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Dr. Akudo McGee

@dr-akudo.bsky.social
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Rule of law, human rights & 🇵🇱 civil society fangirl. Werkzaam bij de Raad van het Openbaar Bestuur. More etiquette than Connecticut. Vegan for life 🌱

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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.eu · 30/09/2026
Revealed: Tech industry now spending record €151 million on lobbying the EU - corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/r...
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Revealed: Tech industry now spending record €151 million on lobbying the EU | Corporate Europe Observatory
The EU’s digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave. A new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, based on the...
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hate being sick over here 🇳🇱 because what do you mean none of the medicines do anything? 😭 on the bright side, I sound less Hollands since with this sore throat, I can barely do the hard ‘g’
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I feel mortified if I accidentally breeze a stranger’s hand while reaching for a pole in the train and yet complete strangers feel invited to touch my hair (without permission…obviously) with no shame or self-reflection. What a world 🤦🏿‍♀️
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
After 2 years of sending me emails I could not unsubscribe from because I used their app to pay for the bus for 10 days (2 years ago), BudapestGO is mercifully deleting my account due to inactivity. 😂
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dutch public transit when they hear you need to be somewhere on time 🤦🏿‍♀️
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Shrek's Suspicious Smirk
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So I traded living in a country where I couldn’t afford to seek medical help 🇺🇸 to one where doctors don’t care if you live or die 🇳🇱 but it’s affordable 😭 meanwhile, insomnia is chewing me up
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Voor de eerste keer zit ik in een NS-trein die redelijk schoon is 😦 wat?! Misschien omdat ik jarig ben 🎂 😏
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Petra Molnar, a fellow at Tech Policy Press, argues that migrant deaths at automated borders "are not malfunctions or byproducts, but rather the system actually working as designed." This perspective is drawn from her new open-access book.
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The Racial Necrotechnics That Lead to Death By Design at Automated Borders
Modern borders preserve a racial distribution of wealth and mobility that was built through centuries of imperialism and colonialism, writes Petra Molnar.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Why is needing another human being like the most humiliating experience ever 😩
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wat schattig dat de 9292 app zegt dat m’n overstap niet haalbaar is 😂 als ik maar 30 seconden heb, gaat het wel 🏃‍♀️ I’m also 🇳🇬 after all
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dean Jackson and Tim Bernard collect policy choices local governments can weigh while a data center moratorium is in effect, drawing on 17 publicly available resources from governments, researchers, and advocacy organizations.
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How to Use Your Community’s Data Center Moratorium
Dean Jackson and Tim Bernard collect policy choices that government bodies may choose to take surfaced from a variety of sources.
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Simply Shada @simplyshada.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#Islamophobia in #Europe is often blamed on the far right. The truth is more dangerous...instead of being pulled rightwards, Europe’s mainstream parties are, in fact, actively mobilising and expanding reactionary discourses and policies. euobserver.com/232655/europ...
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Europe’s dangerous art of anti-Muslim doublespeak
"Of course, this isn’t against all Muslims," the EPP says reassuringly, only against those who practice "political Islam as an ideology." And of course it is not intended to be a "discriminatory enter...
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Does no one talk about how emotional witnessing democratic backsliding in your home country is? Because it’s left me a wreck 😅 😭
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I can’t wrap my head around people enjoying matcha or beer 😔 just the smell makes me gag. 🙈 don’t @ me
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As an extreme introvert who can be nervous in normal conservation, I will always opt for a human being as my sparring partner before I ever even think of AI. It’s so easy to access diverse, informed opinions. I’d much rather have that than technology designed to agree with me
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Journeys lasting weeks, extreme heat, pregnant animals... it's as bad as it sounds. They're revising the law right now so signatures actually matter. Can you sign it too? 🐄 www.eurogroupforanimals.org/transport-re...
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Sign the open letter to protect animals during transport
Urgent action is needed to save the EU Transport Regulation, the policy created to safeguard animal welfare.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What about me being a naturalised Dutch citizen (thus,originally a migrant) and the daughter of migrants convinces people that I want to be part of their racist conversations about how they dislike migrants? 😅 yes, even if you clarify I’m one of the ‘good ones,’ I’d rather not have this convo 🏃‍♀️
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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Poland's main opposition party has suffered its biggest split in more than two decades. Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced a new parliamentary caucus following his break with Law and Justice, a move that could reshape the Polish right ahead of the 2027 elections.
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Ex-PM's splinter group to create new Polish parliamentary caucus
Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said a splinter group he leads will create a new parliamentary caucus amid a rupture in Poland's main right-wing opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Not the EU working together with Big Tech to weaken the EU law that governs them while simultaneously implementing a prelude to mass-surveillance under the guise of protecting children in online spaces…yikes 😟 what a time to be alive (sadly)
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Zuid-Limburg is de enige plek in Nederland waar ik me thuis voel 🥹 en ik ben zo blij om er weer te zijn (ook al is het maar voor een vakantie/een weekje dat ik op afstand werk)
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Good riddance! balkaninsight.com/2026/06/30/h...
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Hungary Shutters Orban-Backed Office Accused of Targeting Media, NGOs
Parliament has abolished Viktor Orban’s Sovereignty Protection Office, which was used to smear and intimidate NGOs and independent media.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Insane to be that these big tech company CEOs are literally Lex Luthor-style villains who say with their whole chest that they don’t believe in human rights or equality and our governments are like ‘yeah, let’s let them write the laws that govern them & give them access to sensitive data’ 😵‍💫
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s silly but there should be some kind of award for working exclusively in your second language, which you learnt as an adult only a few years prior while having social anxiety and after developing insomnia 🥱 I’ve never been this tired in my life. 😪
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/07/2026
Leftists toppled a three-decade incumbent in Denver when democratic socialist Melat Kiros, an attorney who lost her job for speaking out about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, ousted Rep. Diana DeGette amid a wave of anti-establishment sentiment. interc.pt/4eIQtso
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Socialist Momentum Grows as Melat Kiros Wins in Denver
A democratic socialist who lost her job for speaking out about Gaza unseated a 29-year incumbent amid a wave of anti-establishment energy.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/06/2026
‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial
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‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial
Exclusive: Activist tells of his life as one of India’s most prominent political prisoners and his opposition to the government of Narendra Modi Prison is hardest at sunset. As the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in Delhi’s most infamous jail are cast out of their cells and forced into the dank yard until darkness falls, prisoner number 626714 feels the punishing dread begin to rise. Yet the inmate – better known as Umar Khalid – was recently moved to discover that another political prisoner, exiled at a camp thousands of miles from India, wrote of the very same feeling more than 150 years ago. Continue reading...
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 19/06/2026
Hertie School banned Palestinian solidarity symbols at its graduation ceremony and required students to sign a declaration accepting these terms. BERNHARD KNOLL-TUDOR critically assesses the categorical restrictions on peaceful symbolic expressions. verfassungsblog.de/dissonance-a...
The challenge is not how to eliminate every dissonance from public life but how to ensure that we do not end up hearing only a single tune.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I would like to formally apologise to anyone I’ve ever judged for losing it after dropping food bcs the unimaginable frustration & wicked anger I now feel after I, exhausted, having my train cancelled & only having a pastry to look forward to, promptly dropped said pastry on the ground is…intense
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Wed's Metro
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As much as I really really love living in Europe, I have to say it’s turned my least favorite seasons (summer and spring, I know, I don’t like warm weather, sue me) into absolute hell 🥵 🔥 I don’t think I’ve ever sweat this continuously in my entire life.
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Seinfeld: Kramer, Jerry, and George in the Sauna
ALT: Seinfeld: Kramer, Jerry, and George in the Sauna
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Göran Eklöf @geklof.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Corporates are spending more then ever on EU lobbying. "And it's paying off: in the era of the von der Leyen 2 European Commission – and a right-wing majority in the European Parliament – politicians are delivering industry-friendly policies at an unprecedented rate."
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A German court has ruled that Google is liable for the false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature. The ruling could have massive impacts on the world's biggest search engine, which recently doubled down on giving users AI-generated results. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...
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A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I know a salad bar at a restaurant with limited vegan options hates to see me coming 😋 🥗 🌱
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Over een maand zit ik weer in Zuid-Limburg 😻 helaas voor maar een week maar goed I’ll take it!
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I am also known as Mr. McGee, Mr. Akudo, Akiko, Akdudo, and many more
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🍾 🙌🏾 congratulations!
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We love to see it
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🇭🇺⚖️🗳️🇪🇺 Want to know where do we go with the rule of law and democracy in Hungary now that we know who won? On Wednesday, 11 AM Berlin time, join me, @martapardavi.bsky.social, Edit Zgut-Przybylska and Csaba Gyory for a webinar on the future of EU values in the country! Zoom registration link below.
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In these trying times, I’m thankful to Resident Evil: Requiem for giving me a reason to wake up in the morning because…
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Being sick in Europe sucks because the cold and flu medicines are fake and it makes me rly miss my mum 😅
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 08/03/2026
"Never forget that a political, economical or religious crisis is enough to cast doubt on women's rights. These rights will never be vested. You have to stay vigilant your whole life." Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 #WomensDay #IWD2026 #8M
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Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
For the past 6 months I’ve been dealing with chronic exhaustion and for the last 2 years insomnia. But I’m working my best at triaging tasks and getting back on track 😊I’ll be posting here more often
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/01/2026
“If this decision stands, the government might be able to snatch you up for your speech and put you in detention for years.” interc.pt/4qywBNG
A photo of Mahmoud Khalil arriving at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ceremonial inauguration at City Hall in New York City on Jan. 1, 2026, overlaid with the headline, "Despite Court Ruling, ICE Can’t Detain Mahmoud Khalil — For Now"
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/01/2026
"Dead concert recordings have also maintained a cult following online, where nearly 18,000 digital files with concerts since 1965 are part of the Internet Archive." www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar... Listen: archive.org/details/Grat... 🌹💀
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Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78
Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July and beat it, he but "succumbed to underlying lung issues," according to a statement on his website.
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🇪🇺⚖️🦘🇵🇱 My first publication for 2026 is a joint undertaking (not our first one!) with @profpech.bsky.social , looking into last month's dramatic judgment of @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social in the case C-448/23, Commission v. Poland (Constitutional Tribunal) for @verfassungsblog.de 1/
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This, combined with the case before SCOTUS on whether mail-in ballots have to arrive by Election Day (or as in 18 states only have to be ‘postmarked’) can change the results of the midterms.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/12/2025
The early web was driven by curiosity & openness, not monetization. Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture & why preserving it matters. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/a...
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In any case, today is a final chapter in the Commission v Poland court saga. There are other key Polish rule of law cases pending before CJEU - ones from preliminary references of Polish courts, and the case of European judicial associations regarding RRF - but today, a book is being closed. 5/
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Good day for the rule of law today: In exceptional cases, the General Court must, in order to guarantee effective judicial protection of an applicant "which is fundamental in the [EU] as a Union based on the rule of law, make use of those powers to supplement the information it possesses" C‑136/24 P
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