Holly Breslin
@hollybreslin.bsky.social
🇺🇸 / 🇪🇺 citizen Zionist Reform Jew who loves all things EU / US / Israeli politics, technology and defense
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Fully agree! Just like you, I have published about both, recently on Article 122 TFEU (sieps.se/en/publicati...) and long ago on Article 20 TEU (bsky.app/profile/vkre...). Exciting times to research EU institutional issues!
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Fully agree! Just like you, I have published about both, recently on Article 122 TFEU (sieps.se/en/publicati...) and long ago on Article 20 TEU (bsky.app/profile/vkre...). Exciting times to research EU institutional issues!
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Enhanced cooperation under Article 20 TEU is a smart move. Here is how it works 👇
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Enhanced cooperation under Article 20 TEU is a smart move. Here is how it works 👇
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More generally, the right favors competition, but only if (a) the pool of competitors is restricted to the favored group; and (b) the favored group gets to define the criteria for "merit."
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
More generally, the right favors competition, but only if (a) the pool of competitors is restricted to the favored group; and (b) the favored group gets to define the criteria for "merit."
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Your regular reminder that almost no one - but especially those on the political right - actually believes in either free markets or the free marketplace of ideas.
More generally, the right favors competition, but only if (a) the pool of competitors is restricted to the favored group; and (b) the favored group gets to define the criteria for "merit."
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Your regular reminder that almost no one - but especially those on the political right - actually believes in either free markets or the free marketplace of ideas.
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ERIC 👇 [Remember when GOP run states started dropping out of ERIC? Wonder why?]
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha... March 29, 2023
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha... March 29, 2023
What Is the Voter Roll Organization ERIC?
In this Explainer, we explore how the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) helps states maintain accurate voter rolls.
www.democracydocket.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ERIC 👇 [Remember when GOP run states started dropping out of ERIC? Wonder why?]
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha... March 29, 2023
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha... March 29, 2023
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Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)
Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
stateline.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
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The clearest demonstration to me that the rich in this country are boring, vapid, thoughtless dipshits is the fact that you can rent (or buy) your own TRAIN CAR and have Amtrak hook you up to existing lines and drive you around all the time and none of these scum do it. Fucking waste.
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The clearest demonstration to me that the rich in this country are boring, vapid, thoughtless dipshits is the fact that you can rent (or buy) your own TRAIN CAR and have Amtrak hook you up to existing lines and drive you around all the time and none of these scum do it. Fucking waste.
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"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
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classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
How Sandie Peggie 'Benidorm Posse' friend group was torn apart by NHS Fife trans tribunal
The personal cost of the changing room row was exposed in expletive-ridden private messages as tensions boiled over in group chats.
www.thecourier.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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What will it do to the Navalists if Taiwan falls in 6-12 hours in a coup de main and the PLAN suddenly has a few Ryukus too?
They’ll blame Wokeness.
They’ll blame Wokeness.
December 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What will it do to the Navalists if Taiwan falls in 6-12 hours in a coup de main and the PLAN suddenly has a few Ryukus too?
They’ll blame Wokeness.
They’ll blame Wokeness.
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With Trump’s tariff policies expected to remain in place, Americans will face even higher prices in 2026 as businesses pass on more of the cost to consumers. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-tariffs-are-a-hidden-holiday-tax/
The Trump Administration’s Tariffs Are a Hidden Holiday Tax
President Trump’s tariffs are adding to inflation and holding back families this holiday season.
www.americanprogress.org
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
With Trump’s tariff policies expected to remain in place, Americans will face even higher prices in 2026 as businesses pass on more of the cost to consumers. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-tariffs-are-a-hidden-holiday-tax/
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For 50+ years, the NPR Network has offered America trusted information, free of charge. As public media faces a future without federal funding, we're relying on you to sustain this work in 2026 and beyond.
Donate now to power Tiny Desk concerts, local reporting and more: n.pr/4pCcFIx
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December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
For 50+ years, the NPR Network has offered America trusted information, free of charge. As public media faces a future without federal funding, we're relying on you to sustain this work in 2026 and beyond.
Donate now to power Tiny Desk concerts, local reporting and more: n.pr/4pCcFIx
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Magazines).
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Magazines).
