@doctormove.bsky.social
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Even when confronted with a 🇺🇸 #NationalSecurityStrategy planning their ouster, our centrist leaders have been silent in response.
Merz's much-lauded 'end of the Pax Americana' speech only spoke of US isolationism, not aggression.
But the 🇪🇺Defence Commissioner just said the quiet part out loud:
Merz's much-lauded 'end of the Pax Americana' speech only spoke of US isolationism, not aggression.
But the 🇪🇺Defence Commissioner just said the quiet part out loud:
The EU Commission's lone truth-teller explains what the US really wants
"Americans are planning to fight against the EU, against our strength through unity, since in their vision the EU can become threatening to American interests," says the EU Defence Commissioner.
davekeating.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Even when confronted with a 🇺🇸 #NationalSecurityStrategy planning their ouster, our centrist leaders have been silent in response.
Merz's much-lauded 'end of the Pax Americana' speech only spoke of US isolationism, not aggression.
But the 🇪🇺Defence Commissioner just said the quiet part out loud:
Merz's much-lauded 'end of the Pax Americana' speech only spoke of US isolationism, not aggression.
But the 🇪🇺Defence Commissioner just said the quiet part out loud:
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Even if Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Chicago and Phoenix tomorrow the Republicans would still keep him in the White House out of fear that his fall would open the way to a factional civil war within the Right that the party would never recover from.
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Even if Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Chicago and Phoenix tomorrow the Republicans would still keep him in the White House out of fear that his fall would open the way to a factional civil war within the Right that the party would never recover from.
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Kaja Kallas: what we have to keep in mind is why countries want to be in NATO is because they don't want Russia to invade them. That's why Sweden and and Finland joined NATO, that's why the Baltic States joined NATO, to have this defense umbrella.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Kaja Kallas: what we have to keep in mind is why countries want to be in NATO is because they don't want Russia to invade them. That's why Sweden and and Finland joined NATO, that's why the Baltic States joined NATO, to have this defense umbrella.
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Kaja Kallas: we have to be really clear-eyed. We have one aggressor and one victim. And the one that needs security guarantees is Ukraine, not Russia.
In last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia
In last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia
December 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Kaja Kallas: we have to be really clear-eyed. We have one aggressor and one victim. And the one that needs security guarantees is Ukraine, not Russia.
In last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia
In last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia
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just ask him (or any other Republican) whether they agree with his words on Reiner
and when they say they're not familiar, ask them why they're ignoring Trump's Truth Social feed
and when they say they're not familiar, ask them why they're ignoring Trump's Truth Social feed
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
just ask him (or any other Republican) whether they agree with his words on Reiner
and when they say they're not familiar, ask them why they're ignoring Trump's Truth Social feed
and when they say they're not familiar, ask them why they're ignoring Trump's Truth Social feed
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Sehr kluger Gedanke des gestern ermordeten Regisseurs Bob Reiner 2018 im Interview mit @brianstelter.bsky.social:
„Disinformation isn't about getting people to believe the lie, it's about getting them to be confused. Then the autocrat comes to the rescue: 'Don't worry, daddy will take care of you.'"
„Disinformation isn't about getting people to believe the lie, it's about getting them to be confused. Then the autocrat comes to the rescue: 'Don't worry, daddy will take care of you.'"
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Sehr kluger Gedanke des gestern ermordeten Regisseurs Bob Reiner 2018 im Interview mit @brianstelter.bsky.social:
„Disinformation isn't about getting people to believe the lie, it's about getting them to be confused. Then the autocrat comes to the rescue: 'Don't worry, daddy will take care of you.'"
„Disinformation isn't about getting people to believe the lie, it's about getting them to be confused. Then the autocrat comes to the rescue: 'Don't worry, daddy will take care of you.'"
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Rob Reiner on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Bookmark this.
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Rob Reiner on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Bookmark this.
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Smits sieht in Europa und den USA denselben Mechanismus: Rechte Parteien verschieben den Diskurs, während Konservative deren Sprache übernehmen. So wird das Extreme zur neuen Norm. 2/
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Smits sieht in Europa und den USA denselben Mechanismus: Rechte Parteien verschieben den Diskurs, während Konservative deren Sprache übernehmen. So wird das Extreme zur neuen Norm. 2/
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'The frontline is everywhere," warned new UK MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli today. Highlighting a wave of inter-connected threats to western democracies, she added: "We are now operating in a space between peace and war.”
Britain’s new female MI6 chief wants to do things differently
Blaise Metreweli roved widely in her first speech as boss of Britain’s foreign intelligence service — implicitly suggesting China needs to be handled differently to the “aggressive, expansionist and revisionist” Russia.
www.politico.eu
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
'The frontline is everywhere," warned new UK MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli today. Highlighting a wave of inter-connected threats to western democracies, she added: "We are now operating in a space between peace and war.”
