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Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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We are all Zelensky.

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Last June, I revisited the Languedoc, one of my favorite territories in France. Instead of a standard tasting report, I’ve painted portraits of six women who work in the Languedoc wine industry. Read my intro essay, then link through to the portraits: terroirreview.com/2025/02/22/s... #wine

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malcolmjolley.substack.com/p/get-out

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The one really positive thing about Trump’s firing the CJCS and Musk and DOGE attacking the Pentagon is that it’s awesome for Canada and Greenland/Denmark

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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This is our Canada, our flag is a symbol of unity and peace. #OCanada #FlagDay #Canada #CanadaIsUnited #MapleLeaf 🍁Vive 🍁 le 🍁 Canada 🍁🇨🇦🍁

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I love love love the French:

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News flash: I have been told by a wine producer that its wines are good for Valentine's Day. Stay tuned for more on this important story.

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If you want to find a winemaker, in the run-up to harvest, this is a good place to look. (I love this photo)

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Will tomorrow's LCBO ban on US booze affect the American wine industry? I asked wine economist Jens Peter Barynin what it might mean... malcolmjolley.substack.com/p/lcbo-bans-...

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A take on our rapidly moving Constitutional crisis that isn't exactly optimistic, but gives some plausible reasons to resist the pull of full doomerism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

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Instead of countervailing, Trump tariff targets, like Canada, might consider doubling down with export taxes and spiking US inflation... financialpost.com/news/economy...

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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

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My latest column for @timatkinmw.bsky.social: in a Dry January with plenty of bad news for the wine industry (neo-prohibitionists running amok etc), there are still good reasons to be cheerful: wine retains its innate ability to surprise and delight timatkin.com/reasons-to-b...

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A reveal in the debate about fact-checking: how little the platforms care about users who come to Facebook/X etc. for information. I get why malign or crooked people might build a business promoting floor wax as a cure for cancer. Are they the true customer? Apparently yes.

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Every single thing that everybody suddenly wants to do in Greenland - mine for minerals! use shipping lanes! set up bases! - can be done right now, while Greenland is part of Denmark. The discussion of "occupying" Greenland is just a pointless piece of aggression towards an ally.

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Relinking the below thread for those who need to know!

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Love this pic of the Queen Mum (gawd bless 'er) enjoying a pint in a Stepney pub.

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The lessons so far from the Russo-Ukraine war. 1) Russia is no great power 2) Ukraine is no weak power 3) The USA is an unreliable power 4) all powers should build nukes if they can.

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I found that I have been happier since I changed from coffee in the morning to orange juice. My doctor explained that it's the vitamin C and natural sugars, but I really think it's the vodka.

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More wine at lunch SVP malcolmjolley.substack.com/p/wine-at-lu...

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We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate

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Henri Matisse (French 1869-1954). "Dans ce verre je bois à ta santé tous les jours du vin d'Alsace frais et parfumé. Que n'es-tu là." (In this glass I drink to your health every day fresh and fragrant Alsatian wine. That you aren’t there). Letter to André Rouveyre, 1947.

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Hmmm... non merci?

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New MJWJ Substack out today on why I can't remember the most expensive wines I've tasted, plus Oreno & Gugigal CdR Blanc malcolmjolley.substack.com/p/100-bottle

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Forget concrete eggs folks! Wine vats from local marble are the new black. You can even have a marble sphere! Here at Musella in #Valpolicella.

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Working on a column on so called professional wine tasting. I mean that in a self-deprecating way. But any weird stories welcome…

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A natural wine, a blend of Chardonnay, Grenache Blanc and Clairette Blanche from the 2022 and 2023 vintages, produced by devout Catholics in the Loire Valley will serve as the sacramental wine during the grand reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. www.decanter.com/wine-news/na...

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À Swansea, "Beaujolais day is the biggest day of the year" pour... l'esthéticienne, parce que les meufs viennent se faire maquiller dès 5 heures du matin pour commencer à picoler à 11:00. Une vidéo BBC Wales qu'on n'avait pas vue venir ! #beaujolais #beaujolaisday #wine #swansea

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What wines meant the most to me and my colleagues at @jancisrobinson over this past year? Here's a lovely roundup of wines with stories behind them: www.jancisrobinson.c...

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Here’s a starter pack for people who (mostly) talk about wine 🍷https://go.bsky.app/23MGG6B

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It’s pretty clear that we’re past the tipping point. Network effects are powerful. Threads misread the market. People didn’t want Insta w/ Words. They wanted a Twitter replacement.

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Looking for (hoping for) wino Bluesky? #wine

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I now have 10,000 followers here but over 5.9 million at the other place. If you want Me to switch for good I need you to get the word out that I'm here, pathetically desperate for worship (just like in real life), and filled with even more contempt for you here than I was there.

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