Some personal news...

Trump officials don't like being called fascists. Understandable. It's not a nice label. So, how about this: Trump officials stop doing fascist things, and everyone stops calling them fascists? A compromise to heal the nation...

The idea Trump has changed strategy on #Ukraine misunderstands Trump. He has no strategy. This is closer to the mark: "His foreign policy views, former aides say, are more often driven by pique and a sense that he has been disrespected than by strategic analysis." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Whatever the merits of the arguments, the threat seems empty - along the lines of, "I'll hit myself in the head with this hammer if you don't do what I want" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is the real threat to free speech.

I could give a two-year-old a new box of crayons and a ream of blank paper, and they could not scribble a more embarrassing speech.

One reason, sure, but maybe more immediately important is that, to Trump and many Trump supporters, "cities" and "urban" are code words for "black". Sending troops to the cities is a way of showing his whites he's dominating blacks, a way to demonstrate his commitment to white supremacy.

Even if diplomacy limits governing parties, if non-governing UK and European pro-democracy parties had any cojones, they’d be running attack ads of Trump’s UN speech saying “This is who [domestic far-right party or party leader] is supported by and wants to be like here.”

President Trump's approval ticked slightly lower in recent weeks as Americans worried about the health of the US economy and the Republican's ability to contain rising prices, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll reut.rs/4nJdH4D

Maybe not "the greatest" city, but definitely great - and made greater by having a mayor who understands how to respond to hatemongering lies.

"We know you don't care for international law, and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbors. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over and that your empire will not be rebuilt." /5

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

People ask, does he really believe this stuff? But that question is not relevant. To Trump, words are not "true" or "false" - he doesn't believe or not believe in their veracity. Words only "help Trump" or "harm Trump". So, what he believes is that saying this will benefit him. And that's far worse.

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

No particular reason

"...not only are [Trump's] aid cuts killing children every day ... the death toll is accelerating" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Turns out, committing genocide has some unwanted diplomatic consequences. Eventually. After a couple years of daily atrocities.

Anyone who signs this and follows through will not be a journalist but a propagandist for the regime.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

There are two massive 🐘 in the room here The first: the demand the EU can communicate with people outside the EU bubble, while they’re all LinkedIn devotees Second: there’s genuine fear of what’s happens in the USA, but they’re ALL using centralised commercial US owned platforms #euinfluencer

Russia is gauging European resolve. What the gauge shows is entirely up to Europeans.

#EUinfluencer 2025 event begins. Theme: "Europe on the Edge"

Don't insult Dear Leader. Or else.

Monkey see, monkey do.

Hatefully enforcing the spread of ignorance: the thugocracy of the Taliban in Afghanistan. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Protestors in the Soviet Union would sometimes simply write an article from the Soviet constitution on their posters.

Accepting and sharing the regime's lies is a way to demonstrate your support for the regime. Authoritarianism 101.

From 1939: www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

State censorship via corporation: "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show after threat from Trump’s FCC chair" edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m... State censorship by the state: "US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Murder is totally fine when the government does it.

It's definitely not an authoritarian regime trying to silence dissent. No, certainly nothing like that. All comparisons to Nazi Germany are completely absurd. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Outrageous. Also unsurprising in a country where everyone is expected to fall in line with Dear Leader's ideology about who should be murdered and who shouldn't be.

This.

The primary aim must be getting the govt off X. This offers the possibility of a cascade effect taking journalists etc off it. We need to seperate the national debate from the extremism engine.

The only good thing about the ongoing disintegration of the US is that it's been happening slowly enough for other countries to adjust economically and politically.

Excellent piece on how Trump's utter fecklessness is accelerating the descent into global anarchy - and what Europe, the UK, and others urgently need to do about it. A must read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meanwhile people who actually care about democracy and their country are demonstrating in Georgia! bsky.app/profile/anna...

Excellent point.

To understand how ignorant the anti-foreigner folks are, consider this photo from the hate march in London today. That's the flag of Georgia they're waving. Georgia. A foreign country.

This is the most pathetic and undignified thing I've ever seen a US president do in the area of foreign policy. It makes George Bush Snr throwing up over the Japanese Prime Minister look like an act of brilliant diplomacy.

A fine thread.

The only good thing about the ongoing disintegration of the US is that it's been happening slowly enough for other countries to adjust economically and politically.

"Trump himself seems to relish the occasion as a pretext to attack civil-society organizations not to his liking."

Indeed. And Trump failed the test.

I'm in.

Don't kill anyone. Don't spread hate. How about we all agree on that?

"The last time Russia and Belarus held major joint military drills in 2022, Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine just days later. Now the two close allies are conducting war games again..." www.defensenews.com/global/europ...