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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You're gonna need a bigger chart
Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An alarming report from Russia's Ivestia this morning on the state of the Russian economy, as the number of sectors operating at a loss has increased by 300%, with 33% of ALL Russian companies now losing money.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The EU is not just an arrangement. It is a project. Yes, it is a project of mutual economic prosperity and trade, but it is also a project of peace, solidarity, mutual aid, social cohesion, and shared values and identity, which are all things that the UK has traditionally (and openly) sneered at.
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europtimist.bsky.social @europtimist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the @nobelprize.org in Chemistry was just awarded to French chemist Henri Kagan few things illustrate better the relationship of France's media to science, than where @lemonde.fr chose to place this story :
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
20/x So here is the real Somali pirate movie. Hollywood filmed the captain who was rescued. Belgium invented a film that was never going to be made, cast the villain as its star, and let him fly in for the premiere. The red carpet straight to prison
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2/x In October 2013, that story hit cinemas as Captain Phillips and took 26 million dollars in its first American weekend. That same weekend, the real boss of Somali piracy boarded a plane to Brussels to advise on a film about his own life. He never saw the film set.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/x Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is taken hostage in a lifeboat, and US Navy SEALs end it after five days. The snipers dealt with the guys in the lifeboat. The Belgians dealt with the guy at the top of the whole trade. A thread.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Basically the UK debate on the EU since before the referendum has been based on the incorrect idea that Brussels or Paris / Berlin can be persuaded to negotiate a deal that fits a UK not EU view of relationships. And that applies to leavers and remainers.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Leaving no room for doubt: Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz says: "There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without migration." www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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Israel Katz says Palestinians will leave Gaza
Israeli defence minister tells media 'there is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration'
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That the Israeli government's goal for Gaza was the forces expulsion of much of its population was pretty clear by December 2023
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 30/08/2026
The Lake Ontario/Lake America thing is a profoundly stupid version of it, but in millions of other subtler ways, we are force fed American values and American ideas about the world, because American companies like Google control the internet.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes, he can. Which indicates one of many reasons why other power blocs need to assert digital autonomy from the United States
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Die Capuccinogruft @thomas.escritt.eu · 23/08/2026
Here, Orban’s press chief emails to tell staff exactly what the headline and lead of a story should be. “The European Jewish Association’s president thanks Viktor Orban for standing with Israel and Jewish people”
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Die Capuccinogruft @thomas.escritt.eu · 23/08/2026
Incredible cache of internal emails from Hungarys state news agency last week showing how news was shaped. Here a top editor tells staff to write high up that the suspect “in the Swiss train murder… is Eritrean”. That was in 2019, when government comms were all about the dangers immigrants posed
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
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Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government
Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
America boldly advancing into the 2010s
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/08/2026
Israel's national security minister has called for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night, ahead of depopulation.
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Ben-Gvir calls for nightly killing and mass emigration of Palestinians
In a taped interview, the far-right national security minister also advocated for encouraging the mass emigration of the Gaza Strip, saying he views the territory as entirely Israeli.
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europtimist.bsky.social @europtimist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Currently parked in Siem Reap airport. Anyone know who this is?
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hafez Ghasham, mayor of Yaroun, Lebanon: They are trying to make the land uninhabitable. They are erasing our entire history, our entire culture, all our memories. Maybe the idea is that after some time, it will look as though nobody had ever lived here. #R4Today
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Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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Dıanna @elank.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Anyone who’s given stickers to a toddler recognizes this aesthetic
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 24/06/2026
Mainstream Rejoin :(
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick
MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKEMona and a turtle in Lebanon
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This might be hard for Americans to hear, but the USA getting humiliated by its abject failure as a power during this Iran War might be the best thing possible at this time. The country needs to understand there are consequences for electing a crook.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Sam Kiley, The Independent, "Donald Trump is trying to dominate the western sphere of influence" "What we definitely see is a very significantly weakened United States of America" "Which is why Brexit has been such a strategic disaster for the UK"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Reminder that in addition to Russia/Ukraine issues, Orbán was also vetoing more sanctions against violent West Bank settlers www.eunews.it/en/2026/02/2...
