A huge study finds a link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.

Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.

Obvious even for a layman, this war has developed into something no-one has experienced before. How many European armies will overcome their own red tape and be able to make those learnings.

No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual Marco Rubio was more civil than J. D. Vance had been, but the message to longtime allies was the same.

No, it's not "back to business as usual."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The biggest threat to the US dollar is no longer Moscow or Beijing.

It’s the White House and Silicon Valley.

Trump and his billionaire backers are attacking the Fed and legitimizing crypto.

They are dismantling the financial engine of American power for personal profit

Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning?

No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!

Some Europeans have still not caught up to a world profoundly shaped by Chinas industrial policy.

A lot of hard pushback on targeted buy-European because it would reduce European competitiveness and product quality.

Reality, created by China, would disagree.

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EU heavyweights deepen rift with Rutte over Europe’s military power The bloc’s defense commissioner calls for building a European pillar in NATO — challenging the alliance chief who says America’s role is essential.

🚨🚨This is welcome: Europe must build its own military power to survive a more dangerous world and a less reliable US, @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu warned on Wednesday, countering rightly NATO chief Mark #Rutte's remarks on #US reliance for European security. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

Europe can’t defend itself without the US, NATO’s Rutte warns The EU should stop dreaming of creating a European pillar for NATO and continue to build ties with the U.S. despite Trump, the alliance secretary-general said.

🚨🚨 #NATO SG Mark #Rutte is to my mind massively undermining European #unity and efforts to build up their #defence and #security in what I see as a statement which only plays in the hands of #Putin and #Trump. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-defense-nato-mark-rutte-us-politics-threats-gdp/

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

picture of Alex Pretti

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

-Edward R. Murrow

Trump:

"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."

Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

Many MAGA Republicans & European right-radicals believe that, if they dissolve NATO/EU, weaken the Atlantic bond & become friendly towards Russia/China, these will reciprocate.

They won't.

Moscow & Beijing will use Western disunity to subdue or destroy the United & European States.

Gavin Newsom attacks Europe’s ‘complicity’ over Trump Greenland demands

California governor says world leaders are ‘played’ by the US president and urges them to stop rolling over

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati

Good moment to repost my paper from last year, mapping the cards Europe could play in response to US coercion.

Most of them could be played via the anti-coercion instrument. Digital services charges and (de facto) export controls are the keys.

ecfr.eu/publication/...

Most Americans don't want Greenland.

They want the Epstein files.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

This move benefits only the Trump administration, Russia, China, and tech oligarchs. It hurts Europe.

Nawrocki is an idiot

EU citizens - especially those in Greenland - deserve a clear answer to the question of how EU leaders would react to attempts of the US to annex Greenland. Will there be a clear political and economic response? Or is it also going to be a "complex situation" to be "closely monitored"?

How Europe can win the 'culture war' If Europe wants to remain a symbol of democratic, open spaces, it must defend its values not only with hard power but with imagination and empathy. This means positioning culture at the heart of EU policy.

How Europe can win the 'culture war'

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

UPPDATERAS: EU ger ingen amnesti för Kremls krigsbrott – inga konkreta resultat från diskussioner med USA-regimen EU-kommissionen säger att det är oacceptabelt att Rysslands och Kremls krigsbrott ska gå ostraffade och avfärdar alla amnesti för ryssarna. Inga konkreta resultat annat än inställsamma uttalanden har kommit från de ukrainska diskussionerna med USA-regimen i Florida igår.

UPPDATERAS: EU ger ingen amnesti för Kremls krigsbrott – inga konkreta resultat från diskussioner med USA-regimen

We don’t need another delegation of European leaders flying off to Washington to kiss Trump’s ring now. We need them to get on the train to Kyiv and stand shoulder to shoulder with Zelenskyy.

19 drones launched over several hours, from Russia and Belarus, into Poland, were not a mistake. Many of them did not carry explosives, so they had not gone astray in Ukraine....they were a probe of Poland, NATO and Trump.

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Side detection radar, it on all new heavy vehicles in EU.

More and more obvious that the US administration is ignoring the the EU. Probably seeking to make bilateral deals with individual countries.

Europe’s Defense Spending Puzzle Can Pay Huge Dividends Can Europe double the number of main battle tanks and triple its nuclear submarine force at a much-reduced unit price? Yes, and here’s how.

Europe’s Defense Spending Puzzle Can Pay Huge Dividends | "Can Europe double the number of main battle tanks and triple its nuclear submarine force at a much-reduced unit price? Yes, and here’s how." Nathan Decety

Gilbert's lasting contribution to the Nuremberg trials came in his work defining the nature of evil. In his 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship, Gilbert wrote, "In my work with the defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Whenever right-wingers deride empathy, I am reminded of this quote from U.S. Army psychologist Gustave Gilbert who interviewed the Nuremberg war criminals.