"We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money’s real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored."

Exactly what a Russian asset would say, even as Russia invades Europe and prepares to escalate the war inside the EU

Elon Musk has allied with the Kremlin.

This is a Sieg Heil, also known as a Nazi salute. For more details, see the new US National Security Strategy. Esp. pages 25-27.

A South African oligarch and a Russian politician are trying to decide Europe’s future. Fortunately, all smart Europeans understand that they don’t have our best interests in mind

WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe. Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

There is no point along the chain of command—from then-VADM Bradley down to the crew member triggering the missile—where anyone has any excuse whatsoever for giving or following that order.

Pavel Durov acts like someone who works for Putin

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There was a time in American history when traitors would have something other than phony medals placed around their necks.

RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.

"At some point the men began waving to something overhead, which three people familiar with the briefing said logically must have been U.S. aircraft flying above them. All three interpreted the actions of the men as signaling for help, rescue, or surrender."

JD Vance Munich Speech has become the Vance Doctrine. Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties. If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.

The "free speech warriors" are absolutely setting the stage to make it a crime to say anything bad about ICE and CBP. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As someone who really likes the US and has lived there, it’s heartbreaking to watch it turn into an authoritarian regime that betrays its allies and values. Trump is destroying everything that made the US great

Just to be clear they were ALWAYS going to attack Europe, they are just trying to convince you that if the not you shut up and acted small this wouldn’t have happened. It’s a trap. Don’t fall for it. Fuck MAGA.

🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Here's the CEO of Nvidia calling Trump a "genius" for "saying what's on his mind" when he called a reporter piggy. Just total cowardice and moral bankruptcy from people who know better.

What an image…

Go AI, go bye.

absolutely incredible stuff on Fox Business as hosts transition from lecturing Americans about personal debt to showing off Kevin O'Leary's $5 million watch *in the same segment*!

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

The next global conflict is going to bring a number of new technologies fully online, and they will be used in the most frightening ways possible. It will be IBM and the Holocaust x10.

Clown shit. People in 100 years are going to learn about this moment in history in disbelief.

Reading up on the latest React exploit and holy shit this is really bad. Catastrophically bad. If you’re using React and RSC start by upgrading yesterday and then reconsider if this is a feature you want to immediately invest.

😢 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The U.S. culture is scam culture. We could arrest, charge, try, and convict these people, but Trump would pardon them, and then he’d figure out how to legalize this to get a cut. The battle against scammers is over. Scammers won.

"Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise". My Swamp Notes with @martinsandbu.ft.com on why Europe must make those frozen Russian assets work for Ukraine. The time for that is now. as.ft.com/r/9144c41b-7...

“FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville” www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism: “We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”

Trump wants to prevent people who worked in fact-checking or combating misinformation from entering this country. That should tell you everything you know about his relationship to the truth. www.theverge.com/news/838489/...

This is murder to satisfy racists. No more. No less.

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Hold on to your hats - the EU Commission has fined Elon Musk's X €120 million for breaches of its digital services act, including: - Deceptive design of X's ‘blue checkmark' - Lack of transparency of X's ads repository - Failure to provide researchers access to public data

BBC News is so broken and servile, it is covering Farage's own attacks on it at face value but not including calls by Holocaust survivors for him to apologise on its website. Seems to me that there needs to a clear at out the top of the corporation.

When dissent gets labeled “terrorism,” the slope gets steep—fast. @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social substack.com/profile/2774... Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

A reminder about the type of content JD Vance wants to protect from "censorship" The fact that so many of the media personalities complaining about censorship in 2020 - 2024 were multimillionaires should've been a tip off that maybe they weren't so oppressed. It's all bullshit.

How to be cool according to Elon Musk 😎 #grok

“An Irish navy ship spotted up to five drones operating near the flight path of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s aircraft as he arrived for a state visit to Ireland on Monday, Irish and Ukrainian media reported.”

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits. www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that: - labeling is censorship - fact-checking is censorship - transparency is censorship - research is censorship What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

Trump's America now has equal status with Russia as Britain and the EUs biggest adversary

Anyone that thought the US are still allies, or that NATO has a future should know by now that is gone. We in Europe will be under sustained attack from two fronts in the next few years. It is crucial that we build up our own autonomy as soon as possible.