🗳 🇩🇪 🛠 Some of the densest points from Die Linke's plan for Berlin:

-Police work replaced or supplemented with social work
-Permissible covering of faces during demonstrations and wearing of protective accessories
-Cessation of the constitutional protection office's activities as a secret service; Berlin would also apply in the Bundesrat for a ban on AfD activities
-Consistent rejection of requests for the deportation of foreign activists;
-Taking ownership of vacant properties by people who have lived in them for at least a year
-No fines for fare evasion (!)
-Pre-trial detention as an absolute exception, and detainees to receive minimum wage
-No one will be deported
-Berlin will establish its own migration policy
-State facilities for crack use will be designated (modeled on Switzerland)
-End of ID checks upon entry to swimming pools
-Berlin hospitals will not participate in war preparedness exercises; cooperation between Berlin schools and the Bundeswehr will be terminated
-No grades in schools until 9th grade.

Well, interesting what will come of this...

📝 Paweł Rutkiewicz: He missed the last point for me, which is particularly interesting. Namely: the ban on issuing building permits for single- and two-family buildings. In exchange, 7.5 thousand apartments are to be built each year (as I understand, municipal ones).

📎 Paweł Rutkiewicz

🔼 🇺🇸 💵 The US 10Y Note Yield rises to 5.05%, its highest level since July 2007.

That's a total of +113 basis points from the low seen in March.

Mortgage rates are pushing toward 7.50%.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng held substantive talks in Washington today ahead of President Trump’s meeting with President Xi Jinping.

Bessent said the discussions focused on securing commitments from China to protect American workers, farmers and businesses while advancing U.S. economic and national security interests.

🇨🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — The first F-35A Lightning II fighter jet intended for the Royal Canadian Air Force conducted its maiden flight at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, USA today.

Initial Royal Canadian Air Force F-35As are expected to be delivered to Luke AFB, Arizona, USA by the end of 2026 to train RCAF pilots. They are expected to reach Canadian soil by 2028 and reach Initial Operation Capability no later than 2030, where they will enter service as the CF-35A.

✈️ 🇪🇹 🇪🇹 In a major setback for Ethiopia’s Federal Government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has reportedly taken control of the three main airports under federal control in Tigray: Shire, Mekelle and Axum. Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flights to the region.

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🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇳🇭🇰⚡️ — BREAKING: China is in possession of sensitive F-35 stealth fighter components after a UPS shipment from Australia to the U.S. was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg.

The shipment contained a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door from an Australian F-35, which were being sent to the U.S. in late May for inspection and possible repair or disposal.

The Pentagon says it is working to recover the components.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — A U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer conducted a flyover as President Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping react as the U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer conducts a flyover.

Trump certainly looks impressed.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The White House press pool boycott has left President Trump without proper microphone coverage, making his remarks very difficult to understand.