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Teresa Eder

@tcobserver12.bsky.social

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Program Director Foreign & Security Policy, Boell Foundation, Washington DC. Recovering Journalist. Passionate about 🎵🎻 🐈‍ - I am posting in English and German.

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 20d

My colleague and I wrote a piece about the urgent need for Europe to partner with Canada in building a digitally sovereign ecosystem—one that can withstand the threats posed by US tech authoritarianism:

Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 21d

"An independent, democratic digital ecosystem [will] safeguard privacy, protect freedom of expression, and ensure that technology is developed to benefit the many, [not] a handful of people in Washington and Silicon Valley."

Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-europe-tech-sovereignty/

Canada and Europe Need to Build a Firewall Against US Tech Coercion | Perspectives Journal

Europe and Canada can only protect their digital ecosystems against US interference if they start investing in tech sovereignty now.

perspectivesjournal.ca

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colinnegrych.social @colinnegrych.social · 1d

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The Goldwater Rule does not rule out one or all psychiatrists calling for the replacement of a government official. It only restricts them offering a official diagnosis as the basis for why doing so would be advisable.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 1d

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Blogaffäre: Schallenberg unterließ 2024 trotz Aufforderung die Abberufung des EU-Botschafters

Untersuchungskommission enthüllt, dass Personalvertreter einstimmig für Rückholung des Botschafters plädiert hatten – ohne Konsequenzen

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

It used to be that if you wanted to figure out "what's happening in Portland?" you might seek out The Oregonian or Oregon Public Broadcasting or a local free weekly. Those still exist and are doing generally good work, but they get almost zero algorithmic traction on Twitter, Facebook, Insta, etc.

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 3d

Ganz abgesehen von der derzeitigen extremen Schwäche der demokratischen Partei - mit Beliebtheitswerten weit hinter der republikanischen Partei und wie zu Zeiten von 2002/2003, nach 9/11.

Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 3d

Würde diesem Artikel gerne zustimmen wollen, aber die Realität spricht eine ganz andere Sprache - Stichwort Elitenversagen, Stephen Miller/Heritag-Apparat, Immunitäts-Urteil SCOTUS, voter suppression etc.

Es gibt viele Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Trump-Diktatur www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Es gibt viele Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Trump-Diktatur

Wenn der US-Präsident die Demokratie ausschalten will, müsste er strategisch vorgehen, um Gerichte und Föderalismus zu überwinden. Das ist nicht seine Stärke

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 6d

I see so many flaws with the thesis of this op-ed but maybe its just me, the eternal pessimist, talking.

www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

The Orbán-MAGA playbook will fail to deliver

Very few following in Hungary’s footsteps are willing to recognize the long-term outcomes of a deteriorating economy, crumbling basic services and a soured public.

www.politico.eu

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 6d

So much of the coverage of the EU is hyper-micro. It's all about the sausage making. So story out of Copenhagen European Council is "dithering," "all talk, no action," nothing fully agreed, etc. It's an effing meeting! Take a step back... they are moving on Eurobonds/frozen Russian assets. 1/

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 6d

Pflichtlektüre, nicht nur wegen der Österreich-Connection.

WIRED @wired.com · 8d

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d

Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice

FBI Director Kash Patel & @
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
James Comey wrote "love letters" to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans.
That era is OVER. This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.
FBI
Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI
made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA
criticism
That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL, Patel said
By Rachel Wolf • Fox News
3:32 PM • 10/1/25 • 758K Views

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 7d

Ein wichtiges Detail, das hier im Artikel versteckt wird: das Lab wird finanziert von Trump-Berater Andreessen Horowitz.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

I just received this statement from ICE re: Barbara Mariana Gomes Marques May in which they can't even be bothered to get her age right (she's 38.) She never received the notice to appear in 2019, and was at the final step of her green card process with her US citizen husband when she was taken.

STATEMENT: attributable to an ICE spokesperson
Barbara Mariana Gomes Marques, 37, is an illegal alien from Brazil, who is not in possession of valid immigration documents allowing her to be or remain in the United States legally. ICE officers in Los Angeles arrested her Sept. 16, following a referral from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Marques overstayed her visa issued when she first entered the U.S. March 14, 2018, and on Nov. 21, 2019, an immigration judge ordered Marques removed in absentia to Brazil. She will remain in ICE custody until she is returned home.

