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@gmilliot.bsky.social
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I'm an economics/research lecturer at Rotterdam Business School. I have a special interest in development economics. It's a top priority to stay updated on current events and world news.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 10/12/2025
Human Rights Day reminds us we all have a role to play. Protect what matters. Your actions make a difference. Thank you People's Postcode Lottery players for supporting our work defending human rights. 💙
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Rob Staeger @robstaeger.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It would be nice if their fellow journalists would stand up for the female reporters Trump routinely bullies. He'll do it again. Make a plan for it. Act collectively.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/12/2025
Global bond yields have risen to highs last seen in 2009 ahead of a key Fed policy meeting, signaling concerns that rate-cutting cycles from the US to Australia may be ending soon.
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Global Bond Yields Hit 16-Year High on Fading Rate-Cut Bets
Global bond yields have risen to highs last seen in 2009 ahead of a key Federal Reserve policy meeting, signaling concerns that interest-rate cutting cycles from the US to Australia may be ending soon.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/12/2025
Exclusive: Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling reut.rs/3MppasV
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Exclusive: Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling
Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move that could help prevent its artificial intelligence chips from being smuggled into countries where their export is banned.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/12/2025
Cambodia pulls team out of SEA Games in Thailand over border conflict reut.rs/48SYNTQ
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Cambodia pulls team out of SEA Games in Thailand over border conflict
Cambodia on Wednesday withdrew its team from the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand for safety reasons, as a border conflict between the two neighbours raged for a third day.
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 16/10/2025
The fact that we need a bill like this shows how far we've fallen...
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Newsom signs controversial bill letting relatives care for kids if parents are deported
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children's caregivers if their parents are deported.
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George @retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace. Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed. These extremists are sick people.
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Beatrice Murch @blmurch.com · 16/10/2025
Thanks to @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social for publicizing the event. "On Saturday, Americans will gather on Museumplein in Amsterdam as part of the No Kings protest, a worldwide demonstration opposing the policies of US president Donald Trump." * Museumplein 19 in Amsterdam * 13-15 hr on Sat Oct 18, 2025
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Americans in the Netherlands prepare for No Kings rally - DutchNews.nl
On Saturday, Americans will gather on Museumplein in Amsterdam as part of the No Kings protest, a worldwide demonstration opposing the policies of US president Donald Trump. Organisers are following u...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
More reporting like this please.
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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Jasmine Crockett for Attorney General in 2028.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2025
From flood insurance to environmental grants, programs that support climate resilience are expected to be curtailed by the US government shutdown.
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US Government Shutdown Curtails Key Weather and Climate Programs
From flood insurance to environmental grants, programs that support resiliency in the face of natural disasters are expected to be cut back.
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Arizona Leftist (86 47!) @whydontwelearn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Make no mistake, this is Stephen "Goebbels" Miller providing permission to right wing nut jobs to become violent.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 01/10/2025
The president doubled down with a racist AI video smear.
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Donald Trump Morphs Into An Entire Mariachi Band In Bonkers New Hakeem Jeffries Deepfake
The president doubled down with a racist AI video smear.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025
People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If you think you’re having a crap day, take comfort in knowing there are multi-star Generals who were ordered to fly halfway around the world to listen to a nut job drone on about his election numbers.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/07/2025
Mamdani’s campaign is grassroots in its origins, its associations, its practice, and its theory of governance. The media does not quite understand this orientation, because most candidates and politicians are so divorced from the grassroots.
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Mamdani’s Ability to Break With Dem Status Quo Depends on Organizing From Below
Zohran Mamdani’s grassroots-oriented model of political power remains incomprehensible to most political observers.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
This fight isn't over. Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” is headed to the House, and we have the power to stop it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2025
Shameful
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/07/2025
FUCKING EVIL NAZI BULLSHIT FUCK YOU LISA MURKOWSKI
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LIVE NOW: Big Evil Bill Passes The Senate
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/07/2025
Vice President J.D. Vance has callously called the Republican Party’s massive cuts to Medicaid and other anti-poverty programs “immaterial,” saying the maintenance of such programs is trivial compared to the huge increase in funding to ICE.
