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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Sep 9

A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act
#US #EU #censorship #DSA
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/09...

A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act

Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If this claim were true, it would be a very big deal. As some...

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Aug 6

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbk...

Hunter Biden Interview

YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

www.youtube.com

Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Aug 6

Great video and channel to further understand the #MAGAcult and it's #conspiracytheories

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WC...

Hunter Biden Returns

YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

www.youtube.com

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 30

And Trump was mad at Epstein because he stole from HIM, not because of what happened to the victim.

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 27

Not cowardice. Hopes for profit.

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

a cartoon character with the words ouch ouch ouch on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon character with the words ouch ouch ouch on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Jul 21

TRUTH

#Trump #firstfelon #sextrafficking #epstein

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 21

How can US citizens not be ashamed?

Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 21

We live in a timeline where a US president talks like this: "I know better than anybody what’s good for the Market, and what’s good for the USA. If it weren’t for me, the Market wouldn’t be at Record Highs right now, it probably would have Crashed!... People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!"

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 18

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9...

We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion

YouTube video by The New York Times

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 18

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIKB...

its all coming out

YouTube video by voidzilla

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 18

Surpriiiiise...

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Jul 17

Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.

The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

on.wsj.com

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 17

They are not even trying any more.

Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hey Jake Tapper, fodder for your next book!👇

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 10

Part of the motivation for creating Liberia was to relocate freed African Americans outside of the United States, particularly by white Americans who did not want them integrated into U.S. society.

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 2

Those he cannot bully or "commie scare" out of the way is lured with money and prestige - sufficient in the US for most - even scientists. Every scientists not directly and actively exposing and protesting this is complicit.
If this succeeds, US science will loose credibility for decades.

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jul 2

I find that comment way too tame. Trump wants to position right wing conservatives in key political, administrative and scientific positions to reach cause a long term and sustainable right Conservative shift in key societal areas, including science.

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jun 27

"It has become abundantly clear that Trump 2.0 is using a moral panic about “woke” and pro-Palestinian protests as pretexts to subjugate institutions posing multiple threats to aspiring autocrats"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Harvard shows resistance is possible. But universities must join forces | Jan-Werner Müller

Far too many academics are repeating propaganda about a ‘free speech crisis’. It’s time for a shared strategy

www.theguardian.com

Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · Jun 2

New EU study on food waste & date labels is out 🥫🗑️

We contributed to this @ec.europa.eu project on how different consumer types understand (or don’t…) waste food.
Tailored recs for info, tools & coaching now at
ec.europa.eu/food/safety/...

#FoodWaste #BehaviouralScience #EUResearch #DateMarking

European Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub - Detail of a Resource

ec.europa.eu

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · May 30

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings

And what it means for American Democracy

open.substack.com

Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · May 28

Trump would annex the UK and pardon them

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · May 28

He's putting his cronies in charge. He's changing the US for the time after him but still for him.

Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · May 23

Can't make this up: An image presented by US President Donald Trump as evidence of alleged mass murders of whites in South Africa originates from a Reuters video from Congo. The news agency said its internal fact-checking team has verified the recording. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

"Genozid"-Behauptung: Trumps angebliches Beweisbild zu Südafrika laut Reuters aus dem Kongo

US-Präsident Donald Trump legte dem südafrikanischen Präsidenten ein Bild vor, das getötete Weiße in dessen Land zeigen soll. Die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters widerspricht.

www.zeit.de

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · May 19

New study finds that AI chatbots were nearly five times more likely to contain broad generalizations about scientific research compared to humans.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research | Royal Society Open Science

Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex scientific information in accessible terms. However, when ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · May 19

Brain drain, sycophant gain.

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Hendrik Bruns @hendirkb.bsky.social · May 19

Brain drain, sycophant gain.
That's Trump's strategy and it will change the US for a long time.

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