DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know that buildings and their materials can also be recycled, or that an entire building could be completely dismantled and reassembled?

Formula 1, often a laboratory for innovation, offers us a real-world example of this in the form of the Red Bull team’s “pit box”, known as the F1Holzhaus – literally, “the wooden house”. It made its debut at the 2019 Spanish Grand Prix and has been the team’s “home” in Europe ever since. Before every Grand Prix, fourteen workers assemble its 1,221 square metres in just 32 hours, and then dismantle it in less than a day.

This building reflects a change in the conception of construction, which has to be increasingly committed to sustainable buildings that can be adapted, modified and reused.

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For Beijing, Taiwan is the unfinished chapter of the Chinese civil war and the symbolic wound of national division. But it is also a military-geographic problem. As long as Taiwan remains outside the control of the People’s Republic of China, China’s navy faces a barrier along the first island chain. Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines form a maritime arc that limits China’s free access to the wider Pacific. If Taiwan fell under Beijing’s control, that barrier would be broken.

For Taiwan, geography is both shield and vulnerability. The sea protects it from easy invasion, but the same sea makes it dependent on trade, shipping, imported energy, and open maritime routes. As noted in a recent analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Taiwan’s island status and dependence on maritime supply chains make blockade scenarios strategically dangerous even without a direct invasion.

Energy remains one of Taiwan’s deepest structural vulnerabilities. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Taiwan relies heavily on imported LNG and coal for electricity generation, making maritime security inseparable from energy security. This dependence means that any prolonged disruption in shipping lanes could rapidly become an economic and social crisis.

This is why a Taiwan crisis would not necessarily begin with amphibious landings or missile strikes. It could begin with pressure: inspection zones, cyberattacks, port disruption, gray-zone naval operations, airspace intimidation, or partial maritime restrictions. The objective would not necessarily be immediate conquest, but psychological exhaustion and economic destabilization.

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How do we learn to remember? At the most fundamental level, it’s all about chemicals and electricity. Beyond their roles in diet and nutrition, calcium and magnesium work as ions, or charged particles, in the brain. Magnesium can block a channel found within brain receptors known as NMDARs. When the blockade lifts, calcium can pass through the channel. These processes enable the brain to perform essential functions, like learning and remembering.

Scientists have known all of this for a while. What they couldn’t figure out was how NMDARs tell calcium from magnesium. Now, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Hiro Furukawa, postdoc Rubin Steigerwald, and colleagues have found an answer that could have implications for brain development and disease. It involves water, dehydration, and a molecular cage captured across 50,000 movies.

WIRED.

For more than 80 years, the principle of “the surface of an object must be smooth” has been the basic premise of aeronautical engineering throughout the world in order to suppress the transition to turbulence and reduce aerodynamic drag. This premise was based on the results of a 1940 study by Ichiro Tani, a Japanese aerodynamicist who quantitatively demonstrated the relationship between “surface roughness” (an indicator of the state of the machined surface) and turbulent transition, arguing that surface roughness, which was unavoidable with the manufacturing technology of the time, prevented laminar flow from being realized.

However, in 1989 Tani reinterpreted the experimental data on rough-surface pipes obtained by fluid engineer Johann Nikulase in the 1930s, bringing a new perspective that “roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transition and increase fluid resistance.” Inheriting this idea, a research group led by Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated in the 1990s that fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions.

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Virginians were promised affordability. Instead, they’re getting an energy agenda that risks making electricity more expensive and less reliable.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger has consistently sided with the climate-policy wing of her party even when its proposals threaten higher energy costs for consumers.

One such proposal is rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). In 2023, Virginia withdrew from RGGI, the regional cap-and-trade scheme that imposes a carbon tax in 11 states. As one of her first acts as governor, Spanberger signed legislation to rejoin RGGI, forcing the commonwealth back into the costly compact.

But Pennsylvania provides an interesting case study for Virginians to consider. After six years of legal battles and lost investment, the Keystone State abandoned RGGI—and the commonwealth had a lot of good reasons to do so.

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This is called a normal holiday weekend in Chicago.

Time to leave.

Babylon Bee.

Parents of high school graduate David Simpson helped their son sound out the words on his diploma after the teen expressed frustration at not being able to read the words on the piece of paper.

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The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten outside his residence, according to reports.

Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known in Escondido for covering his home with pro-Trump banners and American flags, died Sunday night after spending nearly a week in critical condition following the May 20 attack, FOX 5 reported.

Authorities say Thomas Caleb Butler, 32, allegedly attacked Sheron outside the home in what prosecutors described as an unprovoked assault.

Butler has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, elder abuse, criminal threats, and battery charges.

Deputy District Attorney Ross Garcia told the court Sheron suffered devastating injuries after being punched to the ground and repeatedly struck in the head.

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Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a message on May 26 calling for greater unity across the Muslim world against the United States and Israel, saying that the chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” will become the rallying slogans of Muslims and “the oppressed of the world.”

It’s already a common slogan—among Muslims.

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They keep doing it because the consequences are not harsh enough yet, and they enjoy the protection of Democrat politicians and NGO-backed funding. Without support from the Democrat Party and global non-profits, the Anti-ICE movement would not exist. In other words, they’re astroturf.

Of course, that doesn’t stop them from causing all kinds of trouble. Federal agents moved within the past 48 hours to break down a make-shift “autonomous zone” built by leftist activists around the New Jersey Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark.

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Apparently some minorities are more equal that others.

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Conservatives have every right to feel betrayed by the Republican Congress’ recent antics.

Free marketeers, from the U.S. House to homes across America, were told in April to accept Senate Republican Leader John Thune’s emaciated Reconciliation 2.0 bill. The South Dakotan employed a limited-use budget procedure that obviates that pesky 60-vote filibuster threshold and permits passage via simple majority.

These special bills typically deliver the sponsoring party’s leading initiatives. This is how President Donald Trump and Republicans enacted the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” in 2025 and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. Reconciliation was the needle through which former President Barack Obama and Democrats injected the poison of Obamacare into America’s body politic in 2010.

The dangerously cautious Thune had no such ambitions. Rather than a freight train, Reconciliation 2.0 was a rusty caboose. It funded little more than Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol salaries.

Conservatives, eager for a bill packed with Trump/MAGA reforms, were suspicious. “I don’t think Border Patrol and ICE should be isolated,” warned Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, the House Freedom Caucus’s policy chairman. “House Republicans are concerned about giving up their best tool to pressure the Senate to pass legislation dealing with affordability ahead of the November elections,” the Washington Examiner reported.

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A new self-driving bus service in the Swedish city of Gothenburg got off to a rough start this week when one of its vehicles was hit by a tram on its second passenger-carrying trip. The autonomous bus, running on route 169 between Gothenburg Central Station and Liseberg, opened to passengers on May 25. It was struck from behind shortly after setting off on its second run, resulting in damage to both vehicles and the bus enduring the ignominy of being towed away. According to reports, the bus braked and was rear-ended by the tram. A spokesperson for Västtrafik, the bus operator, told The Register: “A small number of passengers were on board. No one was seriously injured, and that is the most important outcome. Both the bus and the tram sustained minor damage.” The autonomous bus project began in 2024, and trials were scheduled to conclude by 2027 [PDF]. At present, a driver is still required, although the controls are not touched during normal operation. However, someone else driving into it is a whole different challenge. On the rear of the Karsan bus was the warning “Keep your distance! The bus can brake sharply!” but that did not appear to deter the tram. As a rule of thumb, trams tend to have the right of way since they cannot swerve around a suddenly slowing vehicle.

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Time to leave.

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ATQUE: Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth visit grave of fallen soldier after his widow asked the internet if someone could stop by

UPDATE: DNC Pulls Memorial Day Post After Rebuke From Party Combat Veterans

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This was a field trip for a group of children aged six to eight in the Beaver Scouts, part of the Scout Movement in the United Kingdom. While screenshots of the photo have been modified, the clip appears to be authentic; even local Islamic Facebook groups do not deny it happened.

The Scout leader took them for an educational visit to the Central Scotland Islamic Centre in Stirling, Scotland, a Muslim mosque founded in 1982. Muslims are compelled to pray five times a day toward their holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, bowing to show submission (the meaning of the words “Islam” and “Muslim”) to their god Allah.

