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[Caroline Loncq @caroloncq]

Oh yeah, baby...!

[The Librarians: The Next Chapter @librarianstv]

It's official 🪄 Season 2 of The Librarians: The Next Chapter premieres August 2, with Dominic Monaghan ("Lost", "The Lord of the Rings") joining the cast! #OliviaMorris #BlueyRobinson #JessicaGreen #CallumMcGowan #ChristianKane

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

This week, The Sameer Project had to let go of 15 people, reduce most of the salaries of our team on the ground and switch some team members part-time. This is due to a HUGE drop in donations at a time where material support is extremely needed in Gaza. Urgent support is needed: https://t.co/1j2S3RoAgU

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

For two weeks, The Sameer Project shifted to rice and burgul meals due to the lack of funds. Support here: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX. The families in the camps we distribute in were really upset that we stopped meat / chicken meals, so we decided to be innovative and came up with more affordable dishes packed with protein!

Our incredible Chef Majid came up with nutrition filled meals like this one that they called Thai Chicken, which includes onion, black pepper, mushrooms, corn and carrots. Wholesome and filling meals for only $3!

Right now, The Sameer Project kitchen is making around 1,600 meals per day for four days a week. We used to cook 7 days a week but have now reduced the days due to the decrease in funding. We need your help to go back to 3,000 meals for 7 days a week to support Palestinians in Gaza!

Give $3 to provide a meal in Gaza through our Food & Water Campaign: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SifDD (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")
https://t.co/WNZu0ERJci (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying “Food")

[Chaotic Harley @AydinNose]

Rupert Lowe dismissing the Dunblane massacre as 'one murder' in a pro-gun rant on the US-based Joe Rogan podcast 👇

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Did you know the first vehicle in history to break 100 kilometers per hour was an electric car?

It was called La Jamais Contente, French for "The Never Satisfied." It was a Belgian electric car shaped like a torpedo, built from a lightweight aluminum alloy, running on two electric motors and a heavy bank of batteries that made up nearly half its weight.

On the 29th of April 1899, on a track at Achères near Paris, its driver Camille Jenatzy pushed it to 105.88 kilometres per hour, becoming the first person ever to break the 100 km/h barrier on land. The fastest vehicle in the world, at the dawn of the automobile, was electric.

And it wasn't a one-off. We tend to think of the electric car as the ultimate symbol of the modern age, a twenty-first-century answer to a twenty-first-century problem. So it comes as a genuine shock to learn that in the year 1900, roughly a third of all the cars on American roads were electric...

By 1899, around ninety percent of New York City's taxis ran on batteries, a silent fleet humming through streets where horses still pulled most of the traffic. London had its own electric cabs, nicknamed "Hummingbirds" for the sound they made.

Drivers loved them for exactly the reasons we love them now. They were quiet, they were clean, they produced no smoke or fumes, and they did not require the violent, wrist-breaking hand-crank that gasoline cars of the era demanded just to start.

Some models could travel a hundred miles on a single charge, a range many affordable electric cars only matched again quite recently. There were even battery-swap stations, where a depleted battery could be exchanged for a fresh one in minutes.

Then gasoline won...

Cheap oil was discovered. Henry Ford's assembly line made the gasoline Model T affordable to everyone. And the invention of the electric starter motor killed the hand-crank, erasing gasoline's single biggest weakness.

The electric car fell into a sleep that would last nearly a hundred years.

So the next time someone calls the electric car the vehicle of the future, remember that it is also one of the oldest vehicles there is...

I started my newsletter because our past is truly extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are talking about it in a way that makes it feel real. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Thanks for reading.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

People versus the establishment?
Are you kidding?
Nigel Farage is the son of a stockbroker who went to Dulwich College and then follows his dad into the city, gets gifted millions, promotes crypto and gold bullion, been in politics for decades - he IS the establishment

[Caroline Loncq @caroloncq]

What a d*ckhead.

Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder' https://t.co/KNuiubWT8y

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Ancient pottery with personality!🏺

Face pots from Roman Britain some 2,000 years ago!

Museum of London 📷 by me

#Archaeology

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A diabetic Ford worker in the US said he was fired after being falsely accused of failing to pay for a cookie at a snack kiosk.

Kurt Kromm, 60, worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky for 11 years, Shifting Gears reported.

Kromm told the publication that he noticed his blood sugar had dropped at around 3:30am during a 12-hour shift on 9 May and so decided to buy a Grandma's chocolate chip cookie, which cost $1.95 (£1.47).

The following week he was called into an office by two supervisors, accused of stealing the item, and escorted from the premises without being allowed to get his belongings, he said.

Kromm, who says he averaged 60 hours a week at the automaker in 2025, said the payment screen initially rejected the transaction but the payment appeared to go through on the second try.

He later sent Ford screenshots from his bank confirming he had made the payment. The company then invited him back to his role but he declined.

"I earned over $200,000 last year. Why would I steal? I spent $1,200 last year in the canteen mainly on Diet Cokes," Kromm told Shifting Gears.

The Kentucky Truck Plant, which manufactures the Super Duty, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator models, is one of the company’s most profitable sites. In 2023 it earned $25bn in revenue.

Ford spokesperson Jessica Enoch told Shifting Gears: “We don’t talk about individual cases, but there are times when we look into things and realise it could have been handled differently. When that happens, we try to rectify it.”

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Uefa criticises "unjustifiable" Fifa decision to suspend red card ban for US World Cup star Folarin Balogun, saying "integrity of football at stake" https://t.co/hwDR55vO5N

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCLUSIVE

Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election

Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP
https://t.co/fSKszEDnV1

[Caroline Loncq @caroloncq]

What a match! @England ❤️

[Caroline Loncq @caroloncq]

If you're anywhere but the UK, this is for you...

[The Librarians: The Next Chapter @librarianstv]

It's official 🪄 Season 2 of The Librarians: The Next Chapter premieres August 2, with Dominic Monaghan ("Lost", "The Lord of the Rings") joining the cast! #OliviaMorris #BlueyRobinson #JessicaGreen #CallumMcGowan #ChristianKane

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

From an Afghan girl from inside Afghanistan:-

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This leaves me speechless.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 126 years ago.

What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World's Fair in Paris in 1900.

More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built an electric street that carried you across itself while you simply stood there...

It ran in a loop of around three and a half kilometres, raised on a viaduct above the fairgrounds, with nine stations where you could step on and off.

And it had a clever design: two moving platforms side by side, one going at walking pace and one faster, so you could step onto the slow one first, then onto the quick one, and ride the whole circuit in about twenty-six minutes without taking a single step.

Nearly fifty million people came to that fair, and for most of them it was the first time they had ever moved through a place without taking a step.

The very first moving walkway had appeared seven years earlier, at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, built by the same designers. But the Paris version was longer, faster, and far more sophisticated, and it was here that the world truly fell in love with the idea.

It astonished people. The thought that the ground itself could carry you felt like magic, like something out of a dream of the future. They even called it the Rue de l'Avenir: the Street of the Future.

Thomas Edison sent a crew to film it, which is why we can still watch it today...

[The Librarians: The Next Chapter @librarianstv]

It's official 🪄 Season 2 of The Librarians: The Next Chapter premieres August 2, with Dominic Monaghan ("Lost", "The Lord of the Rings") joining the cast! #OliviaMorris #BlueyRobinson #JessicaGreen #CallumMcGowan #ChristianKane

[The Librarians: The Next Chapter @librarianstv]

A magical summer is upon us✨Swipe for a preview of what's in store and watch a brand new season of #TheLibrarians August 2 on TNT.