I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Wir zeigen Dobrindt an wegen Verleitung von Untergebenen zu einer Straftat. Das entbindet aber Bundespolizist*innen nicht von ihrer Verantwortung. Deswegen bieten wir auch Vorlagen für Remonstrationen an. Niemand kann sich darauf berufen, lediglich Befehle zu befolgen.

In einem Rechtsstaat kann ein Rechtsbrecher unmöglich Innenminister sein. Radikale Forderung im Juni 2025.

Hier kann übrigens jeder und jede einen Verstoß eines Mitgliedstaats gegen EU-Recht ganz einfach bei der EU-Kommission melden: commission.europa.eu/about/contac...

Yesterday afternoon two ships, a helicopter and a maritime surveillance aircraft of Estonian forces ordered shadow tanker JAGUAR towards EE national waters, north of Tallin. The attempt attracted a Russian fighter jet but the EE navy pursuit continued 4h to just 7 miles from Russia. Baltic hot.

🧵Censor, purge, defund - how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science & universities. This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods. I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration. 1/16

Voice of America is run by the US government. They have real journalists, who are increasingly be put on leave by Trump appointees for not being sycophantic enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

Can-EU - Why not? "44% of Canadians think that the Canadian government definitely or probably should look into joining the European Union, while 34% are opposed to it." abacusdata.ca/what-canadia...

With the US-Canada trade war heating up, Canadians are looking for friends elsewhere. Perhaps surprisingly, nearly half of Canadians say they would support joining the European Union open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

„Vieles von dem, wenn nicht sogar fast alles von dem, was wir da vorschlagen, ist auch von den Grünen in der letzten Wahlperiode schon einmal vorgetragen worden.“ Mit anderen Worten: Die Grünen lagen richtig mit ihren politischen Forderungen. Wir wollten sie im Wahlkampf dennoch bekämpfen.

The Trump administration’s most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from Polish & Hungarian illiberal groups on how to shape the future of the European Union. The proposals, obtained by VSquare, include dismantling key EU institutions and renaming the entire bloc.

Pünktlich zur geplanten Abschiebeinitiative der zukünftig kleinen Koalition, hier noch so eine Meldung aus einem "sicherem Herkunftsland". #KeinMenschIstIllegal #MigrationIstKeinVerbrechen #AsylIstMenschenrecht www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/syri...

*Wir bekennen uns zu den Klimazielen!* Ein besonderes Augenmerk legen wir auf Gasförderung *Europarecht darf nicht gebrochen werden!* Das beachten wir bei der Zurückweisung von Asylsuchenden an den Grenzen *Deutschland bleibt weltoffen!* Dafür entziehen wir Nichtbiodeutschen die Staatsbürgerschaft

Szenario einer AfD-Regierung aus dem Buch "Machtübernahme" (2024) vs. Schwarz-rotes Sondierungspapier (2025)

Dieser Aufruf europäischer Menschen, auch ich gehöre dazu, benennt Mindestanforderungen, wie ein echter Frieden für die Ukraine und Europa aussehen muss! Alles darunter käme einem Verrat der Ukraine gleich! www.leuropeen.eu/2025/02/24/d...

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Women - female - feminism - gender Auch diese Wörter werden durch die Trump Administration „verbannt“ - d.h aus der Sprache der Regierung und des Staates entfernt. Es ist ein Kampf gegen die Wirklichkeit; den Menschen soll der Verstand ausgetrieben werden

Holy shit!! Trump just slipped on live TV that he lost the 2020 presidential election. Trump would HATE it if this goes viral:

Perhaps this summer is the last one we experience in peace, says 🇩🇪military historian Sönke Neitzel with regards to a planned 🇷🇺military exercise in Belarus in September which might be used to attack 🇱🇹.

