Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine. 11567122483
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It’s time to impeach Trump how. The U.S. has proposed that European countries unfreeze Russian sovereign assets and transfer them to a Washington-overseen vehicle in an effort to revive peace talks over Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/u-propo...ca.finance.yahoo.comU.S. proposes unfreezing Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks- FTInvesting.com-- The U.S. has proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets and transfer them to a Washington-overseen vehicle in an effort to revive peace talks over Ukraine,... 2713151
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026‼️Reports are increasingly appearing from the Ukrainian military and experts that Starlink has been turned off/limited for Ukrainian Defenders. Starlink is used in the most effective Ukrainian interceptor against Russia's jet-powered drones. So if it's not functioning properly, 24434193
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine. 641562694
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/10/2026Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time 29264182384
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 13/10/2026’Old-timers will remember how WeWork fell apart: they promised an IPO. But despite a massive cash infusion from Masa Son, the promised IPO never came. History may well be about to repeat itself.‘ garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-this... 618938
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic. 476201387086
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Free weekend out. The big story is that Donald Trump is now free to be what he always was--strong supporter of Vladimir Putin and an agent pushing for Russian victory. He no longer has to pretend he cares at all about Ukrainian dead or Russian War crimes. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...phillipspobrien.substack.comWeekend Update #206: Trump Is Free To Be What He Has Always BeenRussian Strikes Against Civilians; Do Ukraine And Europe Understand What They Must Do? 33628251
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's important to recognise is that this *isn't* about the US getting "back" to business with Russia, because there's never been much US-Russia business of any kind beyond arms control. What the Trump admin is pushing for is an unprecedented alignment of the US with Russia. 36607222
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump lifting sanctions on Russia should be no surprise to anyone who's paid attention to Trump for the last decade. The diesel/midterms issue may be the excuse to do it now, but it's not the reason for it. He's doing it because he's always wanted to lift sanctions on Russia. 212924
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Page One: “.. this is a full-blown crisis.” ✈️ @financialtimes.com 47653243
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine. 1101124814521
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Zelensky isn’t pulling his punches 4492123
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country. 2069162705673
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/10/2026‘The dividing line for the US consumer is increasingly coming down to stock ownership, which is itself increasingly tied to the AI story. The risk is that both the investment boom and sustained consumer spending are riding on the same AI trade.‘ www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 512835
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The ICC is the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system. It prosecutes individuals responsible for the most serious crimes under international law. 421005252
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/10/2026‘Market participants aren’t sure whether the neoclouds can attract enough rev to support the huge investments needed to build out capacity. They are also still struggling to figure out the value of cos that own chips with an uncertain lifespan and a rising cost of debt.‘ www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...wsj.comScrapped IPO of Nvidia-Backed Company Points to Limits of AI BoomAustralian cloud-computing firm Firmus Grid had sought a $30 billion valuation despite having only two operational data centers. 811429
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Kirsten Verdel @locuta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Naza gezien, de documentaire over burgerslachtoffers in Gaza. Ik schrijf niet veel over Israël/Gaza, want je krijgt van alle kanten alléén maar drek over je heen dan en je kunt het met een genuanceerd standpunt (Hamas fout, Netanyahu fout) bij niemand goed doen, maar: hier toch: 109922
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty. 23929272
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru... 4433006875
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Kirsten Verdel @locuta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026- De Trump-regering trekt de VS terug uit GRECO, een Europese organisatie die corruptie bestrijdt. De VS is daarmee pas het derde land dat de organisatie verlaat, na Rusland en Belarus. 24117
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Chinese won the trade war with Trump. 49139
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They hate him. They really hate him.charlotteclymer.substack.comPete Hegseth’s Ruthless Pentagon NicknameThey hate him. 1142457672
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social 275108123183
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Like I said on my podcast Uncovered yesterday, the danger of AI is not that it will send a "robot army" to cause destruction like idiot Trump said, it is something like this. When AI is used to select targets and fire the weapon, that is when we will have problems. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 68903299
