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I write on Kosovo + Balkans; run women’s rugby league Revolution Rugby in KS. https://linktr.ee/bronwynjones1
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The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.

🔴 BREAKING - PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey ending 40 years of armed struggle

I TRULY LOVE AND RESPECT @ericswalwell.bsky.social Congressman Eric Swalwell tonight Message to Little Marco Rubio "Bro, did you write this?" "Don't bullshit us. Grow a pair "

Accusing a very straightforward, down-the-middle news reporter of being treasonous is pretty chilling, even for the Trump regime.

This was the plan all along

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc. Rubio just cancelled all of them languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

"as with the war, Zelensky didn’t start this Oval Office exchange. Was he supposed to tolerate an extended public denigration of the Ukrainian people, who have been fighting a war for survival for three years?” — WSJ edit board Gift link: www.wsj.com/opinion/puti...

"A horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... What a bunch of fucking monsters and ghouls.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02... Ppl from the Prishtina embassy are reportedly already looking for new jobs. There is no new Ambo & the website is scrubbed clean removing all trace of previous Ambos.

Open corruption

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

The Guardian is now listing all the horrific things this Trump admin is doing.

The embrace and protection of Andrew Tate at the highest level of US government tells you everything you need to know about this rotten administration. They worship at the altar of abusing women and girls. Their version of morality supports sex trafficking under the guise of camming

Everything is an enormous scandal. There are several tonight alone. No exaggeration.

This is our latest club btw. The name is a fuck up on my part. We give our clubs non ethnic names and usually try to pick something everyone can relate to. So this club was supposed to be called Hawks but I forgot the name when I went to the designer. And I said Valkyries. Then he did this logo…

Peter O'Mahony, Cian Healy and Conor Murray all retiring from international rugby (Murray heading abroad). I'll miss them all.

The United States is now the place the worst people in the world flee to, in order to escape criminal charges. How long before the Tate Brothers are offered jobs in the Trump administration? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... "Doge will not touch the $3bn in subsidies given to oil and gas companies, a hedge fund loophole worth $1.3bn a year, or the $2tn given to defence contractors to build a fighter jet that will soon be obsolete. “This is where the real money is.""

Roberts hands the Trump administration a victory for now in saying that USAID and the State Department do not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Afghanistan,until women are allowed to play cricket locally & internationally the men’s team should be banned from cricket worldwide… #r4today

Excoriating and accurate. www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...

BREAKING: Two sources tell @theprospect.bsky.social that the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has asked for a plan for cuts to 50% of the workforce, including at the 1,200 field offices that serve millions of beneficiaries. prospect.org/health/socia...

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

New: Trump just now in cabinet meeting says he will NOT provide Ukraine security guarantees: "Well I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much – we're going to have Europe do that. Because you know we're talking about– Europe is their next door neighbor."

Breaking A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13. Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP

what the actual fuck

Given the astronomical tension over what “personal liberties” means right now – there is an incredibly polarised and high stakes row over censorship and who’s engaging in it, for example – this is quite the email from Bezos to the Post staff…

I think I said something a while back about the key here being who is going to enforce these decisions?

This was so much fun to do with Lee I loved it. And thanks so much again!

Inside the illegal takedown of USAID by two DOGE boys, who kept blocking release of funds even when Rubio said some programs (like PEPFAR) could continue The result? "A $50 billion agency is now tightly controlled by a handful of 20-something software engineers who have never worked a day in govt"

europeanwesternbalkans.com/2025/02/25/s... every authoritarian globally will now start attacking orgs

alternativna.com/kosovska-mit... more on the 6 young men arrested last night

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/se... very good piece on the student protests & puts paid to the fantasies that they will take Vučić down. They won’t anytime soon.

x.com/KoSSevnews/s... Another possible case of police abuse in the north. I wrote about a solution, that the police are choosing to ignore: open.substack.com/pub/bronwynj...

New World Order

I wonder how hard Ronald Reagan must be spinning?

radiokim.net/vesti/politi... a good article on how EU sanctions are damaging Kosovo. If KS wants them lifted they know exactly what to do. But rather than take true steps towards integration this govt prefers self damage.

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

These are Kremlin talking points, now parroted by US public officials

In the first month since Trump returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

But if it were a beauty contest Scotland would have won for prettiest tries.