All bets are off

Well, times they are a changin'. Usual disclaimer applies.

[Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez]

Show me some love people!! New website full of free stuff, and a chance to win a free miniature painting. Don’t say I don’t treat you well 😜 https://t.co/z59avYXUUS

[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

[Jah Wobble @realjahwobble]

JAH WOBBLE & TIAN QIYI NEW LP - Maximum Volume Music https://t.co/nPkkXw7h6w

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KARL: Republicans are gonna make you the poster child for the Democratic Party

MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last 6 months, what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

[Vesuvius Challenge @scrollprize]

This sounds crazy, BUT this week we READ A FULL SCROLL!!

https://t.co/6Jcn13yOQv

It’s PHerc. 1667, aka Scroll 4!

And that’s not all.

We also proved that we can directly see ink in a rescan of PHerc. Paris 4 — Scroll 1 — WITHOUT machine learning…

…and we UNROLLED ABOUT 140 COLUMNS FROM IT.

This was honestly POETIC.

We first saw a glimpse of the results over dinner in Naples, in a restaurant where Caravaggio was stabbed. Federica was so excited — more excited than we had ever seen her — that we abandoned dinner, went back to work, and unrolled the 140 columns until 3 a.m. on a hotel rooftop, with Vesuvius in the background.

The unroll is not perfect.

But guys…

140 columns, with text visible everywhere.

It’s HUGE.

This project has been full of ups and downs, but somehow, at some point, something ALWAYS happens.

We’re starting to think these scrolls have personalities…

…and they want to be read.

@natfriedman has announced a $1M Grand Prize to read another full scroll. Official details coming soon!

[A Queen Of Magic @aqueenofmagic]

George Michael interpreta junto a Queen la canción "'39" en el Concierto Homenaje a Freddie Mercury en el estadio de Wembley el 20 de abril de 1992.

#GeorgeMichael #Queen #FreddieMercury

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

(1/3) Garden Court North members are dismayed to learn that proceedings are once again being initiated against Rajiv Menon KC for contempt of court following his speech delivered to a jury at the Woolwich Crown Court in January.

[Robyn Hitchcock @RobynHitchcock]

My new book, "Stranded in the Future" is out on July 7!
We have signed copies available now and shipping today from Tiny Ghost HQ...

Here's the link if you'd like one:

https://t.co/LvhqXapcc8

[A Queen Of Magic @aqueenofmagic]

Barcelona! #FreddieMercury #MontserratCaballé

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Thanks for sharing this. I love my river & will do whatever is (peacefully) necessary to protect & restore her, whatever the malevolently useless bureaucrats might do or say to me.

For those who’d like to learn more about the restoration we carried out, details are in this post:

https://t.co/wmaDZPMTiv

Or this video:

https://t.co/KnnqM49cri

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Thanks for sharing this. I love my river & will do whatever is (peacefully) necessary to protect & restore her, whatever the malevolently useless bureaucrats might do to me.

For those who’d like to learn more about the restoration we carried out, details are in this post:

https://t.co/wmaDZPMTiv

Or this video:

https://t.co/KnnqM49cri

[Mike Bones @mrmikebones]

Malcolm McLaren's 1982 hit 'Buffalo Gals' pioneered the intro of hip-hop culture to the UK. Produced by Trevor Horn, the track featured the World's Famous Supreme Team and has since been sampled in over 400 songs.

[Jah Wobble @realjahwobble]

Jah Wobble, Tian Qiyi - Tomorrow Never Knows https://t.co/TqEnCN3gaq

[Brian May's Save Me Trust @AnneatSaveMe]

Defra Trail Hunting Consultation
🦊 If you do one thing for wildlife today, please do this NOW
Please share this post and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to take part before the consultation closes on 18th June.
Together, we can make a difference for Britain's wildlife.
Have your say here: https://t.co/v1OJdf2zDg
Save Me Trust Link https://t.co/GqZZqhjp91

[Jah Wobble @realjahwobble]

Released August 14th

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

The evocative sounds of a reconstructed ancient hydraulis (water organ) played by Justus Willberg of the European Music Archaeology Project. 🎹🎶

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Farage's name appears about 40 times in the Epstein files. Mostly in emails between Epstein and Bannon discussing Farage's role in Bannon's scheme to create a European fascist network.

[Grateful Dead @GratefulDead]

If you haven't listened to Cornell '77 yet, today is the day ⚡

For his second pick in Vol. 4 of 'A Beginner's Guide to the Grateful Dead Live,' @ChrisBenchetler shares a moving story about how "Fire on the Mountain" (Cornell, 5/8/77) reminds him of the late, great Bill Walton, a dearly loved member of the Dead community who opened so many doors to the music. Listen and share what the song brings to mind for you in the comments. https://t.co/ArQb41DYOv

[All bets are off @rashdown]

RT @yokoono: REMEMBER LOVE #rememberlove
'Remember Love' (out-take) → https://t.co/HYsIu6JNvn
'Give Peace A Chance' (out-take) → https://t.…

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos