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🔴 CHAT CONTROL PASSED 🔴 As anticipated, even if for the 3rd time the majority of the EMP’s voted to refuse this mass surveillance bill from the People’s Party, they couldn’t reach the qualified majority to reject it. How is that democracy? European people DO NOT WANT THIS!

NEW - Muhammad is the top baby name for boys for the third year in a row in Britain, with Olivia the number one name for girls — Telegraph

🚨NEW | Labour leads in latest MRP 😲 { Votes | Seats } 🔴Lab: 22% | 217 ( -195 ) 🔵Con: 20% | 151 ( +30 ) ➡️Ref: 22% | 127 ( +122 ) 🟠Lib: 11% | 72 ( - ) 🟡Nat: 4% | 31 (+18) 🟢Grn: 10% | 30 ( +26 ) ⚫️Res: 7% | 1 ( +1 ) Via Electoral Calculus, 30 June (+/- vs '24)

@BasedTorba Even national parks. The Indians overtook Burney falls national park and now the park is limiting reservations to 100 per day and right out towing any overflow bc the jeets would park on the highway.

Tried taking my kids to a local swimming hole last year too and it was loaded with them smoking GLASS BONGS in the shallow spot where families with kids play. You are not righteously angry enough. You think you are, but you’re not anywhere near where you need to be.

Last summer one of the local parks and boat launches were both shut down for the same reason.

One of the many unseen side effects of all of these foreign savages in our country is things like this. My grandparents went to this preserve as kids. I have taken my children here. It was a beautiful peaceful place. Now it’s closed indefinitely because foreigners destroy everything they touch, just like in the countries they left.

Murderous Indian terror gangs used California as a cash register while trafficking guns and drugs: feds trib.al/glWgxeL

We are increasingly seeing assessments by analysts, including European and now American ones, that Russia has lost the war. And the end of the war is near. The reason for this is the direct interpretation of the events by the Ukrainian and European information space, which is full of mentions of successes on the battlefield and strikes on Russian logistics and critical infrastructure. The media focuses on tactical achievements, and this is natural. More details about whether there are really prerequisites to expect an imminent end of the war, whether there can be winners in it, and why NATO's current approaches have no prospects – in the article telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🇵🇱 Official Polish government data shows 21,510 work permits were issued to African nationals in 2025. Zimbabwe accounted for nearly half of all permits with 10,057, followed by Nigeria (1,726), Kenya (1,498), Morocco (1,029), and Ghana (988). 84% of permits went to men, while 77% were issued to people aged 25–44. Follow: @europa

Trump is asking the Supreme Court to hear his birthright citizenship case once more, petitioning on grounds of urgency and abuse of the system. While rarely granted, the case may be heard again in a few weeks if a Justice in the majority supports a rehearing. Barrett, who has sided with Trump more often than not, is more likely to hear the argument and side with Trump than other majority justices, including Roberts, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson. While a re-hearing does not guarantee a win, if one of the Justices defects, Trump could potentially overturn the case and get a landmark decision. Follow: @AFpost

BREAKING: The EU today introduced the new requirement for all new cars registered in Europe to have installed cameras filming the driver’s face. The system is called Advanced Driver Distraction Warning, ADDW, and is part of the EU’s General Safety Regulation. The camera tracks the driver’s gaze, head movements and attention. According to the regulations, the system must be active from 20 kilometers per hour. At lower speeds, it should be able to warn if the driver looks away for too long, while the requirements become stricter at higher speeds. The requirement does not yet mean any obligation to record the driver for the authorities. Critics warn that the technology could pave the way for more extensive monitoring and recording in the car once the cameras, sensors and software are installed.