In order to earn their “Faith Activity Badge,” the young Scouts were then encouraged to follow this religious observance in prostrating themselves before the Muslim god.

One young man refused. Completely. Definitively. Courageously.

The Causal Fallacy.

I am contractually obligated as a discourse participator to acknowledge the launch of yet another discourse participating Substack. The Argument is an Abundance liberal absolutely definitely not Abundance liberal publication, led by Jerusalem Demsas (ex-The Atlantic) and staffed by a variety of people who absolutely do not have a certain ideological movement in common.1

The opening substantive post, from staff writer Kelsey Piper (whose departure from Vox means I no longer have someone to identify as the reasonable person at Vox), concerns the recent, consistent failure of guaranteed income pilots to produce any non-pecuniary benefits for their treated participants. This finding is, as Piper puts it, “shocking”.

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A fatal fiscal dynamic has become entrenched across the European Union. In nearly every member state, public spending is accelerating at all levels — from municipalities and social insurance systems all the way up to the European Commission — while the private economy at best stagnates and its industrial core sectors visibly erode.

This dangerous economic imbalance, in which a shrinking private sector is forced to finance a continuously expanding state apparatus, is already producing fiscal consequences visible in the bond markets. Interest rates have been rising steadily for years, making debt servicing increasingly expensive, while the financing needs of public budgets continue to grow under the ruling ideology of an all-encompassing state. This widening fiscal gap is fueling political appetites for higher taxation — a destructive race among parties to squeeze taxpayers at every level has begun.

And naturally, when it comes to fleecing European taxpayers, the European Commission cannot be absent. Brussels is currently preparing its seven-year budget framework, set to exceed €2 trillion beginning in 2028.

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People are beginning to understand that those who rule in their name have long been working to eliminate the nation-state.

The United Nations is not neutral ground for national governments to discuss their differences; it is a governmental construct meant to replace national governments. The World Health Organization is not an international body meant to coordinate complex responses to global health emergencies; it is an institution vested with vast power and authority to track and regulate every human on the planet. The Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank Group, and the International Monetary Fund don’t exist to expand free trade, open markets, and assist developing nations; they exist to centralize control over all economic transactions in the world.

The onslaught of “green new deal” laws in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand have nothing to do with preserving the environment or “saving the planet”; they are part of a broader U.N. initiative to track every person’s so-called “carbon footprint” in order to monitor, tax, and regulate all human activity. The U.N.’s “climate reparations” policy has nothing to do with “justice” or “science”; it exists to justify the redistribution of wealth from Western nations to non-Western nations under the guise of “international law.”

The message we have heard all our lives is loud and clear: Nations do bad things. International organizations do good things.

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The arrest of a 22-year-old man in Italy suggests Europe’s terror threat extends well beyond that posed by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Police in Reggio Emilia and Bologna on Monday arrested an Italian man of Moroccan origins, who judicial sources told reporters is accused of recruiting for the purpose of terrorism, including international terrorism.

Investigators discovered that the man had alleged motives to attack people with a knife. He had been in contact with a man believed to be a supporter of the ISIS Islamic terror group, who had offered training and funding.

The man is now in police custody in jail. Prosecutors have, however, ruled out a terror motive.

So he’s not an ‘Italian man’ after all, but a ‘Moroccan man’ who happens to be in Italy.

Police ‘have ruled out a terror motive’ although the reason he was arrested was he was thought to be recruiting for terrorism. There’s what wrong with Europe, right there.

Naval News.

The “Basic Plan for the Development of the Republic of Korea Nuclear-Powered Submarine” is the first document to present, both domestically and internationally, the direction for the Republic of Korea to systematically develop a nuclear-powered submarine. Its main contents are as follows.

Nuclear-powered submarines possess dramatically enhanced operational capabilities compared to existing diesel-powered submarines, including long-duration submerged endurance and high mobility. They will therefore play a key role in responding to North Korea’s submarine-based nuclear and missile threats.

The development of nuclear-powered submarines is not merely a warship construction project, but a national strategic project that requires the concentration of national capabilities based on the Republic of Korea’s technologies in the nuclear and shipbuilding sectors.

