Dutch Migrant Integration Project Rocked by Years of Sexual Abuse and Violence

The Stek Oost experiment in Amsterdam was built on a progressive promise: coexistence between Dutch students and refugees would accelerate integration. But Zembla’s investigation suggests the reality was far darker, with students describing sexual assault, stalking, and repeated violence, while claiming their concerns were dismissed.

Minnesota ICE Protests Are Getting Out of Control

Anti-ICE protests are getting more and more intense in the progressive city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where protester Renee Good was shot by an agent earlier this month. Videos online show demonstrators disrupting church service; and even appear to have accidentally beaten up one of their own, mistaking the unfortunate man for an ICE agent or ICE supporter.

Mural reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica painting made from tiles on a wall in the city of Gernika-Lumo, Spain

How Ukraine’s Allies Enlisted the Demons of Spain’s Civil War

‘In the case of Ukraine and Spain, it also produces circumstantial parallels that obscure the unbridgeable gap between the very natures of the two conflicts, conflating the ideological antagonisms of the 1930s at their most nationally internecine with a globalized, technological war for territory. Far from far-sighted, the mantra that Europe should re-learn forgotten lessons or resign itself to perish here becomes dangerously myopic.’

Minnesota Democrats Technically Aren’t Democrats

‘Though it was ultimately forced to merge with the Democratic Party, the Farmer–Labor Party’s legacy lives on today, making the Democratic–Farmer Labor Party often further to the left than the rest of the Democratic Party across the United States.’

Trump May Be Coming to CPAC Hungary 2026, Mandiner Claims

The Hungarian news site Mandiner claims to have obtained information that US President Donald Trump may be coming to CPAC Hungary 2026 in person. President Trump has already sent exclusive video messages to the event in 2023, 2024, and 2025 as well.

From Environmental Shifts to Health Outcomes

‘Northern and Eastern Europe…as well as parts of Central and Western Europe, are also becoming high-risk areas. Surveillance data show an upward trend in reported Lyme disease cases since 2015, with many countries recording an average increase of about 36 per cent over their last two reporting years—serving as clear evidence that warmer conditions are lengthening the tick season.’

POLITICO Admits Brussels Invested in Orbán’s Defeat in 2026 Election

In a recently published analysis, POLITICO Brussels calls Hungary’s 2026 election the EU’s ‘most important’, while admitting that Brussels is invested in Viktor Orbán’s defeat. The piece frames Péter Magyar as a credible challenger and highlights how the EPP and Renew have embraced Tisza to ‘secure influence over Budapest’—as EU pressure on Hungary continues to mount.