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BillMurrayWriter
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Author, 4 books, travel & current events. Sr. Policy Analyst here at the house. Try my free Substack https://csandw.substack.com/. Atlanta, summers in Finland. New to Bluesky, December 2024.
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Let’s consider What Just Happened with #Greenland.
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What Just Happened #81
An Alliance Wobbles
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January 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Let’s just say the #EU has been slow to anger about American treatment over #Greenland. As EU ambassadors meet this afternoon, that might be about to change.

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#Denmark
Greenland Special
Executive Incoherence
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January 18, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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The administration’s imperial adventures, this week on Common Sense and Whiskey. Click through to read it now, with no paywall.

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What Just Happened? #80
A Knee on NATO's Neck
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January 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Today on What Just Happened: #Venezuela, #Greenland and a potentially historic week for European diplomacy. No paywall.

csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-... #Cuba #EU #Ukraine #Russia
What Just Happened #79
Going Polar
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January 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Can they fix it? We address the proposition that “The United States Is Tearing the West Apart,” live now on Substack, no paywall.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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We address the proposition that “The United States Is Tearing the West Apart” on Common Sense and Whiskey. Article is live now with no paywall.

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The United States Is Tearing the West Apart
Europe Hasn't Shown the Ability to Stop It
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December 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Not a good week for the Trump Nobel Peace Prize campaign. We'll talk about it in this week's What Just Happened, live now on Substack with no paywall.

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What Just Happened #77
Not a good week for the Trump peace prize campaign
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December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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This week’s itinerary on our weekly roundup. What Just Happened #76 is live now on Substack with no paywall.

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What Just Happened #76
Just the Usual Turmoil and Insecurity
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December 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s not easy being European. We talk about it on a new Common Sense and Whiskey, live now with no paywall: csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-... #EU #NATO #Ukraine
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Fallout from a calamitous foreign policy. What Just Happened #74, new on Common Sense and Whiskey, no paywall.

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#Trump #england #uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Point 14 has the US profiting from the war. $100B in frozen #Russian assets to be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in #Ukraine; US to receive 50% of the profits from this venture.”

The 28 points on Common Sense & Whiskey. No paywall.

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November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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It’s point 4. How does NATO SecGen Rutte react to ‘the world’s most powerful military alliance’ being subject to mediation by one of its members, with its primary adversary?

We talk about it on Common Sense & Whiskey. No paywall. csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-... #Ukraine #NATO #Russia
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Ukraine’s really bad week, on Common Sense and Whiskey. Read it now with no paywall.

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November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Election recap. See what you think. No paywall.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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We set up the rock ‘em sock ‘em presidential election to come in #Hungary, today on Common Sense and Whiskey:
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October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The rise of Péter Magyar, #Hungary’s challenger to Viktor Orbán:

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What Just Happened #70
Protests and corruption and conflict
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October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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What to do? This week’s What Just Happened is live now on Common Sense and Whiskey, with no paywall:
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October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Animals can do things that go far beyond human abilities. Learn about how they do things you’ve never even imagined:

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Out There: Among the Non-Humans III
Animals are smarter than we think
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October 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Animals can do things that go far beyond human abilities. Learn about how they do things you’ve never even imagined:

csandw.substack.com/p/out-there-... #wildlife #safari #africa
Out There: Among the Non-Humans III
Animals are smarter than we think
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October 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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What Just Happened #68 week in review, live now at Common Sense and Whiskey, no paywall:
csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-... #France #Russia #Argentina
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Animal stories this week on Common Sense and Whiskey: a safari to the Great Wildebeest Migration in East #Africa:

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Out There: Wildebeest Crossing
The Greatest Show on Earth
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October 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The weakening of international institutions, along with the political revolution in America, may be the most portentous issues of the post-Cold War period so far. Let's talk about it.

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What Just Happened #66
The more things change, the more they change
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September 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The president's ‘Smoking Tweet’ urging the NATO alliance to do “as I say,” the state of Moldova’s election & how the would-be strongman of Argentina, who begs for derision, is faring in his midterm election.

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What Just Happened #65
The Tweet That Smoked
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September 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I'm not an SEO guy, don't know tactics for juicing my numbers. I’d like to ask anyone who has a minute to look at the Substack column I published today and tell me what you think. It's a week in review kind of thing. No paywall. Thanks. Appreciate your time.

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What Just Happened #64
I mean, what DIDN'T?
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September 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This week’s What Just Happened, now live on Common Sense and Whiskey and free to read with no paywall:

csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-... #Poland #NATO
September 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM