🇹🇭 - I understand that politically, keeping the current leadership in Bangkok is complicated, but imo the West has clear interests in the Thai military not being in charge.

🇹🇭 - Thailand moves to recriminalise cannabis.

Move comes amid coup rumors.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Trump calls on Netanyahu's trial to be cancelled.

Believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

I will always love the Christ and love the Church. Like many Christians, its the church who gave services and protections to my family it wouldn't have had otherwise.

🇳🇱🇺🇸 - Queen Máxima of the Netherlands appears to be mimicking the way Trump speaks.

She is known to be a promoter of social integration for Immigrants (herself being Argentinian of Italian, spanish and basque descents).

🇻🇦The Vatican confirms Pope Leo XIV will spend his summer at the Papal Palace in Castel Gandolfo.

The palace was given to the Holy See by the Savelli family in 1596 and has since been the summer residence of all popes until Pope Francis, who transformed it into a museum.

🇺🇸 - Imo, if Jerome Powell is fired, it will cause international elites to fear the US system is becoming unpredictable under Trump, and would cause monetary instability and, in fine, inflation.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 - I think the Iranian nuclear program still exist btw.

🇺🇸🇫🇷 - A US State Department adviser wanted to use American taxpayer money to support French far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she appeals her embezzlement conviction, two State Department officials told POLITICO.

🇦🇲 - The NSS special forces have withdrawn from the Catholicosate grounds without arresting Archbishop Ajapahyan.

🇦🇲 - Electricity, internet, out in parts of Yerevan amid Archbishop Ajapahyan arrest attempt.

🇦🇲 - When do we admit the obvious? Pashinyan has become unpredictable. And he's feeding an opposition that will sooner or later takes control and be even more so. Persecuting religious authorities is never OK.

🇺🇸 - The supreme court says that universal injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts."

🇳🇪 - RFI says mutinies happening in the military, commanders beaten up, soldiers refusing to fight ISIS and JNIM.

I see the Justices on the court get along well

🇨🇦🇺🇸 - Trump announces suspension of trade talks with Canada.

🇨🇦 - The old dream of a legally bilingual Quebec where the quiet revolution would end is dead and if we don't let it go we are going to die with it.

Food for thought for Quebec liberals.

🇭🇺🏳‍🌈 - 200k persons in Budapest for Pride march despite ban.

🇨🇦 - I think Canada will inevitably have to face questions, and makes contrition, of its past over the events of 1755 and subsequent decades in Atlantic Canada. Its basic political ethics.

And we in Quebec can't just ignore the whole thing because "Bien là! On est québécois avant d'être canadiens français!"