FREEZE SERBIA’S EU ACCESSION NOW. If the Vučić regime is using invasive surveillance spyware against Serbian citizens, then Brussels cannot pretend that Serbia is making normal progress toward EU membership. U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson has publicly condemned the use of such https://t.co/TdWdupLD7C #FreezeSerbiaEU #HumanRights #SurveillanceSpyware #RS #US
Germany blames Russia for attempted airport drone attack But no big deal, just Russia trying to kill European citizens... A no-fly zone over Ukraine would be a good start. And troops on the ground if Russia doesn't get the message. https://t.co/ykPRxuJnyl #Russia #Ukraine #NoFlyZone #DE #RU #UA
Unfortunately, it's still the case that action is only taken once some kind of mess has already happened. Only now does the EU plan to restrict tourism visas for Russian citizens. The suspect in the Leipzig airp drone attack, a Russian citizen, entered Europe with Schengen visa. https://t.co/vaAnAqWgp7 #EUTourism #RussianCitizens #SchengenVisa #EU #RU #DE
Germany and other European countries that have not done so yet - let’s stop issuing Schengen tourist visas to Russian citizens. The Baltic states did this back in 2022. German authorities have identified suspects in the Leipzig drone attack, including a Belarusian national with #SchengenVisa #Russia #BalticStates #DE #EU #BY
Spain, along with France and Italy, issued hundreds of thousands of visas to Russian citizens in 2025. Here is one of the recipients, justifying Russia’s barbaric war against Ukraine and Europe while producing garbage videos like this one from a villa in Spain. https://t.co/enGVRd58Q9 #Russia #UkraineWar #VisaPolicies #ES #FR #IT #RU #UA
🚨🚨 Après le revirement de Monaco, CHELSEA POUVAIT ANNULER LE TRANSFERT D’ENZO FERNANDEZ 🇦🇷 À CITY ! Mais les Blues ne l’ont pas fait après avoir donné leur parole au joueur et aux Citizens. 🗞️ @JacobsBen https://t.co/r086DiMzII #ChelseaFC #EnzoFernandez #Transferts
The US wages an illegal war of aggression on Iran. EU citizens pay too, in rising energy costs. Yet, the EU pledges to work with the US to pressure... Iran. Including through "Operation Economic Outcast." We need diplomacy, not self-harming complicity. https://t.co/W85BNKWjbO #StopWar #DiplomacyFirst #NoSanctions #US #IR #EU
🚨💣 ACCORD CHELSEA - MANCHESTER CITY POUR ENZO FERNANDEZ 🇦🇷 !!!!!! 🤝🩵 IL REJOINT LES CITIZENS POUR 140 M€ HORS BONUS !!!! 🤑 🗞️ @lequipe https://t.co/bOkMNGwlOG #Football #Transfer #PremierLeague
On 1 September, 87 years ago, Germany invaded Poland. Six million Polish citizens lost their lives. Poland was devastated, plundered, and subjected to brutal occupation. Today, Europe is rightly demanding that Russia be held accountable for its aggression and the destruction of #NeverForget #Poland #Accountability #DE #PL #RU
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox, will now be held to a higher standard of scrutiny and accountability in the EU, in line with their large impact on our citizens and society. #EURegulation #Accountability #DigitalServices #EU
EPP — HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU ALLOW SNS TO DRAG YOUR NAME THROUGH THE MUD? 🇪🇺🇷🇸 In Užice, independent reporting described men associated with the SNS rally attacking citizens, while Ratko Mladić imagery was openly displayed. Ratko Mladić is not a “patriotic hero.” He is a https://t.co/qZfmXGR9fo #EPP #SNS #RatkoMladic #EU #RS
FIRE won a huge First Amendment victory today. And before anyone mischaracterizes it: This ruling does NOT say the government must admit anyone, issue anyone a visa, or grant anyone citizenship. It says that once a person is lawfully here, the government cannot deport them #FirstAmendment #FIRERules #ImmigrationLaw #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
🚨🇸🇳 Dossier Iliman Ndiaye : le départ de Gakpo vers Manchester City pourrait changer la donne ! Cody Gakpo est désormais très proche de Manchester City, ce qui complique fortement une éventuelle arrivée d’Iliman Ndiaye chez les Citizens. 🔵 Dans le même temps, Arsenal en fait son plan B si le dossier Julian Alvarez n’aboutit pas, tandis que Tottenham reste très intéressé et en fait toujours sa priorité. ⚪ Liverpool garde également Iliman parmi ses options en cas de départ de Gakpo. 🔴🇸🇳 #Dsports | #Mercato #Football #Transferts
ISRAEL IN NATO & THE EU — ONE UNITED ISRAEL, ONE EUROPEAN FUTURE 🇮🇱🇪🇺 My Fehlinger Peace Plan for the Middle East is based on one simple idea: stop building peace around permanent division and start building it around citizenship, federalism, security and integration. I propose https://t.co/EmFOY6QW2h #Israel #NATO #PeacePlan #IL #EU
NO TO PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD. YES TO FULL CITIZEN RIGHTS. 🇮🇱 My Fehlinger Peace Plan rejects another partition of the land. Instead, I propose one united, federal and democratic Israel in which Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights are part of one constitutional https://t.co/C8JLhlzSXG #OneIsrael #PeacePlan #CitizenshipRights #IL #PS
