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Lizbeth Barnard

@lizbethbarnard.bsky.social
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Interpreter, writer. Follow geopolitics, European diplomacy & security, transatlantic relations, conflict resolution, the arts. Fletcher School & Oberlin alum.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Corruption all the way down
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 02/10/2026
Some NATO allies are resisting a U.S. effort to set up a close-knit group of alliance countries ostensibly based on their defense spending, arguing the initiative risks undermining unity just when Russia steps up its hybrid campaign in Europe.
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European allies push back against US-led NATO VIP club
Washington’s move to gather favored allies could undermine NATO unity, some countries excluded from the group say.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great thread.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Withdraw from Iraq yesterday, send 10,000 troops and another carrier to fight Iran today. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The thing people forget about Ossoff is he is John Lewis's last student.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are about to finally get serious about fighting woke on Mars
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Several countries, including the UK, France and the Baltic countries did not receive an invite to a planned meeting in Poland that will focus on NATO’s future Trump and his cronies are doing everything to ruin NATO as Russia escalates across Europe. More gifts for Putin
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Day 5 since Pro-Publica reported on Susan Collins corrupt operation trading campaign cash for federal contracts. What’s been her response? She’s running the Trump playbook. Claiming to be the victim of a vast conspiracy by the media and Democrats. No remorse, no apology, no accountability.
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good piece on how the U.S. is essentially disappearing immigrants. As for the author, Michael Kagan, it brings to mind “los desaparecidos” from Argentina, though this is a common as well as horrific tool used by dictators and fascist leaders. behindtheborder.substack.com/p/disappeare...
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Disappeared in America
16,000 people, gone
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Maxime Audinet @maudinet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Le titre est évidemment un peu caricatural, mais la lecture de cet entretien avec Ilya Matveïev et Ilya Boudraïtskis, qui viennent de publier "Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology", paraît aujourd'hui indispensable. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/09/2...
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Pourquoi à gauche on aime Poutine ?
Comment l’anti-impérialisme occidental peut empêcher de voir l’impérialisme russe
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just really a crucial point from @dsallentess.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Can Democracy Survive a Culture of Cruelty?
From a dehumanizing deportation game to the AfD’s school agenda, the right is remaking identity. The states are our wall — if they defend culture, too.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Across the wide-ranging discussion, Carlson repented for his decades as a cable TV partisan, saying he called too much attention to the wrong issues." It would be good to have criteria for attributing "repentance" for decades of behavior beyond saying sorry once. www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
There's what DHS said...and then there's reality ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of the linked Balls and Strikes article, reading as follows:

On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man on the ground who reported injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. Soon, the officers learned that the injured man was a U.S. citizen, and his assailants were federal immigration agents.

The Department of Homeland Security put out a statement on Tuesday claiming that the beaten man “resembled the target” of an immigration enforcement operation, and that he was “not cooperative” with agents’ investigation. “Once the individual finally identified himself,” said DHS, immigration officers “left the scene without further incident.” 

A video of the incident shows that immigration officers pinned the man to the ground while he repeatedly yelled, “I’m a fucking U.S. citizen,” and while concerned witnesses asked why the agents were “fucking him up.” Eventually, the agents drove off without rendering medical aid. People tried to comfort the man, who remained motionless on the ground.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The random civilian who illegally stole everyone's data & dismantled large chunks of the federal government, in an end run around Article I of the Constitution, should be jailed for life & not have large govt contracts, the ability to contribute to political campaigns, or stakes in large media orgs.
Rockwell FoS
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“He and others must do this because, like Brutus and Cassius, they are underlings: Conservative intellectuals are not in the driver’s seat“ substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Better Late Than Never?
The Right Wakes Up to Fascism...Kinda
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 21/09/2026
The three news orgs sue the Trump administration today, seeking an injunction immediately. They will surely prevail, given the blatant illegality - which the Trump administration has to have known. Yet no known official refused to enforce the blatantly illegal order- that in fact is the story here.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/09/2026
Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax ft.trib.al/p5WH080
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Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax
Progressive laureates say November ballot measure could ‘start reining in the power’ of ultra-wealthy
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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TaraT @tarat33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He owed the Committee a report but did not provide one. Unacceptable! Under the National Defense Authorization Act approved by Congress, Colby was required to provide the Senate Armed Services Committee with the classified briefing on the National Defense Strategy no later than Sept. 15.
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Bipartisan criticism from senators about Pentagon briefing on U.S. defense strategy
Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military's priorities, with both Democrats and Republicans accusing a Defense Departmen...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
From the information available, it seems this US-Denmark deal over Greenland changes almost nothing. US had bases there before; US continues to defendsl Greenland because it s in NATO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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U.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says
The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.
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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 18/09/2026
“We’re trying to actually play down the name issue. We’d rather people focus on the substance,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s ambassador-designate to the EU, of the “associate member” label. “We haven’t landed on what the name of it should be.” as.ft.com/r/4cbbc612-f...
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Canada plays down EU ‘associate member’ label
‘We’d rather people focus on the substance,’ says ambassador-designate to the EU
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the European Parliament, following the European Union's invitation to Canada to become the bloc's first "associate member," which rankled President Trump. n.pr/4AfAMmJ
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Canada's Carney welcomes the EU's bid for closer ties amid pressure from Trump
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the European Parliament, following the European Union's invitation to Canada to become the bloc's first "associate member," which rankled President Trump.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media 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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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11/09/2026
A viral social media post warning that top American AI developers are "gambling with our lives" has been met this week in Brussels with business as usual. And a splash of Schadenfreude.
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Keep calm and regulate on: Inside the EU’s response to AI extinction warnings
Brussels sees the panic set off in Silicon Valley as vindication that its AI regulation is the right path.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The EU will provide Ukraine with an additional €6.1 billion to purchase military equipment, including the much-needed Patriot interceptors. Brussels is trying to convince member states to donate their available PAC-3 ahead of winter and replace them later on with future deliveries.
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EU pledges €6.1bn for Ukraine, including aid for Patriot interceptors
Brussels is trying to persuade EU countries that still have Patriot interceptors in their national stockpiles to donate them to Ukraine and replace them at a later stage with deliveries scheduled for ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good news.
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mathieu gallard @mathieugallard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🇺🇸🗳️J’ai écrit pour @grandcontinent.bsky.social cette analyse à deux mois des midterms. Entre le décrochage chez les Hispaniques & les indépendants et le scepticisme croissant des républicains modérés, la coalition de Trump en 2024 se délite, sur fond d'inquiétudes économiques et sociales👇
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Current strategy, between our adventure with Iran as well as the defense of Ukraine with regard to enemy conventional ballistic missiles... it isn't working.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Russian citizen in Romania was under surveillance for months, leading Romanian intelligence to uncover a Russian sabotage operation targeting NATO sites, critical infrastructure and Ukrainian Antonov aircraft. My latest…
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Romania Disrupts Russian Plot Targeting NATO Sites and Ukrainian Aircraft
Earlier today, Romanian intelligence officials announced that they had disrupted yet another Russian sabotage operation targeting military sites and critical infrastructure across the country.
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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Attention on this important @haaretzcom.bsky.social story is focused on the warnings Netanyahu ignored before the Hamas Oct. 7 attack. But equally chilling is his government's neglect of the hostages after the attack despite proposals to free them from day 1
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 08/09/2026
7-Octobre : Benyamin Nétanyahou mis en cause après la publication d’une enquête journalistique affirmant qu’il a été informé d’une attaque à venir
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7-Octobre : Benyamin Nétanyahou mis en cause après la publication d’une enquête journalistique affirmant qu’il a été informé d’une attaque à venir
Selon « Haaretz », qui reprend les informations d’un livre à paraître, le chef du Hamas a informé un intermédiaire qu’« une opération terrifiante » était en préparation. L’information serait remontée jusqu’au président des Emirats arabes unis, qui l’a transmise au premier ministre israélien. M. Nétanyahou dénonce un « mensonge total ».
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/09/2026
A German election result heard around the world ft.trib.al/Ag7rgDs
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A German election result heard around the world
The Kremlin and the Trump administration are cheering on the rise of the AfD
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Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Posting this again. For a reason.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Leah Litman has it exactly right. SCOTUS isn't just creating a unitary executive but allowing the executive to amass all power that the Constitution gives to Congress. SCOTUS does so by eliminating the legal routes for enforcing the laws that Congress has passed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Court’s Ballroom Decision Is a Sign of Deeper Problems
The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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