By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Musk has continued to escalate this anti-EU rhetoric… with help from friends & leaders of industry, Joe Lonsdale and David Sacks. He’s also saying (falsely, by definition) that embracing far right ideology is just being normal.

This all feels very familiar… www.cnbc.com/2024/09/02/x...

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

If you missed the news about the EU Commission & its decisions to fine X for non compliance with the Digital Services Act, we reported on this here. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/e...

You know who else wants to weaken European unity? Putin! www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/wha...

Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Talks this week between Russia and India’s leaders will focus on deepening trade and defence ties. RT, a Kremlin-funded propaganda outlet, advertises itself in India as “A new voice from an old friend”

Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

Maga’s strange rage against Europe on.ft.com/4iI8gSm | opinion

Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/w...

The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy." It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Trump has never really achieved much. He's only rich because he inherited a fortune. His Art of the Deal brilliance is a myth, and all the things he's famous for, including that book and The Apprentice were made by other people. His craving for prizes represents a desperate need for validation.

Honestly, this illustrates in the most exaggerated way, why the pardon power is itself questionable. Seems unwise to allow a president (any president) to hand out literal “get out of jail free” cards based on whim. Ripe for corruption or simply poor judgement.

Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution. Commentary ↓

Remember the AFP journalist who asked if the city's leader would resign following mass casualties in the tower block fires? Now: AFP among international media 'summoned' by PRC state security in Hong Kong and issued with ‘don’t say we didn’t warn you’ threat.

The right spent years dunking on the left for wanting “participation trophies,” but they bow down to a grown ass man who needs everyone to pretend he’s won 38 consecutive trophies at the golf course he owns.

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections next MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?

Ahead of today’s World Cup draw, articles in Italy’s La Repubblica & Spain’s El País on how there may be immigration raids at games & people who posted a social media message that Trump administration didn’t like could face deportation. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/... elpais.com/us/migracion...

The Ukraine war was never about just territory or NATO. It was also about what happens if a nuclear power starts carving up a non-nuclear neighbor—and how the U.S. would respond. Here's how U.S. fecklessness set the stage for nuclear proliferation around the world: www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ba...

In 2014 🇷🇺 invaded Crimea. Obama rolled over, which emboldened 🇷🇺 to try for more later on. Like Trump, Obama wanted to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Instead he set the stage for what may be the greatest proliferation of nuclear weapons in decades. www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ba...

ICE attacks & pepper sprays Rep. Adelita Grijalva

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

And if you are so inclined, you can compare and contrast to the last NSS from 2022. Different times. bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...

Link to the full strategy again: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Just realised I made exactly this point not too long ago in a Collimateur debate: if the US wants to become more like other countries, it will lose some of the exceptional advantages that come from being exceptional. I don’t think the people in power are really taking that into consideration. 👇

The doc is all about closing the US, yet it says that “openness” is what differentiates it internationally. It wants to rebalance markets, criticises globalisation, yet says that “free market capitalism” will “continue to make us the global partner of first choice.”

There is one striking incoherence in the text: the document is all about America first. But the very same document lists America’s “network of alliances” & “unmatched softpower” as assets, and speaks about “collective defence”. If the US does what it describes in the doc, it will lose all that.

Activist in Europe. Elsewhere not so much.

What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

Vänta, går USA nu helt öppet ut och säger att man stödjer högerradikala partier i Europa? Det stöd som man tidigare har påstått kommer från Ryssland? www.ft.com/content/27e8...

Några rader om ett dramatiskt geopolitiskt skifte som knappt tycks ha uppmärksammats i Sverige: USA:s nya säkerhetspolitiska doktrin slår fast att landet bör motarbeta Ukraina-vänliga regeringar i Europa och stötta EU-kritiska nationalister arbetet.se/2025/12/05/t...

“Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me! “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, Lord, do I seek.” ‭‭— Psalms‬ ‭27‬:‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭#NRSVUE‬‬ bible.com/bible/3523/p...

I've said this before, but: I know what you think about the Supreme Court majority's motivations. And I have my own opinion. But I don't know what they tell themselves.

Breaking news: Federal officials have arrested a man believed to have planted pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican national committee headquarters in downtown Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Now hearing that TikTok will have a much more positive outcome from their Feb. 2024 investigation by the Commission announced tomorrow, in part because they engaged with the Commission's process. Not great for the Trump admin's narrative of this being about censorship ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Vestager told me three years ago from her office in Copenhagen that this would be happening unless Musk took the DSA seriously www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1...

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

Get ready for loads of very public endorsements of the AfD and Front National.

Reform are still ten points clear in opinion polls. The far right’s relationship with Russia generally, and the fact that one actual Russian agent has already been exposed within Reform’s senior ranks makes the prospect of Farage as PM/Deputy a whole other kettle of fish.

Between this, Brexit, anti-immigration hate-mongering, spouting Russian propaganda in the European Parliament, and taunting younger pupils with antisemitic insults at school, we're beginning to think Nigel Farage has always been a wrong'un. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

Tværtimod mente manden bag dokumentet, mediekonsulenten Michael Prescott, at kunne identificere en venstreorienteret slagside. Lederen er bragt første gang i november. Læs eller lyt her.

BBC, lød det i et lækket internt dokument, var nemlig præget af »politisk skævvridning« og havde i sin dækning af emner som transkønnedes rettigheder og konflikten i Gaza ikke rapporteret neutralt.

For nogle uger siden blev verdens største producent af nyheder selv en verdensomspændende nyhedshistorie – og ikke for det gode.

As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review! Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.