Putin will not travel to Istanbul for peace talks with Zelenskyy, Kremlin confirms https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/kremlin-tight-lipped-for-third-day-on-whether-putin-will-meet-zelenskyy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #CrimeaisUkraine #PutinIsaWarCriminal #TrumpCrash

Say it with me:

Trans and enby women of color are precious & deserve our attention and protection

Well said 🏅

#trans #transrights #antiracism

@br00t4c absolutely disgusting

Biggest. Crowd. Ever.
#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #Resistance #TruthWarriors #antiTrump #antiMaga
#ImpeachTrumpNOW

Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs

#EnvironmentalProtection #CrossPartyEffort #GovernmentVeto #ParliamentaryCommittee #ChalkStreams

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/14/attempt-to-protect-englands-rare-chalk-streams-in-planning-bill-rejected-by-labour-mps

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A tiny Chinese company owned by same people that own TikTok just bought $300,000,000 of $TRUMP Coin.

Now why do you think they did that?

🧐👀
- Spencer Hakimian

"I dream of never being called resilient again. I'm exhausted by strength" 💖

🎨 Lainey Molnar

Yup. That’s the one.

I have overcommitted myself yet again for tomorrow, and my sky is now full of smoke from wildfires elsewhere in the province, and I am feeling all the logical emotions in response to everything terrible that's happening right now

So I'm going to take a deep breath, and refocus my brain on some of the lovely and peaceful things that happened today, and channel gratitude for what I have

Just writing this out, since I know loads of you are in the same boat as me, and I'm so glad to have you here!

@luckytran Respecting others' health by wearing a mask is something Kyrgyz people did willing even before COVID. People put on a mask and went out to do their chores if they were feeling a little under the weather.

Some countries have developed economy and technology, some have developed culture and respect.

People are being fired for wearing a mask to work. This is horrible and against public health. We need to pass laws that explicitly protect the right to mask.

“Democrat John Ewing unseated Republican Mayor Jean Stothert in Tuesday's officially nonpartisan election to lead Omaha, a victory that ends the GOP's 12-year hold on Nebraska's largest city.” https://www.the-downballot.com/p/democrats-just-flipped-nebraskas

UPDATE: Lucy has been found alive and relatively ok. Thank you all for your help with sharing the message! 🩷💜

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This is my friend Lucy who is currently missing in Wellington Pōneke. She is vulnerable, low on resources, and may be experiencing paranoia and disordered thinking so if you see her please be gentle and straightforward. Her mother is now nearby and can come to wherever.

#NZTwits #Aotearoa #Wellington #Pōneke

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.

So, from the emergency loan to keep Thames Water functioning, its top executives will receive bonuses, in some cases to a level of 50% of salary.

Why?

Because we are told these bonuses are needed to stop them being poached by competing companies.

Ha ha

No one wants these losers who wrecked Thames Water, whatever they're claiming in HR interviews.

And before you say the investors have done all out of these executives; the skills of the rentier are widely available!

#water #sewage
h/t FT

The crowd in #SaudiArabia gave a standing ovation as #Trump said he was ordering the end of sanctions on #Syria. He said he made the decision “after discussing the situation in Syria with the crown prince, your crown prince, & also with President #Erdogan of #Turkey, who called me the other day & asked for a very similar thing.”

“Oh what I do for the crown prince,” Trump said of #MBS, to laughter.
[that’s what we’re worried about]

As previously noted there's nothing like a leadership election to up the coverage of a political party, and the Greens are (only for a short while, I fear) benefitting - here's a long profile piece from Zoe Williams on Zack Polanski.

I'll leave you to judge how straight a bat on the issues Williams plays, but nevertheless in the main good positive coverage... which is nice (for a change).

#greens #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/13/i-thought-politics-was-a-dirty-thing-zack-polanski-on-his-eco-populist-vision-for-the-green-party

russia ruled responsible for the downing of MH17 over occupied #Ukraine and killing of 298 passengers and crew

russia is likely to stall and obstruct efforts to obtain legal redress, but the Civil Aviation Organization’s ruling is unprecedented and damning

https://khpg.org/en/1608814651