Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this

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

The 2025 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List - War on the Rocks Forget the algorithm — this list was created by the humans who bring you War on the Rocks. Here, they share some of their favorite works of fiction. Kerry

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).

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Agreed!

Without dignity, leaders fell at Trump’s feet in The Hague – and for what? All Nato’s key problems remain | Martin Kettle The relationship with him is still volatile, the Ukraine strategy still unclear and Europe needs to ensure its collective defence, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

"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

yes sadly

It's much worse than that (but has a LinkedIn feel to it). It's all so naive and cringeworthy and I can't take any more of the schmoozing & massaging of Trump's ego by Rutte, Starmer and Merz. They really need to work on their messaging skills, among others

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

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Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written

"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.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled! 6:55 PM • 11/10/13

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.

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G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump | Rafael Behr Tyranny is contagious – and western governments’ reluctance to name the threat is helping it spread, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Thoughts on Iran, Israel, and Trump Buckle up.

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

Trump’s Memorandum Authorizing Military Domestic Deployment "The Memorandum ... raises many of the same concerns as an Insurrection Act invocation would, and that could end up looking quite similar in practice."

"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’ Nathan Laatsch has been accused of trying to leak state secrets prior to the meeting between President Trump and Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office

US intelligence worker arrested for ‘trying to leak secrets to Germany’

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Every Election Is Now Existential A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right"
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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.

Pointe du Hoc picture of the monument and the channel beyond

plaque for national guard units that fought on and after D-Day

Map at the Omaha Cemetary of the military operations from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe

Markers of those who buried at the Omaha Beach cemetery---endless rows of markers.

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.

Fall of the Dutch cabinet and new elections The Schoof cabinet has not even lasted a year. How should we interpret the fall of the cabinet and Geert Wilders' decision to withdraw the PVV’s support for it? What happens next? Put your question t...

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