Stuck in the Trenches: How Leaders Profit From Division While the World Drown Stuck in the trenches illustration showing people waist-deep in floodwater with distant city submerged – Citizen of Europe editorial header

Stuck in the trenches illustration showing people waist-deep in floodwater with distant city submerged – Citizen of Europe editorial header

Stuck in the Trenches: How Leaders Profit From Division While the World Drown

PeanutsChoice 14/09/2025

Stuck in the trenches, leaders profit from division while the world drowns. An urgent call for unity...

The Age of Permanent Witness: Confidence in Collapse Permanent witness to global crises — man standing near erupting volcano symbolizing disaster tourism and spectator democracy

Permanent witness to global crises — man standing near erupting volcano symbolizing disaster tourism and spectator democracy

The Age of Permanent Witness: Confidence in Collapse

PeanutsChoice 11/09/2025

Permanent witness is the new normal. But watching without acting erodes our confidence, our democracy, and our...

Handbook for the Last Dictator satirical throne image symbolizing the last dictator with Trump shadow behind it

Handbook for the Last Dictator

PeanutsChoice 11/09/2025

A satirical handbook for the last dictator: timeless tricks of control, fear, and branding—funny, sharp, and disturbingly...

You Can’t Make This Up (Yet Here We Are): America Scans Migrants, Europe Scans Tourists — Both Call It Security America Europe security satire — photorealistic header showing U.S. soldiers scanning migrants and EU kiosks scanning tourists, Citizen of Europe logo top-right with thin red line overlay.

You Can’t Make This Up (Yet Here We Are): America Scans Migrants, Europe Scans Tourists — Both Call It Security

PeanutsChoice 08/09/2025

America scans migrants, Europe scans tourists — both call it security. Satire on democracy’s absurd border theater.

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PeanutsChoice Has Entered the Chat: Testing the News

PeanutsChoice 30/08/2025

Introducing PeanutsChoice: Citizen of Europe’s manic mascot who tests absurd headlines with coffee, chaos, and peanuts.

Weimar Echoes: Trump’s Power Grabs and the Shadow of 1933 Trump and the Weimar Echoes Black and white photograph of the railway tracks leading to the main gate and guard tower of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Trump and the Weimar Echoes Black and white photograph of the railway tracks leading to the main gate and guard tower of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Weimar Echoes: Trump’s Power Grabs and the Shadow of 1933

PeanutsChoice 27/08/2025

Trump’s legal theories, deportation machine, and propaganda echo Germany’s 1930s collapse — not identical, but the scaffolding...

Dictator Diplomacy™: Trump Calls Them Friends, Not Foes Donald Trump shakes hands with Kim Jong-un across the DMZ at Panmunjom.

Dictator Diplomacy™: Trump Calls Them Friends, Not Foes

PeanutsChoice 26/08/2025

Trump calls Kim Jong-un “very friendly” while praising Putin, Orbán, and Xi. From Rocket Man to BFF—why...

Trump, Epstein, and Maxwell: Fact, Fiction, and the Record That Haunts

PeanutsChoice 24/08/2025

Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell collide with a long trail of sexual misconduct...

Kilmar Ábrego: Deportation by Threat — and Why Europe Should Care 7c275b80-d382-4dc2-993b-e84607ac5921-2

Kilmar Ábrego: Deportation by Threat — and Why Europe Should Care

PeanutsChoice 24/08/2025

U.S. prosecutors threatened to deport Kilmar Ábrego to Uganda after he refused a plea deal. The bizarre...

Burned Out and Checked Out: Why Europe’s Youth Mental Health Crisis Threatens Our Democracy

PeanutsChoice 17/08/2025

Europe’s youth face record levels of burnout, anxiety, and disillusionment. Ignoring the mental health crisis risks eroding...

Fallout Life: The Radioactive Wasp Nest Found in America’s Nuclear Backyard

PeanutsChoice 02/08/2025

By Citizen of Europe Staff | August 2, 2025 In a discovery that sounds more like dystopian...

How Europe’s Far Right Is Copy‑Pasting U.S. MAGA Tactics — And Winning

PeanutsChoice 26/07/2025

By Citizen of Europe Updated: July 28, 2025 “Yesterday we were the heretics, now we are the...

The Judge Who Saw It Coming: A Warning from the Bench We Shouldn’t Have Ignored

PeanutsChoice 26/07/2025

By Citizen of Europe Staff Published: July 26, 2025 In early 2025, amid mounting political tensions and...

Groom Reads Bride’s Funniest Quotes After 8 Years of Collecting Them

PeanutsChoice 24/07/2025

Credits:Pexels By PeanutsChoice | CitizenOfEurope.com “Wakeboarding is waterboarding, but make it fun.” That’s not a line from...

Ukraine: Resilience and Reinvention Amidst Unyielding Conflict

PeanutsChoice 24/07/2025

Credits:Pexels | CitizenOfEurope.com 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Resilience and Reinvention Amidst Unyielding Conflict 🔥 More Than a Battlefield: Ukraine...

The Office Coffee Machine: Europe’s Most Reluctant Ally in Workplace Survival

The Office Coffee Machine: Europe’s Most Reluctant Ally in Workplace Survival

PeanutsChoice 13/07/2025

By Citizen of Europe | July 13, 2025 You know the drill. It’s Monday morning. The office...

Cracks in the Armor: Where Democracy Is Quietly Winning

PeanutsChoice 11/07/2025

Democracy wins Europe 2025 By PeanutsChoice | Citizen of EuropeJuly 11th 2025 • Estimated reading time: 3...

WWIII Is Trending (Again): Gen Z’s Meme Apocalypse and the Death of Surprise

PeanutsChoice 11/07/2025

By Citizen of Europe | PeanutsChoice | 11 July 2025 ⏱️ Reading time: 5 minutes When the...

Dark Humor Isn’t Broken—It’s Working

PeanutsChoice 11/07/2025

Why laughing at the worst possible things is the internet’s last defense mechanism By PeanutsChoice Dark humor...

World War 3 in 2025? Why Europe Is Already a Battlefield

PeanutsChoice 11/07/2025

By PeanutsChoice Estimated reading time: 6 minutes They say World War 3 hasn’t started. They’re wrong. Europe...

The Algorithm Decides: How Legal Tech Is Automating Oppression in Europe Legal Tech EU Oppression A black and white photo of a crowd of people holding signs.

Legal Tech EU Oppression A black and white photo of a crowd of people holding signs.

The Algorithm Decides: How Legal Tech Is Automating Oppression in Europe

PeanutsChoice 05/07/2025

🕒 Estimated reading time: 6 minutes legal tech EU oppression By Citizen of Europe | Published June...

The Day Democracy Died Quietly: How Authoritarianism Is Legal Again in Europe Democracy died dead en traffic sign in blue sky

The Day Democracy Died Quietly: How Authoritarianism Is Legal Again in Europe

PeanutsChoice 21/06/2025

Democracy died By PeanutsChoice | Citizen of Europe – June 21, 2025 Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes...

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