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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11d

New newsletter launched: "International Affairs for Normal People" - read my first post and subscribe. It's free: www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/normal-peopl...

“Normal People”? What?

I am not really an expert in anything. However, I have some experience in dealing with experts. Over the last couple decades, I’ve been privileged to work closely with brilliant people in internationa...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 3h

Will the country seriously embarrass itself internationally by having this hateful idiot as a minister?

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 3h

Meet the man tapped to be the Czech Republic's next Foreign Minister, Filip Turek. He has repeatedly endorsed Hitler and belittled the Holocaust. His string of racist vulgarities includes calling Obama the n-word. His sexist ugliness includes rejecting women's suffrage.
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„Popálit cikáně je polehčující okolnost, Obama je negr.“ Odhalujeme smazaný svět Filipa Turka

Možný budoucí ministr zahraničí Filip Turek na Facebooku opakovaně zveřejňoval otevřeně rasistické, sexistické či homofobní výroky a také četné narážky na Hitlera a Mussoliniho. Deník N má k dispozici...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 1d

There's an age requirement to be president of the US. It's 35. Once you're in office, however, you can act like you're two years old, and everyone has to pretend you're a big boy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 1d

500 days. No trial. No charges.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 1d

500 dagen is het dat de Belgisch-Portugese hulpverlener Joseph Figueira Martin willekeurig wordt vastgehouden in de Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek.
www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum...

Wrongly imprisoned for 500 days - and counting...

More in English: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

Humanitaire hulpverleners zoals Joseph verdienen bescherming, geen gevangenis

500 dagen is het dat de Belgisch-Portugese hulpverlener Joseph Figueira Martin willekeurig wordt vastgehouden in de Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek. ‘Mobilisatie doet ertoe’, argumenteren Olivier Vandec...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 2d

"With these deportations, the United States has proactively embraced the return of dissidents as a matter of policy."

Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 2d

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com: how the US has gone from leading a global push against transnational repression, to proactively supporting it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 4d

The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 4d

The foundation of authoritarian rule is lies.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 4d

The @consilium.europa.eu proposals for an EU deportation policy are fully modelled after ICE. @stevepeers.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4d

Plans to further reduce EU standards for expulsion of non-EU citizens, via @statewatch.bsky.social

Jonathan Tranter @jonathantranter.bsky.social · 7d

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 5d

"He has been politically active and formerly served on President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board."
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Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges

Authorities say a Texas megachurch founder has pleaded guilty to lewd and indecent acts with a child after he was accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the 1980s in Oklahoma while he was a trave...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 5d

Question: are we not saying “states’ rights” anymore? That's fine - whatever - but if we're doing a new thing and nobody told me, that I'd have a problem with!
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

White House authorizes deployment of National Guard to Illinois

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said there was "no need for military troops on the ground."

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 6d

In the US, masked armed men are assaulting people with extreme violence. Many are disappeared or deported to places where torture is common.

And UK Conservatives want to copy that?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's nuts:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/europeans-lo...

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 6d

This time, we’re not going to let the outside world hand us over to a mass murdering, imperialist dictator. This time, we’re going to hand ourselves over to a mass murdering, imperialist dictator! DIY appeasement.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election

With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for Ukraine

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 7d

“…detailed legal review led by shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson of Tredegar concluded that the ECHR placed "significant constraints" on the government.” >>> Well, duh, what do they think a human rights instrument is meant to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly. And ask for a comparison: are people in "war-torn" Portland suffering more, less, or the same as, folks in Gaza? Ukraine? Myanmar? Sudan?

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 7d

When Leavitt claims that Portland is war-torn, reporters should ask her where in Portland this is supposedly happening? What's the death toll? How many structures have been destroyed?

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 8d

See also...

"We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 8d

Hmmm.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 8d

Oh.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 8d

The worst people are those who commit multiple murders against innocents.

The second worst people are those who won't condemn a murderous attack until they're sure the identities of the attacker and the victims fit their narrative.

This applies in war zones and in places that are not war zones.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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