"If we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: within 10 years [...] we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury." defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

“Politicians and experts are arguing for a real European technology alternative. “You can feel that you are one executive order away from losing access to critical technology and critical infrastructures,” said Francesca Bria, an innovation professor at University College London.”

No one has any fucking idea what anyone else is doing but the idea is to just try and be evil in whatever way you’re best at and hopefully it’ll all work out

🤣🤣🤣 Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss. No Kings Day 🤣🤣🤣

Do not socialize with redhats. Do not invite them inside your home. Do not go on dates with redhats. Do not hold the door open for them. Pretend you cannot hear their questions or requests. Pretend you cannot speak English. Stare at them blankly. Every single interaction with them is now a fight.

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Just wait….

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

If the _only_ thing we got from the EU and all the membership fees paid were the longest period of peace most European countries have been fortunate to enjoy, the money would’ve been extremely well spent. EU is a peace project first and foremost - but so much more too. Our last, best hope even?

Anyone Trump-aligned or Trump-adjacent is toxic to the rest of the world. We are the only country with enough people that think the malignant narcissist, criminal, and moronic two-bit con man should be in charge. It’s the same reason why televangelists have always thrived here.

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

The story of Trump is not the story of a dictator savant, it's the story of a society whose elite power centers are all rotted from within and collapse at the slightest push. Very hard to know right now if there are any load-bearing walls left.

This is turning into such an important project by @chrischirp.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

I remember the Hillary version of this in 2017.

Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat's book "Strongmen" shows the autocratic patterns throughout history starting w/ Mussolini. Dr. Bandy Lee's books show the personality disorder pattern that ALL autocrats exhibit. Read them, and let's work together to come up with a solution.

Canada's own Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil. #handsoff #elbowsup

This. ⬇️

a decadent and rotten elite that crumbled at the barest touch, and can't defend even its own interests. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

“We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.” @jvl.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

excellent

A completely innocent man, no criminal record, legally residing in the country, is stopped by masked agents, shackled, and—without explanation—shipped off to a mega-prison in El Salvador. The government stays silent. The courts are ignored. 1/6

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.

Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title

Are you connecting the dots between the land grabs (Greenland, Canada, the parks, farms, forests) to the tech bros…Thiel and Yarvin and the rest of the white South African pay pal mafia? They need LAND for their network states. They tried to buy Greenland in Dec www.insidehook.com/internet/pet...

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Moskowitz: Rather than giving a long speech, I feel like I can just use this. So, that’s a fist, an American flag, fire. From now on, when we do things where we agree, I just hold this up.

Canada here. It is one thing for 77 million Americans to vote this clown show in, but they have subjected the rest of the world to this insanity. These completely incompetent, unserious people are in charge of American nuclear warheads. Just f'ing awesome.

Hmm, crazy that if that had happened three months ago I'd be ecstatic but now I'm just filled with dread.

Soon, if a new proposal from the Trump administration goes into effect, immigrants applying for green cards or citizenship will have to disclose their social media handles with their application.

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

Next: "SpaceX tasked with producing the next generation of ICBMs" Goodbye World, it was neat for the period you lasted.

What Dem leadership is too afraid to admit: The U.S. as we knew it is gone. You now live in an entrenched autocracy where the rule of law is dead. This isn’t just a new government—it’s a new system, a seismic event in world history, like the October Revolution in 1917. There’s no turning back. /1

This regime will kill millions.

🔴 NEW 🔴 The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report 👇🏻

Outlaw them as a terrorist organisation. Arrest every member and associate. Try and convict them.

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...