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claudiamagdalena.bsky.social
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Just a housewife interested in Politics and History.
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gtconway.bsky.social
Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain."
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The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
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March 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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carlomasala1.bsky.social
„Nach vier Jahren Donald Trump werde sich die Frage stellen, was noch reparierbar sei. „Es wird nicht wieder gut“

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Verteidigungsexperte Masala für gemeinsames Lagebild in Deutschland | Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd)
Der Militärexperte Carlo Masala von der Universität der Bundeswehr in München wirbt für einen nationalen Sicherheitsrat in Deutschland zur engeren Koordination zivil-militärischer Beziehungen. Dabei g...
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March 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
was going to thread this article I wrote today but @bettycjung.bsky.social has done it for me! so here you go :-)
March 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
So much of the language around Trump is about power and specifically about making him look powerful. Journalists today writing that Zelenskyy 'bends' to Trump or 'kisses the ring'. You could equally say that he is successfully manipulating Trump.
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
How Trump’s Ukraine policy makes a world war more likely (reposting from November).
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A Third World War?
Let's help those who are holding it back
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March 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
One of our best security experts sums it up:
shashj.bsky.social Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Mar 4
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
To all the European leaders: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.
March 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
The central fact about Zelenskyy is this: He is very good at killing fascists. That is why Trump and Vance despise him. They recognise the ideological enemy when they see him iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day
American leadership is over. Ukraine has been betrayed. What happens next is up to us.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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carlomasala1.bsky.social
Vielleicht sollte sich alle Parteien der Mitte das Ding mit dem Sondervermögen (und mehr als 200 Milliarden) in den nächsten Wochen jetzt nochmal überlegen.
February 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office today “gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes.

Read more: theatln.tc/SowY3Uin
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous.

Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.
Live updates: Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump in Washington, seeking backing for Ukraine's security against any future Russian aggression.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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klenkflorian.bsky.social
Der Präsident eines Staates, der seit drei Jahren geschunden und zerstört wird und dessen Bevölkerung vergewaltigt wird, muss sich vom US-Präsidenten vor der ganzen Welt anbrüllen lassen. Was für eine Schande
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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lizcheney.bsky.social
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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annettedittert.bsky.social
Germany needs a government. Now.
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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wolfmaahn.bsky.social
Marina Weisband: „Wir machen durch diese Schuldenbremse viel zu viel Schulden. Jeder € in Bildung zahlt sich 20fach aus... Warum denken wir immer nur bis zur nächsten Wahl? Ich wünsche mir eine Regierung, die strategisch und langfristig denkt.“
#Illner
Marina Weisband gestern bei Illner
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. 🇪🇺🇺🇸
February 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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carlomasala1.bsky.social
„Welchen besten Fall wollen Sie denn hören? Momentan gibt es keinen besten Fall“

Positive vibrations kann ich 🤣
February 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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iwashyna.bsky.social
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

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February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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nroettgen.bsky.social
Es gibt niemanden der mehr, der bereit ist, für uns europäische Sicherheit herzustellen. Das können nur noch wir selbst. Umso länger wir warten, desto teurer wird es - für die #Ukraine und für ganz Europa! #Miosga
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
Zeitenwende in action: Just did one hour on a German radio show where ppl can call in (WDR5 Redezeit). Usually you get at least one “pacifist”, Russia versteher etc. This time it was 100% of “we need to do more”, “it is five after 12”, etc.
February 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
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February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM