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Zapatero: Alaska ilimitada elpais.com/ideas/2026-05-… a través de @el_pais

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

A la gente de Tenerife, Mi nombre es Tedros, y ejerzo como Director General de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el organismo de las Naciones Unidas responsable de la salud pública mundial. No es habitual que escriba directamente a la gente de una sola comunidad, pero hoy siento que no solo es apropiado, sino necesario. Quiero hablarles directamente, no a través de comunicados de prensa ni informes técnicos, sino de ser humano a ser humano, porque se lo merecen. Sé que están preocupados. Sé que cuando escuchan la palabra “brote o epidemia” y ven un barco acercarse a sus costas, afloran recuerdos que ninguno de nosotros ha logrado superar del todo. El dolor de 2020 sigue siendo real, y no lo minimizo ni por un momento. Pero necesito que me escuchen con claridad: esto no es otro COVID-19. El riesgo actual para la salud pública derivado del #hantavirus sigue siendo bajo. Mis colegas y yo lo hemos afirmado sin ambigüedades, y lo repito ahora. El virus a bordo del MV Hondius es la cepa Andes del hantavirus. Es grave. Tres personas han perdido la vida, y nuestro corazón está con sus familias. El riesgo para ustedes, en su vida cotidiana en Tenerife, es bajo. Esta es la evaluación de la OMS, y no la hacemos a la ligera. En este momento, no hay pasajeros con síntomas a bordo. Un experto de la OMS está en ese barco y los suministros médicos están disponibles. Las autoridades españolas han preparado un plan cuidadoso y detallado: los pasajeros serán trasladados a tierra en el puerto industrial de Granadilla, lejos de las zonas residenciales, en vehículos sellados y custodiados, a través de un corredor completamente acordonado, y repatriados directamente a sus países de origen. Ustedes no tendrán contacto con ellos y sus familias tampoco. También quiero decirles algo más, algo que va más allá de la ciencia. Agradecí personalmente al Presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, la decisión de España de acoger este barco. Lo califiqué de acto de solidaridad y deber moral. Porque eso es exactamente lo que es. Quiero que sepan que la solicitud de la OMS a España no fue arbitraria. Se realizó en pleno cumplimiento del Reglamento Sanitario Internacional, el marco jurídicamente vinculante que define los derechos y obligaciones de los países y de la OMS cuando responden a eventos de salud pública de importancia internacional. Según esas normas, debe identificarse el puerto más cercano con capacidad médica suficiente para garantizar la seguridad y la dignidad de quienes están a bordo. Tenerife cumplió ese criterio y España lo honró. Casi 150 personas de 23 países llevan semanas en el mar, algunas de luto, todas asustadas, todas deseando regresar a casa. Tenerife ha sido elegida porque tiene la capacidad médica, la infraestructura y sé que la humanidad necesaria para ayudarles a llegar a un lugar seguro. Y porque lo creo profundamente, estaré allí en persona. Tengo la intención de viajar a Tenerife para observar esta operación de primera mano, para estar junto a los trabajadores sanitarios, el personal portuario y los funcionarios que la están llevando a cabo, y para rendir mi homenaje personal a una isla que ha respondido a una situación difícil con dignidad, solidaridad y compasión. Su humanidad merece ser presenciada, no solo reconocida desde la distancia. Como he dicho muchas veces: los virus no entienden de política ni respetan fronteras. La mejor inmunidad que tenemos es la solidaridad. Tenerife está demostrando esa solidaridad hoy. El capitán del barco, Jan Dobrogowski, la tripulación y la empresa que opera el buque han mostrado una colaboración ejemplar en este momento tan difícil. En nombre de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, y en nombre de esos pasajeros y de sus familias en todo el mundo, agradezco al pueblo de Tenerife y a todas las demás personas involucradas. Por favor, cuídense ustedes y cuídense los unos a los otros. Confíen en los preparativos que se han llevado a cabo. Y sepan que la OMS está con ustedes, y con cada persona en ese barco, en cada paso del camino. Con respeto, cariño y gratitud, Tedros

Ayuso, la nueva Hernanda Cortés elpais.com/opinion/2026-0… a través de @el_pais

Gestionando el colapso elpais.com/opinion/2026-0… a través de @el_pais

Un policía llamado pundonor elpais.com/opinion/2026-0… a través de @el_pais

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP* Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are. • You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

