🇺🇸 - WSJ

🇫🇷 - Did you know? French law bans elected officials from having a blue or grey badge on Twitter.

🇵🇱 - A succint list of PiS candidate’s scandals.

🇪🇺 - Surprisingly strong wording.

🇺🇸 - Jamie Dimon warned that a crack in the bond market is “going to happen” after the the US government and Federal Reserve “massively overdid” spending and quantitative easing - Bloomberg

🇰🇵 - ISW says North Korea stole more than 1.5 billion dollars in cryptocurrency only in March of 2025. It also says that the Pyongyang regime "earned" multiple millions through an online gambling platform.

🇰🇵 - I think Pyongyang is in a moment of fragility following the destroyer PR fiasco, and if we insist strong enough with sanctions on illegal activities used to fund the Kim regime we may see some results.

🇺🇲 - Trump announces 50% tarifs on Aluminium and Steel.

🇺🇸 - PBS joins NPR’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over de-funding.

🇺🇲 - Imo, the Virginia Gubernatorial election in November will be a good litmus test of how the federal civil servants see the Trump administration.

🇩🇪 - Key Green politician in Germany: Germany's historical responsibility towards Israel is undisputed. But precisely this responsibility compels us now to say to the Israeli government: Stop! Your actions can no longer be justified.

🇪🇺🇨🇦 - The reason communism lost is because the economy integrated the leftist leaders and made them rich, thus making them rationnal actors having a stake in the system and wanting stability.

At this point, I think the same strategy should be pursued with the postliberal Right-Wing: you take the smarter folks, those who can and do actually cause trouble, you give them a shitton of money, they become owners of multiple properties, and then boom suddenly they don't want systemic instability anymore. And spoiler alert: they may even suddenly change their mind on immigration once they start hiring people.

Gatekeeping didn't work.

🇺🇲 - Hegseth called on allies and partners in Asia to consider spending 5% of GDP on defense.

I think people are quick to forget that there used to be far-right PSG supporters, with the tribune Boulogne notably.

🇫🇷 - Tear gas in Paris amid gatherings following 2-0 PSG lead in the UCL final.

🇫🇷 - Police charges and parisian fireworks.

🇫🇷 - I must admit we don't have both sides of the story and that assuming good faith is important, but I do wonder about the strategic relevance of randomly throwing tear gas at celebrating parisian crowd while there is still a full half time before the match is over and thus the crowds are fully formed.