Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own | Jamil Smith

All the death and destruction of the last week, but including the U.S. service members killed in Jordan, is due to the U.S. trying to get back what it had before starting the war: freedom of navigation in and out of the Persian Gulf.

🧵 Andrew e Tristan Tate, fratelli influencer della galassia misogina online accolti a Mosca lo scorso giugno con cerimonia d'onore in occasione del forum economico di San Pietroburgo, sono stati arrestati sabato a Miami su richiesta di estradizione del Regno Unito | via @theguardian.com

⚡️Update: Zelensky holds talks with Fedorov, Syrskyi, promises decisions on army to come. "I spoke at length with Mykhailo Fedorov today. I also spoke with Oleksandr Syrskyi today. Decisions regarding the army will be worked out."

Stanno chiedendo la grazia per uno che non crede di doversi rivolgere alla polizia e che rivendica il diritto di sparare. www.instagram.com/reel/Da7hjfX...

In una democrazia la tutela della sicurezza dei cittadini e l'uso legittimo della forza sono affidati esclusivamente allo Stato e alle forze dell'ordine. La giustizia fai da te è reato. Il caso Roggero e gli sciacalli ✒️ @ariannaciccone.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/caso-roggero... @valigiablu.it

We express our profound concern over the death sentence imposed on Arghavan Fallahi, a 25-year-old political prisoner in Iran. @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @dpruoxford.bsky.social @thedeathpenalty.bsky.social @scadeathpenalty.bsky.social wncri.org/2026/07/10/h...

Ukraine doesn't necessarily have to liberate Crimea tomorrow to weaken Putin. If it can steadily increase the military and economic cost of holding the peninsula while destroying its appeal as Russia's showcase resort, Crimea ceases to be an asset and becomes a liability.

🧵 Il caso Roggero e gli sciacalli | @ariannaciccone.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/caso-roggero...

💈 Un’inchiesta di BBC Eye in India ha svelato la presenza su Instagram di annunci a pagamento che promuovevano video di abusi su minori e stupri, con link di acquisto verso canali Telegram. L'indagine riapre il dibattito urgente sulla sicurezza e sul reale controllo dei contenuti sui social

Two of Ukraine’s most important wartime ministries have been thrown into legal limbo following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government reshuffle, leaving the country without confirmed political leadership at both the Foreign and Defense ministries.

💈 Il caso Roggero non è legittima difesa. La sentenza dei giudici è giusta e corretta www.valigiablu.it/caso-roggero...

Oggi voglio augurarvi buongiornissimo così 🙈💙

The businessmen, some of them close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, also fear that their assets could be seized. They also worry that the state will step up pressure on them to fund the war. At a closed-door meeting with Putin in March, leading businessmen were asked to contribute.

"Look at the Trump administration, with its diligent apparatchiks, crazed fanatics, eager enablers, slimy opportunists, and, yes, performative clowns pushing more or less in the same direction. This is what fascist and proto-fascist movements have looked like." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

Ukraine wants a secure peace, but that can only be achieved by continuing to push the needle, protect the lives of its own soldiers, and tighten the screws on Moscow. Ousting the person making this happen in real time is a grave mistake.

To the Trump Administration, George Orwell's "1984" is a training manual rather than a warning. Orwell's described Trump's goal for his erasure of history when he wrote: "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."

The actual enshittification of government

Ucraina in piazza contro la rimozione di Fedorov, il ministro che aveva rivoluzionato il modo di combattere | Claudia Bettiol da Kyiv per @valigiablu.it

"For the last six months, he produced results that soldiers supported," she said. "He started changing a system that is very old and very corrupt. Maybe someone in the government isn't ready for those changes. But we are — and that's why we're here."

“The people didn’t come out for Fedorov, they came out for themselves. It is impossible to win under this structure,” ex-Defense Minister Fedorov about the protests. “I do NOT need this position to be the defense minister. I need this position to WIN the war.”

