i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

Here's the thing. These guys have no sense of how to act in public order. And if they keep escalating in cities while diddy-bopping around foolishly, they are going to face some seriously violent consequences as the reality of numbers manifests.

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

⚠️ CENTCOM announces the US and unspecified “partner forces” have conducted “large-scale strikes” against ISIS in Syria tonight in response to the ISIS attack on US and Syrian forces in Palmyra that killed three Americans in December. They released footage of the strikes as part of the announcement.

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ok aber wo sind die Schritte, die wir ankündigen, um zu zeigen das wir es ernst meinen? Wo?!?!? orf.at/stories/3416...

So much winning. Please stop.

Per "internal documents written between 2023 and 2025 and viewed by The Washington Post... Instagram staffers considered the mandate to boost teen metrics their top goal last year," including "boosting their messaging activity... to set up an early pipeline for lifelong use of Meta’s platforms."

Xi Jinping trying to compensate for domestic economic and social stagnation through an export strategy based on hopes of endless expansion is not a sustainable political model

Geopolitics in 2026 will be the world beginning to grasp how weak a US leadership is that is good at campaigning but comically inept at governing and how fragile a Chinese leadership is that is good at power consolidation but blinkeredly bad at sustainable domestic stability

Most important is that Ukraine gets the money. Huge deal for EU: 1) if you want to do EU foreign policy, you need EU resources and debt. #EUCO delivered 2) First time this EU debt was decided without unanimity as far as I can remember www.consilium.europa.eu/media/wqmkno...

A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)

In einem Kommentar in DER STANDARD @leo81.bsky.social, AIES-Associate Fellow, die Grenzen der österreichischen Neutralität in ihrer heutigen Auslegung. Der Beitrag skizziert vier strategische Optionen für Österreichs zukünftige Verteidigungspolitik Link zum Artikel: bit.ly/4p2vN1V

At the 2025 European Forum Alpbach Defence Lab, we brought politicians, generals, industry, and experts together to answer one question: What must Europe do to win in Ukraine, become a respected global actor, and adapt to an age of unpeace? Their 20 key points are here:👇

At the 2025 European Forum Alpbach Defence Lab, we brought politicians, generals, industry, and experts together to answer one question: What must Europe do to win in Ukraine, become a respected global actor, and adapt to an age of unpeace? Their 20 key points are here:👇

MAGA, Russia, China, Brexiteers, autocracy inc., etc. - all fire on the EU because it is the most dangerous organization for them out there. A strong EU is the only path towards a Europe that protects itself and supports liberty and the rule of law around the globe.

We need to show the world we are a player by building an independent eur security structure and taking the fight to Putin (and sorry to say, Trump).

MAN KANN DROHNEN IM INLAND ABSCHIEẞEN??? SCHNELL INFORMIERT DIE INNENMINISTER UND DAS BMVG

No single human, at any point in history, has ever had so much of the world unite in ridicule. An utter tragedy of man. (📸 AP)

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Great to hear Austrian foreign minister @beate.neos.eu demands unity, speed and strength from Europe and favors qualified majority voting in EU foreign and security policy. This is no technicality, without this change we will be torn apart by global tensions. And it can only be the beginning.

As you read about service members' response to being underbussed by Pete Hegseth, consider how this will play as Trump tries to start an illegal war with Venezuela.

Wenn das unsere Strategie ist um wieder wettbewerbsfähig zu werden, dann gute Nacht

„Ein hocheffizienter Verbrenner ist ein Verbrenner, der hocheffizient ist.“ (2/2)

Great article by @sbeverts.bsky.social. I recently visited Brussels after some time away, and unfortunately, I could feel the fatalism in the institutions. What it needs is a defence union, with people in charge who can actually deter the other big powers from doing as they can.

Europe’s psychology of weakness: When will Europeans decide they’ve had enough? “There is no way out of this without investing in a stronger EU.” by @sbeverts.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Per a new report, Kash Patel refused to exit his plane without an FBI jacket, but the only one that would fit him was a woman’s jacket. Then he demanded SWAT patches for it. www.scribd.com/document/958...

Von mir - heute im Standard! Über die vier sicherheitspolitische Optionen für Österreich: NATO, Bündnisfreiheit, EU-Integration, strikte Neutralität www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

RT weren’t just bystanders, they were complicit in my torture. They fed my captors the narrative, scripted the lies, and filmed the propaganda that dehumanised me long before any sham courtroom.

Hegseth is a murderer. Even if the US was "at war" with drug smugglers – which it isn't – that would still be a war crime ("no quarter", see Article 8(2)(b)(xii) of the ICC's Rome Statute) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So its now been 4 days since the Witkoff-Ushakov transcript was released. And in that time, Witkoff has been confirmed in office, has been told he is off to Moscow, and has been strongly supported by Trump AND Putin. Add 2+2 together and you get....

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services is not a fan of the Trump admin’s Ukraine peace plan.

Warum lese ich von lauter Außenministern und Regierungschef was Europa jetzt tun sollte, so als wäre das ein Wunsch an Christkind?

But the truth will always out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Here is the full article from Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

So, was this a botched black op or not? It would fit the new, more aggressive posture of the US in South America… Brazil must know soon, these things are seldomly totally untraceable after the fact.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Great to team up with @leo81.bsky.social for our first contribution to @eliamep.bsky.social. Can Europe Seize the Opportunity to Strengthen Its Strategic Capabilities? – ELIAMEP’s experts share their views #ESPAS25 #EUForesight #StrategicForesight #ElenaLazarou www.eliamep.gr/en/can-europ...

This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.

Die Experten sagen alle, die Welt ist rund, aber wir im Geographieministerium haben recht, dass die Welt flach ist, denn 70% der Österreicher glauben auch, dass die Welt flach ist!

#Norway and #Airbus-led NHIndustries settle NH90 helicopter dispute from 2022. NHIndustries agreed to pay 305 million euros on top of 70 million already paid and take back the mothballed helicopters/parts. That is a fraction of the 2.86 billion euros Norway had claimed. h/t @alxluck.bsky.social

This is one of the many incidents we cover in our latest investigation into potential breach of the TRO in place in Illinois. The footage speaks for itself.