„Ukraine has options. Europe is still in the game. The country’s domestic weapons production is ramping up. Across Ukraine, small workshops—what some call the “shadow military-industrial complex”—are working 24/7 to keep the war effort going.“ From Ilia Ponomarenko 👇 time.com/7265176/trum...

Keine Ausraster bei „Nius“ und Axel Springer. Kein 5-Punkte-Plan von Merz. Keine Forderung nach Gesetzesverschärfungen von Markus Söder. Kein Brennpunkt. Keine Sondersendung bei Markus Lanz. Die Tagesschau spricht von „Autofahrt“.

Trump’s administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the war with Russia, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

China will advance unification with Taiwan and boost defense spending by 7.2% this year, Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced during the National People's Congress on Wednesday

No country in their right mind should ever buy weapons from the United States again if our president can just shut them off as an act of treason or manipulation.

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.

Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

Authoritarianism going brrrr.

I swear to God every woman knows this exchange

„Der Taxifahrer aus Mannheim ist „ein richtiger Held” Schwarz nennt seinen Mitarbeiter „Held des Tages”. Die Taxi-Community sei von dem Vorfall erschüttert und gleichzeitig Afzal M. für seinen Einsatz dankbar. „Das ist ein richtiger Held”, sagt Jürgen Schwarz. „ www.rtl.de/news/held-vo...

Ich kann nicht mehr

It was, in fact, much easier for russia to take over the US than to occupy 20% of Ukraine

Will Europeans Boycott the US? | "There is real anger in Europe over the US treatment of Ukraine. It may develop in unexpected ways." @elisabethbraw.bsky.social

The European Union remains a funny animal. Outside observers: rich place, lots of industry, lower debt levels than US/China. Should be able to rearm quickly and cheaply if they coordinate decision-making. Leaders on the inside: I don’t trust my neighbour so let’s bicker while the house burns down.

Did JD even thank Vermont for having him?

“In publicly degrading Zelensky, Trump and J.D. Vance signaled that the defense architecture the US has built for Eastern Europe since the 1990s is not only a burden in the eyes of MAGA, but something the region should be ashamed of.” My latest piece: theeasternflank.substack.com/p/eastern-eu...

Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

Russian state TV on the new world order: "Now everything is being decided inside a big triangle: Russia, China & the US. Within this, the new construction of the world will come to fruition. The EU as a united political force no longer exists..." ['News of the Week', Russia-1]

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

Again, European journalists are doing a better job of covering America's fall into fascism than America's are. Here, @DerSpiegel centers its coverage not on Trump but on whose he would victimize. (Headline via Google Translate) archive.ph/ZUXkZ

Ganz starkes Interview. Bitte teilt das auch in eurem Umfeld, wenn Verunsicherung herrscht. Es ist wichtig, sich nicht weiter Illusionen hinzugeben. Dringende Folgeempfehlung auch für @thomaszimmer.bsky.social , der klare Worte findet für den perfiden und fehlgeleiteten Vorwurf, Zelensky habe 1/5

A new piece w @danielbeland.bsky.social and @excubs.bsky.social “Putin seems to be counting on the Trump admin to do his dirty work for him by browbeating Ukraine into conceding via coercion what Ru has so far been unable to win for itself on the battlefield.” www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-attac...

“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you” - J.D. Vance, the guy who runs from his own voters

MAGA is about “restoring” former national glory by pursuing an imperial project of hemispheric dominance and aggressive displays of “alpha-male” aggression towards the “weak” – combined with submissive pandering to foreign autocrats as allies in the struggle against “liberalism.”

The Trumpist regime is not just “critical” of the “liberal world order” – it fundamentally rejects that something like liberal norms and values even exists or should inform how a major power conducts itself. They are not just “no longer reliable” as an ally – they are an antagonist.

Was, wenn die Repression gegen Transfrauen nur ein Testlauf ist, um langfristig Frauenrechte massiv einzuschränken? Klingt extrem? Schauen wir uns die Fakten und Strategien genau an.👇

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.