Kai Uus 🇪🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

Why doesn't he and his ultra-rich pals just go to Mars and leave the rest of us alone?

To be honest, his dancing is exactly the last thing that bothers me about this evil orange clown caricature.

Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025 The implications of a year in Trump's new America and why I started tracking Trump - and why I'm not stopping.

I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally...

christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine A new study finds that men who are anxious about their masculinity are less likely to care about climate change. They may view environmental concern as a feminine trait that threatens their image.

Some men say climate change is “overblown.” Turns out it’s less about the data and more about not wanting to look feminine.

Fragile masculinity = climate denial.

Remind you of anyone…?

www.psypost.org/some-men-may...

Phew! The truth is finally out in the open

Super cool to see that Estonia 🇪🇪 has one the best air qualities in Europe.

How can an adult human person be quite so pathetic?

Just in from two SF No Kings events (Ocean Beach and then a colossal march and rally downtown). So many good signs, so much devotion to justice, liberty, human rights, and Jesus lord the one part of the US economy that must be booming right now: INFLATABLE critter costumes.

How is this individual not in a straightjacket yet?

I think it's time for us to view Kennedy's actions as an attack not just on our public health but the country itself. He's an incredible monster.

Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services.

DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.

So an armed force of unidentified people with a near limitless budget are going to round randomly-selected people up outside of due process, force them into camps, and (potentially) rent out their labour for profit. There are words for this.

Very proud of my university ❤️

See this for what it is.

An authoritarian regime and its secret police are targeting political enemies and marginalized people they have vilified and dehumanized.

We're in it, folks. Deep, deep in it. Fascism. Stop dancing around it. Stop playing games. Give up all remaining denial. We're in it.

America’s descent into the suppression of dissent Tracking the Trump administration's actions across four domains of suppressing dissent.

My latest post charting the erosion of free dissent in the US

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

I bet he will end up bragging that he had the biggest and most beautiful crowds 🤣

Reform UK-run Lincolnshire County Council scraps flood committee - BBC News The work will be incorporated into another committee despite all other parties opposing the change.

Wake-up call…

Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years

Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee

This is who they are

Please wake up to this.

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

Remember when Michael Gove told us we had to leave EU because it was “time to fire the unelected elites”?

In Romania, the pro-EU candidate Nicușor-Daniel Dan has won the presidential election. He defeated the pro-Russia, extreme right candidate George-Nicolae Simion.

If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Absolutely yes

COVID anniversary: Day of reflection across UK to mark five years since start of pandemic Events have been taking place across the country to remember those who died, with the prime minister saying that for many "there is deep grief and loss that may never be relieved".

news.sky.com/story/uk-mar...
Remembering our 230,000 deaths and also all those millions still suffering from #LongCovid

Russian genocide in Ukraine Whether the Russian invasion of Ukraine will ever be recognised as an act of genocide or proven as war crimes is unknown

On the week that Trump said that Russia's increased bombing of Ukraine are 'what anyone would do,' John Heywood takes a look at what constitutes genocide, and how this is represented in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Maxar відключив Україні доступ до своїх супутникових знімків Американська компанія Maxar Technologies відключила доступ до своїх комерційних супутникових знімків користувачам з України

The American aerospace company Maxar Technologies has disabled Ukraine's access to its satellite images.

mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...

If Trump was President in 1940

The actress facing 74 lashes in Iran for her Oscar-nominated film Instead of attending the glitzy Hollywood ceremony, Soheila Golestani is on trial by the Revolutionary Court for her part in The Seed of the Sacred Fig

In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...