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captaineurope.bsky.social
Retired real life 🇪🇺superhero. Full-time desk jockey in the Brussels machine. Eclectic tweets on public policy, travel, the environment and life in general.
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🤣 A Christian podcaster says he avoids airport scanners because he thinks they “turn people gay” So he prefers a pat-down instead! https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/andrew-isker-tsa-full-body-scanners/

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Dunno. Ask @davekeating.substack.com

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Очень хорошо. До свидания.

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The European Parliament there, trolling the US Department of Defense [sic]

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Senior Army officers with law degrees.

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Grandios! China sagt auf charmante Art Fuck You zum 🍊🤡, Eyliner-JD und MAGAstan. Liebe EU - so geht das!

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No, the S in BRICS does not stand for Spain. Or Sweden, for that matter. But we do have the very descriptive word “skämskudde” in Swedish, literally “embarrassment pillow,” which we use when someone says something so excruciatingly embarrassing that you just want to hide your face behind a pillow.

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We go live to the White House for the latest trade policy announcement

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The facts have a liberal bias.

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Thanks, Fox “News.”

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We go live to the White House press room

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We go live to a meeting of the UK cabinet

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨 This is excellent by @edwardluce.bsky.social on the futility of understanding #trump on the scale of rational foreign policy/trade policy schools of thought: www.ft.com/content/9f51...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

The USA has to pay Europe a lot of money for unfair trade practices. They’ve been wage dumping (low minimum wage, low income taxes) & social dumping (low social spending, weak environmental regulations, poor worker’s safety standards). America has cheated us for so long. So bad. They need to pay.

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The laddie is not for turning.

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Please … clap?

submitted 6 days ago • 361 comments

Trump stolz: "Das ist der größte und beste Börsencrash, den je ein Präsident verursacht hat"

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Zis is Inspector Clouseau, your train manager. I remind you zat all prams and pooshares must be folded.

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Here’s another idea. Ask US applicants for an ETA whether they have ever, since 1980, expressed support for the Republican Party or Donald Trump. If the answer is yes, the price goes up twentyfold.

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Am I alone in admiring what this guy is doing? There’s only a slim chance his plan will work. But at least he’s trying to change cowpats into diamonds using high explosives next to a primary school, rather than just go with the flow.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Brutal opening by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com

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Absolutely superb, a comedy masterclass that does a better job of explaining the situation than any of the ‘serious’ news outlets

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Очень хорошо. До свидания.

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If Trump tries his power handshake with Šefčovič, he will get a shock. He’s bigger than he looks on TV.

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"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

That’s dialectics.

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Muscle and power? I am supposed to be retired. Then again, Donald Trump is well past retirement age…

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