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💙🇪🇺 Non deported migrant 😋🔹Living in 🇬🇧 & 🇮🇹 Italy🔹Happily married🔹🇩🇪 German beer, 🇮🇹 Italian wine and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇵 whisky🔹Loving my 1983 🇩🇪 car, ⛷️skiing & ⛰️mountain hiking🔹Pro 🇪🇺, anti-fascist🔹Despise 💩Trump, Musk🤮 & MAGA/Reform UK 🤡🔹politically incorrect
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Trump has pitched NATO into what could become its worst-ever crisis by threatening new tariffs against US allies that oppose his grab for Greenland against the will of its people.

Will the Republicans stop him?

www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...
Analysis: Who can save NATO from Trump as he escalates bid to grab Greenland? | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has pitched NATO into what could become its worst-ever crisis by threatening new tariffs against US allies who oppose his grab for Greenland against the will of its people.
www.cnn.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Trump in a written message to 🇳🇴Norway's prime minister said he no longer feels obligated "to think purely of Peace" because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he repeated his demand for control of Greenland.

➡️ 45% of Americans supporting Trump

- www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU eyes trade retaliation
U.S. President Donald Trump linked his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer thought "purely of Peace" as the row over the island on Monda...
www.reuters.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:38 PM
🇬🇧 SACO — Starmer chickens out.
Lacking the EU’s economic firepower, Starmer complains that the US tariffs are “completely wrong”, yet backs away from imposing retaliatory tariffs against the US.

A perfect illustration of how diminished and marginal the UK has become.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Trump's tariff threats 'completely wrong and Greenland should decide its own future, says Starmer
The PM says a trade war isn't in anyone's interest - adding the threat of tariffs has been
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 AM
BREAKING - The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota, according to a Trump administration source, as state officials have also mobilized the National Guard.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/u...
1,500 soldiers on standby for possible Minnesota deployment, source says, as state mobilizes National Guard | CNN
The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota, according to a Trump administration source, as state officials have also mobilized the Nation...
www.cnn.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:15 PM
🇩🇪 German industry lashes out at Trump's 'ludicrous' demands

German industry reacted with anger on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump's planned use of tariffs to crank up the pressure on Denmark to sell Greenland, calling on Europe not to cave in to his demands.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...
German industry lashes out at Trump's 'ludicrous' demands
The head of Germany's engineering association said Europe must not cave.
www.reuters.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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No-ones laughing America
January 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The 🇪🇺 EU faced calls on Sunday to implement a never-before-used range of economic counter-measures known as the "Anti-Coercion Instrument" as part of the bloc's response to Trump's tariff threats against European allies over 🇬🇱 Greenland.

1l2

www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump's Greenland tariffs prompt calls for unprecedented EU counter-measures
The EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument could limit access to public tenders in the bloc or restrict trade in services in which the U.S. has a surplus with the EU.
www.reuters.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
BREAKING: After legal defeats - Trump is withdrawing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland.

➡️ The frogs 🐸won! 😂😂

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/31/p...
Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he’s withdrawing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland but left the door open to sending federal forces “in a much different and str...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump administration bans two British free speech campaigners from US as censorship row escalates

“Censorship row”? What row exactly? It looks pretty one-sided to me.

Perhaps it’s time to stop giving MAGA cultists a free pass into the UK and Europe.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Trump administration bans two British social media campaigners from US
The visa sanctions have been branded an ‘authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship’
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The EU, France and Germany condemned US visa bans on European citizens combating online hate and disinformation, with Brussels saying on Wednesday it could "respond swiftly and decisively" against the "unjustified measures".

➡️ Withstand the US MAGA dictatorship!

- www.reuters.com/world/europe...
EU, France, Germany slam US visa bans as 'censorship' dispute deepens
The European Union, France and Germany condemned U.S. visa bans on European citizens combating online hate and disinformation, with Brussels saying on Wednesday it could "respond swiftly and decisivel...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.

We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
Zelensky thanks America for four minutes straight
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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March 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
😂😂😂 Love it! Why is “Team Trump” packed with weapon-grade incompetence and amateurish dilettantes? He seems to have an uncanny ability to attract idiots — rather like a pile of cow dung attracts flies.

