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Teresa Eder

@tcobserver12.bsky.social

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Program Director Foreign & Security Policy, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington DC. Recovering Journalist. Passionate about 🎵🎻 🐈‍ - I am posting in English and German.

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 27d

My colleague and I wrote a piece about the urgent need for Europe to partner with Canada in building a digitally sovereign ecosystem—one that can withstand the threats posed by US tech authoritarianism:

Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 28d

"An independent, democratic digital ecosystem [will] safeguard privacy, protect freedom of expression, and ensure that technology is developed to benefit the many, [not] a handful of people in Washington and Silicon Valley."

Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-europe-tech-sovereignty/

Canada and Europe Need to Build a Firewall Against US Tech Coercion | Perspectives Journal

Europe and Canada can only protect their digital ecosystems against US interference if they start investing in tech sovereignty now.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote this 1.5 year ago. No illusion that decision makers in Dutch or U.S. media will read it, let alone learn the lessons

Many individual journalists know and sometimes do better, but are overruled by editors or fear unemployment.

What can YOU do? Support liberal democratic media!

Cas Mudde on the media and the far right: a dangerous liaison worth breaking - Voxeurop

News outlets have a complex love-hate relationship with the far right, marked by antagonism and mutual benefit. Far-right specialist Cas Mudde shares a few simple tips on how to inform citizens withou...

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Stoppt die Rechten @stopptdierechten.at · 5h

Die Ermittlungen zu jenen Personen, die letzten Samstag in Vorchdorf mit einem Waffenarsenal angerückt waren, um Schießübungen ohne zu schießen zu machen, hätten laut Verfassungsschutz hinsichtlich Extremismus oder Staatsverweigerung keine Ergebnisse gebracht. Wir haben schon etwas gefunden.

Schießgesellschaft in Vorchdorf: Bundesheer-Oberst mit Verbindungen

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Daniel Drepper @danieldrepper.bsky.social · 7h

German chancellor Merz saying the quiet part out loud. Asked about migration, he praises himself for reducing numbers by 60 percent, but “we still have the issue of visibility in our cities” (“im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”). Welcome to Germany in 2025.

Philipp Eckstein @eckstein.bsky.social · 1d

Migration und das Stadtbild... bemerkenswerte Aussage von #Merz: "Bei der Migration sind wir sehr weit [...] Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem und deswegen ist der Bundesinnenminister ja auch dabei jetzt in sehr großem Umfang auch Rückführungen zu ermöglichen" 1/x

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Here's one of the posts that State listed as foreigners whose visa they stripped. Ask yourself, how they found this? Unlike the others, it doesn't mention Kirk, nor anything in English.

It likely came from this Facebook post.

www.facebook.com/philippbreit...

„Wenn Faschisten sterben, jammern Demokraten nicht.“
Dieses widerwärtige Zitat des ZDF-Drehbuchautors und Publizisten Mario Sixtus, veröffentlicht nur Stunden nach dem Attentat auf Charlie Kirk, markiert einen moralischen Tiefpunkt.
Wer so spricht, entlarvt sich selbst: nicht als Demokrat, sondern als Zyniker, der das Fundament unserer freiheitlichen Ordnung mit Füßen tritt. Wer den Tod eines politischen Gegners feiert, beweist nicht Haltung, sondern bestätigt, dass er in Wahrheit keinerlei Respekt vor der Demokratie hat – denn Demokratie lebt vom Wort, von der Debatte, vom Streit der Argumente, nicht vom Hass auf Menschenleben.
Ja, Charlie Kirk hat radikale Positionen vertreten, ja, er war streitbar und unbequem. Aber er hat die Debatte gesucht. Und solange Debatte, Rede, Diskurs möglich ist, gibt es einen zivilisierten, legitimen Rahmen. Gewalt, Häme über den Tod und Entmenschlichung gehören nicht dazu.
Darum sage ich es klar: Jeder, der sich über den Tod eines Menschen freut, disqualifiziert sich selbst als Demokrat. Wer vorgibt, gegen Unmenschlichkeit zu kämpfen, dabei aber selbst unmenschlich handelt, ist ein Heuchler.
Der Fall zeigt erneut, wie tief die Risse in unserer Gesellschaft sind – und wie groß die Gefahr, dass die selbsternannte „moralische Elite“ in Wahrheit jede moralische Orientierung verloren hat.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 18h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 18h

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 1d

So wird man in Ö herumgereicht, wenn man ein Überwachungsunternehmen leitet. www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 4d

I have a piece coming out this weekend that uses data from at least 4 recent MMWRs. That’s not unusual, btw, that’s how essential those CDC reports are for tracking things flu, RSV, maternal mortality…

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 4d

what the... did i just read.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 7d

@himself.bsky.social says it clearly. It is not rocket science. It is solidarity. Time for alums, students, faculty and staff at universities to stand together against Trump's wannabe-authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 8d

www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

Blogaffäre: Schallenberg unterließ 2024 trotz Aufforderung die Abberufung des EU-Botschafters

Untersuchungskommission enthüllt, dass Personalvertreter einstimmig für Rückholung des Botschafters plädiert hatten – ohne Konsequenzen

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

It used to be that if you wanted to figure out "what's happening in Portland?" you might seek out The Oregonian or Oregon Public Broadcasting or a local free weekly. Those still exist and are doing generally good work, but they get almost zero algorithmic traction on Twitter, Facebook, Insta, etc.

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 9d

Ganz abgesehen von der derzeitigen extremen Schwäche der demokratischen Partei - mit Beliebtheitswerten weit hinter der republikanischen Partei und wie zu Zeiten von 2002/2003, nach 9/11.

Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 9d

Würde diesem Artikel gerne zustimmen wollen, aber die Realität spricht eine ganz andere Sprache - Stichwort Elitenversagen, Stephen Miller/Heritag-Apparat, Immunitäts-Urteil SCOTUS, voter suppression etc.

Es gibt viele Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Trump-Diktatur www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Es gibt viele Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Trump-Diktatur

Wenn der US-Präsident die Demokratie ausschalten will, müsste er strategisch vorgehen, um Gerichte und Föderalismus zu überwinden. Das ist nicht seine Stärke

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 13d

I see so many flaws with the thesis of this op-ed but maybe its just me, the eternal pessimist, talking.

www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

The Orbán-MAGA playbook will fail to deliver

Very few following in Hungary’s footsteps are willing to recognize the long-term outcomes of a deteriorating economy, crumbling basic services and a soured public.

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 13d

So much of the coverage of the EU is hyper-micro. It's all about the sausage making. So story out of Copenhagen European Council is "dithering," "all talk, no action," nothing fully agreed, etc. It's an effing meeting! Take a step back... they are moving on Eurobonds/frozen Russian assets. 1/

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Teresa Eder @tcobserver12.bsky.social · 13d

Pflichtlektüre, nicht nur wegen der Österreich-Connection.

WIRED @wired.com · 15d

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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