It is probably obvious by now, but Putin’s ’inevitable victory’ narrative seems to now be firmly in the dustbin of history.

Influencers are arriving in Russia. Tate and his brother were welcomed with honors and dancers at the airport.

🧵Ieri notte altri terribili bombardamenti (74 missili e oltre 600 droni) su Kyiv e altre città ucraine. Almeno 12 persone sono state uccise, incluso un bambino nato nel 2023, e più di 100 feriti. (1/7)

"You're fucking crazy": Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon

🧵 Inseguire la destra sui migranti è uno dei più grandi fallimenti della sinistra | @mattiamarasti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/perche-sinis...

And yet it is increasingly clear that Putin has put his country on an unsustainable course in Ukraine. And to borrow a phrase that is popular in financial markets — “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”

🧵 La cooperazione civile israelo-palestinese contro la violenza www.valigiablu.it/movimenti-pa...

How Ukraine's new middle strike drone campaign aims to strangle Russian logistics

💈 Da Basile a Travaglio: la propaganda russa contro l’Ucraina oggi prende di mira i paesi baltici www.valigiablu.it/basile-trava...

🇪🇪 Estonia installed the first anti-drone systems on the border with the Russian Federation UAV monitoring complexes have become operational on three sections of the land border in southeastern Estonia.

"We should be clear: Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron."

If the AI revolution is run in the interests of corporate elites, there's going to be a colossal backlash.

🧵 Guerra e società civile: cosa può imparare l’Europa dall’Ucraina | @francesca-b.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/guerra-socie...

No matter what he does in Iran, Trump will leave that situation with a loss. “[I]f he escalates, people are going to hate him. If he surrenders, people are going to hate him. If he dithers, people are going to hate him. He has no good options.”

This tribunal’s very existence demonstrates that despite the many breaches of international rules, from Gaza, Iran and Sudan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar, we are not yet in a world without rules and without laws.

More than 1,000 young Iranians born after the 1979 revolution have signed a statement rejecting both monarchy and clerical rule under the slogan: “Neither Shah, nor Mullahs.” A free and democratic #Iran✌️

Sono arrivata a Lviv ieri notte verso le 3 mentre eravamo in treno scattavano allarmi continuamente e il treno è arrivato comunque puntuale. Lviv è semplicemente bellissima. Il centro storico è uno spettacolo, le strade pulitissime, parchi, fiori...

The Special Tribunal to prosecute Russia's leadership for their actions in the Ukraine war will be “key for Ukraine’s stability after the war," Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset tells #EuropeToday. Watch in full: ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/4eKP

“Pessimism is a luxury we cannot afford,” she says. “But optimism must not be based on illusions.”

Europe doesn't need to become America to succeed; it should stick to what it does well: protecting its people and the planet. My latest in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump wants to celebrate and now pay his Jan 6 terrorists who attacked Capitol to help him. It's exactly what Hitler did when he became Chancellor of Germany for those who waged his attempted coup in 1923. My new article on how this is NOT a coincidence deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-j6-...

🧵 La falsa notizia dei paesi baltici che aiutano i droni ucraini a colpire la Russia. Come la propaganda russa ha gioco facile in Italia www.valigiablu.it/propaganda-r...

🧵Arrivata sabato a Kyiv mi aspettavo la ritorsione di Putin sui civili, come sempre. Le sberle che stavano prendendo da settimane erano davvero tante. A partire dalla miniparata del 9 maggio che per Putin è sempre stata esibizione di forza e si è ridotta a un topolino terrorizzato dai droni ucraini.

Really interesting to see this op-ed calling for the French gov to invest in alternative platforms to ones like X. Just another way in which EU countries, but particularly France, are starting to talk with increasing seriousness about moving away from US tech products www.wired.com/story/the-eu...

🧵Sto per arrivare a Kyiv dopo un lungo viaggio da Cracovia con un treno notturno. L'efficienza dei servizi pubblici è un'altra spettacolare forma di resistenza di questo popolo che non smette di sorprendere. 1/

L'Ucraina di maggio 2026 non è solo un paese in guerra; è diventata il laboratorio dove si sta scrivendo il futuro della difesa europea. Quello che un tempo era un'azione militare di resistenza canonica si è trasformato in un'architettura industriale senza precedenti. 1/5

He may be the most brazen of the nation’s leaders, but his ideological spirit is found throughout its government, and beyond

After 17 months of Trump’s 24-hour solution to the three-day Russian war that has now lasted 51 months, the US is quitting the “peace talks”.

Il più grande attacco di droni su Mosca: la realtà della guerra buca la propaganda del Cremlino

Day 1549 of the madness that is Russia's war Putin's gone from the expected capture of Kyiv before the end of Feb 2022 & annihilation of Ukraine's leaders & the country's culture, to begging China to keep it afloat & trying to quell dissenters at home as bombs fall! Here is another daily🧵

🧵 Modena, il dolore delle vittime e la normalizzazione dell’odio | @matteopascoletti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/modena-dolor...

The United States and Russia are both losing wars. And they are losing wars that make no sense, in an uncanny folie à deux, to the benefit of China.

NYT Board on Trump’s Slush Fund: “There has never been an example of Presidential corruption like this… destroying pillars of 🇺🇸 democracy to empower himself… encourages future lawlessness on his behalf… taking your money & showering it on criminals.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

Russia hacked into real users’ Bluesky accounts to post fake content, the social media platform said.

🧵 Il sistema di corruzione di Trump e del mondo MAGA ha raggiunto un punto di non ritorno | @marcoarvati.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/trump-anti-w...

“Ukraine is paying the highest price” to return “home to European values” @avalaina.bsky.social, Ukrainian human rights defender said as she addressed the European Parliament. “For three centuries, we were in shadow of Russian Empire. And I’m here to say, Europe, we are back.”

Russia is spreading lies that Ukraine is preparing for an attack on Russia from Latvian territory “using Baltic air corridors”

We are watching what happens when a quasi-authoritarian regime’s corruption and criminality pass the point of no return.

'February 2025: Elon Musk “accidentally” cancels USAID programmes aimed at preventing Ebola outbreaks, particularly in Africa. March 2025: Musk says the programmes were restored. They were never restored. 1/2

"This is not a copy of Western or Soviet solutions, but an original development by Ukrainian engineers designed to effectively strike fortifications, command posts, and other enemy targets dozens of kilometers behind the front line after launch," Fedorov said.

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Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what.

Come funziona la propaganda di Putin e Trump contro l’Europa e il Canada | @olgalautman.bsky.social @valigiablu.it

Hungary is showing us that there is a way back after Orbán. #wato

Western nations have the power to put Russia in the economic position that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since Russia is not going to catch the communist disease again, we must destroy its economy from the outside.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

"That doesn’t mean his Ukraine war is over, or that Putin’s reign has ended. But it does mean that Russians can now clearly see the contrast between propaganda and reality. A vacuum has opened up, and sooner or later something else, or someone else, will fill it." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Il Question Time di Meloni fa emergere quanto fatto dal Governo in questi anni: poco o nulla, intestandosi meriti non suoi. Ne ho scritto su @valigiablu.it www.valigiablu.it/meloni-quest...