Yeah, this is not just a different interpretation of democracy, it's fundamentally anti-democratic. Literal Divine Right of Kings shit.

Not to downplay the seriousness of this but... I don't think this is the all-time high for antisemitism in GERMANY

thank god the vote failed but yet another example of lib cities bailing out far-right rurals extra funny bc you’d think that “overpopulation” would be a bigger concern in the expensive cities when in reality it’s just the paranoid NIMBY schizophrenia of rural fascists

The more people absorb the possibility that Trump and the US might no longer be in control of the course of events the more realistic a lot of analysis would be

The Palais de Justice in Brussels after a thorough descaling and with its braces removed. Spectacular.

Nice to see the government have once and for all defined bedtime for 17 3/4 year olds. Wonder if this applies if they're in the army.

Qualcuno mi spiega in che modo la maggioranza conta di sciogliere le Camere quando più le fa comodo, quando questa è prerogativa del capo dello stato? Perchè non siamo mica a Londra, eh

Intervista a Roberto Della Seta. Da leggere

Ship from Colombia laden with food and other goods docks in Cuba to help ease crises

Omer Bartov 🇱🇧

Thoughts about this and other things from the brilliant @ceciliarikap.bsky.social here elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Live your life so people don't root for the venemous spider

Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.

Intervista ad Anna Foa sull'Unità. Da leggere.

“Radical centre”. FUCK OFF.

Oggi alla Camera dei Deputati è stata deposta una targa alla memoria di Giacomo Matteotti. Lo scranno 14 non sarà mai più assegnato. Da qui Matteotti denunciò 102 anni fa i crimini del fascismo. Fu ucciso. I banchi della destra di Fratelli d’Italia oggi sono vergognosamente vuoti.

This diplomatic response shows the value of international solidarity. The violent and degrading treatment of prisoners is business as usual for the IDF, but maybe if you want complaints to be heard you need to show it happening to people who aren't Palestinian. Haaretz gift link:

Interessante intervista sul manifesto al candidato co-segretario della Linke tedesca, Luigi Pantisano. Tra le altre cose, si chiede, quale è la responsabilità storica della Germania verso i palestinesi? 🇩🇪 🇵🇸

This has been going around the internet all day and I have yet to see one person have any sympathy for her. People really fucking hate AI.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Oh boy

In coda all’ufficio immigrazione di Roma per ore, giorni, notti

Fascinating to see how many European commentators there still are that are so wedded to an outdated Transatlantic paradigm that they are in denial about how unreliable the United States now is

Many academic employers employ highly shoddy and often illegal employment practices

In the end the crux is this: @collegeofeurope.bsky.social is a finishing school for wannabe Eurocrats You don’t succeed there by being diligent. By being fair. Or by being honest You succeed by being passive-aggressive, like in politics generally. My boss can dispense with me without consequence

After teaching at @collegeofeurope.bsky.social more than a decade, my course was summarily cancelled by email, ending my work, and without a word of thanks Unlike other underlings in a passive-aggressive environment, I have a voice - my blog, and this blog post euroblog.jonworth.eu/more-than-a-...

Maybe we need laws requiring anyone appearing on a news show or writing for a newspaper to disclose being paid by foreign interests

Much of the art deco architecture in Brussels demands an intensity of light that the city is rarely able to deliver.

btw, the guy who wrote the awful Hungarian constitution for Orbán, is the same guy who got caught at a 20 men gay orgy in Brussels.

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

"Liberalism as a bulwark against fascism"

We all know this is fascism.

History should be rewritten

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

If you ask any journalist from Daily Mail to Guardian, farmers and rewilders hate each other. I drink with the farmers at the local pub and they come help me rewild my land n the weekend. I do this all over the UK. Maybe some of y’all suck at your job but I don’t.

Stabilicum? Piuttosto un ramdomicum 🗳 🤪

"Whether you’re Persian or American or anything else, it’s objectively weird and sick to be gleeful about the destruction of innocent lives, and cities that hold some of the most beautiful achievements of mankind in art and architecture. This goes beyond geopolitics." x.com/megha_lilly/...

“If in the West Bank the state uses settlers to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, inside Israel they are using organized crime groups” - Aida Touma-Suleiman, a Palestinian Israeli member of the Knesset. removepaywalls.com/https://www....

Art nouveau mosaic in Molenbeek from 1909 with a peacock strolling along a yellow brick road through an archway of his own feathers. God bless laudanum.

Brussels Midi before it was wrecked to receive high-speed trains. It lost the restaurant, the tower and the dome of a thousand glass bricks. Design by Adrien & Yvan Blomme with Fernand Petit

Ernest Blerot, architect

Whatever the sector - businesses, courts, lawyers, media, military, parties, universities - the pattern is the same: - the elites mainly collaborate - the masses mainly stay passive - and some everyday heroes resist