This is madness and history will judge us for it.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If the US nuclear umbrella over Europe threatens to turn inside-out, could the only nuclear-armed EU country 🇫🇷 step up? Macron is presenting an updated French strategy next week

Hear hear!

This example is truly evil - and indicative of the moral character of those scripting the policy.

Fuckin' A!

This is very sensible - especially the need for a plan, a defined alternative (that doesn't imply a time machine).

Allons y! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Today I’m proposing a ban on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, binary triggers, firearms without serial numbers, and more.

2022 Nobel Laureate @avalaina.bsky.social on @npr Morning Edition with @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social on 4 years since Russia's attempt to conquer #Ukraine. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

This was the best negotiation with the Russians during the entire war. It was conducted by Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov on February 24, 2022.

Four years of war in Ukraine – in pictures #Ukraine

1/3 President #Zelenskyy 💬 "Today marks exactly four years since putin took Kyiv in three days. And that says a lot about our resistance, about how #Ukraine has been fighting all this time. Behind these words are millions of our people, great courage, hard work, endurance and the long road

Appropriate day for the post below. #SlavaUkraini

I won't be attending the State of the Union address. I’m not interested in hearing another campaign rally full of lies.

wamu.org/story/26/02/... “A federal agent called me a domestic terrorist just because I recorded agents operating in public in my community. But I have a right to do that...I want people to know how important it is to use our First Amendment rights to observe and document what is happening...”

"A WAR IS underway in Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an attack on the country in the early hours of this morning." @thejournal.ie 24 February 2022

Thread 👇

Tomorrow everyone will be asking: when will the Russo-Ukrainian war end? The right question is: what can we do to make the Russian invasion fail?

Orbán is a traitor and should be excluded from EU decisionmaking. This stuff is too important to be left to a third-rate would-be authoritarian.

Thread 👇

All is circus of malice - a show. A snuff film...

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower … suicide because the [Repub] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Ireland to deepen partnerships with UK and France under new maritime security plan www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

The press has reported on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision as if it were only about tariffs. Wrong. It’s far bigger and even more important. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tariff-decision

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

In a lawsuit, a group of Vietnam War veterans argued that the planned construction is unlawful as it lacks Congressional approval.

This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform. We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.

Front rank of protest march in Centar Sarajevo, Radiceva ulica, following Feb 12 tram derailment which killed one student and grievously wounded another. I am not a pro headcounter. But I feel comfortable guesstimating the number of marchers in 4-digit numbers here.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

"Leaders of electoral authoritarian regimes use unfair elections to deceive their citizens, create the illusion of popular support, & legitimize their rule...nefarious tactics include repressing the opposition &... manipulating the law, media, electoral administration, & campaign resources."

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

We must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

"... 20 percent of Hungary’s companies operate 'not on market principles, not on merit-based principles, but basically on loyalty.'... they are designed not for efficiency and profit but for kleptocracy—passing money from the state to their owners."

Marco Rubio's speech at the #MunichSecurityConference set off a storm of debate on social media this weekend, with some defending the European politicians who gave him a standing ovation and others horrified by its implications. I dove into what the standing ovation says about Europe this morning:

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

No reassurance to be found in here for Europe - at least not a democratic one. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

@nathalietocci.bsky.social's BS detector is well-calibrated. Rubio's speech was every bit as repulsive in content as Vance's, though more emollient in tone/delivery. Nobody in Europe+ - or other "menu" states of this Yaltified world - should be relieved. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“She’s not from here.”

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

Morons Morons are in charge www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

"It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power" 🟢 Agree: 81% ⚫️ Disagree: 19% Read it free: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...