The fast-growing "Super El Niño" is looking like a potential macroeconomic shock for parts of the Global South. Add in geopolitical conflict and...the timing isn't great. New story out from @bloomberg.com 🧵
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Dyslexic humanist in search of a light switch. Geopolitical news junkie. Posting from 🇪🇺
💥In early summer, a perfect storm of events fuelled Baltic anxiety — and Russian propaganda instantly capitalized, claiming Ukraine was preparing attacks from Latvian soil and that Latvia risked retaliatory strikes. Re:Baltica VSquare.org
“NATO Membership Will Not Protect You”: How Kremlin Propaganda Against the Baltics Escalated - VSquare.org
A convergence of unrelated developments resulted in Russian claims that Ukraine was allegedly preparing attacks from Latvian territory and that Latvia itself could therefore become a target of retaliatory strikes.
vsquare.org
Last night, Kyiv looked like this. Russia targeted the capital with 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, 24 Iskander-M/S-400 missiles, and 115 strike UAVs including Shahed (mostly jet-powered), Gerbera, and Italmas types, as well as "Parodiya" decoy drones (98 shot down).
The world before and after Trump, and what a shit show he has left behind.
Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 10h agoFor comparison, Suez fees are around 0.3% with Panama even lower at 0,1%. And these offer canal infrastructure etc. Insurance fees, even in active war zones are usually topped at 1.5% because thats is considered prohibitively expensive
Spanish @eldiario.es reporting that Infantino has offered the World Cup final to Morocco to get their support for his tenure during the FIFA crisis. Totally corrupt.
elDiario.es@eldiario.es · 7h ago❗ Infantino ofrece a Marruecos la final del Mundial 2030 para ganarse su apoyo en plena crisis de la FIFA, según The Times eldiario.es/sociedad/inf...
The mismanagement of FIFA under Infantino reaches new heights. "Eleven different U.S. cities are still trying to get paid what they’re owed by FIFA after hosting 2026 World Cup club matches.".
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 14h agoPresident Donald Trump remains silent as American cities are left to foot the bill. trib.al/VFsOqik
Funny that the women who marry soldiers for money are getting vitriol online but not the fact that Russia is waging an unprovoked illegal invasion that has cost the lives of nearly two million people.
The Moscow Times@themoscowtimes.com · 14h agoRussian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, who enjoy high salaries and social benefits, have become popular suitors for some low-income women. But women suspected of marrying a soldier for money rather than love can increasingly expect to become a target of widespread vitriol online.
Infantino used Fifa by threatening to withhold financial assistance to Jordan FA if it refused to back his bid for re-election.
Fifa accused of using ‘blackmail’ to force support for Infantino’s re-election bid
The Jordan FA president has accused Fifa of “blackmail”, claiming it threatened to withhold financial assistance from his federation if it refused to back Gianni Infantino’s bid for re-election
theguardian.com
Hello from Kyiv, Ukraine, where we survived yet another Russian missile strike. It was very loud for a couple hours after midnight. There are people killed, injured and trapped under the rubble; massive fires in the industrial areas and in two suburbs. Ironically, I lost my sleep only afterwards.
The belief that Putin has unlimited time — to take the Donbas, to carve off from Ukraine whatever he likes — is wrong. That time is visibly running out. And the belief inside Russia that everything can continue this way for a long time is a mistake.
Cash from misery. Time to spread these profits around a little. #climatecrisis
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Israel keep pushing the boundaries of violence and occupation to see how far they stretch. All this while trying to get Arab countries to join the Abraham accord. It's a self destructive strategy that will return to haunt future generations.
Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan
Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’
theguardian.com
The short-sightedness on relying on Musk's rockets instead on investing on alternatives is painful to watch. This is how you build a monopoly.
