@carolavanaswegen.bsky.social
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
‘Sippenhaft’ was the term in Nazi Germany, for the detention of family members
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
ICE Detains Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
‘Sippenhaft’ was the term in Nazi Germany, for the detention of family members
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump.
Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.
Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump.
Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.
Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.
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Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
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🇩🇪 NEW German Election Special 🇩🇪
@sturdyalex.bsky.social's 30m German election explainer with the brilliant @annettedittert.bsky.social.
What the result means and what it doesn't. What to be worried about and what to welcome.
🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/794B...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social's 30m German election explainer with the brilliant @annettedittert.bsky.social.
What the result means and what it doesn't. What to be worried about and what to welcome.
🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/794B...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
German Election Special with Annette Dittert
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S2, E24 Bonus · 31m
podcasts.apple.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🇩🇪 NEW German Election Special 🇩🇪
@sturdyalex.bsky.social's 30m German election explainer with the brilliant @annettedittert.bsky.social.
What the result means and what it doesn't. What to be worried about and what to welcome.
🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/794B...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social's 30m German election explainer with the brilliant @annettedittert.bsky.social.
What the result means and what it doesn't. What to be worried about and what to welcome.
🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/794B...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything
% saying Brexit has had a positive impact on...
Control the UK has over its laws: 31%
UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23%
UK's level of international trade: 11%
NHS: 6%
Full list in chart 👇
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
% saying Brexit has had a positive impact on...
Control the UK has over its laws: 31%
UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23%
UK's level of international trade: 11%
NHS: 6%
Full list in chart 👇
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything
% saying Brexit has had a positive impact on...
Control the UK has over its laws: 31%
UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23%
UK's level of international trade: 11%
NHS: 6%
Full list in chart 👇
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
% saying Brexit has had a positive impact on...
Control the UK has over its laws: 31%
UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23%
UK's level of international trade: 11%
NHS: 6%
Full list in chart 👇
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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‘Everyone can find their America here!’ I just heard Polish PM Donald Tusk @donaldtusk say, encouraging Polish migrants who might have some -er - legal or other difficulties in Donald Trump’s America to return to Poland.
A charming European response from Donald T. to Donald T.
A charming European response from Donald T. to Donald T.
January 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
‘Everyone can find their America here!’ I just heard Polish PM Donald Tusk @donaldtusk say, encouraging Polish migrants who might have some -er - legal or other difficulties in Donald Trump’s America to return to Poland.
A charming European response from Donald T. to Donald T.
A charming European response from Donald T. to Donald T.
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A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
January 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
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This is what courage, conviction, decency looks like: The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, uses a worship service at the Washington National Cathedral to stand before Trump and Vance and say the stuff that needs to be said.
January 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is what courage, conviction, decency looks like: The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, uses a worship service at the Washington National Cathedral to stand before Trump and Vance and say the stuff that needs to be said.
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3 theories of Musk salute
My view is 3
1) excited, misunderstood.
A stretch!
2) impulsive disinhibition. Substance overuse
3) Conscious transgressive trolling. A sort of "banter fascism".
Can invent [disingenuous] deniability but wants "Main Character" attention. Seeing what can get away with
My view is 3
1) excited, misunderstood.
A stretch!
2) impulsive disinhibition. Substance overuse
3) Conscious transgressive trolling. A sort of "banter fascism".
Can invent [disingenuous] deniability but wants "Main Character" attention. Seeing what can get away with
January 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
3 theories of Musk salute
My view is 3
1) excited, misunderstood.
A stretch!
2) impulsive disinhibition. Substance overuse
3) Conscious transgressive trolling. A sort of "banter fascism".
Can invent [disingenuous] deniability but wants "Main Character" attention. Seeing what can get away with
My view is 3
1) excited, misunderstood.
A stretch!
2) impulsive disinhibition. Substance overuse
3) Conscious transgressive trolling. A sort of "banter fascism".
Can invent [disingenuous] deniability but wants "Main Character" attention. Seeing what can get away with
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Extraordinary quote in the FT profile of Alice Weidel - the AFD candidate for German Chancellor.
