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Carolin Lotter

@carolotter.bsky.social
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U.S. and U.K. politics junkie. Formerly Bloomberg TV producer (a long time ago).

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Moronic BBC presenter saying “parties have an obligation to work with AFD“ whilst apparently unaware that 1, most ppl voted against AFD, 2, “obligation” works in both directions: AFD policies make them unacceptable to all mainstream parties, so they can’t get coalition partners. 
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 19/07/2026
Champions! Congratulations, Spain! Today, Europe celebrates with you 🇪🇸🇪🇺
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/07/2026
The dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park wowed Victorian Londoners and remained a beloved part of childhood in the city for generations. Delighted that these figures have been restored to their former glory and are no longer on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot of a BBC article featuring a picture of a dinosaur statue, which reads "Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs saved in restoration"
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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🦇 Michael (Spooky) Bell 🎃 @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As ever @stephenkb.bsky.social gets to the actual issue, past the noise. Well worth reading www.ft.com/content/aa94...
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What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 16/05/2026
The government isn't forcing churches and community centres and town halls across the country to fly the Ukrainian flag. People are doing it themselves because we see a battle and we know which side we are on. There are lots of ways in which Reform is wildly out of touch with Britain.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/04/2026
Priceless post from the official White House social media
Margo Martin
@MargoMartin47
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Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis!

The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22/03/2026
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Carolin Lotter @carolotter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Catches win matches! #ashes
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 15/10/2025
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.* * It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 08/09/2025
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ
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Carolin Lotter @carolotter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social this may explain some of Trump’s thinking.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Top trolling from the Polish Foreign Minister. It’s a pile-on.
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See, big man, politics is harder than you thought.
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@elon....09/03/20
Replying to@sikorskiradek
Be quiet, small man.
You pay a tiny fraction of the cost.
And there is no substitute for Starlink.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
Image from the Financial Times, placing Keir Starmer next to Enoch Powell.
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Carolin Lotter @carolotter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Exactly this..
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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A sad loss to the world of food and hospitality. This obit gives a good flavour of the man's great taste(s) and sense of humour. Richard Vines RIP www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...
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Richard Vines, celebrated restaurant critic, dies aged 71
Unusually for a critic, a role that naturally inspires enemies, Vines maintained friendly relationships with chefs and writers across the globe
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Considering imposing tariffs on the baby every time she refuses to nap
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
What do they put into the water in Whitehall that leads all governments to succumb to Brexity cod-Churchillian delusions about the special relationship and prostrate themselves before Washington? Besides, any deal the UK did agree would be calculated to split the West and so pure mischief by Trump
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 03/04/2025
unprecedented protests this morning on heard and macdonald islands, as the population rises up against trump imposition of 10% across the board tariffs.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn’t experienced in some 150 years—a kind of control that is ultimately incompatible with both democracy and prosperity.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s tariffs give him a new way to dole out reward and punishment
The president's latest power grab will devastate America's economy—and its democracy.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/04/2025
Denmark’s Maersk buys Panama Canal railway www.ft.com/content/cb460c62-b587-49…
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Denmark’s Maersk buys Panama Canal railway
Deal loosens US control of train link at a time when Trump is seeking to ‘take back’ trade waterway
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 01/04/2025
I see Zelenskyy has learned his lesson
man stood next to D Trump who is sat hunched at his desk. The man is wearing a garish costume and sunglasses.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13. Obviously the odds of Russia not compromising any device he would bring there are pretty slim.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 24/03/2025
To stop receiving military operational planning updates from the White House, reply UNSUBSCRIBE
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Big yellow bird sitting at a table with five people with computers: MSS
Officer
Pete
Hegseth
JD
Vance
Jeffrey Goldberg
GRU
Officer
Michae
Waltz
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One of the Five Eyes may not be as reliable as they were previously.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
For anyone who missed this very important news, Jennie the guide dog crossed the floor of the House of Commons yesterday to be stroked by Labour MPs She was then summoned by the Lib Dem Chief Whip for a very stern word
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A reminder to the British press: Donald Trump just says stuff. Reporting what he says as though it’s fact will inevitably make you look like an idiot. There’s not going to be a US/UK trade deal imminently and Trump really doesn’t care about the UK, even if he likes being flattered.
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Gabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/02/2025
I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Like other economists I'm being asked to comment on Trump tariffs. We should do so - it's our job. But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c26b...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sent by a friend from Zutphen.
Map of the North Sea and surrounding countries, headlined “Make Rotterdam GREAT again!”. The geographical names have all been changed, however. For example, the North Sea is called the “Golf van Rotterdam”.
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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Trump economy: inflation versus isolationism “It seems that promoting manufacturing and beating up US trade partners are goals that, for Trump, are a higher priority than the purchasing power of the working class.” www.ft.com/content/b3d3... via @financialtimes.com
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The Trump economy: inflation versus isolationism
Economists warn the wallets of the US working class could be hit by the new administration’s priorities
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Release a bunch of violent criminals. Then pull security from their most hated targets. This isn't subtle. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/...
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Trump has pulled Fauci’s security detail, source says | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN. It ...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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