If brains were made of dynamite, you wouldn’t have enough to blow up a Smartie tube. – The Army sergeant who trained me as an NCO. That particular insult was not directed at me, but he had a catalogue of similar ones.

Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

EU rules help protect your rights, your 🎁 gifts, your 🐶 dog, and your ✈️ travels, so everything and everybody can make it home safely... and on time for the gathering! Merry Christmas from the European Parliament🎄

Easy to tell difference. Donald always says what Prez says but a day later.

*Winston Churchill voice* We have nothing to offer but a burn, two pains, and those things

Der radikal rechte Trumpismus redet von Meinungsfreiheit und greift zugleich in diese mitten in Europa, in Deutschland, brutal und massiv ein. Und jenseits angegriffener, linker Strukturen großes Schweigen. Der große Angriff des Faschismus, wir sind mitten drin und zu viele wollen es nicht sehen.

The President personally designing battleships because he wants them to look badass is not doing much to challenge the "everyone is 12 now" theory of American governance.

This has made me cry - such an uplifting story

GOOD NEWS: The ICE agents in our nativity have decided to quit their reign of terror to become shepherds. Evil has already lost, and it’s not too late to choose another path. Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul, and quit your job. Love wins. Merry Christmas!

3 years ago, when I recommended a massive organised switch away from X/Twitter, the EU Commission’s argument was “but our audience is there.” Since then, that argument has become less valid by the day. #DefendDemocracy #DSA #HandsOffMyEU

Good. Next step, propose travel bans for any US official or legislator seeking to interfere in or undermine the democratic processes of the EU and/or its Member States, please.

Doh! I made it this far. #Whamageddon

As I didn't intend to travel to the US, excuse my French: The US administration is - intentionally spreading fake news and lies about EU laws. - trying to coerce European states by threatening to reduce military support if it doesn't exclude US companies from EU digital rules.

List the Republican Party as a proscribed terrorist organisation already.

#EU vs US in a nutshell

Elon Musk and his fascist friends in the administration never complain about censorship in countries that actually censor Americans. They comply with regulations in Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. They complain about Europe only because they hate liberal democracies

American social media platforms are banned in Russia. Have you noticed Donald isn't sanctioning anyone over that?

Ganz genau so. ✊

300 years ago, America was a British colony.

Like they legally confirmed they would respect the sovereignty of Ukraine in the Budapest accords? Or their legal commitments to the integrity of Georgia, their commitment to human rights and other legal commitments they have flagrantly run over with a bus?

Of course, if Putin had been behind it, they would have shrugged and said it was an unfortunate accident caused by poor car maintenance.

Donc les agriculteurs qui ont violemment manifesté contre les mesures de prévention du réchauffement climatique sont maintenant touchés par les conséquences du réchauffement climatique. 🤷‍♂️

Jak se řekne polský очень хорошо?

Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things. When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA

Очень хорошо. До свидания.

Очень хорошо. До свидания. Now, if they could just evacuate their ‘diplomats’ (i.e. GRU operatives and disinformation agents) from everywhere else, that would be good.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

„Die US-Sanktionspolitik gegen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof ist nicht nur ein Angriff auf den IStGH, sondern auf das Recht schlechthin.“ KAI AMBOS über die gravierende Wirkung der Sanktionen – und warum die Europäische Union jetzt reagieren muss. verfassungsblog.de/die-sanktion...

Anyone who looks at Donald Trump with anything other than disgust and contempt is a twat. No exceptions.

Steeds minder internationale toeristen reizen naar de Verenigde Staten. "2 redenen komen vaak terug: vrees dat ze het land niet binnenmogen, en principiële bezwaren tegen het beleid van de Amerikaanse president", zegt VS-correspondent Thomas De Graeve.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

This

In Korean, if someone is being foolish you could ask them 니 머리는 장식이냐? It means “Is your head a decoration?”

Splendid! How entertaining that ludicrously arrogant Little Englander Tim Stanley should be so inconvenienced by us scheming foreigners...

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

There’s an old Kenyan proverb, often used when someone is being loudly ignorant, that goes something like this… “Unlike the stomach, the brain does not alert you when empty.”

Indeed. So stop invading other people’s countries, GTF out of Ukraine, apologise and come in from the cold.

Kids. Pay attention in school. Maths is important.

LOLLL Trump claims he’s cutting drug prices by 600 percent, which is not possible

Basically Putler has threatened to huff and puff and blow our house down. Time for EU leaders to step up and show that they are not made of straw.

Tja.

"Liberating its historic lands": as the Trump administration pretends peace is around the corner, Putin reminds us that for him, this war is about re-establishing the Russian empire. Ukrainians showed in 1991, when the whole country voted for independence, that they don't see themselves as Russian.

Russia will ’use all the instruments of international law’

Belgium's reticence to use Russian frozen assets is political, not legal. Please repeat after me, over and over again EUCO www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Очень хорошо. До свидания. 💨 🇷🇺 🚫

Wir verschenken unsere Automobilindustrie an China! Das sagen die Branchenkenner selbst! #DankeCDU

While the US could well have a much more agreeable government after the next election, it has shown that even when in better hands than now, we will suspect it is just one election away from electing a complete moron. There is no way of building solid long-term relations under such conditions.

came dangerously close to spitting out the tea I was drinking when going through that shot/chaser