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Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
giftarticle.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Mass protests in Bulgaria forced a government resignation, showing their effectiveness. Yet resignations often act as safety valves, letting ruling parties to regroup. Since 1989, this has locked the country in a recurring cycle of crisis and protest without breaking underlying power structures.
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mass protests in Bulgaria forced a government resignation, showing their effectiveness. Yet resignations often act as safety valves, letting ruling parties to regroup. Since 1989, this has locked the country in a recurring cycle of crisis and protest without breaking underlying power structures.
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I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.
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Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
www.readtpa.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
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Three days ago Starmer was arguing that the UK shouldn’t think about rejoining the EU because it would unpick all these great US trade deals.
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports reut.rs/4aRbgK4
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
reut.rs
December 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Three days ago Starmer was arguing that the UK shouldn’t think about rejoining the EU because it would unpick all these great US trade deals.
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European migration policy is trapped in an endless cycle where governments panic over numbers only to then face labour shortages which trigger another surge leading to another panic over numbers that then leads to labour shortages...
New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
European migration policy is trapped in an endless cycle where governments panic over numbers only to then face labour shortages which trigger another surge leading to another panic over numbers that then leads to labour shortages...
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Some countries are heading into a reverse Enlightenment. An age of bullshit, irrationality, and idiocy. The US is rushing headlong to the cliff edge while the UK is just eroding it's capacity by ignoring the obvious crisis in the research sector
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Some countries are heading into a reverse Enlightenment. An age of bullshit, irrationality, and idiocy. The US is rushing headlong to the cliff edge while the UK is just eroding it's capacity by ignoring the obvious crisis in the research sector
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The current China anxiety also goes hand in hand with strategic nihilism over European manufacturing in a lot of debate which effectively advocates capitulation even though many EU and UK firms are showing resilience in a tough adaptation process. Panic is not a good basis for sustainable policy.
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The current China anxiety also goes hand in hand with strategic nihilism over European manufacturing in a lot of debate which effectively advocates capitulation even though many EU and UK firms are showing resilience in a tough adaptation process. Panic is not a good basis for sustainable policy.
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
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Ich teile normalerweise keine Petitionen. Für diese hier mache ich eine Ausnahme: Die Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Bundesregierung sollten X endlich geschlossen verlassen.
Bislang 131.000 Stimmen dafür. weact.campact.de/pet...
Bislang 131.000 Stimmen dafür. weact.campact.de/pet...
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ich teile normalerweise keine Petitionen. Für diese hier mache ich eine Ausnahme: Die Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Bundesregierung sollten X endlich geschlossen verlassen.
Bislang 131.000 Stimmen dafür. weact.campact.de/pet...
Bislang 131.000 Stimmen dafür. weact.campact.de/pet...
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Das geht mich kaum an, aber von Kyjiw aus scheinen manche deutsche Hauptstadtkollegen die Tatsache überzubewerten, dass Berlin jetzt an der Reihe war, irgendwelche Gespräche zu empfangen. Deutschland schwimmt ziemlich oft abwechselnd zwischen Selbstunter- und Selbstüberschätzung.
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Das geht mich kaum an, aber von Kyjiw aus scheinen manche deutsche Hauptstadtkollegen die Tatsache überzubewerten, dass Berlin jetzt an der Reihe war, irgendwelche Gespräche zu empfangen. Deutschland schwimmt ziemlich oft abwechselnd zwischen Selbstunter- und Selbstüberschätzung.
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New from @josephdeweck.bsky.social: Putin’s war against Ukraine has weakened Russia, turning it into a junior partner of China & triggering Europe’s rearmament. Trump’s frontal assault on European democracy will rebound against the United States in a similar way.
ip-quarterly.com/en/trump-lik...
ip-quarterly.com/en/trump-lik...
Trump, Like Putin, Is Miscalculating on Europe
Vladimir Putin’s ill-judged war against Ukraine has weakened Russia—turning it into a junior partner of China and triggering Europe’s rearmament. Trump’s frontal assault on European democracy will reb...
ip-quarterly.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
New from @josephdeweck.bsky.social: Putin’s war against Ukraine has weakened Russia, turning it into a junior partner of China & triggering Europe’s rearmament. Trump’s frontal assault on European democracy will rebound against the United States in a similar way.
ip-quarterly.com/en/trump-lik...
ip-quarterly.com/en/trump-lik...
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An unreliable ally is not an ally, just like an unreliable smoke detector is not a smoke detector. The essence of the thing is its reliability.
After a year of Trump, EU leaders begrudgingly learn to live with the reality of an unreliable ally
European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
An unreliable ally is not an ally, just like an unreliable smoke detector is not a smoke detector. The essence of the thing is its reliability.