How Did a Democracy Vote Itself Out of Existence? — The Birth of “Streitbare Demokratie” One of the most important questions in modern democratic history is: How can a democracy use democratic procedures to destroy itself? This question became central in Germany after the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Founded in 1919, Weimar Germany was a democratic state with universal suffrage, including voting rights for women, and strong civil liberties. Yet, within fourteen years, democracy had been replaced by Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship. The Nazi rise to power was not simply a military coup. The Nazi Party gained influence through elections, propaganda, and political negotiations. In 1933, Hitler became Chancellor, and his government used legal mechanisms, including the Enabling Act, to remove parliamentary control and dismantle democratic institutions from within. The lesson for post-war Germany was clear: a democracy can be destroyed not only by external enemies, but also by political movements that use democratic freedoms to eliminate democracy itself. When West Germany created its new constitution, the Basic Law (Grundgesetz), in 1949, its founders developed the concept of “Streitbare Demokratie”—a democracy capable of defending itself. The idea was that democracy should not be completely neutral toward forces that seek to abolish democratic rights. A democratic majority cannot legitimately remove the foundations that make democracy possible. Therefore, the Basic Law introduced several safeguards: Political parties that seek to undermine the democratic constitutional order can be banned. The Federal Constitutional Court was given strong powers to protect constitutional principles. Core values such as human dignity, democracy, and the rule of law were given special protection and cannot easily be removed. “Streitbare Demokratie” reflects a difficult balance. Democracy requires freedom of speech, political competition, and tolerance of different opinions. However, history showed Germany that unlimited tolerance toward movements committed to destroying democracy can allow democracy itself to disappear. The central question remains: How tolerant should a democracy be toward those who are intolerant of democracy? Germany’s answer after 1945 was that democracy must defend the principles that make freedom possible. A democracy is not preserved only through elections; it is preserved when citizens and institutions protect the foundations that allow free elections to exist.
Why Leftist Activists and Revolutionaries Can Never Declare Victory Leftist movements face a paradox: they use oppression narratives to gain institutional power, then keep claiming victimhood as that power grows. Instead of disappearing, activism “shapeshifts” inside bureaucracy, media, academia, corporations, and the arts. Even when DEI is challenged, its structures often remain under new names—diversity becomes “belonging” or “inclusive culture.” The logic is permanent revolution: influence depends on the struggle never ending. Goals shift, new categories of oppression are defined, and intersectionality divides people into ever finer oppressor/oppressed groups, creating an endless hierarchy of grievances. If activists declared victory, the justification for ongoing mobilization would collapse. The risk is social atomization: identities replace shared citizenship, and the state shifts from neutral protector to an instrument for redistributing power between designated victims and oppressors. Bureaucracy and propaganda can replace community and argument. History shows recurring purges—once the revolution’s machinery turns inward, yesterday’s enforcers become today’s targets. The result is also a ressentiment psychology: identity forms around an “enemy,” not one’s own strength. This dynamic helps sustain the consultancy model—identify the guilty, define the aggrieved, and perpetuate conflict. Equality with a finish line is manageable; equality of outcomes is not, so there is always another disparity, injustice, or enemy. The movement fears completion less than failure, because ending would make its power machinery unnecessary.
Why Good Times Make Weak People The pinnacle of tyranny is a society in which people are controlled without force because they love their servitude. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World explored this idea. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, its citizens are controlled not through terror but pleasure. Soma provides instant relief from discomfort—a “holiday from the facts.” Huxley’s people are not prisoners but satisfied customers: the State produces children, promiscuity is normalized, and entertainment fills every empty moment. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell feared that truth would be hidden from us, while Huxley feared that we would become so distracted that we would no longer care about it. The Softening of Man Good times can make bad times possible. When safety and luxury become normal, people can lose sight of the struggles that created them. Andrew Lobaczewski argued that prosperity can weaken profound reflection. Pleasure becomes dominant, while uncomfortable truths are dismissed because thinking about them requires effort. Those who think critically may even be ridiculed. This creates a dangerous cycle: societies lose the capacity for psychological reasoning and moral criticism, allowing catastrophe to develop unnoticed. Sterilizing Genius Nietzsche understood that comfort, elevated above all else, can destroy the qualities that made civilization possible. Struggle, ambition, discipline, passion, and courage helped create prosperity—but prosperity can weaken the virtues that produced it. The Odyssey illustrates this. The Lotus-Eaters simply lose the desire to return home. Odysseus must drag his men back while they weep to remain. He rejects Calypso’s offer of immortality and endless comfort, choosing the difficult path home. We admire that choice because comfort without purpose is not a life worth admiring. Nietzsche imagined the endpoint in Thus Spoke Zarathustra: a society where safety and sameness become the highest ideals, producing “no shepherd, and one herd.” Anyone who seeks greatness becomes an aberration.
