Musk bought Twitter for $43b - now it’s worth around $9b. What will he do to America?

Two things we've seen from Trump in the past week: - Appointing superspreaders of misinformation to high office. - Announcing that social media media platforms will no longer be allowed to act against misinformation. It's going to be quite the ride.

EU gender pay gap in 2022: 🇱🇺 0.7 🇷🇴 2.4 🇸🇮 3.1 🇮🇹 4.2 🇵🇱 4.5 🇧🇪 5.3 🇨🇾 9.0 🇪🇸 9.4 🇲🇹 10 🇸🇪 11.2 🇭🇷 11.2 🇵🇹 11.4 🇧🇬 12.7 🇱🇹 13 🇪🇺 13 🇩🇰 13.9 🇳🇱 14.2 🇸🇰 15.8 🇫🇷 15.8 🇨🇿 16.4 🇫🇮 16.7 🇭🇺 17.2 🇩🇪 18.3 🇦🇹 18.9 🇪🇪 21.1 🇱🇻 22.3 🇮🇪 N/A 🇬🇷 N/A #EqualPayDay ℹ️ europa.eu/!TBqJj8

If Europeans are terrified, the response should be quickly working toward independence from America starting today - not the desperate ass-kissing of Trump that we've seen from European leaders so far. The whole point is to terrify you into submission. politico.eu/article/donald…

It took 8 years for the BBC to dare to mention the severe impacts Brexit has had on the British economy.

If RFK Jr ends vaccination of children in 🇺🇸, it will mean return of previously eradicated diseases (and extreme vulnerability to a new pandemic). Europe needs to think about that for the future. Should immunisation be required for Americans to enter 🇪🇺? theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

Dear MAGA, friends & family. RFK Jr. wants to immediately stop the development of new drugs for cancer, Alzheimers & other illnesses for eight years. Hope your family stays healthy. Is this what you signed up for when you voted?

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive. This is what oligarchy looks like.

As with Musk doing foreign policy and everything else, this is the privatization of public power, which is always followed by the privatization of public money into the same hands. We saw this in Russia and it's how to replace a democracy with oligarchy.

Sure I'm paranoid, it's only healthy to be so. But it's worth pointing out that with these propagandists it's always money and it's always Russia. Again and again. I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in the KGB.

“Cry harder” says perpetually online man whose family refuses to speak to and women avoid for their safety.

Ci tengo a citare le parole del Presidente Mattarella di ieri: "alla vostra età avevo compagni che si ammalavano di poliomelite, che è scomparsa grazie alla vaccinazione, o c'era il morbillo che era una minaccia ed è scomparsa, ma ora comincia a riaffiorare perché siamo al di

Comunque se avete un IQ di 160 e lavorate 80 ore alla settimana io vi prendo anche pagandovi.

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great Timothy Snyder. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

2. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. How do we know this? Because it always is. It's the authoritarian playbook. Lawsuits are first. Prosecutions are next. America needs to learn these moves fast. It's already later than you think. 3/

3. To name is to understand. This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids. Political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools. A new technofuelled age of political witch-hunts. 4/

BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵

Last January, during the farming protests in front of the European Parliament, a tree was damaged. Although we didn’t organise the protest, we felt it was important to contribute to its replacement. 🌳 Yesterday, together with EuropeanForestOwners, Fédération Wallonne de l'Agriculture, @CEJA, and #SRFB, we organised