Peter 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪#FBPE

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

Ich stelle mich auf einen langen Krieg in der Ukraine ein. Wir versuchen, ihn so schnell wie möglich zu beenden, aber nicht zum Preis der Kapitulation der Ukraine. Denn dann verliert das Land seine Eigenständigkeit. Dann ist morgen das nächste Land dran und übermorgen wir.

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

🧵We are entering a period of intense debate about what the end state in #Ukraine should be, what kind of peace deal can/cannot be negotiated by the incoming US administration, and what long-term prospects there might be for negotiating a modus vivendi with Putin's Russia. 1/9

[Dumber than a Bowl full of Mice #Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BowlOfMice]

Bit of a long 🧵 but I promise, it is actually going somewhere, not just a rant on Trump's cabinet picks.

But the rant part first:

Marco Rubio (Sec of State)
- More or less qualified, but has become a whipped dog, begging for his master's love, since 2016

1/15

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

As a Brit, I've been watching the American election results with sorrow for my American friends. Some are comparing it to the Brexit vote here, imagining if we'd voted for Brexit twice. But here's the thing... in a sense, we did. And here are some lessons from it. 🧵

[thatonemaddy.bsky.social @thatonemaddy]

Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.

And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.

When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.

What then?

Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?

You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.

You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.

You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.

You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.

You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.

You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.

You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.

You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.

You just made women less safe and less free.

You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.

You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!

You just ushered in Fascism.

Because your cereal costs more.

Congratulations.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

So is this guy going to be rounded up and placed in one of the deportation camps?

https://t.co/5fpHfxEvVi

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”: In the closing days of his presidency and the years since, Donald Trump has grown more enamored of the advantages of dictatorship, and the control over the military he believes that it would deliver, @jeffreygoldberg reports: https://t.co/oXRxe6eKoF

[The New York Times @nytimes]

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected. https://t.co/FLciobqMuR

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of hilarious maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. World map according to fish

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Bone chilling to see at #RNCConvention people chanting "Fight" in unison with one arm punching in the air. Instantly conjures up rallies from 1930's Germany. There is no other way to put it:

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Help us reach 2 million followers for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Every repost, comment, or like increases our visibility.
Amplify our voice, please.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

When I cast my vote for President Biden, I wasn't expecting much. I just wanted trump out of office.

I knew he was old.
I knew he had a stutter.
I knew he had a rep for "gaffes."
I didn't care. Just wanted trump gone.

Four years later, things are different.
I wasn't expecting that President Biden would be the most legislatively successful President in my lifetime.

I wasn't expecting him to help expand NATO.
I wasn't expecting him to lower insulin & inhalers.
I wasn't expecting him to create & recover 15m jobs.
I wasn't expecting him to bring manufacturing back.
I wasn't expecting him to forgive student debt.

But he did ALL those things, and more.
He surpassed my expectations by a lot.
And he has more planned for 2025-2028.

He's not a master orator,
He doesn't move so smoothly
But neither did FDR from his wheelchair.

Meanwhile, trump is STILL a threat.
He wants to be a dictator.
He wants to stay out of prison.
He wants revenge on his enemies.
He wants to take away from the poor and middle class and give to the ultra wealthy.
His Project 2025 will enable a national abortion ban to criminalize women seeking safe and legal abortions.
His Project 2025 will take away the rights of our LGBTQ family and friends.
His Project 2025 will transform the government into a loyalty pledge, not to America but to him ALONE.
We might never have another free election.

THAT is what is at stake in this election.

We can continue to progress with Biden policies, or we can let trump destroy democracy as we know it.

If you're looking for someone who's young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

I'll take the old guy who needs a nap while saving democracy over the old guy trying to overthrow democracy who needs a legal team.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

The Friday Brief, June 28, 2024

About last night...

https://t.co/7PJTbIb8gX

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

OK sports fans, today's probation interview is the first in a very long -- likely lifelong -- series of state orders and restrictions that will fetter Trump for many years to come.

Trump has crossed a great divide in society. https://t.co/sBUPaeXPVT

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Wow.

This video is truly eye-opening.

Take a couple minutes to watch this.

A mind-boggling visual representation of wealth inequality in America.

This sh*t ain’t workin’, folks. #TaxBillionaires #UnionsForAll

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

Victoria Nuland to @mckaycoppins: "Foreign counterparts would say it to me straight up, 'The first Trump election—maybe people didn’t understand who he was, or it was an accident. A second election of Trump? We’ll never trust you again.'”

https://t.co/UJfgSGZzES

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Lord Heseltine says it’s absurd that both major parties think they can talk about any political issue without mentioning the impact of Brexit…

…and keep that going for six weeks.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Brave puppy destroys Tornado and saves the planet !

[Otto English @Otto_English]

I reckon we'll use the word Brexit long after this immediate political shitstorm has passed an long after most of us have gone. In time the actual origin will be lost and it will come to mean "self destructive political policy".