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dr. Marina @drmarina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Natuurlijk steunt Wilders de Israëlische regering.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026
Cuba's deputy foreign minister slams US sanctions, labelling them 'equivalent to genocide'.
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‘Atrocious' crime: Cuban official decries possibility of US military action
Cuba's deputy foreign minister slams US sanctions, labelling them 'equivalent to genocide'.
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 23/09/2026
Economie draait verrassend goed: huishoudens meer te besteden, bedrijven betere winst
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Economie draait verrassend goed: huishoudens meer te besteden, bedrijven betere winst
In het tweede kwartaal van dit jaar groeide de economie met 0,6 procent. Eerder ging het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) nog uit van een groei van 0,4 procent.
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Mathijs Bouman @mathijsbouman.nl · 23/09/2026
fd.nl/opinie/16129...
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are we developing a distaste for effort? www.ft.com/content/b30e...
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Are we developing a distaste for effort?
Across OECD countries, the number of students who say they give up easily is increasing
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Something grim about how the macho men who renamed it “the department of war” also won’t admit they’re fighting a war with Iran.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The girlboss economy
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to actually persuade the public of something rather than just yell at politicians to try to make them take unpopular positions is very underrated www.slowboring.com/p/trying-to-...
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Lia Geelen 🍀 @lgeelen.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Ik denk serieus dat die man hulp nodig heeft.
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Coen van de Ven @coenvdven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
De tirade van Wilders wordt uitgezeten als een verplicht intermezzo. De teksten zijn heftiger dan ooit in een wanhopige poging om een reactie te forceren. Eén lange schreeuw om de eigen irrelevantie te verhullen. #APB
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Euronews @euronews.com · 21/09/2026
Alternative for Germany co-leader Alice Weidel said the party had achieved 'excellent results' over the weekend.
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Vox @vox.com · 18/09/2026
David Sacks has clashed with safety advocates. He’s no fan of Anthropic or OpenAI. Here’s what he wants. www.vox.com/politics/503...
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The adviser urging Trump to reject AI safety fears
David Sacks has clashed with safety advocates. He’s no fan of Anthropic or OpenAI. Here’s what he wants.
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We worden uitgeknepen door de staat
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Het Financieele Dagblad @fd.nl · 18/09/2026
Elektrificatie maakt Europa ook kwetsbaarder
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Elektrificatie maakt Europa ook kwetsbaarder
Europa wil minder afhankelijk worden van fossiele brandstoffen. Maar naarmate elektriciteit belangrijker wordt voor economie en veiligheid, ontstaat een nieuwe strategische kwetsbaarheid.
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
subsidies schaden de economie alleen maar
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Eerste orkaanvrije seizoen in 60 jaar? Meteorologen kijken vol verbazing naar de Atlantische Oceaan archive.md/XnliB
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/09/2026
COMMENTARY: Volodymyr Zelenskyy is gambling that taking the fight deeper into Russia will put enough pressure on Vladimir Putin to force him to get serious about peace talks. 🔗 politi.co/4r4L6K5
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Country music conquered America by becoming a more expansive version of itself. www.slowboring.com/p/everything...
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Everything is country
How a once-loathed genre became the sound of America
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/09/2026
“It is difficult to tell the difference between an al-Qaeda that is stealthily rebuilding and an al-Qaeda that is dead,” Graeme Wood writes. He explores where the terrorist organization stands, 25 years after 9/11:
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Did al-Qaeda Succeed?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide whether the terrorist organization got what it wanted.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
find this extremely depressing. don't know if people have convinced themselves this is dangerous because they hate AI, or if people have decided they don't care about safety because they hate AI giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/08/2026
Russia is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that negotiations for a peace deal have reached a dead end, according to three people close to the Kremlin.
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Putin Moves to Escalate War in Ukraine With Talks at Dead End
Russia is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that negotiations for a peace deal have reached a dead end, according to three people close to the Kremlin.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/08/2026
Russia's war in Ukraine is becoming increasingly unpopular with citizens fearing for their futures. How do Putin and Zelenskyy deal with growing discontent? 🎧 Tune in on August 27 at 8am ET: bloom.bg/4wSLhJL
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Seems bad
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI Is Helping Patients Solve Medical Mysteries www.wsj.com/health/ai-is...
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AI Is Helping Patients Solve Medical Mysteries
Patients, doctors and nurses are turning to the technology for help identifying rare and undiagnosed diseases.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12/08/2026
Fancy a morning coffee, orange juice or blueberry pancakes for your Sunday brunch? Prepare to fork out more for those items if Brussels' plan to get foreign growers to align with the EU's pesticide rules holds.
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Breakfast looks a lot more expensive under EU pesticide plans
Coffee, citrus and berry prices set to spike if a plan to tighten pesticide standards for imports becomes reality.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12/08/2026
Coffee, citrus and berry prices are set to spike across the EU if a plan to tighten pesticide standards for imports becomes reality. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/your...
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Things like this make me eurosceptic
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 13/08/2026
Russia is racing to build its own low-orbit satellite internet system that could leave Ukraine vulnerable to more attacks, the deputy chief of Ukraine's military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Vadym Skibitskiy, warned this week.
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‘Much faster than originally planned’: Ukraine warns of Russian Starlink rival
Russia’s Starlink copycat is heading to orbit ahead of schedule, and that’s a problem for Ukraine.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 03/08/2026
We’re locked in a cycle: Trump threatens to resume the war, he claims Iran backed down, and then he gets frustrated with Iran again.
