The Typist
@thetypist.bsky.social
Dyslexic humanist in search for the light switch. Geopolitical news junkie.
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Russia spends millions to recreate kicking out time at Coco Bongos in Magaluf
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Russia spends millions to recreate kicking out time at Coco Bongos in Magaluf
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The US political system is now essentially one fascist-promoting party, one fascist-appeasement party, and a few individual outliers, people called nasty names for suggesting policies every other industrialized country has had for decades. And masked thugs keep kidnapping people off the streets.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The US political system is now essentially one fascist-promoting party, one fascist-appeasement party, and a few individual outliers, people called nasty names for suggesting policies every other industrialized country has had for decades. And masked thugs keep kidnapping people off the streets.
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Neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth
– however, it succeeded in its true aim.
– however, it succeeded in its true aim.
Neoliberalism – lurching onwards
Part one showed how neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth – here, the author shows how it succeeded in its true aim
bylines.scot
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth
– however, it succeeded in its true aim.
– however, it succeeded in its true aim.
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🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bo...
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
You can always rely on Hungary and Slovakia to do their bit for Putin's sinking empire.
The European effort to tap frozen Russian assets to keep Ukraine afloat is stalling over Belgian objections, but now Slovakia’s leader has chimed in, further complicating the bloc’s drive to fill Kyiv’s war chest before it runs bare in the spring.
Russian assets impasse faces obstacles beyond Belgium
Talks between senior Commission officials and the Belgian government over a €140B loan to Ukraine fell short of a breakthrough on Friday.
www.politico.eu
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
You can always rely on Hungary and Slovakia to do their bit for Putin's sinking empire.
We should start trolling the Putinistas with 'Post-Russia' which has is causing some upset. Thank you @timothysnyder.bsky.social for coming up with the term.
Looks like the Kremlin talking heads will blame Timothy Snyder when Russia collapses! 😂
Congrats to Professor Snyder for living rent-free in their heads!
Congrats to Professor Snyder for living rent-free in their heads!
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We should start trolling the Putinistas with 'Post-Russia' which has is causing some upset. Thank you @timothysnyder.bsky.social for coming up with the term.
As long as we entrust our future to billionaires and a corrupt political system this will be the result.
Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned at the start of the #Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/... #DonaldTrump #FriedhelmMerz #oilandgas #CDU #EPP
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
As long as we entrust our future to billionaires and a corrupt political system this will be the result.
Mafia boss threatens the EU again. If we don't buy US oil and gas that we don't need it's going to be trouble.
Donald Trump issued a fresh threat of a trade war to the EU today, urging it to purchase more American oil and gas or face a barrage of tariffs.
Trump ramps up EU trade war threat unless bloc buys American oil and gas
If the EU doesn’t cough up, “it is TARIFFS all the way!!!” U.S. president-elect roars.
www.politico.eu
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Mafia boss threatens the EU again. If we don't buy US oil and gas that we don't need it's going to be trouble.
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The EU must clarify its China policy and embed it as a clear conditionality in the accession process, writes Vladimir Shopov @ecfrasia.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4nGowUG
https://bit.ly/4nGowUG
Eyes wide shut: How to read China’s playbook in the Western Balkans
The global order no longer favours Western dominance, and Europe’s peripheries have become battlegrounds for competing powers. Yet, the EU’s enlargement policy has not kept pace with this new…
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The EU must clarify its China policy and embed it as a clear conditionality in the accession process, writes Vladimir Shopov @ecfrasia.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4nGowUG
https://bit.ly/4nGowUG
Every billionaire is a massive parasite. Prove me wrong.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Every billionaire is a massive parasite. Prove me wrong.
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I wonder how long it will take the EU to realize that the Russian Orthodox Church is not actually a church (and never has been), but rather an active arm of the Russian security apparatus that must to be sanctioned immediately.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
'Apparently, God himself commanded the Russian Orthodox bishop to build a chapel right under NATO radars'
Russian security forces are strengthening their influence in northern Norway — and sowing division within the country.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I wonder how long it will take the EU to realize that the Russian Orthodox Church is not actually a church (and never has been), but rather an active arm of the Russian security apparatus that must to be sanctioned immediately.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
Humanity could do with the money instead of giving it all to one trillionaire.
Developing countries urgently need massive increases in adaptation finance to protect people, livelihoods, and economies from escalating climate change impacts: https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2025
#AdaptationGap
#AdaptationGap
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Humanity could do with the money instead of giving it all to one trillionaire.
You can tell that the Kremlin is desperately trying to resolve this. If we didn't have Trump in the White House it would be a one way implosion. Instead the narrative is in the hands of a demented and totally corrupted criminal that happens to be the president of the US.
Sergey Lavrov, the veteran Russian foreign minister, said he’s ready to hold an in-person meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio but insisted that Moscow’s interests need to be taken into account when discussing the war in Ukraine.
