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As rains approach, winterisation in Gaza is far behind: 94% need shelter & non-food items. Rains could flood overcrowded sites with waste & sewage, where families are trying to make a home. This is a race against time. Shelter, clean water & waste management are needed now. https://t.co/aN7JMvmD2A #Gaza #HumanitarianCrisis #Winterisation #GA

An EU-funded humanitarian flight has just reached Nepal, with over 80 tonnes of supplies from EU’s stocks 🇪🇺🇳🇵 With this shipment, @UNICEF expects to support up to 420 000 people with relief items, from health & water & sanitation material to school supplies. #EUSolidarity https://t.co/zL3Xp7T9Jd #NepalRelief #EUSolidarity #UNICEF #EU #NP

At the #Gymnich in Ireland 🇮🇪 today, at a critical moment for Europe’s engagement with the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf. On the agenda: ➡️ Gaza and the West Bank - humanitarian support, early recovery and a path towards the two-state solution. ➡️ Iran - the need for https://t.co/MSVZaPM6eP #Gymnich #MiddleEast #HumanitarianSupport #IE #PS #IL #IR

Over the past few days, humanitarian facilities in South Kordofan, Sudan, have been looted, and humanitarian workers detained. This is a clear violation of international humanitarian law. Humanitarian workers must be protected, never detained. #NotATarget #HumanRights #SouthKordofan #NotATarget #SD

Nepal is facing devastating floods. The EU is stepping up: €2.5 million in humanitarian funding.
A humanitarian flight carrying more than 80 tonnes of relief supplies.
Additional relief items mobilised from Germany & Luxembourg. Europe stands with Nepal #EUSolidarity https://t.co/N9fAtyEeC4 #NepalFloods #EUSolidarity #HumanitarianAid #NP #EU #DE #LU

Yemen faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Amid increasing regional tensions, the EU helps ensure humanitarian access to save lives. Last month, 🇪🇺 solidarity has taken to the skies: 5 Humanitarian Air Bridge flights delivered 100 tonnes of aid from our partners. https://t.co/sNmEl3swx8 #YemenCrisis #HumanitarianAid #EUSupport #YE #EU

The Psychology Behind Political Violence Political life carries an appetite for violence beneath the surface. A shooter leaves a manifesto; supporters celebrate; online strangers justify killing over insults, misgendering, and fantasies of execution. We’re told these are separate phenomena—different ideologies, grievances, causes—but they’re deeply connected. The murderer, the celebrant, and the online fantasist share one conviction: blood will build a better world. We often assume ideology comes first, violence second—radicalization infecting an otherwise ordinary person. But corrupted people may seek ideologies that rationalize what they already want to believe. Feeling comes first; philosophy follows. Nietzsche called this *ressentiment*: not ordinary anger, but enduring resentment rooted in surrendered agency and perpetual victimhood. Ressentiment is creative: it turns grievance into virtue and revenge into justice. That’s why movements can sound humanitarian while obsessing over enemies. They promise liberation but focus on who must be eliminated; they call violence self-defense while celebrating destruction. Notice the imbalance: energy goes to identifying who deserves punishment, not to explaining how their better society would work. This is the difference between genuine grievance and pathological ressentiment. Genuine grievance seeks repair; ressentiment seeks subtraction. Its “solutions” are fantasies of punishment—heads cut off, privilege liquidated, wrong pronouns punished. These aren’t coherent doctrines of stability; they’re rationalizations for resentment. Ressentiment also despises self-improvement because it requires admitting agency. Its worldview depends on locating suffering outside oneself. The deepest enemy of these movements, then, is not any specific ideology. It is agency itself.

My heart goes our to all those affected by the devastating flash floods. Europe is allocating €2 million in immediate humanitarian aid for Nepal. To deliver life-saving assistance to families and communities hit hardest. Europe stands with you. #NepalFloods #HumanitarianAid #EuropeInSolidarity #NP

Every gap in funding & operational support makes the Ebola response more difficult & expensive. Time is not on our side.  That is why I am appealing for the remaining $1.1 billion to fully fund the humanitarian response plan, recognizing that even more will be needed in the #EbolaResponse #HumanitarianAid #FundingCrisis #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.