#Academia going South episode 878978998789798:. y'all, we are stuck in the Bad Place. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why anyone would do that? Who in their right mind would use such a feature? What's next? Connecting ChatGPT to your medical record?

Today marks the anniversary of the May 8, 1945 armistice, the day Nazi Germany capitulated, the war in Europe officially ended.Yet, as the world celebrated,another act of violence & brutality occurred in colonized Algeria: the massacres of Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW-x...

Une proposition de résolution relative à « la reconnaissance et à la commémoration du génocide des Roms » dissimule une argumentation troublante qui dénie le caractère génocidaire des persécutions subies par les « Nomades » sur le territoire français. blogs.mediapart.fr/mur-des-noma...

Après une nouvelle fuite, l’État décide de mettre les données des Français en libre accès https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/04/29/apres-une-nouvelle-fuite-letat-decide-de-mettre-les-donnees-des-francais-en-libre-acces/

Meanwhile in France: Bruno Retailleau (fmr Interior Minister & president of Les Républicains) has proposed “fencing off neighborhoods” suspected of drug trafficking. www.france24.com/fr/info-en-c...

When will the Supreme Court of Canada enter the game, it has been way too long, and it's getting ridiculous.

Cela fait un moment que l’ARCOM semble avoir perdu de vue ses missions fondamentales de régulation.Lorsqu’il s’agit de CNews, les manquements de la chaîne sont largement tolérés. Si l'ARCOM faisait son travail, CNews aurait depuis longtemps été interdite d’émettre. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Meanwhile in France...Last week, on far-right opinion channel CNEWS (owned by far-right business man Vincent Bolloré), psychologist Jean Doridot compared the new mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko to a "tribe chief" and an "ape". www.charentelibre.fr/france/de-la...

Le sens des priorités à Bordeaux m'épate (ou pas lol). À ce rythme, il est à deux doigts d' organiser un concours de crèches de Noël avec Ciotti.

A judicial investigation has been opened in France against Fabrice Leggeri, former executive director of Frontex and current MEP (far-right), on suspicion of complicity in crimes against humanity. The proceedings follow a formal complaint lodged by the Ligue des droits de l'homme @ldh.fr

A key lesson from the municipal elections remains underexplored: the progressive weakening of Macron’s political formation. Macron’s political base is eroding more than people are willing to admit.

French Municipal elections highlight a worrying trend: the far right gaining ground in many mid-sized towns. These areas are increasingly receptive to narratives of security, identity, immigration etc. This is how it spreads: locally, normalizing its presence through everyday governance.

Punaise, Carcassonne 🤢😬🤢 france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/au...

I don't even know what to say at this point. www.404media.co/witness-caug...

In Toulouse, the Socialist Party and La France Insoumise formed an alliance ahead of the second round. #France www.ladepeche.fr/2026/03/16/m...

Round 1: 24.9% of Parisians voted for fmr minister Rachida Dati. Voting for someone with more judicial cases than Paris metro has stations is …a bold civic experiment? At this point electing her would just save time: City Hall & the courthouse could share the same address. Paris vous aime (ou pas).

Tu peux pas faire plus toulousaing que ça 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #elections #Municipales

⚡ Rejoindre la #LDH, c’est agir concrètement pour défendre la démocratie et les droits et libertés publiques. Ensemble, refusons la résignation. www.ldh-france.org/a...#LDH,

Round 1 of French #municipal #elections starts today. French municipal elections are supposed to be all about local governance and policy. But in big cities, they also work as political laboratories for national ambitions (ahem, Presidential election in 2027 anyone?). #France #Elections #Mayor

It's elections season in France! As municipal elections approach ,, some local dynamics are worth keeping an eye on. In several places, parts of the right-wing appear increasingly willing to formally/informally align with the far-right (been going on for a while, but it is so obvious now).

I transferred by Bsky data to @eurosky.social and I feel like I did something a bit useful today.

On 11 Feb 2026, the French audiovisual regulator ARCOM fined far-right TV network CNews 100 000 € for two segments broadcast in August 2025 that it judged likely to incite discrimination against Algerians, Palestinians and Muslims. www.liberation.fr/economie/med...

Meanwhile, in France. On 24 January 2026, Arno Klarsfeld, a sitting Conseiller d’État and prominent lawyer, appeared on far-right TV network CNews,used the term “rafles” (roundups) to describe how France should handle foreigners under OQTF decision-Order to leave French territory ).