Lavrov reappears and says ready to meet Rubio
“We communicate by telephone and are ready to hold face-to-face meetings when necessary,” Russian foreign minister tells Ria Novosti news agency.
www.politico.eu
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
You can tell that the Kremlin is desperately trying to resolve this. If we didn't have Trump in the White House it would be a one way implosion. Instead the narrative is in the hands of a demented and totally corrupted criminal that happens to be the president of the US.
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Yep, a lot of what ails car industry in Europe nowadays is entirely self-inflicted
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Yep, a lot of what ails car industry in Europe nowadays is entirely self-inflicted
God what a shit show these political parasites are. First Orban runs the Hungarian economy into the ground through bad governance, embezzlement and cronyism and now he's gone all the way to 'Daddy' for a bailout.
After $40 bn for Milei, now $40 bn for Orbán? Meanwhile no money for starving children or healthcare in America.
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
God what a shit show these political parasites are. First Orban runs the Hungarian economy into the ground through bad governance, embezzlement and cronyism and now he's gone all the way to 'Daddy' for a bailout.
The secret of human survival is collaboration through ingenuity.
Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine
Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The secret of human survival is collaboration through ingenuity.
“Here, Russian executioners once slaughtered our youth. Today, Georgian ‘militia’ kick their own people.”
Parents of political prisoners stand in a human chain along the police cordon on Rustaveli Avenue.
Day 346 of uninterrupted protest.
🎥 Netgazeti
Parents of political prisoners stand in a human chain along the police cordon on Rustaveli Avenue.
Day 346 of uninterrupted protest.
🎥 Netgazeti
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Why are we weakening our climate targets to appease the oil industry? We really need a different breed of politicians to stand up against this kind of insidious pressure.
Loopholes in the European Union’s new interim climate target increase the danger of missing the 2050 net-zero goal, the bloc’s top scientific advisor Ottmar Edenhofer warned.
EU’s weakened climate target raises risk of missing net-zero, top adviser warns
Chair of bloc’s science advisory board also dismissed industry calls to scrap carbon pricing.
www.politico.eu
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why are we weakening our climate targets to appease the oil industry? We really need a different breed of politicians to stand up against this kind of insidious pressure.
".. How have they managed to channel so much of the world’s money into their pockets? And why can’t we get it back through effective taxation? The answer is their translation of economic power into political power.
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
".. How have they managed to channel so much of the world’s money into their pockets? And why can’t we get it back through effective taxation? The answer is their translation of economic power into political power.
There goes another chance to the Nobel Peace Price for Trump since Pakistan endorsed him.
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
There goes another chance to the Nobel Peace Price for Trump since Pakistan endorsed him.
When you thought the immense cruelty of the Nethaniau regime could not go further. Without the support of western states and the US Israel would be in a very different place right now.
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
When you thought the immense cruelty of the Nethaniau regime could not go further. Without the support of western states and the US Israel would be in a very different place right now.
This is a fascinating read. There is a theory that we would have not survived as a human race had we not helped each other at the early stage of our history.
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is a fascinating read. There is a theory that we would have not survived as a human race had we not helped each other at the early stage of our history.
Serbia, the most polluted country in Europe and a hub for Chinese manufacturing and mining. Might as well add a tacky Trump hotel.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Serbia, the most polluted country in Europe and a hub for Chinese manufacturing and mining. Might as well add a tacky Trump hotel.
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He turned 18, signed a contract, and was dead a month later. Our analysis finds hundreds of teenage recruits among Russia’s war dead, a rise fuelled by relaxing laws and allowing criminal suspects to sign contracts from detention.
Read the full update: en.zona.media/article/2025...
Read the full update: en.zona.media/article/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
He turned 18, signed a contract, and was dead a month later. Our analysis finds hundreds of teenage recruits among Russia’s war dead, a rise fuelled by relaxing laws and allowing criminal suspects to sign contracts from detention.
Read the full update: en.zona.media/article/2025...
Read the full update: en.zona.media/article/2025...
You got to help you fascist pals to stay in power. Surprised Trump is not sending US taxpayers money to prop up the Hungarian economy like he did with Argentina.
Trump hints at easing Russian oil sanctions for Hungary as Orbán seeks reelection. Plus in Meduza’s daily digest: Moscow's Pokrovsk advance, an E.U. plan to fight disinformation, Germany’s east-west divide, and more. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Trump considers a Russian oil sanctions exemption for his good chum seeking reelection in Hungary Meduza breaks down today’s biggest Russia-related news stories, November 7, 2025 — Meduza
President Donald Trump confirmed he is “looking at” an exemption for Hungary from recently imposed U.S. sanctions on Russian oil. The discussion took place during his meeting with Hungarian Prime…
meduza.io
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You got to help you fascist pals to stay in power. Surprised Trump is not sending US taxpayers money to prop up the Hungarian economy like he did with Argentina.