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It's usually the worst type of regimes that condemn the awarding of a Nobel Prize. Just saying.

🇩🇪 Berlin! Our book talk will be part of Berlin Freedom Week, the capital's inaugural annual forum to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall and its lessons for today. What an honor! Join @badiucao.bsky.social and I on Monday, November 10th at 7 PM! 🔗 Grab your tickets: li-be.de/programm/bad...

🇻🇪 Can't believe I have to say this, but just because Trump also opposes Maduro's regime does not mean there's an issue with María Corina Machado. The MAGA administration's hostility to Caracas should not take away from the very real authoritarianism Venezuelans are fighting.

#Israel #Gaza: Um den 20-Punkte-Plan von US-Präsident Trump zum Erfolg zu führen und langfristig Sicherheit und Stabilität zu gewährleisten, müssen die europäischen Staaten am Ball bleiben. Mein Kollege Bauke Baumann heute im ORF: on.orf.at/video/142943...

8 von 16 Bundesministerien sind inzwischen auf @bsky.app .. allerdings noch nicht alle aktiv.

Folks, Brent crude seems to be in free fall today. If it goes much lower and stays there, the Russian economy will really enter the death zone.

A building in my neighborhood in Kyiv has been damaged this night... I can't find words

NEW: North Korean scam workers now appear to have moved from freelance IT work to designing buildings for customers in the US. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/north-...

Day 1324 of my 3 day war. I asked my generals how we will deal with Tomahawk missiles if we can’t even stop Ukrainian drones. They looked nervously at the window. I remain a master strategist.

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The Nobel Peace Prize for María Corina Machado 🇻🇪 The @EPPGroup supported her from the very beginning, leading the effort to award her the Sakharov Prize 2024. Today, the world recognises María Corina’s courage and tireless fight for a free and democratic Venezuela.

We are working - and it’s now also reported on #bluesky @eppgroup.bsky.social

Wir feiern 25 Jahre Städtepartnerschaft mit Windhoek! Anlässlich des Jubiläums reist der Regierende Bürgermeister @kaiwegner.bsky.social gemeinsam mit Vertretern aus Kultur und Wirtschaft vom 15.-18.10. nach Windhoek. Das Motto der Reise: „Gemeinsam erinnern. Gemeinsam erleben. Gemeinsam gestalten.“

San Marino feiert am 3 September seinen Unabhängikeitstag. OK - soweit nicht besonderes... aber von wem? Ah vom Römischen Kaiserreich... im Jahr 301.

As the next step, could Maria Corina Machado maybe also become President of the United States?

As already known since the 9th of September, Rheinmetall will deliver Skyranger 35 SPAAGs mounted on the Leopard 1 chassis to #Ukraine. The contract is worth a three-digit million sum and is “paid for” by an unnamed EU country through the windfall profits from frozen Russian assets.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while. Congrats @deutschebahn.com ! And yes Germans do a sense of humour as well. I guess things need to go to shit before you discover it. 😉

Ab heute Nachmittag 500 Prozent US-Zölle auf Waren aus Venezuela. #Friedensnobelpreis

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado. A rightful winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Useful ideas for countering Russia in this May 2025 EUISS report. Has lots of good info graphs, too!

Die neue Staffel der traurigen Serie "massive russische Angriffe auf ukrainische Energieanlagen" hat pünktlich zum Jahrestag des ersten solchen Angriffs vom 10.10.2022 begonnen. Das wird ein schwerer Winter und das wussten alle. Nun ist neben der Flugabwehr wieder vor allem das Durchhalten gefragt.

Noch schneller als an die verbalen Ausfälle der Rechtspopulisten werden wir uns an die Flut von KI-Müll als politisches Kommunikations- und Druckmittel gewöhnen. www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

More and more EU member state institutions are joining bluesky, here 'missions to the UN'.

Unfortunately, after today's airstrike, there are emergency power outages in almost all regions of eastern Ukraine. Fortunately, Naftogaz is not reporting any gas supply disruptions. Lt. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the office for combating disinformation:

The Russian military is not stupid: it "has become a military that is capable of both evolving during this war and readying itself for future, high-tech conflicts." They are deadly serious about fighting in Ukraine and beyond. We should be too.

