Three years ago we started a new ERC-funded project called REAL, with three teams of brilliant researchers. Here are ten exciting papers involving my team that we've published so far, so you can see what we've been up to. And there's much more to come... stay tuned! 🧵

Alguien voló sobre el nido del dron www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

🎙️ Miquel Macià: “Des de cercles propers a Junts pel Sí ens van plantejar fer una versió en castellà de NacióDigital” ✍️ Una entrevista de @quimmiro.bsky.social

Trump begging for help against a military he claims is 100% defeated and from allies he has spent a year insulting. It’s over. Not yet officially but politically, Trump’s Presidency died this week.

"La Musalla de Jomeini es, en realidad, no un lugar sagrado, sino una fortaleza que ha tomado a la religión como rehén para legitimar la represión".

Trump is spending $1 billion a day waging war on Iran. Meanwhile... Trump's sons are investing in a drone company that could soon receive Pentagon contracts. And of course Trump's Big Oil donors stand to gain windfall profits as the price of oil skyrockets. War is a racket.

Per cert, si tant els hi agrada anar a portar llibertat que comencin per casa seva: Com unes bibliotecàries s'enfronten a la censura americana. Des del 2021 s'han prohibit 23.000 llibres a EUA (pen.org/banned-books...). El documental "The librarians" fa el seguiment: thelibrariansfilm.com

The Trump economy is great if you're one of Trump's billionaire friends. How's the economy treating you?

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis “are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special,” Ashley Parker writes.

Polymarket, the gambling app that lets users bet on just about anything, was being investigated for violating money laundering laws. Then Trump became president. The DOJ dropped its probe. And Don Jr. (who was an investor) got hired as an advisor to the company. Funny how that works, huh?

Esto de @joseprecedo.bsky.social Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, el señor Lobo de Ayuso impune ante la Justicia y el parlamento www.eldiario.es/1_c54ce5?utm...

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained by federal agents while wearing a Spider-Man backpack and a blue bunny hat, is back home in Minnesota, a statement from his school district said on Sunday. A federal judge had demanded that the boy and his father be set free a day earlier.

NEW: The story of America’s largest national strike for 100 years. Here are the biggest protests from Jan 30, 2026. And national news still did their best to ignore the scale of what happened yesterday. Soundtrack courtesy of The Boss 💪

Ahora que el consenso moral forjado tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial se está resquebrajando, nunca está de más recordar los extremos a los que se llegaron. "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus", de Franziska Exeler.

ICYMI: Kennedy funded a study of the Hep. B vaccine on W. African babies. The country called it off for now. Infants there face 1/5 odds of mom-to-baby infection. The disease is excruciating & cuts off decades of life. w/ Stephanie Nolen GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/h...

A distraction, a threat: how Ukrainians have viewed the Greenland crisis

Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month, was shot at least three times, sustaining wounds to her head, arm and breast, a preliminary private autopsy found.

Fin a un calvario legal: la Justicia griega absuelve a 24 trabajadores humanitarios que rescataron a refugiados en Lesbos

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Para hablar de IA hay que mencionar que su negocio se desangra • OpenAI perdió 13.500M$ en medio 2025 y espera quemar 115.000M$ hasta 2029 • Anthropic perdió 5.300M$ en 2024 y no será rentable hasta 2027 • xAI (Musk) perdió 7.800M$ entre enero y septiembre

The murder of Renee Good by ICE has shocked the nation. The President is deploying his own personal armed thugs into the streets of America. In all my years, I've never seen anything like it. (ft. W. Kamau Bell)

Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and inviting them to the White House to discuss how they will divvy up control of the country's oil. Oligarchy in action.

‼️El régimen de Irán corta internet tras más de 40 muertos en las protestas que se extienden en todo el país

Venezuela confirma la muerte de al menos 100 personas en el ataque de EEUU

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

People are dying inside American concentration camps right now. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

President Trump appeared to be fighting sleep on Tuesday during a cabinet meeting at the White House, closing his eyes and at times seeming to nod off, after he criticized media coverage about him facing the realities of aging in office. Read more: nyti.ms/4asjEzw

The University of Alabama on Monday suspended two student magazines — one appealing to women, another to Black students — saying they ran afoul of guidance from the Justice Department on DEI programs.

Fa 50 anys que va morir el dictador Franco. Les IX Jornades de Memòria Democràtica d'Osona i el Lluçanès que es fan, aquest any a Sant Hipòlit i a Les Masies de Voltregà, son una memòria constant. S'hi tractarà el paper de l'esport en una societat justa. Es faran els dies 21 i 22 de novembre.

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Americans are in conflict over policies for health care, housing, immigration, and the role of religion in society. Walter Isaacson on why a key sentence in the Declaration of Independence could help restore stability to our politics:

El número de asesinados por el Ejército israelí en Gaza este domingo ha aumentado a 20 personas www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

Many young Ukrainians are too isolated and anxious to imagine a future after three years of war, Robert F. Worth writes. That's why a movement has sprung up to create new forms of social life, many of them literally underground.

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

España, cada vez más latina. La ‘resignificación’ de la fiesta del Doce de Octubre es especialmente intensa en Madrid. En busca del voto latino en una comunidad con el 14,3% de la población nacida en América Latina. Ayuso se emplea a fondo con muchos fondos. www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Tots quest ja no hi són. I encara hi falten els de 2025. A la @upf.edu.

TALIBAN ISOLATION EASING Anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe, concerns about militancy in Asia and acceptance that the regime is unlikely to collapse soon are bringing the militants in from the cold @ricknoack.bsky.social reports from Islamabad www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

Overtourism alla Maddalena: centinaia di yacht in zone vietate (con multe da 51 euro) https://www.corriere.it/cronache/25_agosto_23/invasione-maddalena-sanzioni-f014b473-7f90-4acf-87bd-4d8a235a4xlk.shtml

New, amazing footage of 90,000 people on Sydney Harbour Bridge, marching to end the genocide in Gaza. A protest the city and New South Wales authorities did NOT want to happen. (🎥 ABC News)

More than 60 migrants were killed when their boat capsized as they tried to cross the sea between the Horn of Africa and Yemen, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday.

A rightwing minister told Sweden to get tough on crime – until his own son was caught in a Nazi scandal | Martin Gelin

“Such good English,” President Trump said to President Joseph Boakai of Liberia, where English is the official language, during a White House lunch on Wednesday. “Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?” Trump continued. “Where? Were you educated? Where?” https://trib.al/5EOBL9m

These are facts: 1. Pam Bondi was Florida AG from 2011-2019. 2. Despite survivor accounts & law suits during this time, she pursued NO CHARGES against Epstein. 3. Trump appointed Bondi as US Attorney General. 4. Bondi just closed the DOJ investigation into Epstein.

A reminder of the definition of a concentration camp. This from the Holocaust Memorial Museum:

NEW: 549 Palestinians now killed in the last 30 days. Itself shocking. But, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS KILLED AT A FOOD AID STATION. A unique war crime. Firing squads using aid as bait. Palestinians in #Gaza face two choices: starve to death, or risk death to get food. 🧵

The United States is now at war with Iran. Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace American democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused. Some thoughts on what's going on... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dogs-of-war

I 1.100 italiani sul fronte iracheno: una parte trasferita in Kuwait per «motivi di sicurezza» http://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/25_giugno_21/italiani-fronte-iracheno-19ecfbe2-4c08-4566-bc55-35aa66bd7xlk.shtml