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A Foreigner in Brussels

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Working with (but not for) the EU institutions. Policy, current affairs, governance, data. Private life: family, running, hiking.

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Marc Boorshtein @mlbiam.dev · 01/10/2026
Barbaric. Abolish the death penalty.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Drop the Grovel Clause! Stop the ritual self-abasement before thinking you have permission to speak. foreigninbrussels.substack.com/p/drop-the-g...
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
And the crazy thing is, the checkpoints are there for absolutely no reason 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Howard ✡🟦🎗 @howarda-atlaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow, what a prof in courage. She’s “not scared” to parrot the same line as every one of her celebrity buddies. So brave. Award her the medal of honor. Do you know what scary, Florence? Speaking up against lies and Jew hate knowing that doing so will get you harassed or even assaulted.
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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And this is why I won’t ever support Abdul el sayed 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Hundreds In midtown Manhattan.
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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also while you are at it please focus on what you are gonna do to stop the mass lynchings of Black Americans as well Black and Jewish people being targeted right at home but all of you are using a region most of you have never been to as a cudgel to justify bigotry and enable it further
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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another Black body found hanging from a tree which official is calling it a suicide. These TREE-HANGING are not suicide. #BlackAmericaIsUnderAttack.🙏🙏 www.washingtoninformer.com/pgpd-investi...
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Hanging Body Found in Upper Marlboro Prompts Community Concern
Authorities investigate the death of a man found hanging in Westphalia. Community leaders promise transparency and a thorough probe.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can’t believe how little media coverage any of this is getting. Russia is escalating across Europe, Poland is warning of possible Russian strikes on NATO countries, and Lithuania is preparing evacuation routes in the event of a military attack. You wouldn’t know it from our media
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Lithuania Prepares Evacuation Route to Poland in Case of Russian Attack
With warnings growing that Russia could launch a military attack against NATO countries, Lithuania and Poland are getting ready.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Just four and a half years ago, various voices were warning that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine, and most of the West paid very little attention...
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
I take no pleasure in the decline of the Church of England, nor in seeing its Primate take a lead role in the self-abasement of the West, but I do enjoy watching THIS badly misplaced and in fact utterly preposterous officeholder embarrass herself before the world.
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Thos Swans @thosswans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Leftists repositioning their forces from defending Graham Platner (and his Nazi tat) to Macklemore (and his antisemitic costume)
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Vintage Military Parade Marching
ALT: Vintage Military Parade Marching
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Couldn't vote for the Black lady, eh America?
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
It's really true. 👇 I have my issues with Obama's foreign policy, but what Candy Love says here is 100% true. Every word.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, he'll be attacked either way, and yes, most of it is bullshit because in bad faith. But it *could* (at least theoretically) be in good faith, too. He opened himself up to it by giving off too many signals that raise suspicions about what he really thinks and feels. This is what then results.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
Here is Amos Oz in 1982, paraphrasing one of his interviewees (unnamed) somewhere in Israel (unspecified). The interlocutor is speaking sarcastically, obviously. I just happened to be re-reading this yesterday, and was bowled over that this was written basically two generations ago.
"And there's one more thing, which is maybe even more important than all the rest. The sweetest fruit of this juicy war in Lebanon is that now it's not just Israel they hate. Now, thanks to us, they hate all those high-falutin little k*kes in Paris, London, New York, Frankfurt, Montreal, in their ratholes all over. They finally hate all the nice Zhids, too, the ones who keep shouting that they're different, not like those Israeli hoodlums, that they're a completely different kind of Jew, clean and decent. Like the assimilated Jew in Vienna and Berlin fifty years ago who begged the anti-Semites not to confuse him with the screaming, stinking Ostjude who sneaked into the civilized German neighborhood straight from some filthy ghetto in Poland or the Ukraine. It won't do those clean Zhids any good, just like it didn't do them any good in Vienna and Berlin. They can shout till they're blue in the face that they condemn Israel, that they're the good guys who wouldn't and couldn't hurt a fly, that they'd always prefer to be slaughtered than to fight, that they've taken it upon themselves to preach Christianity to the gentiles and to teach them how to turn the other cheek. But it won't do them any good."
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
Mississippi. Hasn't changed. Always was illiterate white trash. Always will be.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
It could be racism. It could also be concern about cultural fit. Or it could be both. I think it's probably both. In any case, those are not the key worries about Reform. Concern about cultural fit is valid. Racism is ordinary. The key worry about Reform is its weak commitment to liberal democracy.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
Or: Portugal has passed a "burka law" banning face coverings in public. Supporters say it protects women's rights, liberal values, and democracy.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
I wonder who these people are. Would they vote for antizionist DSA types? Are they dignified Jews or I'm-a-good-Jew Jews?
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026
I like Kamala but - not that it matters - but for some reason I find her husband super off-putting. Am I all alone out here with that...?
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026
The white privileged cosplay-communist progressive DSA types who are currently eating the Democratic Party alive are going to leave Black people and Jews standing - hopefully together - as the democratic core of America, the last bulwark against both ends of the horseshoe.
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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@icookfood2023.bsky.social Thanks for pointing this out www.instagram.com/p/DcRbHcVgN9... Thread 🧵 1/10
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JStar @jstar2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🎯 The mere existence of Israel is an insult to God in the eyes of Islamists. The mere existence of Israel is an insult to communists who demand uniformity.
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Freddie Mercury's Pajamas @libbityboo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What a fucking disaster & WHY are we all having to do this shit again?? Because white people wanna be white more than they want food without glass in it & a bunch of undercover republicans cosplaying communists convinced you morons that eating glass would save Gaza.
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Man's Deep Sigh and Head Shake
ALT: Man's Deep Sigh and Head Shake
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Side-Eye Pinkie Pie Read Project 2025 - Did You? @nypoliticalmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Doris Miller - Cook Petty Officer Third Class KIA 24 Nov 1943 aboard the USS Liscome Bay off the Makin Atoll when it as struck by a Japanese submarine. You have a blue check mark. You have more than enough space to "say" his damn name.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
He forgot to add: "... and that's the honest difference that quietly matters"
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Nothing went wrong. That's today's form of anti-Jewish hatred, namely antizionism, going according to plan.
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Carol @arumplebuttercup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
😂😂😂😂 Who did this? 👇
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
Jew-hate is not a religion-based phenomenon.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Verified this. We could remove "reportedly". Sayed is certainly a hypocrite, probably a Jew-hater, and plausibly an Islamist.
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A lot of y'all are showing your asses on social media. Please take woke, BLM, Good Trouble etc. out of your bios. Black folks are being found hanging from trees, while you ignore it, and fall for 'bash Democrats' voter suppression tactics, as usual. Don't think we don't see you. We SEE you.
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Regine Hunter's Sassy Dance
Alt: Regine Hunter's Sassy sideeye Dance
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My God😭
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Gingit @virgosprincess.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Would this be a threat?! @moderation.bsky.app
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
So many responses to the Arday tragedy fail to see that it can all be true: - Arday was a fraud. - The unis who embraced him were pursuing a certain agenda with lazy and superficial methods. - The press pile-on was vicious and racist, and, like the unis, agenda-driven. No contradictions.
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Deeply disturbing. A Gazan American authorized for a legitimate event was reported, harassed, and detained by Norwegian authorities, most likely as a result of false reports from pro-Hamas agitators. Norway calls itself pro-democracy. Erasure of freedom of speech isn’t pro-democracy.
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Watch.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026
There he is again, taking every opportunity to reduce Jews to a "religion". Even those not familiar with the language of peoplehood usually say "community" or "identity", but he knowingly and with intent says "religion". 1/2
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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There is nothing hot about this guy If that’s why you like him I question your judgement
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
entryism
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Meet Farah Ahmed, Jason Arday’s colleague
After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University. We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, ...
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Joseph In THEE OC 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 @ocjoseph424.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Yes, you need academic freedom of speech, but the flip side of academic freedom of speech is academic integrity. And we have far too many faculty who abuse their classrooms as bully pulpits in order to promote the big lie." -Dr. Rachel Fish
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Spot on. (Anf it's an example of Blueskyism. There was a moment a few months ago when, to be one of the cool kids, you had to be seen scornfully deriding the idea of Blueskyism, and it was absolutely de rigueur to be part of that pile-on. It's such a cultish culture here and not unlike old Twitter.)
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Did the news media do enough to prominently point out in headlines that Donald Trump’s anti-vaccine move was in contradiction to established science?" From @status.news
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
@kbennhold.bsky.social and the @nytimes.com complaining about how hard it is to do journalism may explain the National-Enquirer-style stories about dogs raping Palestinians...
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you campaign with a Republican who crossed party lines to try to save our democracy, @aoc.bsky.social will complain about that. If you reach out to an antisemitic misogynist who said America deserved 9/11 & that he wants capitalist blood to run in the streets, she’ll cheer you on.
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A Foreigner in Brussels @afib.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
We need to develop new habits, tribe.
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