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[OhReally? 🌻❤️‍🔥🪶🔮🪔🍾🏴‍☠️ @fiercedance]

I may get thrown off for this, but hey, worse things have happened.
But I'll be here until the end...

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[David Frum @davidfrum]

In the old USSR, people could be arrested for photographing bridges, tunnels, etc. A repressive and paranoid regime assumed the photographers must be spies and saboteurs. Americans laughed at such petty tyranny. Nothing like that could happen in their free country! Until now.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

I count NINE armed personnel guarding a tourist who *briefly put her hand in the water* of a public monument—after a plainclothes sting operation to find water-touchers rolled her up.

Anyone who thinks this is how you should run a government is mentally ill.

[OhReally? 🌻❤️‍🔥🪶🔮🪔🍾🏴‍☠️ @fiercedance]

FIRST QUESTION I ASKED

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

If cult leader Chris Butler was overseeing our Director of National Intelligence, who was overseeing Chris Butler?

He has a international organization with significant ties in China, and also Russia. There is also large multi-marketing scheme connected to the cult.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

This is why I’m always sceptical when I hear that “the Russian economy is on the verge of collapse.”

China has already cushioned much of the impact of sanctions through trade, energy purchases and alternative markets.

The real question isn’t whether Russia can keep going, but how far Beijing is willing to go in supporting Moscow if this war drags on for years.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In May of 1965, a 28-year-old teacher walked into a fourth-grade classroom in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston and did something that would change the course of his life — and eventually, the lives of millions.
His name was Jonathan Kozol. He had graduated from Harvard with highest honors. He had studied at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He could have chosen almost any path. Instead, he chose a crumbling public school in one of Boston's poorest neighborhoods, where the textbooks were two decades old, the heating system didn't work through winter, and a new student walked out the door — or simply disappeared — almost every single week.
That morning, he read his class of African-American nine-year-olds a poem by Langston Hughes. It was called The Ballad of the Landlord — a poem about a Black tenant standing up to a white landlord over an apartment falling apart at the seams, and what happened to him when he dared to speak up. It was not on the Boston Public Schools' approved reading list.
The next morning, Kozol was handed a dismissal letter.
The official reason: he had read material that wasn't in the approved curriculum, without permission from a superior. There had also been complaints from parents who had heard about the poem.
He had been teaching for seven months.
Another man might have accepted the verdict and walked away. Kozol did the opposite. He sat down and wrote. He documented everything — the broken heaters, the outdated books, the overcrowded rooms, the letter that ended his career over a poem about justice. He called the book Death at an Early Age.
Houghton Mifflin published it in October of 1967. Five months later, it won the National Book Award. Over the following decades, it sold more than two million copies.
But Kozol didn't stop there. He spent the next sixty years going back — back to the classrooms, back to the neighborhoods, back to the families that the system kept failing. He wrote about homeless children sleeping in welfare hotels. He wrote about the staggering gap between what wealthy school districts spent on each child and what poor ones could afford. He wrote about the Bronx, about segregation, about the America that existed just a few miles from the America most people saw.
He turned 89 in September of 2025. He is still writing.
All of it began on a May morning in 1965, when a young teacher decided that nine-year-olds in a cold, underfunded classroom deserved to hear a poem about what it felt like when the world wasn't fair.
He read it to them. And they fired him for it.
He made sure the whole world heard it anyway.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Elon’s SpaceX stock prices tanked today. The guy needs a billion dollars to stabilize it. This shady business is becoming Tesla. Do you remember Elon forced SpaceX and other of his companies to buy Tulsa’s Cybertrucks to save Tesla? The man is a Ponzi Scheme con artist.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient.

He is entitled to his opinions about how they look.

He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things. This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey America,
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been in the streets for 21 FUCKING DAYS over Jared Kushner’s plan to turn an island into a billionaire resort.

You’re watching your country get hijacked in real time. Maybe get off the fucking couch?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress not to worry about the $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists…The DOJ then told the court the same thing—don’t worry, it’s moot, it’s dropped, and then last week, the judge said okay, fine, put it in writing. She ordered Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and an associate AG to all sign ‘a declaration under the penalty of perjury, they will not take any action to create or operate the anti-weaponization fund and that the anti-weaponization fund will not proceed in any manner or under any name.’ Well, today was the deadline for that and guess what? They came back to the court and they said no, we’re NOT doing it. We’re NOT filing any declaration to officially kill the fund, which probably means the slush fund is NOT dead.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump's DOJ is arguing that states should not be required to provide in-home or community-based care to Americans with disabilities, jeopardizing care for over 8.4 million Americans.

[Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markomihkelson]

Ten years ago today, Britain voted for Brexit.
Do we have evidence that Russia determined the outcome of the referendum? No.
But we do know a few things.
We know that Arron Banks, the biggest financial backer of Brexit, held multiple meetings with Russian diplomats during the referendum campaign. At the same time, discussions were taking place about potential Russian business opportunities, including interests in gold mining ventures.
We know that Russian-linked social media accounts and troll networks were active in the Brexit information space, amplifying divisive narratives around immigration, national identity, and opposition to the European Union.
And we know that Brexit aligned perfectly with the Kremlin's strategic interests: a weaker European Union, a United Kingdom removed from the EU decision-making table, and deeper political divisions across the West.
We also know something else.
The British government never properly investigated the full extent of potential Russian interference when it mattered most.
So, ten years on, the real question is not whether Russia "caused" Brexit.
The real question is why one of the most consequential geopolitical decisions in modern Western history was never thoroughly examined, despite the documented contacts between Brexit's largest donor and Russian officials, and despite the fact that the outcome was celebrated in Moscow as a strategic victory.
A decade later, many questions remain unanswered.

