Across the world, music festival season mode has kicked off with many big events happening, from Glastonbury to Lollapalooza to Tomorrowland. Flickr members are showing up to gigs with their cameras in tow. Enjoy these shots taken by Flickr members from concerts and gigs around the world and join the discussion over on Flickr Social!
Listen now (2 min) | In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty scornfully declares that, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.” So what does “woke” mean? It’s become the pet political aspersion that today’s kooky right-wing hucksters hurl at liberals, but the hurlers would be whopperjawed to learn that it’s was actually coined by and for
Via Garry Kasparov:
Don't wonder what will happen if #Russia collapses. It already did! Years ago. It's not a state, it's a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources, and power.
Whatever is happening now, it was already clear Putin wasn't able to control every faction or to keep the infighting quiet or at least non-violent the way he mostly could before.
When will conservatives say enough is enough? Now SCOTUS Judge Alito has his own billionaire problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.