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Christianity is a really funny religion, man… Imagine thinking that whatever it is that created this majestic and possibly infinite universe, in all its complexity, scale, and structure, impregnated a Jewish girl somewhere in Palestine 2,000 years ago,can get jealous of other gods,can regret its actions,can command one tribe to commit genocide against another,endorses slavery,gets angry,thinks blood sacrifice is a rational route to forgiveness and creates eternal suffering for people who do not believe very unconvincing stories in a book. Think about how completely ridiculous that leap is. Christianity (and its little sister, Islam, which believes the language of this concept of a creator is Arabic…in light of the thousands of beautiful and rich languages on the planet) really is an insult to whatever majestic being created the universe, if there is indeed one. And images like these below actually solidify the position of atheists or the non-religious…in fact, it is exactly why they are atheists. The sheer majesty and complexity of the universe don’t push atheists or any rational, non-indoctrinated mind, for that matter toward religion…It often does the opposite. It highlights just how implausible and, at times, absurd many religious doctrines appear by comparison. Because they hold such a concept…that which would create this universe…to such a high standard, that organized religions and their books, when you read them, end up looking really, really silly.

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American who genuinely believed Europe and Canada would help the United States in its war with Iran. I asked him why he thought that, given that Trump had spent months threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. He went quiet. Then he said he had never heard of any of that. Not that he disagreed. Not that he thought it was exaggerated. He had simply never encountered the information. It had never arrived. This is worth pausing on. Because in every other functioning democracy on earth, that information would have been impossible to avoid. Not because Europeans are smarter or more curious. But because of how news works outside the United States. The BBC and The Daily Telegraph hate each other. Le Monde and Le Figaro disagree on everything. Aftenposten and Dagbladet have been arguing since before most of their readers were born. But they all cover the same events. A threat to annex Canada is not a left-wing story or a right-wing story. It is a story. It runs everywhere. You hear it on the radio driving to work. You see it on the newsstand. Your colleague mentions it at lunch. Facts are not a channel you choose. They are the weather. You step outside and they hit you. The only media ecosystems on earth that work differently are not political opposites of each other. They are North Korea and Russia. Not because the content resembles MAGA content. But because the architecture is the same. In all three cases, outside information does not get filtered or reinterpreted. It gets blocked at the door. A completely parallel reality is built inside, maintained by repetition, and sealed from correction. This is why the rest of the world does not just disagree with MAGA voters on foreign policy. It finds them genuinely disorienting to talk to. Not offensive. Disorienting. Like speaking to someone who is absolutely certain the building has two floors when you are standing on the third. Which brings us to today’s masterclass. And this screenshot says everything. A Trump supporter posted: “Absolute masterclass by Trump. He got the Strait open without any help from Europe and without any boots on the ground.” That post was written on the same day a refinery on Lavan Island burned for hours after the ceasefire was announced. On the same day Iran’s own official statement read “this does not signify the termination of the war.” On the same day Iran kept its toll system, its uranium program, its protocol over the strait, and walked away with sanctions relief and reconstruction aid. The post is not stupid. It is not written by a bad person. It is written by someone who received a completely different set of facts than the rest of the world did. And from inside that information environment, with only that data, the conclusion is perfectly logical. That is what makes it so unsettling. It is not ignorance. It is a sealed universe, doing exactly what sealed universes do. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

JD Vance once called Donald Trump “America’s Hitler.” He deleted the tweets, apologized on Fox News, and spent the next four years reinventing himself as the most loyal man in MAGA world. This is his reward. At a closed-door Easter luncheon at the White House, Trump put his vice president on the spot in front of the crowd. “How’s that moving?” he asked Vance, demanding an update on Iran peace negotiations. “It’s going good, sir,” Vance replied. Trump cut him off. “Do you see it happening?” “Uh,” said the Vice President of the United States. “We’re going to brief it to you.” Then came the punchline: “So, if it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance. If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.” The room laughed. Vance smiled. The man who once had thoughts of his own sat there and took it. That’s the pattern now. When the Iran strikes were launched, Trump flew to Mar-a-Lago with Pete Hegseth and the national security team. Vance stayed behind in the Situation Room, kept in touch via secure line. The White House released two photos of Rubio with Trump. One of Vance, alone. A man-shaped placeholder. Rubio called lawmakers. Rubio handled communications. Rubio told Americans to leave Iran. Vance told the Washington Post he didn’t even know what Trump was planning. The day before the bombs fell, he assured everyone there was “no chance” of a prolonged Middle Eastern war. There was a prolonged Middle Eastern war. South Park cast him doll-sized, getting punted off-screen by Trump, only to scamper loyally back. Vance tweeted “Well, I’ve finally made it.” Because what else do you do. He once wrote that Trump was “the most raw expression of a massive finger pointed at other people.” He wasn’t wrong the first time. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

