In the news

If you want more traffic jams just rip up some roads / close some bridges to traffic. BOOM! insta jams.

Just popping my head in to post this, because, Frieze.

https://frieze.com/article/how-milkshaking-far-right-subverts-white-supremacist-trope

Is Duncan Jeffery, Head of Communications, Westminster Abbey, truly a christian?

Greenhell not performing at Glastonbury now

Frieze

I miss read it as

so was surprised by how serious the article was.

Frijj

Urgh, hate those racist drinks

the donald has landed

good luck yer majesty

Well it's a good day for helicopter spotting if nothing else.

Forgot about the Donald arriving and was briefly in Regents Park on Saturday morning before it was shutdown and they had way, way more barriers up than when Obama was staying there.

Husk of a party loses another leader

Shows the state of this country when you think 'wonder which party he means, could be just about any of them'...

Made me laugh way more than it shoul dhave

https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/someone-mowed-a-massive-penis-in-a-field-to-welcome-donald-trump/?source=facebook

Can't be about Trump, his initials aren't 'OI', although the 'O' looks a bit like a portrait.

I am loving Stone cold loser tbf

Russian botnet overkill:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48293196

yep.
Hopfully we are in a transition stage between old style politics,
and,
an improved more engaged electorate with easily verified opinions
forming policy from the ground up.

Declassified Tiananmen Square cable

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre

Just horrific, almost more-so because of the impersonal, factual nature of the account.

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/06/04/france-bans-judge-analytics-5-years-in-prison-for-rule-breakers/

Kicking off at the Trump protest:

https://twitter.com/claudiascore/status/1135947395727024129

Who is that?

Some angry gammon they accused of being a nazi I think:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/trump-supporter-milkshaked-during-mass-16253800

Good intentions (perhaps), but may backfire/be unenforceable.

That gammon shaking is pretty depressing I think. Angry people all round.