John C Wheeler

Trump’s lightbulb moment: America needs Europe after all The U.S. is even looking to Ukraine to help its operations against Iran — as Trump rages at Starmer and Sánchez for refusing to back his war.

The ultimate irony is Trump asking Ukraine for support . www.politico.eu/article/dona...

I wrote a song about it. Want to hear it? Here it is! Dance to the destruction.

open.spotify.com/track/1iWspq...

It's so pathetic that it's almost sad.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948, 1948 #jacksonpollock #museumarchive

“I think Greenland was a wake-up call. There is more talk [in Brussels] about replacing one dependency with another.”

This is what I told the Wall Street Journal about Europe’s increasing dependence on US LNG following the end of Russian pipeline gas.

These people have absolutely no clue whatsoever.

Seriously? Amazon previously had a corporate tax bill?!!? Not in the UK they don't.

Democracy dies in tax cuts

Quite.

Because crime has less to do with policing and more to do with community cohesion than many think. Just because people are poor does not mean they're criminals. Just because people are rich does not mean they are not criminals.

IMDB has flagged Melania the documentary for “unusual voting activity”. Someone is trying to pump up the viewer ratings after critics said it was a worthless piece of shit.

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Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

Look, all they need is more training in (checks notes) the most basic concepts of what customs and borders are.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

No.

He does it silently, away from cameras, away from public image rehabilitation, away from anything that lets him put his name on it.

He serves, and he shuts the fuck up, and that's all he gets. Anything else is between him and his god.

Countdown until the administration also smears its latest victim as a “terrorist”…

Henry Cuellar (Texas), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (New York), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington), Jared Golden (Maine), and Don Davis (North Carolina)

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

The last wave of purges have hit Xi loyalists he put in place after a previois round of purges. Permanent institutional instability is not a pathway to effective military action

It's obvious that Trump II are deeply unserious people. But starting at the top, they are also people who have contempt for institutional constraints on power. That makes institution-building, already hard enough, impossible, esp for the international arena.

When a Canadian Prime Minister has to implicitly remind Europeans of why the EU exists:

„Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.“

#WEF

Viva la Revolution

Well, there's a first time for everything. Daniel Hannan has finally written something that I agree with.

We are all going to die of natural causes before Trump stops ranting today. This is incredible.

Trump doing his best to make Brexit not the worst foreign policy decision of the past 10 years

Moore was such an excellent guitarist.

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“

A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

If you want to be fit at 70, you need to get fit earlier in life. Ageing brings decline regardless of how fit you are. Start from a higher base, fall from higher up. Fitness compounds, just like money. Go lift some weights, go for a swim, walk around the block!

So … over 8,000 acts of ppl invoking their 1A rights to mouth off to law enforcement?

Cops have no rights to their feelings. We do, however, have the 1A right—attested to by SCOTUS—to insult the guys w guns.

This is quintessential police-as-baronial class whining: “how dare you not kneel to us?”