Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan

I've been waiting for the @warontherocks.bsky.social summer reading lists every year - and truly honoured that this year's list includes my recommendations as well: Mornings in Yenin (Susan Abulhawa) and The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan). warontherocks.com/2025/06/the-...

"In every longer term way, this appeasement of Trump solves nothing." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm kinda relieved that my Intelligence & Policymaking course is over

OK, so maybe a Nobel Ceasefire Prize, after all? But a very gold and shiny one. And need to do it fast, before we have to bomb again the nuclear program that just got forever obliterated

17 Tote, rund 280 Verletzte nach russischem Angriff auf einen Zug. Hier kaum noch eine Meldung wert. Zucken wir nur noch mit den Achseln? kyivindependent.com/russia-strik...

I can't take any more of this, it's so embarrassing

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"Haffner was 24 when he wrote Parting in just a few weeks in October and November 1932, just months before the Nazis came to power." And here it is, published first in German and soon in English more than nine decades later.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Love it

What a time to be alive. The president of the United States doing battle damage assessment via sketchy OSINT accounts. I had blocked this particular account some time ago.

Here's a 2013 throwback:

Correct. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, he made it the policy of the United States that every country should have an active nuclear weapons program. Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

Come do a PhD at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social. You could be supervised by some of my fantastic colleagues while working in a vibrant, pluralistic & highly engaged research environment. These positions are fully salaried & come with a research budget of 30k SEK a year fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A take on what Trump might do on Iran! Get it while it's still hot! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

In a Dutch university they would put three desks in there, perhaps four 😂

This is so wholesome and made my day

"This is truly unprecedented. Preemptive nationwide deployment of the military is the very opposite of using the military as a “last resort.” ... it should raise a bright red flag for anyone concerned with the future of American democracy." www.justsecurity.org/114282/memor...

"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."

US intelligence worker arrested for ‘trying to leak secrets to Germany’ www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

81 years ago in Normandy, the heroes of the Allied forces changed the course of global history. Their bravery, their sacrifice, their courage brought freedom. Europe is forever grateful. We remember them. We honour them. #DDay

Zelensky has promised to stop the war between Trump and Musk in 24 hours.

This year, D-Day resonates so heavily--that the US, Canada, the UK, and others sacrificed so much on that day to liberate the continent from fascism and now the US is embracing it.

U Amsterdam has compiled a list of experts on 🇳🇱 politics & upcoming elections ⬇️ some on 🦋 fx: @favstats.eu @markboukes.bsky.social @hakhverdian.bsky.social @bnbakker.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social www.uva.nl/en/news-even...

I read *a lot* of scientific abstracts that are missing key elements. Here are the 5 things an abstract needs: 1. Introduce the topic, 2. State the unknown, 3. Outline the method used to answer the question, 4. Preview the findings, and 5. Tell us what your work teaches us.

As the US shuts out global student talent, the EU must act boldly: expand Erasmus+, simplify access, invite Harvard and MIT to open EU campsuses, and make Europe the go-to destination for open minds and academic freedom, write MEPs from the S&D, EPP and Renew.

Yes… Hahaha… Yes!

We need details on this.

I'm no fan of Merz but he handled this very well and did quite a few smooth moves during the press conference

Good Christ. Trump seemed to think the chancellor of Germany considered the end of WWII a sad day somehow. Merz had to explain, no, America liberated us from the Nazis, dipshit. That was a good thing, you absolute fucking moron. I paraphrase only slightly.

“You don’t get to wear the language of liberation while you cheerlead for slaughter. You don’t get to name-drop movements you’ve never built, grief you’ve never held, or strategy you’ve never risked a damn thing for.” @bulldogshadow.bsky.social

The PVV has left the Dutch coalition. What does this mean? Will there we be new elections? When? Who will win? Which government will form? 🧵

New: Ukraine's SBU security service behind the audacious drone attack deep inside Russia now says it has attacked the Kerch bridge in occupied Crimea in a months-long operation. It says SBU agents "mined the supports" of the bridge with 1,100kg of TNT under the water line and detonated this morning.

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🚨 Why do deterrence efforts fail? Often, it’s not what is said, but how it’s said. New report by HCSS strategic advisor @jmichael424.bsky.social explores the power—and pitfalls—of deterrence warning messages. 📘 Read more: hcss.nl/report/deter...

The most right-wing government ever of the Netherlands has fallen apart It will be a long and volatile time until likely elections in autumn This coalition has tainted all four parties. BBB and NSC are likely to be marginalized. VVD has painted itself in a corner. Big q is whether the PVV can profit

Thank goodness he's run away - the news I've long been waiting for - but alarming that the PVV is still narrowly polling in first place www.politico.eu/article/geer...

When two groups of people normally known for their embrace of new technology refuse to use something, listen to them. "‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home..." www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #AI #Technology #Art

Indeed a bitter pill for all of us to swallow theconversation.com/pro-trump-ca...

Shocking that an official State Department account publishes such nonsense, with the implicit threat that if Europe doesn't knuckle under, the US will do something about its "democratic backsliding" which "increasingly affects American security & economic ties".

"Het is moeilijk om de timing van deze publicatie los te zien van de NAVO-top in Den Haag volgende maand," zegt HCSS expert Hans Horan in Trouw. "Dit is een signaal naar de Russen dat westerse diensten deze groep in de gaten hebben." www.trouw.nl/binnenland/r...

Palestinian children are suffering day after day as the Israeli bombardment and siege continues. These children have names, they have hopes and dreams for the future. They are someone's everything, their entire universe. We refuse to allow their suffering to become normalised.

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Crucial, devastating reportin from @channel4news.bsky.social & @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social. The contrast between Gaza and Jerusalem here could not be greater and it is, frankly, disgusting.

Article in Catalan newspaper el Mon with my two cents on the EU-UK Security and Defence Partnership elmon.cat/mon/regne-un...

HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”

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