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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹

@ricsilvestre.bsky.social

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Social-Liberal. Europeanist. Atlanticist. Researcher and author in political science. Co-host of the 'Liberal Europe Podcast', a project supported by the European Parliament. Opinions my own.

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · Aug 22

In my political commentary in #Portugal, a constant critique of mine it's the tendency in the media to attack the #EuropeanUnion with fallacious and bad-faith arguments. I'm incredibly grateful to @observadorpt.bsky.social for publishing this 'right of reply'. #Europe. observador.pt/opiniao/o-fa...

O falso argumento da União Europeia letárgica

é frustrante ver o debate na nossa sociedade sobre “a UE está atrasada, a UE não faz o suficiente, a UE está desnorteada” no que se trata da situação da Ucrânia

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 10h

The #USA is in the hands of pigs, morons, and fanatics

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 10h

Não há ninguém na imprensa em #Portugal que queira mencionar isto, cada vez que se fala de "Trump é imprevisível e não se pode dizer que esteja ao lado de Putin"

Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 10h

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 12h

"Governing" to have TikTok videos and hits on #FOXNews. What a disaster.

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 17h

YES! YES! AND HELL YES!! Thanks Madam Commisioner @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social! Stand strong. Do not cede to pressure for Jim Jordan, JD Vance and Trump! #USA #EuropeanUnion

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 19h

Algo que já tinha sugerido neste op-ed para o @observadorpt.bsky.social observador.pt/opiniao/a-un...

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 19h

Mas, mas...eu vejo no "comentariado" em #Portugal que a União Europeia NADA faz para se defender, que é IMPOTENTE perante Putin!! Seguramente os excelsos membros desse ilustre grupo não estão equivocados, certo??

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 22h

Make no mistake.

The recent incursions in our skies are part of a pattern of growing threats.

It’s time to call it by its name.
This is hybrid warfare.

Europe must get the capacity to respond and protect our skies.

Work has begun.

→ link.europa.eu/4Fxrqr

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 20h

@ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social For when, FOR WHEN, a clear, unequivocal condemnation of what we are seeing in the streets of the #USA by the Trump Administration by the #EuropeanUnion?? Are we waiting for blood in the streets?!?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 20h

É tudo estúpido. É tudo ignóbil. É tudo ridículo.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 1d

With just two matches on the box

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 1d

Uma "limpeza"... o fascismo está a tomar conta das democracias ocidentais, e depende de todos os querem preservar de lutar contra isto (e sim, estou a pensar nos nossos autoritários de pacotilha com os seus slogans de "limpar #Portugal" e "limpar a Amadora").

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 1d

This is Stephen Miller work. Trump has no idea what is going on

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

This lunatic is so anxious to "blow is load", that he is going to use the Act way before what Stephen Miller is imagining to do: do it in November 2026. #USA

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

ONDE ESTÃO OS Tiago Dores, Alberto Gonçalves, Raquel Abecassis, Helena Matos, Ana Cavalieri, Vasco Rato, Ricardo Costa, João Miguel Tavares, José Cruz Ferreira, do "comentariado" em #Portugal?! Serão chamados de volta para se retratarem?! Ou não há consequências de promover um lunático para POTUS?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

Honest question, why give a platform to a sick liar, trying to cause the #USA to be engulfed in a civil war?

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism is still fascism, regardless of what blonde barbie the Trump Administration finds to be the spokesperson for fascism.

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

It is really an ominous thing that the only thing that "breaks through" to the modern electorate is "price of eggs and healthcare", when you are seeing fascism descending on your communities, your city, your country. #USA #Europe

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

This is how ICE drove by protesters yesterday. A row of state police separated protesters and ICE vehicles.

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

tick tick tick... until we have blood on the streets (which is what Stephen Miller wants to happen) #USA

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

This is how ICE drove by protesters yesterday. A row of state police separated protesters and ICE vehicles.

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

Bookmark this for when Republicans will start saying that "terrorists" have no right to vote in the #USA

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

The downward spiral continues abated

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

Nada que não vejamos, CONTINUAMENTE, no "comentariado" em #Portugal.

Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 2d

Words cannot describe how tone-deaf it is to publish this article at this moment.

But The Economist has been consistently tone-deaf in their Europe coverage for years. They will never get over their obsession with America, even as the US descends toward dictatorship or civil war.

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

at least it will force the orange baboon to pardon here

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

@hat tip to @catiomiles.bsky.social o

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 2d

Ei, @ec.europa.eu, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social when👏we👏will👏see👏the #EuropeanUnion take a stand on the protection of freedoms and rights of our American friends?! Are we waiting to see blood on the streets of the #USA?!?

Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 3d

The silence of European governments about ICE's thuggish activities this weekend in Chicago and Portland is not going to be sustainable for very much longer. If you call it out when you see it in Belarus, you need to call it out when you see it in Illinois.

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 3d

O último a sair que apague as luzes. #USA variety.com/2025/biz/new...

Bari Weiss Poised to Join CBS News as Editor-in-Chief as Paramount Nears Acquisition of Free Press

Paramount has closed a deal for The Free Press, with its founder Bari Weiss tapped as editor in chief of CBS News.

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