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

Zelensky just laid it out plain: he handed the new Polish president the first official visit, got a Volhynia book shoved at him during the handshake like some passive-aggressive receipt, kept quiet about it for a year while Polish PMs actually showed up and Poles kept supporting Ukraine. Now that the guy is stirring domestic hate for political points, the mask drops.

This is classic Orban cosplay. Weaponize old wounds to dodge the present. Except the present is Ukrainian soldiers holding the line so Polish cities do not have to learn what Russian glide bombs sound like. We are not asking for gratitude. We are stating a fact: right now Ukraine is the only thing standing between the Russian war machine and the rest of the eastern flank. Without us bleeding every day, the cost of European security does not stay abstract. It lands on Warsaw, Vilnius, Tallinn, and Berlin in very concrete, expensive, bloody ways.

Naming a brigade after Ukrainian historical figures is not a diplomatic insult. It is an army at war choosing its own symbols of resistance against the same imperial project that has tried to erase us for centuries. Zelensky signed it because that is what a commander-in-chief does when his soldiers say these names motivate them to close with the enemy. Poland demanding cancellation of a Ukrainian decree on Ukrainian territory is not partnership. It is trying to run our internal morale from abroad while our people die protecting yours.

History is not forgotten. Volhynia, Katyn, Sahryn, Pavlokoma, none of it. But turning every conversation into competitive victimhood while Russian forces sit 400 kilometers from your border is suicidal theater. The Kremlin laughs at it. Every time a NATO-adjacent politician picks 1940s grudges over 2025 realities, Moscow gets another free information op.

Ukraine will keep defending Polish security interests on the battlefield whether Warsaw likes our choice of heroes or not. That is not arrogance. That is arithmetic. We have already paid the butcher's bill for the continent's complacency. The bill only gets bigger if we lose.

Poles who actually grasp this keep supporting us. The ones playing domestic culture war with Ukrainian blood are choosing the cheap applause over strategic survival. History shows that choice ends badly, usually with Russian tanks in the suburbs. We have seen the movie. We are living the sequel so you do not have to.

The faster Europe drops the historical one-upmanship and treats Ukraine as the forward defense line it already is, the cheaper this whole nightmare stays for everyone behind us. Anything else is just expensive nostalgia paid for in Ukrainian lives.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Alexander Browder, a 17-year-old London teenager, has become Russia's youngest ever sanctions target. He has built a database exposing the crypto networks helping Russia and other rogue states dodge Western sanctions.

In March, @Alexbrowder_ published a report for the Henry Jackson Society think tank, describing money-laundering mechanisms involving cryptocurrencies and estimating the scale of such operations by Russia, Iran, and North Korea at around $350 billion.

▪️ Cryptocurrency as a sanctions-evasion tool

A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a stable asset. This may be a currency, such as the ruble. This avoids the sharp price fluctuations typical of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, making the token convenient for payments and transfers.

According to Alexander Browder, this stability made the A7A5 stablecoin a useful instrument for sanctions evasion. The ruble-pegged token allowed payments to be conducted outside the banking system, which has been blocked for Russia by Western sanctions.

Alexander described A7A5 as one of the West's biggest challenges in the fight against money laundering. According to the British Foreign Office, more than $90 billion passed through the stablecoin network linked to the token in the past year alone.

That figure is comparable to roughly half of Russia's annual military spending. In late May, London imposed sanctions on 18 platforms in several countries, accusing them of creating shadow financial systems to circumvent restrictions.

▪️ Russia's response

On June 2, the Russian foreign ministry added Browder and four other British citizens to its sanctions list. They were accused of "slander and spreading false information." The teenager was banned from entering Russia.

Browder himself took the move calmly. According to him, the sanctions have become a badge of honor and proof that his investigation has "touched a nerve."

By the way, Alexander is the son of financier and human rights advocate William Browder @Billbrowder, CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital. His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian prison in 2009 after exposing a major tax fraud scheme. Browder Sr. is an outspoken critic of Putin and the initiator of the Magnitsky Act.

According to Alexander, it was his father's story that inspired him to pursue investigations. He believes that today's schemes for financing war through cryptocurrencies require a new, younger generation of analysts.

📹: DW

[Tim White @TWMCLtd]

The second Russian warhead hit the "Mystetsky Arsenal", a complex directly opposite the cathedral and Lavra.

Firefighters are still trying to extinguish the blaze.

Will all MAGA's Russian supporting 'Christians' in the US finally admit that #RussiaIsATerroristState?

[Tim White @TWMCLtd]

1/3
The main temple of Kyiv-Perchersk Lavra is over 1,000 years old.

The Assumption Cathedral was built in 1078, three centuries before Moscow existed.

The Mongols badly damaged it in the 13th century.
700 years later it was blown up in WWII
Now the new Nazi invaders did this:

[Michael McDonough @M_McDonough]

🚢Claims about Hormuz reopening are exactly why we built this:

If ships start moving through the Strait with AIS transponders on, you’ll see it in the index — updated every 30 minutes alongside Suez, Bab al-Mandeb and Panama.

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[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government.

Democrats and voting-rights groups say the proposed rule is clear evidence that the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.

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[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

BREAKING: The New York Times has obtained leaked audio recordings of the White House Situation Room when Trump and Rubio were discussing going to war with Iran.

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[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Alabama women have to take a monthly pregnancy test to get a cannabis rx filled. Where it begins is never where it ends https://t.co/tYUcvw3sw3