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X refugee, German living in France, Frenchie patronising all Europe (and occasionally the rest of the world). Politics, history, economics and snark. Missing the old Twitter badly…#blocksAltRightOnSight.
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One for the historians. 🗃️
April 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
À must read
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.

I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.

🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.

-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
February 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Knew a business school professor who was convinced that the real “glass ceiling” for women was the fact that men didn’t trust them to go along with bad behavior. They grow up in male bonded groups, where they can do whatever they want. And women not being able to do the same is half the fun.
February 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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@zeit.de: "The transatlantic alliance is no longer held together by common values." In Munich, Vance is the ambassador not of the US but of the global populist (I'd say fascist) axis.
Wer greift hier die Demokratie an?
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
J. D. Vance in München: Wer greift hier die Demokratie an?
US-Vizepräsident J. D. Vance stößt Europa vor den Kopf. Es ist eine Zeitenwende: Das transatlantische Verhältnis wird nicht mehr von gemeinsamen Werten zusammengehalten.
www.zeit.de
February 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity

Trump: Trade war!

Colombia: OK

Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Trump: They gave in!
January 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Pendant qu'Elon Musk participe en visio à un meeting du parti d'extrême droite Afd, des milliers de personnes défilent dans plusieurs villes allemandes appelant à lui faire barrage à un mois des élections législatives.

www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...
En Allemagne, des dizaines de milliers de personnes manifestent contre l'AfD
Des manifestations ont eu lieu à travers l'Allemagne, samedi, pour dénoncer la montée de l'AfD, parti d'extrême droite accusé de menacer les valeurs démocratiques. À un mois des législatives, quelques...
www.france24.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Emmanuel Laurentin : «Le succès des documentaires de France Culture traduit un besoin de recul sur une actualité qui va trop vite»
Emmanuel Laurentin : «Le succès des documentaires de France Culture traduit un besoin de recul sur une actualité qui va trop vite»
Avec près de 500 heures de documentaires par an, la station publique est la plus productive dans ce domaine. Le responsable du pôle dédié de la chaîne détaille à «Libé» les projets des mois à venir.
www.liberation.fr
January 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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A headline for the times we live in
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann
December 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Donc si je comprends :
- les Françai.se.s votent
- Macron choisit un premier ministre dans le groupe arrivé 5eme aux élections
- les députés font sauter le ministre
- Macron désigne un gars du groupe arrivé en 7eme position

What could go wrong ?
December 13, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Our cover this week
December 4, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 8:35 PM