Asked to explain how her being married to a woman fitted with the party's "anti-woke" philosophy an official said:
"She is just gay by biology but not by political conviction."
Asked to explain how her being married to a woman fitted with the party's "anti-woke" philosophy an official said:
"She is just gay by biology but not by political conviction."
January 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Extraordinary quote in the FT profile of Alice Weidel - the AFD candidate for German Chancellor.
Asked to explain how her being married to a woman fitted with the party's "anti-woke" philosophy an official said:
"She is just gay by biology but not by political conviction."
Asked to explain how her being married to a woman fitted with the party's "anti-woke" philosophy an official said:
"She is just gay by biology but not by political conviction."
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"We need to start understanding that Elon Musk’s X is a weapon, currently owned by a non-state entity. But from January 20 that changes. At that point it must be understood as information warfare from a hostile nation state."
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
Total information collapse
It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.
open.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"We need to start understanding that Elon Musk’s X is a weapon, currently owned by a non-state entity. But from January 20 that changes. At that point it must be understood as information warfare from a hostile nation state."
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
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Not to be dramatic, but there really are days when I feel scared of the future.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
January 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Not to be dramatic, but there really are days when I feel scared of the future.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
Like, to pick an example at random, today.
What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth.
The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.
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With Trump & Musk’s aggressions towards Canada, the EU, the UK, Greenland…
The US is now alone in the world, with no close ally except Israel…
…which serves to isolate the US even further from the rest of the world.
The US is now alone in the world, with no close ally except Israel…
…which serves to isolate the US even further from the rest of the world.
January 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
With Trump & Musk’s aggressions towards Canada, the EU, the UK, Greenland…
The US is now alone in the world, with no close ally except Israel…
…which serves to isolate the US even further from the rest of the world.
The US is now alone in the world, with no close ally except Israel…
…which serves to isolate the US even further from the rest of the world.
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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
January 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
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Emmanuel Macron denounces Elon Musk's "unacceptable interference" in European democracies by supporting "a new reactionary international".
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
January 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Emmanuel Macron denounces Elon Musk's "unacceptable interference" in European democracies by supporting "a new reactionary international".
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
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Must read by @tbenner.bsky.social:
“one thing is certain: finger-pointing at Musk or Springer is hardly a winning strategy with voters looking for real solutions to the malaise of the German model and the country’s economic, social and security challenges. Rather, it’s a feel-good distraction.”
“one thing is certain: finger-pointing at Musk or Springer is hardly a winning strategy with voters looking for real solutions to the malaise of the German model and the country’s economic, social and security challenges. Rather, it’s a feel-good distraction.”
German liberal-democratic elites are rightly concerned by Elon Musk’s activism for the extreme-right AfD. But outrage is a not an good strategy, argues @tbenner.bsky.social in @agendapublica.es.
➡️ If you want to go after Musk, target his business interests instead: agendapublica.es/noticia/1954...
➡️ If you want to go after Musk, target his business interests instead: agendapublica.es/noticia/1954...
Elon Musk and the helplessness of German liberal democratic elites
Elon Musk's endorsement of Alternative for Germany less than two months before the general election has generated a lot of noise and uproar among the country's elites. Thorsten Benner, the director of...
agendapublica.es
January 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Must read by @tbenner.bsky.social:
“one thing is certain: finger-pointing at Musk or Springer is hardly a winning strategy with voters looking for real solutions to the malaise of the German model and the country’s economic, social and security challenges. Rather, it’s a feel-good distraction.”
“one thing is certain: finger-pointing at Musk or Springer is hardly a winning strategy with voters looking for real solutions to the malaise of the German model and the country’s economic, social and security challenges. Rather, it’s a feel-good distraction.”
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In Greenland, as we speak.
December 26, 2024 at 7:40 AM
In Greenland, as we speak.
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This. This. This.
And that message carries across a huge range of circumstances.
And that message carries across a huge range of circumstances.
December 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
This. This. This.
And that message carries across a huge range of circumstances.
And that message carries across a huge range of circumstances.