US allies? Don’t they mean Russia's allies?

I live in Sweden. And I work more than half of my time in the United States. I know both systems — not from headlines, but from daily life. Sweden has a capitalist market economy. Private ownership. Competition. Global companies. We also have social reforms: healthcare, paid

Schopenhauer knew

Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are."

Dear Attorney General Pamela Bondi: You did the one thing your king ordered you not to do: you made Trump look guilty. You also lied under oath. And you surveilled the search history of Congress Members. We are impeaching you when we flip the House. Unless you resign first. Good evening.

"People reveal who they truly are when they believe there will be no consequences." ~ Machiavelli

The Trump Administration is once again trying to deny science and reality – this time, by throwing out the well-established research connecting the climate crisis to public health. While the Trump Administration can try to ignore the climate crisis, it’s painfully clear that the

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🔥🇮🇹 | Dubbel goud voor Nederland! Jens van 't Wout zorgt voor een stunt op de 1.000 meter. Hij verschalkt topfavoriet Dandjinou met een waanzinnige inhaalactie en pakt de olympische titel. 🧡🥇 #MilanoCortina2026 Winterspelen 👀 HBO Max

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The leader is not the one who eats first. The leader is the one who has the power to eat first but chooses to eat last.

At Munich, Volodymyr Zelensky tore away the illusions and said out loud what everyone dealing in reality already knows: this isn’t a normal ruler, and this isn’t a normal war. ‘Putin doesn’t live like ordinary people. He can’t imagine life without power, or after it. The

Mark Kelly is basically saying the quiet part out loud: the big rupture is not that Europe suddenly changed its values, or that democracies woke up and decided alliances are boring. The rupture is that the United States, under Donald Trump, started vandalising the very system

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Hillary Clinton: "The Trump administration's position toward Ukraine is disgraceful. The effort to force Ukraine into a surrender deal with Putin is shameful! The effort that Putin and Trump are making to profit off the misery and death of the Ukrainian people is a historic

“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”

Me trying to stay polite while an American explains Europe to Europeans.

Als je de morele lat voor anderen hoog legt, rust op jou de plicht je daar ook naar te gedragen. Anders heb je geen recht van spreken en verlies je je geloofwaardigheid. Als Nathalie van Berkel niet zelf haar conclusies trekt voor haar loopje met de waarheid, moet D66 dat doen.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence. It will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain