James Kanter

Shots fired.
“Because, as you can imagine, if by chance the German partner were to call into question the joint aircraft project, we would be forced to call into question the joint tank project.” -
Macron in Le Monde

www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

IRC: The EU’s new ‘safe country’ laws will result in more fear and insecurity | The IRC in the EU The European Parliament has voted to approve two new laws on the countries deemed to be ‘safe’ for people in the asylum system to be deported to. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responded tha...

More here from IRC.
@eu.rescue.org

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

New deportation regime gives EU governments wide latitude to send asylum seekers like wherever.

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

UE czy USA? Według badania przeprowadzonego przez Opinia24 na zlecenie RMF FM w obliczu potencjalnego zagrożenia Polacy częściej liczą na wsparcie europejskich sąsiadów niż na pomoc zza oceanu. Najnowszy sondaż u...

Poles no longer trusting the US for protection is a really big story. 27% of respondents see EU states as main source of assistance in emergency vs 15% the Americans. That said nearly 25% say Poland cannot on either US or EU states.
h/t @euractiv.com

The Brussels water operator Vivaqua blames the recent spare of sinkholes on the terrible state of the sewers, with 12% of the network needing urgent attention. The recent negotiations to form a new regional government placed sewers as a top priority. Then they collapsed too.

The devil is a huge dipshit is trop bon.

US media didn't warn US voters loudly enough that Trump and Maga were out to create a kind of police state this time around. Thanks Pamela Moriniere @rtbf.be and @ifjglobal.bsky.social for the opportunity to hammer this point home.

Lithuanian PM says Vilnius ‘jumped in front of a train’ with Taiwanese office Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said Tuesday that Lithuania made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese re...

This would be big...

Lithuanian prime minister says they made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name “Taiwanese"

“I think Lithuania really jumped in front of a train and lost"

2005 onwards in paris

I was there when it still was the IHT of yore, with editors steeped in European history and society.

2/2 This quote indicates why. Other parties’ scandals happen when members fall short of the party’s values. Reform’s happen when they enact its core values. Racism is the party’s very essence. Scapegoating & punishing certain segments of the population is the totality of its programme.

Inside Reform: Laura Kuenssberg follows Farage's party as it experiences the glare of scrutiny The BBC has spent time interviewing senior figures and witnessing Reform's work at the largest council it runs.

1/2 The danger of this Laura Kuenssberg documentary on Reform is further sanitising & normalising it. A lesson from European history is that fascist parties should never be treated just like any other.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why the fuck did no other media member in the room stand up for @kaitlancollins.bsky.social? This has been going on forever. Trump, the coward, is constantly throwing ugly sexist insults at female reporters. When the fuck will White House media members defend their female colleagues?

1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections.
2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so.
3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy.
4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.

The perennial focus on Mandelson comebacks after all these decades of sleaze shows an alarming lack of journalistic imagination. We all know Mandy's a charmer and media darling. But FFS come on now.

I would add that anyone trying to “take over the voting” would be involved in a criminal conspiracy. Anyone whose mind such a thing might enter should constantly be made aware of that fact and its consequences. Especially those who do not enjoy SCOTUS-conferred immunity (i.e., everyone, save one).

Trump is pushing for Republicans to “take over the voting in at least 15 places.” An authoritarian takeover of our electoral process—all because Trump’s ego can’t handle the fact that he lost in 2020—has no place in our democracy.

Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”

Days after FBI seizes 700 boxes of ballots in Fulton County GA, Trump says Republicans “should take over the voting in at least 15 places.” He’s once again saying quiet part out loud & openly telegraphing his plan to interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Woody Allen and climate denier Bjorn Lomborg meet up with Jeffrey Epstein...
No, it's not the beginning of a joke.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

If you emailed an elite pervert with normal syntax and punctuation they'd make you immediately and cut off contact. You need to throw some typos and do the Epstein alpha "ghost period" thing . before sending Noam Chomsky some links to The Right Stuff Dot Biz. Then they know you're solid.

Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chatea...

“To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers. She calls herself a “mother, wife, daughter, friend”, yet is only depicted preening and scowling.”

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

3. In the Nordic countries, unlike the US the least corrupt countries in the world, ALL TAX RETURNS ARE PUBLIC. That is called transparency that checks corruption.
4. As usual, Trump demands outrageous damages for no harm to repress the freedom in the US. /3

A staple of authoritarian states: using their executive power to arbitrarily revoke privileges & selectively punish political opponents, in this case for peaceful and lawful behaviour. The courts are failing under this broad assault on the rule of law.

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter

we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

🌱 January 25 marks six years since the Brumadinho dam collapse claimed 272 lives. Remembering means more than marking the date. It means demanding that corporations be held accountable, that communities be protected, & that we never allow profit to come before human life. ⤵️
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Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Arrested for Reporting — Russia’s Playbook in America When I saw the news this morning that Don Lemon and Georgia Fort had been arrested, my first thought was this is what happens in Russia, and the decades I spent documenting how the Kremlin dismantled ...

When I saw the news of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort's arrest for reporting on a protest, my immediate thought was this is exactly what happens in Russia. My latest... olgalautman.substack.com/p/don-lemon-...

🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States.

Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...