@tedknudsen.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher in historical political economy @Politics_Oxford. Co-host @spassbremse_pod. Sometimes Edward.
Too important to keep behind the paywall, listen to my latest episode with @hahauenstein.bsky.social here:
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Too important to keep behind the paywall, listen to my latest episode with @hahauenstein.bsky.social here:
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Is Germany's Israel consensus finally shifting?
In the latest @spassbremse.bsky.social episode, I speak with @hahauenstein.bsky.social about German "Staatsräson" and why it might be (rhetorically) shifting now. Subscribe to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...
Is Germany's Israel consensus finally shifting?
In the latest @spassbremse.bsky.social episode, I speak with @hahauenstein.bsky.social about German "Staatsräson" and why it might be (rhetorically) shifting now. Subscribe to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...
And check out our first video episode here: youtu.be/HdskRf_FmBI
20.05.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Latest episode of Spaßbremse with Astrid Zimmerman of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the new (old) GroKo government in Germany. Listen here spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/eD0tsIuAhTb
20.05.2025 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
And check out our first video episode here: youtu.be/HdskRf_FmBI
20.05.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Latest episode of Spaßbremse with Astrid Zimmerman of @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the new (old) GroKo government in Germany. Listen here spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/eD0tsIuAhTb
20.05.2025 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Shout out to all the divorce-made Kinder
12.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ohne Einwanderung hätte DE 2019-2024 Rezession (-6% BIP) statt Stagnation (±0%) gehabt.
Und: Trend der Arbeitsmarktintegration ist gut (weniger Overqualification, i.e. high skill leute in low skill jobs), aber Level still bad.
Source: New @ecb.europa.eu blog
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
Happy Tag der Befreiung. The fight against fascism continues.
08.05.2025 16:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Frecciarossa
So imagine right now you have a fleet of 4 voltage, all signalling systems you want, 200m long, approved to run anywhere high speed trains
WHERE DO YOU DEPLOY THEM?
And as this is to be an EU plan, let's focus on #CrossBorderRail routes
Ongoing evidence that a sense of isolation and atomization is a driver of far right extremism. And one that becomes self reinforcing as far right parties agitate for policies that destroy the social fabric.
02.05.2025 10:06 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Paris May Day
02.05.2025 08:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good reminder of the value of human labor: Google AI’s summary of Hobsbawm’s May Day history is exactly backward.
01.05.2025 08:53 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Enjoyed my conversation with @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on @spassbremse.bsky.social about Friedrich Merz’s history and what it might mean for the future of Germany. Link to listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Jow1PXtAySb
15.04.2025 15:41 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Trint is very good and you can get a free trial if you only need a couple things transcribed
15.04.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Enjoyed my conversation with @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on @spassbremse.bsky.social about Friedrich Merz’s history and what it might mean for the future of Germany. Link to listen here: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Jow1PXtAySb
15.04.2025 15:41 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Potentially as big an event as Nixon closing the gold window in 1971. Without dollar swap lines European banks will need to dramatically cut their dependence on dollar funding.
www.reuters.com/markets/some...
Every news podcast and newsletter ad goes “don’t you hate how much news there is?! Subscribe now to our news thing for even more news!”
21.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Germany, where even the Deutsche Bahn AI assistant gets to enjoy Feierabend
17.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The Road Back to Mt Pelerin
14.03.2025 10:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨NEW BONUS🚨
Uma, Ciarán, Nick and Julia answer your questions because we've been doing this for 6 years now. Wooo
Thanks for listening
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Both look a lot like WATERLOO
12.03.2025 22:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unfortunately gotta hand it to ‘em
11.03.2025 20:28 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0This should have been signed by every Democrat and every elected official who opposes the kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of political dissidents
11.03.2025 15:19 — 👍 2012 🔁 398 💬 29 📌 10This is also a country with an even number of votes to decide the president, idiotic systems are kinda par for the course
10.03.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
07.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 140 🔁 77 💬 0 📌 37
Good overview from Germany’s SPD finance minister Jörg Kukies of the sorts of sums unlocked by Germany’s fiscal Zeitenwende if implemented:
04.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 76 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 10
They didn't take him literally OR Seriously
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