Charles Cavendish
@ccavendish.bsky.social
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Trump may be extreme in all sorts of ways, but looking at the last 30 years of US politics, there’s no reason to think of Trump as an anomaly.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Trump may be extreme in all sorts of ways, but looking at the last 30 years of US politics, there’s no reason to think of Trump as an anomaly.
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2. Russia isn’t a great power, so stop thinking of it as one.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
2. Russia isn’t a great power, so stop thinking of it as one.
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this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead
December 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead
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Donald: "Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed"
Prez:
Prez:
December 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Donald: "Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed"
Prez:
Prez:
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The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen
This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure.
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
We must go into 2026 with eyes open.
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Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says
Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says
He argued "Islamists-aligned or Islamist-adjacent people are currently holding office in European countries"
dlvr.it
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says
Yay, look what Santa (and @nktpnd.bsky.social ) brought me for Christmas 🎅🧨🚀
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Yay, look what Santa (and @nktpnd.bsky.social ) brought me for Christmas 🎅🧨🚀
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #OpenAccess
The polarised electorate: affective polarisation and electoral loyalty in #Turkey’s 2023 critical election
🔓 Read the article by @seaytac.bsky.social, @sedairmak.bsky.social & @busrask.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The polarised electorate: affective polarisation and electoral loyalty in #Turkey’s 2023 critical election
🔓 Read the article by @seaytac.bsky.social, @sedairmak.bsky.social & @busrask.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #OpenAccess
The polarised electorate: affective polarisation and electoral loyalty in #Turkey’s 2023 critical election
🔓 Read the article by @seaytac.bsky.social, @sedairmak.bsky.social & @busrask.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The polarised electorate: affective polarisation and electoral loyalty in #Turkey’s 2023 critical election
🔓 Read the article by @seaytac.bsky.social, @sedairmak.bsky.social & @busrask.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Signs here that UK elites are moving towards an accommodation with the new politics. I call this the 'shadow election', in which power centres move towards likely winners and cue the electorate about what's acceptable. Saw it when Labour were the coming force too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cambridge University cosies up to Reform
The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Signs here that UK elites are moving towards an accommodation with the new politics. I call this the 'shadow election', in which power centres move towards likely winners and cue the electorate about what's acceptable. Saw it when Labour were the coming force too.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Hungary’s media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism’s boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power. Under Trump, America is heading in the same direction, writes @cwherrmann.bsky.social.
https://ecfr.eu/article/the-orbanisation-of-american-media-is-here/
https://ecfr.eu/article/the-orbanisation-of-american-media-is-here/
The Orbanisation of American media is here – European Council on Foreign Relations
Hungary's media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism's boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power. Under Trump, America is heading in the
ecfr.eu
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hungary’s media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism’s boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power. Under Trump, America is heading in the same direction, writes @cwherrmann.bsky.social.
https://ecfr.eu/article/the-orbanisation-of-american-media-is-here/
https://ecfr.eu/article/the-orbanisation-of-american-media-is-here/
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Of course, talking to Germans about macroeconomics is often like talking to Anglos about sex: full of moralizing disguised as science and outraged fallbacks to "common sense."
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Of course, talking to Germans about macroeconomics is often like talking to Anglos about sex: full of moralizing disguised as science and outraged fallbacks to "common sense."
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This is just one part of the larger 'bonfire of the climate laws' that is being undertaken by the EU right now.
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
Von der Leyen's bonfire of the climate laws
Today the EU backs away from its Green Deal, as concerns over near-term security threats overshadow the long-term threat of climate change. But some argue today's reframing will help climate efforts.
davekeating.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is just one part of the larger 'bonfire of the climate laws' that is being undertaken by the EU right now.
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
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It’s stupefying to see the debunked “change through trade” - agenda (that blinded Germany towards the totalitarian turn of 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳) make a comeback in Witkoff/Trump‘s Russia dipomacy (make money, not war).
Putin doesn’t care for 💵, he wants his empire back. Germans learned it the hard way.
