Captain Europe (retired)
@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.
⚠️ LATEST: Why Trump Is NOTHING Like Hitler. 👀 Please watch and share this latest report from #BrokenNews youtu.be/z2IdtjKUsX0
⚠️ Why Trump Is NOTHING Like Hitler - #BrokenNews
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The screaming hypocrisy of a country whose government is pushing back against the energy transition suddenly being worried about the environment when the oil and gas they are so keen on burning is in their back yard.
Euronews@euronews.com · 18h agoIn 2025, a Canadian firm found a major oil and gas field off Poland’s Baltic coast, the biggest since WWII, sparking German fears for the environment and tourism. #EuropeNews
bUt cUtTiNg gReEnHoUsE eMiSsIoNs wIlL hArM tHe eCoNoMy
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 23h agoClimate change is making the Po River, the engine of Italy’s economy, swing violently between flood and drought, and forcing farmers, engineers and industries to rethink processes built on the assumption the water would always be there.
Just because someone you're related to died, shouldn't give you free license to be a bigot to people who had nothing to do with that death, nor should it merit a sympathetic response to that bigotry from the press. (Especially if you're a fan of Trump, a man who accepts millions from Saudi Arabia.)
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoTwenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc
Mon ami M. Keating, en français maintenant. @quatremer.bsky.social sera sans doute impressionné.
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Alt: Louis de Funès Grimace
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Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 2d agoVous voulez savoir comment libérer l'Europe du joug américain ? « Le Continent Captif » est maintenant disponible chez Filigranes et dans d'autres bonnes librairies. theownedcontinent.eu/fr
Kevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃
You see, we’re all for doing public-interest deals with tea-drinking island nations.
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 3d agoEurope always chooses science and partnership. Japan too. Japan is now officially associated with Horizon Europe. This means Japanese researchers and organisations can take part in the world's largest public research and innovation programme. Let's break new frontiers together.
As @kevinmkruse.bsky.social noted, this was the cover of the pro-free-market, not-progressive Economist one month before the election that brought Trump back to power. The economy had problems, hence the result, but a “total catastrophe” it was not.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe"
As Czech PM Andrej Babiš grew closer to Viktor Orbán, his Agrofert empire expanded in Hungary and Romania. It received billions in loans from a bank co-owned by the Hungarian state and Orbán’s childhood friend, and bought into a firm tied to Orbán allies.
Babiš, Orbán, and Agrofert’s Lucrative Business in Hungary - VSquare.org
As Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s friendship deepened, Agrofert secured loans worth billions from a bank co-owned by the Hungarian state as well as by Orbán’s childhood friend.
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Reisegruppe hatte sich Rheinkreuzfahrt irgendwie anders vorgestellt www.der-postillon.com/2026/08/rhei...
Reisegruppe hatte sich Rheinkreuzfahrt irgendwie anders vorgestellt
Köln (dpo) - Das haben sie sich irgendwie anders vorgestellt: Eine Rentnergruppe, die eine Rhein-Flusskreuzfahrt gebucht hat, wundert sich derzeit, da
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The best place in the UK to read poetry about economics is Milton Keynes
AI (as distinct from the perfectly serviceable office automation tools that were available a few years ago before the current hype) is helpful in about 2% of my work (by performing sophisticated, context-based searches) and slows me down in about 5% of my work (by making mistakes I have to correct).
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 5d agoI have one answer.
The Independent reports that Donald Trump claims he knows Europe better than anyone else. OK, grandpa – let’s get you back to bed.
Wenn wir keinen Klimaschutz betreiben, brennen Wälder, vertrocknen Stadtbäume, zerstören Fluten Städte, wird Trinkwasser knapp, zerbröseln Straßen, dringen invasive Arten ein, fallen Menschen um wie Fliegen. Dass das gut sein soll für die Wirtschaft, hätte ich gern mal erklärt.
Ach guck! Und ich dachte, der Klimaschutz würde dem Wachstum schaden.🙄
These are the European routes where taking the train is faster than flying between popular destinations, including Brussels to Paris and Madrid to Seville.
Trains over planes? The European routes where rail is faster than air
These are the European routes where taking the train is faster than flying between popular destinations, including Brussels to Paris and Madrid to Seville.
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‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
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Kein Land richtig beschriftet. Falsche Afrika-Karte der US-Regierung sorgt für Empörung. www.n-tv.de/politik/Fals...
Falsche Afrika-Karte der US-Regierung sorgt für Empörung
Ein Mitarbeiter des US-Außenministeriums stellt bei einer internationalen Konferenz eindrucksvoll unter Beweis, dass man sich nicht allein auf KI verlassen sollte. Bei einer Präsentation werden sechs ...
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Heads up for anyone who may be looking to buy a car in near future: GM's CEO loves Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoGM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.
++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
Something has happened over the last 15 years that makes the old way of taxing wealth redundant. Trickle down doesn't work. Taxing only earnings doesn't work. Many established politicians don't want to accept that because it means they'd have to update their decades old repertoire. #SuperWealthTax
Under Trump: -Household electricity costs are up 18% -Ground beef prices are up 22% -Gas prices are up 40% -ACA out-of-pocket premiums are up 58% -Inflation is at a three-year high Tired of "winning" yet?
She humiliated him with her superior intelligence and logic. Of course he thinks she's a traitor. He's another dim witted child..
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoElon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
