New piece with former fellow ECB hand @thinicemacro.bsky.social. At the Munich Security Conference, the ECB made its geopolitical move, opening repo lines to central banks globally. It was probably the most consequential policy announcement at the conference. 1/ www.cer.eu/insights/ecb...

Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program. "Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this."

UKRAINE TALKS IN GENEVA END - REPORTS

After being bought by alt-right billionaire Trump toady David Ellison, CBS is now the American counterpart to Правда (Pravda, Russian for "Truth"). Just as folks in Moscow lament that "В «Правде» нет правды." (There is no truth in Truth/Правда), the new CBS is a place where truth dies.

🇨🇦🇨🇦Best thing’s about Mark Carney. He answers the presses questions without blaming his predecessor. *see Trump Biden* He has a plan moving forward regardless Trumps threats. He’s easy to understand as he speaks English. He doesn’t post memes of him raining shit on our people. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

"It's the opportunity to have a rules-based trading bloc of 1.5 billion people with complementary economies," says PM Carney when asked about reports that he is leading talks between the European Union and a 12-nation Indo-Pacific bloc to create a new trading alliance. #cdnpoli

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

From 2017

Day 2208 of #Brexit: “The one thing that Donald Trump has done that I deeply appreciate, and he has done it almost single-handedly, is to unify Europe in a profound and consequential way and I applaud Donald Trump for making that happen.” - Gavin Newsom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Land of the Free becomes more a lie each and every day.

US job creation.

The Prime Minister is right, we must curb our dependence on the US and look to our European neighbours for our security. Now, he must take action to ensure closer cooperation, including an Administrative Arrangement with the European Defence Agency.

It's almost as if the Swedes don't read Paul Krugman or Wolfgang Münchau. (I'm old enough to remember Anglophone commentators in 2011 giving the euro "another three months at most"... for years and years.)

Ja, tot het zgn neoliberale kapitalisme hier een eind aan maakte. Dit wordt te weinig door economen en politicologen geanalyseerd. We hàdden veel beter bestuur dan nu. Kom op, vertel ook deze waarheid, wetenschappers !

Wat een belachelijk en #misleidend artikel! Wie de moeite neemt de wetenschappelijke publicatie waarnaar verwezen wordt, er op na te lezen, trekt een hele andere conclusie. Uit dat artikel blijkt dat er helemaal geen sprake is van een duidelijke linkse dominantie op de universiteiten! 1/4

Dankzij het boek van deze twee geweldige vrouwen wist ik eindelijk te stoppen met mijn achterlijke zelfvernietiging. Deze vrouwen verdienen standbeelden. Veel. Heel veel standbeelden.

🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:

Reminder: this is the same outfit that expels and deports people for criticising a foreign government

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

A reminder that those who took for granted that Trump victory would be the end of Ukraine were wrong. Ukraine continues to hold Ru off despite the fact that Trump ended US aid. Ukraine has innovated and developed its military capacity, Europe has stepped up, and Ru is weaker than many assume.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

France to ban officials from using American video conference tools including Zoom and Teams.

El Greco"a dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.

‘We zijn mentaal gekoloniseerd geraakt,’ zegt journalist en schrijver Joris Luyendijk over Europa. Met 500 miljoen inwoners, een enorme economie, eigen scheepsvaartindustrie en topuniversiteiten zouden we alles in huis moeten hebben. Toch blijven we onszelf wijsmaken dat we klein zijn.

Barbara Kathmann staat op mijn lijstje van top 10 meest waardevolle Kamerleden. Heel goed van al die kiezers die via NerdVote haar met voorkeursstemmen in de Kamer hebben geloodst. De volgende keer stap ik denk ik ook over van “stem op een vrouw” naar “NerdVote”.

Today, the Council formally adopted the regulation on phasing out Russian imports of both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the EU. A key milestone in delivering the #REPowerEU objective of ending the EU’s reliance on Russian energy. Read more here: link.berry.social/press-releas...

This is brilliant but two killer lines in it: “Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.” “The scriptures you love weren’t written to keep things calm. They were written to set things right.” Liberation Theology.

Volkswagen will nur dann erneut in den Vereinigten Staaten investieren, wenn die Zölle sinken. Konzernchef Oliver Blume hält Projekte sonst nicht für finanzierbar. Das gelte auch für das geplante Audi-Werk.

This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented.

Trump’s back to threatening 100% tariffs on Canada this morning, wow I can’t imagine why the Canadians now see the Chinese as a more reliable trade partner

This is so fucking haunting.

It was impossible to seize Russian tankers until it all of a sudden wasn't. Yet another proof that when leaders refer to international laws and conventions, as they long did regarding the tankers, it's usually complete nonsense. What matters is political will.

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”European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now.”

If you wanted the British to be unwilling to send 457 servicemen to their deaths the next time the US invokes art 5 of NATO, this would be the way.

Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.

I'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.

German Chancellor Merz: We have entered a time of great power politics. This new world of great powers is being built on power, on strength, and when it comes to it, on force. It's not a cozy place.

SS | ICE

Sta je dan, in je outfit alsof je de grootste terrorist in Irak gaat aanvallen. Met een geweer die ontworpen is voor de heftigste omstandigheden. Sta je een kindje van 5 aan te houden, omdat hij een andere huidskleur heeft dan jij. 😵‍💫

“Our friends and allies must stop indulging, enabling, and submitting to America’s president. Only forthright resistance and tough love will get us out of our downward spiral.” ~ @larrydiamond.bsky.social via @nickkristof.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

“This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.” Very strong bit in a strong speech. (Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister at Davos)

🚨 Just in: First reponse from Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen to the announced ‘framework of a deal’ Ready to have a dialogue about security in the region. Ready to talk politics, security, economics. “But we can not negotiate about our sovereignty” stm.dk/presse/press...

Any country which signs up is to be considered traitorous to the West.

BREAKING: “We won’t be one of the signatories.. we do also have concerns about President Putin being part of something which is talking about peace” Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper tells #BBCBreakfast the UK won't be part of a US-proposed Gaza "Board of Peace"