Digitalisation, Democracy and anti-Disinformation. European Parliament 2019-2024. Danish diplomat 2005-2017. https://karenmelchior.eu/
Karen Melchior
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Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.
Elon Musk is in the USA, Tommy Robinson is in Russia.
Neither will be on the streets of the UK tonight, both love to incite from the safety of a different country/continent.
From my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social: A new bipartisan bill in Congress takes aim at the "trial penalty" and prosecutorial leverage in today's coercive system of plea bargaining. It would direct that judges review the entire history of plea negotiations in sentencing.
"June and July of this year could prove decisive in the war." -President Zelenskyy
President Zelenskyy noted that this concerns upcoming EU, G7,NATO summits.
Other statements:
▪️ First, there must be clear movement in diplomacy so that Russia does not believe the war can still bring it any gains
❗️Temporarily occupied Yalta, Crimea. Huge queues of cars at the gas stations.
Please join us in Cambridge:
Four futures of NATO: In conversation with Dr Anna Wieslander
What is the future of NATO? Dr @AnnwieAnna discusses the uncertainties when strategic complacency is no longer a viable option.
🗓️16 June, 5.30-7.00 PM
🌍Chadwick Room, Selwyn
🔗bit.ly/4dVGhfU
Neither MIT nor JSTOR ultimately wished to pursue the matter. Yet, the United States Attorney’s Office stepped in... In January 2013, the world lost a brilliant young mind when twenty-six-year-old internet pioneer Aaron Swartz took his own life.
I'm sorry, but this level of stupidity is off the charts. Badenoch could have brought the socio-economic inequalities duty in the Act into force *when she was literally the equalities minister*. How do people like this get dressed in the morning? How do they remember to drink coffee, not bleach?
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While this reform will not on its own dismantle the unduly coercive plea-bargaining regime entirely, it strips prosecutors of their ability to act as judge, jury, and executioner through their chargin...
It struck me ages ago that at school & workplaces we have fire drills, but how many annual or even more frequent fliers have taken part in an aircraft evacuation drill?
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INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
