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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

French economist Gabriel Zucman says PM Sébastien Lecornu made a fatal mistake by not embracing his wealth tax.

Zucman: French government should’ve listened to me on wealth tax

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Seppo @sepponet.bsky.social · 11d

”Tässä ollaan tekemisessä aika perustavanlaatuisten asioiden kanssa”, Kujanpää sanoo Journalistille.

” #Elokuvasäätiö n leikkausuhassa on kysymys ideologisesta missiosta, ei rahasta.”

Kujanpää vertaa perussuomalaisten missiota Venäjään ja Unkariin.

Wille Rydmanin avustaja elokuvasäätiöstä: ”Säätiö edistää muuta kuin kansallista kulttuuriagendaa” - Journalisti

”Elokuvasäätiö itse tuntuu siis valitettavasti edistävän jotain ihan muuta kuin kansallista kulttuuriagendaa.” Näin kirjoitti kansanedustaja Wille Rydmanin (ps.) eduskunta-avustaja Tuulia...

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Médecins Sans Frontières @handle.invalid · 11d

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”

We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF

The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.

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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 15d

Today we joined the call for the #right to receive and provide #healthcare, for the right to live. Everywhere. #Gaza #Yemen #Sudan #Afghanistan #Ukraine #DRC #Syria #Haïti etc.
medicsonthemoveforwhatmatters.org @itmantwerp.bsky.social

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 16d

Top headline game from The Guardian

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Otto Kyyrönen @ottokyyronen.bsky.social · 16d

VM:n muistiossa arvioidaan ensi vuonna tehtävien veromuutosten vaikutusta tulonjakoon.

Hallituksen veropäätökset lisäävät suurituloisimpien käytettävissä olevia tuloja eniten. Heidän kohdallaan lisäys on suurin suhteellisesti ja absoluuttisesti.

Sen sijaan pienituloisimman ryhmän tulot vähenevät.

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 16d

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side

Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21d

Remarkably blunt words from United Nations officials who just declared Israel is committing genocide:

"Gaza will be with me for the rest of my life."

"Netanyahu, like everything he says, is simply lying."

"The treatment of children, the amputation without anesthetic…That will haunt me forever."

BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza

In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Sep 3

More than 1,000 HHS staff call on RFK Jr. to resign thehill.com/policy/healt...

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Sep 4

The United States is now on the Civicus Monitor Watchlist.

A global list of countries where there is a serious decline in respect for civic freedoms.

The watchlist was updated in March 2025 and includes the US alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Kenya, and Serbia.

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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

www.theguardian.com

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage."

Susan Monarez WSJ op-ed www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...

Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me

I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.

www.wsj.com

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Sep 4

#DRC: Health authorities have declared an outbreak of #Ebola Virus Disease in the Bulape health zone, Kasaï province.

As of Sept. 4, 28 suspected cases have been reported, with 16 fatalities, including 4 health workers.

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Ellen 't Hoen @ellenthoen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not sure that this will do a great deal for increasing confidence in vaccines. www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/p...

Pfizer’s CEO defends Covid vaccines, suggests Trump may deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla defended the development of Covid vaccines and suggested President Trump may deserve a Nobel Peace Prize because of Operation Warp Speed.

www.statnews.com

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Sep 4

🚨 BREAKING: The EU Commission's Teresa Ribera has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, the strongest condemnation yet to come out of Brussels.

Read the story: ow.ly/4SJs50WRcuP

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · Sep 4

🧪 A federally commissioned study detailing alcohol's health risks has been suppressed. The research shows a clear link to seven types of cancer, with mortality risk increasing sharply even at low consumption levels.
#MedSky 🛟

Vox @vox.com · Sep 4

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
www.vox.com/health/46008...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

www.vox.com

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EUHEALTHGOV @euhealthgov.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our final panel at #UACES2025 considered the balance between health and other EU policies - ethics, trade, alcohol brand marketing, and AI.

Many thanks to Juan Collado Perez Llantada, @merikoivusalo.bsky.social, Jaydon Souter, and Phil Ryan!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 28

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 28

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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Transnational Flows @transnationalflows.bsky.social · Aug 27

@lyndagilby.bsky.social presented her latest work with @merikoivusalo.bsky.social at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Aug 26

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs
📅 4 years
🏫 @statsvitenskap.bsky.social
⌛ Monday 1 September
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#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · Aug 26

Reuters: Trump administration weighs sanctions on officials implementing EU tech law

President Donald Trump’s administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials ...

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FEANTSA @feantsa.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 Job alert!

FEANTSA is hiring a Health Policy Assistant to support advocacy & research on health inequalities and #homelessness.

Apply before 10 September!

🔗 www.feantsa.org/en/about-us/...

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SOSTE Suomen sosiaali ja terveys ry @soste.bsky.social · Aug 14

Sosiaali- ja terveysjärjestöiltä leikkaaminen tulee yhteiskunnalle kalliiksi.

SOSTEn laskelman mukaan 1 euro sote-järjestöille kohdennettuja valtionavustuksia säästää julkisen sektorin kustannuksia yli 1,4 euroa.

Leikkauksille on vaihtoehtoja. 👇

#budjettiriihi

Budjettiriihi: 100 miljoonan lisäleikkaus romuttaisi sote-järjestöjen työn – leikkauksille on vaihtoehtoja - Soste

Hallituksen budjettiriihessä 1.–2.9. päätetään ensi vuoden talousarviosta. Viime viikolla valtiovarainministeri Riikka Purra ehdotti, että sosiaali- ja terveysjärjestöjen valtionavustuksista leikattai...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Aug 11

Great thread about the new @uk.theconversation.com article @sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and scarily effective way in the US.

full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...

Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · Aug 11

Despite the fact that vaccines have saved millions of lives and RFK Jr made promises that he was not anti-vaccine when he was confirmed as HHS and pledged to maintain vaccines and science integrity he is systematically going back on that promise #ImmunoSky 🧪🧵

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world

Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.

theconversation.com

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