“ ... Oh, Trump and the Republicans can’t stand how the big, bad insurance companies are ripping-off Americans. Really? Are you serious? Then I welcome your support for Medicare for All. Let’s end the greed of the insurance industry & make healthcare a human right, not a privilege... ”

Are we surprised that billionaires have no core beliefs? They apply the sucking-up-for-favors program to whoever is in charge. I just hope Mamdani makes sure it works to New Yorkers' advantage and not billionaires.

Wow!

These pictures are quite illuminating on the ridiculous and pathetic fixation of the walled border confronted with reality.

We've got to find a way to make this permanent. No more billionaires influencing politics. Eventually no more billionaires.

" .. Mamdani ... now faces the true test: having to govern. This ... might scare the Democratic establishment: not because Mamdani could fail, but because he could succeed. Perhaps the only thing they would hate more than bad socialist government, one suspects, is good socialist government ..."

This is unbelievable and horrible. When will this attitude towards women finally disappear from this planet?

👇tal como os portugas

".. to run for president as a second-generation Maga mini-me. Both these ever-malleable Trump chumps look set to do precisely that in 2028. Like their boss, they know nothing of statesmanship or a higher calling. Followers not leaders, they are united in unbridled ambition – and unfitness to rule.."

Mentally unstable is the right definition for her.

"..Para resistir à concorrência sino-americana, a UE teria de mudar profundamente o seu modelo económico ... O problema é, acima de tudo, o modelo económico europeu, baseado no apoio às exportações industriais tradicionais ..."

C'mon, let's enshittificate everything. Even what was already decently working

Bullies can always bullies back. What is needed is courage, will and planning in advance. The EU is lacking all 3.

" ... Even if “sycophancy” is toned down, the reinforcing effect remains, by virtue of how these chatbots work. Even if guardrails are constructed around “mental health issues”, the illusion of presence with a “human-like friend” belies the reality of the underlying feedback loop ..."

It’s easy to gloss over the details in his daily madness. He basically admits he is using tariffs to be petty and vindictive. Nothing to do with the economy. Not a care for those it hurts on both sides of the border. Let’s see who in Congress calls him out. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As long as this mantra is on "...That was an acceptable situation for western countries for a long time, as they were happy to buy cheap products they weren’t prepared to mine and make themselves..." there is no option to think using the "head" and not the "purse". As usual: money money money.

" ... We are often told that Europe is forged in crisis. But how acute must a crisis become for our leaders to put their minds together and find the political will to act? ..."

Why do people still DO want to believe the 47th? Or Putin? These two cannot be believed and trusted.

" ... So when someone insists on their right to demonize immigrants, that is not free speech – it is fear speech. Again, we neither can nor should make fear speech illegal, but we can create cultural norms that promote genuine free speech ..."

As usual, for right-wing personalities, blaming the others for their own bad actions (past, present or future).

" ..En laissant à la droite populiste et aux libertariens le monopole du discours sur l’efficacité, la gauche se prive d’un levier décisif pour regagner les classes populaires.."

Earth IS a cosmic zoo that aliens had agreed to leave alone!

This is the tragedy of our species: never learn from previous/others mistakes and from history. We like to think that this time is different, that we changed. But in reality the old demons are always there waiting to be awakened again and again. Never really tamed.

That's exactly the point: governments should stop invading privacy using every possible excuse.

The age of extinction has started. It will probably follow a logarithmic scale. Let's buckle up. The worst has yet to come.

Very well done Von Der Leyen.

"During much of the 20th century, the town’s residents were forced to fan out across Europe in search of work “Some of them had papers, but some had no papers, no job offers, nothing,”, “We can’t say: ‘Well we did it, but now we’re against it.’ We’re all human beings, we need to have some empathy.”

" ...Ben-Ami added: “I don’t think that this is somehow in any way antisemitic or anti-Israel. It’s a rejection of this government and the policies of the Israeli government over not just the last couple of years but going back a few decades at this point... ”

This kind of messianic "possessed" people are the ones that historically ruin/end civilizations and will "gift" our species only suffering and death.

What's intrinsically wrong with tech bros? This one looks like a crazy lunatic but he owns companies with huge databases of people (facial recognition, AI) across the world. How can non authoritarians government allow this is still puzzling me.

" ..If a Democratic majority is elected in 2026, will the outgoing Republican speaker duly swear in its members? Or will he use his procedural powers to delay one, several or many of them from taking their oaths of office – either under the pretext of election fraud or personal ineligibility, ...

Absolutely right!

I disagree with the interviewer's statement that the right and far right are better at reaching citizens. The far right spreads lies and misinformation and always manages to find a scapegoat for people's problems. The media has become so commercial that journalists no longer correct this!

The momentum for a Ukrainian settlement after the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska has been exhausted. - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov There never was any momentum from Russian side. Russia has no plans to stop the war.

Wow!

Brazen Lies? Really? Another example of 'fascist alternative reality" (acronym: FAR). Hitlanyahu and his tugs gone fascists at full speed.

" .. With this technology in the hands of an administration that has little regard for constitutional safeguards, we should all beware. What is piloted on minorities soon drifts into the mainstream ..."

Typical attitude of authoritarian and retributive regimes. Extremely shameful and pathetic.

Another wake up call for European leaders ... but they are helpless, can't decide ...

"... Shooting down intruding Russian aircraft is not a step towards war. It is a prophylactic measure necessary for maintaining credibility in the face of the adversary’s provocations ... If one side crosses implicit red lines in doing so, it must be taught a lesson ..."

Food for thought.

This kind of populism is totally ridiculous. Politicians on the right are billing to sacrifice everything to be re-elected or to stay in power. No proposal at all to combat the cost of living or containing the power of big corporations. Shameful!

Let's get ready (or brace) for the big "sboom".

“ Whatever political capital you might have, you’re gonna need to spend it. The best we can hope for is that politicians spend it doing the right thing, even if it’s something that’s hard, that you know might not be popular. Just doing the right thing.”-Past New Zealand PM @jacindaardern.bsky.social

The key figure

This is really very scary. Up to now this system has been used for immigration but what will happen if it would be expanded and used against internal "oppositors or enemies" of the US autocratic regime?

Guillotines are needed to stop this madness ...

Every major outlet bent the knee today, giving wall-to-wall coverage to Kirk's funeral like it was state decree. This is how propaganda works: normalize the fascist, erase the truth. Don't let them gaslight you. Find independent journalism and fight back.