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Pelle Geertsen
@pellechristy.bsky.social
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EU-geek & damn Lefty. Son of a refugee, and currently a somewhat poorly integrated migrant (aka expat). Head of Press for Denmark's coolest MEP (Aka Per Clausen). Mainly 🇩🇰🇨🇱 origins. Retweets are retweets, views are my own. Snarkiness may occur.
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Olof Gill @olofgill.bsky.social · 3d
The EU Commission has published guidance for operators relating to refined products obtained from Russian crude oil 👇
 
finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/oil-imports_en
Oil imports
FAQs on sanctions against Russia and Belarus, with focus on the following provisions: Articles 3m and 3n of Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014.
finance.ec.europa.eu
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations U.S. Code Notes prev | next (a)Prohibition It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer. (b)Reporting requirement Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. (c)Exceptions Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made— (1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service; (2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or (3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy. (d)Penalty Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. (e)Applicable person For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means— (1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and (2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 4d
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Western Sahara Resource Watch @wsrw.bsky.social · 11d
Bravo! MEPs urge ‪EU Parliament President Metsola to rebuke @ec.europa.eu for:
1️⃣ Pushing a Morocco deal before Parliament's consent
2️⃣ Ignoring ECJ rulings
3️⃣ Rewarding Morocco’s illegal occupation of #WesternSahara
The EU can’t defend #RuleOfLaw while breaking it.
enhedslisten.eu/nyheder/meps...
MEPs urge European Parliament President to act on controversial trade agreement with Morocco - Enhedslisten.EU
MEP Per Clausen has taken the initiative to a cross-party letter that asks the EP's President to act on the trade agreement with Morocco.
enhedslisten.eu
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 5d
It is Tuesday, it is strike time - and right now, protesters are blocking Brussels' Avenue de la Couronne.
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 8d
Reappointing Lecornu?😮

Macron is by now becomming almost Monty Pythonesque...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 9d
Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 10d
Some, like SAS, already do.
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 10d
Shhhh! Don't let the EPP know. Or else Weber's meat police might show up...
annacavazzini.bsky.social Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 10d
LG live aus der Kantine im Europaparlament.
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 10d
These figures certainly makes you wonder why someone keeps pouring money into GB News.

Almost as if the true purpose might not be to have a commercially viable channel...
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 11d
Tell who your friends are...
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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 12d
Even Manfred Weber admits that the Veggie Burger ban is absolute nonsense: "Consumers are not stupid", he said - and "this is not a priority".
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 13d
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 12d
07-10-1937 MADAGASCAR: Despite the legalization of the unions, workers organizing the Departmental Union of Workers and Employees of Madagascar are immediately brought before the colonialist courts.
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 12d
The EP is gathered Strasbourg this week - so what could be better than joining the @left.eu press briefing? 💪

... and here, you can pick up good arguments for showing a lack of confidence in the leadership of the European Commission🇪🇺?
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 13d
🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 12d
Welcome to US politics anno 2025.
robertmackey.bsky.social Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 12d
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil 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
www.theguardian.com
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 13d
I wonder how current EPP leader will react to Merkel's outrageous statements.

Will they distance themselves, or?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Merkel says Poland and Baltic states responsible for war in Ukraine
In an explosive interview, Merkel claim said she blamed Poland and the Baltic states for the severance of diplomatic ties between the countries months later.
www.dailymail.co.uk
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 16d
It is scary how many in the West are quickly adopting a Trumpian approach.

This labelling of anything you disagree with as un-whatever-country is a clear step in the very wrong direction.
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Juliette Leroux @jujusg.bsky.social · 17d
Who has the many speeches where Ursula swore simplification was not deregulation? Was not last time just a month ago for SotUE?

Dropping the pretence, then, I see.
Screencap of President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen's instagram story. Over a photo of Ursula with the EU Council, it reads: "Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit. Europe has strength. Europe has huge potential. But we need to unleash it. We need simplification, we need deregulation, we need it at the European level, and we also need it at the national level."
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 16d
If only they would then also support the Motions of Censure against her next week :-)
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 16d
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harlowsmusings.bsky.social Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 17d
This is why I love Portland. 💜🎉🔥🦋🌈
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 16d
Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 17d
Stephen Miller more and more seems like a movie villain.
nullifie.bsky.social nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 17d
The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
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Pelle Geertsen @pellechristy.bsky.social · 17d
This is well worth a read ⬇️
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