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Joe Stanley-Smith

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Evening editor at POLITICO Europe, based in Brasil. ex-Bloomberg tax dork, recovering chef

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
it is genuinely fascinating, if not bleak, to watch happen in real time to basically every Anglosphere user still on X
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
39 seconds of "excellent chemistry" with the Brazilian president seems to have been enough to set Trump on a more positive trajectory regarding the US-Brazil relationship. I think we all need lessons from Lula. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Trump says U.S., Brazil will ‘do very well together’ following call with Lula
The effort to mend fences comes after a friendly but brief conversation nearly two weeks ago backstage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
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Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Bluesky is absolutely unmatched for people who seem to agree with you but do it in such a bizarrely aggressive way you've gotta block anyway
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
President of the United States shakes the hand of a former Al Qaeda member. Well I never. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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After handshake, Trump urges new Syrian leader al-Sharaa to mend ties with Israel
The U.S. president met the former Islamist rebel for diplomatic talks in Saudi Arabia.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
indian news graphics are going to give me a stroke
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This very much feels like we're waiting to find out who will pull out of Thursday's peace talks first: Ukraine or Russia - Putin stands to lose plenty by even recognizing Zelenskyy - Zelenskyy highly unlikely to get the ceasefire he put as a precondition www.politico.eu/article/dona...
politico.eu
Frustrated Trump slams Putin, Ukraine as peace talk hopes falter
Ukraine wants Russia to agree to a ceasefire before beginning negotiations on a peace deal. Trump wants them to get on with talks regardless.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
FT editorial board speaks on Israel's actions on Gaza, and the West's complicity. www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is Britain ok?
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Banning of trans women from grassroots/amateur sport is incredibly mean spirited. What a horrible move by the FA.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump: ‘I’d like to be pope’ www.politico.eu/article/dona...
politico.eu
Trump: ‘I’d like to be pope’
He was joking (we think) — but said the conclave should take a look at a cardinal from New York.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This is a very good read on how the Biden administration time and time again came out to bat for Israel during its assault on Gaza, and never put its foot down despite Netanyahu repeatedly torpedoing ceasefire deals. www.timesofisrael.com/top-biden-ai...
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Biden officials vent frustrations in dealing with Netanyahu, decry missed chance of Saudi deal
In interviews with Israeli TV program, 9 senior officials from previous US administration speak with unprecedented candor; Shaprio: Saudi deal would have required election or coalition shuffle
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis has died. What happens now? We explain the process, which has been refined over centuries and hundreds of dead pontiffs 👇
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What happens after Pope Francis’ death
His death will kick off a tightly choreographed series of events, refined over centuries.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Live, laugh love. Follow your heart. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
politico.eu
Shock tariff policy change ‘came from the heart,’ says Trump
President’s decision to pause so-called reciprocal tariffs on the same day as implementing them came after his administration previously insisted the new rates were here to stay.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The number of American adults in the labour force with a disability since Covid
Line graph showing the U.S. civilian labor force participation of adults 16+ with disabilities from 2008 to 2024. After a flat trend pre-COVID, the number with disabilities sharply rises from around 2021 onward, increasing from about 6,000 to nearly 8,800 thousand by 2024.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I don't think Trump's tariffs are going away any time soon. Even Netanyahu*, who had Trump eating out of his hand during his last visit to Washington, couldn't get a concession today *wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Israel vows to ax trade deficit in bid to lift Trump's tariffs
President Donald Trump was noncommittal in an Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
1. We contacted the 100 largest American companies and asked a simple question: Do you support the tariffs announced by President Trump on April 2? These are tariffs that have already destroyed trillions of shareholder value NOT ONE COMPANY WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTION
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Trump tariffs, corporations cower
During the Biden administration, corporate executives regularly expressed their displeasure with policies they opposed.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Bardella might be a stronger candidate anyway, so I don't think this is the hammer blow to the far right many will see it as www.politico.eu/article/fran...
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Marine Le Pen barred from running for French president
The sentence was delivered after the French far-right icon was found guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds.
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Sebastian Starcevic @sebastianstarc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🇬🇱 Trump says “officials” in Greenland invited an American delegation, including Second Lady Usha Vance, to visit the island this Thursday. But a Greenlandic MP told POLITICO that’s “not true” — and said a protest is planned for Vance’s arrival 👇 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Greenland to Trump: No, we didn't invite you
A delegation that includes second lady Usha Vance is slated to arrive on the island on Thursday.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Five years since the covid lockdowns. Coming up on three years of long covid for me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it? | Frances Ryan
Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
On the front page of Reddit today, which I think is a first for me: www.politico.eu/article/stat...
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Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US
French Socialist MEP says Washington’s embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Europe: We must stick to all of these fiscal rules we wrote for ourselves! Stagnation, crumbling public services and declining living standards are a price worth paying for fiscal stability 😇 USA: Let's just stop counting the debt www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Seen, given medicine, and out within 90 minutes. No prescription charge 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
First doctor's appointment in Brazil. Turned up at 11, given an appointment with an ear specialist for 2.30 the same day. Free at the point of use including for foreigners. This is what is possible, even in a poor country of 280 million people, when the government wants it to happen.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
All the right wing papers are at this now, elbowing themselves out the wriggle-room required for the imminent shenanigans.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It will never cease to amaze me that this gullible goon's opinions are considered worth listening to by millions
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Germany's election winner is absolutely not pulling his punches with Donald Trump Other European leaders have tried to avoid riling him, but not Friedrich Merz, who likens Trump administration to Putin's Russia www.politico.eu/article/frie...
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Germany’s Merz seeks ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead
Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I love articles like this Westminster power couples — 2025 edition www.politico.eu/article/west...
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Ticketmaster: go to hell
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's not OK. It never is, never was. @hadasgold.bsky.social
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Politico @politico.com · 06/02/2025
A note to our readers, from Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John Harris:
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In 1830 Andrew Jackson insisted that Indian removal would be voluntary and that it would work it really well for Native Americans
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wrote this 17 years ago lol. Still have a visceral reaction to anything wrapped in plastic
Very old blog post detailing my annoyance with a cashew individually wrapped in plastic 