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U.S. forces carried out attacks on multiple Iranian targets along the Persian Gulf Monday night, in what U.S. Central Command called “self-defense strikes.”

“U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said in a statement. “Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

Monday evening Iranian media reported several explosions at Bandar Abbas and in nearby areas. The city, located on the Persian Gulf, is one Iran’s main ports.

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Residents in a north Seattle neighborhood have begun building homemade barricades across residential streets after repeated shootings and ongoing crime concerns left many fearing for their safety.

Neighbors living near Aurora Avenue say gun violence, prostitution activity, and late-night disturbances have intensified in recent months, according to reporting from the New York Post.

After another shooting early Saturday, residents blocked roads using piles of dirt, concrete, gravel, and metal barriers in an attempt to reduce vehicle traffic entering nearby residential blocks.

Videos shared online showed streets partially closed with large makeshift barricades lined with reflective tape and warning markers.

Seattle police said officers responding to reports of gunfire around 4 a.m. Saturday near Aurora Avenue North and North 98th Street recovered roughly 40 shell casings from the roadway.

Bullets struck at least one vehicle and nearby buildings. Residents said stray gunfire has repeatedly damaged cars and homes.

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The Congressional Black Caucus, aligned with the NAACP, is urging black college athletes to avoid Southeastern Conference schools in Southern states as a form of economic pressure against Republican-drawn redistricting maps that eliminate majority-black congressional districts. The campaign is called “Out of Bounds,” and is essentially asking young black athletes to forfeit their best shot at a professional sports career so Democratic lawmakers can make a political statement about redistricting.

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A new TD Economics report warns Canada is quietly losing highly skilled workers, entrepreneurs and STEM graduates to the United States through work visas, tech recruitment and stronger economic opportunities.

BNN Bloomberg spoke with Francis Fong, managing director at TD Economics, about how Canada’s tax structure, productivity challenges and lack of business scale are contributing to the country’s ongoing talent retention problem.

In return, Canada can have as ,many Blue state celebrities as they can stomach. I suggest Barbra Streisand to start.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

When Maureen Galindo finished first in a crowded Democratic primary for a newly redrawn South Texas congressional district in March, the result surprised even seasoned observers of San Antonio politics.

With voters set to decide the Democratic nomination Tuesday, as Galindo faces off with sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia, local officials and political observers are grappling with how a little-known candidate with a history of inflammatory remarks about Israel and Jews has come within striking distance of a seat in Congress.

The local housing activist went into the race with little political profile, having received less than 3% of the vote in a San Antonio City Council race last year. Local officials familiar with the contest chalked up Galindo’s success to a litany of factors, including low voter awareness of the candidates and a newly drawn Republican-leaning district that attracted few high-profile Democratic contenders.

What they did not credit for her success was her antisemitic rhetoric. While the race heading into Tuesday night’s runoff has been defined by scrutiny and criticism of Galindo’s views toward Zionists, local political analysts and activists told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that her controversial positions were not widely known ahead of her March win and, if anything, are hurting her chances against Garcia.

The Other McCain.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly known as Zaire, and before that, the Belgian Congo, is one of those Third World nightmare hellholes that I describe as being “worse than Baltimore.” However, since a new federal prosecutor has brought Baltimore’s homicide problem under control, I’ll describe the DRC as worse than Memphis.

Joseph Conrad famously used the Belgian Congo as the scene for Heart of Darkness, with the madman Kurtz dying of fever, his final words being: “The horror! The horror!” The situation has not much improved lately, as the State Department warns: “Do not travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to crime, civil unrest, and health. Some areas have increased risk due to armed conflict.”

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

Times of India.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has recently criticised New York City’s public school spending and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s economic policies. The tech billionaire argued that increased funding alone does not solve the underlying issues. During an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Bezos compared the city’s education system with Amazon’s operations, saying inefficiencies in public administration would not be tolerated in business.

Your tax dollars at work … and play.

“If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We’d have to charge you a $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive, it’d have the wrong item in it anyway,” Bezos told CNBC.

Sounds like Democrats me….

The comments were directed at New York City’s education spending, which Bezos said amounts to around $44,000 per student annually despite declining enrollment and low academic outcomes. He argued that increased spending is being absorbed by administrative structures rather than reaching teachers.

