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Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China:
Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
Ordinary Taiwanese, young and old, are joining courses to learn how to fly drones amid looming China military threat
https://www.theguardian.com/wo…

#Merz schafft es auch wirklich immer maximale "out of touch Stiefvater" energie zu channeln
(https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/eu-merz-ukraine-sondersta…

Dallas Cowboys Stars Share Hot Takes on 'Love Island USA' Drama https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-stars-share-hot-takes-love-island-usa-drama

Q&A with Fernando Alfonso III, NYT's first Texas-based editor, on leading a new team of five Texas reporters and editors as they cover the state's complexity (Sarah Bahr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/insider/new-york-times-texas.html

Why The New York Times Is Expanding in Texas
Members of a new team of Times reporters and editors are covering culture, economics and more in a state long known for its political clout.

📢 Bulgarien gewinnt ESC - Deutschland Drittletzter
Die Bulgarin Dara hat mit ihrem Lied "Bangaranga" den diesjährigen Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) gewonnen. Die deutsche Teilnehmerin Sarah Engels landete mit ihrem Lied "Fire" auf dem 23. und damit drittletzten Platz.
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Bulgarien gewinnt ESC - Deutschland Drittletzter
Die Bulgarin Dara hat mit ihrem Lied "Bangaranga" den diesjährigen Eurovision Song Contest in Wien gewonnen. Die deutsche Teilnehmerin Sarah Engels landete mit ihrem Lied "Fire" auf dem 23. und damit drittletzten Platz.

A year ago this week,
Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic primary for mayor upended New York politics.
Now, in the closing days of another primary season,
he has thrown himself back onto the campaign trail,
this time risking his political capital in a high-stakes bid to catapult fellow leftists to primary victories against the old Democratic guard.
Mr. Mamdani and allies are attempting to unseat two Democratic incumbents,
Representatives Da…

Mamdani Burns Allies in Making a Big Bet for Congress and the Left
The strength of the mayor’s political brand will be tested on Tuesday, when his slate of leftist congressional candidates takes aim at Democratic incumbents.

Table top exercises (basically TTRPGs for government and business) can be used to test plans and refine plans without needing to actually experience a natural disaster, security event, etc. They're used by militaries to practice war. I've been part of such exercises to test incident response runbooks I've written.
I've been reading a friend's thesis about Operational Art and Critical Philosophy in relation to revolutionary praxis. I wonder if anyone has ever run a table top exercise for an action (or for higher level strategy), and, if so, has anything they could share about it?
While organizing with the Seattle GDC, our disaster prep group ran a table to exercise. We chose scenarios from a set of county exercises for local disaster preparedness. Our GM (who worked in public health at the time) had to modify it a lot to fit our use case, but it still gave us a lot of insight.
Unfortunately, it was a number of years ago so I don't really remember the specific scenario or what came out of it.
I did look back at some notes that I found, and we did suggest creating a D&D committee (partially just for conviviality). Reflecting on this in light of reading this thesis, I feel like we we're really on the mark.

To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention
to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP,
even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him.
He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that …

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.

The NAACP on Tuesday launched a campaign
urging Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to boycott athletic programs of public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”.
In the announcement of the
“Out of Bounds” campaign,
the civil rights giant name-checked eight states
– Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia
– whose flagship public athletic progr…

Early this month, a single pen stroke effectively ended representative
Steve Cohen’s career in Congress.
The man who has represented Memphis for 19 years will turn 77 later this month,
but he wasn’t planning on retiring.
He hadn’t lost any primary.
The reason was that his district had been erased around him.
A new electoral map, passed by the Republican-led state legislature and signed by Bill Lee, the governor,
divides the ninth district three wa…