Jonas Ward
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EU should cough up money for RFE/RL and launch Radio Free America, informing US readers, viewers and listeners about freedom, liberty, welfare and life in Europe, and that there is an alternative to US society.
March 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
EU should cough up money for RFE/RL and launch Radio Free America, informing US readers, viewers and listeners about freedom, liberty, welfare and life in Europe, and that there is an alternative to US society.
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“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
www.politico.eu
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”
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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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Mycket bra av Åsa Wikforss!
Åsa Wikforss. Finns det en väg tillbaka från lögnens politik?
Det var ett presidentskap som inleddes med en lögn och avslutades med en lögn. Den inledande lögnen handlade om hur stor publiken var när Trump första gången installerades, den 20 januari 2017. Han hä...
etidning.dn.se
January 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Mycket bra av Åsa Wikforss!
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For no reason that he can articulate, Trump has triggered a crisis in Denmark
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.
www.theatlantic.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For no reason that he can articulate, Trump has triggered a crisis in Denmark
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵
October 17, 2024 at 3:36 AM
🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵
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NYT: Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach. “It is literally cashing in on the presidency — creating a financial instrument so people can transfer money to the president’s family” one ethics lawyer said
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NYT: Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach. “It is literally cashing in on the presidency — creating a financial instrument so people can transfer money to the president’s family” one ethics lawyer said
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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To put Trump's new crypto business into context, here is an illustrated guide we published on Friday that details the full range of apparent conflicts of interest as Trump enters the White House again. A good reference work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Illustrated Guide to Trump’s Conflict of Interest Risks (Gift Article)
President-elect Donald J. Trump has a range of new business ventures that could expose him to even greater potential conflicts of interest than during his first term.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
To put Trump's new crypto business into context, here is an illustrated guide we published on Friday that details the full range of apparent conflicts of interest as Trump enters the White House again. A good reference work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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5/5. I would be happy to be wrong.
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
5/5. I would be happy to be wrong.
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4/5. Very likely Trump is planning to distract us by his pretend victories in hypothetical wars from his real plan to lose the real war in Ukraine.
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
4/5. Very likely Trump is planning to distract us by his pretend victories in hypothetical wars from his real plan to lose the real war in Ukraine.
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3/5. At the very least, Trump is giving Putin cover for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine by recycling Putin’s arguments against our own neighbors.
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
3/5. At the very least, Trump is giving Putin cover for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine by recycling Putin’s arguments against our own neighbors.
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2/5. All this stuff about borders not mattering, people secretly wanting to be ruled by us, the unreality of their countries – not very American, not even MAGA, but very Kremlin.
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
2/5. All this stuff about borders not mattering, people secretly wanting to be ruled by us, the unreality of their countries – not very American, not even MAGA, but very Kremlin.
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1/5. The way Trump, Trump Jr, Tuberville, and Hannity are talking now about Greenland, Mexico, Panama, and Canada plagiarizes Putin in 2013, before the first invasion of Ukraine.
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
1/5. The way Trump, Trump Jr, Tuberville, and Hannity are talking now about Greenland, Mexico, Panama, and Canada plagiarizes Putin in 2013, before the first invasion of Ukraine.