(0627) Morning all, dark still, been doing the rounds. (0704)

 

5. His second paragraph says it all

… my reason for getting into blogging two decades ago.

4. This 👇🏻

3. Steve at 1277

• Trump Speaks Out on Minnesota Agitator Deaths: ‘Terrible’ Incidents, Renee Good Radicalized Despite Trump-Loving Parents
• It Was Leaked!” – Rubio Says Pentagon Contractor Leaked Maduro Capture Plans to the Media
• South Korean Leftists Introduce Legislation to Dissolve Churches on Political Grounds
• Russian Army Received First Batch Of ‘Zubr’ Automated Anti-Drone Gun System
• Scientists want to use self-amplifying mRNA to vaccinate those who do not want to be vaccinated
• Censorship and the Ratchet Effect: Threats to Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises
• US President Donald Trump says secret “discombobulator” disabled Venezuelan defenses during Maduro raid
• Much more.

2. First thing after getting up

1. DAD at 1277

(JH: Been thinking for some days that it’s a pretty tall order expecting DAD and Steve to keep coming up with all this … day in, day out. If anyone knows what it takes, it’s lil ole me but in my case … I have all sorts of cyber assistance to make it easier. Kudos to our chaps and chapesses, according to their output.)

a) Immigration in France: the 2025 figures were just published today at noon. New records have been broken; it’s essential to keep these figures in mind. Here’s THE summary….

b) Macron is thwarted. End of life: The French Senate rejects the bill on assisted dying, which is sent back to the National Assembly.

c) Prosecuted for praying: abortion battle lines in Northern Ireland. “If we are not free to express prayer against abortion outside of a clinic without being criminalized, then none of us are free.”

d) Poland has more gold than the European Central Bank and has no intention of slowing down.

e) A pig statue in a delicatessen window deemed offensive by the *slami(st) community. In Padua…