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Voting is a human right. Today in Germany, every vote shapes the future. 🗳️🇩🇪 Say no to hate. No to AfD. ❌🏛️ #Germany #NoToAfD #Democracy

It's a bit annoying that virtually all French strategic arguments are being vindicated, like nuclear dependency from US, UK in EU, European military industry and now even F35, on paper a multinational project. They clearly know something we don't, maybe it's time to try ranouilles or escargot pizza.

The Bond movie Moonraker - "published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi."

I believe we’ll look back at tonight as a major turning point.

US kill-switch for F-35 is confirmed. The US has the means to ground a country's F-35 within 24 hours. Don't retire your Eurofighters, F-16, F-18 et al.

To keep in mind when considering Europeans' options to defend Ukraine in disagreement with the US “'This is obviously the case with F-35s. This is also why the Egyptians bought Rafales after the US refused to allow Egyptian F16s to carry out strikes in Libya in 2014.'" www.amyna.news/greek-news/c...

Bring hell, Homan BOSTON STRONG!

A vast trove of Roman antiquities has lain hidden somewhere in Rome for half a century. Now, it's beginning to open itself up to the public eye—and our reporter managed to get inside the restoration lab.

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

The Gulf War was more about making this point than about Kuwait. Marginalizing the largely fictional but still plausible influence of UN caused horrific consequences in places where the Empire would be unable or unwilling to intervene, until the "War on Terror" discredited US interventions too.

Okay this article is completely insane. OpenAI is going to make *more than its entire subscription revenue from 2024* (they spent $9bn to lose $5bn in 2024 btw) - $3 billion - selling “agents”? OpenAI doesn’t have a functional agent product! It doesn’t exist! What the hell is going on?

The Russians are increasing their aggression because they know that their Main Enemy, the United States, is about to surrender. Russia is in the process of defeating the United States: Moscow will have successfully imposed its will on America. A huge triumph for Putin. Endless shame for America.

"Trump’s proposed partnership aligns the interest of the American people with those of the people of Ukraine." Scott Bessent writes in the FT. A lot of talk of "turbocharging" the Ukrainian economy. I don't feel like the economy is its main problem? Link free for first 300 on.ft.com/3XdfynF

Stupefying times. Pro-Trump influencer Jackson Hinkle met w/ Houthi leaders, claiming their slogan "death to America" (which exists on their flag w/ "curse the Jews") isn't against Americans. Meanwhile, Trump redesignated Houthis an FTO & vows to deport students who attend "pro-jihadist protests."

I’m not keeping statistics, but last night was probably fascist Russia’s biggest-ever drone attack on democratic Ukraine - 267 drones, 138 shot down, 119 crashed/lost/flew back to Russia/Belarus. That means 10 got through. Heard AA guns all night. Kyiv heavily targeted.

The Associated Press has sued three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its journalists.

One by one, he's endorsing every fascist party in Europe. Meloni's friendship should have been a red flag.

US Constitution Article 3 Section. 2 The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority

The demands of a colonial power

🚨 PRECEDENT: A group which would not identify themselves, which was seen passing out Christian religious & patriot flyers during the event, forcibly removed a woman from a Government session. The group failed to identify themself, carried zip ties and physically aggressed the woman, dragging her.

Who couldn't relate with this?

Shareholders’ resistance to admitting what Elon has done to Tesla is eventually going to cost them a lot of money

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

People have summer houses, kings have summer palaces but only a pharaoh could have a second tomb. A waterproof one.

Europeans need to stop freaking out over every Trump brainfart about foreign policy and start freaking out about how he is enabling the domestic torching of the American state

Israeli hostage only discovered fiancee had survived 7 October after his release

May I humbly suggest to friends in the US that saying things like "he's a foreigner and an illegal immigrant, Musk has no right to tell us true Americans to hate trans people and immigrants" doesn't exactly help your cause as you might think?

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors. This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.” “The penalty for consorting with the enemy.” This plus open Nazi sympathies and racism apparently made him perfect for DOGE. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

Without US umbrella, this plan just provides 30,000 European hostages to Putin - and on top of their country, the Ukrainian military would have to protect them too

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

"There is a sense of vengeance in the air, at an intensity not seen since the October 7 massacre. This is the sentiment that reaches the TV studios, and includes calls for resuming the war, for a second Nakba, and for the total destruction of Gaza." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I’m sorry. You can all be mad at journalists for this or whatever. And maybe in some cases it’s deserved. But this is a high-risk profession that’s dying. There’s little support for most working journalists who still have jobs. When you blame “the media,” blame executives. Not workers.

Not a figure of speech

remember how i told you yesterday that i've talked with people who are volcanically angry? boy, do i have a story for you coming on monday.

New — State Department employees have been instructed *not* to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been more power struggle between Musk & new Trump appointees who want to run their own agencies.

The thing about the chaos tonight is that a lot of different parts of the government are pushing back on Musk. Very easy to imagine him having to pick between trying to fire an absurd, untenable number of people or backing down after having made a big threat and looking weak.