He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

Once again, the current struggle of the people of Georgia is multi-faceted: yes, it is first and foremost against the hostile takeover, freedom, democracy, and Georgia’s European future; But it is also against the rampant injustice and inequality before the law. 1/ 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social

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The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

My first article written during my PhD is out with NordEuropaForum 🥳 it's based on a page or so of my MA Thesis written while in Utrecht 😊 edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/d1dfc7...

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Really not sure about the BBC leading U.K. news with Trump's autism crap. Why?

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Yeah, RFK is batshit crazy and Trump is as corrupt as fuck. There. That’s the headline everyone should be running.

🤣 we're in for such a toothache!

The Dutch Hippocrates: Hermann Boerhaave, influential physician, chemist, botanist, humanist; founder of clinical teaching, ‘father of physiology’, died #OTD 1738. Portrait by Cornelis Troost 1735 Boerhaave Museum | University of Leiden | Wellcome Library

You won't be surprised to hear that I trust *my* EU commission more as a protector of my rights than *any* UK institution or party.

One of the undervalued aspects of the 'enshitification economy' is platforms with a business model where one group of users pays to enshitify the experience of another group of users, who in their turn are incentives to pay for the removal of the enshitifying content from their experience🤦‍♂️

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This guy, this excellent little guy, fell asleep on my dad's lap for the last time today. Peanut, who was a very good boy, was never supposed to find a home with my folks - he was just going to stay for a couple of days. But he wasn't a well hound, and my dad drove around Liverpool on Christmas -

I started volunteering this week with Fietsmeesters, a set of government-supported programs provideing bike lessons & bikes to new immigrants who haven't biked before + bike safety & balance training for very old people. I'm working with new immigrants from all over the world. I'll keep you posted!

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Ludwigshafen hat gewählt, es geht in die Stichwahl zwischen Schwarz und Rot. Interessant ist die exhorbitante Höhe an ungültigen Stimmzetteln, die normalerweise bei Wahlen zwischen 1% und 3% liegen. www.rlp-wahlen.de/M212/OBWahl2...

Moments like these are reminders the UK has no tradition whatsoever of protecting constitutional rights as it fundamentally holds that a 50%+1 vote trump's any right of anyone at any point in the future.

Reform isn't proposing policy. Reform is normalising vindictive cruelty against whomever they see as an "enemy within". Countering that with arguments as impracticality, negative economic impact, and even illegality are likely to be of limited effect, as Reform-fans don't believe or care about that.

Can we now perhaps stop sucking up to this idiot?

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Four impressions from gorgeous #Hildesheim.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

You read US posts about how Europe is finished, then you walk into a church in Hildesheim and you see and hear this

Visiting some Hannoverians🤭

Indeed, as I wrote on Tuesday. It might sound alarmist, but it's pretty clear we're following down a similar track: national.thelead.uk/p/america-tr...

An alternative reason for the US government withholding the Epstein files might be this: unpublished, they remain leverage they have over everyone in it. 🤔

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

We need to seriously review the US as a destination for student exchanges.

Des centaines de chercheurs et professeurs de différents pays interpellent Berkeley et expriment leur inquiétude à propos de l’enquête visant 160 étudiants et enseignants pour des «incidents antisémites présumés», exigée par l’administration Trump. Leur tribune :

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Thank you @jeffjarvis.bsky.social for saying this.

NEW: Statement from California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel hiatus: "Buying and controlling media platforms. Firing commentators. Canceling shows. These aren’t coincidences. It’s coordinated. And it’s dangerous. The GOP does not believe in free speech. They are censoring you in real time."

The fascist fever dream of strength through violence ends, not just metaphorically, in a bunker under an utterly destroyed nation, with a lost generation, and 14 year olds sent to confront heavy weapons, while the leaders underground murder their own children and then themselves.

Moving visit to a Ukrainian school with Olena Zelenska. Together we met young children having nutritious food at their canteens, which have been renovated with EU funds. This is solidarity in action. We will keep supporting Ukrainian children and investing in their education and health 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Ashley Moody, DeSantis's pick to replace Rubio in the Senate, is such a hack that even Republican Sen. Cassidy felt compelled to call out her line of questioning as BS

Soft power works ... whatever the hard-power-nutcases might say.

I signed because I support all of it except a proposed 'classroom ban'. I believe that is a matter an individual lecturer should decide evidently without pressure either way from their employer. AI is a flawed and faulty tool, uncritical adoption of which by senior HE management is a huge mistake.

Head of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has arrived in #Kyiv. Welcome! Ukraine and EU need each other to be strong and safe.

Chris Mason's take: a bit of pageantry with what he describes as a 'vital ally' over here to do some regular horse trading: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Combien d'Américains aujourd'hui pour reprendre son combat ? Je ne suis pas sûre qu'il y ait pléthore. L'Amerique de Trump pleure Kirk dont elle fait un héros et un martyr. Robert Redford a toujours été aux antipodes de cette Amérique là. 🖤😪

Nach dem Attentat auf Charlie Kirk verlangen Trumpisten von der Gegenseite, moralisch sauber zu sein – agieren aber selbst schmutzig. Und genau darin liegt die Gefahr.

16 September 1908 | A Polish Jewish woman, Fanny Cukier, was born in Radom. She emigrated to France. In August 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her daughters, Ginette and Irene. After the selection they were murdered in a gas chamber.

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