Half a year of Trumpian diplomacy on display. Where will we be after 4 years? edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Half a year of Trumpian diplomacy on display. Where will we be after 4 years? edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with . Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
In case there were any doubts left by other scholars including Israeli ones
What do they mean, that the Ukrainians should start targeting civilians?
Sudan’s civil war saw a number of developments on the battlefield as well as in diplomacy and the humanitarian crisis.
There was a very failed "breakthrough", which got a lot of airtime, until it failed. Now, there's only crickets from the analyzing community. Phillips put my thoughts to words..
This @gideonrachman.bsky.social podcast with @jamescrabtree.bsky.social is a remarkable indictment of Trump & his wrecking years and years of US Indo-Pacific diplomacy. Astounding how he is allowed to shoot his own country in the foot.
Axios: Trump considering stepping back from Ukraine peace talks. WH official: “We are going to sit back and watch. Let them fight it out for a while and see what happens.” Truly a smashing success, that Alaska summit.
Bravo Gianluca, an inspiration towards cleaner travels. We can all do our part
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Disgusting. An ethical army would court martial these people. Perhaps another "investigation" will be opened.
This is Anhelina, two years old, celebrating her birthday. Anhelina and her mom, 24-year-old Nadiia, were killed by Russia in #Kyiv on August 28.
Utterly shameful how the world has left an Israeli fascist messianic just get on with it, considering a large majority of Israel citizens don't support this policy.
The fun would be watching Chump's reaction to it. 🤯 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Keep it up💯
A cry for help from an Israeli centrist. The world needs to support these brave and determined people rid their country of Netanyahu and his messianic criminal govt. The battle for the soul of Israel - on.ft.com/3Vo4r9Q via @FT
I am once again reposting this absurdly useful essay from Tim and Kate, because not enough of you have read it.
Very true, every life should have equal worth. Ther is instead a hierarchy of life's worth
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
As debate boils over allegations of genocide in Gaza, there’s another place where all sides in the United States seem to agree a genocide is underway — yet largely ignore it. That’s Sudan My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Disgusting and unnecessarily cruel.
May the perpetrators burn in hell
🙏 The death toll in Russia's terrorist attack on Kyiv last night has risen to 21, including 4 dead children.
Remember when the GOP was the pro-fiscal responsibility, pro-Constitution, pro-rule of law, pro-states rights, pro-free trade, pro-free markets, anti-communist, anti-Russia, pro-strong US party? No, neither do I. But, that was their line for a long time and they've flipped on every element of it.
When Ziblatt is talking about the lessons from Weimar for the present day, you listen. Chilling.
The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton
Of course Telegraph, and others, opening gambit about the horrific school shooting in Minneapolis is to focus on attacker allegedly being trans. You notice no-one ever says "white man" in relation to other shootings. The shooter's gender identity is irrelevant to the hideous crime they committed.
We have a planet. We have an atmosphere around it. We are fucking it up. We need to stop it. Thanks.
Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever
Some good news once ina while
Mexico's jaguar population is up 30% since 2010, but still at risk reut.rs/47VdqH0
Listen to our National Co-director Alon-Lee Green speak on Sky News about how the genocidal war in Gaza isn’t being fought for anyone’s safety and why Israeli politicians constantly ignore diplomacy.
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This is how you carey out an interview
...and the international community does nothing. Shameful.
www.politico.com/news/magazin... If Powell does not come to Cook’s defense and continue to treat her as a governor-in-good-standing, he will be the Fed chair who oversaw the destruction of the Federal Reserve’s prized independence.. like Roberts presiding over demise of the S Ct.
Just like an abusive spouse, it's time for Europe to stop being subservient to the U.S, seriously regulated social media and take over full responsibility of supporting Ukraine.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
Must read www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...
Ukrainian Defender Valerii Kucherenko lost both his arms defending #Ukraine. He got prosthetic limbs in the United States and opened a pizzeria in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, as Valerii has dreamed for a long time about his own business. 📹 Protez Foundation/Facebook
How much evil has this corporation done to this world? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Of course www.wsj.com/business/ene...
This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Jerusalem-based Foreign Press Association: 'We call on Israel once and for all to halt its abhorrent practice of targeting journalists ... We appeal to international leaders: do everything you can to protect our colleagues. We cannot do it ourselves.' Read more reactions: reut.rs/3JzNAyk 5/5
Is this a Labour Govt? Totally nuts
Vance is a quite bad Putin propagandist.
NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at a prestigious Clinton event in 2013 - years after abuse allegations against her were publicly known. Information we reviewed showed her on a list recommended for free access by either Bill or Hillary Clinton, per a source familiar.
These people don't know the ABC of history (and geography) and they speak like learned professors. Total jokers
Agreed, but the fact that Trump.won in 2024 shows a majority does not think so.
Beating Trump and Trumpism is more important than anything else. Plain language is just common sense when trying to appeal to ordinary voters.
If liberals are overly focused on these ridiculous definitions, expect thr fascists to stay in power indefinitely.
I think that Democrats have a good shot in the midterms, but (1) don't squander votes you could win (2) as 2024 should have warned you, you cannot always count on the awfulness of Trump as your basic campaign position
Is U.S "support" really with it Anne?
Republicans had a choice: expose child s*x traffickers or protect Trump. They chose Trump. They chose traffickers. They are the party of child s*x trafficking.
