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Torkil Sørensen
@torkilsoerensen.bsky.social
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Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark. Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017. (Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.

“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
"Because Trump and his fellow GOP 'leaders' have made their refusal to negotiate with Democrats a bizarre 'principle,' when — as seems increasingly certain — they’re forced to make a deal to reopen the government, Trump, the self-styled dictatorial strongman, will end up substantially diminished."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 5h
Following up on theNoKings protest & polls on election day. More people say that they suport the #NoKings movement than support the MAGA movement.
No surprise since the president's approval is under 50% & only 33% believe he is making the country stronger. Protests reflected popular sentiment.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 5h
This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 9h
EU enlargement is not a 'nice to have'.
It is a necessity if we want to be a stronger player on the world stage.

Extract from my press remarks on the 2025 enlargement package with Commissioner Kos ↓
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7h
It's not the royal family who needs sympathy; it's the victims of Epstein's abuse. Above all, they need answers. But Speaker Johnson sent the House on a 6 week paid vacation because he refuses to return & vote on releasing the Epstein files & reopening the government. Shameful.
Trump says he feels 'badly' for royal family over Andrew-Epstein scandal
"That’s been a tragic situation," Trump said Sunday, after King Charles III stripped his brother of his princely title and effectively banished him from the royal family.
www.nbcnews.com
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 3d
Pro-China propaganda posts are especially prevalent recently, so here's a quick reminder that Russia's war machine would have collapsed long ago were it not for all the help Russia gets from China. Putin is just Beijing's stooge. It's really China that's waging war on Western Europe via Ukraine...
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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 7h
🇬🇧🇬🇧The UK Ministry of Defence has officially confirmed the transfer to Ukraine of all 99 AS-90 self-propelled howitzers remaining in service
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h
“in my official capacity as the head of the FBI, i demand that you stop talking about my girlfriend” is some profoundly embarrassing and unprofessional shit, and that’s before you remember no one *is* talking about his girlfriend, they’re talking about him taking FBI jets to see her
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 22h
17 General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I'm a former CIA officer – if I saw this in a foreign military, we would call that a purge.
"Will You Uphold Your Oath to the Constitution?"
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
youtube.com
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9h
Zelensky also met with soldiers of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade, holding the line on the Pokrovsk front.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 4d
⚡️ French intelligence links Holocaust memorial vandalism to alleged Russian hybrid campaign.

Three Bulgarians charged in the act have been brought to trial, while the fourth one continues to evade custody.
French intelligence links Holocaust memorial vandalism to alleged Russian hybrid campaign
Three Bulgarians charged in the act have been brought to trial, while the fourth one continues to evade custody.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
Is Trump going to threaten to withhold federal funds before elections from every state and city that elects a Democrat or just NYC? Seems like that is buying votes with taxpayer money.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 11h
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has harshly criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for blocking his country's ambitions to join the European Union, describing his unwavering veto as "specific support" for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

#EnlargementSummit
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h
Former deputy head of Hungary’s foreign intelligence, Andras Telkes, shared that Orban government is now fully integrated with Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 16h
"Put another way, the cost of supporting Ukraine without America to the remaining members of nato will need to increase from about 0.2% of gdp to 0.4%"

Bargain.

www.economist.com/internationa...
From The Economist
What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop?
Europe must offer Ukraine a big enough financial package to deter the Kremlin
www.economist.com
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 10h
Today, the President came to where the line holds—to our soldiers on the Pokrovsk axis. A handshake, eye contact, a simple “thank you,” and state awards for those who win us mornings without sirens.👇
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 10h
Trump's economic policy of having one incredibly corrupt, uninformed, degenerate lying autocrat with dementia move taxes up & down (with social media posts) on industries & businesses (an occasionally seizing the means of production) is terrible for long-term economic stability & growth.
5h09un.bsky.social Invalid Handle @5h09un.bsky.social · 10h
Aren’t you an economist?
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Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social · 10h
Short but fine day.
Here Thorup Strand.
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 16h
Was Musk betreibt, ist brandgefährlich. Erst wird seine KI Grok durchideologisiert und gibt scheinneutrale, aber falsche und parteiische Antworten, nun baut er "Grokipedia", das Lügen und Verschwörungstheorien als Wissen verbreiten und in den Köpfen verankern soll.
Mit „Grokipedia“ deutet Elon Musk die Realität um
Mit „Grokipedia“ startet Elon Musk ein Ideologie-Projekt. Er will die „woke“ Wikipedia entmachten und bestimmen, was „wahr“ ist. Er verbreitet die Verschwörungstheorie vom „Großen Austausch“. Und was ...
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 16h
(September 1944, Eindhoven, Holland.) Really good close-ups, during the celebration of freedom restored. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 16h
Famous image of anarchist anti-Francoist guerilla Quico Sabaté firing a mortar loaded with propaganda leaflets over Barcelona in 1955.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 17h
The Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 drew between half a million and a million protesters — it was one of the largest demonstrations in East German history.

Image credits: Bernd Settnik • CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Ralf Roletschek • GFDL 1.2, Ralph Hirschberger• CC BY-SA 3.0 de
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 17h
Yes. Tiedonantaja was the organ of the Stalinist minority faction ("taistolaiset") within the Communist Party of Finland. The majority had been more or less Euro-Communists since the early 1960s, denounced violent revolution as a strategy and eg. condemned loudly the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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European Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu · 17h
On 1 January 2026 Bulgaria will adopt the euro, says President Christine Lagarde. By joining the euro area, Bulgaria is reaffirming that it is proud, sovereign and European.

Read the speech www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...

@president.ecb.europa.eu
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