Erick Staal
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Sander Tordoir
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New piece with former fellow ECB hand
@thinicemacro.bsky.social
. At the Munich Security Conference, the ECB made its geopolitical move, opening repo lines to central banks globally. It was probably the most consequential policy announcement at the conference. 1/
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The ECB's bid to strengthen the euro's global role
As dollar dominance wobbles, Europe should boost the euro’s reach, led by bolder liquidity lines from the ECB.
https://www.cer.eu/insights/ecbs-bid-strengthen-euros-global-role
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Anne Applebaum
5 days ago
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Kyle Griffin
5 days ago
Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program. "Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this."
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Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/arts/television/colbert-fcc-trump-talarico-cbs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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FinTwitter
4 days ago
UKRAINE TALKS IN GENEVA END - REPORTS
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
5 days ago
After being bought by alt-right billionaire Trump toady David Ellison, CBS is now the American counterpart to Правда (Pravda, Russian for "Truth"). Just as folks in Moscow lament that "В «Правде» нет правды." (There is no truth in Truth/Правда), the new CBS is a place where truth dies.
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Stephen Colbert Goes Scorched Earth On CBS Over Shocking Act Of Censorship
The "Late Show" host on Monday night opened up about something the network "clearly doesn't want us to talk about."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-cbs-talarico_n_69940243e4b018d152361971
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💙🇨🇦 𝙈𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙨 𝙅𝙖𝙧𝙫™️🎹 Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🏴🦋🦋
5 days ago
🇨🇦🇨🇦Best thing’s about Mark Carney. He answers the presses questions without blaming his predecessor. *see Trump Biden* He has a plan moving forward regardless Trumps threats. He’s easy to understand as he speaks English. He doesn’t post memes of him raining shit on our people. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Peter Jukes
4 days ago
As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?
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Terre-Strial
5 days ago
“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦
4 days ago
"It's the opportunity to have a rules-based trading bloc of 1.5 billion people with complementary economies," says PM Carney when asked about reports that he is leading talks between the European Union and a 12-nation Indo-Pacific bloc to create a new trading alliance.
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Anne Applebaum
4 days ago
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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George Takei
5 days ago
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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Anne Applebaum
5 days ago
From 2017
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Let me count the days …
5 days ago
Day 2208 of
#Brexit
: “The one thing that Donald Trump has done that I deeply appreciate, and he has done it almost single-handedly, is to unify Europe in a profound and consequential way and I applaud Donald Trump for making that happen.” - Gavin Newsom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Republicans and Democrats unite to condemn Trump’s attacks on allies
US politicians break rank at Munich Security Conference to hit out at ‘destructive’ president and urge Europe to stand up to Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/republicans-and-democrats-unite-to-condemn-trumps-attacks-on-allies
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Land of the Free becomes more a lie each and every day.
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Scott Horton
6 days ago
US job creation.
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European Movement UK
6 days ago
The Prime Minister is right, we must curb our dependence on the US and look to our European neighbours for our security. Now, he must take action to ensure closer cooperation, including an Administrative Arrangement with the European Defence Agency.
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Joris Luyendijk
6 days ago
It's almost as if the Swedes don't read Paul Krugman or Wolfgang Münchau. (I'm old enough to remember Anglophone commentators in 2011 giving the euro "another three months at most"... for years and years.)
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Paul Metz
8 days ago
Ja, tot het zgn neoliberale kapitalisme hier een eind aan maakte. Dit wordt te weinig door economen en politicologen geanalyseerd. We hàdden veel beter bestuur dan nu. Kom op, vertel ook deze waarheid, wetenschappers !
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Gerrit Hiemstra🐇
8 days ago
Wat een belachelijk en
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artikel! Wie de moeite neemt de wetenschappelijke publicatie waarnaar verwezen wordt, er op na te lezen, trekt een hele andere conclusie. Uit dat artikel blijkt dat er helemaal geen sprake is van een duidelijke linkse dominantie op de universiteiten! 1/4
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KDaver
16 days ago
Dankzij het boek van deze twee geweldige vrouwen wist ik eindelijk te stoppen met mijn achterlijke zelfvernietiging. Deze vrouwen verdienen standbeelden. Veel. Heel veel standbeelden.
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Jacob Öberg
16 days ago
🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro
#Sanchez
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#migrants
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Steve Peers
16 days ago
Reminder: this is the same outfit that expels and deports people for criticising a foreign government
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Mike Masnick
17 days ago
For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
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Maria Popova
22 days ago
A reminder that those who took for granted that Trump victory would be the end of Ukraine were wrong. Ukraine continues to hold Ru off despite the fact that Trump ended US aid. Ukraine has innovated and developed its military capacity, Europe has stepped up, and Ru is weaker than many assume.
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Brent Toderian
27 days ago
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/
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Anders Puck Nielsen
26 days ago
France to ban officials from using American video conference tools including Zoom and Teams.
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France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams
The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-ban-officials-us-video-tools-zoom-teams-visio/
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Nick Lloyd
25 days ago
El Greco"a dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.
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Europa Draait Door
26 days ago
‘We zijn mentaal gekoloniseerd geraakt,’ zegt journalist en schrijver Joris Luyendijk over Europa. Met 500 miljoen inwoners, een enorme economie, eigen scheepsvaartindustrie en topuniversiteiten zouden we alles in huis moeten hebben. Toch blijven we onszelf wijsmaken dat we klein zijn.
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Bram van Gendt
26 days ago
Barbara Kathmann staat op mijn lijstje van top 10 meest waardevolle Kamerleden. Heel goed van al die kiezers die via NerdVote haar met voorkeursstemmen in de Kamer hebben geloodst. De volgende keer stap ik denk ik ook over van “stem op een vrouw” naar “NerdVote”.
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Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026
27 days ago
Today, the Council formally adopted the regulation on phasing out Russian imports of both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the EU. A key milestone in delivering the
#REPowerEU
objective of ending the EU’s reliance on Russian energy. Read more here:
link.berry.social/press-releas...
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Rick
27 days ago
This is brilliant but two killer lines in it: “Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.” “The scriptures you love weren’t written to keep things calm. They were written to set things right.” Liberation Theology.
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DER SPIEGEL
28 days ago
Volkswagen will nur dann erneut in den Vereinigten Staaten investieren, wenn die Zölle sinken. Konzernchef Oliver Blume hält Projekte sonst nicht für finanzierbar. Das gelte auch für das geplante Audi-Werk.
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VW-Chef Blume knüpft Investitionen an Entlastung bei Zöllen
Volkswagen will nur dann erneut in den Vereinigten Staaten investieren, wenn die Zölle sinken. Konzernchef Oliver Blume hält Projekte sonst nicht für finanzierbar. Das gelte auch für das geplante Audi-Werk.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/vw-chef-blume-knuepft-investitionen-an-entlastung-bei-zoellen-a-85a1e3ef-6a66-4f3f-9c7a-a736ef1399b6?sara_ref=re-so-bluesky-rss#ref=rss
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com
28 days ago
This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented.
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
29 days ago
Trump’s back to threatening 100% tariffs on Canada this morning, wow I can’t imagine why the Canadians now see the Chinese as a more reliable trade partner
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Matt Novak
30 days ago
This is so fucking haunting.
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Anders Östlund
about 1 month ago
It was impossible to seize Russian tankers until it all of a sudden wasn't. Yet another proof that when leaders refer to international laws and conventions, as they long did regarding the tankers, it's usually complete nonsense. What matters is political will.
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Support the people of Greenland:
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Solidair met Groenland!
Groenland staat tegenover een pestkop. Samen maken we dit de grootste solidariteitscampagne ooit -- en staan we op tegen Trumps intimidatie.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/nl/stand_with_greenland_rb/?copy&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=56684&share_location=post_action
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Minna Ålander 🌻
about 1 month ago
”European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now.”
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‘Our American Dream is dead’: EU concedes Trump is not on its side
The crisis summit in Brussels goes ahead despite U.S. president’s about-face on Greenland tariff threats.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-donald-trump-greenland-summit-davos-relief/
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SpinningHugo
about 1 month ago
If you wanted the British to be unwilling to send 457 servicemen to their deaths the next time the US invokes art 5 of NATO, this would be the way.
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Richard Corbett
about 1 month ago
Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.
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Annie Kelly
about 1 month ago
I'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.
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Anton Gerashchenko
about 1 month ago
German Chancellor Merz: We have entered a time of great power politics. This new world of great powers is being built on power, on strength, and when it comes to it, on force. It's not a cozy place.
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Nutwerk🔻
about 1 month ago
SS | ICE
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Jeroen 🇪🇺🇺🇦
about 1 month ago
Sta je dan, in je outfit alsof je de grootste terrorist in Irak gaat aanvallen. Met een geweer die ontworpen is voor de heftigste omstandigheden. Sta je een kindje van 5 aan te houden, omdat hij een andere huidskleur heeft dan jij. 😵💫
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Susan McPherson
about 1 month ago
“Our friends and allies must stop indulging, enabling, and submitting to America’s president. Only forthright resistance and tough love will get us out of our downward spiral.” ~
@larrydiamond.bsky.social
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@nickkristof.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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Opinion | The American Threat: Three Words I Never Imagined Typing
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/trump-europe-greenland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ulrike Franke
about 1 month ago
“This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.” Very strong bit in a strong speech. (Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister at Davos)
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Claes de Vreese
about 1 month ago
🚨 Just in: First reponse from Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen to the announced ‘framework of a deal’ Ready to have a dialogue about security in the region. Ready to talk politics, security, economics. “But we can not negotiate about our sovereignty”
stm.dk/presse/press...
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Udtalelse fra statsminister Mette Frederiksen 22. januar 2026
https://stm.dk/presse/pressemeddelelser/udtalelse-fra-statsminister-mette-frederiksen-22-januar-2026/
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Any country which signs up is to be considered traitorous to the West.
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Peter Stefanovic
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: “We won’t be one of the signatories.. we do also have concerns about President Putin being part of something which is talking about peace” Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper tells
#BBCBreakfast
the UK won't be part of a US-proposed Gaza "Board of Peace"
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