As global agrivoltaics research progresses and adoption of the technology continues to expand, social acceptance is central to any achievement beyond niche applications. #EnergySky nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-...

Today, people are rightly focusing on Ukraine. But it’s also worth taking a moment to think about the monumental stupidity and failure of Putin and his subordinates, who started the longest, most destructive European war since WW2 even though there was no threat to Russia. 🧵

Putin started a war against Ukraine to stop Ukraine from ever being able to join Western institutions. As a result, Ukraine is now closer to membership of the EU than it has ever been before and is widely regarded as an integral part of future European security architecture.

#1462DaysOfResilience #SkyshieldNOW #CloseTheSkysOverUkraine #WeAreAllUkrainians 💙💛 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #SelfDefenseIsNotEscalation 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #DemocracyIsNonNegociable 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #RemembranceIsNotAViolation🕯🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini 💙💛 #HeroyamSlava 💙💛

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy:I thank all the leaders who are in Ukraine and with Ukraine today, and who have supported Ukrainians throughout all these years of struggle. It’s extremely important that we are all together today, speaking with one voice. Global unity is stronger than any of Russia’s alliances.

#Ukraine - wie steht es 2026, was hat #Russland vor? sehr gute Analyse von @gresselgustav.bsky.social www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...

Now Ireland takes in #Grok Good news: we should ban rightwing X and Grok open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Deutschland 🇩🇪 liebt es geradezu, abhängig zu sein. Ist es nicht #russland, dann sind es die Vereinigten Staaten von #amerika! Siehe #palantir. Siehe allgemein #bigtechusa (Microsoft, Adobe etc. pp.). Dieses Land ist absolut unfähig zur europäischen Unabhängigkeit! Die Wähler*innen bestätigen dies.

Nicht nur die Slowakei und Ungarn kaufen Energie aus Russland. Auch andere europäische Staaten, darunter Deutschland, füllen Putins Kriegskasse.

Die Europäer dreschen immer auf China und Indien ein, haben aber zwischen Februar 2022 – Februar 2026 selbst russische Energieträger im Wert von 220 Milliarden Euro importiert, mehr als Indien. www.russiafossiltracker.com

Four years of extraordinary courage. 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s fight for freedom is the fight for our shared European values. The EU stands united in its unwavering support against Russia's war of aggression. We are with you for as long as it takes. #StandWithUkraine

Four lessons & four policy priorities after four years of Russia’s war against #Ukraine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @cerianbond.bsky.social. Read here: buff.ly/6RWmjER

I am pleased to see that more and more European leaders talk about a Ukrainian victory as essential for peace in Europe.

It is four years ago today that the Russians launched their full scale invasion of Ukraine. Many in the west wrote Ukraine off and prophesied a “shock and awe” Russian victory. Instead Ukraine defied its attacker and their fight for freedom became decisive for the future of European freedom.

It’s a grift. It’s not #massdeportation it’s #massdetention for profit. Ans wait til they break out the convict leasing… Absurd. $254 million profited off of the lack of due process. “GEO Group reported $254 million in profits - up from nearly $32 million in 2024 - after it secured new federal...

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 European institutions are illuminated in blue and yellow This is a symbolic commemoration of 4 years of heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

Putin will weiter Krieg führen, die Ukraine ist gezwungen, sich weiter zu verteidigen, die USA unter Trump werden keinen Frieden bringen - bleibt die Frage, ob die Europäer endlich den Putins Krieg stoppen und weitere dieser furchtbaren “Jahrestage” des Großangriffs verhindern.

Europe should have woken up in 2014. It did, but only partially, in 2022. If we don’t fully wake up in 2026 and take our destiny into our own hands, we won’t deserve control over it

The 5th year of war in Ukraine has begun. At 4am on this day in 2022, Putin ordered his troops to destroy Ukraine. They tried. They failed. It's Day 1462 and a daily thread with all the fact-checked news, free, every single day. Please send a coffee if you like my work🙏

Auch nach vier Jahren vollem #angriffskrieg durch #russland : die #ukraine bleibt stark und #Köln bleibt solidarisch. Kommt am Dienstag um 19 Uhr auf den Roncalliplatz zur #Demo für die Verteidigung von #Demokratie und #Unabhängigkeit im Osten von #Europa #slavaUkraini #kiew #koln#demo#demokratie#europa#SlavaUkraini#kiew#gruene #grune

The fastest path to end this war is more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine. Let this be the last war anniversary we mark. (2/2)

#Zuckersteuer ja bitte #Guenther find ich gut @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de Bitte weitertreiben www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

In solidarity with the Ukrainian people, we raise the Ukrainian flag alongside the EU flag at our @eudiplomacy.bsky.social HQ. This is more than a symbol. Ukraine’s future lies within the EU. With our support, Ukrainians are resisting and holding firm. (1/2)

I'm sure you're wondering how many paragraphs it took the NYT to note that the US-Iran crisis the world is facing was *deliberately created by Trump* when he exited the US-Iran nuclear deal in 2018 purely to spite a Black man he hated (Obama). Answer: 22.

#Zuckersteuer ja bitte #Guenther find ich gut @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de Bitte weitertreiben www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Super! Kleine Erfolge sind sooo wichtig Danke @campact.de Danke @spdfraktion.de

Thanks, very concerning but highly likely: X creates a world of right wing paranoid egoists. It is destroying the fabric of our society. Time to ban #X

The role of Musk's X in the 2020s is remarkably similar to that of Rothermere's Daily Mail in the 1920s and 1930s. It pushed a narrative which claimed we were being "swamped" by "aliens" (mostly meaning Jews), undermining British interests and values, threatening "our" women and children ...

Very important read: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

#KI ist dabei, die #Propaganda und #Desinformation zu revolutionieren. Und die Demokratien haben keine Strategie dagegen. www.welt.de/wissenschaft...

The EU: talks loads about energy independence & security with a full ban on Russian gas Also the EU: increases the import of LNG from another authoritarian regime 🤯 It's simply swapping one dependency for another, when we should be breaking away from gas in its ENTIRETY www.dw.com/en/weaned-of...

This would be quite an escalation by Orbán - as he promised at the European Council in December to exactly not veto this, as long as Hungary was not part of the Enhanced Cooperation. This would make it a huge breach of trust (if there is any left).

Russia launched 126 drones + an Iskander-M ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight (Feb 23). 105 drones were intercepted. Casualties reported in Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Odesa — at least 4 killed, 8+ wounded. The attack was still ongoing at time of reporting euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/23/r...

Yet another terrorist Russian attack on #Ukraine - there are dead&injured Odesa region:2 people were killed& 3 others were injured. Russia attacked industrial,energy,civilian infrastructure facilities with drones. One of the drones hit an apartment in a high-rise building - but did not detonate.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

„Gas, Atomkraftwerke und Verbrennungsautos sind die Technologien der Zukunft und der Klimawandel wird überschätzt!“ Muss man wirklich Wirtschaftswissenschaften studiert haben, um zu merken, was für ein Haufen Bullshit das ist und dass die CDU Deutschland damit voll gegen die Wand fährt? 🤔

⚡️Russia hits American sweets factory with missile in northeastern Ukraine. The factory, located in Trostianets in Sumy Oblast, was struck by a missile, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said. The plant has operated since the 1990s, and produces well-known products, including Oreo and Milka.

Mitglieder der staatlichen Wahlbehörde von Georgia stimmten am Mittwoch dafür, eine formelle Rüge gegen Musks America PAC auszusprechen. Grund dafür ist das illegale Vorgehen des milliardenschweren Technokraten, um Trumps Wahl zu unterstützen. 3/4

“ .. I must wonder if America’s utter abdication of any responsibility for global warming will someday come back to bite in the form of retaliatory tariffs .. What’s to stop a group of nations with .. climate-related economic losses from eventually penalising the US ..” www.ft.com/content/4d25...

#Russland ist ein Terror Staat. Wie einst ISIS. Wir müssen den Ukrainern jeden Tag dankbar sein, den sie gegen die Übermacht aus Moskau ankämpfen www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

He will grab Greenland, when China takes over Taiwan open.substack.com/pub/tilmanei...

History will judge Brexit as a traitorous act that intentionally divided the West at its most critical moment. Putin has always wanted a fragmented Europe and the Leave campaign gave him exactly what he needed

A great article, and an important warning: “A big psychological block for some European intelligence services was that they believed Putin to be a largely rational actor, and were deeply sceptical that he would embark on a plan they felt was likely to fail.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

“Tariffs are taxes, driving up costs for both consumers and businesses, as recent studies clearly confirm. When applied unpredictably, tariffs are inherently disruptive, undermining confidence and stability across global markets and creating further uncertainty across international supply chains.”

The European Parliament should postpone a vote on legislation implementing the EU’s side of its transatlantic trade deal, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, a senior lawmaker said today.

Pure tariff chaos from the US administration. No one can make sense of it anymore — only open questions and growing uncertainty for the EU and other US trading partners (1/3)

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...