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Cedric M. Koch

@ckcedric.bsky.social
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Political economist interested in globalisation & democracy. I work on european & international economic policy and the rise of populism. Author: 'The People' vs the Liberal International Order? (OUP 2024) Previously: @FESonline @WZB_Berlin @giz_gmbh

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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 17/12/2025
In der Debatte um den nächsten EU-Haushalt fordert die Bundesregierung Kürzungen. Das wäre gefährlich, denn Zukunftsinvestitionen sind dringend nötig, schreiben @ckcedric.bsky.social und Dominika Biegon.
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EU-Budget: Mehr, nicht weniger Investitionen sind nötig
In der Debatte um den nächsten EU-Haushalt fordert die Bundesregierung Kürzungen. Das wäre gefährlich, denn Zukunftsinvestitionen sind dringend nötig.
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IKL @ikml.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I read this, listened to it, then read it again. I very much hope that people are receptive to this message. I have not read a better case for what is needed to win elections again. I know that will take make conversations but this essay is an excellent place to start.
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Zusammen mit dem Monitoring-Bericht zur Energiewende hat Katherina Reiche in der letzten Woche einen Zehn-Punkte-Plan vorgestellt. Dieser weist sprachlich wie inhaltlich große Ähnlichkeiten zu einem Papier von RWE und Eon aus dem Frühjahr auf. Ein längerer Thread mit Links und Beispielen. (1/19)
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Dr. Ilke Toygür @ilketoygur.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Very well written piece by Thu Nguyen & Jannik Jansen. I cannot agree more. What European leaders call strategic pragmatism is costing the EU its dignity and agency. If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre
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Volker Quaschning @volkerquaschning.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Lars Klingbeil plant, relativ sicher kommende Milliarden-Strafen durch die EU für verfehlte #Klimaschutzziele künftig ausgerechnet durch Kürzungen beim #Klimaschutz zu bezahlen. Findet den Fehler. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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(S+) Lars Klingbeil: Experten warnen vor Klimafolgen seines Haushaltsentwurfs
Die Klimaexperten der Koalition sind sich diesmal einig: Ein Detail im Haushaltsentwurf könnte zu weniger Umweltschutz im Land führen. Das Finanzministerium von Vizekanzler Lars Klingbeil spielt auf Zeit.
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Achim Truger @achimtruger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Es wird ja gerade so dargestellt, als ob radikale Strukturreformen, aka Sozialabbau, Schwächung von Arbeitnehmerrechten und Gewerkschaften und staatliche Kürzungspolitik absolut unvermeidbar und sozusagen die letzte Patrone gegen die AfD wären. Das ist leider totaler Unsinn! Ein kleiner 🧵/1
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Stefan Niggemeier @niggi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Gestern hat Israel bei einem Angriff auf ein Krankenhaus in #Gaza 20 Menschen getötet, darunter 5 Journalisten. Das hier ist die komplette Berichterstattung darüber in den heutigen Print-Ausgaben von „Welt“ und „Bild“:
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New paper out! Together with colleagues from DGB, Franziska Korn and I analyse in it the EU and Germany's new International Partnership policy. Short thread with main messages below. 1/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
These recommendations matter today: The new "Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships" of the EU Commission provide a promising opportunity for reform. The new German government should use this opportunity & the EU budget negotiations this summer to advance & improve the partnership agenda. 6/6
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
3. To more convincingly implement the partnership approach requires a) more funding, b) greater willingness to integrate industrial policy into trade relations, c) protecting environmental and human rights in ways that limit costs and economic risks for partners. 5/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
2. Progressive partners welcome the new approach, but care mainly about their own dev strategies & have no tolerance for empty promises. In this age of geoeconomic competition and EU dependencies in key supply chains, we cannot afford to make lofty promises without following through. 4/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our main messages: 1. Partnership instruments remain legally weak, fragmented & underfunded. More powerful trade and investment agreements can contradict the new instruments and themselves lack partnership elements. 3/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We disentangle the different existing political instruments, collect and report perspectives from key progressive partners across three world regions, and develop recommendations to improve partnership policy especially in the green sector. 2/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New paper out! Together with colleagues from DGB, Franziska Korn and I analyse in it the EU and Germany's new International Partnership policy. Short thread with main messages below. 1/x
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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung @fesonline.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
💕 Deutschland und die #EU werben 🌍 um Handelspartner für die Versorgung mit u.a. kritischen Rohstoffen & nachhaltiger Energie. Doch ist der neue Ansatz für #Partnerschaftsabkommen auch attraktiv für Partnerländer? Unsere neue Studie mit dem #DGB gibt Antworten: 1/4 www.fes.de/themenportal...
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Studie: Die EU auf Partnersuche: Neuordnung von Welthandel und globalen Lieferketten
Sind Deutschland und die EU attraktiv für belastbare internationale Partnerschaften? Gemeinsam mit dem DGB geben wir in einer neuen Studie Antworten. Basierend auf Partnerperspektiven aus drei Weltreg...
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 31/03/2025
Reminder: Le Pen's trial is not a witch hunt, corrupt politicians are regularly condemned to ineligibility for public office in France, from all political parties. There are 103 pages on Wikipedia covering only the most significant ones: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%....
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Catégorie:Personnalité politique condamnée à une peine d'inéligibilité en France — Wikipédia
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Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Because it fears a change of the EU fiscal rules, the Commission is resorting to a very far-reaching interpretation of the rules to make room for much more defense spending. This is a shortsighted mistake because it risks accidentally killing the rules altogether at the worst moment. Here is why:
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Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Good outcome at the #EuCo on EU fiscal rules: National escape clause is branded as „immediate measure“ but the Commission is asked to explore further options (read: opening the rules). The insight seems to have kicked in that a prolonged use of the escape clause is probably not a good idea.
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European Council conclusions on European defence, 6 March 2025
On 6 March, the European Council adopted conclusions on European defence.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Advice from Canada
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Rather quick movement in German coalition scoping talks - likely on the question of a new special fund for defence as news from the US becomes more radical by the day:
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu was issued amongst others for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare. Last time the Netanyahu government disputed the amount of aid it allowed into Gaza. That does not seem to be the case now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#NoOtherLand
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/03/2025
The Soviet Union also used to falsify statistics
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André Kühnlenz @keinewunder.de · 03/03/2025
So funktioniert die Wiederaufrüstungsbank: An EU-Strukturen vorbei ohne Ungarn und Slowakei, aber mit UK und Norwegen... "Koalition der Willigen" zahlt zunächst 10% Eigenkapital ein, mit dem die Bank AAA-Anleihen begibt, dann verteilt und koordiniert sie die Mittelflüsse...
Modelled on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), it would be free of the baggage of procedures and constraints that hamper existing institutions.

