This is terrifying.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito hung outside his homes 2 different flags demonstrating support for Trump coup attempt, days after January 6th riot and then again throughout 2022.

But he refuses to recuse himself from Jan 6 case.
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

The latest from 🇺🇸: Trump says he is developing a plan to ban birth control in the United States, then walks it back and says he isn't. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… via @nbcnews

Why is Sunak's campaign imploding and how bad could it get? I think we could - but not inevitably - be witnessing the end of the post-1945 Tory formation. A 🧵... 1/ They have achieved nothing in 14 years except Brexit...

This video of a group of rich kids chanting the quintessential radical right „Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus“ is currently dominating the German news cycle. It tells us a lot about (mis)perceptions of who the radical right is. Short thread:

After 40 years, the 2 layers of scaffolding on Brussels' Palais de Justice (according to legend, the 2nd one erected 20 years ago to fix the 1st one) is coming down!

People over 50 wondering, what does this enormous building that dominates Brussels' skyline actually look like?🤔

Europe split into 4 regions.

It is hard to reconcile articles like this with the actual facts about what languages EU citizens actually speak - and the fact that 70% of EU young people speak English.

No prizes for guessing why Eurostat delayed conducting this survey again since 2012. lepoint.fr/monde/quelle-l…

Based on these 2020 estimates, it looks like knowledge of English among 🇪🇺citizens has risen about 4% in last 4 years

Who would look at this chart and conclude that *French* should be the common working language of the EU? Especially when 71% of 🇪🇺young people can speak English?

The big story of #EUElections2024 will not be a 'surge' of the far right - polls predict they will gain seats in line with the trajectory of the past 2 decades.

The story is the *mainstreaming* of the far right, which will turn them into a serious political force in 🇪🇺Parliament

Glad I picked a slow news week to be outside Brussels 🤦‍♂️

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Wow! Extraordinary but true - some furious Conservative MPs are tonight working on a plot to CALL OFF the general election by replacing Rishi Sunak as leader before Parliament is dissolved next Thursday.
One rebel Tory MP tells me he believes “several” more letters of no