Bmlto
@bmlto.bsky.social
the human condition, sustainability, people not platforms, decentralized social web, democracy, sisu, paneuropa, eurasia, geopolitics, posting in en + de
🇪🇺 Federalist sentiment is stronger than many realize.
🇪🇺 Should the EU Federalize or Dissolve? 🇮🇹❓
A recent 2026 opinion poll asked Italians what the future of the EU should be.
🔹 61% support transforming the EU into a federal union
🔹 4% want to keep the EU as it is
🔹 27% support dissolving the EU altogether
🤔 What do you think?
A recent 2026 opinion poll asked Italians what the future of the EU should be.
🔹 61% support transforming the EU into a federal union
🔹 4% want to keep the EU as it is
🔹 27% support dissolving the EU altogether
🤔 What do you think?
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
🇪🇺 Federalist sentiment is stronger than many realize.
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How Power Loses Legitimacy
Renee Nicole Macklin Good was a mother. She was killed in Minneapolis after a federal immigration officer fired into her vehicle during an enforcement operation.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-power-...
Renee Nicole Macklin Good was a mother. She was killed in Minneapolis after a federal immigration officer fired into her vehicle during an enforcement operation.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-power-...
How Power Loses Legitimacy
How the death of a mother during a federal operation is becoming a catalytic event in the formation of blue-state political identity.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:09 PM
How Power Loses Legitimacy
Renee Nicole Macklin Good was a mother. She was killed in Minneapolis after a federal immigration officer fired into her vehicle during an enforcement operation.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-power-...
Renee Nicole Macklin Good was a mother. She was killed in Minneapolis after a federal immigration officer fired into her vehicle during an enforcement operation.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-power-...
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Value-Based Realism is a useful autopsy of the post-Biden era, but it is a fatal map for the future.
Rebranding a lack of will and unity as realism doesn't make it a strategy. It’s just managed decline.
We need to unite and stop acting like a geopolitical bystander
Rebranding a lack of will and unity as realism doesn't make it a strategy. It’s just managed decline.
We need to unite and stop acting like a geopolitical bystander
January 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Value-Based Realism is a useful autopsy of the post-Biden era, but it is a fatal map for the future.
Rebranding a lack of will and unity as realism doesn't make it a strategy. It’s just managed decline.
We need to unite and stop acting like a geopolitical bystander
Rebranding a lack of will and unity as realism doesn't make it a strategy. It’s just managed decline.
We need to unite and stop acting like a geopolitical bystander
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany and Europe have “wasted their incredible potential” through delayed reforms and limits on entrepreneurship. He urged slashing bureaucracy, saying the EU single market has turned into “the world champion of overregulation.” #Europe
January 22, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany and Europe have “wasted their incredible potential” through delayed reforms and limits on entrepreneurship. He urged slashing bureaucracy, saying the EU single market has turned into “the world champion of overregulation.” #Europe
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Budanov is looking like he’s already read Trump's 2 a.m. tweets that haven’t even been thought of yet 👁👁
January 22, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Budanov is looking like he’s already read Trump's 2 a.m. tweets that haven’t even been thought of yet 👁👁
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Europe is ready to deliver on a powerful new agenda with India.
Today, the EU agreed to move forward with the signature of a new Security and Defence Partnership.
I look forward to signing it next week during the EU-India Summit in New Delhi.
My intervention in #EPlenary ↓
Today, the EU agreed to move forward with the signature of a new Security and Defence Partnership.
I look forward to signing it next week during the EU-India Summit in New Delhi.
My intervention in #EPlenary ↓
January 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Europe is ready to deliver on a powerful new agenda with India.
Today, the EU agreed to move forward with the signature of a new Security and Defence Partnership.
I look forward to signing it next week during the EU-India Summit in New Delhi.
My intervention in #EPlenary ↓
Today, the EU agreed to move forward with the signature of a new Security and Defence Partnership.
I look forward to signing it next week during the EU-India Summit in New Delhi.
My intervention in #EPlenary ↓
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Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union.
It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join.
If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.
It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join.
If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.
January 22, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union.
It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join.
If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.
It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join.
If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.
🇪🇺🇸🇪 #W Social looks like #Bluesky and will likely federate via #ATProto with #Bluesky and gandersocial.ca.
That would mean you can move from bsky.app to wsocial.eu with your followers and content. This is the power of the #LastNetworkEffect
Many programmers of W are in 🇺🇦
Preview: stage.wsocial.eu
That would mean you can move from bsky.app to wsocial.eu with your followers and content. This is the power of the #LastNetworkEffect
Many programmers of W are in 🇺🇦
Preview: stage.wsocial.eu
January 22, 2026 at 8:10 AM
🇪🇺🇸🇪 #W Social looks like #Bluesky and will likely federate via #ATProto with #Bluesky and gandersocial.ca.
That would mean you can move from bsky.app to wsocial.eu with your followers and content. This is the power of the #LastNetworkEffect
Many programmers of W are in 🇺🇦
Preview: stage.wsocial.eu
That would mean you can move from bsky.app to wsocial.eu with your followers and content. This is the power of the #LastNetworkEffect
Many programmers of W are in 🇺🇦
Preview: stage.wsocial.eu
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Feels to me that Americans fall into two categories right now. Those who are deeply upset and ashamed of their President and those who think they can take advantage or benefit some how from his random acts of cruelty and spitefulness.
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Feels to me that Americans fall into two categories right now. Those who are deeply upset and ashamed of their President and those who think they can take advantage or benefit some how from his random acts of cruelty and spitefulness.