Why America’s fastest-growing churches don’t get political
The economics of megachurches
Why America’s fastest-growing churches don’t get political
econ.st
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Magazines).
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Magazines).
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It is, e.g., impossible to be “not political” and believe in national abortion bans. If Jews or Muslims tried this “the law should make everyone do what I believe religiously” shtick even once, it would be a national crisis. But Christians get to do it all the time, on issue after issue.
Abortion bans, e.g., are an egregious violation of the First Amendment religious freedom rights of 🇺🇸 Jews. We cannot allow the theological views of one fraction of one religion in the country to be imposed on everyone & call ourselves a democracy. It's simply not compatible with any definition.
December 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It is, e.g., impossible to be “not political” and believe in national abortion bans. If Jews or Muslims tried this “the law should make everyone do what I believe religiously” shtick even once, it would be a national crisis. But Christians get to do it all the time, on issue after issue.
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This is exactly what @sethcotlar.bsky.social & @badtoss.bsky.social were talking about yesterday. Christians, especially evangelicals, can assert their beliefs that their religious beliefs should be the law of the land, while also being treated as not “political,” in ways no other group is allowed.
This is the key part. Only Christian Americans are allowed to confidently proclaim the truth of their beliefs, if anyone else does it they’re trying to “ram their beliefs down your throat.”
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is exactly what @sethcotlar.bsky.social & @badtoss.bsky.social were talking about yesterday. Christians, especially evangelicals, can assert their beliefs that their religious beliefs should be the law of the land, while also being treated as not “political,” in ways no other group is allowed.
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The European Council was not a failure for vd Leyen and Merz.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The European Council was not a failure for vd Leyen and Merz.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
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Germans learning how to anchor negotiations French/Trump style?
Push hard, Belgium/Hungary get upset and shoot at the details but in the process they stop questioning the fundamental move.
Then they settle but Germany actually moved the Overton window - more UKR money, assets frozen indefinitely
Push hard, Belgium/Hungary get upset and shoot at the details but in the process they stop questioning the fundamental move.
Then they settle but Germany actually moved the Overton window - more UKR money, assets frozen indefinitely
The European Council was not a failure for vd Leyen and Merz.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
December 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Germans learning how to anchor negotiations French/Trump style?
Push hard, Belgium/Hungary get upset and shoot at the details but in the process they stop questioning the fundamental move.
Then they settle but Germany actually moved the Overton window - more UKR money, assets frozen indefinitely
Push hard, Belgium/Hungary get upset and shoot at the details but in the process they stop questioning the fundamental move.
Then they settle but Germany actually moved the Overton window - more UKR money, assets frozen indefinitely
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Of course on MERCOSUR it didn’t work - mixed bag.
Still it’s really interesting to see Germany leading from the front the way France tended to do in the EU (Macron was pretty quiet along the way).
Still it’s really interesting to see Germany leading from the front the way France tended to do in the EU (Macron was pretty quiet along the way).
Germans learning how to anchor negotiations French/Trump style?
Push hard, Belgium/Hungary get upset and shoot at the details but in the process they stop questioning the fundamental move.
Then they settle but Germany actually moved the Overton window - more UKR money, assets frozen indefinitely
Push hard, Belgium/Hungary get upset and shoot at the details but in the process they stop questioning the fundamental move.
Then they settle but Germany actually moved the Overton window - more UKR money, assets frozen indefinitely
The European Council was not a failure for vd Leyen and Merz.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
The reparations loan didn’t make it but the Ukraine funding is in place - the crux.
You could call it negotiating anchoring - they pushed hard for a frozen asset-based solution, the no camp fought it but then settled for another fix.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Of course on MERCOSUR it didn’t work - mixed bag.
Still it’s really interesting to see Germany leading from the front the way France tended to do in the EU (Macron was pretty quiet along the way).
Still it’s really interesting to see Germany leading from the front the way France tended to do in the EU (Macron was pretty quiet along the way).
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The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.
For 50 years, Rockalina the turtle lived on a kitchen floor. Now she has a new friend
The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.
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Trade wars are good, and easy to win”
December 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Trade wars are good, and easy to win”
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We’re going to need a lot of child-sized coffins.
Breaking news: The Trump administration plans to shift the federal government away from directly recommending most vaccines for children and suggest parents consult with doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We’re going to need a lot of child-sized coffins.
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Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...