Just a reminder that they banned RT.com in the UK

The very strong statements from several NATO governments on yesterday’s Court decision on abortion are truly striking. I’m not sure they fully appreciate the implication, as they implicitly but profoundly cut against the trope that these alliances are based on shared values. 1/

They missed Afghanistan and Kejriwal

French officialdom absolutely lost its rag when text messages between Macron and Scott Morrison (over submarines) leaked in Oz media. Now seems OK to have vast swathes of Putin-Macron chats out. Maybe I am missing something? letemps.ch/monde/emmanuel…

Yup. It’s going nowhere

OK this is very bad. 40% of Ukrainians think it will be in the EU by 2024, and 69% within 5 years. If this is correct there has been a terrible failure of communication by Ukrainian authorities. The sooner a more realistic timetable is laid out the better.

"A warning for everyone watching the [🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war] to brace for a protracted, sanguinary conflict.” My piece in the The Washington Post offers the data underpinning that claim. Let's elaborate on and give broader context to that claim. [THREAD] washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Govs. DeSantis and Youngkin are both enacting abortion bans that start at 15 weeks, which means that Florida and Virginia will still have more liberal abortion laws than virtually all of Western Europe

#UPDATE Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday signalled no progress on Sweden's bid to join NATO in a phone call with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, urging Stockholm to take "concrete actions" to meet Ankara's concerns

As I said, 3 weeks back The western “consensus” thought on Russia-Ukraine war has turned, permanently nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/…

Iran - Iraq, was a stronger Iran, vs a smaller, weaker Iraq and Sadaam Hussein, but propped up by significant western support

#RBI's circular on lending through wallets and prepaid cards has gotten the fintech payments and lending industry into a huddle. Over the past 2 days industry associations and bodies have held multiple meetings. Here's what they have or plan to ask the #RBI ⬇️🧵

Nothing of note in the Iranian readout of Shamkhani's meeting with Borrell today. Shamkhani repeated Iran's standard lines: Tehran never left the negotiating table; it wants a lasting agreement with guarantees; and needs to reap the economic benefits of the JCPOA.

almost all americans agree abortion should be legal in some circumstances, illegal in others large majorities of democrats and republicans well over 90% of abortions in us are in the first trimester glenn youngkin knows this. i suspect desantis and newsom do too

The European Commission has prepared a draft document allowing Russia to transport goods to Kaliningrad via Lithuania.

FBI is saying they can’t unlock the Trump shooters phone. Just post the number online and say there’s 1000 BTC on it and you’ll have it unlocked in the next 3 minutes. 😂