Steve Peers

@stevepeers.bsky.social

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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Usual disclaimers.

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Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership. .. more

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10h

Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.”

Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

Merry Christmas!

The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.

Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think all Farage supporters are in poverty, or that all people in poverty are Farage supporters. Too easy just to buy their framing.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11h

I think this exchange has finally clarified for me what my objections to using X are in one word: collaboration. Yes, using X plays only a modest role in supporting an authoritarian RW project. But then there's so little cost in no longer using it.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of people left X for exactly that reason. There's no point expecting them not to keep making the point.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12h

This is the centre left argument for the monarchy - as a bulwark against a RW populist president Farage etc

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12h

If you prefer the Nazi bar, just stay there. But don't pretend for a second that this gives you the moral high ground.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-brazen-cruelty-of-the-trump-regime

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18h

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 20h

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT sink on his maiden voyage

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 21h

Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

The Librarian from Unseen University holding up a sprig of mistletoe and grinning broadly. As drawn by Paul Kidby.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22h

Kyiv is celebrating Christmas. Residents of the capital gathered for caroling on St. Michael’s Square.

I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22h

I have other things to do on Christmas day than get angry about historical opt outs or budget disputes (which were not unique to the UK)🎁

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx

A real Good Samaritan

One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

www.gofundme.com

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

Similarly, a student once quoted me as making an argument for a proposition which I refuted in the next sentence. AI use? Reading comprehension issue? Bad faith? (I doubt the latter as regards the student, who was writing an essay to be marked, not selling a book/exciting a RW base)

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Laura LeeLun @laleelun.bsky.social · 1d

Love that my tweet gets posted every year! Also, our proof of concept for this (Double Happiness) is screening at Lincoln Center on Jan. 27!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

Also: I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...

But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 1d

Kyiv on Christmas Eve.

I film these moments to show you our strength.
We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

www.gofundme.com

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 1d

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

lol. embarrassing.

Nicki Minaj Isn’t a ‘Good Role Model’ for Young Black Women, Charlie Kirk Said in Resurfaced 2024 Clip

Minaj sat down with Kirk's widow Erika at AmericaFest in Phoenix on Sunday.

www.yahoo.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

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