🇫🇷⚡️- The president of the French Union of Hotel Trades and Industries indicates that his colleagues are arming themselves and preparing militias to defend their establishments.

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron has opened his speech to the nation attributing the urban violence to "the ultraleft".

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron says an inter-ministry council will bring support to the damaged businesses.

🇫🇷⚡️- "Those who tried to bring down the Republic will pay the price." - Emmanuel Macron in his speech to the nation.

🇫🇷⚡️- "Those who [peacefully] protested against the high cost of life were legitimate in their demonstrations. Those issues were caused by an international conflict in the Middle East that France did not start." - Emmanuel Macron in his speech to the nation.

🇫🇷 - For now, this is the usual Macron speech where he addresses recent grievances and offers token small measures without any serious commitment.

🇿🇦 Residents of Orania, South Africa’s Whites-only town, took to the streets for a parade during the annual Orania Carnival.

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🇺🇸 ✡️ ☪️ Ryan Burge on X: Counties with Jewish synagogues often also have Islamic mosques.

Among U.S. counties with either, 51% have both. There are 286 counties with a mosque but no synagogue, and only 82 in the opposite situation.

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Trump says "great progress" is being made on a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and accuses President Zelensky of not wanting to end the war.

"His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead," Trump says.

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Martin Sellner

I've been debanked more than 130 times.
Currently, I'm traveling through Europe, trying to open new bank accounts. They do this on purpose because they know it costs me a lot of time and energy.

But I want to thank everybody who's supporting me with crypto, which is the only reason why I'm still able to do all my activism and pay my bills.

I don't know who you are, but I want to say it really matters. Thank you

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Everyone always talks about how chaotic the frontline is, and what is called the "death of the conventional frontline" in Ukraine, but I thought I should make a visualisation to show you all what that might actually look like.

This is a map showing my view of where each side may hypothetically be holding a position in the Kostyantynivka direction, to give you an idea of how deep this "infiltration zone" goes.

When someone asks "why cant you just map all of Kostyantynivka as under Russian control if the Ukrainian positions there aren't militarily significant anymore", this is what I mean when I say Ukraine still holds too large of a presence. Obviously this map isn't designed to show exact areas where positions are held, but it's based on my interpretation of what the situation could theoretically look like.

I also think this visualisation gives a good idea of the criteria I have for what should be considered a "control zone, a "grey-zone", and an "infiltration zone".