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“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”
January 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”
🇺🇦 Ukraine might not have to join NATO after all. Instead Europe and Ukraine might create a new security framework.
January 20, 2026 at 2:40 PM
🇺🇦 Ukraine might not have to join NATO after all. Instead Europe and Ukraine might create a new security framework.
He argues, the U.S. should recognize South Yemen because it could help stop the war, weaken the Houthis, protect shipping routes, and create a more stable, pro-U.S. partner instead of forcing unity that no longer works.
@hussainabdulhussain.substack.com.web.brid.gy
@hussainabdulhussain.substack.com.web.brid.gy
January 18, 2026 at 7:47 PM
He argues, the U.S. should recognize South Yemen because it could help stop the war, weaken the Houthis, protect shipping routes, and create a more stable, pro-U.S. partner instead of forcing unity that no longer works.
@hussainabdulhussain.substack.com.web.brid.gy
@hussainabdulhussain.substack.com.web.brid.gy
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"Every data centre is a U.S. military base"
Über Deregulierung von Big Tech und Digitale Souveränität bzw. der Mangel daran
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Über Deregulierung von Big Tech und Digitale Souveränität bzw. der Mangel daran
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA
Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM
"Every data centre is a U.S. military base"
Über Deregulierung von Big Tech und Digitale Souveränität bzw. der Mangel daran
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Über Deregulierung von Big Tech und Digitale Souveränität bzw. der Mangel daran
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Welcome to the world’s biggest market.
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Welcome to the world’s biggest market.
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If there’s one thing Trump excels at, it’s turning loyal allies against you and driving them into your enemy’s arms
January 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
If there’s one thing Trump excels at, it’s turning loyal allies against you and driving them into your enemy’s arms
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Sorry for my question, but is the US still a country?
I hear that a debile, senile idiot called Trump is posturing as its president.
Can that really be true?
I hear that a debile, senile idiot called Trump is posturing as its president.
Can that really be true?
January 17, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Sorry for my question, but is the US still a country?
I hear that a debile, senile idiot called Trump is posturing as its president.
Can that really be true?
I hear that a debile, senile idiot called Trump is posturing as its president.
Can that really be true?
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It's not that hard folks. Putin ordered Trump to destroy the U.S. from the inside. And that is precisely what he is doing.
January 17, 2026 at 1:31 AM
It's not that hard folks. Putin ordered Trump to destroy the U.S. from the inside. And that is precisely what he is doing.
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If Americans stay passive in the face of Trump’s coup against reason and sanity they will be as isolated in the world as North Korea. Everything about the USA will be spat upon and reviled. It will take many generations to recover from the shame and humiliation – if it happens at all.
January 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
If Americans stay passive in the face of Trump’s coup against reason and sanity they will be as isolated in the world as North Korea. Everything about the USA will be spat upon and reviled. It will take many generations to recover from the shame and humiliation – if it happens at all.
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[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati
ecfr.eu
January 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM
[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Putin's Russian Orthodox "Church" tried to prevent the publication of this article, so u know what to do.
www.kyivpost.com/post/68182
www.kyivpost.com/post/68182
Why the Russian Orthodox Church Is Lobbying in Washington
A campaign framed as faith and rooted in Moscow reaches Washington to sway US Christians. But all the narratives repeat Kremlin propaganda and ignore Russian aggression.
www.kyivpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Putin's Russian Orthodox "Church" tried to prevent the publication of this article, so u know what to do.
www.kyivpost.com/post/68182
www.kyivpost.com/post/68182
@noclador.bsky.social posting this on the old microblogging platform that is now a contractor of the U.S. Department of War.
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 PM
@noclador.bsky.social posting this on the old microblogging platform that is now a contractor of the U.S. Department of War.
"The Trump 🇺🇸 new tariffs is a crystal clear violation of the 🇪🇺🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧🇺🇸 trade agreements. If this goes into force the 🇪🇺 reaction must be as clear. To play soft is hardly an option."
@cbildt.bsky.social on a microblog
@cbildt.bsky.social on a microblog
January 17, 2026 at 11:14 PM
"The Trump 🇺🇸 new tariffs is a crystal clear violation of the 🇪🇺🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧🇺🇸 trade agreements. If this goes into force the 🇪🇺 reaction must be as clear. To play soft is hardly an option."
@cbildt.bsky.social on a microblog
@cbildt.bsky.social on a microblog
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A Russian schoolteacher secretly filmed his own workplace as it was turned into a war propaganda machine. That footage is now part of a documentary shortlisted for an Oscar.
Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇
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Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇
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January 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
A Russian schoolteacher secretly filmed his own workplace as it was turned into a war propaganda machine. That footage is now part of a documentary shortlisted for an Oscar.
Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇
[1/12]
Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇
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The EC is exploring a way for Ukraine to join the EU quickly with limited rights, as part of a potential peace deal with Russia, Reuters reports.
Ukraine would become an EU member early on but gain full voting and membership rights gradually, as it meets EU legal and economic standards.
Ukraine would become an EU member early on but gain full voting and membership rights gradually, as it meets EU legal and economic standards.
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The EC is exploring a way for Ukraine to join the EU quickly with limited rights, as part of a potential peace deal with Russia, Reuters reports.
Ukraine would become an EU member early on but gain full voting and membership rights gradually, as it meets EU legal and economic standards.
Ukraine would become an EU member early on but gain full voting and membership rights gradually, as it meets EU legal and economic standards.