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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 6d

German asylum claims have halved in the last year. Nothing to do with border theatre; everything to do with developments outside the EU that hardly ever play a role in European countries' domestic migration debates. Still, take the win if it allows you to change the subject.

Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 6d

There are good reasons to think the number of small boat crossings may fall in the next couple of years - and it will have little to do with whatever has been announced at party conferences

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration
economist.com/internationa...

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · 9d

Some ~ personal news ~: I’m starting as a Berlin correspondent for the @en.afp.com this week. Really excited to join a terrific news organization and cover German politics and news a lot more closely.

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · 9d

“De Gaulle wrote painfully slowly, by himself, and wanted, he said, to write a work of art, ‘unlike Churchill who has never written a properly composed book’. Churchill won the Nobel prize in literature; de Gaulle would have been a more worthy recipient.” www.the-tls.com/history/twen...

Myth makers

Charles de Gaulle spent his life ruminating on leadership. In 1917, as a young man in a prisoner-of-war camp, he lectured on the subject to his fellow

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · 9d

Some ~ personal news ~: I’m starting as a Berlin correspondent for the @en.afp.com this week. Really excited to join a terrific news organization and cover German politics and news a lot more closely.

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.bsky.social · 12d

Since 1970 income of French pensioners has grown far more quickly than that of workers
• French pensioners have exceptional feature for OECD standards—they earn more than working-age adults
• Rise in life expectancy will place burden on public finances through rise in health and pension spending

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · Sep 5

I self-Googled. Got a hit for "Rick Perlstein or Julia Orringer." I was intrigued; we both wrote books called "The Invisible Bridge" Clicking yielded a comment thread without those words, so I Googled us together, and learned...this.

I have never met her

Our elites are staking our future on AI.

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Sep 5

also on spotify! open.spotify.com/album/2lsWFX...

jim's four-track

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Sep 5

the e.p. my band — possum — recorded back in 2009 (!!) is now out on cassette tape and also online, woohoo: possumisourname.bandcamp.com/album/jims-f...

"jim's four-track", by possum (ii)

4 track album

possumisourname.bandcamp.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 30

my brilliant friend jeanie wrote a really lovely essay about new orleans, katrina, family, love and loss and it’s really really worth a read www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

My Mother, New Orleans

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, I’ve left the city that raised me.

www.newyorker.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 14

american soft power persists (grocery store, berlin)

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 13

also: pleased to report that the authorities have dropped the allegations of illegal bathing against me and my fellow spree swimmers, and are no longer seeking to fine us for our (alleged) misdeeds.

bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 12

earlier this summer, i dove into the spree river in berlin (and was detained by the police on suspicion of illegal bathing) for this story on whether berlin might bring (legal) swimming back to the city center. www.the-berliner.com/berlin/swimm...

Swimming in the Spree? Berlin's great debate continues - The Berliner

Speedo-clad swimmers take to the Spree, defying a century-old swimming ban in a playful act of protest.

www.the-berliner.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 13

Reviewed the new translation of brilliant German writer Judith Hermann's memior (...or is it?...), "We’d Have Told Each Other Everything" a lil while back, which is very much worth a read (and then you should go back and devour her short stories too). www.the-berliner.com/books/wed-ha...

We’d Have Told Each Other Everything: Writing, memory and Berlin counterculture - The Berliner

Encountering her former psychoanalyst sparks a brilliant journey through memory for Judith Hermann in 'We’d Have Told Each Other Everything'.

www.the-berliner.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 12

earlier this summer, i dove into the spree river in berlin (and was detained by the police on suspicion of illegal bathing) for this story on whether berlin might bring (legal) swimming back to the city center. www.the-berliner.com/berlin/swimm...

Swimming in the Spree? Berlin's great debate continues - The Berliner

Speedo-clad swimmers take to the Spree, defying a century-old swimming ban in a playful act of protest.

www.the-berliner.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 12

thanks to editor extroidinaire @ruthbetold.bsky.social!

bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Aug 12

earlier this summer, i dove into the spree river in berlin (and was detained by the police on suspicion of illegal bathing) for this story on whether berlin might bring (legal) swimming back to the city center. www.the-berliner.com/berlin/swimm...

Swimming in the Spree? Berlin's great debate continues - The Berliner

Speedo-clad swimmers take to the Spree, defying a century-old swimming ban in a playful act of protest.

www.the-berliner.com

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James J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social · Aug 4

@brynstole.bsky.social‬ in The Berliner on August Endell’s The Beauty of the Metropolis (trans. me, pub. ‪@uoftpress.bsky.social‬): “a meditation on aesthetics, shot through with musings and engaged in turn-of-the-century debates”
www.the-berliner.com/books/the-be...

The Beauty of the Metropolis: August Endell in praise of the unpretty city - The Berliner

August Endell’s The Beauty of the Metropolis, newly translated by James J. Conway, finds unexpected wonder in Wilhelmine Berlin’s smoke, steel, and bustle.

www.the-berliner.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Jul 28

VdL’s “deal” on tariffs “is the almost inevitable outcome of a declining great power placing its faith in an economically illiterate, mendacious, image-obsessed narcissist – and then asking that person to negotiate with Donald Trump.” www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

The Brief – How Trump trounced Ursula - Euractiv

Sunday's deal is the almost inevitable outcome of a declining great power placing its faith in an economically illiterate, mendacious, image-obsessed narcissist – and then asking that person to negoti...

www.euractiv.com

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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · Jul 9

On a Weimar Republic-simulating video game, by @brynstole.bsky.social

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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · Jul 9

Horned-up OnlyFans zombies, human and bovine athletes, Paul von Hindenburg, cow colostrum, and “severe nausea” — read five new Mentions from @devintoshea.bsky.social‬, Sydney Allen-Ash, @brynstole.bsky.social‬, Juliana Adelman, and @return2sanders.bsky.social

www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

Issue 15

Extremely abbreviated reviews

www.thedriftmag.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Jul 2

I reviewed Giorgia Meloni's weird, weird autobiography and struggled to decide what to make of it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · Jul 1

what a cool and unique career!

Sam Dykstra @samdykstramilb.bsky.social · Jul 1

Eddy Alvarez has retired.

The former short-track speed skater won Olympic silver in the 5000m relay (2014) and for baseball (2020). He played 63 games in the Majors with the Marlins, Dodgers and Mets and was in the Braves system this year.

Incredible sporting career. www.milb.com/player/eddy-...

Eddy Alvarez Stats, Age, Position, Height, Weight, Fantasy & News

www.milb.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Jul 1

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose multimillion-dollar ministry and huge audience dwindled following his prostitution scandals, has died. He was 90. apnews.com/article/jimm...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90

Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist whose multimillion-dollar ministry was crippled by his encounters with prostitutes, has died. He was 90.

apnews.com

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Jun 27

published alongside this inspiring blurb about the rotting corpse of the newspaper that once made me fall in love with newspapers.

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Jun 27

was twitchingly addicted to this for like two months

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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · Jun 27

late to post this but i was very excited to write a lil mention in the latest issue of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social !!!
www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

Issue 15

Extremely abbreviated reviews

www.thedriftmag.com

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