When you reply to an epidemiologist who has studied measles to tell them that measles is dangerous, just know: you're doing your part

We didn't like the U.S. but we always felt protected by it and were sure it would always be on our side, like a fellow democracy, an ally. That time is over for good. The U.S. has become an enemy of Europe, and my mother and brother are now aware of what it feels like to be subject to aggression.

Europe is heading to a point where Atlanticism becomes equated with Appeasement

Dude looks like there’s at least 3 syndromes fighting inside his gene pool.

Look I’m not saying that nuking moscow would be a solution here but has anyone tried that yet?

Need to punish Trump so great that EU officials will work on Sunday 😁

‼️ Ukraine strongly denies reports that intelligence information has been leaked to Russia via the United States. "This is a deliberate conspiracy theory that has been spread in foreign media without any factual basis." t.me/DIUkraine/7706

This is an extremely rewarding video, and as Prof. Knuth explains at the start, chosen to be accessible to an undergrad audience. It's a tiny illustration Knuth's astonishingly thorough, penetrating yet playful career in #math and #computerscience SPEND THE HOUR: youtu.be/VW3vgJYYIok #graphtheory

#nature #photography Gribskov forest, Denmark

Sunday. Went to church and now am planning how to further a genocide by freezing millions of people. Traditional values, folks.

Just to back up Paul's point, a lot of Americans expressing shock at how Ukrainians are not fully sharing intel with the US because of concerns about leaks to Moscow seem to have missed how intel-sharing between US and Europe started breaking down months ago US media just hasn't shown much interest

I also noted that I think there is reason to suspect that it is not just Dutch intelligence that has halted sharing. bsky.app/profile/paul...

These troops could be for Minnesota, or they could be for Greenland. The fact that we have to consider the latter shows Europe is now in a security dilemma with the United States. We are in a security dilemma with our most powerful "ally."

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

I have talked to some MAGA people - staffers on the Hill. It is, of course, very frustrating. But what I find particularly mind-boggling is that they look at *waves broadly at the landscape* all this and think, "yes, we are winning. This is going really well."

That just seems redundant.

Is there no end to the awards being given to Trump?!

🇩🇪🐻🗳️ We're slowly approaching the September local vote in Berlin, where the usual story of big Western cities will play out: predominantly German-populated suburbs such as Köpenick or Spandau deciding the politics for immigrant-heavy inner districts (Kreuzkölln ahoy)

Cartoon by Rob Rogers | Andrews McMeel

"Trottel" soll nicht implizieren, dass dieser skrupellose Anti-Europäer im Rang eines Fraktionsvorsitzenden, der ganz sicher Merz' rostiger Sargnagel sein wird, so einen imperialistischen Dreck nicht mit vollkommener, berechnender Absicht öffentlich raushaut.

"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar." Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!

This is what many close their eyes on, as the implications are too horrible to face: That whatever is happening under Trump is happening because the playing field was groomed and prepared for two decades and more. Americans _still_ act as if falling back would be a goodwill gesture towards Europe.

The hubrisric sabotage that Trump inflicted on America's alliance with Europe builds on cultural tropes and contemptuous rhetoric about Europeans that already suffused US policy circles under Bush and Obama. Dem and Bush-era GOP elites opened the door for MAGA anti-Europeanism

Further datapoints for how Europeans can no longer trust American elites whether or not Trump is in power

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

once again I am asking, why is any credible representative on X

“Failure of Judgment” is Starmers middle name. But he wears a suit and goes to a hair dresser, so people voted for him, because that means he must be trustworthy and competent.

Chinese cap manufacturers can’t believe their luck in 2024–2026, I bet. 😬

As a committed transatlanticist and a European with deep ties to the United States that will never go away, I don’t know what pains me more: Americas spectacular betrayal of Europe or America’s ongoing self-harm.

It's the United States threatening Greenland, not only Trump. The American people elected Trump, their rubber-stamp Congress is meant to control him. But they don't so they are part of the problem. Americans are threatening Europe. Europeans who support the U.S. are traitors.

It’s gratifying to spend time digging into peoples old art posts that can be years old with no shares and then you do the first and then it shows up multiple times in the timeline as others also share it and give it a chance to be seen. Sharing art is easy and makes a difference so consider it.

A significant sign as to where this was going to end up was ICE's attempted surge in Charleston, where the general reaction of the population there was "do you understand what castle doctrine means?"

Americans posting “Europeans definitely have tons of dirt on the Epstein files and should release it” is nuclear bomb-grade of helplessness cope. Not even shooting white people changed anything, so Epstein files wouldn’t, either. But let’s start blaming Europeans for Trump still being in power! 🎉

Pretty much sums up US discourse about European efforts to build self-reliance since 1957

Rather than the older retaliation packages Europe could also just put a 10% tariff on US imports or go straight to taxes on US services to react more strongly. Then prepare escalation steps. Europe has little choice but to hit back really hard since Trumps Greenland demand cannot be negotiated.

The only way to stop the spiral is to hit the US hard with escalating economic weapons from Europes side. The goal is to raise political costs for Trumps imperial project. Europe can win this game of chicken as there’s real opposition in the US to this Trump hobby.

The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war. ​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.

That Nordic deployment to Greenland:

There can be no amnesty for these people. None. Otherwise it will all repeat over and over again. When the regime falls, everyone working for it needs to pay.

Bouie is right that Trump neither has state capacity or strategic skill to stop the mid-term elections. But there is a pretty high risk of a potentially violent confrontation between legislative and executive branches of the US system if Trump claims fraud after mid-terms bsky.app/profile/jame...

This is partly because an entire generation of Americans in the 90s and 00s were told by media and political elites that a bunch of things would never happen that then started happening after 2015

For a while after I left Xwitter, I thought I'd made a terrible mistake. At peak there, I had 57K followers, incredible engagement, and sold at least one or two books per day via promos I'd post there. I bailed out of principle, hoping I could rebuild elsewhere. 1/2

Start dumping US gov bonds and move on institutional investors liquidation on their US stock. Pretty sure a threat alone will make a difference

Whichever Republican the Republican party tells them to run. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine if this all ends up with Europe starting to throw out Americans before it starts throwing out russians tho.

The dirty work, huh.

Opened a news site. Nope, not doing this tonight.