I have updated the infographic of Russian equipment losses provided by @valka_online in the Oryx loss list article

Die Datenanalyse zu den RU Personalverlusten 1. 350T-485T Gefallenene, wahrscheinlich etwa 450T 2. Die UA Angaben (bisher 1,115 Mio RU Verluste - Gefallene+Verwundete) sind wohl zutreffend threadreaderapp.com/thread/19759...

Proud that our investigation — about how people are recruited for "pro-Russian" sabotage on Telegram — has been short-listed for the 2025 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism! www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

What I find most telling is that Trump said to Stubb: „Maybe you should throw 'em out of NATO frankly.“ He says YOU, not WE. And that is not a coincidence. Trumps talks about NATO as a third party all the time. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Nice info graph of #hybrid attacks on Europe by The Economist. www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Bilder der Geiseln werden warten müssen – wahrscheinlich nach dem Martyrium ganz in deren Sinn. „The exchange of hostages and prisoners will be done according to the mechanism agreed upon through the mediators & through the ICRC without any public ceremonies or media coverage.“ via Gili Cohen auf X

Ab nächster Woche startet @montyo.bsky.social und meine Lesereise mit „Juden auf dem Platz, Juden auf den Rängen”. Kommt rum!

❗️India has become one of the key suppliers of fuel additives that Russia uses to support its military and civil aviation. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/indi...

We're delighted to announce @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA Group, as a speaker for Eurosky Live in Berlin this November. #EuroskyLive #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live

I don't know how much you are following Russian opposition internal fighting but they are at it again. Here are two pieces about the general attitudes towards "Team Navalny" and "Team Khodorkovsky" The bottom line is - event their followers are tired of this infighting 1/2

The "pivot to The Gambia" of the shadow fleet is increasing day by day. But also "pivot to Sierra Leone". Initially, I thought this was "just" another case of false flagging, unbeknown to the registry. But something in common about both these nations, causes me to think, that it's not the case.

Russland will die Menschen in Kyjiw und der gesamten Ukraine in Dunkelheit und Kälte bomben. Nicht zusehen und abwarten sondern Taurus liefern, Schattenflotte stoppen, Visa für Russen canceln, jetzt!

Die #Bundeswehr plant eine massive Verstärkung bei der Drohnenabwehr. Bundesregierung will noch in diesem Jahr über 600 Flugabwehrpanzer Skyranger 30 (#SHORAD, 3km Reichweite, 30mm Kanone mit AirBurst Munition auf Boxer Radpanzer) beim Rüstungskonzern #Rheinmetall bestellen. www.n-tv.de/26087099

#IRGCTerrorists cc @iraninternational.bsky.social

"Wir haben dieses Phänomen der hybriden Kriegsführung. Cyberangriffe, Desinformationskampagnen: Viel lässt sich ganz klar nach Moskau zurückverfolgen. Es ist kein Krieg, aber es ist nicht mehr der Frieden, den wir noch aus den 90ern kennen." @rikefranke.bsky.social bei #Lanz

Not sure what the context is, but a good point – if someone is still hanging out on Twitter a lot, the subset of their community that is still posting and commenting there is likely much more statistically skewed to the right than it was a few years ago, and people might not be fully aware of it…

Iran finds itself in a quagmire, facing few good options. But what ARE its options? With Graeme Wood, we looked at four. Read it all here!

Während der Staat beim Klimaschutz versagt, liefert der Markt ab. Der Kapitalismus ist der beste Freund, den der Klimaschutz noch hat. Degrowth ist ein Irrweg. www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...

High-ranking Iranian political source confirms that Putin has conveyed Israeli signal that it does not seek renewed confrontation with Iran. According to the source, Netanyahu relayed message to Putin in a phone call on Monday. t.co/yfqHXFwC1z

💬 Conflicts are not only about hard, kinetic force. They also involve Russian disinformation campaigns. Russians are fighting for our minds and want to break our will to resist. Local communities must stand guard over the truth. | Deputy PM @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

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I am pleading with the world’s opinion columnists, with tears in my eyes, to please learn the difference between ammo depot and residential building