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JD Vance Says Medicaid Cuts for Millions “Immaterial” Compared to Funding ICE
Vance handwaved away the Medicaid cuts — expected to lead to thousands of deaths yearly — as “minutiae.”…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/07/2025
Trump’s budget hands billions in tax cuts to the ultra-rich—while cutting Medicaid, food assistance, and education for working families. This isn’t just policy. It’s values on display. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-bud...
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Trump’s Budget: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Cuts for Everyone Else
A $7 Trillion Plan That Slashes Food Aid, Medicaid, and Education While Rewarding the Top 1%
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We can't just tax the rich. We need tax their investment gains. Right now our tax code values billionaires' paper profits over *your* labor. Want to make America a fairer country for the working class? Here's how we do it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Even sky-high income tax rates won’t stop the relentless rise of the richest
Tackling America's wealth gap will require more powerful tactics.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 02/07/2025
The heat wave searing Europe is making a compelling case for one of the most ambitious climate targets ever set by Brussels, but many in the EU have yet to be convinced
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Europe’s Climate Resolve Faces Big Test as EU Unveils 2040 Goal
The heat wave searing Europe is making a compelling case for one of the most ambitious climate targets ever set by Brussels. Many in the European Union, however, have yet to be convinced.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.  A reminder that abortion bans are not "pro-life." They are pro-poverty & pro-inequality. youtu.be/SN3oLwO0OEE?si=eRK9ZK-0doO…
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Why Abortion Bans Aren’t Pro-Life | Robert Reich
Being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term means: Families are 4x more likely to live below poverty line Parent
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Why do they lie about EVERYthing? They seem to think we're not gonna find out...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/06/2025
If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
happy zohran day to all who celebrate
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/06/2025
Jeffries: "Not a scintilla of evidence to date has been presented that I have seen to justify the notion that there was an imminent threat to the United States of America. If the administration has evidence to the contrary, come up to present it."
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Joey the Jack o’Lantern 🎃 @spiceboyjoey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s a great morning to not rank Cuomo
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice" Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
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SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23/06/2025
BREAKING: A judge DENIED the government's motion to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia pending trial: “The Court will give Abrego the due process that he is guaranteed.” Background www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-ice...
For the reasons detailed above, the government’s motion for detention (Docket No. 8) is DENIED. A separate order will enter, following hearing, directing Abrego’s release on conditions. FURTHER, the United States is advised of its right to seek review of this Order pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3145. It is SO ORDERED.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani has waged a surprisingly strong campaign for mayor of New York City. Can the movement he created overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power?
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What Zohran Mamdani Got Right About Running for Mayor
The thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist has created a movement. Can it overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Can you imagine living in a “Democracy” where armed masked men are kidnapping people off the streets every single day?
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The stupidest men in America.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is a horrifying ruling that shows a disdain for basic human rights principles — made all the more unconscionable by the fact that the Republican appointees did so with no reasoning and on the shadow docket.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/06/2025
You know the world is in trouble when you agree with Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene on anything.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/06/2025
Israel's Prime Minister may think no one will notice what he's doing in Gaza while he bombs Iran. People face starvation. 55,000 killed. Aid workers and doctors turned away at the border. Shooting at innocent people desperate for food. The world sees you, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced today that the organization will donate $1 million to immigrant families impacted by recent raids.
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Dodgers commit $1M to families of immigrants after pushback from community groups
The Dodgers announced that the organization will donate $1 million to immigrant families impacted by recent raids.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/06/2025
See you in Pittsfield for a town hall today! RSVP HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/pittsfield...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
JUNETEENTH in Harlem. This is what America is about. Perhaps the most American holiday of all, Juneteenth honors the very best of what this country can be. It’s a celebration of the courage to fight for freedom, even when the cost is steep. It’s sad that the president gets angry over this
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Śẻήơɼ Wơƙẻ Ảś Pɦưƈƙ 🇺🇲 ✌️ ❤️ 🚴 🤿 🚣‍♂️ 🌈 🇺🇦 @senorwokeasphuck.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." ~Mark Twain
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/06/2025
ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
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Warren, Markey call for probe into ‘escalating aggression’ by federal agents in immigration raids - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.
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