Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Der Koalitionsstreit um die Wehrpflicht sendet das falsche Signal nach Moskau: "Wir haben ein Dringlichkeitsproblem mit Blick auf Verteidigungsfähigkeit. Wenn das immer weiter verschoben und mit schlechten Lösungen behandelt wird, sind wir verwundbarer." @claudmajor.bsky.social bei #Lanz

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

2/2 Wir sollen nur noch lesen und anschließend denken, was die Algorithmen des Multimilliardärs vorgekaut haben.

1/2 Musk will bestimmen,wie die Menschen denken. Es kommt nicht darauf an, wer etwas in ein System eingeben darf (Meinungsfreiheit), sondern wer was zu lesen bekommt (Informationsfreiheit).Musk greift die Quellen unserer Informationsfreiheit systematisch an:die klassischen Medien, jetzt Wikipedia 2/

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

What Russia does everyday to Ukraine. What Russia will do across Europe if we don’t stop them in Ukraine.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

Kremlinese-to-English translation: Groundless --> grounded, justified Unworthy of attention --> worthy of your careful attention Denied --> we did it and it's my job to say we didn't

Worum es wirklich geht bei der Kampagne der Berlinskaja Prawda und der Lohnschreiber von Friedrich? Als Teil der russländischen hybriden Kriegsführung tun die „nützlichen Idioten“ (Lenin), was sie für den Kreml zu erledigen haben.

The US has now two parallel governing structures beginning to shape policy in fields that were once the competence of the US federal government. Potentially the next tightening of tension in the America Crisis.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

You don’t want to live in a country where the comedians can’t make fun of the guy in charge.

ah, well

Elon Musk feuert den Neonazi Robinson an, ruft zum Bürgerkrieg auf und sieht einen Endkampf gut gegen böse. Jede Regierung und jede_r Politiker_in, der_die sich noch mit ihm und seinen Produkten umgibt ist mitschuldig. Die EU soll sich sehr genau überlegen, ob sie Twitter so noch akzeptieren kann.

Wir sollten eigentlich mal darüber diskutieren, ob wir X verbieten sollten in der EU, aber unsere Regierung hat noch nicht mal damit aufgehört, diese Plattform zu nutzen.

Der reichste Mensch der Welt ruft in seinem globalen Krieg gegen die Demokratie Menschen in einem anderen Kontinent zu offener Gewalt auf und die EU lässt seine Plattform weiterhin existieren. Staaten-Lenker, offizielle Accounts und Medien hängen dort weiter rum und verleihen ihr damit Relevanz.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."

Russia attacks Poland deliberately, the Trump response…”It could’ve been a mistake.” Any European state basing its defense plans on the US defending it from a Russian attack is living in a fantasy world and deliberately exposing its citizens to great risk.

Worth noticing that Ukraine defended itself far better than NATO and against a much more extensive Russian attack at the same time. If we want to be safe we have to help and learn from the Ukrainians.

Wer noch nicht genug gekotzt hat über die deutsche Verharmlosungs-Presse bzgl Charlie Kirk, die ihn als "Rechtsekonservativen" statt als Rechtsextremisten verniedlicht: Hier kommt die Junge Union, die den Rassisten, Antisemiten, Sexisten/Queerfeind betrauert. Das ist der "konservative" Nachwuchs🤢

Die AFD organisiert eine Soli-Kundgebung für die Terrorverdächtigen der "Sächsischen Separatisten", obwohl sie diese selbst aus der Partei geworfen hatte, um nicht weiter ins Visier des Verfassungsschutzes zu kommen.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Ich war noch nie so hoffnungslos für die USA wie heute. Es ist völlig klar was jetzt kommt.

“This is Canada. If you want to live in Trump’s America, or want our country to become Americanized, then leave. The vast majority of Canadians hate Donald Trump, and the Conservatives are traitors for pushing MAGA propaganda.”

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

Too much efficiency erodes resilience, no matter what system we are talking about, human, nature, socio-ecological... here example from food supply chains. Same with almost everything in today's society. We are making everything too efficient for it to be resilient.

It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.

Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."

Fun fact: the US agency that has the best relations with the Cuban government is the Coast Guard, because they tip us off over drug smugglers passing by the island en route to Florida. Maritime drug enforcement is one area that tends to bring antagonistic governments together.

It's remarkable that rhetoric that with any other society would be perceved as language of civil war is now just treated as just one of those routine things in US politics

Frieden kommt nicht, wenn der Angegriffene aufhört zu kämpfen. Was dann kommt, ist Okkupation - eine Weiterführung des Krieges mit Folter, Entführungen, Vergewaltigungen, Zwangsadoptionen, Mord. Wer will, dass „das Sterben aufhört“, muss den Aggressor stoppen und zurückdrängen.

Digital sovereignty. Much like we’ve encouraged the EU to end its dependence on Russian energy, it shouldn’t put all its eggs in one US tech basket when it comes to IT, cloud services, and computer tech. open.substack.com/pub/ireneken...

In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided

Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere

Art of the deal.

Western media scratching their heads/balls today and asking themselves "Did we call it wrong after the second Trump-Zelenskyy White House meeting?" Yes, you did. Again. If you actually listened to what seasoned Russia/Ukraine/Trump-watchers have been saying - for years - you might get it right.

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

Man darf der orwellschen Sprachvernebelung nicht auf den Leim gehen. Die blumige Friedensrhetorik der AfD ist reine Kriegstreiberei: Wer Putins Kriegslogik unterstützt, will keinen Frieden sondern dauerhaften Kriegszustand mitten in Europa. Zu den Bedingungen eines Kriegsverbrechers.

Vladimir Putin is focusing on a deal that would grant him Ukraine’s key defensive lines, just as Adolf Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications in 1938.

Der Weg ins Autoritäre ist mit falschen Gleichsetzungen gepflastert.