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I have some thoughts on AI and national security. I started writing this prior to the panic over the weekend, but it seemed important to finish part 1 quickly in light of the chaos. Unlocked for everyone: www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog/pos...patreon.comAI and National Security: Part 1 | Angry StafferI started writing this prior to the AI panic explosion over the last couple of days, but in light of recent information, it seemed more impo 781873659
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026I joined the Times Tech Report to talk about why the media should be embarrassed they fell for an Antrhropic researcher’s specious “dire warnings” that are completely disconnected from reality, and Anthropic and OpenAI’s $1.3tn “reset wall” of commitments starting in 2027. youtu.be/Svwmd0xSoXM?...youtu.beAI is about to hit a cashflow wall | Ed ZitronYouTube video by The Tech Report 528150
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 11/09/2026'A team of Stanford University computer scientists find that SLMs can find the same — or better — answer to the kind of queries that dominate current chat requests almost every time and cut compute and energy costs by between 60 and 80 per cent.' www.ft.com/content/4858... 731480
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Q: On the checks, we have $40t in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote? T: I'm doing it as a reward for having to put up w/Biden Q: You also offered tariff refunds-- TRUMP: Not you Q: And that didn't happen T: You're the worst 58241831248
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“.. The market has priced Hormuz for 7 months. It has not priced losing the Red Sea too.” - The Merchant’s News 30523179
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/09/2026‘Goodhart’s contribution is not his rejection of models but his constant questioning of what they’ve left out. At turning points in the econ., outcomes are determined by the institutions, fiscal constraints, failures and demographic forces that models struggle to capture.‘ www.ft.com/content/6c0b...ft.comLessons drawn from Charles GoodhartWhat we can learn from the influential economist who turns 90 next month 064
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about 351103236
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/06/2026🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 15429921344
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Some further thoughts on the new round of peace negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. Moscow is offering the United States not "peace in exchange for business," but rather "business in exchange for war." The Kremlin is offering Washington major Russian-American deals, access to energy resources, ⤵️ 19225101
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...open.substack.comThe 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026So far. 19234191592
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“.. an Nvidia-backed AI developer is renting computing capacity from an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, using an Nvidia-leased data center that will be filled with Nvidia’s hardware.” @barrons.com $NVDA www.barrons.com/articles/nvi... 36456141
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"Germany and Russia are at war" - German defense entrepreneur Stefan Thumann, via Politico. According to Thumann, Russia's sabotage operations against Germany are an "act of war", "controlled and coordinated by the Russian armed forces." 21474143
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Kotaku @kotaku.com · 31/08/2026Sony argues licensing warning labels are unnecessary because everyone already knows they don't own their digital games kotaku.com/sony-argues-no-ones-dumb…kotaku.comSony Says Wild Stuff In A New Legal Filing About Digital GamesA new legal filing defends the lack of licensing disclosures on the PlayStation Store 3222649
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So the president is threatening nuclear war to blow an entire nation off of the planet. Totally normal stuff! 2436777
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026Google Maps has now capitulated to Donald Trump and changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Apple Maps still uses the correct name. 8973214980
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/08/2026So the USA is stealing Venezuelan oil and entrenching a new dictator in power to oppress the Venezuelan people. There needs to be a reckoning for all this. 1302104603319
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“According to people familiar with the meeting, [Gabbard] told Trump .. Tehran would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing the global energy market. And it would strike U.S. forces and partners in the Middle East, prompting questions about American resolve ..” www.wsj.com/politics/nat... 32443122
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you haven’t noticed, it is Canada that is fighting for decency and respect in international relations, and the USA that is acting without honor or logic. All Americans who believe in doing the right thing must stand with Canada. 35848171
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026ING with the obligatory Titanic reference. 🚢 @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/08/20/s... 651261398
Reposted by Sam 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🇺🇦RenateKappes @renatekappes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026”More broadly, European defence companies have in recent months accelerated efforts to develop weapons and other systems free of US components following Washington’s pivot away from Europe under President Donald Trump.” – @alanderminna.bsky.social 🧵 14511