I mean, wildly off the mark in important ways, and filled with lunatics, but also getting a little itchy about how close we're getting to "Pizzagate kind of had a point" lol

In case you missed it

Cool, but

Feeling truly thankful and blessed that I'm now seeing some of the most deeply fucking idiotic NIS2 security questionnaires in the wild

My view is "both" because you need 1 to run out the clock with Trump and 2 for literally everything else forever, including Trump

If you thought splinternet was going to be fun, wait for splinterservices Geopolitics is your #1 data/digital threat vector, y'all

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

EU find the money and move the UN HQ from NY to Europe challenge

I would wish away all the attendant good things just to destroy big tech and salt the earth where it stood

Being a professional Devil's advocate organization makes you part of the evil, y'all. When it's not just a contextual philosophical position and becomes a job description, you're on Team Baddies and should be treated accordingly

Chuds always take an arbitrarily time-bounded scenario and twist themselves into knots to imagine that they might do the same thing in that confabulation. "So we cannot be hasty and rush to judgment." (Because they are hetero cis white men, and thereby, sympathetic.)

How much of Trump's foreign policy is about signaling disruption to goose the price of oil for the benefit of Russia and Arab partners? 🤔

Seems timely to re-up this one

there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

I know trade deals have winners and losers but a mature sovereignty policy that addresses the local losers coupled with liberalized trade otherwise could slingshot the EU forward in a lot of key ways given the era we're in, and US/China would have few answers to it.

Vote blue no matter who, at least when the absolute shits for brains running the Democrats get around to fielding candidates

Third photo giving me serious "You dropped this, m'lady" (sarcastic) vibes

Fascists and fascism enablers truly do not feel enough fear. This should change.

France putting in the work 💪

If Europe can carry its own defense there is zero reason for the US to be permitted to maintain bases and standing air/water access in Europe. The US Eastern flank should be in Massachusetts

"Oh thank god, we can get back to normal bureaucracies, the only thing Europe is prepared for."

"Disciplined and focused" is not remotely a complete or adequate description of a politician's job. It completely misapprehends the nature of democracy and discourse.

"Fuck Racists is setting a great pace and has a solid lead, but is being followed closely behind by Fuck Fascists"

It's good news but Europeans should be watching for Trump and his allies to begin setting conditions with the US public. He couldn't pull off Greenland and an EU confrontation because opinion polling was awful on it. Expect to hear all sorts of lying slop in US media in 2026, and maybe This 2.0

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

"If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules & values for the unhindered pursuit of their power & interest, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate" -- Carney's speech at Davos is an extended criticism of the damage Trump is doing (though he's not mentioning his name)

It's fun being a US barred lawyer practicing mostly EU law taking US CLE courses and being absolutely appalled at the state of US digital law and advice on it by lawyers that purport to be experts in the legal and technical domains. US digital law is about as coherent and mature as the US president

The political right is defined by being liars, hypocrites, thieves, and traitors

Newsom is a chucklehead but he's not wrong here

Would be disappointing to not see Les Bleus bring hope another cup (😉🇫🇷🥖) but this is the way

The first and last sentences being this clear is important for the EU, and refreshing

If my European friends think Trump is an aberration in the American worldview re: Greenland, I recommend to read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifes... Particularly the part about impacts on native peoples...

Everyone in the world knows that the US is unreliable, even petulantly so, but until Trump 2 everyone could just play like it wasn't because the short-term stakes were relatively low

This trust was lost ages ago, it's just that the lie is now becoming untenable to maintain

I'm not a fan of von der Leyen but the fact that she's posting through Trump with endless Mercosur trade deal promo is 100% my vibe

Gosh, who could have known this would happen

One thing that I have been screaming about for ages is that Democrats never used their time in power cleaning up old laws. Make it a law school training initiative! It's not sexy but it prevents this shit and reflects good governance and stewardship

1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…

Seriously, if Trump and his Nazi fuckfaces are going to keep agitating about EU/EEA countries and funding Eurofascism, the EU should set a meeting with Gavin Newsom about a vaguely worded thing that sounds like special status for California. Doesn't have to be sincere. Shots across the bow, man.

Just want to note that if Europe stopped buying digital services and consumer tech from the US in any significant way it would end the US economy as we know it

If we can poll Greenlanders about being part of the US, why can't we poll Californians about being part of the EU?

Just want to note that this sort of "reasonable efforts" approach, if actually done, wouldn't really help on bona fide criminal acts. This is regulatory posture, not a criminal defense. It is important for lawyers to know when the law tolerates some room for error, and when it does not.

People will literally believe anything they see written by anyone else on the internet, or in this case, by no one. It is a huge critical thinking problem in the world.

The best time to leave X was when it became a Nazi bar; the second best time is now.

I am a hardcore globalist and a hardcore antiwar dove by US standards, but for me the top 2 issues for the EU to solve urgently are digital sovereignty and military independence, both vis-a-vis the US. Trying to run out the clock with EU bureaucracy is fine but derisking from the US is essential.

Identifying people in pictures without their consent is -78 support. Tell me again how GDPR goes too far.

*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it

I have all sorts of issues with France and French foreign policy, but they have had the US pegged perfectly for 60+ years

Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn. Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.