Senior Editor in #Berlin for @bloomberg and @bw. Opinions, of course, are my own (would they belong to someone else?). In another universe, https://nitter.cf/t.co/89ZBsWyVlC
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From the highly talented Madrid team of @clarahenz and @rorihuela, a dive into the troubles of blood plasma giant Grifols
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What a pleasure to work with the exceptionally talented @neiLmunshi on his terrific story about the contradictions of Rwanda's Paul Kagame.
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Interesting new insights on Nietzsche and his execrable sister...
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French women are calling out harassers on the Instagram account of a fed-up copywriter. 300,000 followers later, she’s helped France finally embrace #MeToo bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW
an important story from my friends @AliceKantor and @gaspardsebag
Three years into the pandemic and I know a bunch of people who've gotten the darn disease recently..Will it ever end? This song still feels relevant. My new banjo-guitar (kinda like a lazy guitar player's banjo) inspired me to re-do the song and video.
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Sadly, this is every bit as relevant today as it was when we did it 11 months ago.
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A great read from @WillemMarx
Thousands of working professionals have escaped from Russia to neighboring countries. This is how they got out, and what their departure means for their homeland bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW
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A very useful map from @RealDavidRocks @BW showing the extent of drought that's wreaking havoc across Europe. #agriculture bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Berlin is speeding up the shutdown of its 19th-century gas lanterns as German citizens struggle to stay warm bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW with @aggichristiane @RealDavidRocks
100 days into the war in Ukraine, this song is more relevant than ever.
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Putin has probably forgotten that the last two times Russia suffered economic crises — the fall of the USSR and the 98 crash — the West helped with billions of aid and debt relief. Whatever calamity now befalls the Russian economy, Putin and the Russian people will endure solo.
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Putin is losing support among his allies:
“Two until now major pro-Russian voices in the European Union, Czech President Milos Zeman and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, didn’t mince their words”
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An open letter from NY Review peeps
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The Gincident has a show on 2022-01-01 at 20:00 @ Home in Corona, BE reverbnation.com/q/7wvj8i #concert reverbnation.com/theginciden…
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Mariah Carey's honorific "the Queen of Christmas" was not the result of a coup led by a battalion of elves.
It was a multi-year PR campaign that rode the streaming music wave. @atbwebb explains trib.al/9QZFGpT
#SpotifyWrapped tells me that I was in the top 1% of @TheGincident's listeners last year... please please help me change that!
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In 1990s Prague, wonderful things happened in the chaotic space between the end of communism and the rise of its replacement reason.com/2021/11/13/the-an… via @reason
it was a wild and wooly place, as Matt Welch chronicles here
Added a new video: "Lowdown Lonesome Lovin' in Lockdown Blues" reverbnation.com/q/7waevn #video reverbnation.com/theginciden…
Added a new video: "Alternative Facts" reverbnation.com/q/7waevm #video reverbnation.com/theginciden…