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Joshua Livestro

@joshualivestro.bsky.social
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Historian, essayist, senior advisor European affairs. Member of European Integration Committee, Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs.

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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 3h
Waarom zou Eerdmans tussen de VVD en de boze rechtse kiezer in gaan staan? Strategisch is het veel aantrekkelijker het kabinet op afstand te houden.
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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 5h
Inmiddels al negentien dagen
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 7h
If this guy is in charge, I do expect most of them to get through
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 14h
EU super election year - with elections scheduled in France, Poland, Italy, Spain plus more equalling about a third of the EU - has been moved forward and is now starting in November 2026:
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 12h
For fraudsters
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Daniël Verlaan @daniel.verlaan.xyz · 13h
De impact van deze hack is echt bizar. Van alle Denen zijn hun naam, woonadres en BSN gestolen.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 13h
Isn’t that Tinder’s entire business model?
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 14h
Lula needs a miracle
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 14h
Sanchez is rolling the dice. He’s been trailing in the polls this year, but the debate has recently shifted onto a more favourable terrain in the form of housing. Don’t put it past him to win another term.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today’s fascism is basically a bunch of nerds having fantasies about being ultra-manly
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Voor een land dat zoveel topverdedigers opleidt is het niveau van de verdediging van het nationaal elftal echt bedroevend.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No brainer. The EU needs Ukraine as much as it needs the EU.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
JA21 is qua stemgedrag en uitspraken net zo extreemrechts als die andere twee
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An old-fashioned post-convention bounce
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He might have done better to avoid this kind of statement, as any real focus group would have told him
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Europeans chose abject surrender as the method for dealing with Trump a long time ago. This decision is just par for the course.
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Merien ten Houten @merien.com · 03/10/2026
Oldebroek: Transrechten gelden nu alleen nog maar voor Transnistrië.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heim ins Reich
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Etnische zuivering wijntje?” “Ja lekker!”
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“How many models do you run?” is the AI-age equivalent of Stalin’s “How many divisions does the pope have?”
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never expected talks to end the war in Ukraine to expand to cover multi billion $ oil deals involving Trump associates.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
VVD gaat de Duitse FDP achterna richting afgrond. Probleem voor de partij is dat er in de Tweede Kamer geen persoon zit die hem weer het op de rails kan krijgen.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, really disappointing. Maybe AI can help?
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Wendy Smit @wendela.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tof appartement te koop (van een vriendin van mij) in het bruisende Amsterdam-Oost. Leuke buurt hoor! #tekoop #Amsterdam #funda www.funda.nl/detail/koop/...
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Je bent bijna op de pagina die je zoekt [funda]
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 02/10/2026
It's here, folks. It's finally, finally here. The big @boltsmag.org guide to the 2026 midterms has arrived! And it has us fully covered. You're gonna wanna bookmark this one. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oldebroek, LGBTQ-vrije gemeente
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SaschaJanssen 🎸 @saschajanssen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ik herhaal het nog maar eens: onze overheid moet volledig van X. De eigenaar is een fascist.
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Wendy Smit @wendela.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Messages like these are sent a lot. Please don’t take Ambien, Xanax or any other tranquilizers bc you want to ‘get some rest’ on the flight. And, ftlog, don’t mix them with alcohol bc you think it’ll make them work better or faster. Oh, you’ll pass out alright. You just may never wake up again.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look here. I am telling you the tide is turning. Humanity is not going to give up without a fight. The poorly adjusted,self loathing,other-being hating dude bros don’t get to have the future.They just don’t.Man behind the curtain, Emperor’s clothes, pick your allegory. In any case, know the story.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
George Washington on Congress’s plan to replace various denominational chaplains with a single Brigade one: it would “introduce religious disputes into the Army; and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship, which they do not profess.” (Letter to President of Congress, June 8, 1777)
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jewish racism cloaks itself in zionism, but that does not mean all zionism is racism. In the same way, not all people who claim to “hate zionists” are antisemites. Most are though.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SV would work for Labour because it allows it to tap into the left-of-centre majorities in the vast majority of the constituencies. But it’s not PR.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mirrored in the media trope of the “normal neighbour, loving father” stories about men who murder their entire family before killing themselves.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Moreel falen
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He spelled ‘racists’ wrong
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Volkomen verdiend, Nederlands elftal speelt bedroevend slecht.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The man with the nuclear codes. What could go wrong?
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The bond market can play this game all day long. It’ll keep pushing yields up until something gives: either the stockmarket bubble bursts or one or more of the AI mega companies goes bust. The former is more likely than the latter, but one could lead to the other.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What could go wrong?
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone with a Bluesky account would be arrested at the border anyway, so no need even to discuss going there
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Burnham is using a political trick that was used successfully by Blair on several occasions: he creates the impression of having made a promise to do something (in this case re-entering the EU) while actually not having promised anything.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cruel and unusual punishment, permitted by the Supreme Court. That whole country is an abomination.
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone wishes for the good old days and the monkeys paw has decided we should do: (1) a 1970s oil crisis (2) a 1990s tech cycle (3) a 2010s eurozone debt crisis All at once.
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PG Kroeger @pgkroegerbb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Leo XIV: “My father was in Normandy during the Second World Ward. I grew up with the ideas of liberation and unification.” He said he was glad “to help promote a strong and united Europe.” open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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Pope Leo XIV Is the Leader of the Free World
Eighty-two years after his father landed at Normandy, the American pope drew 800,000 people to the Champs-Élysées and asked Europe to hold together. Washington left the job open, and Leo took it.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everything works better when read in Herzog’s voice
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I haven’t seen the British commentariat this excited about a party leader’s conference speech since Blair’s great set pieces of the mid 1990s.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Idiots gonna idiot
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eindelijk weer eens een columnist die gewoon oproept tot geweld tegen een politicus. Dat had het publieke debat echt even nodig.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Now that the charges have been proved, the issue of sanction will be addressed separately in a further hearing with the independent Commission.”
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