The area around the parliament building is crowded as Ode to Joy is played #Tbilisi #Foreignagentslaw

The Guardian is live blogging the situation in Georgia, for those who want to follow/send tips:
theguardian.com/world/live/202…

x.com/panyiszabolcs/…

Picture of the day!
❤️🇪🇺

That went well then.
And by “that”, I mean the last ten years in UK politics.

Die #Europawahl24 findet in Deutschland am 9. Juni statt. Deutsche im Vereinigten Königreich können per Briefwahl an den Wahlen teilnehmen.
Bitte gehen Sie wählen! #EUelections2024

Details finden Sie hier: uk.diplo.de/EuropaWahl

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“If the medium-sized countries aren’t banding together the giants are going to sit on us.”

The 🙈🤯 part is how UK politics reached a level of nostalgia-nationalist delusion that that’s considered a profound insight, not a statement of the obvious.

Something to be thankful for.
Something to be proud of.
Something to work for and protect.

And someone to miss. 🇪🇺❤️🇬🇧

I very much approve of this bank holiday thing on a Wednesday.
We should all take Wednesdays off in future.
At least when the sun is shining.
☀️🕶️🎉

Superb letter in today’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩

Graphs and stats as if the UK never was part of the EU. Stills feels weird (especially as the UK was such a big proponent of the 2004 enlargement).

As those of you who have been following me for some time know, April 30 is a special day for me.
On that day in 1945, the #Ravensbrück concentration camp was liberated. My mother, Martha Tenzer, a resistance fighter in Belgium who had been arrested by the Gestapo in 1943,...
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On top of the authoritarian laundry list that Trump gave to Time Magazine he would also close the pandemic preparedness office on day one. Because being unprepared went so swimmingly last time.

Sounds pretty much like what they are now doing between many Schengen countries. Just travelled between France and Germany on the weekend, and on both ways police made ID checks on the train.

Guerre hybride. Tartu est la deuxième ville d'Estonie

Fair enough 😂😂

Lovely: coming to Columbia University campus this morning and being denied access because it’s apparently “suspended until further notice”. Visiting scholars didn’t even receive an email.

I take recommendations for good work spots in NYC…

Ouch.
(Well said.)

Stoltenberg: 'NATO countries have not delivered [on] their promises, the US spent months not agreeing on a package for Ukraine, European allies have not delivered [on] their promises, and this had a serious consequence on the battlefield.' politico.eu/article/jens-s…

I am not sure either of them is doing feminism a service with that exchange.