Complacent Pete

Complacent Pete

@petecomplacent.bsky.social

Your democratic neighbor. Amsterdam, Europe, Music.

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Bart De Wever is best wel een achterbaks mannetje.

Andrew Gray@andrewramsaygray.bsky.social

One more from my interview with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas today: Kallas pushes back against ​a call by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever to normalise ‌relations with Moscow and regain access to cheap Russian energy. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Trump deserves Charlemagne Prize for his exceptional contribution to European unification.😎

Oliver Grimm@grimmse.bsky.social

Ich bin natürlich nicht der erste, der diesen Vorschlag macht, aber the more, the merrier: Kaum ein Mensch auf Erden hat derzeit den Karlspreis mehr verdient, als Donald Trump! www.diepresse.com/20502870/don...

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Trump is giving a deranged, rambling monologue in Davos to an audience stunned into silence. He sounds incredibly tired, his voice raspy; he keeps trailing off into long pauses. It's jaw-dropping. The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"

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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

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They’re making up the Venezuela strategy as they go. This sums it up… “We’re fundamentally dealing with an unserious, immature Commander-in-Chief, which means we are seeing unserious policy decisions which are incredibly hard to actually analyze and discern what their purpose is.” Michael Feinberg

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I don’t know if the right will ever stop using socialism & communism as scare words. But it’s time for moderate Dems to stop flinching every time the right yells “Democrat socialist” Start learning the lessons right in front of them from Mamdani’s candidacy and his win. It’s affordability, stupid‼️

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His “peace plan” is a Russian wish list which requires Ukraine to surrender huge parts of their country and remain vulnerable to future Russian invasions. …and he’s mad they are not thanking him for it.

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🔍 DE-CON Glossary #12: Flooding the zone Flooding the zone is a Russian disinformation tactic that drowns facts in noise, spreading confusion and weakening trust in democratic dialogue. 📌Definition from the DE-CONSPIRATOR FIMI Glossary (D2.2).

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The Zeiten, they are wending. 61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities. 66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.

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De VVD gijzelt het land voor de DERDE KEER. Eerst door met leugens het kabinet te laten ploffen ( nareis op nareis) toen door de deur voor de PVV open te zetten en nu gijzelt ze het land door de PvdA uit te sluiten. Hopenlijk pikken D66 en het CDA dit niet.

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There are 367 days until the Midterms, 1102 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 1176 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: ████▒▒▒▒▒▒ 43% Presidency/Regime progress: ██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 20% Until Next Inauguration : █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 19%

theguardian.comTracking Trump – everything that’s happened in the president’s first 100 daysFollow major developments of the second Trump administration’s first 100 days, brought up to date weekly

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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

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Replying to @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social

Het idee dat ‘verstandige asielmaatregelen’, in welke constellatie ook, een einde maakt aan de extreemrechtse hondsdolheid is volstrekt naïef. Die wordt namelijk niet veroorzaakt door reëele zorgen maar door online propaganda.

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Ik vroeg mijn tienjarige wat ze van het Jeugdjournaal-debat vond. Wilders zei wel dat hij 'niet tegen moslims' was, maar wat hij eigenlijk bedoelde, begreep ze niet: 'hij gebruikte moeilijke woorden' en ze kreeg er een naar gevoel van.

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Er is nauwelijks een moment waarop ‘de’ tv bijdraagt aan een enigszins normaal gesprek over dit land, de wereld en de afwegingen die je bij verkiezingen maakt. Alles is opgefokt, alles draait om gedoe en versimpeling.

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omg 👀 This both humiliating and terrifying.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

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