Richard Schuitema @twootdev

So apparently Pokémon Go has been helping drones murder people in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran?

A deeply sick society.

Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss

23 hours ago

After passing two death penalty laws in six weeks, Israel is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to try to execute Palestinians on live TV. Unanimous support for the laws shows that Israeli society can unite around “death to Palestinians.” mondoweiss.net/2026/06/the-pa…

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gaza is the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the modern era. even the warsaw ghetto didn’t have drones and quadcopters hovering above them 24/7, ready to kill them at any moment. just think about what that does to people mentally

LIVE FOOTAGE: Israel murders a news reporter covering the destruction in Lebanon This is the most SHOCKING footage I ever saw.

Scotland’s data centre pipeline: 6,200MW in planning. 11,000MW proposed. @JamesMelville Nearly three times peak winter electricity demand. How? Three stages: 2022 NPF4 written before ChatGPT existed. Data centre analysis assumed emissions offset by reduced commuting. AI workloads: not modelled. Policy lag. Understandable. 2021 Scottish Government launched its own Green Datacentres Action Plan to actively court data centre investment. Scottish Enterprise as delivery partner. 20 shortlisted sites. NPF4 changed so councils must “identify and support” applications removing the need to justify necessity. A deliberate political choice. 2025/26 APRS formally warned Ministers. Moratorium requested. Refused. Pipeline kept growing. Wilful inaction. Indefensible. Westminster’s role: AI Growth Zone at Newhouse/Ravenscraig is a reserved UK Government designation. Two governments. Same direction. Neither built in a single community safeguard. Six known gaps no statutory green definition, no EIA, no water standard, no cumulative energy assessment, no Section 75 on future owners, no community right of appeal all unfilled. Not incompetence. Not cronyism. ‼️Worse: they knew, they chose, and they did nothing.

My dream is to sleep on a warm bed, eat enough food, and drink clean water.

Another instance of ICE releasing vulnerable detainees in the middle of nowhere, in freezing weather, killing them. They did the same to Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was legally blind. Woman’s hypothermia death after her release by ICE is ruled a homicide theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

Living in Britain today is just being forced to endure a ceaseless bombardment of policy decisions designed to make like utterly miserable. An eternal bleak midwinter. Generational demoralisation.

Not even subtle. If the average journey cost £50 that would be over 3,000,000 journeys a year. Throw every single person involved in jail.

Andrew Matthews @LostinAylesbury

2 days ago

Buckinghamshire council spent £819 million over a five year contract period on taxis. £163 million a year on average. This is insane. The council could run an equivalent transport service for a fraction of this cost

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🚨BREAKING: Israeli forces killed 9 year old Mousa Al-Habil and his father nurse Mohammed northern Gaza City, as they were on the roof of their home trying to manually collect water amid the collapse of basic life necessities in the area.

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A man whose family are killed by the israelis in Gaza, says sorry to be boring, but while you’re watching the World Cup, we are being killed

Oligarchs, royalty and foreign banks all flouting Scots land laws | The National thenational.scot/news/26192171.…

Nobody should be comfortable with the government having this much intimate involvement in your daily life

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

2 days ago

🚨 NEW: The UK social media ban for under-16s will be enforced through facial recognition, digital IDs, credit cards, open banking, passports, mobile provider checks or email age estimation

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ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.

The occupation continues its crimes against children... Child Ryan Abu Al-Ajeen was killed after being detained by Israeli forces along with his father from eastern Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Hours after their detention, they were released while injured, but Ryan did not survive the bleeding and pain for long, and later succumbed to his wounds.

We woke up to a nightmare…The yellow line is advancing mercilessly! Dozens of families are fleeing into the streets with their children no home, no shelter, no destination. How long will this injustice and torment continue?!

They poured gasoline on an elderly man in an attempt burn him alive. Inhumanity.

Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane

2 days ago

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning down the villages of Deir Dibwan and Burqa in the West Bank. They set a mosque on fire, torched several vehicles, and poured gasoline on an elderly man in an attempt to burn him alive.

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So what is in "The Deal with Islamic Republic of Iran"? If you're confused, it's normal: the US and Iran already publicly disagree on what they agreed to, and it's not even a "deal": just a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that sets the terms for negotiating the actual deal within the next 60 days. We do, however, know a few things: 1) Israel is actively trying to undermine the deal - for instance by striking Beirut yesterday Sunday. Israeli media say that the deal is causing "profound concern among Israeli officials," that "Israel, despite having started the war alongside the US, was not involved in the negotiations," and that "the deal do[es] not achieve the goals of the war that were set out by the US and Israel" (timesofisrael.com/us-iran-reach-…). That last part is clear: the very existence of this MOU proves the objectives of the war were not met, as they certainly didn't include the US negotiating an exit with an undefeated Iran while Israel is freaking out about it on the sidelines. 2) We know, because both parties and Pakistan (the mediator) confirmed it, that a finalized MOU does exist and that it's due to be formally signed on Friday in Switzerland by JD Vance and maybe Trump himself (Vance told Fox News: “I certainly plan to be there, but it’s possible the president himself could be there” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d…) 3) We know Trump ordered the US naval blockade to be lifted (supposedly today, Monday) 4) The Strait of Hormuz will reopen on the Iranian side (though both parties publicly spun the terms differently - Trump says "toll-free," Iran's FM Araghchi says with "service fees") 5) The war would end on all fronts including Lebanon - both sides used this exact phrase. Israel, obviously, is trying hard to spoil this. 6) Some form of sanctions relief is included - Iran speaks of "termination of all sanctions" (fortune.com/2026/06/14/ira…) and a senior US official confirmed the structure is "Iran would earn economic rewards each time it met a set of US demands" 7) The MOU apparently does not agree on anything wrt nuclear, just that it will be discussed during the 60-day negotiation window, with Iran maintaining its current nuclear status quo in the meantime 8) In fact I suspect the MOU defers most things truly contested - like nuclear - to later negotiations while resolving in the immediate only the problems the war itself created: stop shooting, reopen the strait (under updated Iranian rules), and lift the blockade. Which means that, most likely, this "deal" is - at this stage - less a deal than an acknowledgement of the new status quo reached in the war. It differs from the April 5 ceasefire in that, this time, the US is lifting all coercion it introduced in the war - including the naval blockade it imposed on April 13. So in effect the war had two phases of failed coercion (military, then economic with the blockade), and the MOU formalizes the failure of both. In exchange what the US is getting is a conversation about its initial stated war objectives (like nuclear), which it will now have to pursue after having proven it cannot impose them by force. Needless to say, you don't get better terms at the table after showing you couldn't get them on the battlefield 🤷

The White House @WhiteHouse

2 days ago

“The Deal with Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

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There's an invasive tree growing across America, and it's rolling out the welcome mat for the worst new bug on the continent. It's called tree of heaven, and the name is a lie. It came over from China in the 1780s, and now it's everywhere: fast, scrappy, growing up through pavement, poisoning the soil around it so natives can't compete. One female makes over 300,000 winged seeds a year. Crush a leaf and it smells like rancid peanut butter. And it's the favorite food of the spotted lanternfly, the invasive planthopper now chewing through grapes, orchards, and hardwoods across the East. An invading tree, feeding an invading bug. Kill the tree, starve the bug. Here's the part that trips everyone up. Do not just cut it down. Cutting it, even cutting and painting the stump, makes it panic and shoot up dozens of root suckers. One tree becomes a thicket. The move that works: treat the standing tree. Hack a ring of cuts into the bark and apply triclopyr in late summer, and it carries the poison down into its own roots. Never advice I love to give, but it's the best way to end this invasion, one tree at a time.

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An Israeli soldier extrajudicially kills a young Palestinian man in Hawwara town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.