🇻🇦- “On the day I was entrusted with the ministry of the Successor of Peter, exactly one year ago, the Church celebrated the Supplication to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Pompeii. I therefore had to come here, to place my service under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” - Pope Leo XIV.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡- Wales parliamentary election results (seats):

Plaid Cymru: 43,
Reform: 34,
Labour: 9,
Tories: 7,
Green: 2,
Liberal Democrats: 1.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚡- Scotland parliamentary election results as of 84 of 129 seats counted (65 for majority):

SNP: 55,
Labour: 7,
Conservative: 7,
Liberal Democrats: 6,
Green: 6,
Reform: 3.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- England's local election results as of 115 of 136 declared authorities:

Reform: 1,237,
Labour: 801,
Liberal Democrats: 721,
Conservative: 647,
Green: 412,
Independent: 130.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- Great Yarmouth Party (an offshoot of Restore Britain) won every single council it stood a candidate for, winning the authorities ten councils.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkish communist political commentator Hasan Piker repeats his calls for political violence, claiming that the overturned Virginia gerrymandering proposal makes “violent revolution inevitable.”

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚡- Scotland parliamentary election results as of 108 of 129 seats counted (65 for majority):

SNP: 57,
Labour: 13,
Reform: 10,
Green: 10,
Tories: 9,
Liberal Democrats: 9.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- England's local election results as of 124 of 136 declared authorities:

Reform: 1,416,
Labour: 922,
Tories: 740,
Liberal Democrats: 734,
Green: 468,
Independent: 154.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky says he gives Russia permission to "hold a military parade in Moscow" tomorrow. He orders his military to not strike the Red Square specifically, by providing the exact coordinates of all four points of the square.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia does not require anyone’s permission to hold the Victory Day parade in Moscow," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸⚡️- For the record; the current restored Virginia map is quite fair to Democrats, as they are expected to win 2 more Congressional seats from the state come November.

🇬🇧⚡️- An interesting frame of the current state of British society.

🇺🇸⚡️- DNC officials and national Democrats are preparing for a final push on redistricting this year in response to the Virginia map failing. Democrats plan to pressure New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Colorado to advance new maps.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚡- Scotland parliamentary election final results (seats, 65 for majority):

SNP: 58,
Labour: 17,
Reform: 17,
Green: 15,
Tories: 12,
Liberal Democrats: 10.

🇬🇧⚡- Ed Miliband has broken his silence on what he calls a "devastating election," but reiterates his support for Prime Minister Starmer, urging unity within Labour.

🇬🇧⚡- "Starmer appoints Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisers after election losses," - BBC.