…dammed, it happened again — another “you’re not allowed to enter the 🇺🇸 US” post slipped out. 😥 😂
“.. This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history,” the high-profile Trump antagonist George Conway commented ..” 🤡

@cnn.com @brianstelter.bsky.social
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December 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Who on earth is advising Starmer? His dogmatic, almost death-cult-like insistence on “never rejoining” runs completely against the will of Labour’s potential voters.

Source: The Guardian
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More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – as it happened
YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move
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December 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Brexit benefits: 🇬🇧 UK Market Exodus: a growing number of companies have shifted away from a London listing in recent years

18 companies have left the London market in recent years due to post Brexit challenges and investor pushbacks— and the exodus is speeding up

www.reuters.com/business/ret...
UK Market Exodus: Companies that moved away from a London listing in recent years
British investment firm Petershill Partners on Thursday became the latest UK-listed company to announce plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange, citing dissatisfaction with its share price and valuation.
www.reuters.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
BYD outsells Tesla in EU for second month

🇨🇳 Chinese EV maker BYD (002594.SZ) sold three times as many new cars in the 🇪🇺 European Union last month than in August 2024, surpassing 🇺🇸 U.S. competitor Tesla for the second consecutive month

www.reuters.com/business/aut...
BYD outsells Tesla in EU for second month, Stellantis returns to sales growth
Chinese EV maker BYD sold three times as many new cars in the European Union last month than in August 2024, surpassing U.S. competitor Tesla for the second consecutive month, data from the European auto lobby ACEA showed on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The 🇬🇧 UN delegation and Starmer surely weren't pleased about Trump's take aways from his UK visit:

1️⃣ London wants to go to sharia law.
2️⃣ Starmer slammed with “Oh, the North Sea, I know it so well,”; “Three days in a row, that’s all he heard, North Sea oil, North Sea.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
Analysis: Trump’s ‘right about everything’ rant offers no answers to a world on the brink | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump, who holds the job once reserved for the leader for the free world, had no words of reassurance or poetic invocations of democratic values for America’s alarmed allies in an add...
www.cnn.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It just keeps getting better.
The talking saddlebag RFK Jr has compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus Christ.

➡️ “I think he said ‘Blessed are the cheesemakers.’” 😏

www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/u...
RFK Jr. compares Kirk to Jesus Christ | CNN
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remembered Charlie Kirk’s “devotion to his God” during remarks at Kirk’s memorial service, and drew a parallel between the life of the assassi...
www.cnn.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Time to show Disney appreciation for taking Jimmy Kimmel off air.
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
How Brendan Carr, the attack-dog FCC chair, helped take down Jimmy Kimmel with words, not actions

🤔I hope someone will remember in 2028 . . .

www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/m...
How Brendan Carr, the attack-dog FCC chair, helped take down Jimmy Kimmel with words, not actions | CNN Business
When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listenin...
www.cnn.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Excellent read..

"Across Corporate America, companies are learning the hard way that giving Trump what he wants won’t appease him — it will only stoke his appetite."

www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/b...
With the Jimmy Kimmel saga, the media is learning what happens when you give a mouse a cookie | CNN Business
Late last year, ABC News spent $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit with President Trump. At the time, you could squint and see the business sense of it: Just pay up, say you’re sorry and this w...
www.cnn.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Time to show Disney appreciation for taking Jimmy Kimmel off air.
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Since taking office in January, Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders like Putin, Xi or Orban that he has often praised.

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's moves against the media mirror approaches by authoritarian leaders to silence dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...
apnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The MAGA mob routinely rages about imaginary “socialist” threats, yet they’re perfectly fine when Trump censors and bullies US media into obedience in true USSR- or China-style fashion.
President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that “97%” of some network coverage was negative toward him.

“They give me only bad publicity or press,” Trump said. “They’re getting a license, I think maybe their license should be taken away. It’s up to Brendan Carr.” https://to.pbs.org/4nDxWRg
LISTEN: Trump calls for licenses of TV networks that give him 'bad publicity' to be revoked
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that “97%” of some network coverage was negative toward him. “They give me only bad publicity or press,” Trump said. “They’re get...
to.pbs.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM