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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In spite of everything that has followed, blowing up the JCPOA remains the most destructive Trump policy in the long run (matched only by PEPFAR cuts).

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Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team · 09/03/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 09/03/2026

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky

After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

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Lukas Leuzinger @lukasleuzinger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

«Hält man an der Idee fest, die digitalen Riesen zerschlagen zu müssen, droht ein klassischer Fehlschluss: Man zerstört am Ende genau das, was ihren Wert ausmacht.» Der Essay von Michael Munger über die Macht der Plattformen und wie man sie begrenzt: schweizermonat.ch/die-zerschla...

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Die Zerschlagung der digitalen Giganten wäre ein Fehler – es gibt einen klügeren Weg – Schweizer Monat

Amazon, Uber, Airbnb: Als Konsumenten schätzen wir die grossen Internetplattformen – als Bürger wollen wir ihre Macht begrenzen. Das stellt auch das Kartellrecht vor neue Herausforderungen.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 20/01/2026

This post got thousands of likes on Bluesky despite being published on Mastodon What I mean by that is not that the Mastodon post was copy/pasted to Bluesky, the post you’re seeing and can natively interact with on Bluesky is literally the original Mastodon post The power of open protocols

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I suspect that this is a common knowledge problem too, partly. If much of the mobilization has come from the bottom up with little elite buy-in, then it is hard to "see" what is happening collectively.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 02/12/2025

Also this notion that still persists that state owned companies are somehow inherently better to passengers, somehow fairer Look at SNCF! It's 100% state owned, and outright passenger hostile! OK, the profit goes back to the state, but it's not as if it provides a passenger friendly outcome!

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Le Monde has published an interview with French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou about the practicalities of being sanctioned by the US and the failure of states to stand up to this assault on the rule of law. www.lemonde.fr/internationa... A thread with some quotations:

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La vie de Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI sous sanctions des Etats-Unis : « Vous êtes interdit bancaire sur une bonne partie de la planète »

Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures su...

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

What happens when radical right-wing populist parties are in government? In our op-ed, we summarize some key polisky findings: normalization, curtailed civil liberties, weaker economic performance, greater inequality, and an overall threat to democracy itself www.derbund.ch/adrian-vatte...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The issue here is a shift to a kind of post-Blair/post-Corbyn pragmatism situated in an ideological space of "markets where they work best/the state where it works best" requires an underlying vision of what an ideal balance between state power and market forces should be within a European society.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

the PRC's perennial problem is that a big corruption crackdown does nothing to alter the dynamics (opaqueness, hierarchy, lack of any outside audit) that creates corruption in the party or the PLA to begin with, so we see this endless cycle.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

So pretty much everyone here was already purged or disappeared in the last year; this is just the official confirmation.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE. “The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

German asylum claims have halved in the last year. Nothing to do with border theatre; everything to do with developments outside the EU that hardly ever play a role in European countries' domestic migration debates. Still, take the win if it allows you to change the subject.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/09/2025

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If true, we might as well bury the concept of rule of law conditionality. The EU cannot keep letting itself be blackmailed by Orbán into unfreezing funds withheld over rule of law violations in exchange for lifting his veto, unless it truly wants to lose all credibility as a guardian of EU values

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In terms of political representation, workers critique forms of political inequality and political exclusion: Politicians, as part of the upper class, only serve the upper class; and politics is a self-referential sphere closed to non-experts.

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Manuel Granwehr @manuelgranwehr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I somehow missed that there is new evidence for life on Mars. Here‘s an explainer by the wonderful Hank Green. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWuF...

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This Might Actually be Happening

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians buff.ly/rTfNmFC

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Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead

Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

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pin2saved for Bluesky

Migrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

also that allowing the debate on regulation to be dominated by 'we must worship the coming machine god/cripple the coming machine god' guys is useless and counterproductive, and that the actual regulatory steps should be tackling stuff like 'how do we stop old people from being conned'

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

My best prediction for where we'll be in a few decades is less totalitarian dictatorship and more Latin American republic; governments are weak and dysfunctional, but also corrupt and authoritarian.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/08/2025

Not so much an indictment of issue polling as it is (rightly) of feckless leadership and trend-following pundits that only elevate numbers that confirm their priors. I’d like to see people simultaneously argue both for measurement and against the Yglesias theory of politics and public opinion

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The civil society activists and diaspora figures who are frustrated with the flaws of Sharaa's approach to governance also need to think through who and for what most majority Sunni communities in Syria might vote for.

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hobbes: Human beings are naturally selfish. Rousseau: Listen. You’ve only studied human beings in captivity.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The old parliament had 250 members, so this is smaller. Its practical function may well end up being similar: a controlled but somewhat socially representative body to coopt notables and other figures of influence, to debate, approve, and legitimize decisions originating mainly from the presidency.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

After so many years of inertia and incoherence, including during Trump’s first term, U.S. Syria policy is now run by a close Trump ally with a strong personal mandate from the president—and what a difference that makes.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/06/2025

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Reeves is correct in what she is saying right now. Her reform of the fiscal rules to differentiate investment from current spending was crucial. There's much to criticise her for, but she gets nowhere near enough recognition for this.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/06/2025

Within the last five years the government was capable of making it illegal to have your girlfriend stay over for a night. This talk strikes me as being a cover for (a) a lack of ideas about how to wield power (b) poor ministers, and (c) the very existence of trade-offs.

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Priscilla Imboden @imboden.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Von wegen Bankenbändigerin: Bundesrätin Karin Keller-Sutters Regeln für die UBS verschlimmern das Klumpenrisiko. Das findet das Staatsekretariat für Wirtschaft Seco und die Nationalbank. Wichtige Recherche von Kollege @yvesgwegelin.bsky.social in der @republik.ch www.republik.ch/2025/06/04/o...

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Ökonomen des Bundes verreissen Keller-Sutters UBS-Pläne

Das Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft bezeichnet Keller-Sutters UBS-Pläne als Rückschritt.

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Philipp Burkhardt @philippburkhardt.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Die eigene Belegschaft im Aussendepartement EDA appelliert an Aussenminister Ignazio Cassis in einem internen Schreiben, "die wahllosen Operationen der israelischen Armee in #Gaza und im #Westjordanland entschieden zu verurteilen". Dies berichtet der "Sonntags- @blick.ch ". (1/4)

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Social media's ability to take collective political problems and transform them into individual moral problems is unmatched.

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Imo the biggest problem journalists/take havers seem to have with scientific topics is that they hold a deep discomfort with the idea that empirics can effectively end a debate for all good faith participants. It places control outside the confines of discourse

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

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IDF is destroying everything that remains of Gaza, far-right Israeli minister says
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends an inauguration event for Israel's new light rail line for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, in Petah Tikva, Israel, August 17, 2023.
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We can now bring you some lines from a press conference held this morning by Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

He says the little amount of food entering the Strip will not reach Hamas: "The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes."

"What will enter in the coming days is very little: a few bakeries distributing pita bread to people, and public kitchens providing one daily serving of cooked food."

Civilians, he says, will receive one pita and a plate of food - "that's it".

He adds that Israel's military is "destroying everything that remains of the Strip", describing the territory as "one big terror city".

He says civilians will be moved out of combat zones as the army leaves "no stone unturned".

"The population will reach the south of the Strip, and from there, with God’s help, to third countries," he says.

As we've been reporting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will take control of all of Gaza.

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Iain King @iainbking.com · 17/05/2025

A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:

Graph showing violence in England and Wales down 75% over 25 years

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

notable that Lipton's definition is what the Supreme Court has used to effectively enable bribery and corruption within the United States over the last couple of decades.

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