From Europe's pov, being blackmailed to accept a settlement in Ukraine which puts our future security at serious risk, is Trump effectively abandoning NATO already. (View Post)

Sometime you just have to laugh. The Trump-appointed judge who just blocked Texas’ gerrymandered map has cited statements from the Trump administration to justify his decision. https://x.com/peoplefo… (View Post)

There's also the theoretical possibility of calling Trump's bluff, which if the terms are as bad as I expect they will be, we should do. The idea of our future security being negotiated between a mas… (View Post)

I'm not sure no one other than Clive Lewis really does*. I was merely pointing out to boulay that a by election would be "asking his constituents". *I believe we have in any event already t… (View Post)

It's not even like that, though. SpaceX surprised a lot of people. We knew the change to EVs was coming; it's been government policy here and in Europe for decades. But our governments (and most of t… (View Post)