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Hungary blocks EU sanctions against violent Israeli settlers
Hungary, represented by Minister Péter Szijjártó, also blocked the 20th package of sanctions against Russia and withdrew its approval for the maxi-loan to Ukraine agreed by leaders in December.
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Folks in Budapest spooked ahead of Sunday's vote. They worry the mood is too calm, especially as Orban on Weds promised to transfer power properly if he loses. That's reinforced the feeling he's got something up his sleeve. Results should be clear by 11pm local. Will they be? 1/2
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europtimist.bsky.social @europtimist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/... Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement
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Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into the war, but Israel’s right to defend itself does not justify inflicting such massive destruction. Israeli strikes killed hundreds last night, making it hard to argue that such heavy-handed actions fall within self-defence. (1/2)
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Russians continue their human safari in Kherson, hunting and killing civilians every day. Recently, a Russian drone unit known as "Rubikon," notorious for its skill, brutality, and ruthlessness, has been deployed to the area.
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Looks like a seemingly convenient threat of terrorist action. Designed to whip up further fear of military action against Hungary, for which Ukraine will no doubt be blamed. Repeated until it's “the truth” by state media & Govt to lay ground for 12 Apr elections to be postponed
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/04/2026
A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank
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A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank
The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message.

In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Reminder that Trump has, since returning to office, committed a grand total of zero new dollars in military aid to Ukraine (the tiny amount at the start of 2025 was agreed under the Biden administration). www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦 @harryrasmussen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A lot of American defence intellectuals are kidding themselves if they think that after Trump there is a reset switch that takes relations between America and Europe back to 2014
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 25/03/2026
What happened exactly 69 years ago? On this day, in 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed! 📖✍️
Former Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Pella stands, center, in front of Giovanni Leone, President of the Chamber of Depuities, and speaks on Euratom and the Common Market, during discussions in the Chamber of Deputies, in Rome, July 28, 1957.
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
$500k family income in NYC and you live in 75 square metres, with parents sharing a room with their kid. This is why you have to treat GDP figures showing US is much richer than Europe with a pinch of salt. I know Upper West Side is not America, but still telling. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 24/03/2026
After Hungary was accused of leaking sensitive EU discussions to Russia, the spotlight is now shifting to Germany. 🎙️ On today’s #BrusselsPlaybookPod, @zoyashef.bsky.social and Ian Wishart unpack concerns over the far-right AfD’s access to confidential documents 👇
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More Russian snooping allegations
After Hungary was accused of leaking sensitive EU discussions to the Kremlin, the spotlight is now shifting to Germany. Zoya Sheftalovich is joined by Ian Wish
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 23/03/2026
➡️ Selon cet article, le ministre hongrois des Affaires étrangères, Peter Szijjarto, profite régulièrement de pauses lors de réunions entre responsables de l'UE à Bruxelles pour appeler son homologue russe Sergueï Lavrov et le tenir informé en temps réel des discussions.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/03/2026
The EU is limiting the flow of confidential material to Hungary and leaders are meeting in smaller groups — as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned of long-standing suspicions Viktor Orbán’s government is sharing information with Russia.
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EU cuts Hungary out of sensitive talks over leaking-to-Russia fears, diplomats say
Hungarian foreign minister was accused of passing information from closed-door talks to Moscow.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
„The EU is limiting the flow of confidential material to Hungary and leaders are meeting in smaller groups - as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned of long-standing suspicions Viktor Orbán’s government is sharing information with Russia.“ (…)
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
With Trump and Putin actively interfering - and Putin’s former interpreter overseeing the election observers - there must be a real risk that the Hungarian election will be rigged and the EU will remain stuck with Orban. But could there be a way to kick Hungary out? I may have found one
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Europe's Anti-Trump Resistance
Thoughts on whether Trump will TACO again, the trouble with gilts, should Britain give up its Cyprus bases, how the EU could ditch Hungary and why Pedro Sanchez is leading the anti-Trump resistance
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