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Disrupting Iran’s Overseas Military Procurement Networks state.gov/releases/offic…



9 May 1921: German anti-Nazi activist Sophie #Scholl is born in Forchtenberg, Germany. She was a leader of the White Rose, a non-violent #resistance group. She was caught distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets and was #executed on February 22, 1943. #History #OTD #WWII #ad amzn.to/3fB0sku


49 years ago this week. Coming back excited from the HMV shop. The first 12-inch single I'd ever seen let alone bought. Grubby unkempt weirdos on the numbered sleeve. Placed reverently on my dad's stereo, the needle drops, a few seconds of hiss, then:



🚨 WATCH: Piers Morgan and Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward clash over Zack Polanski's stance on trans people Morgan: "Do you think women have penises?" Millward: "I think you have a uniquely strange obsession with people's genitalia"










Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.







Everyone agrees: Americans don’t party enough. We’re trying to fix that, one reading slash cocktail pop-up at a time. Join us for a reading with some of your favorite journalists, substackers, luddites, and internet micro-celebrities!


Ignoring UK media lies, it’s been a disaster for Reform Only 3 councils are in Reform's control and Starmer is still Prime Minister Less than 25% of the population supports Reform, reduced from 34%. Complete and utter disaster.l for Farage and the billionaires that fund him


🚨 My new @opinion column explains how the Trump administration's lengthy waiver of the Jones Act implodes many of the law's common security & economic defenses - and finally gives critics the data to prove it: /1









