Not a single prominent Republican will respond to the most basic gutter racism coming from the leader of their party.

They are charging the journalist who discovered government espionage *with* espionage. This is the model of authoritarianism that Trumpists promote as the ideal.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

De consensus in de politieke wetenschap over hoe om te gaan met radicaal rechts is aan het verschuiven in de richting van het opnieuw instellen van een cordon sanitaire

Alles wat @leoniedejonge.bsky.social en @simonotjes.bsky.social in hun stuk schrijven 💯

Am I crazy, getting ahead of myself, or is the Iran war already shaping up to be systemically significant? Unless the US gets a military victory or clear concessions—not looking good—then Iran keeping Hormuz closed breaks the post-WWII US military dominance in the Gulf, with wide reverberations.

Trump is so unpopular in Europe even the far-right is trying to distance itself from him. Needless to say, the other parties should not let them: www.politico.eu/article/afd-...

Sorry but this kind of analysis won’t do. We need to stick to the agreed narrative that white working class voters only have eyes for the far right.

Melania Trump is the one on the right

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

The story of the would-be bomber is basically a tragic one of a sad and lonely man who was persuaded to do something extreme. The guy in the story below sat and talked to him for hours. The bomber asked for a cuddle several times and then told the guy he should call the police on him.

Rode lijnen zijn er om uit te vegen

Hij IS een fascist

Here are 5 menswear outfits to make recruitment officers think you're 43 🧵

50% votes counted 🇩🇰🗳️ Close race between left and right blocks. Former PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen kingmaker in the middle 👑 But: only halfway there 🍿 #fv26 #dkpol

So much winning

Sounds like a plan

Oekraïense jongeren willen studeren, maar lopen vast door het hoge instellingscollegegeld. Daarom: geef deze jongeren toegang tot hetzelfde collegegeld als Nederlandse studenten! De deadline (1 mei) nadert. Vandaag stemmingen over mijn amendement!

Slimmer

#Gas prices - especially European gas prices - have risen markably since the #Iran war started Grosso modo overlook for next winter (Oct - March) - European #TTF +113% - US #HenryHub +10% So while Europe declines to join the war, it is significantly more exposed.

If the president does it, it’s not illegal

He’s basically using a war to do some insider trading through market manipulation. Pump & dump on a global scale.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

LOL. Israelis saying don't pay attention to Trump's tweets, he's just manipulating the commodities and stock markets for personal profit. And that's exactly what's going on.

”Russia poses an existential threat to Poland, so I have decided to endorse the Kremlin’s candidate in Hungary”

Is it still corruption if you do it openly?

Italy, as 90% of the votes have been counted, voters reject the Constitutional referendum with 54% of the votes, triggering a defeat for the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (FdI-ECR) and the right-wing alliance (ECR|PfE|EPP). #Referendum #ReferendumGiustizia

Italy, 40% of the votes counted: Constitutional referendum No: 54.7% (+0.3) Yes: 45.3% (-0.3) +/- vs. 20% counted ➤ europeelects.eu/italy

When you put the village idiot in charge of running the world

It is increasingly evident that fascism really will be the world's overriding response to ecological collapse. People would rather fight each other to the death in the ruins over competing versions of national/religious mythology than do almost anything else.

Spinning his way out

It seems to me that the point *isn't* that you can trust what Trump says--he is both an inveterate liar and a classic Frankfurtian bullshitter. But his breakfast TACO* this morning does suggest that he is getting increasingly desperate, and that is worth noting. * must credit

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Attacking Jewish citizens or Jewish buildings or services has nothing to do with protesting the actions of the vile Netanyahu regime. You’re just venting your antisemitism.

These were mayoral 🇫🇷 elections, so any national extrapolation is of course hazardous. But if you go by voting in towns with > 100,000 population, one cautious conclusion from last night’s voting is this : the broad non-populist centre can hold

An important element of modern rightwing politics is performative christianity

We are trying to improve on: "unfortunately we did not spot that" [big false claim] - but the presenter did argue with him about anecdotal experiences of crime just after that, if that helps, + we corrected a different false claim. [So: is there a quota of one correction per interview?!?!]

Small price to pay for a half-day news cycle win

Mit 96% der ausgezählten Stimmen bleibt es denkbar knapp. Nur 2 Zehntelprozent trennen die beiden großen Parteien.

Golob 2% ahead of Janša! 🎉 #Slovenia www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/pa...

The most likely candidate to take on the far right in France

And the EU is powerless to stop this outside interference. A weak union is better than no union, but not much better…

Germany, Infratest dimap exit poll: Rhineland-Palatinate regional parliament election CDU (EPP): 30.8% (+3.1) SPD (S&D): 26.0% (-9.7) AfD (ESN): 19.9% (+11.6) GRÜNE (Greens/EFA): 8.0% (-1.3) FW (RE): 4.2% (-1.2) LINKE (LEFT): 4.2% (+1.7) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/germany

Treasonous if true

Lone wolves firing ICBMs?

Academic freedom or lack thereof: Decline of institutional autonomy in the United States compared to its decline in other prominent (former) democracies that have autocratized, namely Hungary, India, and Türkiye academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Worth reading

🇺🇦 A delegation of the NATO military command led by Admiral Pierre Vandier arrived in Ukraine, - Palisa The parties discussed the involvement of the Ukrainian military in the Alliance's exercises as a Red Team - a hypothetical enemy.

Attacking civilian targets such as power plants is exactly what Putin’s Russia is doing to Ukraine. As always, the pupil is emulating his master.

Ik weet niet wat erger is: de hielenlikkerij richting Trump of het landverradersinstinct