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Motie op PvdA-congres om bij fusieproces geen ‘dure consultancybureaus’ in te huren: stemmen staken, waardoor hij niet is aangenomen. Met zo’n uitslag zou je bijna een duur consultancybureau inhuren…

"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade.

Awful: Trump just threatened to send troops into other cities. The conundrum is this: Faced with a president whose bad faith/willingness to invent fake pretexts for abusing his powers is limitless, the system is crashing, pushing us toward the abyss. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1970...

«Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other U.S. firms control more than 70 percent of the cloud computing market in Europe, which is the essential way for storing files, retrieving data and running other programs …»

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

Finland to host the Atlantic Trident 25 air force exercise in June 20-27th. First time ever (!) outside France, UK or US. French Rafales, AWACS and A400M UK Typhoons US Strike Eagles, Lightning IIs and Stratotankers Finnish Hornets, NH90s Draken International over 40 planes, approx 1000 personnel

The Norwegian government supports and is committed to reaching the new 5% NATO spending target. Talks with the parties in Parliament will begin after the NATO summit. This means Norway must expand and also likely accelerate the Defense Pledge. www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/r...

As part of Operation Gugne in Trøndelag, the Norwegian Home Guard is now running a training course for Ukrainian FPV operators. Video from the Home Guard's official Facebook page.

This night, the Boeing 747-E4B "Nightwatch", commonly known as the "Doomsday Plane", was scrambled from Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana, and flown to Joint Base Andrews, U.S. Naval Aviation in Camp Springs, Maryland, 15 miles south of downtown Washington.

I think part of the problem is that our official statistical ethnicity categories are badly designed: by using the word 'British' they mix ethnicity and citizenship in a confusing way. This is unusual internationally. Ethnicity is different from citizenship

Yikes: "A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award."

Hang tough, Harvard. Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

[email protected] has disabled comments - but his post is really worthwhile discussing, because this, of course, is at the heart of the preemptive self-defense argument and it has always sounded sound - so why refuse to go there?

This article reports that Trump met at the White House with Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk before issuing his statement saying he would decide what to do about Iran in two weeks. Part of a pattern: Trump often echoes whoever talked to him last. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Robles: "De toewijding van ons land aan het Atlantisch Bondgenootschap is vastberaden en onwrikbaar." Tijdens de inauguratie van de nieuwe directeur van het Technisch Kabinet benadrukte de minister de onbetwiste rol van Spanje in de afschrikkings- en verdedigingsmissies van de #NAVO.

✈️ El personal del #EjércitoDelAire, una vez más, sobresaliente en su atención a los españoles que ya embarcan para su repatriación en un A330 desde Jordania. ¡Os esperamos!

✈️ Ya está en la Base de Torrejón el primero de los dos aviones del #EjércitoDelAire que trae de vuelta a casa a españoles, desde Armenia y Jordania, huyendo de la escalada bélica entre Israel e Irán. Robles les ha recibido y ha agradecido, nuevamente, la labor de los militares.

✈️ Con la llegada esta madrugada del segundo avión, se completa la repatriación de españoles que se encontraban en #Israel e #Irán y que habían solicitado volver a España. Gracias, una vez más, al #EjércitoDrlAire, por su gran trabajo en esta misión. Bienvenidos a casa.

💥Sánchez tensiona a los aliados de la OTAN y pone en riesgo las negociaciones sobre el gasto militar ❌Su portazo al 5% en Defensa dificulta llegar a la cumbre de la Alianza con un texto pactado lrzn.es/ckfeu5

📱 Musk acusa a súa propia plataforma de IA, Grok, de ser “esquerdista” nosdiario.gal/articulo/int...

"VS maakt vlucht met "doemsdagvliegtuig" op het hoogtepunt van de spanning met Iran De Boeing E-4, ontworpen als een "vliegend Pentagon" van waaruit in noodsituaties aanvallen kunnen worden uitgevoerd, vloog in de omgeving van Washington"

📉Los misiles de Israel e Irán frenan en seco la caída en picado del euríbor ❗El índice de referencia de las hipotecas variables repunta ante el temor de que el conflicto en Oriente Próximo dispare los precios energéticos y la inflación y obligue al BCE a subir tipos lrzn.es/075go6

⚡Israel asegura que sus ataques a Irán han retrasado "dos o tres años" su programa nuclear 🪖Teherán acusa a Tel Aviv de haber atacado instalación nuclear en Isfahán lrzn.es/tjkkw4

Trump ha acusado a España de ser “un país famoso por su poca contribución” al gasto común de Defensa. El republicano también ha asegurado que la OTAN “tendrá que lidiar” con España si Madrid rechaza llegar a los mismos niveles que el resto de los aliados

"Yolanda Díaz confronteert Trump: Spanje heeft soevereine macht om te bepalen hoeveel het aan defensie uitgeeft De vicepresident reageert op Trump nadat hij Spanje ervan beschuldigde te weinig geld aan defensie uit te geven lrzn.es/hpzzk3 "

Voor de duidelijkheid: ook de Amerikanen betalen bij lange na geen 5 procent, en gaan dat ook niet doen.

Uit het Parool: "Mark Rutte zal weer enthousiast melden hoe gecommitteerd Trump aan de Navo is en hoe eensgezind alle landen achter Oekraïne staan. Wordt het niet eens tijd om op te houden met deze poppenkast?" digitalekrant.parool.nl/hetparool/25...

Prachtig stuk www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

'32 nations but only one man matters - Nato's summit is all about Trump' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We keep hearing credulous pundits say MAGA is "antiwar." So how many MAGA Republicans will support the new resolution requiring Trump to get congressional authorization for war with Iran? This resolution is important. People should pay attention to it. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1969...