"This is an abortion of sustainability, to say the least.
One would hope that the pearl within the wrapper would somehow trump its cashew colleagues-but rest assured this is an ordinary nut: prosaic,
unadorned, banal.
Aside from a light gown of salt, it rests naked within its deplorable womb of plastic.
A saving grace is that the single portion offers calorie control. Although, if your cashew problems are such that you can only allow yourself one at a time, you may need more than a plastic sheath to control your will."
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
FBI agents who investigate UFOs worried they could be pushed out www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Maybe more cuts is the answer. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Disabled Britons suffering 'unacceptable treatment' at hands of DWP
The damning report comes ahead of Labour plans to cut disability benefit spending
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
As @isabellamweber.bsky.social was right about much of what we saw happen economically during the pandemic i'm paying attention to her musings
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Trump just announced the following on Colombia
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
no notes
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I expect we'll see quite the uptick in people doing 'my heart goes out to you' gestures in the coming weeks...
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Gaza cease-fire holds for now despite shaky start www.politico.eu/article/gaza...
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Shaky first day for Gaza cease-fire as Israel drags its feet
Three hostages held in Gaza were reunited with their families in Israel, even after bombing continued past the agreed time of the truce.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The small, bitter end of the Democrats' tenure in office. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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‘Lady McBiden’: Alexandra Pelosi Blasts the First Lady
The feud between the president and ex-speaker intensifies in the waning days of his presidency.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
@longcovidathletes.bsky.social hi there
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Israeli minister makes last-ditch effort to block ceasefire with Hamas — again “In the last year, using our political power, we managed to prevent this deal from going ahead, time after time,” said Itamar Ben-Gvir. www.politico.eu/article/isra...
politico.eu
Israeli minister makes last-ditch effort to block ceasefire with Hamas — again
Israel and Hamas are closer to a ceasefire deal than at any point during their 15-month conflict.
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Complete and utter delusion
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
North Korea's soldiers - expected by many to be cannon fodder - are highly skilled, young, fit, brave and disciplined, report Ukrainians from the front line. Only two of the ~12,000 fighting for Russia have been caught so far. They kill themselves to avoid capture. pro.politico.eu/news/north-k...
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