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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UK Tory opposition leader Badenoch to abandon climate change net zero 2050 target This isn't a new direction but a craven failure, feeding not halting Britain's decline Wrong in so many ways, it fails • Morally • Economically • Socially • Politically 🧵1/5 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Conservative party to ditch commitment to net zero in UK by 2050
Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Part of being politically effective is you have to start by having an accurate view of a) where the voters are and b) what your political opponent is actually like. Not sure if the underlying problem with Badenoch's positioning on Net Zero is she is missing a), b) or both, but certainly one of them.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Car boot sale on the White House lawn
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A reimagining of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, with JD Vance.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Time for a tariff on the word "tariff"? Its etymological supply chain is global - shipped into English via medieval Mediterranean and Latin tarifa ("list of prices, book of rates"), & ultimately sourced from Arabic ta‘rif, "notification" or "definition." A linguistic import tax seems only fair?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Quid pro oh no www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
0%, 25%, 0%, 25%, 50%, 25% …..
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Is he “paying” full list do you think? #priorities
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/03/2025
US defense companies might never be trusted again on.ft.com/3DtQQZs
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Can the US switch off Europe’s weapons?
Long hooked on American defence exports, allies feel buyers’ remorse over hardware dependent on Washington support
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/03/2025
"Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies" From Graeme Wood www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military
A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
German magazine ‚Stern‘. (Wordplay on ‚axis of evil‘)
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thank God Keir Starmer is prime minister, part 1,274.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/03/2025
Mexico and Canada should both ban X and Facebook. As well as every other democracy in the world that wants to stay in existence.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a tuxedo is sitting in front of a window and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a tuxedo is sitting in front of a window and making a funny face .
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Europe’s biggest powers are swinging behind efforts to seize more than €200bn of frozen Russian assets, as they draw up plans for a ceasefire deal in Ukraine www.ft.com/content/6536...
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Europeans move towards seizing €200bn of Russian assets
French discuss proposal for Kremlin to lose securities if it breaches a future ceasefire
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In unrelated news…
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
presidential ponzi #nuts
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"I gotta be honest, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other" - JD Vance in 2022. Explains a lot of today's behavior.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Chris Mason failing to meet this moment when readers need him to explain what happened and why it’s important.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The most shameful day for the United States of America in any of our lifetimes.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Why?? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Welcome to the second China shock. China now produces the same goods as Germany. Germany will keep bleeding export markets and GDP as China floods the world with its good surplus. Without boosting EU/domestic demand Merz will not be able to offset the damage. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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German Economy’s Slump Driven by Steep Decline in Exports
A modest pickup in consumer spending couldn’t offset a steep slump in exports that was chiefly responsible for another contraction in Germany’s economy at the end of 2024.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Kemi Badenoch is delivering a speech tomorrow. Here are the pre-briefed extracts in all their incoherent glory.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2025
Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"
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Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Quite a contrast here. Rather remarkably, Die Linke, which was polling at 3% at the start of the campaign, won the election among young people with the extreme right party, AfD in second place. Among over 70s AfD polling at half their numbers in electorate as a whole. From DW.
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Has Turkey Joined @hasturkeyjoined.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
No.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/02/2025
map of where some of the "money for Ukraine" went bsky.app/profile/trum...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
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"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A reminder, from February 25th, 2022:
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025
Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Opinion | The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours (Gift Article)
What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Italy's Corriere della Sera with key observations and data, picking up on Brad and my work. The newspaper highlights how China's aggressive export-led growth model, which is hammering the German economy, is having serious knock-on effects for Italy. The German crisis is a European crisis. 1/x
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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
How Dunning-Kruger works... and travels.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thinking of those UK Tories who rightly supported Ukraine - but who also foolishly supported this buffoon, who blames Ukraine for being invaded
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“Putin has got already got what he wants: the chance to negotiate directly with the United States on Ukraine, … over the heads of Kyiv and Europe - as well as the opportunity to put himself at the top table of international politics.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Donald Trump offers Vladimir Putin a way back in from the cold
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg analyses how one phone call between Moscow and DC has already upended east-west relations.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Hegseth says return to Ukraine's 2014 borders 'unrealistic' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Pete Hegseth says return to Ukraine's 2014 borders 'unrealistic'
In a stark warning to Kyiv, the US defence secretary also says he does not envision Ukraine joining Nato.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
FFS techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/e...
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Elon Musk-led team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI | TechCrunch
A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted a $97.6 billion bid to purchase OpenAI on Monday. The news comes by way of Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff,
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Ted Gioia “With a better business plan, our Transylvanian count could have raised some serious VC money.“ open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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How to Achieve Immortality
Let's look at the options
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“[V]oices that speak of … connection and … love are once again having trouble being heard. The lines that would divide… seem unbending and are running deep. In a world at odds with itself, Coltrane’s magnum opus remains more relevant than ever.” www.everythingjazz.com/story/john-c...
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme at 60 - Everything Jazz
60 years on from its release, Ashley Kahn reflects on the inception and reception of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”. Read & buy on Everything Jazz.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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‘Reciprocal’ tariffs on every country to be announced next week, Trump says
President Donald Trump shifts from his previous threat to impose an across-the-board tariff on all imports from across the world.
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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Well this looks rather fab… www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Turner: In Light and Shade review – bathe in the redemptive power of landscape art
Combining prints culled from Turner’s studio and watercolours from the Whitworth’s own collection, this show celebrates 250 years of our greatest artist
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Wrote about how Leeds is an unwilling lab rat for a particular strand of Treasury thought www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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