SpaceX's satellite ambitions squeeze out rivals reliant on its rockets
SpaceX is increasingly reserving space on its rockets to launch its own Starlink satellites, crowding out rival space companies that have long depended on Elon Musk's company to get their payloads int...
reuters.com
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
What would a Marine Le Pen presidency mean for Europe? From the EU and enlargement to Russia, climate and migration, the implications would extend far beyond France. Read full text: https://bit.ly/4pUWgAt
If Marine Le Pen wins: A European guide to a far-right France – European Council on Foreign Relations
A Le Pen-led France would mean major changes to European politics. Here's how political leaders can begin to prepare.
bit.ly
Trump has made big threats and given Iran a one-last-chance at least 8 times now, backing off without getting anything every time. "A whole civilization will die tonight" was April 7! He has claimed Iran is making concessions, desperate for a deal, and a deal is imminent too many times to count.
‘One last chance’: The times Trump threatened Iran, said deal imminent
US president has claimed Iran 'desperate' to do a deal or given Tehran 'last chance' on multiple occasions.
aljazeera.com
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d agoU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
💥US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions, two sources say 💥US also burned through a little less than half its global Tomahawk supply, one source says 💥Some officials worry the low stockpiles will affect US readiness should another conflict break out
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...
reuters.com
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 3d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
Never forget that Russia keeps practicing its monstrous "human safaris" by killing innocent people on the streets in Kherson while still pontificating as a permanent member of the UN Security Council. It's a total aberration.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2d agoA civilian was deliberately hunted down and murdered by Russian terrorists in Kherson today. At a food market in the city’s Tavriiskyi district, a Russian FPV drone operator targeted a civilian vendor standing beside his car, loaded with the vegetables he sold to make a living.
Hope the idiots in Saxony -Anhalt voting for en masse the extreme right, will regret every single moment of what's coming.
Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com · 2d agoThe latest poll for Saxony-Anhalt has the far-right at 41%. If some of the smaller parties (SPD, Greens, BSW) don't clear the threshold to enter parliament, the far-right may gain an absolute majority in September.
Unwittingly forcing countries to adopt green energy alternatives, is the only silver lining to Trump's otherwise abysmal presidential tenure.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Russia’s Shadow War Surges Southward | "The Kremlin’s on-again-off-again campaign to intimidate and disorientate European allies is picking up once more." Alison Mutler https://cepa.org/article/russias-shadow-war-surges-southward/
Russia’s Shadow War Surges Southward
The Kremlin’s on-again-off-again campaign of hybrid attacks to intimidate and disorientate European allies is picking up once more.
cepa.org
Our new piece in @foreignpolicy.com w/@sambendett.bsky.social: Russia faces an acute labor shortage. Each Kremlin solution (from younger workers and prison labor to increased migration) comes with constraints and costs and the issue is likely to get worse over time. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/03/r...
The Cure for Russia’s Labor Shortage Is Worse Than the Disease
What happens when a demographic crisis meets an ever-expanding military-industrial complex?
foreignpolicy.com
It would be great if either of these women become a candidate for the next FIFA presidency. Tired of rancid corporate men being appointed by default and about time this corrupt organisation went though a deep cleaning.
Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 2d agoGift link - for understanding what’s going on w/i Fifa. Fascinating.
The idea of dividing Ukraine is only gaining popularity in shady propaganda channels. The rest of us, Ukraine's neighbors, just want peace and a unified Ukraine within its pre-2014 borders.
EUvsDisinfo@euvsdisinfo.eu · 2d agoThe Kremlin is again pushing the false narrative that Poland, Romania, and Hungary intend to divide Ukraine. In reality, all three countries respect Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders and remain steadfast allies in Ukraine’s defence.
wonder how ambassador Mike Huckabee is spinning this to the evangelical/Christian nationalist Netanyahu fan club back home www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Spitting Attacks Show Rise of Anti-Christian Hate in Israel
Negative attitudes toward Christianity are becoming more common among young Israelis.
wsj.com
They will make a movie of this one day, starring a black-eyed pea as Gianni Infantino.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d agoFIFA President Gianni Infantino is seeking the Trump administration's help to stay in office and has scheduled private talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the NYP reports. Assistant Secretary of State Dylan Johnson later said Rubio had no plans to speak with Infantino.