⚡️ Thousands rally in Kyiv, other cities against Defense Minister Fedorov's dismissal, demand reappointment. "Reappoint!" protesters chanted outside the President's Office in central Kyiv on July 16, waving Ukrainian flags and signs criticizing the decision.

🧵 Ecco cosa succede a stare a sentire Salvini, le sue idee e i suoi slogan del cazzo. Sì, la difesa è sempre legittima. Ma appunto deve essere difesa. Se ammazzi due persone, due rapinatori, non perché la tua vita è in pericolo ma a sangue freddo, ecco quella non è legittima difesa.

Ban pervert glasses everywhere www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

🧵I cittadini ucraini tornano in piazza. Già alle 9 di mattina la gente ha iniziato a radunarsi contro la decisione del presidente Zelensky di non riconfermare Mykhailo Fedorov come ministro della Difesa.

“I will continue working toward the mission I came to the Ministry of Defense with in the first place – to defeat the enemy through asymmetry, speed of innovation, and strength of organization,” Fedorov said, adding that there’s “more to come.”

Wrote this last year, and even more true now, especially for anyone who actually cares about democracy.

“After the Taliban entered the country, I had just finished the sixth grade and was supposed to start the seventh. But two months later, my father pressured me immensely to marry my cousin. After being beaten by my father several times, I was forced to accept.”

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

🧵 Così l’industria italiana ed europea alimenta la macchina da guerra russa www.valigiablu.it/macchinari-i...

I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics.

“Caught between two unacceptable choices, Trump — and by association the US — is in limbo. Trapped, neither in nor out while the military continues to run through operations that have been proven not to work, watching as the weapons stockpile dwindles to nothing, the financial costs spiral…”

⚡️Poland to host joint Coalition of the Willing drills this fall. "These drills will prepare the entire coalition gathered here today in Paris to provide genuine security guarantees for Ukraine, but also for the broader region," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The Arithmetic of Fear: Funeral Propaganda and the Fragility of the Iranian Regime

I numeri gonfiati del funerale di Khamenei ci raccontano un regime che ha paura del suo popolo. La società iraniana è intrappolata tra un governo pronto a ucciderla e nazioni pronte a usarla. In entrambi i casi non c’è via d'uscita. @sia-shahabi.bsky.social per @valigiablu.it

Altra gloriosa vittoria di Putin 🙈

Trump’s ICE goons just killed another person in Maine. Until they are held accountable this won’t stop. Why would it? www.wmtw.com/article/sign...

France shuts down nuclear reactors as heatwave intensifies ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/aREL

The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes

La Crimea non è più una retrovia. Come cambiano la guerra e la vita sotto occupazione

Ukrainian drone strikes force Russia to suspend shipping in Sea of Azov Vital maritime corridor closes after 90 vessels – including shadow fleet oil tankers – are attacked in under a week.

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Graham abandoned all of his principles to align with someone he genuinely despised in order to advance his own career over the needs of his constituents. That's how he will go down in history. This is him in 2015. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkD...

He became a caricature, a complete toady to the man he had eloquently portrayed as a menace, warning the Republican Party that Trump would destroy it. Trump did, and destroyed Graham and decency at the same time. I wish I could say something nice about Lindsey now. I can’t.

I was raised to not speak ill of the dead. In therapy, I learned that speaking honestly about the harm done is more important than protecting the dead. Lindsey Graham caused more harm to this state than anything else in my lifetime. His legacy is hatred and brutality. Now, SC can move forward.

🧵 Mark Zuckerberg sta censurando le attiviste per i diritti delle donne e delle persone LGBTQI+ nell'UE. Lo denuncia l'eurodeputata verde Alexandra Geese, che da mesi chiede conto alla Commissione Europea di quello che sta succedendo su Instagram

The fight against AI data centers is just beginning

Ukraine has no standing conventional navy fleet in the Black Sea and has instead built, from nothing, a form of sea denial and sea control through unmanned systems alone, a genuinely novel approach to naval warfare that other maritime services are now studying closely.

Perché la decisione del Comitato Olimpico Internazionale di ammettere nuovamente gli atleti russi è sbagliata