Perfection.

I think we're all just pretending that the pandemic that happened a mere 5 years ago didn't traumatize us all

Dearborn getting ICE raids lol

Mehr Standort-Patriotismus wagen und die Bremsen lösen: Unsere #Automobilindustrie wird von gewaltigen Eruptionswellen erschüttert. In der WELT skizziere ich, was es braucht, damit unser Standort gestärkt und neue Technologieführerschaft erobert wird. www.welt.de/debatte/plus...

“With 470 trees planted and 4,000m2 of nature in the heart of the 14th arrondissement, the Place de Catalogne has been radically transformed in 2024!” — Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, continuing the green transformation of central Paris. Greening, cleaning and cooling the city for people.

“Critics think they’re sticking up for women’s rights, but they’re dismissing that we have a voice and a choice in what we do. Nobody asked us; they just assumed we were banned … but women feel comfortable in a women’s space.” - the implication being that women feel uncomfortable in a mixed space.

yaaaaaaay

They did it. They gentrified gentrification.

opening screen for my new video?

Credit where credit is due.

Friendly reminder that while the Schengen zone's theoretical lack of passport controls on borders hinges around Freedom of Movement the two are not the same thing. Several EU states outside faced checks for years even with Freedom of Movement.

Thinking right now about that period 14 months ago when lefties were portraying Joe Biden as something akin to a fascist dictator. I took a lot of heat for saying people were being ridiculous and that those attacks on Biden would age extremely poorly if Trump won. And now here we are.

“This is a historic moment! 100 years after it was banned, I'm signing the decree authorizing swimming in our three designated areas in the Seine. In [less than] a week, we'll take the plunge!” - Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social

lmao americans gonna fafo?

Or the classic "how dare you have fun/make jokes about X under active genocide/fascism"

a story about Iran 1/

I don't even know what to say anymore.

Also pretty clear that BYD and others are expanding their carship fleets to move stuff into export markets asap - to escape domestic saturation. My impression is they underestimated the need to have dealer networks in Europe - another bottleneck they are tackling.

Hungary now being the poorest nation in Europe is kinda funny tbh.

Trying to take credit for the strikes while STILL offering Iran a deal. First he distanced himself, now he claims success. Israel’s been building this plan since last year. Maybe it worked because they left him out of the loop after all, as some reports suggested.

Three of our four Coalition for Change leaders are now jailed by the Russian regime in Georgia: Zurab Girchi Japaridze, Nika Melia, and Nika Gvaramia. All four of them believe firmly in our victory.

New thread #3 A US defense official tells the WP this attack, which Israel says will continue over multiple days, will provoke a significant Iranian response that the Israelis will then ask the United States to help counter.

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

The strike on the Revolutionary Guard HQ was during a crisis meeting of senior Iranian leaders.

And this is why “well, nothing new’s happening so we might as well just try to win some villages or whatever in the local elections” pessimist thought by some political groups is impermissible.

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

Authoritarianism isn’t imposed on people against their will. It often emerges through their will, distorted by systemic failures that reframe cruelty as justice and power as truth.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

So... the United Statesis currently undergoing an invasion from a foreign nation in Californ-Eye-Ayy... ...BUT... Donald also needs the tanks to go *vroom* *vroom* down Pennsylvania Ave for his Big Boy Special Birthday Parade. Conundrum!

Same, minus I still have a job (for now). The only thing I still do on Xitter is track the Elon bots (and other managed accounts) that try to interfere in our elections here in Europe and that do their best to destroy any public discourse that is still tethered to reality.

I understand everyone has a lot on their social catastrophe plates, I do too. But the colonial evisceration of Tibet is proceeding apace and it deserves more attention

You can see Grok in full "Kill the Boer" action here, it's very funny, but also a reflection of the digital feudalistic nightmare we're all part of, so that's bad x.com/search?q=fro...

did this thing where I looked up some books on Amazon, checked the reviews, put them in my shopping cart and then went to our local bookstore and bought them there

Germany right now feels like everyone is waiting for the new government to either make things better or fuck up or kinda muddle through Meanwhile, pollsters are asking the exact same question every single day until a majority of the people is like "yeah, fuck it, I guess the fascist AfD it is then"

I really like the Bolero. And I really don't. It's quite peculiar in that way.

This strategy is deluded. Tell the media you want to do deals with allies that would force them to cut China out of supply chains... just so you can do a big deal with China. So they expect others to sabotage their own trade policies, just so Trump can cut a grand bargain with Xi

Of course Putin and his boy Trump hate us.

Well said! The enemies learn history because they want to go back to the past. The friends don't because they take the present for granted. Depressing.

Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

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Silence! I kill you!

Our Secretary of EDUCATION! U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attended a Summit, where experts in education and technology gathered to discuss how AI will impact learning. While speaking on a panel about AI in the workforce, McMahon repeatedly referred to AI as “A1,” like the steak sauce.

oh wow

Tier 1 and 2 cities can be quite clean if two conditions are met: 1) tourist waste is manageable and 2) they’re not digging pits everywhere. However there’s a lot of pressure against meeting these conditions!

looks so beautiful and clean

Trump acknowledges that he can be forced to reverse course through playing the bond market. So much art of the deal going on here.

So what's Ray Dalio going to do about his prediction now? A new world order? Or just Trump fucking around?

Listen to the start of this. The grovelling sycophant meeting Trump: “You got the markets seeing your brilliance”. This is the most catastrophically dangerous thing happening right now.