I will take back every rude thing I have ever said about England if Count Binface beats Nigel Farage in the by-election

World’s Dumbest Intern is in my WhatsApp helping me find emoji.

Put up or shut up dude. How was the 2020 election "stolen"? Show us the reciepts or shut the fuck up once and for fucking all.

How vampires have accidents

Are reporters allowed to ask questions like that?

Trump is a Putin sock puppet. There is absolutely no rational reason for Zelensky to go to Moscow. How Zelensky manages to stay calm and crack jokes in response to Trump's provocations, I'll never know.

2.5 more years of this

Her Russians will have to come to France

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

What's this? It IS possible to regulate daily annoyances! www.thelocal.fr/20260706/how...

The “vibe shift” proclaimed Nov. 2024 - Jan. 2025 was just some elites—in business, media, law, and some higher ed admins—who kinda liked the fascism and gave themselves permission to accommodate it. That’s all it ever was. A close presidential election is not somehow a binding cultural referendum.

Really feels like the (completely incorrect) idea that Crimea is some kind of special place for Russia has completely collapsed in the past few weeks—even in Russia itself.

happy 250 america 🇺🇸 what a privilege to live in a country with this much natural beauty. trying to see all of it is an endless lifetime of adventure if you choose it. we are so lucky, i hope we can recognize that and work to protect it.

“A 10 out of 10 “wonk warning” is in effect for the remainder of this newsletter.” All newsletters should offer this warning. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

Whoa if true 🙄

OMG COVID

Iconic image of the Trump era, akin to the photos of integrating Little Rock HS. American hero.

When the Dems start taking power expect a campaign of domestic terror the likes of which this country hasn't seen since the racists fought desegregation

"If war isn't an option to turn your neighbours into vassals, you have to start acting as if they are your equals. That's not something the Kremlin has any experience of doing. It also lacks the mental capacity to even recognise it as reality. The process will be painful and hilarious."

Primitive theme parks

I love this genre so much

Diane de Vignemont writes in clear language about the Society of Saint Pius X, which is hankering for the good ol' days of Vichy France and a Judenrein Paris. "In France, our history won’t let us call it merely traditionalist. We know exactly what to call it."

I bet there are a lot of carnies hanging around, following the 4-H kids around

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Wow FUCK THAT

this is the semiquincentennial tribute we deserve

A long-awaited day for Hungarian democracy: parliament has dissolved Orbán’s Russia-style Sovereignty Protection Office, which branded civil society and journalists — including me — as Western foreign agents. It even employed a former senior Communist state security officer who spied on dissidents.

Ukrainska Pravda says Zelensky recently summoned Zaluzhny from London and told him that a "window of opportunity" has opened to hold presidential elections, but the meeting abruptly ended when Ze asked Zaluzhny if he'd run & Zaluzhny said yes. Ze is apparently reluctant to face him on the ballot.

jd vance is the only person who watched the 2015 film spotlight and decided to both convert to catholicism AND get a job covering up for a paedophile

Le Figaro reports that Monaco investigators' leading theory is that Ukraine's Security Service directed Monday's bombing targeting businessman Vadim Yermolaev. Three were hurt, including a 13-year-old. Monaco hasn't confirmed the claim. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Boom scrolling

"Russian warship, go..." These words live on four years later.

Why do I hate Monaco? Imagine a city designed to accommodate the tastes and whims of people like this: “Yermolaiev, a multi-millionaire Monaco resident, has been subject to sanctions from Kyiv which stemmed from his alcohol business activity in Russian-occupied Crimea. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

It is striking how Republicans have identified the features that make liberal democracy the strongest form of governance--in this case, as Fukuyama says, the independent professionalized bureaucracy--and methodically crippled them in order to go back to primitive corrupt-strongman rule.

Claimstaking to the lowest stakes to claim

Ukrainian oligarch victim of an explosion in Monaco last night. I’m certain there’s nothing sketchy going on there. www.nicematin.com/faits-divers...

This is what happens during a crisis when the entire information environment in a state and society is basically Fox News & fellow travelers.

The Turks have had twenty years to learn what the Americans are learning right now: authoritarians mostly suck at running the economy

Per our new polling out today, the most popular politicians in America are… Barack Obama Bernie Sanders Zohran Mamdani Pete Buttigieg Jon Ossoff & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Trump is tied with Elon Musk and Hakeem Jeffries, Schumer and Carlson in last www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-29...

Good explainer about how the NYT/Siena poll designs questions, using the Maine Senate race as an example. It lays out how different pollsters with different goals test the same idea, and how they check their work. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/p...

Subtext becomes text. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Imagine that someday your witty post offends a thin-skinned fascist who wants to use his authority to ruin your life. Now imagine that he has easy access to everything you personally have ever posted, bought, liked, or read on the internet, with no anonymity or incognito mode available.

The only thing missing is squatting guys in tracksuits cracking sunflower seeds

A friend in the Var (FR) said out of context “it’s 29 degrees.” I said, “did you put on a sweater?” He said, “that’s the swimming pool.”

my latest on how Soviet war memorials in Europe have never been designed to honour the dead and their sacrifice. instead, they depict the empire’s idealised self, standing on the bodies of the colonised. endrussia.today/p/soviet-war...

Watching images of the deserted streets in France, Benelux and Germany under the midday scorching heat and thinking about all those said European northeners considering southerners lazy because of their mid-day siesta... Eagerly waiting for the German composite word for "mid-day-heat-relieving-nap"

General Kellogg: This whole narrative that Russia was on winning streak was false. That was bad narrative, designed for public consumption here in United States. People are now realizing that isn’t the case. Ukrainian drones have changed warfare, and they’re on the front foot right now. 1/

Question: Are Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure having a real impact, not only undermining Russia's war machine but also making regular Russians feel costs of war in unignorable ways? Answer: Picture of car line waiting to get fuel, so long that there are port-a-potties along the way.