Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives | Robert Habeck I had to deal with energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap, says Robert Habeck, former vice-Chancellor of Germany

Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives | Robert Habeck

As Zelenskyy said recently, Gulf states used as many Patriot missiles from the US in three days than Washington gave Kyiv in four years of war.

fun fact: at $90/barrel, the impact of the war is equivalent to a ~$50/ton carbon tax, right where the biden administration estimated the social cost of carbon

Wow.

Chris Christie: So many of my fellow party members come up to me…in the green room at ABC, they'll say, 'You're so brave. That's so great. I totally agree with you. Trump's nuts.' ... Then on camera to be interviewed, and they go, ‘The greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.’ ...

Kremlin’s Epstein Kompromat? Who knows .. but as Phillips concludes „it would help explain a great deal” ..

To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM Subject: Re: florida visit? good typing! oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: i am tied up until aug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, wrote: You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months. I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job. think What are you doing next week?

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Kronikk: Lurer du på hvordan makt og innflytelse faktisk fungerer? Epstein-avsløringene er et godt sted å starte, skriver Ketil Raknes.

Her er Ketil Rakness god: "Epstein-dokumentene minner oss om at politisk ulikhet ikke bare handler om økonomiske ressurser, men også om overlegen tilgang til informasjon om hva beslutningstagere tenker." www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

Alle gaver til norske Ukrainian Freedom Convoys (UFC) i februar dobles med inntil 2 millioner kroner, takket være støtte fra en samling bedrifter og privatpersoner. Dette betyr: 2 millioner inn = 4 millioner ut til ukrainske soldater. 🧵1/3

Opinion | The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years

This is an excellent @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast with @himself.bsky.social. Chock full of political science theory providing a very useful framework to understand contemporary events www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/o...

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’? The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.

This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Det har gått under radaren her hjemme, men i november ba EU-parlamentet m stort flertall EUs Råd og Kommisjonen om å vurdere om Norge kan innlemmes under EUs kollektive sikkerhetserklæring, dvs EU-traktatens versjon av NATOs artikkel 5.

For whatever reason, because of whatever backstory, for whatever ideological drives this guy has always worked for Russia.

A US annexation of Greenland would be the end of NATO.
Trump, as an obedient servant of Putin, might welcome that, but the other NATO members cannot accept having a blatant traitor in their midst.

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

there are fields that help you understand why the world's most powerful defense establishment is being controlled by mentally ill people but military theory isn't one of them

The US is more likely to fight Europe than fight for it.

Insane

Opinion | Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Russia can offer much larger bribes and business deals to Trump, his family, and his friends than Ukraine can, and since Trump is the most corrupt and most compromised US president in history, that puts Ukraine in a tough spot

This is horrible. Trump and his crew shut down USAID, which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and they had no idea what they were doing or what would be the consequences. Completely immoral.

(From the VF story on Susan Wiles.)
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Implications of this leak is huge;

Trump knows that Putin want all of #Ukraine, that a "deal" now is only temporary. T has known this even before the Alaska summit.

This means he has been helping Putin all year.

Whatever "guarantees" Trump is offering Ukraine now, is fake.

THIS IS TREASON!

Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.

In Ukraine the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.

Gari Kasparov på Halifax Security Forum:

"NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only country that is fighting this war, and we are still discussing should we include them or not."

One Small Guardrail Finally Held Up Against Trump For almost a decade now, we’ve watched as Trump plowed through guardrails...

One Small Guardrail Finally Held Up Against Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/linds...