Poland's Maja Chwalińska has continued her incredible run at the French Open, beating Russia's Anna Kalinskaya in the quarterfinal. It is only the second time in the Open Era that a qualifier has reached the semifinal at Roland Garros.

My latest piece for @theguardian.com Ukraine's accession to the EU will arguably benefit the EU even more than Ukraine

GET ME BILL PULTE RIGHT NOW WE NEED HIM IN THE WHSR BRIEFING POTUS IN 15 MINUTES

🤬 Russian drone attacks rescuers while extinguishing fire at gas station in Zaporizhzhia, - State Emergency Service The enemy drone hit one of the fire tankers. Thanks to electronic warfare and timely detection of the air threat, the personnel managed to take cover.

"A very warm welcome to all passengers arriving today for the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. Please ignore the "smoking accident/unscheduled repairs" you can see as we approach the airport...."

Fire spreading at the Saint Petersburg oil terminal 🔥 By the way, the Petersburg Economic Forum starts today 😉

I should've asked Zelensky for permission to have the saint petersburg economic forum like I had to for the parade.

Few expected Péter Magyar’s government to secure even half of Hungary’s €10bn recovery fund slice. “The Commission’s starting position was €4bn-€5bn. We worked that up to €10bn,” transport and investment minister Dávid Vitézy said. “There were tough rounds of talks in recent weeks.”

What a lovely humiliation of Putin. The Russian economic forum is supposed to start in St.Petersburg today. But since the airspace over St.Petersburg is closed due to Ukrainian drones, none of the delegations can even attend.

Well, if this doesn't cure your imposter syndrome, nothing will

someone like bari weiss who is used to bullying low level reporters and adjunct professors into getting fired is not going to like how this plays out for her when the same tactics are applied to someone whose contract was written by high powered entertainment lawyers

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

Watching 60 Minutes with my parents and grandma every Sunday night was as close as we had to a family ritual. Discussing those stories with them week after week was a foundational experience in my life, and I doubt I'm alone in that. Losing a capital-I Institution in American public life matters.

me when I lie:

Traitors :)

The Russian air defense in Saint Petersburg, Russia, has been completely overwhelmed. Ukrainian drones are just pouring into Russia‘s second most defended city.

2/ Russia expected the eyes of (part of) the world to be on St Petersburg today. It's the start of #SPIEF2026 But instead of chatting about Russia's premier Economic Forum, there's just one story in town, with luminaries from Africa and Afghanistan wondering if it's safer at home!

Good example how Poland has become too small for numerous Polish companies, which grew in recent decades.

President Emmanuel Macron has thanked Polish delivery giant InPost for its latest investment in France. The firm, which already operates over 9,000 parcel lockers in France through its subsidiary Mondial Relay, will now spend a further €500m to expand its presence.

Dutch Patriot air defense units and approximately 150 personnel will remain deployed in Poland for another half year following a joint request from NATO and Warsaw.

Russian attack on Kyiv tonight. Home to several million people. Children. Elderly. Families, just like yours.

The "economic miracle" of communism has been entirely the product of forced urbanization - peasants getting ripped off the land and their families and shoved into concrete beehives in the city so they can work in factories. Once the urbanization is complete, the rapid growth ends.

Whether under a Democrat or Republican, you can pretty much guarantee that American will not provide the strategic focus or resources the EU could still count on the last time there was an internal Russia crisis in the 1990s.

This piece by Jack Watling is as good as many of my colleagues are saying it is. And a signal that policymakers in the EU need to start considering how Putin's potential strategic failure could affect Russia's long term trajectory www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

Kyiv: four people were 💔 and more than 50 were injured, including three children, as a result of a russian аttack.

🇪🇺 The European Union has announced increased support for Armenia amid Putin's threats towards the country regarding the possibility of a "Ukrainian scenario" should the country continue its pro-European course. 📸: GettyImages

People are sheltering in the Kyiv metro from Russian missiles — there are almost no free places left.

A Russian spy under diplomatic cover who spent years infiltrating think-tanks tied to the Orbán government was quietly sent home from Budapest — but only after Orbán's electoral defeat removed the shield that had protected him for months. VSquare.org

Cybersecurity experts warn Chinese security cameras pose a risk, yet Czech institutions keep buying them. They're installed at military sites and even on the Prague HQ of the cyber agency warning against them. investigace.cz mapped these Chinese cameras.

⚡ Alexander Lukashenko praised Kim Jong Un as a “smart cookie” and a promising partner, pushing for expanded economic ties between Belarus and North Korea following his March visit to Pyongyang. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

New headliner announced for the Freedom 250 concert

It's common to talk about how in Europe Russia is "constructed" as expansionist and tyrannical. This view passes as insightful and nuanced but it is either a delusion or a manipulation. Russia just IS those things most of the time. No need to construct anything. Just observe.

According to her, the Unit will identify likely violations and violators. Nothing is more disgusting than a young, well-polished woman who is a willing tool of a dictatorship. I wonder if this post will also get me in trouble. Probably, yes. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests 2/2.

Meet young Tamta Kimbarishvili, the new head of the social media censorship under the Georgian Dream. More officially, she will head the Hate Speech Unit at the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Department of Human Rights Protection. The Unit begins operation today, June 1, 2026. 1/2

Hungary’s new prime minister has pledged to change the constitution to remove from office most appointees put in place by his predecessor Viktor Orbán, including the country’s president.

Born in Częstochowa, to Bronislawa and Dawid Kozak. The Germans took their factory away. Polish nuns hid the Kozaks from the Germans. It's close to miraculous she survived. In the 1970s, she did a PhD on women munition workers in WW1 at Hull. May her memory be a blessing.

We're stuck in "a situation in which, to put it in very broad terms, we have a country which ‘knows’ it has made a mistake and regrets it, and yet has a politics which can barely acknowledge that and certainly can’t address it." Spot-on by @chrisgrey.bsky.social

Surprised they haven't made Saul Goodman head of the DEA yet

A transformative technology, one that is truly essential, will always find its users because its value will be undeniable. The constant screeching from AI investors that everyone needs to use their product has the whiff of a lack of confidence that their products are really useful

The only positive thing about this story is that it's indicative of how the internal culture of many state-level GOP organizations (even in purple states like MN) has become increasingly dominated by extremist weirdos who say and do stuff like this that repels everyone outside their tiny circle.

The paradox of Rejoin is that a UK accession process will be much quicker if the UK does not ask for special treatment

Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is… painful. We don’t want to hear that. Not the Soviet anthem Russia then rephrased as theirs. Not now. Not related to this competition: Russia literally killed and injured athletes. A young beautiful girl has lost a leg and is still competing now, for instance.

Crimean tourism advert: "You come to Crimea for the beaches. You stay cos Ukrainians are destroying are logistics system and there's no fuel to drive home afterwards"

Magyar needs the EU but the EU needs Magyar, too. And in this mutual dependency, neither should lose sight of the rule of law. That's what I'm arguing in this @financialtimes.com op ed www.ft.com/content/8800...

Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll