A really simple guide to climate change bbc.com/news/articles/c9w15n…

Trump's body makes some sort of horrible sound while he rants about the "rigged election"

Trump: "The stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including the people on this stage, other than me of course" (look at Rubio's face while Trump says this)

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years. I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

There is no such thing as white privilege. The fact that I walked straight from my £60k a year private education into a City job where my stockbroker father and his rich white mates worked was down to sheer hard graft.

Wordle 1,824 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 somewhat lucky I think!! On a roll!!

Earlier this month, a record 15.4°C was recorded at Esperanza Station, more than 20°C above average. During winter, Antarctica should be rebuilding ice, stability, and resilience. Instead, that foundation is weakening. 📷 Mike Louagie / Ocean Image Bank ow.ly/HOwr50Zc2vq

BREAKING: now-inevitable collapse of fast-melting "doomsday" Thwaites glacier about to devastate coastlines across the world

Back together, at Wimbledon 💚💜 Serena and Venus Williams will compete in the Ladies’ Doubles at The Championships 2026

The Shaftesbury Theatre, the largest independent theatre in the West End, will be renamed the Judi Dench Theatre. The renaming will take place in February 2027 and celebrates Dame Judi Dench’s unparalleled contribution to British theatre and the performing arts.

Excellent investigative journalism by BBC Panorama, showing Russian involvement not just in arson attacks on Starmer’s house but also in anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim attacks. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2…

A confused Trump wanders off in the wrong direction and has to be guided back in front of G7 world leaders.

De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more. I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class. I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten. He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building. Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare. If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar. We’ve lost that plot entirely. We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago. Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing. Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

On July 24th I missed the birth of my son. I was in West Virginia with the president. Deirdre and I were fighting. There was no way back to New York. Then I get fired, my marriage is on the brink, I’ve missed the birth of my son, and the late night comedians are coming for me every night. I went to a PR crisis manager. He told me to buy a villa in Italy and come back in 2022. You’re never recovering from this. F*ck that, I went on Colbert, I went on Bill Maher, I faced Saturday Night Live, and I faced the music. Nine years later my son turns nine on July 24th. My marriage is intact, stronger than ever, honestly, because we refused to make it disposable. The firing was the hardest thing that ever happened to me. It also made me more psychologically minded, more empathetic, more human. And you probably wouldn’t know who I am if it hadn’t happened. If you’re going through something hard right now, stay in it. Don’t walk away. The thing that breaks you is often the thing that builds you.

I am grateful to the United Kingdom and Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer for another decision in support of Ukraine. UK Export Finance will allocate £210 million for the supply of enriched uranium to support Ukraine’s nuclear energy sector, which is the main source of power supply for our people and our economy. The UK is also introducing a new package of sanctions against Russia, targeting Russia’s shadow fleet and the financial networks the Russian Federation uses to circumvent sanctions. The new British restrictions are being applied for the first time against tankers carrying sanctioned liquefied natural gas, the proceeds from the sale of which Russia is using to finance its war. This is a necessary step, and just as with oil tankers, it is important that there ultimately be the ability not only to stop these shadow fleet vessels, but also to seize them. Thank you!

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this. JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor? ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father. JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small? ZELENSKYY: I love you. JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older? ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you. JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried? ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people. And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry. JOURNALIST: Are you a hero? ZELENSKYY: No. JOURNALIST: So who is your hero? ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 — strokes, heart attacks, and hospitalization from heart disease — by about 40 percent, according to new research. wapo.st/43EOal9

A heatwave is developing across much of central and west Europe 🌡️ Temperatures could be 10°C above average by day, with maximum temperatures reaching around 40°C in parts of Spain, France and Italy in the coming week

Wordle 1,823 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 bit of a fluke!!!

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran just published all 14 clauses of the MoU. Read them carefully, because this is not the deal Trump described. The headline numbers: $300 billion in reconstruction commitments from the US and allies. $24 billion in released frozen funds, half before negotiations even start. Complete naval blockade lifted within 30 days. US forces withdrawn from around Iran. Here's the big one: Hormuz reopens under Iranian arrangements, meaning Iran keeps management of the strait. The nuclear clause is Clause 9: Iran reiterates its commitment not to produce nuclear weapons. That's it. No enrichment cap. No dismantlement. No inspector access beyond existing frameworks. The actual nuclear terms get negotiated in a separate 60-day window, and Clause 14 explicitly removes Iran's missile program and support for resistance groups from the agenda entirely. Permanently. Iran's Deputy FM called it a total victory this morning. He wasn't spinning. Source: Mehr News / Writer: Oliver