Charles Macmillan
@cmacm.bsky.social
Text and data mining research at European Commission Joint Research Centre. Personal account, my own opinions.
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After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
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There is so much attention on Europe's military dependence on America but people forget there are two other pillars of dependence: economic and cultural.
Here, former 🇮🇹PM Enrico Letta outlines how to free Europe from its economic shackles. Are leaders listening?
Here, former 🇮🇹PM Enrico Letta outlines how to free Europe from its economic shackles. Are leaders listening?
Enrico Letta: ‘If we have 27 markets, we will be a colony of Wall Street’
The former Italian prime minister on how to make Europe a single financial market
www.ft.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
There is so much attention on Europe's military dependence on America but people forget there are two other pillars of dependence: economic and cultural.
Here, former 🇮🇹PM Enrico Letta outlines how to free Europe from its economic shackles. Are leaders listening?
Here, former 🇮🇹PM Enrico Letta outlines how to free Europe from its economic shackles. Are leaders listening?
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What do a 1963 Science letter, two “No” votes, & Sherlock Holmes have to do with academic writing?
More than you think.
New Respect the Marble post on moving from insight to understanding, from bricks to walls, & why it’s worth our effort.
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catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/sherlock-a...
More than you think.
New Respect the Marble post on moving from insight to understanding, from bricks to walls, & why it’s worth our effort.
🧵
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/sherlock-a...
Sherlock at the Brickyard: On Clues, Chaos, and Construction
What Two “No” Votes Taught Me about the Resilience and Rupture in International Cooperation
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What do a 1963 Science letter, two “No” votes, & Sherlock Holmes have to do with academic writing?
More than you think.
New Respect the Marble post on moving from insight to understanding, from bricks to walls, & why it’s worth our effort.
🧵
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/sherlock-a...
More than you think.
New Respect the Marble post on moving from insight to understanding, from bricks to walls, & why it’s worth our effort.
🧵
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/sherlock-a...
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UK is still well short of US levels of media polarisation (thanks mainly to the BBC 🙏), but the gap is narrowing and we’re already at a point where millions of people can be indignant about a massive scandal that’s all over the[ir] media, while millions of others are barely aware of its existence.
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
UK is still well short of US levels of media polarisation (thanks mainly to the BBC 🙏), but the gap is narrowing and we’re already at a point where millions of people can be indignant about a massive scandal that’s all over the[ir] media, while millions of others are barely aware of its existence.
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While claiming to seek peace, Russia launched a deadly airstrike on Kyiv.
This isn't a pursuit of peace, it’s a mockery of it.
The real obstacle is not Ukraine but Russia, whose war aims have not changed.
This isn't a pursuit of peace, it’s a mockery of it.
The real obstacle is not Ukraine but Russia, whose war aims have not changed.
April 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
While claiming to seek peace, Russia launched a deadly airstrike on Kyiv.
This isn't a pursuit of peace, it’s a mockery of it.
The real obstacle is not Ukraine but Russia, whose war aims have not changed.
This isn't a pursuit of peace, it’s a mockery of it.
The real obstacle is not Ukraine but Russia, whose war aims have not changed.
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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
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April 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
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In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is.
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Again and again, Trump misunderstands the limits of American power.
And as a result is taking us to a global financial precipice.
open.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is.
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.
April 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.
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Could I please ask the press to stop reporting Trump’s rather arbitrary numbers of the tariffs other countries impose as though this were real? The WTO has a tariff database. You can look up the real numbers there.
April 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Could I please ask the press to stop reporting Trump’s rather arbitrary numbers of the tariffs other countries impose as though this were real? The WTO has a tariff database. You can look up the real numbers there.
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If you are right that a dishonesty conviction will only make a politician more attractive to the electorate the threat to democracy is not the court.
April 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you are right that a dishonesty conviction will only make a politician more attractive to the electorate the threat to democracy is not the court.
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"When will we implement a lifetime ineligibility for all those who have been convicted of offences committed during their term in office?"
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
VIDEO. Quand Marine Le Pen demandait « l’inéligibilité à vie » pour les élus condamnés pour « détournement de fonds publics » - Public Sénat
Alors que Marine Le Pen vient d’être condamnée pour détournement de fonds publics à quatre ans de prison et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité, l’empêchant de se présenter en 2027, la même Marine Le Pen défen...
www.publicsenat.fr
March 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"When will we implement a lifetime ineligibility for all those who have been convicted of offences committed during their term in office?"
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
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A decision matching somehow with her former program, but lighter than what she was praising:
youtu.be/OtBMWYnJBTk?...
youtu.be/OtBMWYnJBTk?...
Quand Marine Le Pen réclamait l’inégibilité à vie pour les politiques condamnés
YouTube video by StreetPress
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March 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A decision matching somehow with her former program, but lighter than what she was praising:
youtu.be/OtBMWYnJBTk?...
youtu.be/OtBMWYnJBTk?...
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It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
DC is uniquely vulnerable and we really need all of you with State representation to join us in pushing back against what promises to be a ton of cruel and unnecessary actions: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Works to Make Our Nation’s Capital Safe and Beautiful
MAKING WASHINGTON THE GREATEST CAPITAL CITY IN THE WORLD: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to make Washington, D.C. what it
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
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Exactly this.