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Trump backs down from yet another empty threat to Iran
We’re locked in a cycle: The president threatens to resume the war, he claims Iran backed down, and then he gets frustrated with Iran again.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 04/08/2026
If tariffs on aluminum were going to spur more domestic production, wouldn't that have happened by now? How many more ways does this policy have to be tried before it can be considered a failure?
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Trump said tariffs on aluminum would boost domestic production. The White House now admits that didn't happen.
It's been more than eight years since Trump's first aluminum tariffs were imposed. How long do we have to wait before calling this a failure?
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 09/08/2026
Nieuwe eisen Iran voor heropening Straat van Hormuz, snelle deal lijkt uit zicht
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Nieuwe eisen Iran voor heropening Straat van Hormuz, snelle deal lijkt uit zicht
Met de nieuwe voorwaarden lijkt een snelle deal over de heropening van de belangrijke zeestraat buiten bereik.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/08/2026
Exclusive: The Pentagon is asking the U.S. defense industry to rapidly escalate the production and delivery of weapons, including munitions that are in extreme shortage due to the war with Iran, according to a Defense Department memo obtained by The Post.
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Pentagon presses defense firms to build weapons as Iran war depletes stocks
The directive to industry from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg comes amid tensions over a critical U.S. munitions shortage.
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The US would have won this war if physical reality was totally different lol
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 08/08/2026
“Wildberries has lost up to one-third of its warehouse space and as much as 480 billion rubles’ worth of goods ($5.9 billion) in the Ukrainian attacks, according to Moscow-based Data Insight, an e-commerce consultancy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/w...
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As Ukraine Strikes Wildberries, Russia’s Richest Businesswoman Faces Her Biggest Test Yet (Gift Article)
As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site Wildberries, Tatyana Kim, its billionaire co-founder, faces her biggest test yet.
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Interessant artikel archive.md/W6zqq
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t @turkishliberal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Time preference of money exists
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Four new reactors of 1 gigawatt each are now estimated to cost $14.4 billion -- 55% of more than the 2024 estimate." Even India can't stop spiraling costs of nuclear plant build out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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India’s Russian Nuclear Reactor Costs Surge 55% After Delays
The cost of adding four Russian-designed nuclear reactors at the Kudankulam plant in southern India has surged by more than half after the war in Ukraine pushed back construction by almost three years...
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The world reached 1,000 GW of solar installed in 2022, Bloomberg Green's story headline was "Clean Power Isn’t Reaching Those Who Need It Most" Is that claim still true at 3,000 GW? The chart below hides an interesting story. Thread below 🧵 My story: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"The number of countries with at least 1 gigawatt of solar installed has grown to as many as 74 last year, up from 42 in 2020." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🔌💡
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Solar Power Quietly Crossed a New Milestone as Deployments Rise
Installations of panels are rapidly advancing worldwide
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This wasn't on my adaptation bingo card. "Romania used 180kg explosive to blow rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output
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jessefrederik.bsky.social @jessefrederik.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Democratie in verval? De democratie werkt juist prima (alleen vinden progressieven dat niet leuk)
In een vertegenwoordigende democratie zullen populaire standpunten vroeg of laat vertegenwoordigd worden. Steun voor minder migratie was onder kiezers allang normaal, nu is het dat ook onder politici....
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Het Financieele Dagblad @fd.nl · 04/08/2026
De Amerikaanse staat neemt volop belangen in bedrijven. Dat ondermijnt het eigen succesmodel
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De Amerikaanse staat neemt volop belangen in bedrijven. Dat ondermijnt het eigen succesmodel
De Amerikaanse staat neemt onder president Trump volop belangen in bedrijven.Economen waarschuwen voor de gevolgen van dit vriendjeskapitalisme.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/08/2026
You heard the man: we can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Caixin: "China’s State Council approved the construction of eight new nuclear power reactors. The approvals underscore Beijing’s unparalleled commitment to expanding its atomic fleet as the country races to nearly double its operational nuclear capacity." www.caixinglobal.com/2026-08-01/b...
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Beijing Clears Eight New Reactors as China Accelerates Nuclear Buildout
Most of the newly approved units will use the domestically developed Hualong One design as Beijing pushes to expand operating nuclear capacity to 110 million kilowatts by 2030
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One of my hottest takes — it makes sense for public policy to preserve nature as a priority but farms aren’t nature! www.slowboring.com/p/farms-aren...
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Farms aren’t nature
A banal take with serious consequences
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This study supports “my side” of the food/climate debates. It confirms that organic/cage-free eggs are worse for the climate than factory-farmed eggs. Because they eat more of the earth! But as usual the truth is more complicated than “my side is right.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/08/2026
China approved eight new nuclear reactors on Friday, with the projects reportedly worth more than 170 billion yuan ($25 billion)
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China Approves $25 Billion Nuclear Expansion as Energy Demand Soars
China approved eight new nuclear reactors on Friday, with the projects reportedly worth more than 170 billion yuan ($25 billion), accelerating its atomic buildout as the country seeks to power its economy without increasing carbon emissions.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/08/2026
ExxonMobil CEO says Europe will start losing energy imports in 2027 when onerous new methane regulation comes into force.
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Exxon CEO Says Europe to Lose Energy Imports on New Climate Law
Europe will start losing energy imports in 2027 when onerous new methane regulation comes into force, according to ExxonMobil Holdings Corp.’s Darren Woods.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
hmm let’s add a couple lines and see how it looks
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