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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
The domino effect of the us market closing and the goods once going there looking for other markets. Things will get worse.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 9h
EU tariffs on steel imports will be doubled to 50% beyond a reduced quota, compared to the volumes currently entering duty-free.
European Commission wields protectionist powers to shield EU steel
EU tariffs on steel imports will be doubled to 50% beyond a reduced quota, compared to the volumes currently entering duty-free.
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EU tariffs on steel imports will be doubled to 50% beyond a reduced quota, compared to the volumes currently entering duty-free.
European Commission wields protectionist powers to shield EU steel
EU tariffs on steel imports will be doubled to 50% beyond a reduced quota, compared to the volumes currently entering duty-free.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
One of the reasons the figures have risen is, of course, Brexit. Competences reverted back to Britain and ‚taking back control‘ implies that someone exercises that control.
lbc.co.uk
LBC @lbc.co.uk · 21h
"So you're laying waste to people's jobs, but you don't know how many?"

Kemi Badenoch plans to get rid of 'quite a lot' of civil servants.

She doesn't have the exact figure, but she assures Nick that she's 'looked at it'.
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lbc.co.uk
"So you're laying waste to people's jobs, but you don't know how many?"

Kemi Badenoch plans to get rid of 'quite a lot' of civil servants.

She doesn't have the exact figure, but she assures Nick that she's 'looked at it'.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
I see we had the same thought at the same moment…
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
The facts of cases involving ice are more and more horrifying. What happens when you hire barely trained people and provide incentives for cruelty plus try to limit the application of law.
Is this really what the Tories want?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
Also as a mere matter of strategy, the Tories are now the pale copy of Reform and continue to behave as such, rather than a traditional conservative political force. It is hard to see how this will translate to electoral success rather than further self-destruction.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 3d
Well it has happened.
The leadership of the Conservative&Unionist Party is advocating leaving the ECHR. Not reforming it, or working with other members to alter any rules.
Leave it. Like Putin’s Russia.
I can’t help wondering what those Tories who are rightly proud of 🇬🇧’s support for 🇺🇦 are thinking.
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helenebismarck.bsky.social
Well it has happened.
The leadership of the Conservative&Unionist Party is advocating leaving the ECHR. Not reforming it, or working with other members to alter any rules.
Leave it. Like Putin’s Russia.
I can’t help wondering what those Tories who are rightly proud of 🇬🇧’s support for 🇺🇦 are thinking.
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Reposted by: Holger Hestermeyer, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 13 more

kyledcheney.bsky.social
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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by Steve Peers — Reposted by: Holger Hestermeyer

stevepeers.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch: let's do this in Britain
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 3d
Source 5: www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...
ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors
Two residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the raid.
www.newsweek.com
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
I wonder it follows the old Brexit strategy: ‚theoretically we can strengthen human rights on our own, so there‘s no downside because we could do even better‘ (but yeah in practice we will just get rid of them)
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
1) Either the ECHR significantly constraints government action. Then "it has to go because of that" means "we plan to, want to and will do things that are currently considered to violate human rights" or
2) Human rights protection remains the same. Then... why leave the ECHR?
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by Holger Hestermeyer — Reposted by: Michael Morris, Colm O’Cinneíde, Christina Pagel

hhesterm.bsky.social
I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it.
These cannot both be true. /1
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d
There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
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Reposted by: Holger Hestermeyer, Steve Peers, Christina Pagel

samfr.bsky.social
There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
The article solely refers to the us and the increasing tendency to (self)censor.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
A brilliant article by @katie0martin.ft.com. My gut instinct says the increasingly manipulated information environment will lead to disaster. But what about China - any research on that? - I've repeatedly read articles here and there about how so many of their numbers are fake, but yet it thrives?
katie0martin.ft.com
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4d
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
A brilliant article by @katie0martin.ft.com. My gut instinct says the increasingly manipulated information environment will lead to disaster. But what about China - any research on that? - I've repeatedly read articles here and there about how so many of their numbers are fake, but yet it thrives?
katie0martin.ft.com
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4d
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
I fear Tories and Reform together are polling at roughly 50% of the vote. I fear for the future.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
For NI, Ireland and the EU it is time to have a plan. What exactly will not work or run into trouble without the ECHR? Police cooperation, data exchange, extradition are certain candidates and the level of cooperation will have to be reduced. /3
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
There's still time to turn the wheel: what is the point of this? Do you think it will fix migration? Farage did not fix migration by getting Brexit, he apparently made it worse in the eyes of the population - and now you allow him to dominate the debate and determine the next step? /2
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
Both the Conservatives and Reform are now set to leave the ECHR and are committing the UK to breaking human rights (if you say they contain significant constraints and you want to get rid of these constrains - yes, that's what you plan to do). /1 www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
www.bbc.com
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
War-ravaged.
atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
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Reposted by: Holger Hestermeyer, Anna O. Law, Scott L. Greer , and 4 more

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BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A326 KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY [October 3, 2025] In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705. In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself. See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.) The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here. NOEM v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE JACKSON, J., dissenting The September 5, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 25-cv-1766, is stayed as to the Venezuela vacatur and Venezuela termination, pending the disposition of the Government's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and JUSTICE KAGAN would deny the application. JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting from the grant of application for stay.
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atrupar.com
Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
Could we please, please not build a narrative of the inevitability of people like Farage? Why not highlight Farage‘s failures from time to time. He did enormous harm to the uk economy. He failed to get anything on migration. He did enormous harm to uk fisheRies, which was his core ‘competence‘.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
Im just reading ‚the coming storm‘. apparently the us started having this conspiracy -> news pipeline since the Clinton years.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
To all conspiracy fans: there are requirements for how to do treaties, for Germany treaties covering matters of federal law require parliamentary approval, for the U.K. they need to be put before parliament.
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 5d
A quick research on X (where else?) shows that random account has posted an obviously fake video in the style of the newspaper 'Frankfurter Rundschau' that claims this nonsense secret protocol of 500.000 illegal migrants a year.
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
Agreed - which makes sense given the UN is not an ICC member (and cannot become one, I'd say from the top of my head)
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by Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm.bsky.social
Note that Austria, Kenya and Switzerland are ICC member states.
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