History of the world according to MAGA In the beginning, God created America. 1492 - Italian-American Columbus discovers America. 1776 - American farmers defeat the entire British Empire alone. (The French were just on holiday.) 1918 - America single-handedly wins WW1. Arriving 3 years late counts. 1945 - America single-handedly wins WW2. Arriving 2.5 years late still counts. 1954 - America wins the Korean War. Alone. 1975 - America could have won Vietnam. Decided not to bother. 1991 - America wins Gulf War. 35-nation coalition was just there for the photos. 2001 - America wins Afghanistan alone. For 20 years. Then Biden. 2016 - Trump elected. Russia not mentioned. 2020 - Trump loses. Fraud. Obviously. 2024 - Trump wins. Landslide. Very different. 2025 - America generously threatens to invade Canada. Tariffs the entire world. Europe ungrateful. 2026 - America offer to liberate Greenland and closes the world’s most important waterway to demonstrate strategic genius. Europe refuses to fix it. Ungrateful freeloaders.

HOW AND WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA..? Yes, once the United States loved to tell the world a fairy tale about itself—as the LAST BASTION OF FREEDOM, MORALITY, and DEMOCRACY. White columns, lofty words, the shine of the “AMERICAN DREAM.” It all looked beautiful, almost like a celebration. The funniest part? Almost everyone believed it. And now—a red-haired clown and pedophile has surrounded himself with lackeys. He doesn’t give a fuck about the world—he’s already got one foot in the grave. Just look at his face—HE’S ALMOST A CORPSE. Congress and the Senate pretend everything is fine. The Supreme Court is also busy with something—WHO THE FUCK KNOWS WHAT—they probably have “important matters.” Only about a third of the U.S. population voted for the shit that’s happening in the country—FUCK!—JUST THIRTY PERCENT—and today AMERICA is on the brink of another slaughter. The clown and pedophile SWORE THERE WOULD BE NO WARS. That’s exactly why his supporters voted for him. By the way, when coffins start arriving in Texas and Virginia, it’ll be too late to mourn and call your senators. America didn’t collapse in a single day. It rotted. It decayed slowly, like a fur coat eaten away by moths for years. First came double standards in foreign policy: sanctions for some over “human rights violations,” handshakes and billions for others if it was выгодно. Democracy turned into an EXPORT PRODUCT—imposed by force, then abandoned once the profit was made. Inside the country, it’s even worse. Politics is no longer a battle of ideas—it’s a freak show where truth doesn’t matter, and the winner is whoever shouts louder and lies better. Corporations buy laws, lobbyists write the future, and ordinary people are just extras in a performance called “elections.” Morality? Don’t make me laugh. Consumer culture has devoured everything—from education to human relationships. Money became the only measure of value. If you’re rich—you’re right. If not, it’s your fault. The social fabric is torn: some live in luxury, others in debt, fear, and the constant anxiety of falling even lower. America, which once taught the world how to live, no longer knows what to hold on to itself. Freedom of speech has turned into a WEAPON OF MANIPULATION. The media—factories of reality. Truth no longer matters—only the narrative does. And here’s the bottom line: instead of a “city upon a hill”—a loud, cynical marketplace where everything is for sale. Where democracy is a brand, not a value. Where morality is optional, not fundamental. “Over 14 months, Donald Trump has turned America into a country that people around the world hate, fear, pity, laugh at, despise, no longer believe in, and want nothing to do with. I suppose that’s what happens when an absolutely stupid, cruel, corrupt, lawless, dishonest madman gets into the White House.” — Joe Walsh

⭕️Trump: "No podemos financiar la sanidad. Estamos metidos en guerra" ⭕️Abascal: "Si gobernamos, aplicaremos las políticas de EEUU y Argentina" Pues ya estaría todo dicho.

