People keep giving me directions to the spouse and intern events instead of the ones for members of Congress 🤦🏽‍♀️

Der Motor für den so wichtigen Jetstream funktioniert nicht mehr. Kari Schwanke erklärt den #Klimawandel, der mit den jüngsten Wetterextremen sichtbarer denn je geworden ist:

New stats indicate half of all phishing sites now begin with https:// < The old "look for the padlock" security advice has never been more useless and dangerous krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/half-o…

Ukrainian film maker and #SakharovPrize winner Oleg Sentsov has become a symbol of the struggle for the release of political prisoners held in Russia. Watch the story of Oleg Sentsov ⬇

NASA global temperature for November is out! Here is what the 12-months running average looks like. #globalwarming

Twitter in a nutshell: someone random asked the multilingual French top lawyer who wrote much of the Lisbon Treaty (EU Constitution But In Name) whether he had read it.

My son asked me to explain #Brexit recently. So, I told him to imagine if he & 27 of his classmates pooled their Lego & built for years. Then one day, one of them wants to leave & would like their Lego back. The blue ones. He immediately grasped how complicated that would be.

Repeating for those at the back: stop waiting to take a stand when the ‘real Nazis’ show up. They’re here. This is what modern fascism looks like. It’s not the party system of the 1930s. It’s networked, dispersed, entrepreneurial, crowd-funded, conniving gig-economy fascism.

[Extended Version] Comedians for Worldpeace - Do they know it’s Europe |... youtu.be/Ag-W1x2sjA4 via YouTube

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ACT NOW ON THE CLIMATE & ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY! Working in the EU institutions? Concerned about climate change & biodiversity loss? Do you believe the EU🇪🇺can lead the way to a fair sustainable transition? 🌏#EUstaff4climate Sign our #petition to EU leaders eustaff4climate.info/our-petition-t…

Last round of consultations on appointments before the start of #EUCO. Yesterday I was cautiously optimistic. Today I’m more cautious than optimistic.

Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die" A must-read! youtu.be/5v4NTtS2f5k via YouTube

Amazon, one of the richest corporations in the world, which paid almost no taxes last year, is offering UNPAID time off for workers who are sick & just two weeks paid leave for workers who test positive for the virus. Meanwhile, it demands its employees put in mandatory overtime.

Another lesson from previous phases of #EU poly-crisis: be aware that all of Europe is listening/watching when you say something – even if you're addressing national audience. EUrope might not yet have supra-national public space but there is an inter-national public observing.

3 years ago, I confronted Orbàn with his "illiberal" policies: "what's next? Burning books?" Today, it turns out to be much worse: he's suspending parliament & undermining democracy. Back to the USSR! What on earth is the European Commission waiting for? It should stop Orbàn now!

Now here is a case of irony alert - the AfD is calling for the reinstatement of open borders, so that seasonal workers from Central and Eastern Europe can return to Germany to support farmers.

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