Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU

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Mapping, CAD and GIS professional. #LGBTQ+, Social-Liberal ❄ and Green-Progressive 🌳 Political junkie.
#WOKE 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU
MY VIEWS (that people are stupid) ARE TOTALLY MY OWN!
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Musk, Trump, Farage… the same old cast of chaos agents playing games with truth and trust while real voters get ignored. We deserve better than billionaire melodrama dictating public policy. #PeopleOverProfits #StopTheNoise https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/jeffrey-epstein-files-department-of-justice
Deadline nears for release of Epstein files – what we know so far

Justice department must release most documents by Friday, and failure to do so would provoke a firestorm

The Guardian
Right-wing activists dominating online spaces isn’t an accident — it’s the algorithm. #Musk hands them a megaphone, #Trump hands them talking points, #MAGA hands them rage. #Democracy pays the bill.
https://champ.ly/4acB-UQ5
As Russia praises Trump’s new security strategy, the UK is in trouble

Leaders across Europe are waking up to an increasing sense that the US President has hung them out to dry

The i Paper
#Europe reacting with horror to Trump’s national security plans? Fair. When your “strategy” makes Russia smile and democracies panic, maybe the problem isn’t the world — maybe it’s #Trump.
https://www.ft.com/content/c3a91229-30d5-44d4-ad81-b9beb3d7c6bc
Client Challenge

X nuking the #EU Commission’s ad account right after a €120m fine is the most #Musk thing ever: break the rules, scream “free speech,” then rage-quit when held accountable. Silicon tantrums aren’t policy.
https://champ.ly/TnpfHnvr
Ukraine prepares new peace plan as Zelensky rules out giving up land

Kyiv is seeking to resist a US push for a deal which would see territory handed over to Russia.

BBC News
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Tucker Carlson swapping notes with Qatar to help Ted Cruz? American conservatism is now a geopolitical fan-fiction project. #Musk spreads the conspiracies, #Trump sells the chaos, #MAGA absorbs it all.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-qatar-ted-cruz-b2880084.html
Ted Cruz lights up Tucker Carlson in bizarre AI photo and sexually explicit rant after ex-Fox host buys home in Qatar

Texas Republican senator reignites feud with conservative pundit in series of abusive posts

The Independent
X nuking the EU Commission’s ad account right after a €120m fine is the most Musk thing ever: break the rules, scream “free speech,” then rage-quit when held accountable. Silicon tantrums aren’t policy. #EuropeStandUp #HoldTheLine #DefendDemocracy
https://www.politico.eu/article/x-axes-european-commissions-ad-account-after-e120m-eu-fine/
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

POLITICO
Farage lecturing anyone on racism is peak 2025 irony. #Trump, #Musk, #MAGA & their European fanboys keep recycling the same playbook: sow distrust, blame immigrants, claim victimhood. Boring AND dangerous.
https://champ.ly/j5G6g8f-
Trump’s new doctrine confirms it. Ready or not, Europe is on its own

We can move from defensive crouch to position of strength but only if we use the economic cards we have against US coercion, say Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman of the European Policy Centre

The Guardian
The so-called “Trump Doctrine” is basically: bully allies, flatter autocrats, destabilise institutions, then call it strength. It’s not strategy — it’s coercion with a spray tan. #NoMoreSpectacle #BreakUpTheEchoChamber
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/08/trump-doctrine-europe-us-coercion-economic
Trump’s new doctrine confirms it. Ready or not, Europe is on its own

We can move from defensive crouch to position of strength but only if we use the economic cards we have against US coercion, say Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman of the European Policy Centre

The Guardian
Europe’s far right cheering the #Trump team’s #EU-bashing says it all. #MAGA isn’t just an American problem — it’s a franchise. Same lies, same grift, same assault on democracy. Different accent.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-populist-right-hails-donald-trump-teams-eu-bashing/
Europe’s populist right hails Trump team’s EU bashing

Transatlantic rift over fine on Musk’s X fires up Euroskeptic parties across the continent.

POLITICO