Pues muchos nos sentiríamos tremendamente felices si Europa fuera capaz de articular su propia defensa sin el lastre de los Estados Unidos. Por cierto, creo que Pedro Sánchez no tuvo nada que ver con el asesinato de Sarajevo, pero harías bien investigándolo.

One Year On: The Greatest Economic Own Goal in Living Memory A year ago, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden, surrounded by charts nobody understood, and declared war on mathematics. He called it Liberation Day. The Financial Times, along with every economist who has read more than a bus ticket, is marking the anniversary with a verdict that should be carved into marble: it failed. On every single front. Spectacularly. Completely. Embarrassingly. Let us be precise about this. Measured against Trump’s own three stated goals, making foreigners pay for doing business with America, narrowing the trade deficit, and punishing China, the tariffs have clearly failed.  Not partially failed. Not failed with asterisks. Failed the way a man fails when he drives a Reliant Robin onto a motorway and acts surprised when it rolls. And everyone said so. Economists said so. Trading partners said so. His own party said so. The entire field of international trade theory, developed over roughly two centuries by people who actually read things, screamed it from the rooftops. But Donald Trump, a man whose relationship with economics appears to consist entirely of gut feeling and cable television and 6 casino bankruptcies knew better. The average American household paid an extra $1,700 due to tariffs. Over 65 percent of Americans reported that everyday goods became significantly less affordable.  This is what happens when you run the world’s largest economy on instinct and vibes. One year after the Rose Garden ceremony, factory jobs are down and inflation is up.  The precise opposite of what was promised. With extraordinary confidence. Then the lawyers arrived. The Supreme Court found that Trump had exceeded his authority, ruling that the declared emergency bore no rational connection to the trade measures imposed.  In other words, the legal foundation was nonsense. The government had collected $166 billion in tariffs from over 330,000 businesses on grounds the Supreme Court found unconstitutional. The refund process is now underway.  One hundred and sixty-six billion dollars. Collected illegally. From American businesses. The financial markets, bless them, responded with the only appropriate tool available: mockery. The meme “Trump Always Chickens Out” refuses to go away, and the TACO index is now actively used by analysts to price in the president’s chronic habit of retreating.  Every serious voice warned this would happen. Trade economists. Former Treasury secretaries. The IMF. The WTO. The EU. Canada. Japan. Basically anyone who had spent more than forty minutes studying how global trade actually works. The man who ignored all of them had previously run a casino into bankruptcy and considered that a learning experience. He was not, it turns out, a fast learner. One year. Zero of three goals achieved. One Supreme Court ruling. One $170 billion refund. One economy paying more for everything and making less of it. Liberation Day. What a name for it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

The irony with Trump is that his narcissistic bombast is merely a cover for deep insecurity that comes from his father referring to him as a 'loser'. Iran trolls him as a 'loser' for this reason. Everything he claims to be he is not - his business career has been a disaster and his wealth comes from the corrupt network he serves not his own brilliance. His father was right in the widest sense and Trump will be remembered by history in exactly the way he fears - a loser.

Envidia de Pedro Sánchez elpais.com/opinion/2026-0… a través de @el_pais

Los enemigos de la UE se retratan en Budapest elpais.com/opinion/2026-0… a través de @el_pais

Forget TACO. This One Doesn’t End. Markets spent the early weeks of this war waiting for the familiar pattern. Trump goes in hard. Trump backs down. Trump declares victory. Everyone moves on. The acronym wrote itself. TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out.  It isn’t happening this time. The better comparison is Ukraine. Trump promised to end that war in 24 hours. He has not ended that war. He is nowhere near ending that war. The difference is that Ukraine was someone else’s mess. Iran is a mess Trump built himself, from scratch, with his own hands. The core problem is that Iran is not a tariff negotiation. You cannot bluster your way to a deal when the other side’s interests are not commercial. Iran does not have a number. There is no price point at which the Supreme Leader calls his broker and takes the win. And unlike the countries Trump has successfully bullied, Iran is significantly stronger than Trump anticipated.  Which is why the peace proposals currently on the table are theatre. Oil is above $110 a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for weeks.  Veteran analyst Paul Sankey is calling this a complete crisis, the worst of his career, and warning it will almost certainly push the world into a major global recession. A recession. Caused by a war America started. Without telling its allies. No sane person can look at this and call it a strategy. It is the Ukraina lesson, playing out again, faster, and with higher fuel prices. @Microinteracti1