1/ The Dutch parliament has approved a far-right motion calling on the government to designate “Antifa” as a terrorist organization (with the support of VVD, center-right party). Let’s remember: “Antifa” does NOT exist! We are heading toward collective paranoid madness.

Il processo di martirizzazione di Kirk sarà una licenza per la radicalizzazione. Qualcuno lo immagina come l’equivalente di un nuovo incendio al Reichstag. Nuovo numero della newsletter. Si legge qui osservatoriocomplottismo.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Il processo di martirizzazione di Kirk sarà una licenza per la radicalizzazione. Qualcuno lo immagina come l’equivalente di un nuovo incendio al Reichstag. Nuovo numero della newsletter. Si legge qui osservatoriocomplottismo.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

I think Charlie Kirk and TPUSA mainly reflected rather than shaped the broader right-wing movement in the U.S., as I also argued in this piece from last year, comparing his 2024 to his 2018 visit to the campus of my university.

2/ But Kirk was not doing politics “the right way,” just like none of those who incited the mob to storm the Capitol. One can condemn political assassination while at the same time condemning the ideas of the person who was unjustly targeted.

1/ How can we explain Ezra Klein’s excessive generosity toward Charlie Kirk’s political legacy? Perhaps only by the desire to counterbalance the dishonest and distorted image that the far right is building of the left with a more “reasonable” one, open to dialogue with fascist ideas.

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

Oltre all'orrore quotidiano dalle guerre, solo oggi ho visto - senza volerlo - il video di una povera ragazza ucraina accoltellata su un treno e il video dell'assassinio di Charlie Kirk, entrambi terrificanti. Siamo una società drogata di contenuti, incapace di un rapporto sano con le notizie.

1/ There has been a second apparent drone attack on a Gaza-bound vessel off Tunisia in two days. This time the munition has survived, and can be identified as a US-made thermite hand grenade, highly likely dropped by a hovering drone. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/prem...

Having seen video of many, many drone strikes in Ukraine, this definitely isn't a drone landing on a target. However, it's very consistent with a hovering drone dropping a payload of thermite, which is a tactic that the Ukrainians pioneered. bsky.app/profile/mili...

Tommy Robinson is a far-right extremist with multiple convictions who has for years, in alliance with hooligans and neo-fascists, incited racist riots in England. The fact that the Lega group leader in the Lombardy Council supports such a violent figure is a disgrace that must be called out.

1/ @davidpuente.it e Marianna Satta hanno fatto un lavoro OSINT eccezionale nel reperire le prove dell'esistenza del Nutella Cafè a Gaza. Un lavoro che, però, per come è stato presentato, sta involontariamente rinforzando il negazionismo di Gazawood sui canali mainstream italiani.

1/ How can Gaza’s famine coexist with “Nutella cafés”? According to denialist propaganda, it’s impossible—in fact, it’s presented as proof that food is plentiful and deaths from hunger are staged. Yet the history of famines shows that hunger does not affect all social classes in the same way.

1/ While famine in the Gaza Strip reaches the point of no return, the Israeli government’s propaganda keeps denying reality, clinging to the discredited Pallywood conspiracy theory. I cover it on @facta.news , link at the end of the thread.

Per @facta.news ho scritto di come la propaganda israeliana neghi la fame di Gaza, accusando - attraverso strategie social e interferenze nelle opinioni pubbliche - i palestinesi di essere attori in un set allestito da Hamas. In una parola: Pallywood (o Gazawood). www.facta.news/articoli/pro...

🔎 Video presentati in maniera fuorviante, accuse infondate di manipolazione. Come la propaganda israeliana punta a negare la fame a Gaza | @jacopodimiceli.bsky.social

1/ A study from the University of Ottawa shows that, contrary to age-related stereotypes, it is young people under 35 who are the most likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

Giorgia Meloni’s party, Brothers of Italy, uses AI memes to blandly push authoritarian messages: “Anyone who disagrees with us is a traitor and a communist”. (In the image: Elly Schlein - Democratic Party; Maurizio Landini - CGIL, Italian main trade union; Giuseppe Conte - Five Star Movement)

Funny that an American Worker looks like he just stepped out of a 1960s Soviet factory somewhere in eastern Siberia , full of determination to fulfill a five-year plan in four years and conscious of the dangers of too much alcohol and talking to foreigners.

"Doc, in 2025 the President of the United States will be Donald Trump, every government building will display a giant portrait of him, and the army will be deployed in full combat gear in the streets!"

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

SCOOP for Italy: On August 14, a participant in the Remigration Summit in Gallarate was arrested near Amsterdam on charges of preparing a far-right terrorist attack and of illegally possessing weapons and ammunition. I discuss it here on @facta.news : www.facta.news/articoli/tho...

È stato arrestato con l'accusa di terrorismo un attivista olandese di estrema destra che lo scorso maggio era presente al "Remigration summit" di Gallarate, il ritrovo dell’ultradestra europea con al centro il tema della deportazione forzata di persone migranti | @jacopodimiceli.bsky.social

SCOOP for Italy: On August 14, a participant in the Remigration Summit in Gallarate was arrested near Amsterdam on charges of preparing a far-right terrorist attack and of illegally possessing weapons and ammunition. I discuss it here on @facta.news : www.facta.news/articoli/tho...

