Democrats have a long history of going for the best orator in the field, so I certainly wouldn’t rule Ossoff out.

Serbia's populist president Vucic, under pressure after months of anti-government protests, said on Saturday he will resign ​within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary election www.reuters.com/world/serbia...

Wars are good and easy to win

Nu afwachten wat het Surinaams getinte Nederland tegen Marokko gaat doen. 🙃✌🏽🤞🏽

‼️The CEU is set to become a two-campus university again, HUN media reports. While Vienna will remain its main campus, degree-granting programs are expected to return to Budapest once the necessary approvals are completed. A step toward restoring the university's academic presence in Hungary! 2/1

Bij succes horen ze bij ons, zodra ze uitgeschakeld worden zijn het gelukszoekers die onze genenpoel komen vervuilen.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

HITTEGOLF Europa: in rivieren zwemmen, veel water drinken, airco installeren België:

Nog warmer

Try this one: “A draw tonight would help set up a situation where Iran plays its next 2 games in Canada, a scenario that would offer the administration a reprieve from trying to host a tournament while imposing travel restrictions on just one of the 48 competitors.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

“Authorities in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula controlled by Russia, declared a state of emergency on Friday after weeks of intense air attacks by Ukraine, including a wave of drone strikes overnight that appears to have been one of the largest since the war began.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w...

Het aantal gevallen van moord en doodslag lag in de eerste helft van dit jaar ver onder het gemiddelde van voorgaande jaren.

Gefeliciteerd mensen, weer een record gebroken

Makes sense

Noorwegens B team had wel vijf keer moeten scoren tegen Frankrijk. Aanvallend zijn de Fransen absoluut wereldklasse maar verdedigend is het echt heel matig.

Aan de VVD, CDA, D66: laat ze blijven!

Europe and North Africa are getting their first undersea power link

What happened between 2015 and 2020 taught me that, should that awful day come and we, settled EU migrants, become the target of Reform, the Great British Public will do nothing to protect us. Friends will be appaled but powerless. A few marches, some nice, principled words, that'll be all.

De Britse regering had ook een deal met Rwanda. De totale kosten van het programma bedroegen ongeveer €800 miljoen euro. Juridische procedures zorgden voor jarenlange vertraging bij de uitvoering. Het totaal aantal uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers dat uiteindelijk naar Rwanda werd gevlogen was… Vier.

Merkwaardige tactiek van de Marokkaanse bondscoach. Je zou denken dat hij er tegen Haiti vol voor zou gaan omdat plek twee vermijden een prioriteit was. Japan is immers een makkelijkere tegenstander dan Oranje. In plaats daarvan zet hij zijn halve basiselftal op de bank. Arrogantie? Of misrekening?

More like Twitter’s problem with facts

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy reports that Belarus is no longer allowing that its signal towers are used as repeaters for Russian drones in Ukraine's north. According to him it has come effect on June 22, only three days after Ukraine's 7-day ultimatum.

Trump putting the Constitution throught the shredder while building concentration camps is fine. But when Democrats start electing candidates who want to keep public libraries open and impose a small tax on second properties of billionaires, the very continued existence of America is at stake.

Bethany Mandel everyone: normie Jewish people I disagree with are the servant of Nazis but not like our cool Nazi friends

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

After all these years its a weird experience seeing Syrian state media reporting on a Bellingcat Productions documentary about war crimes in Syria sana.sy/en/culture-a...

What is happening to the humanities at British universities? Here is my report, published in today's FAZ:

Naar aanleiding van een aangenomen motie om het legaliteitsbeginsel te schenden en een uitspraak van de hoogste rechter te negeren, schreef ik een opiniestuk voor @joop.nl. #TeamRechtsstaat

Nuts

Two years later, it’s pretty clear that Israel’s post 10/7 actions in Gaza have had a devastating impact on pro-Israel Democrats in heavily Jewish constituencies in New York. My takeaway is that Netanyahu lost the heartland of progressive Jewish voters, at least in NY, as Likud’s grudging allies.

If Bastiat had lived in Amsterdam he would have come up with the stronger version of the broken window fallacy, the "junk-fiets drogredenering": if a junkie steals your bicycle and sells it back to you, GDP goes up

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Brutal opening paragraph. But it's 100% factual. I wish more outlets wrote like this. euobserver.com/223378/talib...

Manosphere alert

Mijn Groene essay van deze maand gaat over Europese defensie. Meer debat over een gezamenlijke aanpak zou goed zijn. Gezamenlijke uitvoering nog beter. Een Duits “sterkste leger van Europa” in handen van een Duitse Trump, is dat een toekomst die we moeten willen? www.groene.nl/artikel/hoe-...

Believe in Brexit

Trump "wordt geadviseerd door mensen als Kushner en Witkoff die alles behalve diplomaat zijn. Zij onderhandelen voor eigen gewin. 'Shocking, indeed'." Jack Watling van 'Statecraft' in #BetrouwbareBronnen. omny.fm/shows/betrou...

The Reflecting Pool arrests by Park Police should terrify everyone. The federal government is fabricating accusations out f thin air simply tO protect one man from his own embarrassing failure. There is no sabotage. This is insane.

All politics is theatre

The European Commission will allocate 1.1 billion euros to develop and modernize the EU's transport infrastructure. - REPORTS

That is a terrible signal to send to the Israeli government

C’mon, he went to Fitzwilliam, that’s not a serious college

Downing Street, stock up on jenever and bitterballen; we are on track to get a Dutch first lady

"We can’t afford another decade in relative decline, putting off the inevitable due to a misguided fear of the political consequences. The EU is our future, and we have no time to waste in getting there." — Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London 👏👏👏 archive.is/202606210828...

Voor alle duidelijkheid: Starmer treedt af als partijleider. Hij blijft aan als premier tot Labour een nieuwe leider heeft gekozen.

I miss the old door.

The lack of respect for office holders is one of the more poisounous legacies of the polycrisis of the last twenty years. (It’s not just a British phenomenon btw)

Either Keir Starmer is resigning or I've got a new scratching post.

Men be like: “Not my problem”

Let us have cake