"The Fyre Festival of Affordability" lmaoooooo 🤣

A refinery a day keeps the vatniks away!

"there's a new serif in town"

love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets

Make Measles Great Again!

Trump‘s wrong insinuation that Ukraine‘s President Zelenskyy is perpetuating the war so that there are no election has been countered by the Ukrainian President in a very clever way:

MAGA women suddenly realizing their entire party is captured by hardcore misogynists 🫠 www.deccanherald.com/opinion/repu...

"Russia, Trump said, is too powerful for Ukraine to continue fighting." Trump is a Russian asset, plain and simple. Ukraine and it's actual allies need to start ignoring the US and independently ensure Ukraine's security.

Interesting development. I wonder if they're going to put a man in that role to appease the Orange Clown down south. Hillman is very smart, capable, and self-assured from what I've seen. All of which are qualities that Trump would find repulsive in a woman, mostly because he is a complete POS.

"..humouring Trump was distasteful but necessary. Europe was able to avert much worse outcomes and limit Trump’s ability to do harm by patiently manoeuvring him back in line after each outburst. However, the grovelling strategy always had an expiration date. That date has now definitively passed..."

America needs hundreds of thousands of Hugh Thompsons right now.

Rest assured this isn't the worst of it. Americans need to get MAGA under control ASAP if there is to be *any* hope of salvaging the country. This is not something that happens in any sanctioned manner within civilized, democratic countries.

And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

The US view is that Europe is breaking from immigration and, deep down, wants peace with Russia at all costs. It is at best delusional but Europe still needs to act on it. As @alanderminna.bsky.social says, we need a new strategy. (And Americans needs to see how costly it is to cut off friends)

When your American national security strategy gets the Kremlin seal of approval, that is not a good sign.

The USA under MAGA is a Russian ally. Despicable, but predictable, behaviour.

Jeffrey Epstein

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

He's such a weird, small man

Musk is a sociopathic idiot. Whatever he says, the EU should do the exact opposite.

MAGA is just a bunch of self-hating closeted homosexual men lashing out at everything that isn't their vision of "ideal" (straight, white, aggressive, uneducated, men).

List of countries or blocks that need to urgently decouple from the US to protect themselves: - Europe - Canada - Greenland - Literally everyone except Russia and Saudi Arabia

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them. www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

Oh, the supreme court has already made it's decision, they're just waiting for Trump's crypto bribes to clear before releasing it.

If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.

MAGA is incapable of shame, but they may sometimes respond in the face of consistent and firm pressure.

Canada: Let's focus on diversifying trade and investing in infrastructure to stabilize our economy USA: KILL ALL THE BOAT PEOPLE! KILL THEM ALLLLLL

Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.

Guess Tate and Epstein both had the same idea...

Shocker - the guy who's entire job is pushing more US-CAN trade writes tone-deaf article promoting US-CAN trade in the midst of MAGA's assault on Canada. We need to diversify, not lean into the US-CAN relationship. amchamcanada.ca/national/dir... www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

MAGA/MAHA continues to kill kids. This is damage that can never fully be undone.

Yeap. Canada got to this conclusion a few months ahead just because of our proximity to the US and Trump's 51st state threats. All past US allies and partners will realize this eventually.

And yet this does not get "Hunter Biden" level coverage, huh, wonder why that is.

When Trump campaigned on deporting immigrants with criminal records he was lying, as the data now shows. His actual agenda is to remove non-white immigrants whether they came here legally or not or have committed crimes or not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A refinery a day keeps the vatniks away! 🧨💥

China continues to press ahead with increasingly impressive (and increasingly affordable) electric vehicles. The Trump administration is cutting fuel efficiency standards and dreaming about bringing back faux wood-panelling. The race here is already over.

More than a third of US Republicans think the Holocaust was basically a conspiracy and didn't happen.

Vague rules with wide ranges of interpretation and enforcement potential are a hallmark of authoritarian capture. It's how the CCP convinces people to self-censor.

@economist.com his the nail on the head this week. Europe can easily afford to support Ukraine -- and it is not even that costly, as long as all members participate. Joint debt will rope in even the recalcitrant ones.

I have to say, watching Germany change from timid, anxious, giant scared to throw it's weight around in 2022, into to a 2025 leadership role on European defence has been a positive surprise.

*seven*? They're celebrating seven kids? Russia has kidnapped tens of THOUSANDS of Ukrainian kids, many of which they have plans to indoctrinate and induct into their invasion force to go kill more Ukrainians. Crimes on crimes on crimes. Russia is cancer.

I mean, the "crisis" framing was always overdone. We're constantly compared against the largest economy in the world, which is fuelled by debt, and which doesn't concern itself with social programs.

Putin has never been weaker. Russia's energy sector is choked by Ukrainian drone strikes and Ukraine's allies (yes, even the sleepy EU) are starting to internalize the fact that they need to deal with European security *without* US assistance. Putin isn't taking anything. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

"Are internet-connected AI toys safe for kids?" Are you HIGH? Under no circumstances should young kids be left unsupervised with an AI.

America has already betrayed Ukraine.

It should be a resignation-triggering scandal for the person second in line for the presidency to not know anything about anything & to regularly admit that he doesn't follow the news. It should also be an answer that journalists gathered at his press conferences do not accept.