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The EU manages to be simultaneously irrelevant AND do much to obstruct peace.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
Can there be a better demonstration of the EU's performative irrelevance? They spent weeks negotiating with each other the issuance of 90bn euro debt which the EU cannot afford that will do nothing to win the War and much to obstruct Peace. www.ft.com/content/e569...
EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
Money to be borrowed against bloc’s budget after leaders fail to agree on proposal using Moscow’s funds
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The EU manages to be simultaneously irrelevant AND do much to obstruct peace.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
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The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
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Imagine if all European countries were like Sweden and understood that helping Ukraine is basically helping themselves secure their free and democratic future.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Imagine if all European countries were like Sweden and understood that helping Ukraine is basically helping themselves secure their free and democratic future.
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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
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The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
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"At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic." Enough was enough:
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
www.thebulwark.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic." Enough was enough:
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
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A great piece that hasn’t aged a day since 1941.
Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”
Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A great piece that hasn’t aged a day since 1941.
Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”
Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”
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I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
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From the original Swedish researchers.
Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows
Our research provides strong evidence against the concerning claims made recently by US president Donald Trump.
theconversation.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
From the original Swedish researchers.
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ABC's decision reeks of Orbanism. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán consolidated control of the media in his country using autocratic carrots and sticks, and President Trump appears to be following the same playbook. I laid it out on CNN TV and in this column: www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/m...
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
ABC's decision reeks of Orbanism. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán consolidated control of the media in his country using autocratic carrots and sticks, and President Trump appears to be following the same playbook. I laid it out on CNN TV and in this column: www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/m...
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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In an internal memo to ADL staff, Jonathan Greenblatt calls my story about the group a "shallow hit piece."
The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.
I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.
nymag.com/intelligence...
The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.
I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League
The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.
nymag.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In an internal memo to ADL staff, Jonathan Greenblatt calls my story about the group a "shallow hit piece."
The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.
I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.
nymag.com/intelligence...
The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.
I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Det här är ett jätteviktigt debattinlägg. Sverige kommer att behöva en vårdkapacitet som överstiger svenska behov - civilister från Finland, Baltikum, kanske även Norge, och möjligtvis också sårade från frontlinjen skulle ju komma till Sverige som ligger lite mer skyddad i vår region.
”Sverige rustar men glömmer vården”
DEBATT. En försvarssatsning utan en samtidig satsning på vården är en ofullständig och farlig strategi. Vi måste investera i en sjukvård som är stark i både fred och kris, skriver överläkaren Daniel M...
www.svd.se
July 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Det här är ett jätteviktigt debattinlägg. Sverige kommer att behöva en vårdkapacitet som överstiger svenska behov - civilister från Finland, Baltikum, kanske även Norge, och möjligtvis också sårade från frontlinjen skulle ju komma till Sverige som ligger lite mer skyddad i vår region.
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"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
www.huffpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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A war crime. Deliberate targeting and murder of aid workers, which was then covered up. The depravity continues. Loud and sustained protest must also
Cellphone Video Shows Aid Workers Killed by Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
Satellite images show Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator burying the ambulances & fire trucks
15 aid workers killed at very close range, then buried in mass grave
Satellite images show Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator burying the ambulances & fire trucks
15 aid workers killed at very close range, then buried in mass grave
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A war crime. Deliberate targeting and murder of aid workers, which was then covered up. The depravity continues. Loud and sustained protest must also
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You can’t make this up
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
You can’t make this up
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Europeans are very quickly turning against the US. New poll in Sweden shows citizens dislike Trump (86%) almost as much as Putin (94%), and 63% believe the US has lost its role as the leader of the free world.
www.dn.se/sverige/dn-i...
www.dn.se/sverige/dn-i...
DN/Ipsos: Väljarna allt mer negativa till USA
Svenskarnas syn på USA har försämrats kraftigt efter Donald Trumps tillträde som president, visar en mätning från DN/Ipsos.
www.dn.se
March 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Europeans are very quickly turning against the US. New poll in Sweden shows citizens dislike Trump (86%) almost as much as Putin (94%), and 63% believe the US has lost its role as the leader of the free world.
www.dn.se/sverige/dn-i...
www.dn.se/sverige/dn-i...
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Is Musk demanding the data held by the Social Security Administration in order to make it more efficient? Unlikely. Here's a better explanation:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Is Musk demanding the data held by the Social Security Administration in order to make it more efficient? Unlikely. Here's a better explanation:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Sent this piece out yesterday. Calling Trump's policy towards Putin "appeasement", in unkind to Neville Chamberlain. Its closer to Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
Just sent out this piece. Equating Trump to Neville Chamberlain is unfair on Chamberlain (and Daladier). Trump is actively trying to help and support Putin--that was not the case with appeasement. The policy failed, but it was different. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This Is Not Appeasement, It Is Worse
Calling Donald Trump A New Neville Chamberlain Is Unfair To Chamberlain
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Sent this piece out yesterday. Calling Trump's policy towards Putin "appeasement", in unkind to Neville Chamberlain. Its closer to Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
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Will AAP survive the Delhi defeat? While Modi's Hindutva agenda is explicit, Kejriwal's is instrumental - subtler but equally dangerous. #MyPiece in National Herald
February 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Will AAP survive the Delhi defeat? While Modi's Hindutva agenda is explicit, Kejriwal's is instrumental - subtler but equally dangerous. #MyPiece in National Herald