🚨🗣️New: Luis Suárez reacts to Uruguay’s arrival in the United States for the World Cup, where the squad faced sniffer dogs and rigorous security checks: “I’ve been in football a long time, and I’ve seen tournaments all over the world. But what we’re witnessing here with the USA hosting this World Cup is deeply concerning. Take the Uruguay team arriving — world-class players like Manuel Ugarte, standing there with arms folded, looking utterly bewildered as sniffer dogs go through their bags like they’re common criminals. That image says it all. These are ambassadors of the game, not suspects at the border. This isn’t hospitality; it’s humiliation dressed up as security. You’ve got a Somali referee, one of Africa’s best, denied entry despite a valid visa — a man who dreamed of officiating at the pinnacle of his career, turned away at the airport. African and South American delegations facing extra screenings, visa chaos for fans and officials from qualified nations. This is the ‘land of the free’ rolling out the red carpet? It feels more like a fortress with razor wire. The beautiful game deserves better than being turned into a political football or a paranoid checkpoint. FIFA chased the dollars — and there are billions to be made, no doubt — but they’ve sold the soul of the tournament to a host that treats global football stars and supporters like potential threats. Meanwhile, American taxpayers and host cities are left holding a bill running into hundreds of millions for security and logistics that FIFA largely pockets. Football has always been about unity, passion, and bringing people together across borders. Right now, under this hosting, it’s being strangled by suspicion and overreach. The world is watching these scenes and cringing. If this continues, it risks leaving a bitter taste that lingers far longer than any on-pitch glory. We needed a celebration of the game — not a showcase of division. Something has to change.”

A few things happening at once that people should connect. Russia is now linked to the arson attacks on the Prime Minister's house and car last year. Shocker. And we all saw what happened the moment that story broke. Our feeds flooded with a different story about who the men were and why they did it. That's the operation. The arson is one half. The disinformation campaign is the other. Flood the zone, muddy the water, get the country shouting at itself instead of asking who is behind it. And at the same time, a chunk of the accounts pushing Scottish independence on X went dark the night Israel hit Iran's nuclear sites. Ask yourself why. Why would hostile states be interested in sowing division across the country? This is exactly what I mean when I say defence is the thread underneath everything now. Again, it isn't tanks on a border. It's an arson attack on the PM's front door and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns in the replies. It's the argument about breaking up our country being run out of Tehran. This is why resilience matters. And it's bigger than just factchecking a tweet. It's energy we can rely on. Industry we actually own. Institutions that are rock solid. Communities that don't split and fracture the moment someone pushes them. A country that is built to take a punch. That's the job now.

What is important to understand about Russia’s night-time attack on a world-renowned Christian landmark in Kyiv. They deliberately struck the Lavra—built during the era of Kyivan Rus’, when Moscow itself did not yet exist—with a Russian drone. The church in Russia has been taken over by the security services. That is why Russian priests support the war and bless the missiles and drones that strike Christian churches. The Russians fear the power of faith in God because they cannot control it. That is why they seize and destroy churches in the occupied territories, kidnap and torture priests, and arrest people who read the Bible outside the places designated by Russian law. We will rebuild the Lavra. And those who support the Russian state, which is fighting against God and the churches, will be held accountable for their actions.

And it all began nearly 1,000 years ago, when a monk named Anthony returned to ancient Kyiv from a monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. He was seeking solitude and the life of a hermit, and so he secluded himself in small caves among the green hills on the banks of the Dnipro, where centuries earlier Vikings sought shelter while traveling far to the south along the great river had stopped and sought shelter. People learned of the piety of the hermit Anthony, and disciples began coming to him in the caves. Over many years, they dug entire labyrinths in those caves, where they prayed and labored in the half-darkness -- and reverently noticed that after death the bodies of the monks remained incorrupt (of course, this was due to the unique microclimate deep inside the caves). Thus was born the famous Kyiv Pechersk Monastery (that is, the “Cave Monastery”), which would later become the magnificent Lavra -- the foremost and greatest holy site of Christian Rus'. A real city within a city, with magnificent ancient churches built by rulers of different eras, monastic caves, gigantic crowds of pilgrims, and, in later times, the famous 97-meter bell tower, one of Kyiv's calling cards, visible for many dozens of kilometers along the banks of the Dnipro. Over its 1,000 years, the Lavra survived the internecine wars of the princes of Rus', the Mongol invasion, long years of decline and rebirth. It was the foremost center of learning and printing, and it was in its caves that the legendary monk Nestor wrote the famous Primary Chronicle -- the principal book of historical memory of the East Slavic peoples. It survived the barbarity of the Bolsheviks. It survived destruction during World War II. It survived centuries during which Moscow priests, having seized it, lorded over it. It will survive Putin and his fascist Russia as well -- no matter how the monster pukes blood in powerless rage because it cannot defeat Ukraine, and no matter how hard it tries to wipe from the face of the earth everything it cannot seize.

An excellent article by Antony Beevor on Putin’s deliberate cruelty in Ukraine and how this is part of Russian culture, charting the long history of violence, torture, mass rapes. ‘Russia is a prisoner of its own history’ Beevor explains. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Just back from DocuDays UA in Kyiv, where Don't Ask Me If I Killed by Helena Maksyom had its world premiere. Won Best Film in the Ukrainian competition and Best Editing. A standing ovation. Soldiers, civilians and foreign guests in the same room, watching a film that speaks to their shared experience of these years. Afterward, meeting families of those who didn't come back, some of whose names are in the end credits. Helena spent three and a half years on the front, in places like Pokrovsk, Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia, fighting for her home and those she loves. This film carries that with it. Some filmmakers round off the edges of their convictions to avoid making audiences uncomfortable. Helena doesn't have that luxury, and wouldn't take it if she did. Sometimes, to preserve humanity, it isn't enough to hide behind a camera. Sometimes you pick up a weapon and fight the forces that want to drag the world back into chaos. Ukrainians have lost an enormous amount, but they are not broken. If anything, they are stronger and more determined to preserve their nation with dignity and grace. They will not be beaten. The film's international premiere is coming soon, with broadcast and streaming across Europe this winter. Glory to Ukraine.

Fiona Hill, the former aide to Trump during his first term, participated in the #Kultaranta Talks, organised by the President of Finland, and gave an interesting interview to the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Some excerpts: ▪️Greenland could suffer the same fate as Crimea. ▪️Hill says she sees the United States acting more like Russia, the White House more like the Kremlin, and Trump behaving more like Putin. ▪️Hill says that Trump's desire to take over Greenland is psychological. “He wants to own things. This is about him." ▪️”If we look at history, this is exactly how the Soviet Union acted towards its own Warsaw Pact allies: it occupied Hungary, it occupied Czechoslovakia, and it pressured Poland in a way that led to the declaration of martial law in Poland," Hill says. ▪️”Trump is now essentially treating his NATO allies the same way the Soviet leaders treated the Warsaw Pact members: as vassal states and states that have no decision-making power of their own." ▪️On the stage of the Kultaranta discussions, Hill was asked whether Europe can trust the United States. Hill answered bluntly no. And she reminded that the next administration cannot necessarily be trusted either. 1/

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

🔴 Revealed: The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson — @NafeezAhmed As riots spread across Belfast, Tommy Robinson promoted a movement founded by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, which has… bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r…

For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation — drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were murdered by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening episode of the classic ITV documentary series World at War.

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

D-Day commemoration, Omaha Beach, June 6 2024 Zelensky arrived, the crowd applauded. And then this happened: 🇺🇸 veteran: You’re a saviour of the people Zelensky: No, no, you saved Europe 🇺🇸 veteran: My hero Zelensky: No, you are our hero 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦

Do please post something today on your X page, in honour of our Allied heroes. They deserve to be remembered on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning. Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland. Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square. Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020. Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square. Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately. Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state. Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration. Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US. Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.) Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026. Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite. Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director. Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America. Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct. Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.* Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it. More details: cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/…

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.

Ambu story's vandaag "liggend schaap" luitjes goed om te weten dat als je voorbij een weide wandelt en er ligt een schaap op zijn zijde of rug,dan is het mis. Deze is dan " om welke reden dan ook" omgevallen en zal niet meer op eigen kracht overeind kunnen komen. Schapen zijn

Een paar inzichten over de situatie aan het front, na een kleine reeks gesprekken met Oekraïense militairen: ** Technische ontwikkeling bespaart infanterie. ‘Drones kunnen de linie houden’, hoor ik militairen voor het eerst zeggen. Daardoor kunnen de Russen hun numerieke voordeel minder goed uitspelen. Houdt Oekraïne dus langer stand. ** Het toegenomen bereik van grotere Oekraïense drones (tot wel 150 km) legt de Russische logistiek lam in het bezette zuiden van Oekraïne. Dat zet de Russische inzet van deze oorlog, de ‘landbrug’ naar de Krim, in ander perspectief. En voedt bij militairen het idee dat op termijn land kan worden heroverd in zuidelijk Donbas en regio's Dnipro/Zaporizja. ** Voor het eerst hoor ik Oekraïense militairen weer positief spreken over militaire steun van bondgenoten, m.n. over de gezamenlijke productie van drones. De combinatie van ‘halffabrikaten’ vanuit bijv. Europa, voorzien van Oekraïense technologie, komt op stoom. ** Er is geen enkele bereidheid onder militairen tot terugrekken restant Donbas. Al zou Zelensky ertoe worden gedwongen: je verdedigingslinies opgeven doe je niet, is de stevig postgevatte overtuiging. ** Vernietiging was al, maar wordt steeds meer de basis onder de Russische strategie. Platgooien en oprukken is de enige manier van voortgang boeken. Steden als Kostiantynivka, nu ook Druzhkivka, zijn nog niet ingenomen maar nu al meer verwoest dan het bezette Pokrovsk. ** Door de telkens breder wordende 'killzone' wijken legeronderdelen steeds verder van het front. In stadjes als Izjoem/Kramatorsk, maar ook steden als Kharkiv/Zaporizja, wordt de situatie voor burgers daarmee gevaarlijker.

An Israeli official tells me there were no Hezbollah militants at the Beaufort castle in Lebanon and no weapons were found there

02.05.2014, Odesa: Pro-Russian separatists attack pro-Ukrainian demonstrators on Ivana Lutsenka Street. Vitaly Budko opens fire, killing a pro-Ukrainian protester. Police protect the separatists; the police commander later flees to Russia and obtains Russian citizenship.