We believe most Americans share a commitment to democracy, civil discourse, and the Constitution. These aren’t partisan ideals. They’re the principles our nation was founded on. These principles are what sets America apart, and they’re worth defending.

Schrödingers Strait

Hat das BSW die gleichen (russischen?) Spin Doktoren wie Orban oder wie soll man sich das Recycling erklären?

Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how far Putin, Trump, Alice Weidel & other far-right figures go to help their buddy Viktor Orbán stay in power. For Germans a glimpse of the way AfD uses defamation, slander and disinformation exactly in the way the Nazis did. anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/the-post-r...

Putin owns Trump, no doubt about that

We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.

When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure. Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.

I just realized that this President basically has ONE simple core talent at which he excels: He f*cks up literally EVERYTHING he does, but ALWAYS finds someone else to blame.

Sun and wind don’t need the Strait of Hormuz.

Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2072...

Could the press please, finally, learn this lesson: Everything these people said about Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, starting new wars—all of it—was false. Not because they meant the opposite, but because they're post-truth and say whatever they think gets them an advantage in the moment.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Strong Charlie Chaplin "Modern Times" vibes... slaves of the machine... 😄 rentahuman.ai

The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.

Unerträglich ist nicht nur die Situation der Menschen in der Ukraine. Unerträglich bei Russlands Terror gegen die Ukraine ist ebenfalls die Hilflosigkeit und Tatenlosigkeit der Europäer. www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...

Putin hat seine Raketen verschossen und die Menschen in der Ukraine sitzen in bitterer Kälte und Dunkelheit. Und nachdem alles kaputt und die Raketen erstmal verbraucht sind, verkauft er Trump "eine Woche nicht in Städte feuern" als große gutmütige Geste. Zynischer geht es nicht.

Ex-Kanzler Gerhard Schröder nahm nach seiner Amtszeit 178 Akten mit. Darunter wichtige Terminübersichten aus dem Jahr 2005, die Aufschluss zu Treffen mit Wladimir Putin geben könnten. Das Kanzleramt blockt Auskunft. Jetzt klagen wir! 💥 #Transparenz #IFG correctiv.org/aktuelles/au...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

We'll see, but I don't think the apparent TACO on Greenland will last long. It's just another case of "last person he talked to," and that won't be the Europeans once he's back at the West Wing / Mar-a-Lago. For their own anti-NATO reasons, too many in the inner circle are determined to push this.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Fascinating how tone deaf US political elites have been towards European anger. From Newsom among Dems who failed to beat Trump berating Euro diplomacy, Schumer rattling out domestic guff to Graham and Bessent telling Euros to stop being hysterical. Just speeds up European rejection of America

So,,,NATO countries sending troops to Greenland to defend against US, VS. Ukraine to defend against Russia. Trump is not playing chess, or even checkers, but eating the pieces.

Where we are as a country. This is a treaty ally.

And yes, it's reasonable to ask what Putin could possibly have on him that would enable such coercive power. But it doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with an answer.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Could a man be any smaller?

The alliance with the United States is over, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and Europe need to act like it and prepare the population for it.

"The authors do focus on one enemy ideology. It is [..] European liberal democracy. This is what this radical faction really fears: people who talk about transparency, accountability, civil rights, and the rule of law. " @anneapplebaum.bsky.social nails it! 🎯💯 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The US "banned 5 people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Dept, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension." Good piece about something bad, by @mmasnick.bsky.social.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

“For a year now, people have been telling me that Trump will eventually get tough on Russia. It’s been the geopolitical version of Waiting for Godot.” Thank you @fromtga.bsky.social! 💯 open.substack.com/pub/timothyg...

Das Erstaunlichste ist, wie irgendjemand überrascht sein kann. Derselbe Kanzler wurde <2 Monate nach Ende seiner Amtszeit Vorsitzender des Gesellschafterausschusses von Gazprom. correctiv.org/transparenz/...

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Diese Geschichte ist unfassbar. Weil der Trump-Regierung die Arbeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs nicht passt, wird ein französischer Richter digital de facto ausgelöscht und bekommt keine Kreditkarte und kein Bankkonto mehr:

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Tom Friedman’s piece in the NYT today again brings up the specter of Neville Chamberlain in ‘39. I disagree. A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”

That peace plan is the most credible, unrefutable evidence for collusion of Trump with Russia that we have ever seen.

Excellent analysis by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [..] brought us World War II. The Yalta agreement gave us the Cold War. The Witkoff-Dmitriev pact [..] will fit right into that tradition.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

Not sure what is worse

If only American billionaires had similar decency left… www.virgin.com/branson-fami...

Intense, but beautifully written piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social - and spot on. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Good. Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Wow. Witkoff / the U.S. administration are now officially the ambassadors of the Kremlin. Utterly unacceptable plan and new low point. www.ft.com/content/2353...

This stuff is so crazy. Trump is now just letting his allies that helped him nearly overthrow the government take turns stealing taxpayer money. Playing us all for suckers. The corruption of this regime will leave an indelible mark on our nation. 🇺🇸 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...