Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Russia's attempt to put one of its puppets into power in Moldova has failed. We must ensure it experiences the same failure in the UK.

Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five” “Are there other Nathan Gill’s taking the Kremlin’s bribes? We’d surely be naïve to think he was the only person in UK public life to pocket a wad of dosh from Vlad the war criminal” bylines.scot/news/nathan-...

Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times reporting exposes how Keir Starmer's chief strategist is driving a Labour Government towards defeat by the far-right

⚡️ Czech researchers found nearly 300 pro-Russian TikTok accounts pushing propaganda before elections, reaching millions weekly.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

🇭🇺Hungary become one of the main actor of Russian propaganda in Europe often spreading disinformation about Ukraine. We investigated how hungarian pro-government media published many absurd reports about Ukraine and its EU membership. #Hungary #EU #disinformation texty.org.ua/articles/115...

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

"Oberflächlich professionelle, aber inhaltsleere KI-Texte zwingen Mitarbeiter zu stundenlanger Nacharbeit und kosten Unternehmen Millionen Euro. Trotz Milliarden-Investitionen in KI-Technologie bleiben messbare Produktivitätssteigerungen aus. Die scheinbare Effizienz entpuppt sich als Trugschluss"

Contrairement aux idées reçues, les énergies renouvelables sont plébiscitées par les Français·es. Elles sont moins chères, plus rapides à développer, plus robustes face au réchauffement que le nucléaire. Face à l’obscurantisme, aux fake-news & aux reculs, il est temps de porter fièrement les #EnR !

Reform Is the Political Arm of the Fossil Fuel Industry A handful of oil execs in a trench coat. It wants to bin net zero because that’s in the interests of its polluter paymasters. novaramedia.com/2025/05/09/r...

Apparement la #Moldavie refuse à nouveau de se coucher devant #Putin 🤮 et tous les pro-russes (qui ont tenter de déstabiliser ce pays avant ces élections) pour continuer à regarder dans la même direction que l’ Europe 🇪🇺 Bravo les moldaves Force 💪 et respect ✊ Avec vous ! 🤝

Sandu has faced a Russian full court hybrid-war press for 4 yrs & double the money spent on the entire UK elx dumped on her head by the FSB in tiny country w 0.5% the GDP. Lessons?: Ban & prosecute election wrongdoers, don't 'leave them to fight the battle of ideas'. Democracy matters to ppl.

Exactly 86 years ago, the arguably worst agreement in human history was signed - a friendship treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Most people do not know about this second Hitler Stalin Pact, perhaps, because the Kremlin does not want them to know. @associationpolhist.bsky.social

The GigaPoll just landed and is having impact and it should because it shows the gaslighting of the right wing - media and politicians - we don’t live in the Britain they say we do. buff.ly/iIm3Gvu

Ma tribune pour @lemonde.fr (demain en édition papier). "Nous devons nous garder d’invoquer un risque d’escalade, alors que la non-réponse est au contraire une invitation faite à la Russie à escalader. De notre côté, il devient urgent de cesser de désescalader." www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

"Der Publizist Michel Friedman warnt davor, dass Deutschland in zehn Jahren keine Demokratie mehr sein könnte. »Ich bin erstaunt, wie viele Menschen ihr Leben normal weiterleben (...)". www.spiegel.de/panorama/leu...

This is great. Being a political scientist at the moment is a bit like being a climate scientist a few years back. You can see clearly catastrophe is coming, but most people seem blithely unaware of it

Spot which one ISN’T a Kremlin asset

De term ‘remigratie’ duikt steeds vaker op in het politieke debat. In extreem-rechtse kringen fungeert het als eufemisme voor grootschalige uitzetting van mensen met een migratieachtergrond. Uitstekend stuk van @leoniedejonge.bsky.social in DeGroene.

Columna | "Los europeos sufrimos la invasión, las interferencias y las provocaciones rusas a la vez que el asalto comercial y cultural de EE UU. Los problemas van más rápido que las soluciones", por Andrea Rizzi

Well worth a read and reminder of the foreign dealings of these ‘patriots’.

New research shows that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less. We must reject the division. Reject the hatred. And build a coalition of progressive voices that represent all. https://bit.ly/4gFEUCW

Michael Crick, journalist: “It depresses me how much fellow political journalists are down-playing this - a dranatic story not just about Russia corrupting a British politician - as they've done in Germany & France - but also about the character judgement+relationships of Reform leaders Farage+Tice”

Wonder who else was on the Russian payroll? 🐸

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert! Quelle: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Nigel Farage "No swans, just badgers, foxes, deers, hares, rabbits... whatever the hell you like, but no swans."

Rechtsaußenparteien sind nicht Parteien 'des kleinen Mannes' und ihre Politik ist nicht im Sinne der Arbeiterschaft, wie unsere ETUI-Studie vor einem Jahr gezeigt hat: www.etui.org/publications...

Het is heel snel een dominant mediaframe aan het worden dat verzet tegen extreemrechts onnodig polariserend is

Yesterday I presented my draft report on the Hungarian rule of law. My message: the Hungarian RoL has worsened significantly. Therefore, the EU must freeze more funds and take away Orbán's veto. I look forward to working with my pro-democratic colleagues on this resolution.

What is racism or even the notion of race for in a nation state in the post-colonial age? What is its utility? It has none. It is a remnant. It causes only harm as it is a division within the nation. It is therefore not surprising that racist parties are usually a 5th column for outside powers.

The only really surprising thing about Trump's comments yesterday is how many people are still treating anything he says about Russia and Ukraine as indicative of a possible shift in the administration's policy of doing absolutely nothing.

In den USA war die Verweigerung der Neubesetzung von vakanten Posten im obersten Gericht während der Amtszeit von Obama durch die Republikaner übrigens ein wesentlicher Wegbereiter der Probleme, die dort heute gibt. Das Drehbuch ist offenbar das gleiche, mit dezenten, regionalen Anpassungen.

What this actually means: "The US washes its hands of the conflict altogether; Ukraine seems to be doing fine on its own and it not, it's up to Europe to help it out; no more direct aid to Ukraine; the US now regards NATO as basically European and will help it from afar but not as a member."

So, the reason why Donald Trump is saying that Ukraine can defeat Russia with the help of the European Union is because he wants to play down the impact/utility of American support and put all of the pressure of Ukrainian victory on the EU He's throwing everybody under a bus

Some of us do.

Konservative 🤝Rechtsextreme = politischer Selbstmord? In vielen EU-Ländern versuchen konservative Parteien durch Kooperationen, rechtsextreme Parteien zu „zähmen“. Die CDU-nahe Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung hat untersucht, was das für Konsequenzen hat. Spoiler: Es funktioniert nicht. 1/6🧵

Have not read the @ecfr.eu report yet, but I agree with it as described here. It’s more than a culture war though*. It is a deliberate attempt by the US regime to spread its authoritarianism and domination to the EU, and Europe must act to resist the contagion. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

An sobering article, the challenge that the Trump regime poses to European democracies is huge, perhaps even existential. We can no longer afford to be dependent on the USA. The UK must strengthen its relationship with European partners at all levels to meet this moment of danger.

On days like today, I’m reminded bleakly of this by @leninology.bsky.social from 2019: Farage’s appeal stems in part from his claim that you can do the very things that liberals say are impossible www.patreon.com/posts/287922...

❗️Hungary and Slovakia not invited to EU video conference on September 26 regarding creation of “drone wall” along the bloc’s eastern border

Three points on this. Firstly, Britons living in our communities must not be impacted by this. They are part of us now, we've guaranteed their status, that must not change. We should reassure them. Trade and visa measures against UK-based voters and pols only 1 bsky.app/profile/theg...

Take it from someone who has studied tyrants for more than a decade: This could go from bad to worse very very quickly. And when it does, opposition is only going to become more difficult

I don't know whether this is due to some cultural difference or history but a large number of Americans genuinely seem to believe that their country couldn't possibly turn into a dictatorship. It's absurd to see from abroad because you can quite literally watch as Trump destroys democracy

There’s a widespread misconception in Western society that repelling Russian provocations would lead to war. It’s a narrative fueled by Russian propaganda. In reality, the opposite is true: Russia will continue escalating its aggression and provocations until it is stopped.

Very good piece! www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Never, ever underestimate the short-term damage that fascists are capable of. When Idi Amin told thousands of Asians that they had just 90 days to leave Uganda, lots of people laughed. “He could never do that! That’s ridiculous.” But then the violence started. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...