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Matt Steinglass

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Europe correspondent for The Economist. Please don’t kill me

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thomas Pynchon, the greatest Californian novelist, wrote in his first novel “V.” of a mad society that built its city at the lip of a volcano which annihilated it every hundred years, but always rebuilt immediately in the same place

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2h

This is pretty effective messaging, but I am disappointed there isn’t a better fall guy than “the media” at a time when most broadcast news is partisan for one side or the other and more people get their “news” from social-media connections.

Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 8h

The media’s job is to make you think that the people who want to give you healthcare are just as crazy as the people trying to take it away.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 13h

Amsterdam months: August, September, Misttober, Mistvember, Mistcember, Janumisty

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 14h

Als 45% van het Nederlands grondgebied uitsluitend voor journalisme bestemd was, zou je waarschijnlijk veel meer kranten hebben. Maar hou je hart vast als iemand maar fluistert dat boeren subsidiesluipers zijn

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 14h

My instinct is that this sort of conceptual incoherence plus consistent vibes is related to the way fascists can flip their positions and programmes twice a week with no need for justification.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t see why some people shouldn’t lose their farm. Other business owners go bankrupt all the time and nobody offers taxpayer money to save them.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 18h

Only in the best cities

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

I know what you mean about bigotry against “rednecks”, but given that every Democratic president from 1964 to 2008 was a white Southerner, I don’t think it was such a powerful force. Arguably weaker than anti-Italian-American bigotry; not remotely comparable to anti-black racism

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Brazil has raised a hand, though

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

You never know when the Minnesotan Rift might split open

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

“The Netherlands” is the official English language short form of the country’s name as registered with UNTERM. “Kingdom of the Netherlands” is the long form. unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/c...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to work at a paper so prudent about forecasts that we do not completely rule out the possibility that Canada may someday not be stuck with the United States. Not soon, is as far as we will confidently go

The Economist @economist.com · 1d

Mark Carney may well succeed in “Building Canada Strong”. But strong or not, Canada will be stuck with the United States for many years to come econ.st/4h1s9Tu

Photo: Eyevine

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Vince Vaughn in “Bad Monkey” thinking “I wish my life were like that…wait. I know guys whose life is like that and I wake up thanking the fates it’s not me”

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

The detective movie lets men indulge their deep fantasies of being a middle aged loser wandering through life trying to figure out the basics of what is happening around them

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

An erudite reply down thread noted “Honduras” which I think is etymologically correct?

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Unions of principalities. Perhaps I should have said “provinces” rather than principalities for clarity

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Five Guys is singular

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, that’d be fun.

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Now I’m wondering whether in a sense I’m wrong, in that the “Nederlanden” referred to were originally the seven United Provinces (Holland, Zeeland etc)

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

There was an analysis in France and Spain that the fragmentation problem would gradually force the learning of coalition politics, but these days many of the classic coalition countries (Netherlands) can barely manage it either

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes use “principalities” just as a general term for smaller polities

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking about whether “Trinidad and Tobago” is plural, though it falls under “islands”

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