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Trump‘s government is geopolitically aligned with the Kremlin.

🇨🇳🇺🇸🤔 Xi Jinping informed me that the “peace group” on Ukraine will meet in New York soon, — Putin

This is so goddamn embarrassing. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/u...

🤡 Russia has an order of magnitude more rare earth metals than Ukraine, Moscow is ready to offer them to interested partners, — Putin

The Roosevelt Hotel, which was established as an arrival center for immigrants during New York City’s migrant crisis nearly three years ago, will close by June, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday, as officials dismantle the emergency shelter system.

Bitte unterschreibt diesen offenen Brief. ❤️🙏

Genau das, was Robert Habeck jetzt zu Schwarz Rot sagt.

"No, in fact, to be frank..."

All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

There's no longer any denying it. The US and Russia are now allies, aligned against Europe. And we need to scramble like mad to work out what to do.

The Eiffel Tower lights up Paris in the colours of Ukraine. Slava Ukraini & vive la République 🇫🇷🇺🇦 !

Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"

We can safely take a deep breath and return to the more pressing existential problems posed by threats on this planet, rather than off-world.

NEW: Macron has to interrupt Trump and correct a lie about Europe’s contribution. TRUMP: “Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back." MACRON: “No. We provided real money. To be clear.” Trump clearly not used to get fact-checked live.

Dafür verlor sie durch den kurzen und heftigen Anti-Migrations-Wahlkampf über 900.000 Wäh­le­r:in­nen an die AfD. (Quelle taz)

Danke @robert-habeck.de

Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 650,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,240,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,770,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,200,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊

⚡️🇪🇺 "If we are not in NATO, then we need EU membership, financing of the Ukrainian army of at least 800 thousand," — Zelensky 🛡️ "We need to start by understanding the security guarantees that Europe and the US can provide us. This is step number one."

Those agencies include the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Energy.

Joy Reid’s evening news show on MSNBC is being canceled, part of a far-reaching programming overhaul orchestrated by Rebecca Kutler, the network’s new president, people familiar with the changes said. nyti.ms/3D1syG2

Almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health, preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/418B5Pm

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

CNN plays a clip of Russian state TV praising Trump for being "in total alignment" with Putin

Tomorrow will mark three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A day that will forever live in infamy. Today we’re hoisting the Ukrainian flag at our headquarters. It is flying high and proud at the heart of Europe. Where it belongs.

Ich bin so alt, ich erinnere mich noch daran, dass man die Grünen gewählt hat, weil man Pazifist und gegen Aufrüstung war. Heute wählt man die Grünen, damit Deutschland nicht völlig schutzlos den Russen oder Amerikanern anheimfällt.

Das ist übrigens was, was die ganzen AKW Apologeten massiv unterschätzen: Eine Staat, der AKWs im Klimskollaps betreiben will, muss sehr bald die Entscheidung treffen: Wasser für Landwirtschaft & Trinkwasser oder für die AKWs. Frankreich steht mittlerweile in fast jedem Sommer vor solchen Ent-

FGS Hessen crew targeted while in naval base Kiel. 3rd recent sabotage attempt on German warships.

Glad to see this law suit from @apnews.com. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the President doesn't get to dictate how news organizations describe the world. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Das ist aber keine ernsthafte Frage danach, ob die Wahl auch so ok ist, oder? Wenn das schon mal so geklappt hat, bleiben beim nächsten Mal dann die außen vor, die nicht selber laufen können oder die mit fremdländischen Namen oder die Frauen? Die Zeiten des Merz beginnen schon zweifelhaft

Tomorrow is voting day in Germany. I will also host a little Repair Cafė. I have no time for this, like you, but it is important what we do. It takes a little effort to stay a democrat, invest. It's much less effort than to fight it out of the ruins again.

Trump vervangt hoogste generaal van belangrijkste militair adviesorgaan VS #Buitenland

Onzeker Litouwen vindt dat Europa zich tot de tanden moet wapenen #Buitenland

If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 - ESA senkt Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Einschlags drastisch auf 0,16%.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with slashing US federal government spending, took to the stage at a conservative conference outside Washington with a gift from Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei: a chainsaw reut.rs/4bceMNo

What could go wrong? (I can think of like a dozen things, without giving it much thought) www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

👇🎯 A complete category error in our current authoritarian moment

In November, @alanhalaly.bsky.social profiled Riley Rackliffe, an NPS aquatic ecologist, whose job included monitoring Nevada's Lake Mohave for toxic algae blooms. (you can guess where this story is going...) @altnps.bsky.social

NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

It currently takes 10.5 hours by train to travel from Quebec City to Toronto via Montreal. If Canada proceeds with a high-speed rail system, the trip would take only 4.5 hours. This project is a no-brainer.

Trump on Thursday said he had made Alice Johnson, a Tennessee woman who was serving a life sentence for a drug crime before Trump commuted her sentence, a "pardon czar" to advise him on further acts of clemency.