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Dass Merz sich nicht schämt, Walter Lübckes Namen in den Mund zu nehmen, um Menschen zu diskreditieren, die gegen Faschismus und Rechtsruck aufstehen, nachdem er selbst die Brandmauer zu der Partei, zu deren Fans Lübckes Mörder gehört, eingerissen hat. Verlogen und verkommen.

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

He nails it.

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

The art of the deal #wato

calling what trump is doing in ukraine appeasement is excessively kind to trump and grotesquely unfair to chamberlain et al. for all his faults, chamberlain wasnt rooting for hitler.

Must-read piece. Europe cannot afford to be the chorus in a Greek tragedy, wringing its hands on the edge of the stage while horrors unfold elsewhere. Ukraine’s success is a vital interest for European countries, including the UK. They need to act, not wait for Trump to harm their interests.

With Trump repeating untrue Kremlin talking points, it’s become clear that Europe can’t rely on this administration to behave like the ally the United States is supposed to be. To defend Ukraine and itself European countries need to step up — here’s how: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/e...

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Heat pump sales went down in Europe in 2024 (13 countries). The UK is one of 3 exceptions, but we had Europe's lowest uptake per capita in previous years! There have been more sales overall of air-to-air heat pumps than other types (but not in the UK). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Why epidemic assumptions can matter so much… An ongoing scientific question about the early dynamics of COVID is precisely when the first wave peaked in the UK – when did infections themselves actually start declining?

Das wirtschaftsnahe Ifo-Institut widerspricht in einer Studie Friedrich Merz' aktueller Politik - und gesamter aktueller Debatte: "Migration nach Deutschland führt nicht zu einer höheren Kriminalitätsrate an den Zuzugsorten." Dies decke sich mit internationaler Forschung www.ifo.de/pressemittei...

I don't think Trump is being blackmailed or bribed by Russia. I think he genuinely believes that a richer, bigger country should be able to do whatever it wants to smaller neighbours, and that Ukraine's defiance of Russia spits in the face of some imagined gangster-capitalist proper world order.

This is fucking incredible.

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Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said. She argued Trump's order to rename it only applies to the part of the continental shelf under US control.

1-4 Wow. The Telegraph, Britain's right-wing conservative newspaper of record (very supportive of the armed forces, pro-Brexit), punches with full force against Trump's immoral attempt at extorting Ukraine, calling it "a new Versailles" and a "second violation of Ukraine".

Tom Homan asks “where is that line,” as if it is mysterious or unknowable. It’s not. Tom’s saying it that way because he’s too much of a coward just to say “she should be arrested for telling people their rights.” Also, to be fair, he may be too dim to understand the line.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

Deputy AG Lionel Hutz quickly scribbling an ampersand onto it.

One sad thing about the US Constitution no longer being in effect is that we can't say "omg look at this banana republic shit" because we're no longer a republic

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

“Go easy on the fascists,” says fascist. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

Guys, Trump's offer to Putin is not a terrible deal *if he's on Putin's side*. That really does feel like the key thing to recognise.

I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.

What are cities doing with the city-splitting highways that were all the rage between the 1950s and 1970s? A huge number are simply demolishing them - and predictions of traffic chaos aren't materialising: www.ft.com/content/5489...

I thought this was a spoof - but it’s sadly real

"Exports account for about 40% of Germany’s GDP, but 3/4 go to the rest of the EU. 'True' German exports, those going outside the EU, are just over 10% of GDP, in line with the US. Nobody ever worries whether Florida exports too many oranges to the rest of the US. So why the double standard?"

This was fun real-o-mat.de?pk_campaign=...

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“‘He’s basically the norovirus,’ she said. ‘Every day he spews executive orders all over the place, and while we struggle to clean up all the puke, he comes out the other end with something even worse.’”

I won't lie: after 3 weeks of experiencing almost unimaginably abundant and diverse Costa Rican nature, returning home to the Irish ecological moonscape is a visceral gut punch. But what Costa Rica shows is that it doesn't have to stay like this: nature CAN return. #Rewilding 🌍

Picking a fight with Canada has America looking like Jake Paul