Putin doesn’t care for 💵, he wants his empire back. Germans learned it the hard way.
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It’s stupefying to see the debunked “change through trade” - agenda (that blinded Germany towards the totalitarian turn of 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳) make a comeback in Witkoff/Trump‘s Russia dipomacy (make money, not war).
Putin doesn’t care for 💵, he wants his empire back. Germans learned it the hard way.
Putin doesn’t care for 💵, he wants his empire back. Germans learned it the hard way.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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all of these people were picked, in part, *because* they had no real prospect of advancing past where they're at. trump's the only person who would promote them, and everyone — both trump, and the people he promoted — all know it. it's why they're all loyal to him. that was the point.
like, rubio was never going beyond his senate station in any administration other than this one, noem was never going to the senate, hegseth has never been a politician, zeldin was a washout, loeffler's a loser, bondi was never leaving florida, gabbard was basically unemployable
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
all of these people were picked, in part, *because* they had no real prospect of advancing past where they're at. trump's the only person who would promote them, and everyone — both trump, and the people he promoted — all know it. it's why they're all loyal to him. that was the point.
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To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.
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Might write something about this, but I think what Adam is describing matches what I’ve called a collapse in public virtue. Not in the sense that people are behaving badly (although they are doing that), but in the sense that they view their public functions instrumentally instead of as ends.
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Might write something about this, but I think what Adam is describing matches what I’ve called a collapse in public virtue. Not in the sense that people are behaving badly (although they are doing that), but in the sense that they view their public functions instrumentally instead of as ends.
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Maybe the way to understand the anti-liberal, anti-European energy current running through the NSS is to have another look at Putin’s essay from 2021, where he was dissing the lesser brothers in Ukraine.
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Maybe the way to understand the anti-liberal, anti-European energy current running through the NSS is to have another look at Putin’s essay from 2021, where he was dissing the lesser brothers in Ukraine.
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Europe has failed to offset the cut-off of American military aid to Ukraine, according to the @kielinstitute.
From 2022 to 2024, military aid to Ukraine averaged €41.6 billion per year. But in 2025, only €32.5 billion has been allocated by Europe alone, leaving a gap of €9.1 billion.
From 2022 to 2024, military aid to Ukraine averaged €41.6 billion per year. But in 2025, only €32.5 billion has been allocated by Europe alone, leaving a gap of €9.1 billion.
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Europe has failed to offset the cut-off of American military aid to Ukraine, according to the @kielinstitute.
From 2022 to 2024, military aid to Ukraine averaged €41.6 billion per year. But in 2025, only €32.5 billion has been allocated by Europe alone, leaving a gap of €9.1 billion.
From 2022 to 2024, military aid to Ukraine averaged €41.6 billion per year. But in 2025, only €32.5 billion has been allocated by Europe alone, leaving a gap of €9.1 billion.
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I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way.
Let me paint a picture for you.
Let me paint a picture for you.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way.
Let me paint a picture for you.
Let me paint a picture for you.
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What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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It's not credible the US would fight a nuclear war over Europe if they aren't willing to contribute conventionally.
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's not credible the US would fight a nuclear war over Europe if they aren't willing to contribute conventionally.
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Obsession with UK downfall, grooming gangs....etc is also cross-interaction with UK far-right scene
And again doesn't have to be party ops. Just rando niche celeb accs on X and such
And again doesn't have to be party ops. Just rando niche celeb accs on X and such
December 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Obsession with UK downfall, grooming gangs....etc is also cross-interaction with UK far-right scene
And again doesn't have to be party ops. Just rando niche celeb accs on X and such
And again doesn't have to be party ops. Just rando niche celeb accs on X and such
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People ignore how much this is led by admin sclerosis and 4chan R interns wanting to brag to their chat buddies in Europe that they are gonna save them from the globalist filth
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
People ignore how much this is led by admin sclerosis and 4chan R interns wanting to brag to their chat buddies in Europe that they are gonna save them from the globalist filth
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters