Atm, Kyiv is being pounded by Shahed drones and russia's ballistic "messengers of peace" — the only kind of peace Moscow pursues. Warm greetings from the shelter to Belgian Bart De Wever — a modern era freedom fighter bravely holding the zero line of the financial war.

Damit ist eigentlich alles gesagt

Sorry "rejoin the EU and all the UK's problems will be solved" is as much a simplism as the others, not least as there's no instant process and no overwhelming demand on the other side to bend any rules for the UK.

OTD in 1943 at the Tehran conference USSR reaffirmed Iranian independence and promised to remove troops as per treaty the of 1942 once war was over. Can you guess what happened once war was over?

Still safer than Boeing aircraft.

Her *6* bedroomed house in North Kensington. 6!

Hi from Kyiv. It’s 1:17 am and I lying in the dark and listening to loud explosions that continue in Kyiv . Russia is attacking us with drone and missiles. Some of explosions are especially loud - windows and walls are shaking.

This tragedy is inseparable from the change in the governance of Hong Kong from an open, transparent and pluralist system to one of unquestioning obedience to its Beijing masters, a secretive and autocratic culture in which corruption can flourish.

Not a serious person

this is getting some traction on the other place, but might as well bring it over here

Two Russian shadow fleet tankers caught fire in the Black Sea off Turkey after explosions, with all 25 crew evacuated from KAIROS heading to Novorossiysk and 20 safe aboard VIRAT struck 35 miles offshore, Turkish Transport Ministry reported.

My favourite Baldwin video:

Faced with a choice between helping Venezuela and protecting one of its own refineries, Putin would surely prioritize the infrastructure that keeps Russia’s economy running. After almost four years of war, he has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his own troops. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“I don’t consider myself to be a weak person. I decided to fight against Russian military aggression... I am not a citizen of the country for which I decided to fight, but, all the same, for me Ukraine is home. And I love Kharkiv with all my heart.” therussiareport.substack.com/p/the-russia...

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

How did Tether respond to S&P’s assessment? With conspiracy theories. Tether is a 21st century version of a wildcat bank, issuing tokens while deliberately making it hard for anyone to know whether it has the resources to honor them. And it’s not an outlier. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/getting-re...

"China’s ageing population and dwindling pension budget has forced a reckoning with its relatively low retirement ages. Last year, the government approved plans to gradually increase the retirement age for the first time since the 1950s." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.

“This is really performative and it continues to be the case,” says Jason Tower, a senior expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. “I think around 20k devices were destroyed, which is tragic in terms of just mass amounts of evidence lost.” www.wired.com/story/myanma...

The US envoy is on tape colluding with the Russian govt, the 28 point plan appears to be Russian in origin but was claimed by the US as its own, and Trump has a long history of stiffing creditors, but Ukraine should sign now and trust the promise of a security guarantee later.

Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Die Ukraine und Großbritannien haben einen Lizenzvertrag für die ukrainische Abfangdrohne Octopus unterzeichnet. Es ist eine Massenproduktion von Abfangdrohne geplant, die mehrere Tausend pro Monat erreichen kann. Die hergestellten Drohnen werden an die Ukraine übergeben. Shmyhal

Yes, russia is indeed rapidly rebuilding its missile arsenal. The problem is that the "solution" being offered — pausing the war & restoring economic ties with russia, giving it back most of frozen assets, lifting sanctions, rewarding for war crimes — will only accelerate that buildup.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

"Unser Land ist ein hochkomplexes Land, mit hochkomlexen Problemen und das braucht hochkomplexe Antworten." Ja, und genau deswegen war die Arbeit von Merz als Oppositionsführer eine Katastrophe, die er heute nicht mehr eingefangen bekommt.

UK trade policy has basically failed. Someone in government might perhaps want to ponder why this has happened (and the prime answer doesn't start with B and end with rexit - this is a policy failure dating back to 2016)

Were Britain’s interests served by leaving the EU? It's reasonable to note how the foreign state that saw the greatest benefit to itself in fracturing Europe’s democratic alliances, and that continues to machinate against western unity, is Vladimir Putin’s Russia. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"God knows we lesser countries put some ghastly people in charge ourselves, but you have to allow your international underlings the occasional cackle at the fact that Trump has now become president, twice. When you lot shit the bed, the world has to lie in it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Another of Zuma’s daughters, Nkosazana Zuma-Mncube, filed a police report alleging that her sister Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla and two others, Siphokazi Xuma and Blessing Khoza, had recruited 17 men who are now trapped on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

"I admit I am somewhat annoyed by the usual nonsense about a “just and lasting peace” with Russia, because the utterance of fictions always corrodes understanding. We must stop presenting as a project, or even a possibility, realities that cannot exist." tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/have-europ...

🔥 JP Morgan analysts predict Brent crude will fall to the $50s in 2026, and the $30s in 2027. Russia is totally, unequivocally screwed at those prices.

"Indeed, such abductions have become so common that a major recent Bitcoin conference included a daylong “counter-kidnapping” workshop, in which participants learned, among other things, how to gnaw their way through zipties." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Der Aufstieg des Rechtsradikalismus in der Gegenwart beruht auf dem Austroturfing von Superreichen.

"While everything is demanded of Ukraine, nothing is asked of Russia. This is a capitulation document written by the aggressor and served to the victim, at a time when the aggressor is not doing well on the battlefield." snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

"Estonia reported the sudden appearance of armed men in unmarked uniforms near the Saatse Boot—a narrow strip of Russian territory that cuts through Estonia. Their brief but alarming presence prompted border guards to close a nearby road as a precaution." olgalautman.substack.com/p/while-amer...

One of the most revealing was historian Niall Ferguson, who for years has passed himself off as one of Ukraine’s great supporters. Well, as soon as the 28 points came out, Ferguson, amazingly, decided they were jolly good and solid basis for negotiations. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

"Ukraine cannot accept this deal, and won’t. This plan is functionally a Russian war plan, one that gives Russia territory, time, breathing space, sanctions relief, legitimacy, and the dismantling of Ukraine’s military. It spells the end of NATO." claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-peace-...

"Elites still have self-preservation instincts, which means that they tend to avoid risky decisions that could jeopardize their careers. And external shocks that shape domestic politics, such as financial stress or trade pressure, can limit leaders’ choices." www.foreignaffairs.com/china/end-ch...

Kanzler Merz geht gerade in Brasilien viral. Nicht, weil er bahnbrechende Klimaschutzmaßnahmen mitträgt, sondern weil er "froh" war, "von diesem Ort wegzukommen". Glückwunsch an den Kanzler. So kann man Jahrzehnte der diplomatischen Beziehungen einreißen.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

A theme of the Hallett report is that decisionmakers routinely underestimated the ability of the public to deal with complexity & accept hard trade-offs. It's a problem that continues to plague our politics. One lesson of the pandemic is surely that we can have more honest conversations with voters

If this hits $60K a lot of things will probably start to explode because that was where the last major bull run tapered at, it would directly translate to a shit ton of holders being under water from an investment they made ~3 years ago.

Nur ein Volk, dem es gelingt, sogar Merkel und Habermas zu romantisieren, ist ein wahrhaft romantisches Volk.

"Assurances from Moscow that Russia will not attack are worse than meaningless. Assurances that we we will somehow help are also without substance — we gave such assurances in 1994 when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, and they did not help." snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...

Some clown shit

Crick had obtained a letter from an English teacher at Dulwich College. In it, she had opposed a decision in 1981 by the master of Dulwich college to make Farage a prefect when he was 17, describing him as having “publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views”. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

"The course of Russia’s war on Ukraine—which looks more and more like the prototype for future wars—is being determined not by the valor or lethality of the average infantryman, but by the ability of Ukraine and its allies to inflict pain on the Russian economy." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Ein großer Player im europäischen Solarmarkt ist zahlungsunfähig: Die Sun- Contracting-Gruppe hat in Österreich Insolvenz angemeldet. Das betrifft auch deutsche Landwirte.