I wrote about the conspiracy theory that most obsesses the MAGA movement, why this obsession arose, and how it has turned into the most unexpected of headaches for the Trump administration. My latest for @facta.news www.facta.news/articoli/teo...

Quello che era nato come l’atto d’accusa MAGA contro le istituzioni si è trasformato nella più imprevedibile delle grane per l’amministrazione Trump | @jacopodimiceli.bsky.social

I wrote about the conspiracy theory that most obsesses the MAGA movement, why this obsession arose, and how it has turned into the most unexpected of headaches for the Trump administration. My latest for @facta.news www.facta.news/articoli/teo...

Great satisfaction in learning that my latest book, "Manuale per fabbricare una teoria del complotto" ("Conspiracy Theory Handbook"), will be included in the bibliography of a university course this September! (History of Public Opinion at the University of Genoa)

1/ Italian newspaper La Verità and the magazine Panorama are republishing The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, the novel that inspired the great replacement conspiracy theory. Until now the only Italian publisher to released the work was Edizioni di AR, run by neo-fascist terrorist Franco Freda.

Democracy needs new accountability tools between the 4/5 years of an election, maybe something like a referendum vote of no confidence, with appropriate limits and requirements.

1/ Come anticipato nella mia newsletter, i rapporti tra Lega e organizzatori del Remigration summit sono appena incominciati. Il 21 luglio Andrea Ballarati modererà un dibattito sulla sovranità tra l'europarlamentare Susanna Ceccardi e un deputato dell'estrema destra polacca.

Unexpected effects of war. In Iran the Islamic Republic has installed street portraits of the Persian king Shapur I, who captured Roman Emperor Valerian in battle. Notably: 1) the Sasanian dynasty has never been held in high regard by the ayatollahs; 2) portraits were clearly generated with ChatGPT

1/ Il centro per immigrati illegali (o presunti tali) nelle paludi della Florida è lo specchio di una politica disumana e crudele: gli esperti non esitano a chiamarlo "campo di concentramento".

1/ Donald Trump has threatened 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods as open retaliation for the prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who stands accused of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election.

Ten writers of whom I have read five-plus books: Frederick Forsyth Ken Follett Philip K. Dick Valerio Massimo Manfredi Charles Bukowski Robert Louis Stevenson Emmanuel Carrère Charles Dickens Robert Harris Italo Calvino

1/ 100mila egiziani illegali è una quantità enorme, equivale a 1/3 degli stranieri ufficialmente residenti a Milano e a più del doppio degli egiziani regolari. Significa che, per ogni nazionalità extra-Ue, sottostimeremmo di oltre la metà le presenze, francamente non è credibile.

1/ 1/ Qui Libero usa come fonte uno dei profili più disgustosi di X, Gazawood, da mesi impegnato nel negare i massacri dei civili palestinesi derubricandoli a sceneggiate hollywoodiane: un grande set con attori che fingono di essere feriti e uccisi dall'IDF. Ma l'odg dov'è?

1/ According to the Meloni of 2017, the Meloni of 2025 is carrying out the Great Replacement. The government has in fact approved the *decreto flussi*, effectively regularizing the presence of undocumented workers in Italy.

For the second time, Trump has used the term "remigration" - a concept developed, as I explain in the thread and articles below, within the most extreme fringes of the European right.

It took just six months to reach the American equivalent of Putin vs. Khodorkovsky.

How about eating pizza from the wrong side? In terms of food civilization, I don't think any republican has something to teach to the world.

Una dotta ed elogiativa recensione di "Manuale per fabbricare una teoria del complotto" su Treccani

1/ Giorgia Meloni is among the contributors to the latest issue of The European Conservative, a right-wing magazine based in Budapest. The cover features a young girl reading a book about Joan of Arc in a room amid the ruins of Paris, conquered by the Islamic Caliphate.

1/ 19-year-old Elijah Millar was arrested last Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, during the anti-Trump “No Kings” protest, for brandishing a gun threateningly at what he described live on X as “communist scum.”

For years, Trump's obsession with the Fox universe has driven policy decisions, administration staffing, and countless stream-of-consciousness social media posts. Now, the network will have an outsized role in determining America's potential involvement in a war. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

Trump asks the Juventus players standing behind him if women could make their team and tries to bait them into endorsing his transphobia

1/ On Sunday, 10 to 15 masked youths armed with sticks attacked a queer festival in Germany, punching attendees and injuring two in the face in front of families and children. The attackers - alleged members of a neonazi group,The Third Way - fled before police arrived and are still being sought.

The bad news is that American democracy has never been in greater danger; the good news is that many Americans are aware of it and are taking action. That’s no small thing— not every people would be capable of doing the same under similar circumstances.

1/ In Italy Lega endorsed remigration, but without ever taking responsibility for what the third phase of Sellner’s plan actually entails: the expulsion of second and third-generation immigrants to restore a mythical European ethnic purity. 👇 osservatoriocomplottismo.substack.com/p/il-fascino...