“None of this money is getting to the teachers, I promise you. If you’re charging $44,000 per student, how much of that money do you think is trickling down to teachers? Not much,” Bezos added.

Plundering and blundering….

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I suspect that one could make a long list of things that trigger things “even worse for the planet” that “scientists” did not predict.

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Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone wants to wear prescription glasses or contact lenses. Accordingly, hundreds of thousands of people undergo corrective eye surgery each year, including LASIK—a laser-assisted surgery that reshapes the cornea and corrects vision.

The procedure can result in negative side effects, prompting researchers to take the laser out of LASIK by remodeling the cornea, rather than cutting it, in initial animal tissue tests.

Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, presented his team’s results at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS Fall 2025) held Aug. 17–21.

Human corneas are dome-shaped, clear structures that sit at the front of the eye, bending light from surroundings and focusing it onto the retina, where it’s sent to the brain and interpreted as an image. But if the cornea is misshapen, it doesn’t focus light properly, resulting in a blurry image. With LASIK, specialized lasers reshape the cornea by removing precise sections of the tissue.

Lifehacker.

Jeff Somers, in addition to being a very handy fellow, is also a distinguished science fiction author. Highly recommended.

Quanta.

Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange themselves into chains of pentagons, decagons and other shapes to form patterns that never quite repeat. These patterns seem to defy physical laws and intuition. How can atoms possibly “know” how to form elaborate nonrepeating arrangements without an advanced understanding of mathematics?

“Quasicrystals are one of those things that as a materials scientist, when you first learn about them, you’re like, ‘That’s crazy,’” said Wenhao Sun (opens a new tab), a materials scientist at the University of Michigan.

Recently, though, a spate of results has peeled back some of their secrets. In one study (opens a new tab), Sun and collaborators adapted a method for studying crystals to determine that at least some quasicrystals are thermodynamically stable — their atoms won’t settle into a lower-energy arrangement. This finding helps explain how and why quasicrystals form. A second study (opens a new tab) has yielded a new way to engineer quasicrystals and observe them in the process of forming. And a third research group has logged (opens a new tab) previously unknown properties of these unusual materials.

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I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.

What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on either side get lower or higher.

That’s what I used to think.

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The Toto story is a fun and interesting illustration of corporate diversification and how strange bets can pay off. But that type of diversification—a toilet company that also produces photocatalytic coating and high-precision components for semiconductors—isn’t really unique to Toto. Practically every company in Japan seems to do a thousand very different things.

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It’s no secret that some humanoid robotics companies are training their machines for work on factory floors, while others are positioning their bots to enter homes in the coming years.

One of the first real signs of humanoids entering homes today is a new cleaning service in San Francisco that uses what appear to be Unitree humanoid robots trained to clean everything from floors and countertops to stovetops, mirrors, and nearly any surface in the house.

Called “Gatsby,” the new service deploys humanoid robots to homes for a flat service charge of $150.

The New Republic, a Voice of the Woke.

Because black people are too stupid to figure it out so they need to do what white Democrats tell them to do.

New York Post.

Almost 300 illegal migrants with commercial driver’s licenses were stopped and prosecuted in Indiana over the last three months, according to a top aide to the state’s Gov. Mike Braun.

Tony Ferraro, an aide to the governor who also serves on the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission, told the board on Thursday that the state has discovered at least 283 undocumented drivers operating trucks at its weigh stations over a 90-day stretch.

“That’s over three a day that we pulled out of trucks,” he said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Immediately before WWII, the biggest threat to Europe was Soviet socialism.

During WWII, the biggest threat was the open socialism (in the form of fascism) in Germany and Italy.

After WWII, during the Cold War, the biggest threat, once again, was Soviet socialism. Nevertheless, the post-war Europeans embraced socialism and touted its success, never realizing that it worked only because the U.S. paid their defense costs and absorbed the costs of wars around the world.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, and America’s defense spending waned, the true costs of socialism began to be clear: The economies became sluggish; the birthrates collapsed, necessitating importing third world, usually Muslim, labor; the social services started imploding, especially because those same third worlders drained the systems, despite never having contributed to them; soft on crime policies destroyed civilized society; and the brain rot of socialism saw Europe embrace the madcap, self-destructive idea of Net Zero carbon output, which has seen Europe retreat from the modern world into a cold, dark, pre-modern time.

