Amanda Cunningham

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

Remember when Trump’s team went nuts about some Labour activists going to campaign for the Democrats? If that was a outrageous act of foreign interference in another country’s democracy (fact check: it wasn’t), then what is this?

[Reuters @Reuters]

Snow on Swiss glaciers has disappeared weeks earlier than ‌usual this summer due to the European heatwave. The Rhone Glacier reached the ‘Glacier Loss Day’ – when snow accumulated over winter has melted away – at its second-earliest date on record https://t.co/PfvCBowmxj

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

If the European welfare state looks like a pyramid scheme, its pharaohs are the “baby boomers”. We explain how the cohort has pulled off an intergenerational heist https://t.co/cf4qK7vjUo

[Financial Times @FT]

US Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end birthright citizenship https://t.co/Qtny3KUg0a

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Yes. He has already paid this $5M sum into a deposit account held by the United States District Court. She will receive her money shortly, after the SCOTUS clerk's office issues that Court's final judgment.

[Chatham House @ChathamHouse]

France achieved as much as could have been expected at its G7 Summit, but this was well short of what the world needs. A new approach is needed.

Read @ButlerCreon latest analysis for Chatham House ⤵️
https://t.co/6CdK6b4j0c

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Donald Trump seems to be losing the plot, John Cassidy writes. This year, he’s been confronted by a series of political setbacks and disasters—the Supreme Court striking down his blanket tariffs; widespread revulsion at ICE’s actions; a furor over the delayed release of the Epstein files; and an ill-conceived war in the Middle East that caused gas prices to surge. The obvious response to the President’s woes—one that some of his aides have been urging upon him since last year—is to focus relentlessly on the issue that got him reëlected: the affordability crisis. Instead, he’s refusing to sign a bipartisan affordable-housing bill, in a demonstration of his obliviousness to voters’ economic concerns. Read Cassidy’s latest column: https://t.co/mVPFaBMPrA

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

British foreign correspondents could be at risk of prosecution if they use sources within state-backed groups in countries such as Iran under national security legislation being rushed through parliament this week.

David Anderson, a former UK independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has warned that unless the bill is amended it could accidentally pull journalists working in danger-zone countries into prosecutions for terrorism.

Details here 👇

https://t.co/o6YkBaLFVN

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: The US Supreme Court has blocked Donald Trump from sacking Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, in a powerful rebuke of the president’s attacks on the world’s most important central bank. https://t.co/mFgZHmkZGl

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Supreme Court declined President Trump’s request to review a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. https://t.co/q76TNHKLpK

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: Attempting to tilt election law in your favour — and to entrench yourself in power by fair means and foul — are classic tactics of strongman leaders. The good news is that it doesn’t always work. https://t.co/a2koiR0DHX

[Amanda Cunningham @acunningham]

….strongman leaders. ….frequently share instincts and methods ….encourage a cult of personality … centralise power around themselves …fight against independent institutions …often abolish constitutional term limits…are almost invariably male, nationalist and populist

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: Attempting to tilt election law in your favour — and to entrench yourself in power by fair means and foul — are classic tactics of strongman leaders. The good news is that it doesn’t always work. https://t.co/a2koiR0DHX

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll:

"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today's ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions."

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

True then, true now

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Q: How did you know back in 2008 that Ukraine would be next?

Kasparov: I just listened to Putin. In 2005 he declared the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. In Munich 2007 he told Bush and Western leaders — NATO must go back to 1997 borders.

After the war against Georgia in 2008 I wrote — next is Ukraine. People asked how I knew. I looked at the map. He published the Novorossiya map himself. Putin's plans to restore the Russian Empire were never a secret. He always told everyone exactly what he would do.

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Bossons Glacier this evening! 🧊🔥

Tmax in Chamonix (1,100 m asl) was 33°C today (at 6:00 pm, one hour before this picture was taken...)!

Writing these numbers feels so surreal... 😱

We are CONSUMING the agony of a world that no longer exists.

[Amanda Cunningham @acunningham]

“The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals. “

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. https://t.co/tFe6RkMytI

[Amanda Cunningham @acunningham]

“Putin, who often invokes Peter the Great and other Russian tsars …… has been playing the role of Nicholas II during World War I: micromanaging the war, disappearing for long spells, and then making bizarre public appearances.”

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

As Russian discontent grows at Putin's disastrous invasion of Ukraine, regime change is no longer out of the question. It is worth asking: will Putin be killed in a palace coup, sent to answer charges at the International Criminal Court, or something else? https://t.co/VxaxnnXkmS

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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