Steve Peers

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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Usual disclaimers.

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Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership. .. more

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2d

So (see @klonick.bsky.social last night) today may be the day that the EU Commission fines X for breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Busy day for me, and I expect many questions if it happens, so here's an explanation thread in advance.

First of all, a reminder of the provisional decision

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Jul 12

EU Commission preliminary findings that Twitter/X has breached the Digital Services Act (nb remedy is a fine, not a ban)

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not quite his age. Although I did say some silly things in school, they were nothing like this. Whether Reform voters might have done so, though...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

Reform source: "And if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”

Nigel Farage seems to think that everybody his age - or who supports Reform - behaved very similarly to how he did at school

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3h

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

What is necessarily implied in this declaration of the Democratic Party? 1. That citizenship is not a birth-right, and from this it results that the majority may rightfully, in the several States of this Union, deprive the minority of all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.
I submit that no greater political atrocity can possibly be committed by human agency.
Let the people accept this proposition and they will become the architects of their own ruin. Nothing can be clearer than this, that under the representative system of government the rights of the minority are as sacred and inviolable as the rights of the majority. If the majority may rightfully disfranchise the minority of citizens on account of race, color or former condition of servitude, they may, with equal propriety, disfranchise citizens for want of stature or property, or on account of nativity, thereby, presenting to teh world the miserable spectacle of a government wherein a mere majority subjects to the absolute despotism of their will a minority of their fellow citizens, almost equal in number to themselves, and per chance, greatly superior in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature.

Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 7h

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: A judge tonight blocked the Justice Department from accessing the emails/hard drive of Comey adviser/former lawyer Dan Richman. The ruling on the docs is a blow to prosecutors as they consider bringing new charges against Comey

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Judge blocks prosecutors’ access to James Comey’s lawyer’s emails and data

Court says government’s retention and use of law professor Daniel Richman’s data appears to have been illegal.

www.politico.com

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15h

The Act allows for a huge scale-up of fines in the event of non-compliance with a decision finding a breach.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 15h

This doesn’t add up. If the drugs were not heading to America, how could the people on the boat be a threat to America? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.

Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets

Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.

nbcnews.to

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 17h

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17h

Not beating the allegations...

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel reut.rs/3XBMtCb

Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that he backs a September 2 decision to launch a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.

reut.rs

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel reut.rs/3XBMtCb

Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that he backs a September 2 decision to launch a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.

reut.rs

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 19h

Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!

No ICE in NYC!

Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19h

The fact remains that UK universities are in a dire financial state, and the UK government would be foolish to make that situation worse

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 20h

1) “Kaitlan Collins”
2) she’s smart & nice
3) a legitimate question about construction of a controversial project on WH grounds
4) Thanks for explanation
5) but actually she asked you about Venezuela
6) generally speaking if someone or something is irrelevant, the President doesn’t talk about them

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.

This is very long overdue.

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Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 22h

This is so disgusting.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22h

I can imagine the tabloid argument that EU students are crippling UK universities. (Normally they hate universities, but I don't expect consistency)