Jean Dohmen

Jean Dohmen

@dohmen.bsky.social

Journalist, Dutch financial newspaper FD in Amsterdam, geopolitics, finance, and former political reporter in The Hague 🇪🇺

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Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 preliminary sea-surface temperature anomaly set a new record high, at 3.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. To clearly show this anomaly, the y-axis max was raised to 4.0°C. Attention historians: this is gobsmackingly bananas.

Russia suffers staggering losses on the front line

Another Californian@anthrclfrnn.bsky.social

Yes, today is another day of record personnel losses for Russia. The new 7-day cumulative total record high is 13630, up from 13600 yesterday. These rates significantly exceed the rate needed to achieve 50,000 for monthly Russian personnel losses.

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⚡️⚡️⚡️Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick says a bipartisan bill to block all purchases of Russian oil is being prepared, titled the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act. He says he will force a House vote on the measure through a discharge petition. ✅️Follow us for the latest updates

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SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1690 1. Trump OKs partial lifting of 🇷🇺 oil sanctions in exchange of diesel from Putin. Witkoff & Kushner threaten 🇺🇸 intel cut-off vs 🇺🇦 if more 🇺🇦 refinery strikes 2. Novoshakhtinsk oil terminal hit (Rostov obl) 3. 110/160 strike drones down/ out, 117 jet propelled (62 down)

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Reuters: Denmark’s IKEA stores are preparing to serve as emergency shelters and temporary hospitals during crises, with plans to use display beds for accommodation, restaurants for food and generators for backup power.

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Stel: je rijdt dagelijks nietsvermoedend over een brug. Je ziet niets bijzonders, maar weet je zeker dat die brug veilig is? Bij minimaal zestien Nederlandse bruggen kan een defect in het staal ervoor zorgen dat ze ‘zonder waarschuwing’ instorten, blijkt uit onderzoek van Follow the Money.

ftm.nlMinstens zestien Nederlandse bruggen kunnen ‘zonder waarschuwing’ instortenMinimaal zestien bruggen in Nederland hebben kans om ‘zonder waarschuwing’ in te storten door een defect in het gebruikte staal. Het probleem is bekend bij het ministerie, maar de aanbevolen maatregel...
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia. The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.

Wochenendlektüre: Sloterdijk über große Männer im Zeitalter der gewöhnlichen Leute. Der Fürst auf dem Cover kommt einem bekannt vor.

Don’t look up

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com

The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

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Russian elections in a nutshell: 🔹Moscow polling stations ran out of paper ballots, probably because they stuffed ballot boxes too early 🔹Other polls gave out ballots pre-marked for Putin 🔹Some voters were surprised to learn they already voted Rigged, exactly as expected.

Not so well informed ‘expert’

Baltic Takes@baltictakes.com

The world’s wrongest man, John Mearsheimer, says he was effectively penniless during his recent visit to Russia because the “Russia expert” didn’t know his US credit card wouldn’t work there.

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