Ah yes, taking a leaf from the Tolstoy classic, "Limited Combat Operations & Peace".

There is no conservative stance anymore. Any ideological consistency has been obliterated by Trump, Orban, Putin, Farage and their likes. It's corporate fascism, where everything has to be done to feed the corrupt machine.

EU’s Kremlin-Friendly Score a Win for Putin Russia’s sputtering economy has been aided by the EU’s failure to agree on a new sanctions package, a victory for Moscow.

EU’s Kremlin-Friendly Score a Win for Putin | "Russia’s sputtering economy has been aided by the EU’s failure to agree on a new sanctions package, a victory Moscow achieved without lifting a finger." Alexander Kolyandr

Trump's Budget bill will dramatically expand the army of uniformed, masked and armed ICE goons. I predict that this militia will swiftly morph to become his personal Schutz-Staffel.

🤣 Daddy my arse...

Elegance of the English language:

"In sync" is so much crisper than...

..."Gleichschaltung".

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.

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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.

And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.

And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Trump ceasefire efforts are like teenage sex. He thinks he can do it, but really he has no clue how, so nothing happens, but he still claims he's better than the last guy who tried.

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

You've got a fascist takeover of the US gobt, led by a racist with dementia, but you obsess about a former president,falling hook, line & sinker for the GOP distraction campaign. Sure,go right ahead. You're owned by Axel Springer, right? Or rather: far right...

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!”

- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.

“Brexit Betrayed!”

How Doge works. Can the families of the victims sue Musk?

Markus Söder am 16.05.2025 (via Facebook): "Ab jetzt gilt wieder Law and Order an der Grenze. Dafür steht die CSU in besonderem Maße."

Und ich dachte schon, die CSU steht für Missachtung von Menschenrechten, für staatliche Willkür und windige Politik im Allgemeinen.

Ein Rechter hatte argumentiert, dass man einen "Bürgerkrieg provozieren" würde, wenn man ein AfD-Verbot fordert.

Ich glaube, die Drohung, dass man einen gewaltsamen Umsturz durchführen wird, wenn eine verfassungswidrige Partei verboten ist, ist im Gegenteil das stärkste Argument FÜR ein Verbot.

Hmmm, I thought the Republicans always said it was communism to prescribe price controls.

And breathe... They are truly horrid, aren't they...

Internet FTW

Fascists gonna fascist.

... rulebooks and principles to fight fascist enemies carrying knives and baseball bats. I don't want my children to have to live through a 1930s/1940s rerun until sanity returns. If it ever will. 3/3

The complex reality or our world, with its arbitrage, democratic, multi-stakeholder solutions is a much more difficult sell. Yes, charisma also plays a role. Many democratic leaders, whether in the UK, France, Germany and Spain come across as limp and passive. That's because they bring... 2/3

I see more and more people speaking about a failure of democracy. I would argue that this is more a question of people preferring the easy explanations (scapegoats, anyone?) and populist, zero sum, hoodwink solutions that are being pushed by billionaire media and social media algorithms. 1/3

Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and

And there you have it: full-blown authoritarian rule, with impunity for the police; an end to the right of states and municipalities to govern the rules for their own police forces; and the US military on the streets to enforce Trump's policies. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory.

The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

Well well well well well

Der neue EU-Klimabericht sagt im Kern, dass ein "Weiter so" das Ende der Zivilisation wie wir sie kennen bedeutet.

Und auf den großen Nachrichtenseiten? Muss man erstmal nach unten scrollen.

Wo sind die Interviews mit den Expert*innen? Wo die kritischen Fragen an Merz oder die EU-Kommission?!

April 3, 2025 Trump’s announcement last night that he was placing high tariffs on countries around the world came after the stock market closed, but it drove stock futures dramatically downward.

Best quote yet: “These aren’t tariffs. They are a horse’s head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.”
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Good sense from Iain here. Also worth noting that the sentence was very similar to that given to Juppé for comparable funds misuse and arguably less strong than those for Fillon and Sarkozy. Lots of excuse making on behalf of far right but why should they be treated differently from centre right?