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A witness to Alex Pretti's murder: "I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me." Right now. In America. There is nothing subtle or complicated or hard to understand about what is happening.

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

Lying is the norm for authoritarian regimes

Kasparov gets it

Dutch crown princess Amalia has completed the first part of her two year military training and is now a reservist corporal. She's also a law student at the University of Amsterdam. - nos.nl/l/2599376

Across Europe there is the sense of a line having been crossed, of limits having been exceeded. But accepting times have changed is not the same as agreeing on how to adapt

Freezing Kyiv residents seek warmth in trains and tents. Elderly people sat in heated train carriages, families living in freezing apartment blocks ate dinner in heated tents on the street, and one animal shelter took in stray cats at risk of dying from the cold u.afp.com/SBeT

Dead soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq who did fight for AMERICAN INTERESTS. bsky.app/profile/scho...

Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"

This is what some of Kyiv's subways look like now 🤯

Elon Musk is an existential threat to Europe. He uses his massive power to wage a hybrid war against our values and our stability. He is actively working to dismantle European democracy

Regular people in Minnesota standing up to ICE and protecting their neighbors. Denmark and Belgium taking the strongest stances of European countries against Trump’s Greenland threats. Amazing how those with less power take action and sacrifice, while so many of the powerful equivocate and cower.

In the year since Trump's 2nd inauguration, things have been as bad as the worst projections of the most pessimistic of us, and they are rapidly getting worse. But at least the extremity of the crisis has finally forced key European figures to acknowledge where we are.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK, 1968