Ian Slater 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇺🇦

German Scot | #European |#writer | #musician | former #CCO |social democrat | football #SJFC | #traveller

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[JanTheStitchWitch @pictureladyjan]

German #fellas do you know about this traitor Frohnmaier?

[Dan the “Shadow Tanker Bonker” @realLangerDan]

🚨Every Building you see in this picture forms part of the Russian embassy complex in Ireland.

As of 2024, they had 14 staff including 5 of Diplomatic rank. They also sought planning permission for an extension.

Just why do they need so much space? What are they up to?

[Ian Slater 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇺🇦 @isslater]

@business Do Boeing still do guarantees? Asking for Lufthansa shareholders.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

The constant attack on Germany exists because Germany’s success has been so disproportionate for so long.

Yes, Germany has stagnated since 2022. Its industrial model was hit by the energy shock and years of underinvestment.

But pretending Germany is an economic failure is absurd.

Germany is still the world’s 3rd-largest economy, Europe’s largest economy and the backbone of the European industrial system.

It remains one of the world’s largest exporters and still runs one of the largest current-account surpluses on earth around 4.5% of GDP in 2025, second only to China in absolute terms.

Germany has the fiscal space to recover. Public debt was only 63.5% of GDP in 2025, far below the eurozone average of 87.8%.

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

AfD is holding direct talks with a "company" that is running four private military companies, a direct participant - not just a funder - in the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/yBIocR7JfD

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’

I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.

I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

[Tim Chapman 💙 @timchap]

I have a strong and growing feeling that if Labour MPs are stupid enough to jettison Starmer, they, and the country may regret this impetuous act for a long time to come #PMQs

[Ian Slater 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇺🇦 @isslater]

A must-watch, if you’ve never seen this. His untimely death is a great loss, not just to Britain.

[Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond]

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

While Russia bombs apartment buildings and murders civilians daily, the US will play a hockey game in Russia to “melt the ice between us.”

[Ian Slater 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇺🇦 @isslater]

@BernardMcEldown @politicshome @Ofcom @GBNEWS The man who has done so much damage to it is worried about its future.

[Nima 🪿🇬🇧🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @DrStrangetwit]

Rest in Peace Marjane Satrapi 😥

1969-2026

[Philipp Sandmann @philsandmann]

The AfD Party in Germany is the most anti-German party that exists. They are not patriots, they are traitors.

[Ian Slater 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇺🇦 @isslater]

@Jeremy_Hunt He was a man who deserved his Knighthood.

[JanTheStitchWitch @pictureladyjan]

Just a German AfD MP grovelling to Zakharova.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The German far-right party, AfD, is not hiding its full alignment with Russia.

This is a good thing, because everyone in Germany should know that by voting for them, they are supporting not only fascists, but also pathetic traitors

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

British schoolboy sanctioned by Russia for exposing crypto-laundering

https://t.co/auJjfzwGOD

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

This is where we are at in Ireland apparently.

[Joncro @JohnCrookes7]

ITV News at 10 failed to show the exchange between Farage and Starmer in full. Could this be because it showed Farage in a bad light as a result of which he incurred the wrath of all parties.
#PMQs

[Ian Slater 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇺🇦 @isslater]

@MysterySolvents If they rebuild the pool like that, surely the water will fall out!