The greatest trick the devil ever played is convincing pundits free speech motivated Charlie Kirk. No. Kirk used the trick of free speech to tell women to stay home and call black people moronic. Obnoxious and infantile views. That is the point. Below by @espiers.bsky.social still the best take.

How cowardly. Spahn succumbing to Maga madness. Charlie Kirk used the trick of free speech to call black people moronic and tell women to stay at home. Dumb and infantile views. That is the point.

Turkmenbashi. Trumpmanbashi. We look to Ashgabat now.

The shift away from X in the EU Bubble has been shamefully slow when you consider how X benefits a white supremacist who is inciting political violence in Europe. The EU institutions must lead here because they set the news agenda. Today we see more progress. Bravo @press.europarl.europa.eu.

Delighted to be rolling out European Parliament Committee accounts on Bluesky this morning. If you followed them on the other place and are jonesing for some EP action, then you can follow them now for all the usual updates!

We are delighted to announce that the European Parliament's Bluesky family is expanding, with the arrival of accounts for each of the Parliament's Committees 🦋 Check out the full list below, and follow them for regular updates on Committee activity - votes, meetings, etc.!

Next up, codewords for Charlie Kirk, like the Chinese have for Tiananmen Square.

Pyongyang on the Plains. Oklahoma targets teachers for insufficient mourning of Charlie Kirk.

INBOX- State Superintendent Ryan Walters says after investigating reports that came in through Awareity, they've identified 70 certified teachers from 44 districts who've made statements regarding Charlie Kirk's murder and 12 school districts who did not participate in a moment of silence. #oklahoma

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

given the well-justified criticism it receives here, it's notable when the paper of record reports on the president's agenda in a factual, straightforward manner www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

67pct of Israelis are very or somewhat concerned about potential European steps addressing atrocities in Gaza says survey from Mitvim Institute. So leverage there it seems. But equal percentage now view the EU as an adversary, which is most since 2018 when Mitvim began asking the question.

EU foreign minister @kajakallas.bsky.social pours cold water on Israel @eurovision.tv boycotts. Says taking measures impacting Israeli culture, entertainment and people are "wrong." h/t @raffschaidreiter.bsky.social

Nowhere does post-truth quite like Slovakia. Take the way strongman Prime Minister Fico calls himself a social democrat while being a Trump fanboy and Kremlin energy client. The Party of European Socialists now seem set on expelling him. H/t @eddywax.bsky.social 1/2

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

It's not just America. Some of the biggest spreaders of conspiracies and disinformation are now in top government posts in Slovakia where the national broadcaster is coming under political control. The EU may soon have its own post-truth nation.

BBC and NPR keep calling Kirk a conservative. Which prompts me to ask how soon they'll be labeling Yaxley-Lennon and Nick Fuentes merely right-wing. Mind the Overton sliding doors.

For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

if you were trying to do an incredibly dry comedy sketch i'm not sure you would hit a single note differently

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

You can start getting ready for CBS News guided by Bari Weiss of the Free Press. This is from Dylan Byers. [Paywall likely] "I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."

Note to the EU trade commissioner: it‘s great that the EU didn’t concede its regulatory autonomy on digital in the EU-US deal. However, if the trade commissioner then stops enforcement of EU rules against US digital companies, people might not see much of a difference.

Don't be fooled by the flat affect. @kajakallas.bsky.social is the hawk of Brussels. Here she is on all that goose-stepping going down in Beijing for Xi, Kim and Putin. "These aren't just anti-Western optics. This is a direct challenge to the international system."

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

“God is Love, so let me attack Jen Psaki” is definitely a choice.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Does Brussels understand that trade policy may well work this way as long as the Great Leader holds so much power, and no matter what the Supreme Court has to say about tariffs.

The US has effectively ended any meaningful government role in addressing the foreign interference threat, meaning everyone's safe now from that supposed deep-state plot to deplatform conservative voices 😵‍💫

Late on the Friday before Labor Day, hundreds of VOA journalists were told they're being terminated in 30 days. Kari Lake, the 'acting CEO' of USAGM, says "this will help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service, and save the American people more of their hard-earned money."#SaveVOA

Kyiv Independent- A Ukrainian politician who previously served as the parliament speaker and played a prominent role in the EuroMaidan Revolution has been shot dead in Lviv.

The warning in Macron's letter to Netanyahu that really grabbed me: "The Palestinians will not disappear from the land where they too have roots, and no one sees what path would then remain for Israel’s vocation to endure as both a great democracy and the national home of the Jewish people."

Helpful legal discussion in this article but FFS the mealy-mouthed headline and strapline. Global media brands have got to start calling these attacks what they from the get-go: white supremacist opportunism.

Seems to me RFK Jr.'s commitment to science is on par with that of Spinal Tap's lead guitarist David St. Hubbins, e.g. slime molds have "been running the earth all this time." The oracular utterance was shared @newyorker.com this week by director Rob Reiner. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

The ghastly tariff deal with Trump. The failure to fine Meta and X. The only defense Ursula von der Leyen has is that she's keeping Trump more or less on board ... on Ukraine. So why can't she message effectively on these geopolitics? Didn't she promise "a geopolitical Commission" at some point?

Today's executive order calling for "a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment" seems like a setup for a 100% Trump-controlled military force to be used against domestic enemies. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Surprise! That Trump-von der Leyen trade deal has done nothing to stop Trumpworld from seeking to destroy the EU's right to regulate Big Tech's social platforms.

Von der Leyen playfully touted as next German president as of 2027 in Spiegel newsletter this morning. Merz's top pick, apparently. No playful speculation on who'd take VDL's place at the European Commission where she's due to serve another four years. (From the Department of Failing Upwards)

For example, here's a brief summary of WWII's "negotiation". My lord, this man is a fucking idiot.

"Il faut transformer les villes dans les 10 prochaines années, après ce sera trop tard" selon Bas Smets, l’architecte paysagiste belge qui refroidit les villes - RTBF Actus www.rtbf.be/article/il-f...

Yes the use of exhaustible resources by communities can be rational and prevent further depletion. It's great to see the "Amorgrama" program defeating the tragedy of the commons trope! #Cyclades

AI is an ideological project for the Trump administration and its AI Action Plan lays out a blueprint for the kind of US tech hegemony it's already seeking with smackdowns of Europe's online safety laws. The tech coup @marietjeschaake.bsky.social warned us about last year gets ever more threatening.

Is there a think tank that provides busy journalists with copy and on-demand interviews about dodgy think tanks?

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

Is there any other country in the world where the population simply switches sides in summer? French is the main language spoken here in Oostende, while you hear Dutch all day in the Ardennes. A reciprocal peaceful occupation.

"We Want to Swim" is no idle request in drop-dead-city Brussels where there's little or zero access to outdoor public pools.

An AI-generated fake image showing European leaders forced to wait obediently in a White House hallway is trending on Russian Telegram channels. t.me/ejdailyru/34...