All EU countries plus the UK and Norway would be invited to be shareholders. It would lend money for the purchase of military hardware, focusing first on ammunition, and for the financing of the investments required by the defence industry to increase production capacity.

It would be financed by the capital subscribed by the member countries (say €100bn) of which only 10 per cent would be called and paid in upfront. It would then be able to borrow the balance in the capital markets with a triple A rating, giving it €100bn lending power without significantly affecting the member countries’ own borrowing capacity.

Furthermore, it could be a catalyst for improving military procurement practices, which are currently plagued by parochial attitudes.
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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Der nach seiner Weltpremiere auf der Berlinale 2024 als vermeintlich antisemitisch gebrandmarkte Film "No Other Land" gewinnt einen Oscar für den besten Dokumentarfilm. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/m...
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‘No Other Land,’ Whose Politics Deterred Distributors, Wins Best Documentary
In their acceptance speeches, the Israeli and Palestinian co-directors called for “serious actions to stop the injustice.”
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Bobby Duffy @bobbyduffy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
There's no way "over half of Gen Z want a dictator" - our new study gets more like 6% This is vital to get right - we're sowing generational division, giving fake momentum to the sense that young people are rejecting democracy + missing the real message theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...
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Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe
Gen Z don’t hate democracy, they have a problem with the way it is being delivered.
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FiscalFuture @fiscalfuture.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Alle sprechen über die #Schuldenbremse. Klar ist - es braucht langfristig eine kluge Reform, um die Handlungsfähigkeit der Bundesrepublik sicherzustellen. Das @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social hat dazu einen Reformvorschlag für Bund und Länder geliefert. 🧵 (1/5)
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 26/02/2025
Democracy dies in full view at the hands of billionaires who have been allowed to accrue unthinkable wealth by the crumbling institutions we were told would protect us
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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ich habe die kleine Anfrage der Union für @taz.de länger eingeordnet. (Und bin dankbar, dass mir die Redaktion "kokaingetrieben" und "lauchig" nicht wegredigiert hat, im Gegenteil) taz.de/CDU-delegiti...
Wie kommt die Union auf diesen willkürlichen Mix aus Organisationen? Einige von ihnen wurden in den vergangenen Wochen im rechten Hetzportal „nius“ und dessen kokaingetriebenen Kampagnen an den Pranger gestellt. Und auch in der Springer-Presse: Um ihre Vorwürfe zu untermauern, referenziert die Union in der kleinen Anfrage einen an Lächerlichkeit kaum zu überbietenden „Welt“-Artikel, der den rechtsextremen Verschwörungsmythos eines „Deep State“ ausbreitet und unterstellt, NGOs in Deutschland seien ein „Staat im Staate“.

Dementsprechend absurd, sprachlich wie inhaltlich lauchig ist dann auch die kleine Anfrage geraten. Kleine Kostprobe, Frage 68 von 551 (ja, es sind wirklich 551): „Haben die Kampagnen des Vereins Omas gegen Rechts Deutschland e. V. nach Einschätzung der Bundesregierung direkte Auswirkungen auf Wahlergebnisse oder politische Entscheidungen?“

Na, was meinen Sie? Haben die Omas gegen Rechts an den Wahlurnen geschraubt? Hätte Friedrich Merz ohne die Omas eine absolute Mehrheit? Ist das Bundesinnenministerium von den Omas unterwandert? Oder vielleicht doch eher die BRD GmbH?Dass die Vorwürfe der Union so abstrus sind, ist kein Grund für Entwarnung, sondern ein zusätzliches Warnsignal. Der Union geht es offensichtlich nicht um Fakten, es geht ihr um rechten Kulturkampf. Die Anfrage soll einschüchtern.

In Berlin sehen wir, wohin das führt: Der schwarz-rote Senat kürzt derzeit in einem Affenzahn Kultur- und Sozialprojekte und zerstört jahrzehntelang gewachsene zivilgesellschaftliche Strukturen des Zusammenhalts.

Das wird die neue Koalition auf Bundesebene auch versuchen. Die CSU hat in ihrer „Bayern-Agenda“ zur Bundestagswahl bereits angekündigt, alle „Förderungen von Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen (NGOs) durch die Bundesregierung auf den Prüfstand stellen.“ Es dürfe keine „Finanzierung linker Vorfeldorganisationen durch Steuermittel“ geben.

Hätte die Ampel-Regierung wie versprochen das Gemeinnützigkeitsrecht reformiert, fiele ein solcher Angriff jetzt schwerer. Doch das Versagen der alten Koalition ist eine Vorlage für die neue.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Remarkable: Merz wants to discuss reforming debt brake in the *outgoing* Bundestag, where CDU/CSU+SPD+Greens still have over 2/3 of seats, before new Bundestag is constituted by 25 March. Greens already signalled willingness this morning.
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sogar 5, Mitte auch ;)
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Thorsten Faas @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 23/02/2025
"Kenia" hätte eine Mehrheit im Bundesrat, als einzige Koalition... @ansgarw.bsky.social
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The Left (Die Linke) receives a spectacular result among the very young German voters:
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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Neue Auswertung des ifo-Instituts: Mehr Ausländer erhöhen die Kriminalitätsrate nicht www.ifo.de/pressemittei...
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Europe, think twice 👇 whether this is the international order you want to be living in. If not, get your act together now.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org
Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If you are wondering how we got here - and what might be done to stop the far-right populist threat - my recently published book has some answers for you. It is now out in online format, available easily for those who have access to an OUP online subscription here: academic.oup.com/book/59292 6/x
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'The People' vs. the Liberal International Order?: Varieties of Populism and the International Politics of Democratic Legitimacy
Abstract. Why have populists been on the rise across liberal democracies since the 1980s? And, given their radical but diverse challenges of democracies an
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
And if you prefer to buy the analogue version, this discount code gives you 30% off! 7/7
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If you are wondering how we got here - and what might be done to stop the far-right populist threat - my recently published book has some answers for you. It is now out in online format, available easily for those who have access to an OUP online subscription here: academic.oup.com/book/59292 6/x
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'The People' vs. the Liberal International Order?: Varieties of Populism and the International Politics of Democratic Legitimacy
Abstract. Why have populists been on the rise across liberal democracies since the 1980s? And, given their radical but diverse challenges of democracies an
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
All this while Conservatives in the European Parliament already openly use their alternative majority together with Meloni's far-right party to pressure concessions from their nominal coalition partners in the centre of the chamber. 5/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
And in Germany, of course, Conservative leader Friedrich Merz broke his word not to cooperate with the AfD already before the election and orchestrated the first Bundestag resolution which was decided by a far-right party since 1945. The new terror attack today in Munich will worsen this threat. 4/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In Austria, the far-right FPÖ almost entered the government after the Conservatives initiated coalition negotiations last month, averted only because these talks collapsed yesterday. New elections seem at risk to further strengthen the FPÖ's vote share. 3/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In the US, the new Trusk administration is tearing through constitutional limitations faster than anyone expected. They also left the Paris Climate Accords & the WHO and threatened tariffs on all their major trading partners while continuing to block the WTO's dispute settlement. 2/x
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Cedric M. Koch @ckcedric.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The last few weeks in politics have again reiterated the continued authoritarian threat of the populist far right to liberal democracies and the international order they built in recent decades. Whether we look at the US, at Austria, Germany, or the European Parliament, the situation is dire. 1/x
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Das ist ein echter Hammer ❤️✊🏽🔥
BUNDESTAGSWAHL | Sonntagsfrage Forsa/RTL, n-tv

Altersgruppe: 18 bis 29 Jahre

GRÜNE: 19%
LINKE: 19%
AfD: 17%
Union: 16%
SPD: 7%
FDP: 6%
BSW: 4%
Sonstige: 12%
#btw25
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reijer hendrikse @reijer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
just another vote in favor of quitting with the warnings about a possible future Constitutional crisis and using the present tense instead www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
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Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.
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