Syrians celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad after five decades of dynastic rule: Although some also worry about what will come next.

Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak: Whatever the truth of the matter is, it’s obvious that the process that led to this particular report was a total abuse of science.

Russia Tests Cutting Off Access to Global Web, and VPNs Can’t Get Around It

Culture war and revolution: 30 Years of Manic Street Preachers’ Generation Terrorists: Great as they are, kind of a shame how many of their songs still make perfect sense decades later.

One million elderly people skipping meals as costs bite: Neither eating or heating is affordable for some.

Choke Point 2.0: A primer on the right’s latest conspiracy theory: Today’s wild claim is something like ‘Biden is personally causing his political enemies to be refused bank service’.

Federal Court Blocks Louisiana Law Mandating Posting Of Ten Commandments In School Classrooms: Turns out not everyone believes that the US separation between church and state should be destroyed quite so blatantly.

Bill Gates’ warning to the world: ‘As they reckon with their multiple defeats, progressives must avoid the twin temptations of fatalism and utopianism.’

Who is winning UK Politics Bluesky so far?: The left, at least as measured by the slightly strange metric of how many MPs follow them.

The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”: Their prioritisation of imaginary disasters that require individual solutions over real disasters that need collective action.

Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitter: Ken Paxton seems to want to make it illegal to not give Elon Musk money.

What are the key issues in the assisted dying bill debate?: Things to think about as the UK vote on legalising assisted dying draws closer.

‘The Apprentice’ actor Sebastian Stan: Hollywood stars fear Trump: It’s not only tech billionaires - certain actors seem to be preemptively afraid to associate with their peers who portray Trump in anything other than the most positive of lights.

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power: ‘This is the fusion of state and commercial power in a ruling elite.’

Zionism’s long 20th century: And the shifts in the relationship between the British political left and right with regards to Israel.

The world according to Trump: How Trump is likely to think about Ukraine, the Middle East, Europe and China.

How “YMCA” became Donald Trump’s unlikely theme song: I had wondered.

Congress About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush Political Enemies: A bill which enables the treasury secretary to unilaterally declare that any non-profit supports terrorism.