Anne Applebaum

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Kherson. Not just drones: yesterday, Russians dropped an aerial bomb on the building of a school where civilians received water, humanitarian aid. I have been to this building many times, filming the elderly getting bread. The sadistic music is courtesy of Russians.

¡NORUEGA ENLOQUECIÓ! 🇳🇴 90 mil personas recibieron a su selección tras el Mundial. El príncipe de Noruega tocó el tambor y toda la ciudad hizo el “remo noruego”. IMPRESIONANTE

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero. - He was here legally. - He was authorized to work. - He had Social Security Number. - He was NOT target of ICE investigation. - DHS: He did NOT try to kill ICE agents. He was executed in front of his 3 year old daughter.

No he is not. Farage, finally, is being treated as a politician rather than a cheeky chappy commentator. He got away with so much for so long he thought he could do anything for ever. The main problem for him is that nobody thinks anyone ever gives a politician five million quid for nothing. His excuses have made it worse. And however hard Jenrick protests you just need to scroll through posts of Reform senior figures since Ann Widdecombe’s murder to see they have indeed been seeking to exploit it both to shift the narrative/avoid continuing questions over the money, and to claim they are treated unfairly by “the establishment” (basically anyone who isn’t a Farage fan) They would be wise to let the police do their job without making it harder than it already is.

For anyone excited by the latest (rehashed) fan fiction that Maduro helped rig tabulators for the 2020 election... A reminder that Georgia has paper ballots. You can't hack paper. And it counted those paper ballots 3 times. Once by hand. Each count yielded the same result.

⚡ For the first time, Ukrainian troops marched in Paris's Bastille Day parade, while Ukrainian pilots co-piloted French Mirage fighter jets overhead.

Another Russian agent in Polish politics: Krzysztof Tołwiński, a former deputy treasury minister in a PiS government, posted footage from Belarus saying he had used his own money to buy and deliver first-aid kits to Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. euronews.com/my-europe/2026…

"Trump’s sons Donald Jr & Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are benefiting from new Pentagon priorities and spending" and giving them a direct interest in US security policy new reporting from @washingtonpost wapo.st/3R5InT7

SCOOP: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have invested in more than a dozen defense tech companies and other firms that have reaped $3.2 billion in federal contracts, a @washingtonpost analysis finds. By @lizzadwoskin @abtran Luis Melgar and @PeteJamison washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

The Wagner group, or what's left of it, is now running an opioid ring in Africa wsj.com/world/africa/r…

"The Trump administration, now Intel’s largest shareholder, has also taken a hands-on approach to the company... This type of state capitalism is unprecedented" wsj.com/tech/ai/intels…

Coalition of the Willing. Standing shoulder to shoulder for peace and freedom.

🔴 Russian forces have published footage showing them dropping a 3-ton aerial bomb on the Ukrainian town of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Suspends New Cooperation with the United States The Natural Resources Institute has decided to halt all new collaborations and travel involving the United States. Instead, it is shifting its focus toward cooperation within the Kingdom of Denmark and with European countries. The Director of the Natural Resources Institute, Josephine Nymand, says the institute will no longer enter into new partnerships with the United States. She previously served as Chair of the Research Council, where she worked to strengthen scientific cooperation with Greenland's western neighbor. Since then, the situation has changed significantly—particularly after January, when the United States spent an extended period refusing to rule out taking over the country by military force. "We have collaborations that were established before all of this happened. We will continue those because they involve researchers we have worked with for many years and whom we trust," says Josephine Nymand. "—However, we are not entering into new agreements or projects with U.S. partners whom we do not already know." In recent weeks, KNR has reported that the alleged influence agent Tom Dans has become Chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. This has prompted warnings from two prominent research figures: U.S. affairs expert Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard from the Danish Institute for International Studies, and Marianne Holmer, Chair of Denmark's Research Committee and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Josephine Nymand explains that only a few months ago, Tom Dans attended a conference in Aarhus where the Natural Resources Institute was also present. She says the institute was aware of his whereabouts throughout the event so that its representatives could avoid interacting with him. Break with the United States It is not only new research partnerships that have been suspended. The Natural Resources Institute has also halted all travel to the United States. "We have instructed our staff and researchers that, as a general rule, they should not travel to the United States for conferences, meetings, research, or similar activities." According to Josephine Nymand, there are several reasons why cooperation with the United States is no longer considered appropriate. One reason, she explains, is that the Trump administration has censored certain research because it contained terminology that did not align with its views on diversity. —KNR

This essay is one of the most remarkable I have ever read on the very nature of “collaboration.” It contains historical references of the utmost importance regarding the “dark times” that continue to define our present. #MustRead

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, according to Atul Gawande, a former leading administrator at the agency. Gawande, backed by recent academic studies, believes that the death toll will likely reach seven figures. The policy is not only immeasurably cruel, he argues; it is also stupid, badly undermining what remains of American soft power and prestige. Gawande explains the human cost of DOGE’s war on U.S.A.I.D.: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/H5AQWr

On my way to the leaders’ meeting in Paris.

If more US alllies had followed Canada's courageous example, and brought home to Trump the folly of his economic war on the world, American consumers would have been spared the pain of Trump's higher prices - and American workers would not have lost jobs to higher input costs.

Trump personally earned more from crypto than every publicly traded US crypto company: