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From our morning walk, seen it before but felt more compelling today French ambassador's residence in DC

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After the news about an attempt at sabotaging water supply on the Swedish island of Gotland, now also a sabotage attack at the LKAB iron ore mine in Kiruna in Northern Sweden. www.svd.se/a/Vz21eJ/sky...

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Tesla (TSLA) sales are still crashing in Europe in February

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Russia wants peace with Ukraine so badly that even houses are burning from Russian drones. The city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Show this video to those who say that Russia wants peace.

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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

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The support of The Netherlands to Ukraine is unwavering. We stand with Ukraine, especially when times are tough. Over the last years, today, and in the future for as long as it takes. 🇳🇱🇺🇦

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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

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"Why don't you wear a suit? Do you own a suit?" ...A good opportunity to teach people about the German word "Fremdschämen" = feeling embarassed on behalf of others (...in this case an entire country.)

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

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I can't even. Never in my life did I imagine we would witness such utter contemptuous behavior from the leaders of the most powerful country in the world. Absolutely disgraceful. And exceptionally emblematic of how utterly misguided we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

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“There is no question the intention is there to destroy Europe, starting with Ukraine,” said Nathalie Tocci, director of Italy’s Institute of International Affairs. “The (US) empowering of the far right is instrumental to the goal of destroying the European Union.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

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Rolling out the red carpet for violent misogynists and suspected human traffickers is pretty much in character for this administration. It's still appalling. The women who voted for this president did so against their own safety, against their own interests. www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

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Observation of a new charmed baryon decaying to Ξc⁺π⁻π⁺ arxiv.org/abs/2502.18987 - Four states are observed with high significance. The Ξc(2923)⁺ baryon is observed for the first time, and is consistent with being the isospin partner of the previously observed Ξc(2923)⁰ state.

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Bezos emails WaPo staff: "We are going to be writing every day in support & defense of two pillars: personal liberties & free markets." Adds "opposing" viewpoints won't be published. The WaPo is now a Trump propaganda outlet for contrived culture wars & unregulated oligarch-orientated capitalism.

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The good thing about Tesla rolling out facelifted models is that now you can now for sure they bought it after they knew Elon is crazy.

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This is a real statement put out by the real (interim) U.S. Attorney for D.C. It’s almost impressive just how much it gets so wrong in so few words.

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It’s hard to accept it but the US is now ideologically closer to these states than to Europe

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I can’t stop thinking about the Airbus parallels when I see the Brits being all deceptive about the Franco-German-led Europe being able to “de-Americanize” their militaries. The UK didn’t believe Airbus could work, preferring to bet on Boeing and the sovereign BAC project. Look where that led them.

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From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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"We now have the bizarre situation that anyone with any sense can see that America is no longer a reliable partner, and that the entire US business world bows to Trump’s dictatorial will, but we STILL are doing everything we can to transfer entire governments (...) to their clouds."

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They say only Nixon could go to China. So perhaps only the conservative Atlanticist Friedrich Merz could lead the European charge for independence from America. My post-election article on whether the new German chancellor could be Europe's unlikely saviour:

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Avec l’accord sur les ressources naturelles que les USA pressent l’Ukraine de signer, l’Ukraine se trouve victime d’une double agression coloniale: colonisation armée par Moscou, colonisation d’exploitation par Washington.

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Zum Zustand von X: Dort wird aktuell ein Post als Werbung ausgespielt, der zur Wahl der AfD aufruft - mit einem QAnon-Video, in dem es darum geht Soros, Schwab, Pelosi, Fauci und andere „Globalisten“ zu hängen. Inklusive Filmszenen einer Hinrichtung.

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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Please don't let the reporting about the Pentagon purge focus solely on DEI/Joint Chiefs. Firing the service TJAGs - the top lawyers for Army, Navy, USAF/Space Force - is incredibly consequential. A little context🧵on why.

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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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Otherwise, we cannot see clear evidence of systemic algorithmic bias - more transparency is needed, #X is denying researchers access to important data for a fuller picture. We conducted this research with Mark Scott and X data from the DFRLab. Full research here: algorithmwatch.org/en/the-musk-...

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Gleichzeitig können wir keine eindeutigen Beweise für systematischen algorithmischen Bias finden - hierzu braucht es mehr Transparenz, die #X verweigert. Wir haben die Untersuchung zusammen mit Mark Scott vom DFRLab durchgeführt. Alle Recherche-Ergebnisse: algorithmwatch.org/de/der-musk-...

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grok 2 vs grok 3

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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A young girl’s death by suicide is being investigated by school police after her mother says she was bullied by other students who hurled insults at her, claiming her family was in the US illegally.

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"Europe’s politicians are beginning to grasp how profoundly their world has changed: They must now deal with an America that is at best skeptical and at worst hostile to the old world they represent." “The transatlantic alliance is over" a European diplomat observed.

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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Elon Musk pusht die Pro-Kreml Parteien AfD und BSW im For You Feed von Twitter. Sie tauchen öfter im For You Feed auf als ihrem Anteil entspricht. Die Forscher haben dafür Test-Accounts erstellt, die allen Politikern auf X folgen. BSW und AfD waren krass überrepräsentiert.

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Et le gros mensonge du jour vous est offert par... Bon ok c'est toujours un peu les mêmes. Butch et Suni auraient du rentrer en Starliner l'été dernier, mais ça a été jugé trop risqué. Puis en Crew Dragon ce mois de février, mais la capsule avec leurs remplaçants n'était pas prête à temps.

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Europeans would be very foolish to listen to advice like this.

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Equally true fact, Trump should have never started 9/11

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Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country

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I worry that people are still underestimating what is happening here. They think the U.S. is abandoning Europe, where in fact it is realigning against Europe, as an adversary.

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Dear Non-Fascist Europeans, The current US leaders believe they're allied with fascists inside your country against you, not allied with you against foreign invasion and threats to democracy. I'm sorry, I wish it weren't true, but it is. You really need to adjust. Sincerely, Non-fascist Americans

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Look, if America wants to isolate and make everyone hate it, good for them. Our only goal as Europeans must to completely separate our military and maximise the independence of our industrial capacity from the Americans and achieve strategic autonomy. Europe has to wake up.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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We have Musk protest events popping up at Tesla showrooms and plants all over the country and many more here and worldwide. Join or create your own event at Teslatakedown.com

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