The USAID budget before cuts was $34bn

I was at the funeral of my brother-in-arms recently. Life is not fucking fair. I looked at his wife and little daughter. I can't even imagine how it feels for them but I cried there.

Anyone claiming that the US in its current condition is in any state to lastingly reshape the global order needs to explain how it can do so when led by people like this

In 2010, I was in Beijing to witness the inaugural "Confucius Peace Prize" set up in response to the Nobel awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Confucius Prize was a hilarious farce of a thin-skinned authoritarian regime.

No one in Europe asked for the opinion of a racist South African oligarch on this

Having just flown back to Finland from Japan, through the Bering strait, over Alaska, along the Canadian coast and finally cruising down over Greenland, really made me appreciate the global scale of inconvenience caused by the fact that Russia can’t be a normal civilised country

This reveals that European leaders are thinking exactly what you think they are thinking, all the while they call the president "daddy." Merz: “They are playing games” Macron: “There is a possibility that the U.S. will betray Ukraine." Stubb: “We cannot leave Ukraine alone with these guys"

Thomas Mann sera à l'honneur dans les librairies françaises en janvier 2026 avec la parution de pas moins de quatre nouvelles traductions de deux de ses œuvres les plus iconiques : les Buddenbrook et La mort à Venise.

Jared Kushner chez Poutine - © Chappatte dans Le Temps, Genève @letemps.ch - 👉chappatte.com

"Vous allez finir par vous aimer les uns les autres, bordel de merde !" youtu.be/XxkMMu68J9k?...

Well, they might not have brought peace with Ukraine, but at least they are now also talking about war with Europe, so we are going forward

We need to fund science more fully so we can research methods to keep hurricanes away, and to educate people to understand that we can’t do this.

Mais l'important c'est de faire des chroniques et des dessins antimilitaristes rigolos en crachant sur Macron et les va-t-en guerre* parce qu'on est de gôche voyez-vous... (En reprenant les mêmes bêtises que Ségolène Royal, les LR ou Zemmour par ex. mais bon ça c'est pas un problème semble-t-il...)

Same day

Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hello all! Today we celebrate the National Day of Romania 🇷🇴 My invitation today is that when you're doing that next Eurotrip, don't stop most eastward in Prague or Vienna, be adventurous, go further East and be charmed by this beautiful country (travel tips below): 1/x

It meant taking on entrenched elites, corrupt ministries, and oligarchic fiefdoms that predated independence. No Western democracy has had to dismantle this scale of institutional rot while fighting a full-scale war for national survival. That does not excuse corruption. 4/13

From the executive VP of EU Commission

EU Migration Commissioner says despite "alleged" human rights abuses in Libya, EU has "no alternative" to sending funds there. Read: paying militias to imprison, torture & rape migrants, put them into unsafe boats, then send the Libyan "Coast Guard" to shoot at them, kidnap them and ... repeat.

Underrated factor in the Trump-Witkoff-Kushner embarrassing Ukraine “peace” plan flop is the flood of praise they got for a Gaza plan that was also mostly “just tell everyone it’s over then think of how much money we’ll make.”

If you live in an environment were AI is used mainly in your circles to code, do sheets or excel, then you should unironically check your privileges

Genocide just as Lemkin defined it. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...

Crazy inflation isn't good but how can anybody look at this and say 'give me some of that'

@telegraph.co.uk have generally been excellent on Russia's invasion, but this is a headline that belongs in the 19th century. The US president can't "hand" Ukraine's land to the Russian president, however much he wants to. Trump can only take a position on US recognition, nothing else.

Arab Spring turned to Winter in #Tunisia Dozens of #Tunisian political figures - many of whom are critics of President #KaisSaied - have been sentenced to up to 45 years in prison. #Saied #opposition #arabspring #dictator #dictatorship @cartoonmovement.com @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social @joop.nl

“A European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials...inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the US had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”

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L'ambassadeur de Russie en Moldavie a été convoqué aujourd'hui, et s'est retrouvé en face du drone retrouvé sur le toit d'une maison hier:

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Bien aimé le dernier livre de Javier Cercas (le Fou de Dieu au bout du monde), qu'il accepte d'écrire après s'être fait aborder par des sbires du Vatican (Pourquoi demander à un athée d'écrire sur le Pape François ?) et s'embarque avec tous les Vaticanistes lors du voyage du Pape en Mongolie. 1/

EU: OK, show of hands, how can we sabotage this deal in 48h? One Bloomberg journo: it's OK I got this fam

At this rate US politics will end up becoming a proxy war between the EU and Russia

For all the frenzy about how the Europeans or Ukrainians were doomed four days ago or speculation about what Russia is up to, nothing in concrete terms has changed for the moment for both sides of this war Instead it's the Americans who ceremoniously shot themselves in both feet

For all the talk about how Pu is the master of backroom deals and strategic games, he hasn't achieved much at all in the last 10 mo, despite a few tries and a friendly, corrupt US admin. His current plan is going up in flames too. Let's stop the morbid fascination w this lowlife loser.

What it looks like in the transcript versus what I actually said.

Media really should stop writing ”secret” when it’s advertised in the FT

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Amazing that after Trump's 1st term and 10 months of a 2nd, people still expect him to have any interest in or understanding of the details of any aspect of foreign policy. People still think of Trump as within the normal range of presidential capacities and behaviours. He's not.

produce a more professional diplomatic proposal that will almost certainly be unacceptable to a Russia that thinks its winning the war. Russia therefore will take the blame for walking away from talks... and US on-going support for Ukraine will likely continue as is... the merry go-round continues.

Seems to be: no deal on steel until you change your digital laws to our liking. Tough love from "best friends"!

“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

En Roumanie, en Pologne, en Hongrie et en République tchèque, les partis d'extrême droite et populistes attaquent les réfugiés ukrainiens, qu’ils utilisent comme argument électoral et politique à connotation xénophobe. #PulseEurope

The ‘ceasefire’

I expect to be reposting this every three months or so until the end of the Trump administration.

On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household. Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day

“Russia wants peace.” Oh, really? Why didn't it want peace in 2022? Because Russia only asks for "peace" when it gets its snout beaten.