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I like food and drink and music and geopolitics. I live in Basel.
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an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

submitted 2 days ago • 1290 comments

SLOTKIN: Does the uniformed military have the ability to arrest and detain protesters? HEGSETH: Um. I -- S: It's a yes or no H: Troops are given very clear orders S: What are they? H: They're public S: So say it -- yes or no H: They are there to protect law enforcement, ICE officers

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Myles Lewis-Skelly agrees new Arsenal contract. Huge boost to Arsenal and Mikel Arteta. Full story 👇 charleswatts.football/news/exclusi...

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Martin Wolf going hard on the chart title on.ft.com/4636MO1

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

submitted 5 days ago • 158 comments

MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in step forward for reproductive rights

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

COLLINS: Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon TRUMP: I don't care what she said

submitted 5 days ago • 426 comments

Marguerite, 1907 #artbots #matisse https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15691

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The US is not very free & the media are scared: Trump sues them often for a lot of money. In a free society the president should not be allowed to sue the media for ever so slight a criticism. The Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Index ranks the US #57, below Liberia. rsf.org/en/index

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

From The Archives: ICE Agents Hurl Pregnant Immigrant Over Mexican Border To Prevent Birth On U.S. Soil

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 11 days ago • 2311 comments

Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?

submitted 13 days ago • 131 comments

What’s going on here? Protestor facing 21 months in prison before trial. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Every Republican Senator who votes for the budget bill should be voted out of office. Repost if you agree.

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets. Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power. What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

submitted 16 days ago • 119 comments

German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

submitted 17 days ago • 88 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 17 days ago • 313 comments

"It only missed by a few meters": A man managed to sleep through an enormous container ship running aground on his front lawn cnn.it/3ST0pFg

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

Elon Musk’s status at Starbase has the same vibe as Zardoz.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is retaliating against Harvard for rejecting his adult son Barron Trump & for allowing students to practice their free speech to criticize Israel's genocide in Gaza, the regime tried to punish the university by eliminating its ability to enroll international students. Is being blocked by judge

submitted 31 days ago • 100 comments

Ukrainians are confident that they can continue fighting—even without the same level of American support, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social reports.⁠ Read more: https://theatln.tc/O2j130pw

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments