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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h

Who need Congress when the President rules by dictat?

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 20h

So annoying when people just put things out on the sidewalk and expect Amsterdam Gemeente to pick it up. Those belong in the Volkswagen receptacle

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Horrific video out of Kyiv shows scientists and researchers jumping out of windows after a russian strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 21h

I am experimenting with the Trumpian strategy of deliberately leaving words misspelled to generate engagement, let me know if it wroks

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump, MAGA and the New Right intellectuals don’t *simply* hat Europe; it’s much more complicated. I wrote about MAGA’s weird “love-hate relationship” with Europe, as Laura K Field put it to me. Gift link

economist.com

Why MAGA hates and loves Europe

Three big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am once again asking Wikipedia to list height among the standard bits of information on the pages of national leaders.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

economist.com

Why MAGA hates and loves Europe

Three big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It looks like the Russians have decided to prod the Poles into massively improving their antidrone defenses

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These sound like non-trivial problems.

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Charles McPhedran @charliekreuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‼️ The historic National Academy of Sciences building in central Kyiv is burning, according to @christopherjm.ft.com

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The NY Times investigated Mary Peltola's workplace conduct and the worst they could find was that she used some working-class slurs, shoved someone once and made staffers feed her lizard crickets" could be seen as an endorsement open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

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Feed the lizard

It’s a good idea to work hard and be helpful when you’re young and don’t have responsibilities.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a great headline for a German-politics story: Burgerbrandinggate. Can someone please make some events happen so that we can run a story that would work with this

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to express my joyful gratitude to the Zanussi corporation, which after shipping me a replacement refrigerator tray that arrived broken, immediately and without further ado shipped me another one. The universe is a bit brighter this morning

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Worst Jew in history? A candidate, at least

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The Economist @economist.com · 26/09/2026

Reliably Republican counties skew older, but they have significantly higher death rates even after adjusting for age, as our charts show

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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"It's all the West's fault" has been the Russian political elite's indispensable get out of jail free card for 30 years. It allows them to acknowledge that things have gone wrong while taking zero responsibility.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

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Eva Cukier @evacukier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

De Russische politicoloog en stembus-expert Aleksandr Kynev werd gisteren gearresteerd. Hij uitte kritiek op de massale kiesfraude, ik citeerde hem nog in mijn laatste stuk voor NRC www.arctictoday.com/five-days-af...

arctictoday.com

Five days after the vote, FSB arrests leading election expert - ArcticToday

Aleksandr Kynev, who is considered one of Russia’s leading experts on election processes, faces up to 20 years in prison. The detention comes only few days after the State Duma election. The Perovsky ...

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

One of the biggest frustrations for me personally this year was that we couldn't get a scholar of post-authoritarian democratic transitions to bring that perspective to an essay on what to do after Trump is out of office. Dr. Carolyn E. Holmes will be doing this for us for our second issue.

liberalcurrents.com

Democratic Transitions in Next Year's Issue of The Reconstruction Papers

The most important question facing our country.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

You're only ever a recession or an inflation spike away from your opposition gaining power, so you have to want them to respect the broad norms.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Changing autoreply for next time to "I am on holiday with EXTREME PREJUDICE"

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One solution to the bsky growth problem of anti-Twitter sentiment gradually running out would be if people felt that sticking with Silicon Valley platforms meant literally *betraying your country*. Hyves.nl could leverage a bit of that European digital-autonomy animo for the Dutch

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Hyves

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CDU’s Mario Czaja says Merz’s first mistake was…loosening the debt brake. Still crippled by German debt superstition. It’s like watching a farmer try to cope with climate change when he really deeply believes that the weather is God’s judgment on sexual morality www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

zeit.de

Kritik am Bundeskanzler: Brinkhaus soll in Unionsfraktionssitzung mit Merz abgerechnet haben

Der ehemalige Unionsfraktionschef hat dem Kanzler laut einem Bericht schwere Vorwürfe gemacht. »Wir alle müssen uns verändern und in erster Linie du«, sagte Brinkhaus.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is not much that I know to be absolutely true, but this is one of those things

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Dutch pre-Facebook social-media site Hyves.nl has been brought back online by its current owners, a Dutch-Belgian media holding. Currently at 11,000 members. Now the Dutch govt just has to ban Facebook as a security risk, and Russian-style digital autonomy is back www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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De krabbel maakt een comeback: Hyves is terug

Hyves: Een nostalgische wens van millennials wordt werkelijkheid: ze kunnen weer krabbelen op Hyves. De makers presenteren het als een alternatief voor algoritmegedreven sociale media. „De kritiek op ...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For God's sake, this is craven. The Russians have been trying to obliterate US companies in Ukraine repeatedly and with some success. The US government says nothing at all.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

John Ganz on Erick Erickson's inability to recognize that the racists he intermittently decries are integral to the far right, not infiltrators. I remember Erickson from RedState, which he said would be an open forum, before promptly kicking out any liberal who actually said anything liberal.

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Better Late Than Never?

The Right Wakes Up to Fascism...Kinda

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Sylvana Simons @sylvanasimons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

36 dagen cel en een taakstraf.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Earth-2 where Britain uses PR, the left-leaning coalition of Labor-Greens-Liberals is going to have to kowtow to the tiny Scottish party that provides its majority

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is fascinating and somewhat infuriating. It does make the interesting point that the only serious global players in uranium enrichment besides Russia and China are two European firms: Urenco (British-Dutch-German) and Orano (French).

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump's ban on MSNOW, CNN, and Politico is not only part of the autocratic playbook, but the timing is no coincidence. Trump is well in the autocratic backfire process, thus, entire media outlets he sees as threats must be banished. This is a moment of reckoning for America.

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The Economist @economist.com · 21/09/2026

The next few days, as Germany’s governing party licks its wounds and weighs its options, could prove crucial. Register for free to learn why Friedrich Merz’s position now looks shakier than ever bit.ly/4hgeg4j Photo: DPA

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What issues most concerned voters in Mecklenbur-Vorpommern, where the AfD finished first? Exit polls find the top 5 were: prices and wages; education; the economy; jobs; infrastructure; (stopping) right-wing extremism. Immigration, Islam, Europe? Not in the top 5. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who says it’s impossible for sitting leaders to stay popular in today’s fractious democracies?

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At an extreme-right demo in The Hague on Saturday, a policeman deliberately pushed press photographer Nacho Calonge into a canal, wrecking his equipment. The press association has filed a complaint and demand for compensation. www.rtl.nl/boulevard/ar...

rtl.nl

Persvereniging: in water geduwde journalist verdient compensatie

De Spaanse fotojournalist die zaterdagmiddag door een politieagent in het water werd geduwd tijdens de Malieveldrellen in Den Haag, moet hiervoor gecompenseerd worden. Dat stelt de Buitenlandse Persve...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remember when Bluesky was the social media app where people didn’t act like dicks?

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dutch weatherman and glaciologist would take a bet to drink a cubic meter of water if 2026 wasn’t the hottest summer “since Homo Sapiens has been roaming around on the place we now call the Netherlands”

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I guess you could argue that if the AI revolution actually works then whether Europe has autonomous AI makes litttle difference, since essentially no humans will have autonomy

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surprisingly strong Trump impression here from Karl Rove. Much better than his rapping

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dutch extreme right is demonstrating today in The Hague. The banner reads "White Men In Front".

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It seems Sweden Democrats awakening "den björn" here refers not to the ABBA songs that were performed at Social Democrat rallies but to having "woken the bear" by turning out large numbers of immigrant voters to stop them.

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