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[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

John Bolton, according to CNN, will plead guilty to a felony of mishandling classified information, with a fine of $2 million and possible prison time.

Bolton previously urged that Edward Snowden be executed, and Julian Assange be imprisoned for life, for informing the public.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Ban Ki-moon, then secretary-general of the United Nations, commented on how, in his visits to some of the most forgotten areas of the world, there was a common factor: the presence of Cuban doctors.

“They are always the first to arrive and the last to leave.”

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

No. The response from the Centre and the Right wing has driven voters leftwards.

Supporting genocide is not popular.

[HOT SPOT @HotSpotHotSpot]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: "If I did meet with the new Ayatollah, I would be honored to meet him"

Doocy: "Do you think because Epic Fury killed his killed his dad and his wife and his kid that he's has hard feelings?"

Trump: "I would say I'm not his favorite person, but with that being said, he's probably a pro—I don't know him—he's probably a professional in some circles, he has a very good reputation actually, you know, sometimes when people say bad, but a lot of people say bad about me. It's totally false, of course"

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Trump's "Board of Peace" is doing exactly what it was designed to do: launder Israel's genocide as "diplomacy," blame Palestinians for their own starvation and turn "reconstruction" into cover for occupation and ethnic cleansing. Read @maureenclarem: https://t.co/dOTNZbYTeJ

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a newly published vision for planetary survival.

The report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism, and ever greater economic and social tension.

It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors, such as industry and mining, to education and health.

Racists, sociopaths, billionaires, and racist sociopathic billionaires, will hate it.

https://t.co/nQe1BrBZkZ

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Only thing left to say to CBS after reading that powerful Scott Pelley statement is…..with a little help from David Letterman:

"In the words of the great Edward Murrow, 'Good night and good luck, motherf*ckers!'"

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Josh Paul discusses how Congress and Israeli allies are attempting to solidify the current military relationship by embedding it deeply within the Pentagon's infrastructure through Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

@ryangrim | @emilyjashinsky | @anewpolicyorg

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Why do broadcasters keep claiming there is still a ceasefire in the Middle East? There isn’t. Iran says there is not. Why won’t they believe them when the evidence is there to see?

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Israel has arrested two Palestinian women’s national team players, Natalie Abu Dayyeh & Rand Al Halawini. The Palestine FA described it as part of the systematic targeting of their athletes.

Will the same media who were concerned about Iran’s women footballers say anything now?

[Tere Felipe @_TereFelipe_]

El genocidio de Estados Unidos en Cuba:

🇨🇺🚨🚨Importante🚨🚨
Desde el 6 de junio, no será posible pagar en Cuba con tarjetas VISA ni MASTERCARD, a partir de la decisión del banco extranjero que realiza esas operaciones de interrumpir sus relaciones con FINCIMEX S.A.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Think this one through. Beautiful olive trees that grow and mature and serve as the livelihoods of families. People who think they are righteous and devoted to an all-seeing god, burn them down. And it happens again and again and again.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Thousands ​of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana on Tuesday to protest a planned luxury resort by a company linked to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. The resort is to be developed in one of Albania’s most valuable biodiversity areas.

Tuesday saw the third straight day of protests against the development.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The US Congress is quietly making Israel part of the US military.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Q: How do you define ceasefire?

Trump: Uh... Pretty much the way it is. In that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Oxford Union has decided to air our appearance virtually instead of in person on Saturday. Because they're allowing @hasanthehun and myself to speak, now their leader is being targeted in a smear campaign.

Will the same standards be applied to the Zionists? Have they condemned Israel's wanton terrorism? It doesn't just cause hurt feelings for Muslims, the government of Israel actually murders them tens of thousands at a time.

Now, they're saying if you complain about that, it's also antisemitic. So, if you're not in favor of Israel murdering your people, you're an antisemite? What kind of disgusting standard is this?

It is in indisputable fact that Israel has killed at least 70 times the number of civilians as Hamas, and their civilian kill ratio is higher than Hamas (Hamas is 67%, IDF is 83%).

Israel also does double taps to murder medical workers who show up to help the injured. So, there is no dispute that they target civilians on purpose.

So, is the definition of terrorism relevant? If it is, the IDF is one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world. Or is the word terrorism just used to smear Muslims and never applied to Israel, no matter how accurate it is?

I have no problem condemning the terrorism of Hamas, so will anyone be asked to condemn the terrorism of Israel as well? And isn't it weird that no one in traditional media has already asked this obvious question?

Will anyone ever be banned, canceled or be challenged by the so-called media if they support the obvious and empirical terrorism of Israel?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"

Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"

#PMQs

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

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