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

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

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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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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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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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.”
From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent
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

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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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...
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

Not beating the allegations...
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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Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
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No ICE in NYC!

Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.

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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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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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.
This is so disgusting.
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

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

And even without fines from Ofcom, the UK act has had an impact (ie age verification)

Romania is inside the EU. Surely it might have gone further without the Act

Luckily I got the last helicopter out of Southend 🚁

Also, less condescension would be a good idea (referring to the other account)

Indeed, I have mentioned both. (As the Tories did in the election, which helped them avoid a worse defeat)

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In Los Angeles, California, a man’s father was abducted and kidnapped by ICE. While attempting to locate him using a GPS tracker in his car, they discovered that his stolen truck was being driven around by an ICE Bounty Hunter during his off-duty period from December 2nd to December 3rd.

There was a replacement effect for awhile

Do you really think French law would do nothing?

Does anyone involved with university finance believe this?
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU

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I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.