Felipe 🇪🇺

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

I don’t see anyone discussing this, but Trump has been liberated

Trump genuinely loves politics. He loves the fight. Listen to him here. He doesn’t sound either defeated or even downhearted. If anything, he’s upbeat. Honestly, I think he despises Republicans somewhat. They’re all so sycophantic now. He selects for this, of course, but he hates the subservience in the people who do it. He likes the push back and the scrum.

It’s exactly the same with the media. For all his attacks on media figures, no president loves the media as much as Trump. Most of his life he’s been a media character. Without the media, in effect he’d cease to exist. It’s the same with national Democrats. Think about him and Mamdani

[lingua @gidikibne]

this gem

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@alexunimportant @gidikibne Bump

[7tsu @NanatsuNoUnsei]

sorry blud, mussolini turned the tide, not anakin

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@warwickmain4321 @k3ithmccullough @_ueaj One might say that you're a son of your century

[Jason Kishineff @kishineff]

It's not Qaddafi. It's not al Assad. It's not Maduro. It's not Xi or Putin. It's British police announcing that anyone even attending a protest will be arrested.

[Stuart Dowell @StuartDowell_]

Poland's constitutional crisis has now reached the point where the president turned up at the court in the middle of the night and argued with judges about whether they're actually judges.

President Nawrocki abandoned his trip to Senegal, returned to Warsaw and headed straight for the Constitutional Tribunal in the early hours of Saturday morning.

He managed to make his way into the building, although how he did so has now become another controversy.

Video footage (here), filmed by Maciej Berek one the five judges not recognised by Nawrocki, shows a physical confrontation at the entrance.

The presidential camp claims Nawrocki's personal inviolability was violated, while the judges involved accuse him of pushing his way past them.

Both sides are pointing to the same video as evidence for their version of events. I've linked to it below.

But the more significant confrontation took place inside.

Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, one of the judges attempting to take control of the Tribunal, told Nawrocki: "We are judges of the Constitutional Tribunal."

"You are not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal," the president replied.

And there, really, is the heart of the crisis.

Nawrocki, who refused to recognise the swearing-in of five judges elected by the current parliamentary majority, has now gone to the Tribunal in person to challenge their authority.

Meanwhile, as Saturday morning breaks, it remains unclear who actually controls the institution.

Korwin-Piotrowska claims she is now running the Tribunal following Friday's attempted suspension of its president and deputy president.

But deputy president Bartłomiej Sochański, one of the officials supposedly suspended, reportedly remains inside the building, in his office, insisting that the suspension has no legal effect.

So Poland now has rival claims to the leadership of its Constitutional Tribunal, a president personally intervening on the premises and no clear indication that either side has established effective control.

[Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger]

I stand with Tusk against Putins Navrovsky

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@lisapease The film Tuner (2025) has a group of Israeli burglars who end up being the bad guys. Good movie too, I recommend it

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@xycrypt @bndonner @AstroRose20 Grumio in culina sedet

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@elie_foube16925 @DigitalFleurie Atomic energy is constitutionally banned in Austria actually. Vienna does have the IAEA headquarters though

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@euromaximal Every country that follows the European Convention of Human Rights has a maximum sentence of 25 years

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@GermanyDiplo I appreciate Germany's feelings. But as someone who lives under US sanctions, let me say this: regret and disagreement do not unfroze bank accounts or health insurance.

The EU has a tool: the Blocking Statute. It should use it to protect those sanctioned for seeking justice.

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@solorndt @stendhalist The World of Yesterday (die Welt von Gestern) by Stefan Zweig

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

They say money can't buy happiness, but what it can buy is a Seseña cape

[Bad Socialism Takes (FREE PARKING) @BadSocialisms]

Hilarious skit

[justin-o'-lantern @jstn]

cyberpunk is real, it's just not urban like we expected

[Wagon Libre @WagonLibre]

@trineor Dans le même registre, en allemand le patron c'est Arbeitgeber (donneur de travail) et salarié c'est Arbeitnehmer (preneur de travail), le rapport de force est vraiment explicite

[Felipe 🇪🇺 @felipesear99]

@Motel_Honey @bzogrammer The Incas were mountain people, not jungle people

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

RIP Siim Kallas, a truly fascinating figure who spent 18 years in the Soviet Communist Party, including helping to operate its propaganda apparatus in Estonia as deputy editor of Rahva Haal, its official newspaper, but then rebranded as a liberal when he sensed the USSR was hitting the rocks.

He later became foreign minister, finance minister, prime minister and European Commission vice-president, helping to lock Estonia into both the EU and NATO, but his relations with Moscow were more pragmatic than the present Kallas family brand would suggest. A fluent Russian speaker, he kept close ties with Primakov, pursued bilateral agreements and got on well with members of the early Putin governments and as EU transport commissioner, he worked with Igor Levitin on aviation disputes.

Kallas was neither a Russian agent (as some branded him) nor an immaculate liberal founding father (as his family would prefer him to be perceived), but he was something more interesting as a Soviet apparatchik who recognised that his system was dying and helped build modern Estonia.