Vivaldi 🎼 Winter vk
Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
“Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Alito dissent”: hah, of course. What slavering goons.
when you shout the magic words “dinner’s ready”
leader of the pack
mousing
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Calling for regime change in Europe and supporting far-right forces also undermines the transatlantic alliance.
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
authoritarian-stack.info
What do you make of this, where does Kirill fit in this chart
Sweder van Wijnbergen over GL-PvdA
mine hunting
Trade war makes improved UK-EU relations ‘imperative’, says Reeves
https://www.ft.com/content/f51a368a-ff9a-46d8-9ab5-58aa3ca7ecc4
András Schiff, an eminent concert pianist who has boycotted strongman rule in Russia and his native Hungary, said on Wednesday that he would no longer perform in the U.S. because of concerns about President Trump’s “unbelievable bullying” on the world stage.
Just found out that the meme discussion of 'Canada should join the EU' spearheaded by @spignal.bsky.social is much older - a friend of mine remembered a 2006 (!) article by @fromtga.bsky.social that Canada would make the perfect EU member state:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fascinating discussion with wonderful @stevepeers.bsky.social on whether Canada could become member of EU.
As EU treaties stand, no - as admission Article 49 process limited to European countries.
But, if EU and Canada did it by treaty, then yes. Canada could be member if EU really wanted it to.
The video is too long for me to post here. But this is a link to Caroline Kennedy reading her letter to senators about her cousin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In a nutshell, she depicts him as an unqualified, deranged, drug-addled, corrupt, and lying sociopath.
x.com/jbkschlossbe...
Breaking news: Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday warned senators about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling her cousin — now Trump’s pick to lead HHS — a “predator” whose victims have ranged from family members to the parents of sick children.
Team Trump testing out how to not implement the tariffs that only a few of them think of to be sane economic policy-making. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Wie durch ein Wunder scheinen die Villa Aurora und das Thomas Mann Haus offenbar von den Bränden in Kalifornien weitgehend verschont geblieben zu sein. www.vatmh.org/de/newsreade...
Die Häuser dienten als Zufluchtsort für Exilanten, die während des zweiten Weltkriegs geflohen sind.
I have now seen the Ann Telnaes cartoon of Jeff Bezos's supplication before Donald Trump more often today than I've seen any other cartoon during the entire rest of the year.
So, well played, Washington Post.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
On the morning of Sentencing
Fabulous! Who is the artist, please?
Watch this trailer of the documentary "Democracy Under Siege". A warning for the next four years.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/democracy-...
so do we
“With the economic outlook so bleak, time is not on Russia’s side. Mr Putin must be made to understand that the cost of his illegal campaign is getting too high, even for his tolerance.”
Excellent op-ed by Elina Valtonen. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
the cauldron of Obelix
