#NATO: #Albania #NATO summit hangs in balance as #US slams security 'free riders', by @shonamurray.bsky.social | Euronews www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The proposed host country of next year's meeting hasn't shown credible progress on the alliance's new defence spending target of 5 percent of GDP. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/67sJ

Albania NATO summit hangs in balance as US slams security 'free riders' www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Edward the Confessor, Henry I, Henry IV, Edward IV, Henry VII and Charles II all at one time had to flee from their country and seek safety in another.

Ireland has kicked off its six-month presidency of the EU Council. From accession to the budget, here are the five most pressing tasks. #EuropeNews

Netanyahu, an internationally-wanted war criminal, apparently met with Bosnian Serb leader Cvijanovic, who is sanctioned by the UK for having "glorified war criminals and denied the genocide at Srebrenica".

Normalising the hard right, one cutesy portrait a time (and the shy pale-faced boy found a real princess, and a billionaire fairy from Bretagne, and they lived happily ever after!)

Australians don't hate Jews, Josh Burns MP. Australians hate GENOCIDE. The dehumanisation and diminishing of Palestinian experiences at the hands of Israel has to end, as does the GENOCIDE, the APARTHEID, the TORTURE & the ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

Homes were demolished overnight by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis.

First, the White House doesn't date back to July 4, 1776, idiot. It opened on November 1, 1800. Second, the tackiest man in the United States and its president should *not* be the same person. Third, nice inspiration, fascist.

Europe (that is: its political leadership) is in a toxic relationship with the US. Time for a reset. Not a separation, but a healthy relationship between equals seeing eye to eye. Time Europe drops the Dobby-the-House-Elf attitude and starts behaving like a mature superpower

Mutual trust is not merely a technical principle governing inter-state recognition; it is also a social mechanism. JASPER SIEGERT argues that Commission v Hungary advances the preconditions on which mutual trust depends. verfassungsblog.de/a-society-of...

You saw similar with the Brexit referendum - some of the areas that benefitted most from EU funding (and were hit hardest by its removal) voted Leave. The funding helps some, but doesn't address the underlying structural issues leading to deprivation, and so people don't feel their lives improving

Adam Johnson: Israel is exterminating journalists in Gaza in a systemic way

"For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....

"I think the doctors have got it wrong on smoking." Farage (2016)

This is like the part of George Orwell's Animal Farm, where Snowball the pig is blamed for everything that goes wrong, even though he's left the farm.

11-year-old boy found alive after 76 hours under Venezuela rubble

Quite apart from Phillips' analysis being total horseshit, I really hate broadcast news/current affairs presenters sitting there brazenly editorialising with an American style "monologue". Unless it's a point of actual national consensus (terrorism, mass murder etc), leave that to the press.

Hi All, free weekend update is out. The big story this week was that Ukraine is broadening its long-range strike capacity to hit Russian military production. It is not getting the coverage of the refinery campaign, but for Ukrainians it might be even more important. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Utterly brilliant, we need more of this. Fancy being on the end of this, I would never be able to show my face again. 🤣🤣🤣

With the half-exception of the now routine hating on migrants, it's remarkable how out of touch this is: if anything these were among the *more* popular Starmer choices!

Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in its genocide. That’s the findings of a latest UN commission. Remember: if you oppose this abomination, you’re treated as a dangerous, hateful extremist

The UN is stating Israel was killing children intentionally as part of its ongoing genocide in Gaza NOW? They had killed 10,000 + children back in 2024😡Less talk, More #Action @tomfletcherun.bsky.social @melissafleming.un.org Push the EU to SUSPEND the EU-ISRAEL AA, weapons embargo.. @reuters.com

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

More than 520 emergency responders from across the EU have been mobilised to support search and rescue efforts in Venezuela, the European Commission said.

Very nice of "ordinary Russian people" to slowly discover that unless you live in Moscow or St. Pete, you're just a bundle of straw glued together by shit, as far as central authorities are concerned.

PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

Would Jeffrey Donaldson have faced justice if he committed his crimes south of the Border? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

In 2016 hardly anyone in the Leave campaign paid any attention to Brexit's possible effects on Northern Ireland, despite warnings from John Major and Tony Blair. Where do things stand ten years later? Hear from @otoolematthew.bsky.social & @adampayne26.bsky.social at @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social.

It would of course be expecting *far* too much for Danny Finkelstein to accept even the slightest shred of moral accountability...

Jimmy Fallon, DO BETTER!!!

Fuck you, Jimmy Fallon.

Postal service is one of our best things, and he is ruining it. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Fossil fuel giants and their billionaire backers are boiling Britain. We need action to reduce emissions - but we also need emergency safety measures too. Cool spaces in every community and a maximum working temperature. It's time for Government to step in.

This is indeed a key test. The proposals are morally indefensible, legally questionable, economically self-destructive, and politically delusional. No-one with "legitimate concerns" about migration will vote Labour for pledging to deport care workers. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

This is very good

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.

Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.

There’s a lot to unpack with the Iran negotiations, but here are the big takeaways: Kushner is there to work out the best deal for his own business interests, not the best deal for the U.S. “He is a fundamentally corrupted actor in these negotiations.” - Chris Murphy 1/2

The politics of Brexit of 2014-19 split left coalitions by geography, class & education. The post-Brexit divides of 2026-29 cross-pressure voters on the right more, esp the Conservative party vote

rfk jr. is a serial killer

Residents of the Gaza Strip have been flocking from suffocating tents to the territory's polluted Mediterranean shore to bathe and wash their clothes, as ‌summer temperatures rise and fresh water remains hard to come by reut.rs/4vm8rrS

There goes another one. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

This will get lost in today's national news, but the finding that Jeffrey Donaldson is guilty on all counts, only after decades of multiple people having concerns, speaks to how powerful abusers can use their status in a small society like NI to deflect attention: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

It's courageous for any victim of sexual abuse to go to trial, but when your abuser is a man as powerful as Jeffrey Donaldson, it is on another level. Solidarity to those women today

Waiting for the riots and pogroms to erupt in anger over Jeffrey Donaldson child rapist conviction. Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of all 18 child sex abuse charges www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...