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Austria‘s day of political breakthrough (or prelude to the harrowing season finale) in a thread 👇

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So the challenges are going to be big. And this is a ministerially inexperienced new cabinet. But on first reading this is an impressively ambitious plan from Austria’s new Zukerlkoalition. Lessons here for Germany in the coming weeks: a centrist coalition still has to think radically to survive.

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I mean firstly, our ancestors died because that’s very much what happens to ancestors. Secondly, presuming this to be a pompous reference to WW2, I have to say that ‘Keeping the Imperial Metropole Racially Pure’ is not high among the Reasons We Fought Nazism.

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It’s great that all the world’s worst people are finally being consigned to one distant disaster society. It’s not so great they have a vast nuclear arsenal.

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This contemptible piece of garbage from Braverman shows two things. The first is that she and a number of other Tory MPs are off to Reform after the Locals. The second, and most important, is that we need urgent action to stamp out the normalisation of racism by the Telegraph & others.

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I read the Suella thing. In many ways it’s worse than even - say - Enoch Powell, because even he acknowledged that some immigrants wanted to integrate. The impression from the piece is that she’s not very clever and is blindly stumbling down this alley that leads to one place only out loud.

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BREAKING: Critic magazine proprietor Lord Kronsteen announces an important change of direction for the SKETCH.

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Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

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Corrigendum: the “illegal” immigrant.

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The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s locksmith. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...

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Benko enabler and former Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer has given an interview to Falter. For some reason he has dressed up as an evil cheesemonger.

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Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

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From the UN general assembly today, a convenient list of Russian client states (and their clients): USA, North Korea, Belarus, Israel, Haiti, Hungary, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Sudan, Syria, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua.

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I’m even more pessimistic than 50:50. The US constitution isn’t going to be a brake if Trump decides otherwise. Those to defend it are weak, bought out or gone. The Weimar constitution was never formally abrogated by the Nazis. They used it when expedient and otherwise built a new state around it.

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“It can’t be real fascism it’s just cosplay and provocative symbolism!”

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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🌞 🏔️ 🎿

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I mean yes, but also the president.

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I mean... you appointed him dude. One big takeaway from Munich this weekend has been the absolute chaos of US foreign policy. I saw Sikorski describe it charitably as Pазведка воем but I don't think it is that at all: it's an inherent feature of government by charisma/prerogative. And no plan.

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If there is one thing you need to read this weekend (not just using that phrase as just a cliché, I mean you actually need to) it is @keirgiles.bsky.social's lucid, sobering analysis of the risks now facing all Europeans, and why we have to wake up.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Why Trump is selling out Ukraine - and what Europe should do. My Inside-Out column. philipstephens.substack.com/p/trump-hand...

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Germany’s Die Linke (and “anti war” left in general) love claiming to be non-aligned. Yet at their rallies there’s always lots of anti-NATO tralala - here a poster ludicrously using imagery to connect the alliance to Guernica - but not a jot of criticism of Russia. An actual barbarous warmonger 🤔

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They are just so breathtakingly stupid. And yet so convinced of their own genius. It’s not gonna end good.

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Gotta love the "conservative" right in America. Which psalm is it where righteous Christians go to a warzone and shake down its leaders as a condition of continued support? I missed that bit of the Bible. on.ft.com/4jYx2xA

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Munich 👀

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Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name

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This is master negotiating. He really has Putin on the ropes. One more unprompted unilateral concession and Putin will surely crack. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

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Another datapoint for the hypothesis that the core problem with the Trump administration is not so much what it wants but rather in ripping out the basic wiring of government it will no longer be able to do anything at all

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Who’s the fat old guy sitting down next to the President?

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We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s tween haxx0rz stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earthshattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.

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A letter to Senate and House Intelligence Committees from The Steady State, a group of concerned retired intelligence, diplomatic, and national security officers.

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The Times has been taking the piss for a while. At some point it will need to decide whether it’s a newspaper or a Daylesford Organic freesheet. Assuming that choice hasn’t been made already.

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Side point: One of the reasons I think tech bros overestimate AI + hype it so much is that it is good at closed domains like coding. And they're maths/coding guys who think that being good at coding means being good at everything including, apparently, moral virtue.

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