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André Kühnlenz @keinewunder.de · 27/07/2025

Der Grund, warum US-Statistiker die Inflation zu einem Drittel schätzen müssen, von @benbawan.bsky.social... Passt zum Warnruf von @bachmannrudi.bsky.social bei uns im FuW-Interview (ohne Abo): «Wir können uns nicht sicher sein, ob Trump im Zweifel Statistiken erfindet» www.fuw.ch/ruediger-bac...

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Andrew Parsonson @andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

OLM has secured approval to begin propulsion tests at a military site in Sardinia, aiming to launch the student-built Starlight rocket in 2026. europeanspaceflight.com/olm-plans-to...

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OLM Plans to Offer Commercial Launch Services from Sardinia - European Spaceflight

OLM has secured approval to begin propulsion tests at a military site in Sardinia, aiming to launch the student-built Starlight rocket in 2026.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/06/2025

Tesla’s shares dropped 14% on Thursday in New York, the stock’s biggest decline since March 10, as Elon Musk and Donald Trump feud devolved into a public war. The rout erased about $150 billion from the electric-vehicle maker’s market value

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

He was a terrible, terrible president in so many ways. Yet this one move on Africa that almost seems like footnote - PEPFAR - is thought to have saved up to 25 million lives, a truly incredible number.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Bush has one of the most complex legacies out there. He started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which was horrible on a humanitarian level. He blew out the deficit. He mishandled Katrina. And institutional deterioration continued. Yet he also started a massive anti-aids program in Africa.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 28/05/2025

Interesting results from latest Eurobarometer survey. 52% of 🇪🇺citizens trust the EU, compared to 37% who trust their national government. 62% say they're optimistic about the EU's future, compared to 38% of Americans optimistic for 🇺🇸future (in 2023). europa.eu/eurobaromete...

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Merz announced all range restrictions on military aid to Ukraine are lifted. 🇺🇦 can hit any military target in Russia with 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪 long-range missiles. While not a Taurus confirmation, this announcement would be quite pointless coming from a 🇩🇪 chancellor if 🇩🇪 wasn’t going to send long-range missiles 👀

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

APOLLO: “It’s been nearly two weeks since the China/US trade deal, but container traffic from China to the US hasn’t shown a strong rebound. .. Are 30% tariffs on China still too high? Or are US companies simply waiting to see if tariffs will drop further before ramping up shipments?”

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Then.... now.

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Hanno Klausmeier @hannofk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Neue Batterien von CATL. Insbesondere die Salzbatterie (Natrium) finde ich besonders interessant. 500 km (chinesische) Reichweite und 12 Minuten Laden bei einem sehr wettbewerbsfaehigem Preis. Alle Achtung! energyload.eu/stromspeiche...

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Neue Akkus von CATL für bis zu 1.500 km Reichweite | Energyload

CATL revolutioniert E-Mobilität: 1.500km-Akku, 5 Min. Laden für 500+ km & robuste Natrium-Batterie. Produktion in Deutschland.

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Owl Daily @owldaily.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Wings like whispers, eyes like fire. Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

That's like the EU’s core creed.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 22/05/2025

What does the GOP Megabill passed by the House this morning mean for the US energy transition, energy prices, emissions and the economy? REPEAT Project's new analysis has you covered. Read the new report or listen to our recent SHIFT KEY episode diving into the details. 🔗 ⤵️ 🔌💡

Cover of new REPEAT Project report, "A Fork In The Road: Impacts of Federal Policy Repeal On The U.S. Energy Transition."

Summary
Full repeal of current federal energy and climate policies would:
• Increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 0.5 billion metric tons per year in 2030 and more than 1 billion
metric tons per year in 2035.
• Raise U.S. household and business energy expenditures by $25 billion annually in 2030 and over $50 billion
in 2035.
• Increase average U.S. household energy costs by roughly $100 to $160 per household per year in 2030 and roughly
$270 to $415 per household per year in 2035.
• Reduces cumulative capital investment in U.S. electricity and clean fuels production by $1 trillion from 2025-2035.
• Imperil a total of $522 billion in announced but pending investments in U.S. clean energy supply and manufacturing.
• Reduce annual sales of electric vehicles by roughly 40% in 2030 and end America’s battery manufacturing boom.
• Substantially slow electricity capacity additions, raising national average retail electricity rates and monthly
household electricity bills by about 9% in 2030 — and as much as 17% in some states (including TX, OK and PA).
• Kill off the nascent clean hydrogen, CO2 management, and nuclear power sectors.

Graphic showing historical and modeled US greenhouse gas emissions, with substantial increase if current federal policies are repealed.

Graphic showing modeled average household US energy costs, with substantial increase if current federal policies are repealed.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

***LEGALLY BLONDE LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES*** This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'Legally Blonde' through the lens of English and Welsh law. Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.

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a woman wearing glasses and a suit and tie is smiling and saying law school .

ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a suit and tie is smiling and saying law school .

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.”

The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration:
• February: 53.8% (7 out of 13)
• March: 74.3% (26 out of 35)
• April: 76.1% (51 out of 67)
• May: 96.3% (26 out of 27)

The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president:
• Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36)
• Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92)

Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL
Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 23/05/2025

- EU-US trade balance is much more... balanced when including services trade - US records trade deficit with the EU for goods, but it posts a huge surplus for services - Data highlight EU leverage in services trade through steps targeting access of US tech platforms to EU market [9/10]

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

How Europe should respond to the erosion of the dollar’s status - FT column by London Business School professor of economics @helene-rey.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/5bc0...

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How Europe should respond to the erosion of the dollar’s status

Greater internationalisation of the euro requires a more resilient financial system for the region

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My work here is done. Peace be with you.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/05/2025

The galaxy far, far away is huge. In 3 BBY (3 years before the Battle of Yavin), the same year as this week's Andor story arc, Leia became Princess of Alderaan, before delivering Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvettes to a Rebel faction. Maul is alive. Ahsoka meets Vader. The TIE Interceptor appears.

Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvettes in Rebels

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Have you sailed "all the seven seas"? Well, what are the seven seas?

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Absolutely. The corruption is what fundamentally explains why state police and local police is just so much less *professional* - and that's the core thing. It also shows up in all sorts of statistics on how much training they get, how recruitment works etc.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

When comparing it to Europe, it's actually easier to think of it as if the EU had a sort of federal police force for high-profile cases (FBI), plus some guys for intelligence (CIA) but all the actual policing would still happen within states, by their national police.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

That's also behind lots of Federal vs states historical conflicts and fights, because often state law enforcement (be it police or national guard or what have you) would not enact stuff that was decided on the federal level - so the “feds” had to be sent in.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Europe uses to have thousands of different types of regional and local law enforcement. But they were all reformed away over centuries, as states and nations consolidated their monopoly of violence. Not so in the US.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In Europe, the police formed in a totally different way. It's usually mit the latest installment of local law enforcement or militias but on the contrary, a force that was established by states from above and become more professional and powerful over time.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This may seem flippant, but it's really not. There's a reason the FBI and the CIA are so different - and indeed (usually) very professional. Because they were founded as professional national institutions. Local and state police in the US usually wasn't in the same way.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There's a historical reason for that. US police force grew out of local law enforcement, which of course always has had deep and abiding ties to all sorts of local political parties, strongmen, companies and not least, in the south, slave holders and local militias.

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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In der Schweiz wurden jetzt erstmalig Solaranlagen auf Gleise verlegt. 3 Jahre wird die Technik jetzt getestet, um bei Erfolg vllt. auf die 5000km Schienen auszuweiten. Ca. 250.000 Haushalte kann man so mit PV-Strom versorgen. Ein tolles Projekt das hoffentl. auch in 🇩🇪 großflächig zum Einsatz kommt❤️

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I know the collapse in US trade thing is today's story, but let's not lose sight of shipping volumes running well ahead of last year's levels through March, suggesting a whole lotta stockpiling going on.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 29/04/2025

To state the obvious: It is hard to conduct effective foreign policy when being seen as too aligned with you represents a potential 25+ point electoral liability for prospective partners.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Kraft Heinz CEO: “.. consumer sentiment has reached its second lowest point in the last seventy years" 🇺🇸 $KHC thetranscript.substack.com/subscribe

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 29/04/2025

This is exactly right, and it's also playing out with the youngest voting cohort just as hard (albeit for different reasons). You can't just nuke Shein and Temu as well as the business model for every influencer under the sun and expect the broccoli hairs to keep swinging your way.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The US goods trade deficit jumped to another record high in the preliminary March data released today, beating the previous record high set in January—there was a massive rush to import consumer goods before more tariffs went in place.

a graph of the US goods trade deficit, which jumps in early 2025

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 29/04/2025

Would have thought the White House would be excited to show Americans how much money foreigners are paying them... ... unless that's not actually how tariffs work after all 🤔

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"Big Tech companies may be about to discover that not only are they never going to have access to the Chinese market but they are increasingly persona non grata in European markets, too." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

How Silicon Valley got entangled in geopolitics—and lost.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

‼️🇩🇪🇪🇺 Merz at @eppgroup.bsky.social Congress places a strong emphasis on Europe “My government will be one of the strongest supporters of Europe that you have ever seen from Germany..”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Agreed. What's in a deal? Simply what Trump decides. Can be all symbolism, too.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/04/2025

I'd caution against pushing this message too hard. Fundementally these deals are just extortion payments, and Trump sets the ransom. If he decides he wants the optics of lots of "deals" more than he cares about the substance of what's in them, he'll have no problem signing many "deals" quickly.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

In any case, insgesamt fällt es uns allen bei der Migration bis heute extrem schwer, einen halbwegs offenen Diskurs zu führen oder auch die andere(n) Seite(n) echt in ihrer Auffassung zu verstehen. Da bleibt dann oft nur Streit und Polarisierung. Schade, denn da ginge so viel mehr.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Wo immer so etwas doch möglich ist - Au-Pair, Studierende, kleine Austauschprogramme, Erntehelfer usw. - ist das sehr populär. Und again, nicht alle, die gerne einmal in Europa leben, arbeiten oder studieren wollen deshalb unbedingt für immer hier bleiben.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Es ist auch aus linker Sicht oft etwas einseitig zu meinen, jeder der eine Zeit lang in Europa lebt oder arbeitet wolle immer für ewig bleiben. Viele würden auch gerne zwischen Heimatland und Europa „pendeln“ (über längere Zeiträume), dürfen aber oft nicht.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Ich bin stark dafür, dass es für jeden und jede, die hier in Europa ihr Leben langfristig aufbauen wollen eine gute Bleibeperspektive geben sollte. Ich bin auch dafür, dass es für deutlich mehr Menschen darüber hinaus auch zeitbegrenzte Optionen geben soll, so sie das wollen.

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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦 @benbawan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Und dass man jetzt umgekehrt - auch auf progressiver Seite - keinerlei Art der zeitbegrenzten Austauschprogramme mehr in Betracht zieht sondern dauerhafte Migration oft quasi als einzige Variante ist auch kurzsichtig.

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