Democratic congressman issues qualified defense of Maine candidate in his bid to unseat Republican Susan Collins
Progressive Democratic congressman Ro Khanna issued a qualified defense of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Sunday, saying “his actions were misogynistic, they were shameful, they were wrong, but they didn’t come as a surprise to a lot of the folks in Maine.”
The former Marine-turned-oyster farmer, who is campaigning to unseat the state’s Republican senator Susan Collins in November, has been hit with successive waves of accusation about his past actions, including sending sexually explicit messages he sent to women while married and being stenciled with a Nazi-themed tattoo.
i think about this chart a lot— a black child between the ages of 5 to 14 is more likely to murder someone than a white guy aged 35–64. pic.twitter.com/vKl7IafjAI — Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) June 5, 2026
🚨 BOMBSHELL! WSJ's Holman Jenkins confirms elites are secretly hoarding advanced AI models because they are literal weapons. The public is intentionally locked out! Expert Leeza Garber exposes how Trump's chaotic executive orders completely failed to establish AI guardrails. pic.twitter.com/WrHoA7wWjQ — Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) June 7, 2026
from WND: Security status allowed him to create secret money stream for fraudulent ‘highly sensitive continuity-of-government initiative’ Federal prosecutors are alleging that a former CIA official, accused of stealing millions of dollars after $40 million in gold bars was found in his home, simply created a top-secret program to skim the cash for him. Reports […]
Potential proposal would secure control of Diego Garcia base amid stalled UK plans to cede sovereignty of territory
Donald Trump is reportedly weighing a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius amid stalled plans from the UK to cede sovereignty of the territory, the Telegraph first reported.
The White House did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on the report about the potential plan.
Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian, French and German leaders in Downing Street after Russia fires hypersonic weapons at Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of the UK, France and Germany discussed “the urgent need to scale up” Ukraine’s air defences and deep-strike capabilities in London on Sunday night, after Russia fired hypersonic weapons at Ukraine, Downing Street said.
The meeting of Ukraine’s staunchest allies in London came hours after a Russian drone strike damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel nine miles from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
The moderate Republican, an advocate of abortion rights, resigned in 1995 amid accusations of sexual harassment
Former US senator Bob Packwood, a moderate Oregon Republican whose reputation as a champion of abortion and women’s rights was spoiled at the end of his career by allegations of sexual harassment, has died. He was 93.
Packwood’s death on Saturday was announced in an obituary sent to media outlets by his family.
by ZH, Modernity News: Nestle CEO warns against Swiss population cap Globalist CEOs who ignored more than a decade of Europe’s mass migration invasion from the third world because it was good for business may soon face headwinds from Swiss voters: a June 14 referendum that would cap the country’s permanent resident population below 10 million through […]
by Cam Wakefield, Reclaim The Net: “Think of the children” is the oldest skeleton key in the political toolbox and the British government has just jammed it into the lock on every phone in the country. Ministers are reportedly drafting a law that would force Apple, Google, and the rest to make it impossible for a […]
President António José Seguro, has said today that Portugal is now a modern country “that wants its people back”. The president was speaking at an event with the Portuguese community
Exclusive: Dr David Wilson says former British police officer approached him as part of efforts to influence his work
The author of a Home Office-sponsored report on the Chinese state and organised crime in the UK was the target of failed honey traps and a suspected attempt to compromise him by a former British police officer, it is claimed.
Dr David Wilson, whose groundbreaking analysis was declassified in February, has told of multiple attempts to influence him or discredit his work as he sought to examine the policing challenges posed by the Chinese Communist party (CCP) and criminal gangs.
Move comes as 137 Labour MPs sign letter demanding ‘urgent, concrete action’ to stop settler violence
The UK Foreign Office and a group of western countries are due to announce a package of sanctions against Israel this week designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two and render the concept of a two-state solution near impossible.
Nine countries including France, the UK and Australia have warned that settlement violence must stop and no company should be involved in what is known as the E1 development.
Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it did not echo Trump’s view of the shooting
The fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at CBS of interfering with a broadcast segment on the killing of the Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration officer in January.
The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, had sent an email to his supervisor requesting changes shortly before the airing of the segment in question.
Attendees gathered to celebrate and show their support for Christina Kitsos (middle) during a public ceremony in Geneva. Credit: Embassy of Greece in Switzerland
Christina Kitsos, a prominent politician of Greek descent, has officially assumed office as the Mayor of Geneva for a second, separate one-year term. The Greek Embassy in Switzerland publicly congratulated the diaspora leader following a formal proclamation ceremony held in the Swiss city on June 3, 2026.
Geneva’s unique annual mayoral rotation
Local Swiss executive government operates very differently from what mayoral terms normally do elsewhere in Europe, including Greece.
The City of Geneva is not governed by a single powerful mayor elected for a standard four- or five-year mandate. Instead, the municipality is run by a five-member executive committee known as the Conseil administratif (Administrative Council).
Musicians entertain the crowd during the public inauguration of Kitsos. Credit: Embassy of Greece in Switzerland
The title of mayor rotates annually among these five elected council members. The individual who holds the title acts primarily as the chairperson of the executive council and the ceremonial face of the city, holding no additional unilateral governing powers. Every mayoral rotation term begins strictly on June 1 and concludes on May 31 of the following year.
The timeline of Kitsos’s re-election Kitsos’s political timeline follows this exact cycle. She was inaugurated for her first term as mayor on June 1, 2024. When that specific administrative year ended on May 31, 2025, she passed the mayoral title to another member of the five-person council and stepped back into the role of Deputy Mayor.
Shortly before her first term concluded, citywide elections were held in April 2025.
Kitsos joined community members and visitors in a vibrant Greek circle dance, bringing lively energy to the streets of Geneva. Credit: Greek embassy in Switzerland
The public successfully re-elected Kitsos to stay on the executive council for another multi-year mandate. Because she retained her seat on the executive committee, her turn in the annual rotation eventually came back around.
She was officially inaugurated for a completely new, distinct one-year term as mayor on June 1, 2026.
Who is the new mayor of Geneva? Born to a mother from Thessaloniki and a father from Edessa in northern Greece, Kitsos holds dual citizenship and maintains strong ties to Greece. Representing the Socialist Party, she directs the Department of Social Cohesion and Solidarity within the administrative council.
In an interview she gave in 2024 on Greek public television ERT, Kitsos highlighted the importance of her Greek heritage in shaping her worldview and approach to governance.
“Sometimes we believe that there is equality, but there are many things that are not so obvious, but which will have a meaning in everyone’s journey,” she said.
Imported democracy, far from emancipating Africa, locks it into a vicious cycle that perpetuates its underdevelopment. Through a sociometric, synchronic, and diachronic approach, this article seeks to deconstruct the foundational lie upon which the established order rests (I), before highlighting the mechanisms of the democratic trap in which African peoples are ensnared (II). It then […]
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