer’s beingpatient.com/how-brain-do... #Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
How Brain Donation Is Helping Unlock the Mysteries of Alzheimer's
Brain donation is one of the most valuable gifts to dementia research—but not every donation can be accepted.
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Now’s the time for Burnham to register that the National Security Assessment on ecosystems names food supply as the UK’s most significant vulnerability… (and in a very unequal society…🤔) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
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Interesting piece, not least that it has been written www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Is Ireland’s unprotected ocean the weak link in European defence?
Russian presence in Irish waters underscores the fact that, rather than being out of sight and out of mind, the country is on the frontline
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Tell me again that we can’t afford climate action, EPP (yes I will keep doing this) www.ft.com/content/ef7f... Europe’s fire costs this year mount to beyond €3bn
Europe’s fire costs this year mount to beyond €3bn, FT analysis shows
Economic toll in worst-hit countries exceeds official estimate of costs to bloc in average year
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The evidence from the US, where over more than a decade some states have raised the minimum wage while others have not, is clear. - Statutory MW hikes are effective in raising the wages of the low paid. - No substantial job losses. - Adjustment via higher productivity, prices &/or lower profits
Arin Dube@arindube.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not. What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Situation in Ceuta really concerning. “He added that facilities for unaccompanied minors were operating at 2,400 percent capacity.” www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Spain deploys military as hundreds cross into Ceuta from Morocco
Spain will deploy military units to support police in Ceuta after hundreds of migrants breached the border fences from Morocco on Thursday, overwhelming local security forces. Nine bodies have been re...
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To quote Mark Blyth, the climate crisis is ‘a giant non-linear outcome generator with wicked convexities. In plain English, there is no mean, there is no average, there is no return to normal. It’s one way traffic into the unknown’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown | Mark Blyth
As the IPCC report makes clear, there are now only unknown and unfamiliar alternative futures that we can choose from, says political economist Mark Blyth
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James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · last wk.It's not going to become 'the norm' though, is it? That's what so fucking terrifying about it. It's going to become a lot worse, very quickly.
It's a death cult. During the pandemic, the US had the highest death rate among large, rich democracies. There were tens of thousands of avoidable deaths, per a Lancet study.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
US murder campaign also counterproductive. The "military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats" has been "undermining traditional investigative methods, according to a previously unreported assessment by the Drug Enforcement Administration, a closed-door congressional briefing and interviews" 🧵
Exactly my experience re: my dad. This might have a wider resonance!
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer
They say the best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago… so I’m off on a mini adventure to fact-check that 40 years ago this summer, as a sixth-former, some friends and I volunteered on a conservation project in Snowdonia (Eryri) Now we’re heading back to climb a mountain and see whether it worked…
So now only one thing left now, which is to contact Ordnance Survey and ask them to correct their map Here’s our little square of fenced off woodland, roughly an acre. But it’s mostly oaks, so should be marked with the deciduous tree symbol not the coniferous one.
Correct decision, obviously. Genuinely there are quite a few Labour MPs I just want to ask “without googling, how many parliamentary seats do you think there are in the south?”
Andy Burnham rejects northern Labour MPs’ call to abolish council tax
Downing Street says it is not considering replacing the levy and stamp duty with a new property tax
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Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".
Don’t let Nigel Farage get away with claiming Brexit is good for either our national security or economy. It’s the reverse - Join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social to help reset our relationship with the EU and put our national defence first.
So it looks like the dark money Cottrell scandal around Farage now involves people in Trump's circle too
Andy Burnham, 21, writes to The Guardian in defence of Philip Larkin
Oops! Trump Amplifies Foreign-Based Account to Attack Mail-In Ballots. The president continues boosting a pro-MAGA account “based in South Asia.” meidasnews.com/news/oops-tr...
Oops! Trump Amplifies Foreign-Based Account to Attack Mail-In Ballots.
The president continues boosting a pro-MAGA account “based in South Asia.”
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This is about publishing pictures of his house. How many times did you see Jeremy Corbyn's house on the news? Cameras seemed to be camped outside that place. Farage is being treated like other politicians and he's cracking under the pressure
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoFarage’s furious clash with Times editor stuns figures close to him
I’m new to this, but does this mean Spain could get Argentina back at the weekend?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago???
This is so cool, and, also - an excellent reminder that coverage of this (men's) World Cup has woefully ignored the next (women's) World Cup - next year, in Brazil!
Shawn Levy@shawnlevy.com · 3w agoSpain is one win away from holding both the men's and women's World Cup titles at the same time, which has never been done. #WorldCup #ESP