Defying almost every prediction, Finland was never swallowed by the Soviet Union. If we look at the root causes of that miracle, progressive policies instituted from the 1920s have to be among the most important reasons, arguably THE most important reason.
Defying almost every prediction, Finland was never swallowed by the Soviet Union. If we look at the root causes of that miracle, progressive policies instituted from the 1920s have to be among the most important reasons, arguably THE most important reason.
there was also deeper meaning here: when you own a plot of land and a house on it ... outright communism does not sound so appealing anymore.
postwar hearts and minds, Finnish style.
postwar hearts and minds, Finnish style.
March 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Exactly this.
Defying almost every prediction, Finland was never swallowed by the Soviet Union. If we look at the root causes of that miracle, progressive policies instituted from the 1920s have to be among the most important reasons, arguably THE most important reason.
Defying almost every prediction, Finland was never swallowed by the Soviet Union. If we look at the root causes of that miracle, progressive policies instituted from the 1920s have to be among the most important reasons, arguably THE most important reason.
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The process of capture unfolds in 5 stages:
Barrier Weakening (Gatekeeper failure)
Legitimisation & Normalisation
Adoption by Elite Actors
Restructuring of Institutions
Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure
Barrier Weakening (Gatekeeper failure)
Legitimisation & Normalisation
Adoption by Elite Actors
Restructuring of Institutions
Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The process of capture unfolds in 5 stages:
Barrier Weakening (Gatekeeper failure)
Legitimisation & Normalisation
Adoption by Elite Actors
Restructuring of Institutions
Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure
Barrier Weakening (Gatekeeper failure)
Legitimisation & Normalisation
Adoption by Elite Actors
Restructuring of Institutions
Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure
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NEW POST: To mark World Book Day the lovely people at Flourish invited me to propose five data viz titles that I think should belong on peoples' book shelves...
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5 (+1) book recommendations for World Book Day - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere
To mark World Book Day the lovely people at Flourish invited me to propose five data viz titles that I think should belong on peoples' book shelves.
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March 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
NEW POST: To mark World Book Day the lovely people at Flourish invited me to propose five data viz titles that I think should belong on peoples' book shelves...
visualisingdata.com/2025/03/5-1-...
visualisingdata.com/2025/03/5-1-...
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"Lithuania, when we were occupied in 1945, we had sustainable peace. There was no front line. Nobody was
shooting. But there was no Lithuania." @glandsbergis.bsky.social
shooting. But there was no Lithuania." @glandsbergis.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Lithuania, when we were occupied in 1945, we had sustainable peace. There was no front line. Nobody was
shooting. But there was no Lithuania." @glandsbergis.bsky.social
shooting. But there was no Lithuania." @glandsbergis.bsky.social
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Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”
March 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”
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"Stopping Putinization—the looting by cronies, the centralization of authority, the moving of decisions into unaccountable private hands—is the vital matter of the moment. Trump admiring Putin is far less dangerous than Trump becoming him." Gary Kasparov
The Putinization of America
Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation.
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March 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"Stopping Putinization—the looting by cronies, the centralization of authority, the moving of decisions into unaccountable private hands—is the vital matter of the moment. Trump admiring Putin is far less dangerous than Trump becoming him." Gary Kasparov
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On my way to London to highlight Europe’s ongoing support to Ukraine that can lead to just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
The path to peace is strength.
Weakness breeds more war.
We will support Ukraine, while undertaking a surge in European defence.
The path to peace is strength.
Weakness breeds more war.
We will support Ukraine, while undertaking a surge in European defence.
March 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
On my way to London to highlight Europe’s ongoing support to Ukraine that can lead to just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
The path to peace is strength.
Weakness breeds more war.
We will support Ukraine, while undertaking a surge in European defence.
The path to peace is strength.
Weakness breeds more war.
We will support Ukraine, while undertaking a surge in European defence.
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I am desperately waiting for a story that mentions that once upon a time Trump was impeached for threatening to withhold congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine unless they scratched his back.
February 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I am desperately waiting for a story that mentions that once upon a time Trump was impeached for threatening to withhold congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine unless they scratched his back.
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MAGA fellow travellers find the UKs consensus on this difficult to understand, but in some ways it's quite simple
The British national myth is rooted in "the darkest hour" of a small island facing off against a fascist invader steamrolling across Europe. Britain looks at Ukraine, and it sees itself
The British national myth is rooted in "the darkest hour" of a small island facing off against a fascist invader steamrolling across Europe. Britain looks at Ukraine, and it sees itself
For all that I am worried about the UK in many ways, the consensus on Ukraine remains pretty solid 🙏
Actually pretty reassuring to see the right-wing press break for Ukraine and against Trump. They've been churning out such monstrous guff recently it wasn't necessarily clear they would.
March 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
MAGA fellow travellers find the UKs consensus on this difficult to understand, but in some ways it's quite simple
The British national myth is rooted in "the darkest hour" of a small island facing off against a fascist invader steamrolling across Europe. Britain looks at Ukraine, and it sees itself
The British national myth is rooted in "the darkest hour" of a small island facing off against a fascist invader steamrolling across Europe. Britain looks at Ukraine, and it sees itself