EU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.

More about this horrible, horrible decision of ending TPS, from a Haitian perspective, here: globalvoices.org/2026/07/04/w...

What the ending of the U.S.’ Temporary Protection Status could mean for Haiti

“Haiti remains gripped by armed violence [...] and a profound humanitarian crisis [and] the Supreme Court has given a green light to treat hundreds of thousands of Haitian families as disposable.”

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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

Only Cape Verde had the cahoonas to try something else

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Messi goes super saiyan in the last 20 of every match and every opposing coach is like, what if he didn’t and we could just defend a narrow lead until the whistle

As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.

Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wildfire Britain! Wildfires over the weekend in at least nine counties of England and Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There must be some kind of universal, astrological archive law that on your very last day the database will spit out an entire series of very relevant papers that you don't have time to view

bit of an L for Sadiq. "Around one in six (16%) are currently using at least one AI technology and only 5% have plans to adopt AI in the future." Maybe because it's not that good?

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4w ago

I want London to lead the global AI revolution, using this technology to supercharge economic growth and improve public services. As a new report highlights how technology is evolving workplace roles, my new AI and Jobs Taskforce will take action to protect jobs and upgrade skills for the future.

For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable... Read more in this week's edition of Talking Climate.

Mangrove forests are proof that protecting nature works | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Mangroves recover, the cost of biodiversity loss, and a new way to visualize heat For decades, the world’s coastal mangrove forests were dis

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Cuba instala su primer parque de baterías: 50 MW www.ess-news.com/2026/07/06/c...

Cuba commissions first 50 MW battery energy storage system - Energy Storage

Cuba has brought its first 50 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) online as part of a broader plan to deploy 200 MW of storage to support grid stability and the integration of new solar capacity.

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In thrilling news I have secured one of the new desks at the National Archives in Kew - it's so roomy 😍

Where's Germany in these charts? Nowhere, for two reasons. The nuclear phase-out, obviously, but the country also failed to build renewables at scale, as we keep highlighting. Germany's status in people's (incl. many Germans') minds as renewables champion is a decade out of date.

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Ben Jacobs@jacobsben.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

One data center needs the same amount of power as 800,000 homes!

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’

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Cabo Verde making me feel a type, a flavour of joy I have not felt before

I am - with great, world historical reluctance - officially handing it to Harry Kane

I never thought it would happen to me, but now that I'm 30 I think I might be into podcasts 😭

Today's newsletter is about how the AI industry is losing - its economics don't work, its leaders can only sell its product through swindling and egregious forward-looking statements, and the largest financial institutions in the world are wising up. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/

The AI Industry Is Losing

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This is a moment of extreme hazard, for the right to free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom to protest. But because the great majority of the media is either in favour or scarcely interested, we have failed to grasp the enormity of the situation. We could lose it all before we've woken up.

It was great to be in Maynooth this weekend for @frenchcolonial.bsky.social 2026. Got to hear from so many 17/18/19th century experts and also find out more about 15th century Ireland at Maynooth Castle (and beat the London heatwave for a while 🥵)

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Not so gentle reminder that people sweltering in the heat in the UK want climate action and affordable energy with homegrown renewables Pouring more fuel on the fire by approving new oil and gas fields like Rosebank is indefensible.

Dangerous and potentially historic extreme heat is forecast to impact parts of western Europe this week. We already know that these temperatures are made at least 5x more likely due to human-caused climate change. Stay safe! Explore the attribution data at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Starmer in 24: my government will let you just get on with your lives, promise Starmer in 26: IS THAT A PRO PALESTINE BIT OF CARD I SEE??? DO I SENSE A TRANS PERSON HAVING A WEE SOMEWHERE??? WHY IS YOUR 17YO NOT TUCKED UP IN BED WITH LIGHTS OUT AT 8.30, CITIZEN?????

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The sheer level of illiberalism from the government is galling - on teens, on protest, on speech, on immigration, on private business. It’s like they did securonomics but forgot the economics bit.

FIFA not wanting to offend slave-owners is very much on brand.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Britain’s Information Research Department targeted the left-wing movements and anti-colonial leaders such as Egypt’s Nasser, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Ghana’s Nkrumah, aiming to incite violence, foment tensions, and protect British interests.

Britain’s Secret ‘Black Propaganda’ Operations

Files reveal that the UK government’s covert propaganda unit, the IRD’s Special Editorial Unit, ran fake news agencies, forged documents, and manipulated journalists globally to undermine the Soviet…

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There quickly comes a point at which reasonable investigation of a candidate or party leader on the left tips into deranged obsession. Their real crime is to challenge power. They must be demonised and neutralised at all costs. Armies of journalists are deployed to unearth whatever they can.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

BP has more than doubled its profits as a result of the Iran war. Those already struggling with the cost of living are paying the price for Trump's warmongering while oil giants rake in even more cash. Now is the time for a permanent windfall tax and rapid shift to renewables.

It was blindingly obvious that this was going to happen. All the woolly language around ‘limited use’ and ‘defensive purposes’ was just stalling. It always is.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran. Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it. When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war? www.forbes.com/sites/peters...

I am generally an AI sceptic but decided to try a free trial of a translation service for a paper I have left too late to pay a proofreader for. My god am I paying the price spiritually. This thing keeps adding completely unnecessary information that I did NOT include in my original