6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. He’s been imprisoned ever since. He’s suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? They’re cousins.
Ro Khanna on the Epstein Files: “Only 3% of the documents that were given to us were new. 97% were already in the public domain. Less than 1% of the Epstein Files have actually been released. They’re stonewalling and not releasing things.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
Ursula, this is all very nice, but Europe and the UK need to actually do something concrete to stop Putin - total economic and financial isolation is required plus, sadly, much more force. We seriously cannot rely on the USA to be a reliable partner. Time for all of us to step up to the plate!!
Why don't you stop funding Putin's war machine? "EU imported €4.4 billion worth of Russian gas in first half of 2025" www.brusselstimes.com/1707644/eu-i...
The world is watching in slow motion. No one can say we didn’t know. Irish surgeon on working in Gaza: ‘Wave after wave of dead children’ www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...
By continuing to provide weapons to Israel — and bolstering the profits of America's military contractors — the U.S. is complicit in the genocide unfolding in Gaza. There is no moral justification in wreaking vengeance on innocent women, men, and children. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Just completely tear it out, spit on it, throw it in the filthiest dumpster you can find
The number of people who told me last year that ‘it can’t get any worse for Gaza.’ But it always could get worse, things can always get worse- and they have. We are now witnessing an official, full-blown, US-approved famine in Gaza. Shameful.
The UN says the famine in Gaza is “entirely man-made” and “could be halted & reversed.” Trump is supposedly a “tough guy.” Well, it’s time for him to have the guts to stand up to Netanyahu and stop sending billions in U.S. tax dollars to Israel to starve children.
A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Biden's lack of judgement, one of many unfortunately. Fascism is often the result of weakness of the small "d" democrats
In any case, the use of starvation as a policy clearly is targeted towards a much higher % of the population. The Israeli government policy in the West Bank is slower moving, but the direction (declared one of mass expulsion) also falls under the legal definition of genocidal intent.
The actual definition of genocide is not tied to any specific percentages. When the world's scholars of genocide, many of which are based in Israel, say that the current Israeli actions in Gaza are to be considered a genocide, it may be time to pay to reconsider one's opinions.
2 more dead from hunger since yesterday. 271 in total, 112 of them children in Gaza. @nirhasson.bsky.social
Have to disagree with @npr.org. Putin did *not* invade Ukraine to prevent NATO troops from getting any closer to Russia. NATO has bordered the USSR and then Russia since its founding in 1949. Currently the Baltic states and now Finland border Russia. Putin invaded Ukraine to conquer it. Period.
Trump's wealth has DOUBLED since he's become President. AND the taxpayers pick up the cost of his luxury lifestyle. And you're paying more for everything. Not because of natural economic factors, but because he's INTENTIONALLY driving prices up for you.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost is NEVER going to stop haunting Trump.
This isn't about land, they want to subjugate Ukraine
Law students should not interview with these firms.
'While Trump still commands the daily news cycle, he no longer commands the West... It is Europe that is becoming the new arsenal of democracy.' Exceptional, morally urgent and utterly clear sighted column in the Telegraph. Yes, you read that right. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Have you seen this person? 👀
No heaven for enablers of Gaza's hell on earth thehill.com/homenews/adm...
President Macron called Russia "a predator, an ogre" at the Europe's doorstep. He said that Russia has become "a lasting destabilizing force and a potential threat for many of us," that it'll be naїve to think that Moscow will return to "a state of peace" due to its military spending.
If you haven’t seen this, it’s about time you did. Sound up!
You have to feel for Sadiq Khan. A 21st-century leader lumbered with a Labour government that has, uncoerced, decided to become a 20th century Conservative party.
As the meeting in Washington approaches, and Trump is trying to pressure Zelensky to give land to Putin, I do hope one thing is clear. Trump was, is and always be in Putin’s camp. Everything we have seen since November was an act to help Putin. Trump has always wanted to screw Ukraine.
Trump spent the last week playing dictator in D.C. — and capped things off by getting played by a dictator in Alaska. Another disastrous week for American democracy and U.S. leadership.
Boris Johnson on the Trump-Putin summit: “Just about the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy.”
We need to be able to say what protests are for. Serbs are protesting for the rule of law and have been doing so in large numbers for a long time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
What a total c***t.
America has fallen.
New Leni Riefenstahl video just dropped from beyond the grave.
The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.
Nothing to be "decided" at the #AlaskaSummit The fix is in, Pedo-Shitler has his marching orders. Depending on how it suits him Putin MAY or MAY NOT allow him to act tough. The ENTIRE POINT of his NEW 180 to being "Hard on Russia" & "Hard on Israel" is distraction from his "HARD-ONS" for pre-teens.
Republicans shut down Congress to prevent a vote on the Epstein files, and now Trump is sending in 800 National Guard and taking over DC’s police department.
Induction since 7 years. Ain't looking back to the stone age
NEW: Gavin Newsom posts message directed at Mike Johnson
UN warns #Yemen is suffering from "disastrous" levels of food insecurity, with more than 17 million people hungry and child malnutrition becoming more and more dangerous. arab.news/973rq
I saw this coming, Maxwell was given the same sweetheart deal that Epstein was given. “Maxwell's custody level was set to "OUT," allowing her to leave the prison to work.” She only has to report to the prison to sleep now. #Pinks #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Maxwell www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-ma...