Aliens residing in the United States illegally are encouraged to self-deport. Tools such as the CBP Home app are available to support the self-deportation process. Illegal aliens now face a very real and imminent possibility that they will be encountered, arrested, and removed by ICE under a renewed commitment to law and order led by President Trump and Secretary Noem.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

By my friend historian Eram Alam, who has written a very timely book: “The deeper crisis at play is not immigration at all. It is America’s refusal to build a sustainable pipeline with which to ensure care for its citizens.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s H-1B visa fee is a death sentence for US healthcare | Eram Alam

Trump’s $100,000 visa fee will gut the immigrant workforce that keeps US hospitals – and patients – alive

www.theguardian.com

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 7d

In other transnational repression news, last week the Group of ahuman Rights Experts on Nicaragua, an independent UN-mandated group, issued a groundbreaking report on Nicaragua’s persecution of exiles beyond its borders: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Nicaragua: UN Experts warn of escalating repression reaching beyond borders

GENEVA/PANAMA – Nicaragua’s Government is expanding its repression of perceived opponents far beyond its own borders, targeting Nicaraguan citizens abroad as part of an intensifying campaign to silenc...

www.ohchr.org

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 7d

Verkehrsminister Hanke: "Den Lobautunnel nicht zu bauen, wäre zukunftsvergessen" - ok, wenn die SPÖ jetzt schon so drauf ist, dann wirklich gute Nacht, liebes Österreich...

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Verkehrsminister Hanke: "Den Lobautunnel nicht zu bauen wäre zukunftsvergessen"

Die Prüfung seiner grünen Vorgängerin hält der SPÖ-Politiker für "selektiv". Am Verbrenner-Aus hält er fest – und will sich gegen die ÖVP durchsetzen

www.derstandard.at

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 7d

It can’t be said enough: the last three times the government has shut down, Donald Trump was president of the United States, and Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. They cannot govern.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 8d

Do not dismiss this as a joke. This is terrifying. Even to say out loud. He has the right fire them, that’s civil-mil 101. Doesn’t mean this is normal or ok.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he would meet with top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Trump says he will fire U.S. military leaders if he doesn't like them

President Donald Trump said he would meet with top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them.

www.reuters.com

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Leo G. Fischer 💯👏 @leogfischer.bsky.social · 9d

Keine Angst, es ist nur der Hersteller der Software, die uns alle ununterbrochen überwachen soll; dass er einen fanatischen politischen Gestaltungswillen halt, ist kein Grund zur Beunruhigung

Überschrift und Vorspann eines Welt.de-Artikela: „Sprecht endlich von Krise - der Palantir-CEO liest Deutschland die Leviten

Alex Karp feiert mit Palantir eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Nach Deutschland blickt der Milliardär hingegen voller Sorge. Europa drohe „,sein industrielles Herz" zu verlieren. Die Fehlentscheidungen in der Energie-, Einwanderungs- und Technologiepolitik erforderten Mut, Härte und Ehrlichkeit."

Zitat aus dem welt.de-Artikel: "Um die nötige Dynamik zu schaffen, brauche es im Land technologische Sonderzonen - Inseln ohne lähmende Bürokratie, dafür mit klaren Regeln: längere Arbeitszeiten, volle Meritokratie, ein flexiblerer Arbeitsmarkt mit der Möglichkeit zu schnellen Entlassungen. „Man baut kein Weltklasse-Tech mit Acht-Stunden-Tagen und unkündbaren Mitarbeitern", warnt Karp."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d

“candy from a baby”.

Donald J. Trump 0©
@realDonaldTrump
Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing "candy from a baby." California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit! Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 10d

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9d

more likely than you think because Anton (in State) has argued in favor of abandoning Taiwan

Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social · 10d

WSJ: Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump: Opposing Taiwan Independence

www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Exclusive | Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump: Opposing Taiwan Independence

The Chinese leader views President Trump’s eagerness for a trade deal as an opportunity to press for his top goal.

www.wsj.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10d

A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment.

(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)

are you high-agency or an NPC?

AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley

jasmi.news

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