Robert Madelin
@eurohumph.bsky.social
European (and including UK) policy person. Brit-French. AI, Health, Trade, Investment, Food+Drink. Paris, Brussels, Marseille(s), London, Oxford...
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⚡️ Trump signs US defence budget providing aid for Ukraine
Trump signs US defence budget providing aid for Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has signed the 2026 defence budget bill worth US$901 billion, which provides for assistance to Ukraine.
www.pravda.com.ua
December 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
⚡️ Trump signs US defence budget providing aid for Ukraine
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MAGA is in full meltdown as fears grow of "certain defeat" for the Republicans in next year's midterms.
MAGA meltdown as RNC chair heard predicting 'certain defeat' on podcast
www.irishstar.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
MAGA is in full meltdown as fears grow of "certain defeat" for the Republicans in next year's midterms.
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Iraq's former president Barham Salih has been chosen as the next High Commissioner for Refugees for the United Nations, a letter showed on Friday, breaking with a tradition of appointing leaders from major donor countries.
Former Iraq president named UN refugee chief, document shows | Daily Maverick
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Iraq's former president Barham Salih has been chosen as the next High Commissioner for Refugees for the United Nations, a letter showed on Friday, breaking with a tradition of appointing leaders from major donor countries.
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About a dozen senior commanders in the Israeli military were told on Sunday that they face dismissal or discipline for mistakes tied to the deadly Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the war in Gaza.
Israel Military Commanders Punished Over Hamas Attack Mistakes
About a dozen people were told they face dismissal or discipline for mistakes tied to the deadly Hamas-led attack that set off the war in Gaza.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
About a dozen senior commanders in the Israeli military were told on Sunday that they face dismissal or discipline for mistakes tied to the deadly Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the war in Gaza.
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A Chinese robot has earned a Guinness World Records after completing a100-km trek, the longest distance ever walked by a humanoid machine. In full: buff.ly/SswWAIG
Chinese humanoid robot's 3-day walk sets world record | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
A Chinese robot has stepped into the Guinness World Records after completing a three-day, 100-kilometre trek, the longest reported distance ever walked by a humanoid machine. The 169-centimetre (five...
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A Chinese robot has earned a Guinness World Records after completing a100-km trek, the longest distance ever walked by a humanoid machine. In full: buff.ly/SswWAIG
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"I can be a lawyer with a gendered lens, a development expert with a gendered lens, a political scientist with a gendered lens, and a professor with a gendered lens."
This Ghanaian barrister is building bridges between law, feminism, and social change
"I can be a lawyer with a gendered lens, a development expert with a gendered lens, a political scientist with a gendered lens, and a professor with a gendered lens."
globalvoices.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"I can be a lawyer with a gendered lens, a development expert with a gendered lens, a political scientist with a gendered lens, and a professor with a gendered lens."
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Great read, people!
Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War: I began my book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, by cycling! First I cycled from Mühlhausen to Frankenhausen, the route that the followers of the revolutionary leader… #Features #History
Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War
I began my book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, by cycling! First I cycled from Mühlhausen to Frankenhausen, the route that the followers of the revolutionary leader Thomas Müntzer took on their way to the battle
lithub.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Great read, people!
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Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.
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A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
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When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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This is classic banality of evil stuff, but I want to know: who’s driving the bulldozer?
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is classic banality of evil stuff, but I want to know: who’s driving the bulldozer?
Great read, people!
Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War: I began my book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, by cycling! First I cycled from Mühlhausen to Frankenhausen, the route that the followers of the revolutionary leader… #Features #History
Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War
I began my book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, by cycling! First I cycled from Mühlhausen to Frankenhausen, the route that the followers of the revolutionary leader Thomas Müntzer took on their way to the battle
lithub.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Great read, people!
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A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
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Millionaire tax that inspired Mamdani fuels $5.7 billion haul in Massachusetts | Fortune
In two years levying a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, it's funded bridge repairs, bolstered literacy programs and tackled a transportation deficit.
fortune.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
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The EU today sanctioned the rector of a Moscow university after the school started a program on how to circumvent Western sanctions.
EU sanctions Russian university rector for offering degree in … how to bust sanctions
A senior EU official explained that Brussels had wanted to give the rector “the opportunity to share his own experience with students.”
www.politico.eu
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The EU today sanctioned the rector of a Moscow university after the school started a program on how to circumvent Western sanctions.
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Leaving aside how nakedly partisan it would look (and indeed, be) and how it would tie up a government that is already - charitably - struggling to get to grips with everything, is there any evidence a written constitution provides any kind of bulwark anyway? America says hi here
There is a case for a written constitution I suppose, though it's beyond me who would be trusted to write it and how you get broad consent for it. Though rewriting the rules because you don't like who the public might vote for isn't a great look. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Leaving aside how nakedly partisan it would look (and indeed, be) and how it would tie up a government that is already - charitably - struggling to get to grips with everything, is there any evidence a written constitution provides any kind of bulwark anyway? America says hi here
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Errrr, sorry guys, do you NEED an enormous ballroom in the White House? Have we returned to the 18th century and the assembled heads and nobility can prance around in swords and medals and swill champagne? Lmao!
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Errrr, sorry guys, do you NEED an enormous ballroom in the White House? Have we returned to the 18th century and the assembled heads and nobility can prance around in swords and medals and swill champagne? Lmao!
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If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
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Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality' www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
'Absurd': Hotez responds to RFK Jr. claims of autism-circumcision link
RFK Jr.'s statements about autism are “increasingly untethered to reality,” says Peter Hotez.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality' www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The committee said she had resisted death threats to fight for democracy in opposition to President Nicolas Maduro - widely considered a dictator who's cheated elections.
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
The committee said she had resisted death threats to fight for democracy in opposition to President Nicolas Maduro - widely considered a dictator who's cheated elections.
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
news.sky.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The committee said she had resisted death threats to fight for democracy in opposition to President Nicolas Maduro - widely considered a dictator who's cheated elections.
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
The committee said she had resisted death threats to fight for democracy in opposition to President Nicolas Maduro - widely considered a dictator who's cheated elections.
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
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The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
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Belgium has laid out its red lines for using Russian assets to fund a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine.
This includes an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.
This includes an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.
Belgium lays out red lines on €140B Ukraine loan
Belgian PM Bart De Wever has suggested that the Commission’s scheme to leverage Russian frozen assets effectively amounts to confiscation.
ow.ly
October 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Belgium has laid out its red lines for using Russian assets to fund a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine.
This includes an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.
This includes an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.
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Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say reut.rs/3W4qfrm
Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say
President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a since-closed U.S. Justice Department bribery investigation, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
reut.rs
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say reut.rs/3W4qfrm
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96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:
The new misogyny
Culture changed in the 2000s—and, with some technological support, it has led us to some very dark places now
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book: