In today’s Vatnik Soup, made together with chef invité @martinlaineolen.bsky.social , we discuss the extensive links between pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian officials and intelligence operatives, and how Western politicians reinforced these links.
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Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.
(Gifted.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Ballroom got more expensive and he needs money.
Greenland lock away your children! If you see this guy in your neighborhood you would watch him.
Didn’t the couch guy lectured us on free speech at the security conference in Munich? As dumb as it gets.
We have become a profoundly ridiculous country. This makes the Nero-era look sane and normal.
Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.
“If you can’t win on the field you can always play quarterback for the culture war”
aka The Failing at Life-to-MAGA Influencer” pipeline LOL
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
👏👏👏
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom just went into Houston, Texas of all places and brought the house down.
This part of his speech gives me chills.
STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY!!
I guess they got the ruzzian playbook.
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
TIME Magazine: "Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for."
What a loser.
I never thought we would celebrate people leaving the US who feared political persecution.
In my professional life that kind of relief was reserved for dissidents from Russia, China, Turkey, Saudi-Arabia and the like.
Stephen Miller pretended to freeze on tv because he knew he fcked up.
The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Nee - Oder???
Best customer most likely. Wouldn’t trust this guy with my kids. Not one minute alone.
This guys looks like he had been on Epstein island.
Muss wa(h)re Liebe sein…
Mal schauen, wann der Couch Typ und Vize JD nach Deutschland kommt, um uns ma wieder über Meinungsfreiheit zu belehren. Die Scheinheiligkeit der US kennt keine Grenzen mehr.
🚨Portugal, a founding NATO nation, just delivered a shock: its president says Donald Trump “functions as a Russian asset.” At a historic rupture, allies fear America’s leader is tilting the West’s security and NATO itself toward Moscow.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Checking in on the cabinet meeting in Pyongyang …
POO-tihn doesn’t want to end the war, that much is clear.
But here’s a question, rarely asked: can he?
I came across an open letter by Soviet-born writer & filmmaker Eduard Topol to Trump that digs into this, and it’s worth sharing.
Here it is, as a thread ⤵️
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I hope it’s a joke. He’s a an asset for the right wing AfD in Germany. He will help to destroy democracy and not preserve it.
Holy crap this is good!
🧵 in response to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In German we have a saying: if someone is barging at you he is guilty! Seems the case here.
Als Ex-Bild-„Manager“ kann er Dreizeiler produzieren. Mehr brauch er für seinen neuen Posten nicht. Ist eher eine Bankrotterklärung für Helsing, sich jemanden einzukaufen, der für eine Zeiting gearbeitet hat, die gern die AfD gepusht hat, die die 5. Kolonne Moskau‘s ist.
