Nous savons que nous sommes mortels—et que nous sommes capables de construire un futur meilleur. Ce 25 décembre nous avons publié la leçon radicalement et paradoxalement énergisante de Paul Valéry sur l'Europe. À lire absolument. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/2...

In 2005 I was a newly-elected MP in a heavily Catholic region. The Church said they would deny me communion and defeat me in the election if I didn't change my support for same sex marriage. I held my ground and Catholic voters came out in droves to support me. vimeo.com/1148980471?f...

Erdogan approves

Interesting reframing. Cost of aid to #ukraine in cups of coffee per month. (by @topleadEU)

"Despite All Warnings, Pandora Opened The Comments Section" (by Ian Boothby & Pia Guerra, New Yorker).

This kind of speech is getting more and more on my nerves, because during this time Moscovia is still killing Ukrainians. Please let's talk of how the Moscovian economy is bad only when there are food riots in the streets around the Kremlin.

In a joint statement, the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark urged the US to show respect, saying annexation is not an option. Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Jens Frederik Nielsen stressed that Greenland belongs to its people, not the United States.

when you don't have kids you're essentially breaking a 4-billion-year chain of reproduction and genetic transfer, which is the ultimate flex on nature IMHO

why did they redact this

The people who predicted the end of globalisation should honestly confront how wrong their predictions were. There is no end to globalisation. A country can decide to retreat from the global economy, but that doesn't stop the global economy from existing.

Watching farmer protests in Europe, it is worth a reminder that we have paid an average of 30-50 billion euros in annual subsidies to our farmers for the last decades. The current E.U budget allocates 387 billion euros to farmers from 2021 to 2027. This is unsustainable. We can't keep doing this.

NATO’s winter paw-trol: military working dog from the Norwegian Army’s K-9 unit and a group of conscripts from Brigade Nord, stationed in Bardufoss.

The best part of Trudeau dating Katy Perry is Russel Brands reaction (Apparently brand gave a speech at TPUSA on Thursday) 😂

News is that Orban, Fico, and Babis got this exception. On the one hand, this sucks and goes against the spirit of what the E.U was made for. Solidarity. On the other hand, they will now no longer get in the way of E.U aid packages for Ukraine.

It should be clear. If Hungary, Slovakia, or Czechia, at any moment in the next few years, find themselves in a situation of unintended and unforeseen catastrophe, where they will need European help... it will be an extremely awkward situation.

Trump’s retreat from the world stage means you now need nukes if you want to stay safe from global predators.

Russia has no plans to invade: Moldova. Ok. But not Georgia Ok but not Ukraine. Ok, Just Crimea Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia Ok, all of Ukraine But Russia won't attack EU

I invited western journalists to see a city we then retreated from My aircraft break apart before Ukraine can shoot them down I am losing submarines in a land war to a country that has no navy It's only Tuesday.

"One thing they all had in common: They were under the age of 35. 'People are looking to escape powerlessness…to regain action and sovereignty and act on things,' said Christelle Savall, former president of the Young European Federalists Association which has recently seen a surge in membership."

As if leaving me with another submarine that now can't sink, to go with all the ships that now don't float, the Ukrainians even hacked our surveillance cameras so we filmed their attack for them.

RIP Rob Reiner

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

Stubb: “If you look at rankings on democracy, freedom, rule of law, least corruption, European states are always in the top ten. “I actually think European states are doing quite well.”

Man of the year. For those waking up, this is Ahmed el Ahmad. A local dude who attacked one of the Bondi terrorists with his bare hands, and managed to disarm him. He was shot. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Istanbul. Alaska. Geneva. Results? Nothing. Why? Because: Russia doesn’t want peace. Team Trump wants business deals. Europe refuses to shape events in Europe. Berlin will be no different.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, our first on a non-human vatnik, we’ll talk about… Grok. It’s best known for turning into Mecha-Hitler and Mecha-Putler and for defending its vatnik master, Elon Musk, at all costs, up to being willing to sacrifice the rest of mankind for him. 1/24

Tordesillas was classy in comparison.

NEW: Russia is now demanding that Finland [and Sweden] leave NATO. Russian FM Lavrov announced that the NATO arrangements demanded by Vladimir Putin in December 2021 are still in place and Europe's "last chance." Lavrov addressed his words directly to Finnish FM Valtonen on Thu.

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Leader of the 2020 Belarus protests Maria Kolesnikova has been released from prison following talks with the US. No doubt part of the Potash deal.

From the Jeffrey Epstein collection.

i can't believe coffee exists. a delicious morning beverage that gives you endorphins and makes you poop. a total reset for body and brain. it's proof that God is real.

All of US history took place while Pluto orbited the Sun - once

J'étais prêt à accorder le bénéfice du doute à F. Martel, qui est quelqu'un que j'estime (j'ai en particulier beaucoup apprécié son livre "Sodoma"). Mais sa réaction (rien n'est de sa faute) me laisse penser que ses accusateurs avaient raison. 1/2

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

The EU is warning Belgium it could face the same cold shoulder treatment as Hungary if PM Bart De Wever blocks the €210B Ukraine loan. Brussels wants more safeguards before backing the plan, but other leaders are running out of patience.

Hungary's Viktor Orbán is looking for ways to keep power if he loses next year’s election, Bloomberg reports. He is considering shifting into the presidency and turning the largely ceremonial office into Hungary’s dominant political post, an idea he raised after meeting Trump.

Too much politics in the feed, so here's a nice WIP pot of borscht for ya folks

I've been saying since 2022 that the European Union should consider banning pro-Russian online propagandists who are not E.U citizens from travelling to Europe. Now that the U.S is banning anyone who posted negative opinions of Trump from the U.S, can we give it a shot?

It's that time of year again! Music lovers across the continent have eagerly awaited Spotify's annual Wrapped feature. The 2025 edition was released last week. We've compiled our version of this year's musical summary with Europe's weekly #1 songs from 29 countries.

Watch out! We are in the danger zone

Trump can snake on with his negotiations but they mean nothing to the frontlines. Commanders have already declared they wouldn’t stop fighting even if Zelenskyy himself ordered them to stop. Each Ukrainian defender is a free man or woman and will fight until everyone is free.