All of this is what today’s Marxist Democrats want for America.

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Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press to promote his character and principled superiority to all other congressional representatives, the professional political narcissist, Thomas Massie, pledges to create as much turmoil as possible in his final seven months.

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Against the backdrop of Tulsi Gabbard resigning her position as Director of National Intelligence, there is an opportunity to explain how the Washington DC Intelligence Community functions in real life.

ODNI Tulsi Gabbard has rightly been receiving a lot of praise for her efforts at removing the shroud of secrecy that is often used by an intensely territorial IC network. Simultaneously, she has received criticism or what Machiavelli called, “the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution”; because, in reality Tulsi Gabbard might be considered the first functional DNI.

It was DNI Tulsi Gabbard who released the receipts showing how the CIA and IC ran an impeachment operation against President Trump. CIA operative Eric Ciarmella, ICIG Michael Atkinson and HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff all collaboratively involved.

Here it becomes more important for the next sequence of events to fully understand what it was about Tulsi Gabbard in the position of DNI that made such a big difference. What was it about her approach to the office of the DNI that made Gabbard stand out? This is a discussion worth having.

 

Brilliant.

ATQUE: Spencer Pratt Literally Uses LA Shithole Filth As Campaign Ad

Steve Magness.

ATQUE: Bubble-Wrapped World: How Safety Culture Has Destroyed Our Sense Of Adventure

CNN, a Voice of the Crust, goes full Climate Panic.

“Scientists say”! That proves it!!!

Actually, they keep promising that coastal cities will be under water “any time now” and it never happens.

Let’s see: New York, Boston, Balimore, DC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, all under water—that sounds like a win to me.

ATQUE: Germany’s AfD Party Calls Debunked Climate Scenarios “Greatest Fraud in Human History”

The Telegraph (UK).

Four pro-Palestinian flotilla activists were allegedly beaten by police, dragged across the floor and detained at Bilbao airport after their deportation from Israel.

Footage posted on X shows the moment activists clashed with police that resulted in the detention of three flotilla participants and one of their supporters.

In a jibe at Spanish officials, the Israeli government, which has been criticised by the Spanish government for its alleged treatment of flotilla activists, reposted the video on X and wrote: “We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists.”

FA, FO. Simple, concise, accurate.

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Riot police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition party to remove its leader following a three-day stand-off.

Officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Republican People’s Party (CHP) supporters and officials as they moved in to enforce a court order that forced the removal of Özgür Özel. They then broke through heavy gates to enter the party’s HQ in Ankara.

Supporters had attempted to resist police by spraying them with fire extinguishers, but were quickly overcome. Doors, furniture and ground-floor windows were smashed in the raid on Sunday.

Mr Özel, who was elected as party leader in November 2023 but removed by an appeals court ruling, left the building to cheers and applause from supporters outside.

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

The Telegraph (UK).

Inside a mud-brick hut on the edge of a camp for people displaced by terrorism, an ex-Boko Haram fighter is explaining what drew him to the group.

“I joined because I had no choice,” said the former militant, Bahana Alhadji. Then aged 22 and struggling to make a living fishing on Lake Chad, he told The Telegraph that joining the group gave him status, camaraderie and a reliable source of food. “When I was there, we were given rations every week. They made me feel welcome.”

As a kind of perverse signing bonus, Alhadji was given three teenage ‘wives’. The group is notorious for systematically enslaving young women and girls and forcing them into marriages with its fighters.

The Telegraph (UK).

The US and Iran have agreed in principle to a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and see Tehran surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, a US official has said.

It is hoped that the agreement will end the US and Iranian blockades of the vital waterway, restoring stability to the Middle East and ending the global energy crisis triggered by the war.

A US official stressed that, while the broad framework had been decided, final sign-off was still needed from Donald Trump and Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.

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The idea took off after one resident pointed out the obvious: if neighborhoods are blanketed in graffiti that the city ignores, simply spray “Vote Pratt” over it and watch the cleanup crews mobilize within minutes.