Meanwhile, in France. On January 1st, a baby named Zaïd was born in Avignon, ((Southern France), was traditionally welcomed in a local newspapers article celebrating the first birth of the year. What should have been a joyful moment quickly turned into a wave of racist harassment online.

Here we go again.... A French high-school student, wad excluded from her school for wearing a turban to cover alopecia. Despite medical certificates, the school treated her headgear as a religious symbol violating laïcité🤷

Meanwhile in France. A website published interactive maps and indicators related to immigration, religion, and so-called “Islamisation” across French territories. After political pressure, the Ministry of the Interior announced it was examining the case.

Another chapter in the ongoing effort to regulate and restrict Muslim life in France. Right-wing Les Républicains Senate group’s report proposed to ban the veil for girls under 16, to ban minors’ Ramadan fasting, and to extend religious-neutrality obligations to elected officials.

Sébastien Lecornu, former French PM who could not stay in office long enough to finish the day, was reappointed PM by Macron yesterday, only to declare that he will resign AGAIN if the conditions to govern are not met. It's almost comical, except it is not. We are trapped in the Bad Place.

Plot Twist. French president Macron has re-appointed Sébastien Lecornu, the man who quit as Prime Minister 12 hours into the job 4 days ago, as Prime Minister , again. No, this isn’t satire. This absurd situation is a sequel nobody asked for.

Nous vivons à Groland #Lecornu #France

Sébastien Lecornu has resigned as Prime Minister. Again, France has no government & no PM. Again, the Vth republic looks more like the fifth remake of a terrible political sitcom...

Pensée émue pour les candidats à la nationalité française qui passent leur entretien de naturalisation en ce moment, et à qui l’on demandera d’expliquer le fonctionnement du gouvernement et de citer le nom du Premier ministre. Courage à eux : la réponse change plus souvent que la météo. #France

Même @legorafi.bsky.social l'avait vu venir #France #Lecornu www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/25/p...

The current state of affaires in France... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0W...

Btw, the French have already gone down the route of hallucinating an alliance between Leftism and Islamism They call it, very creatively, islamo-leftism (islamogauchisme) I covered it in 2021 with @rimsarah.com thefirethesetimes.com/2021/04/10/7...

Well, Sébastien Lecornu is now a former PM. He just resigned, and Macron accepted. Told you so. Things are only going to get worse from here. Stay tuned. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Sébastien Lecornu (the new French PM) tells us the state of public finances is strained… because money was put into hospitals🙃. Yes: apparently, caring for the sick is the fiscal scandal of our time. If that’s the diagnosis Lecornu is making, imagine the treatment. www.lejsl.com/politique/20...

At least nine severed pig heads were found outside mosques in Paris and its inner suburbs: www.france24.com/en/france/20...

#France doesn’t do political stability, we do limited series. Taking bets on how many episodes this new PM + gov get before cancellation.

French PM PM François Bayrou lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly (364–194), leading to the fall of his government.

Merci @campvolant.bsky.social et Safia Kessas pour votre travail d'utilité publique. A lire et à relire. www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...

Interesting how the exact same garment sparked outrage & accusations of oppression/radicalization/provocation when worn by Muslim women. Yet, when stripped of the term burkini & reframed as a trend, it’s celebrated as stylish & a good way to avoid sun damage. The double standard couldn’t be clearer.

On Algeria’s 63rd Independence Day, François‑Xavier Bellamy, Vice‑President of France’s Les Républicains and Member of the European Parliament, declared that when Algeria celebrates its independence, "it does nothing but insult France" 🫠🤷 www.msn.com/fr-fr/actual...

Here we go, again...So-called "Islamo-leftism" is back in the spotlight in France. Philippe Baptiste, French Minister for Higher Education, recently stated that “Islamo-leftism” doesn't exist “as an academic concept.” That’s accurate: the term has no scholarly grounding.

*Pretends to be shocked*. "US State Department adviser wanted to boost French far-right leader Marine Le Pen " www.politico.eu/article/us-s...

Meanwhile, in France. A new bill up for debate aims to ban undocumented people from getting married. And it says a lot about the state of democracy in France right now (spoiler alert: it's not good at all).🧵 lcp.fr/actualites/u...

The Cannes Film Festival, has become a platform for another case of anti-Muslim hysteria. Influencer Léna Mahfouf, aka Léna Situations, found herself at the center of a political-media storm — not for what she said, but for what she wore.