Incredible stuff, I need to read this whole letter

New reporting reveals that Trump administration officials demanded the New Mexico AG close his investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in 2019.

The NYPD is on track to once again blow through its already gargantuan overtime budget this fiscal year. A new report from the NYC Comptroller's Office says the police department can and must do better at managing OT.

In the UK, sitting peacefully opposing genocide is deemed terrorism whilst burning houses, rioting and targeting minority groups is considered ‘protest’

The more power Bari Weiss accumulates the more I remember @ggreenwald getting chummy with her and insisting that people on this site who hated her gave her too much attention.

Jimmy Corry has lived on this Belfast street for 13 years. Now he’s homeless. He’s lost sentimental items forever, including his dad’s possessions. He told me that he shares the anger many feel about the attack on Monday night but that burning down houses won’t solve anything.

“Israeli soldiers would never shoot a child in the head, this is blood libel”

I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt” It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.

Platner: Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. It's a journey. I've made mistakes in my life. Mistakes that I regret, that I live with and that I continue to learn from. And I'm still far from perfect. But every day I wake up and I try to be a little bit better and a little bit kinder than I was before. And if you give me the chance, I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator

"Cuba is free to trade with the whole world" The US punishes any state trying to carry out normal trade with Cuba. Even trivial trade. In 1965, the Cuba and Austria had no trade except one standing purchase of ball bearings. The US demanded Austria stop.

Academics write for each other, not for people. Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort." "There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times? It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

A 10-year-old Palestinian child was arrested, breaking even IDF practices | Opinion | Amira Hass haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-…

'Ucrainenii au încărcat și au direcționat drona pentru aruncarea în aer a terminalului de petrol, contînd și pe alăturatul depozit de azotat de amoniu. Asta ar fi ras instantaneu cu totul cam jumătate din Constanța și, mai ales, ar fi șters urmele, exploziile spulberînd orice firicel din drona controlată permanent de atacatorul ucrainean. Dacă nimerea, drona era rusească - vorba unui amic pe care-l prețuiesc mult. Doar că drona s-a înfipt și s-a blocat în balizele antipoluare. N-a mai putut mișca. În tot acest timp, operatorul ucrainean al dronei avea permanent control vizual satelitar, în timp real, prin camerele video ale sculei, perfect funcțională cu excepția agățării ei în balize. Operatorul a văzut astfel că niște unii s-au apropiat și că filmează drona de la nici 10 metri distanță. Deci obiectul delict era nu doar blocat, ci deconspirat și ușor atribuibil statului producător și utilizator cu mare succes. E plin internetul de povești eroice despre lovirea cu dînsele, în două rînduri, a Podului Crimeei, între altele. Cînd ucrainenii au văzut,  în timp real, că românii filmează drona neatinsă au sunat la București înainte s-o detoneze controlat. Au sunat nu din dragoste aliată, ci pentru a distruge în siguranță electronica în care încărcaseră traseul și ținta prestabilite. Altfel s-ar fi dovedit cu probe pipăibile că au țintit cu premeditare ce au țintit. Pierdea controlului dronei prin bruiaj rusesc - adică varianta oficializată inclusiv de la cel mai înalt nivel în România - e o harneală pentru vîrsta unui școlar neatent de clasa a patra. Las' că rușii s-a lins pe bot de Starlink-ul american cu antena la vedere pe drona filmată. "Pierderea controlului" e anulată de telefonul de la ucraineni care a anuntat detonarea dispozitivului pentru - repet - distrugerea probei. Pe scurt: ne-a ferit Dumnezeu. Ne-a ferit numai bunul Dumnezeu, cu niște balize antipoluare agățate de coada unei monstruozități cu care România - deci NATO - trebuia tîrîtă în război, nenorociților!!!" Sorin Faur, jurnalist

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

I want regime change in Iran