Greeting card depicting church bells dropping eggs, chicks, and the message "Joyeuses Pâques" ("Happy Easter")

Happy Easter everyone! 🥰

A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

bottle of caesar dressing stabbed with a steak knife

Congratulations on entering Söngvakeppnin 2027!

YES!

welcome back, 1970

I think this is true but also in a strategic sense, pretty clearly an Iranian victory: we threw everything at them and proved we could not dislodge them.

The question will be if the administration can succeed at spinning it as a success, rather than the defeat it is (I kinda suspect yes?)

"iran is going to keep trying to close the strait [which will drive insurance costs to unsustainable levels]" versus "no they aren't"

Happy International Women's Day everyone! ✊️

Any centre left governing coalition is now:
- Young people, especially graduates
- Urban progressives
- Minority groups
- Working age people with low incomes
- Educated Professionals

If both your political and economic strategy is not geared towards these groups, they will find a party that is.

Happy birthday! 🥳

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Happy Shrove Tuesday to all who celebrate! I hope you're all having pancakes today 😋🥞

this is what the median Republican congressperson does now. an entire caucus of posters and culture warring lightweights

She's the only woman I'd go straight for ngl

A US President's cognitive collapse would be less worrying if the most powerful figures around him were not delusional cranks who now see an opportunity to turn racial imperialist memes into violent reality

you cannot retrain ICE. they are doing what they are hired for: acting as an occupying army to punish those who will not submit to Trump.

come on become a world power [EU]

It's apparently International Hugging Day today, so here's a hug for everyone who needs one 🫂

The first step Europe needs to take is to ban X.

They probably won’t get buy in everywhere, but Germany, France and the UK definitely need to lead and do it

What I find particularly remarkable is how so much American debate seems oblivious to how much the foundations of US global power is dependent on access to infrastructure, bases and depots in Europe and Canada

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

Boy everyone is really having a normal one lately huh

Y'all ok? I'm genuinely worried for the mental well being of basically everyone

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2026 to all of you!!! 🥳🥂🎆

The Hawk Tuah girl would have been a powerful political force on the Continent. A cultural Napoleon.

Clockwise from the left: 107 Days by Kamala Harris, House of Lilies by Justine Firnhaber-Baker, and The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law by Jonathan Sumption

Christmas book haul 🥰

Raffaella Carrà - Buon Natale [Music Video HD] - Buonasera Raffaella (1985) YouTube video by Restauración Musical

Zalig Kerstfeest, Joyeux Noël, Frohe Weihnachten, Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale, and Merry Christmas to all of you my friends! ☺️🎄