What is the state of Trump? He is failing at fascism. For Trump to succeed in is fascist transition, he needs a bloody, popular, victorious war. And that is out of his reach. The State of the Union was full of fascist atmospherics. But it was also blowhard exhaustion. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Russia ‘Using Ukrainian Children as Tools of War’ www.kyivpost.com/post/70714

🧵 Il piano MAGA di Trump per conquistare l’Europa www.valigiablu.it/piano-maga-t...

💈 Dalla sopravvivenza alla resistenza: come gli ucraini sfidano il tentativo di Putin di cancellare il futuro | @avalaina.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/ucraina-guer...

"There is a reason that the catchphrase "Be brave like Ukraine" sticks so well, whereas the slogan "Be cautiously realistic like Europe" will never inspire any human to exceed themselves in any endeavour," writes Gabrielius Landsbergis, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, in this op-ed.

Italian ministers accused of ‘serious blunder’ as police officer arrested for murder Meloni government had claimed case showed why officers using weapons in self-defence needed more protection.

🧵 Dopo quattro anni di guerra, è tempo di “ucrainizzare” l’Europa www.valigiablu.it/ucraina-4-an...

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov acknowledged on Feb. 24 that, four years after launching its full-scale invasion, Russia has still not achieved its objectives in Ukraine.

🧵 Quattro anni di invasione russa dell’Ucraina: cosa abbiamo imparato dalla guerra www.valigiablu.it/russia-invas...

Russia has forcefully deported at least 20,000 Ukrainian children since the beginning of its full-scale invasion. Kyiv managed to bring back 2,000 minors. In some cases, returns took years.

Una mattina gli ucraini si sono svegliati e hanno trovato l'invasore. Kyiv, 24.02.22. Sono le 6 del mattino le prime sirene riempiono i cieli dell'Ucraina. Allora, la gente ancora non capiva cosa stesse succedendo... Da Est e dal Nord le colonne russe con la lettera "Z" stavano già avanzando.

"Trump’s 'flood the zone with shit' strategy is more sophisticated than it sounds. It reflects a deep understanding of a fundamental weakness."

Everybody understands that diplomacy is preferable to war. Yet after a year of talks, we still do not even have ceasefire. It is not Ukraine that is the obstacle to peace, Russia is. We must flip the script to what Russia must do to meet the basic conditions for a just and lasted peace.

Domani è l'anniversario dell'invasione su larga scala dell'Ucraina. Oggi, però, è l'anniversario di una delle più grandi figure di merda della Storia del giornalismo italiano. È giusto, oserei dire doveroso, ricordare anche questo evento.

🧵 L’omicidio del militante di estrema destra Quentin Deranque e la strategia per criminalizzare l’antifascismo | @blicero.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/caso-deranqu...

"Moscow has built a larger repressive apparatus. It has cultivated a climate of fear and uncertainty that encouraged many Russians to silence not just themselves but also one another.

“I don’t consider it to be a Russian-Ukrainian conflict. I think this is an attack on the whole liberal democratic system and on western values. The idea we live in a world based on rules and international law is an illusion. It doesn’t work any more,”

Meanwhile A U.S. Navy sailor was medically evacuated Saturday afternoon from an American nuclear-powered submarine by Danish military forces... The sailor was airlifted by a Danish Defense Seahawk helicopter, deployed from the Vædderen, a Danish military patrol ship. 🙈

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on FB: "I'm happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all. Where it’s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment. You have the same approach in Greenland. Happy Sunday to you all 😊".

... we must return to why this war is being fought. It is being fought because it is the most compelling example of good versus evil since the defeat of the Nazi’s in 1945.

💈 La Silicon Valley, Musk e l’ossessione per il razzismo scientifico | @arlovan.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/musk-silicon...

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

As Russia's war against Ukraine enters its fifth year, the economy that sustains it has been transformed in ways that will be difficult—perhaps impossible—to reverse without another crisis.

Europe must take the fight directly to Putin’s door. And tell Trump to get lost.

💈 L’Europa contro la Silicon Valley: una battaglia per la democrazia www.valigiablu.it/europa-silic...

A deeply moving feeling. Just like the first time back in November. Destination: Odesa.

Cuba’s Health Minister says the country is headed to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, saying the US blockade of oil on his country is rendering hospitals helpless and puts thousands of lives at risk.

While Russia wages a genocidal war against Ukraine—bombing residential neighborhoods, killing civilians, and deliberately destroying energy infrastructure to freeze Ukrainians into submission—Trump’s circle is moving ahead with business deals dangled by the Kremlin.

Trump's Board of Peace scam.

🧵 Cosa ha deciso la Corte Suprema sui dazi di Trump. E perché non è ancora finita | @mattiamarasti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/sentenza-cor...

L'intero thread va letto, con grande rispetto, ammirazione e gratitudine per il popolo ucraino. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

L’Europa contro la Silicon Valley: una battaglia per la democrazia www.valigiablu.it/europa-silic...

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Le coincidenze che accompagnano i miei viaggi in Ucraina (e che per me non sono affatto coincidenze). ​Quando sono andata in Ucraina la prima volta lo scorso anno era il 21 novembre.

This week's IJF round-up: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s social Ponzi scheme, archiving the content we check, and can community-funded journalism change the media landscape? www.journalismfestival.com/news/jeffrey...

The UN has called the horrors in Sudan ‘hallmarks of genocide,’ with thousands brutalised and killed. The UK cannot continue to fail our legal and moral obligations to prevent genocide - we must act to prevent further atrocities and to hold those responsible to account.

🧵 Somalia, la guerra invisibile di Trump per il petrolio | @antosinopoli.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/somalia-trum...

A big win for online transparency and platform accountability! The Berlin Court of Appeals has ruled that X must give us access to the research data we need to study information manipulation during Hungary's April elections.

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

Starlink is far more critical for Ukraine's operations, which prioritize preserving soldiers' lives and rely heavily on internet-enabled coordination. By contrast, Starlink is largely unnecessary for Russia's dispersed assaults, often indistinguishable from suicide missions.

A mafia-style cabal.

🧵 L’ex principe AndreW Mountbatten-Windsor è stato arrestato, nel giorno del suo 66esimo compleanno, con l’accusa di “cattiva condotta nell’esercizio delle sue funzioni pubbliche”. L’arresto è legato a nuove accuse emerse nei documenti sul caso Epstein

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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🔴 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: How Power Protects Itself Through Contempt "Andrew expected the public to swallow an alternative account, even if he didn't think we would believe it. It is how the powerful protect their impunity through contempt for those they exploit" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

🧵 Prosegue imperterrita la campagna di censura e di controllo della libertà di espressione da parte dell’amministrazione Trump negli Stati Uniti. Questa volta i protagonisti sono stati Stephen Colbert, conduttore del “Late Show” della CBS e il candidato democratico al Senato in Texas, James Talarico

Not only has the United States vowed “resistance” against multiracial democracies in Europe, but the United State government is also treating issues of national purity and “civilization” as vital to national security. This is Fascist thinking.

“It is not a given that there will be a multimillion-pound research project to reconstruct what actually happened. It will be a long time before we get to a full accounting of all the people killed in Gaza, if we ever get there.”

🧵"... we are in the midst of an unprecedented power grab by America’s oligarchs. This power grab is arguably the most important fact about contemporary U.S. politics. In many ways MAGA is just a symptom.