Flock Safety’s AI cameras are scanning 20 billion license plates every month, giving police the power to track any vehicle’s movements across cities and jurisdictions in seconds. The system doesn’t just read plates — it logs color, make, model, and details like bumper stickers or gun racks, then stores everything in a searchable cloud database. Police can reconstruct travel history, set alerts, and pull data from other agencies. The company says it played a role in about 1 million arrests last year and many police chiefs call it their most impactful tool ever. But this mass data collection is sparking a major backlash over privacy and the 4th Amendment. Critics argue it’s indiscriminate surveillance of everyone’s movements — not targeted policing — creating a permanent dragnet of innocent drivers without warrants. Flock claims no facial recognition is used and data is deleted after 30 days by default, with some safeguards in place. This may be true today, but we do not trust the safeguards, today perhaps they use safeguards....but we know government. This tool will be used for facial recognition and data used against innocent U S Citizens. This is big brother at this worse. Still, the core issue remains: constant tracking of every vehicle on public roads without suspicion. This is a violation of the 4th Amendment.

We know. They turned Chani into a scowling girlboss. In the books, she was one of Paul’s most loyal supporters. The one who saw him clearly and stood with him as he stepped into destiny. And yes, it’s obvious what they were trying to do. Undercut the hero. Reframe the story through a more modern lens. But reality is, there are older truths at work here… truths neither Herbert nor Villeneuve can fully suppress. Why? Because no matter how much you try to deconstruct it, the core of the story remains intact. The call to adventure still beckons. A young man is summoned out of obscurity into greatness. He faces trial, suffering, sacrifice. He becomes something more than himself. Courage. Heroism. Purpose. Destiny. Those truths prevail. You can try to frame that as a warning. You can try to surround it with doubt, irony, or critique. Herbert himself tried to do exactly that. He wanted Paul to be seen as dangerous, as a cautionary tale about charismatic leaders and messianic power. But audiences don’t experience it that way. They feel the ascent. They recognize the pattern because it’s older than the author. Older than the genre. Older than the medium itself. It’s myth. And myth doesn’t bend easily to intention. You see the same phenomenon in Starship Troopers. The director made it as satire… an exaggerated parody of militarism, nationalism, and propaganda. It was meant to be absurd, even grotesque. But what do people actually take from it? Duty. Brotherhood. Sacrifice. Service. The idea that citizenship is earned through commitment to something greater than yourself. The deeper layer wins. Because again, these are not modern constructions. They are ancient truths. The desire for meaning. The pull toward struggle. The admiration of courage and sacrifice. The instinct to follow strength, to rise, to become… more. You can dress it up in irony. You can try to subvert it. You can even openly argue against it. But if the structure is there, if the archetype is present, it will assert itself. The audience will feel it, whether they’re supposed to or not. The arc still resolves in the same direction: Toward greatness, destiny, and transformation of a man into something more. The story is not ultimately Villeneuve’s. And it was never fully Herbert’s either. It belongs to something older: myth and legend. The story escapes its author, because it points to something ancient and true.

Why did Europe conquer the world and not the Chinese or the Muslims? 🤔 "They didn’t have that dog in them. The Chinese didn't have that dog in them. The Muslims didn't have that dog in them. The Spanish, the Dutch, the English, the French... we had that dog in us."

Wargamers like me get drawn into pike and shot warfare because of the precise, beautiful, geometric aesthetics. Look at those. formations. Big squares with little squares on the corners. Very pleasing to the eye. Plus the guys in those formations have flashy, colourful, over-the-top clothing. 10/10 aesthetics.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has announced that the United States will seek a rehearing on birthright citizenship. A rehearing must be called within 25 days of the initial decision and requires a majority vote, including a vote from a justice who initially voted with the majority. If a rehearing is granted, it will have to come from one of the conservative justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, who voted with the majority in the initial decision.

Trump on Platner: “It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods… he’s in a bind.” Follow: @AFpost

NEW | Iran is willing to return to a large-scale conflict with the United States if necessary to secure its control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s behavior after the latest US strikes indicates that the Iranian regime values control over the strait more than avoiding renewed escalation with the United States.