Aftermath 📯

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Epstein Bombshell

"Trump MELTS DOWN As Scandals ERUPT" full video | https://t.co/RSxeWvkV1S

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

The White House cover up of the Epstein Files is the most egregious, disturbing and corrupt in American history. It’s criminal.

Read this stunning new reporting from the @nytimes ⬇️

https://t.co/ne1D1161z1

[Aftermath 📯 @aftermath_joe]

@Alice_Weidel Diese Frau erinnert mich immer mehr an Schwester Ratched, die eiskalte Oberschwester in der Psychiatrie im Klassiker „Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest“.

[Aftermath 📯 @aftermath_joe]

@mel__aura Er meint damit wohl die Frauenquote in der Partei.

[Aftermath 📯 @aftermath_joe]

@Guitarbizon Stan Lynch, Steve Ferrone and Steve Jordan.

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

In honor of the true heroes on this Memorial Day, I fixed it.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Russia hit a dead-end on the battlefield, so it terrorizes Ukraine with deliberate strikes on city centres.

These are abhorrent acts of terror meant to kill as many civilians as possible.

Moscow reportedly using Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missiles – systems designed to carry nuclear warheads – is a political scare-tactic and reckless nuclear-brinkmanship.

Next week, EU Foreign Ministers will discuss how to dial up the international pressure on Russia.

[Alexander Eichholtz @EichholtzAlex]

Ü50 und das Internet - egal, bei welchem alternativen Portal du startest, ob Nuoviso oder Wissensmanufaktur.
Egal bei welchem Thema du startest, Chemtrails, Andreas Popp‘ Goldanlagen wegen der Zentralbanken.
Egal, worüber du dann gehst, ob Ivermectin gegen Krebs oder Infektionen, Ebola als gesteuerte Krankheit der WHO.
Du landest früher oder später in Moskau und findest da auch nicht mehr raus, weil deine Bubble dir sagt, dass du erleuchtet bist und alle anderen nur Schafe sind. Und wenn du dann noch ein sendungsbewusster Narzisst bist, dann kannst du ganze Stadthallen füllen mit anderen wie dich.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home.

Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward.

And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this.

A television review.

No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent.

That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself.

If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on Substack:

https://t.co/M6CNAnz656

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Reporter: The DOJ has this new fund — $1.7 billion. Why should taxpayers pay for the January 6ers?

Trump: Because in my world, loyalty outranks law. They broke the rules for me, so you pay the bill for them. That’s the transaction.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

JK Rowling has built a public identity around protecting women. She talks about women constantly. Women’s spaces. Women’s rights. Women’s safety. Women’s sport. Women’s everything.
So where is she on Reform UK’s behind the scenes campaign against abortion rights?
Silence.
Where is she on Reform’s position on removing the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights, the legal framework that protects women from domestic violence, forced marriage, honour crimes and state discrimination?
Silence.
Where is she on the broader rollback of women’s rights being driven by the exact political forces she has chosen to align herself with?
Complete silence.
This is a woman with over thirteen million followers, a billion dollar franchise, a personal legal fund and the ear of Supreme Court justices. She is not short of a platform. She is not afraid of controversy. She has demonstrated repeatedly that she will say difficult things loudly when she wants to.
She just does not want to say these things.
The pattern is not subtle. Every campaign she has funded, every legal case she has backed, every public statement she has made has had one subject. Not women broadly. Specifically and only transgender people. When the conversation moves to abortion she is absent. When it moves to the ECHR she is absent. When it moves to Reform UK’s social conservatism, which would take the rights of women backwards by decades, she is absent.
The European Convention on Human Rights is not an abstract legal document. It is the framework that has delivered concrete protections for women in this country. It underpins the right not to be subjected to domestic violence without state protection. It underpins reproductive rights cases. It underpins protections against forced marriage and trafficking. It underpins the right to private life, to bodily autonomy, to equal treatment under law.
Reform UK wants to remove the United Kingdom from it.
It also protects transgender people. That appears to be the problem.
Because the only coherent explanation for Rowling’s silence on every other women’s rights issue while spending her fortune on this one is that her campaign was never really about women. It was always about transgender people. Women were the framing. Trans exclusion was the goal.
A person who genuinely cared about women’s rights in 2025 would be screaming about Reform. They would be funding legal challenges to abortion restrictions. They would be speaking loudly about the ECHR. They would understand that you cannot claim to defend women’s rights while staying silent as the political movement you have empowered works to dismantle the legal architecture that protects women from the state and from violence.
Unless the rights you actually care about are not women’s rights in general.
Unless they are specifically the right to exclude transgender people from public life.
In which case the silence makes perfect sense.
Follow the silence. It tells you everything the statements do not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

She wonders why she lost friends. I’ve spoken to 3 of her old friends in person. And they had the worst possible for us to say about her.

So she may be your hero but it seems to me that she’s not a very nice person.

[Aftermath 📯 @aftermath_joe]

@GeorgineKellerm Wünsche Dir einen tollen Tag! Die Hater in den DruKos sind nur ein Zeichen dafür, dass du sichtbar bist und alles richtig machst😊

[NATO @NATO]

Repost to join us in celebrating our Ally 🇳🇴 Norway on its Constitution Day!

@NorwayNATO 🤝 #WeAreNATO

[Øystein Bogen @oysteinbogen]

Vi går straks inn i feiringen av Norges nasjonaldag. Synes det er passende da å minne folkens på at frihet ikke kommer gratis. I #Ukraina kjemper tusener for sin og vår frihet, mot et totalitært udyr, hver eneste dag. Skal du gjøre én ting på 17. mai som hedrer vår nasjon, støtt Ukrainas forsvarskamp.

[European Parliament @Europarl_EN]

The EU accepts people as they are.

Hate has no place here.

Parliament has backed LGBTIQ+ rights for years.

Now in focus: ending conversion practices.

On the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Parliament stands with the LGBTIQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Human rights are non-negotiable.

They belong to every member of the human family — no matter who they are or whom they love. ❤️💜💙💚💛🧡

#IDAHOBIT #StandUp4HumanRights

[EU Council @EUCouncil]

🌈 Every colour shines, every right matters. 🌈

Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia have no place in the EU, or anywhere in the world. 🇪🇺

#IDAHOBIT

[Aftermath 📯 @aftermath_joe]

@JankaKluge @Heilenderer Warum diskutierst du die ganze Zeit mit Terfs und transphoben Wesen? Schon um deiner eigenen Gesundheit willen, solltest du gnadenlos blockieren. Denn schon Nietzsche erkannte: „Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich."