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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h
Good luck to German govt coercing BASF, VW etc to agree! "Germany’s most powerful lever would not only be halting exports of machinery and components but also suspending maintenance and servicing of equipment already operating in China, the people said." (they fear asset retaliations)
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 17h
Im österreichischen Parlament gibt es keine Ordnungsrufe, wenn man rechtsextremes Vokabular ("Remigration") verwendet. Aber es gibt Ordnungsrufe vom Zweiten Nationalratspräsidenten, der der Volkspartei angehört, wenn man die FPÖ als rechtsextrem bezeichnet. Auch ein Statement.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21h
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian officers warn that Starlink’s sudden speed limits have grounded much of their drone fleet and weakened air defences, as massive Russian strikes leave millions facing blackouts.
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Musk joins Trump and Putin’s new axis of evil, as Starlink grounds Ukraine’s medium-range drones (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,693)
Ukrainian officers warn that Starlink’s sudden speed limits have grounded much of their drone fleet and weakened air defences, as massive Russian strikes leave millions facing blackouts.
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
2027: election year during which several EU radical right parties are expected to do well. However, it is clearer by the day how their strategy on key issues, such as NATO and Ukraine, now diverge. Here is Meloni's statement to the Senate today. Gone are the day of 'building bridges' with Trump...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 11/10/2026
All that Gen-Z is inheriting is their elders' capitulation. Capitulation on the biosphere. Capitulation on inequality. Capitulation on the private government of the internet. Capitulation on the democratic governance of transnational systems. Their fight is everywhere existential.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Yet another EU government reintroducing border controls by invoking Ceuta as “threat” justifying its checks. The threat is manifestly inexistent as no secondary movements exist. After Italy, Spain and Austria got a free pass from @magnusbrunner more governments contribute to dismantle Schengen.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 07/10/2026
As AI shifts work from people to machines, it will force a rethink of who gets taxed, on what, and where. Nowhere is that question more urgent than in Europe, which funds the world's most comprehensive welfare states primarily through taxes on work.
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EU will need to tax AI ‘workers’ to keep funding human pensions
As AI shifts work from people to machines, it will force a rethink of who gets taxed, on what, and where. Nowhere is that question more urgent than in Europe, which funds the world's most comprehensive welfare states primarily through taxes on work.
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have a new paper with evidence that fiscal consolidation leads to sizable and persistent declines in public investment in advanced economies; reductions in government consumption are smaller. Real spending on health, education, social protection, environmental protection falls to varying degrees.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 07/10/2026
Serious fiscal state capacity is when it’s shock and awe among offshore wealth holders. (“They” are the Communist Party.)
FT: One Chinese tech investor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says he and friends of similar high net worth were shocked by the precision with which the tax reforms target key offshore holdings and historic income, and the tight deadline set to pay.

“They have the system, they know your investments overseas . . . they can actually break open those trusts,” he says. “I think they’ve been thinking about this for a long time.”
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Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Under Sarkozy, Hollande, and Macron, France became a tax haven, multiplying fiscal schemes for large firms and wealthy households. Public budgets now lack billions. Now financial markets put more pressure. Meanwhile, high school students protest because they don't have enough teachers - or desks.
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 02/10/2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday! For 24 hours, we waive our revenue share, so even more of every purchase goes to the artists and labels behind the music. Go forth. The music is waiting: bit.ly/4hW8Snx
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lechitobi.eurosky.social @lechitobi.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Diskursmonitor.de Gerade erst entdeckt. Sehr cool!
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Diskursmonitor | Online-Portal zur Strategischen Kommunikation
Der Diskursmonitor eine gemeinschaftlich erarbeitete Online-Plattform zur Aufklärung und Dokumentation von strategischer Kommunikation. Sie finden hier fachlich fundierte Informationen zu der Frage, wie mit Sprache, Bildern und Medien politische Interessen verfolgt werden: das Glossar erläutert und illustriert wichtige Begriffe aus Praxis und Forschung; das Review und das Barometer geben Einblicke in die aktuelle Diskursgroßwetterlage in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen; die Werkstatt bietet Handreichungen für die Praxis. Der Diskursmonitor ist noch im Aufbau. Wir freuen uns über Fragen, Hinweise und Interesse an Mitarbeit oder Kooperation.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:
blaetter.de
Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms
Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 29/09/2026
5 countries, and none of them governed by a far-right party
RWANDA DEPORTATIONS

AFRICA TIMETABLE: Migrants deported from the EU could be sent to countries such as Rwanda or Uganda from as early as next year.

Five EU countries aim to have their plan to process migrants deported from the EU ready for a pilot project in the first half of 2027, and have it fully operational by the second half of the year, Greece’s Migration Minister Thanos Plevris told Playbook in an interview.

Core Group: Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany and the Netherlands — the so-called “Core Group” or “Group of 5” — have spearheaded the push to process people deported from Europe to outside the EU. According to several diplomats, the first deal will be with Rwanda. Other countries under discussion are Uganda and Uzbekistan.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Intl humanitarian law must apply consistently to all people, all places.. if not it just becomes a menu you can choose from when, for some political reasons, you want to criticise someone" Norways foreign minister at yesterdays Hague Group meeting on defending intl law
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Hauck & Bauer @hauckundbauer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ob geplant oder nicht: hier wird eine Lagerkonfrontation vorbereitet, die das Parteiensystem der Bundesrepublik endgültig sprengen dürfte.
NEUORDNUNG DES LÄNDERFINANZAUSGLEICHS:
KEIN STEUERGELD FÜR ANTISEMITEN UND LINKSEXTREMISTEN.
Boris Rhein
@BorisRhein_cdu
@Markus_Soeder hat Recht: Kein Steuergeld für Antisemiten und Linksextremisten. Wir brauchen eine gerechte Neuordnung des Länderfinanzausgleichs mit Anreizen für Leistung statt Pauschalüberweisungen an Haushaltschaoten und Extremisten.
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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 22/09/2026
📰 "KI-Unternehmen wie #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google und #Meta sollen in der EU deutlich mehr Rechte erhalten, wenn es um die Verarbeitung von Daten geht: noyb verweist dabei auf ein durchgesickertes Dokument der irischen Ratspräsidentschaft." 🇮🇪 👉 Hier weiterlesen: orf.at/stories/3442...
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Datenschützer: EU plant Freibrief für KI-Firmen
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lechitobi.eurosky.social @lechitobi.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
The Ezra Klein Show: We Can't Lose Control of A.I. Webseite der Episode: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o... #ai
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 21/09/2026
Ein sehr guter und wichtiger Punkt, der erneut zeigt, wie Normalisierung und Radikalisierung von Rechtsaußen Hand in Hand gehen. Ein Tabubruch vor ein paar Jahren wird heute zur bewussten Provokation, die ohne Folgen bleibt.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People struggling financially have voted predominantly for the AfD in recent elections. Not in Berlin. The Left put socializing corporate landlords on the ballot, and won the election and this group.
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Maxwell School @maxwellsu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“If the Follow the Rules Act were better known, then perhaps more public servants might be willing to resist improper orders—and more military and civilian leaders might think twice before giving them,” writes University Professor Emeritus Sean O'Keefe and co-author Joshua Gotbaum (@brookings.edu ).
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When told to break the law, must feds just follow orders? | Brookings
Federal law protects public servants who refuse illegal orders, but most don't know their rights exist or how to use them.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 18/09/2026
Ireland is to the US what Hungary was for too long to Russia. We need to be much stricter in Treaty-level interventions to shut down the beachheads of fascism.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
have I mentioned lately that oligarch-owned media consolidation is bad
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Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Heinz Kapelle (*17. September 1913) war Anführer einer kommunistischen Jugendgruppe, die gegen die Nazis agierte. Sie verteilten Flugblätter und riefen zum Widerstand gegen das verbrecherische Treiben der Nazis auf. Die Gestapo verhaftete ihn am 16. Oktober 1939 beim Verteilen von Flugblättern.
Auf dem Foto sieht man einen jungen Mann, mit hellen Haaren , der in die Ferne schautBerliner Gedenktafel: hier lebte Heinz Kapelle 17.9.1913- 1.7.1941 Anführung einer kommunistischen Widerstandsgruppe gegen das nationalsozialistische Regime. Am 20. Februar 1940 zum Tode verurteilt und in Berlin Plötzensee hingerichtet.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The signs that Meloni wants an election before too long & that she has given up on becoming the only PM to lead the same postwar govt for a whole term are now piling up. Soon enough Italy may have new electoral law. Good excuse to call it a day: "We must now give people the opportunity bla de bla"
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wie könnte ein starkes EU-Budget durch neue Einnahmequellen (z.B. Besteuerung von Krypto, digitalen Dienstleistungen und ultra-höhen Vermögen) finanziert werden? Wir haben zentrale Erkenntnisse aus unserer Studie zusammengefasst, wie sich Druck auf steigende nationale Beiträge reduzieren ließe.
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lechitobi.eurosky.social @lechitobi.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Dov'é il #sovranismo quando ne hai bisogno?
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For decades economic theory told governments their job was to fix market failures. If that is all you do, all you need is bandages. So we stopped investing in the state capacity to deliver the goals we set. Spoke to Capitalisn't podcast about my new book, The Common Good Economy.
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Can Capitalism Serve the Common Good? - ft. Mariana Mazzucato | Capitalisn't
The drugs in your medicine cabinet were probably discovered on your dime, in a university lab, with NIH money. You don't hold the patent. You don't set the price. Same story with the touchscreen, the…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is an excellent point by Musa. For all performative anxiety, most Gen X and (older) Millenials grew up in time of “anti-fascist hegemony” with marginal far-right challengers. Particularly straight, white men were not threatened in their comfort — by either far right or so-called “woke”.
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MiGAZIN @migazin.de · 10/09/2026
Grenzkontrollen und Rückführungen stehen im Zentrum von Dobrindts Kurs. Gleichzeitig will er weniger Geld für Integrationskurse und politische Bildung ausgeben. Kritiker halten das angesichts des #AfD-Wahlerfolgs für ein politisch problematisches Signal.
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Streit um Kürzungen - Dobrindt verteidigt harten Migrationskurs
Grenzkontrollen und Rückführungen stehen im Zentrum von Dobrindts Kurs. Gleichzeitig will er weniger Geld für Integrationskurse und politische Bildung ausgeben. Kritiker halten das angesichts des #AfD-Wahlerfolgs für ein politisch problematisches Signal.
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Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen @ndmedienmacher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
4. Überdenkt Formate Ein Live-Interview mit nachgereichtem Faktencheck reicht nicht, wenn ein Wahlkampf über Emotionen läuft. Prüft vorher, welches Format der Situation gerecht wird, nicht nur der Quote.
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taz @taz.de · 06/09/2026
In den ländlichen Regionen Sachsen-Anhalts stellt sich Annekatrin Els vom Zerbster Bündnis für Demokratie gegen den Rechtsruck.
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Zivilgesellschaft in Sachsen-Anhalt: Bündnis gegen die Einsamkeit
In den ländlichen Regionen Sachsen-Anhalts stellt sich Annekatrin Els vom Zerbster Bündnis für Demokratie gegen den Rechtsruck.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My main two general takeaways as a GDR historian on this election (which will probably be painfully familiar to anyone who has followed me for a while) 1. Equating the AfD with a residual mass authoritarian personality is an oversimplification that obscures effects of post-89 social collapse...
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 06/09/2026
The entire debate about whether the cordon sanitaire is "successful" or contributes to the strengthening of the far right completely misses the point. Far-right politics + policies already constantly take centre stage, whether or not the far right is in power. There is no cordon around their ideas.
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lechitobi.eurosky.social @lechitobi.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Fight your phone. A philosophers (Daniel Groll) guide: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Weaning.docx
Let me start by saying: I get it. What follows is the product of someone who has struggled to find the right place for phones, computers, social media, news sites, blogs etc. etc. in his life. I’ve wo...
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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de · 04/09/2026
Russian oil & gas revenues fell in August. The Iran war led to a small revenue bump this year, but no windfall. Domestic gasoline subsidies ate up a big portion of the price effect.
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lechitobi.eurosky.social @lechitobi.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
#inflation m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nkV...
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Wie China die Ölpreis-Explosion verhindert hat | Mit Prof. Adam Tooze
YouTube video by Surplus Magazin
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 02/09/2026
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to identify as working class – even after taking economics, occupation, education and other factors into account. 67% of Republicans and Republican leaners say “working class” describes them well, as do 55% of Democrats.
Chart showing Republicans are more likely than Democrats to identify as ‘working class' regardless of education, occupation or financial situation
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lechitobi.eurosky.social @lechitobi.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Datenschutz!
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
China just sent a warning to the global auto industry by recalling a record 4.3M vehicles, including millions of Teslas, over emergency door-release concerns. Beijing is moving to ban concealed door handles from 2027. tinyurl.com/yn82kwrd
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China Flexes Its Auto-Safety Muscle With Record Recall of Tesla, Other Cars
A huge recall in China last week aims to address a long-standing fear of EV owners: potentially being trapped in their cars when the power fails. It also highlights how Beijing is now spearheading…
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Die derzeit in den Medien hochgejazzte Debatte zum Ost-West-Konflikt behauptet, eine Realität zu beschreiben, die medial inszeniert und zum Teil erzeugt wird. In den sozialwiss. Umfragen ist dieser Konflikt nachrangig, hinter vielen anderen, unter anderem zwischen Arm und Reich.
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