🦏 C'est la rentrée sur @blast-info.fr ! On revient sur ce qu'il s'est passé cet été, le traitement médiatique de Bayrou, du 10 septembre et surtout la façon dont les riches éditorialistes veulent s'imposer comme porte-paroles du "peuple" (d'extrême droite). www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmQ...

Around 300,000 marched at #BudapestPride, a major win for LGBTI activists. But new laws keep blocking peaceful events & restricting rights, violating EU protections. Leaders must keep fighting & support frontline activists to protect freedoms in Hungary & beyond. www.ilga-europe.org/blog/hungary...

URGENT: We call for the immediate release of Enes Hocaoğulları, LGBTI+ rights defender and Youth Delegate to the Council of Europe, detained yesterday in Turkey. The prosecutor has requested his pre-trial arrest. A judge’s decision is pending. #ENESEÖZGÜRLÜK #FREEDOM4ENES

With Trump wreaking havoc, a question for the US Democrats: when will you ever learn? | Timothy Garton Ash

Les propos ouvertement racistes de Stérin sur la démographie et la natalité devraient motiver un article 40 (cc @sandrousseau.bsky.social) de la part des autorités mais comme une partie du gouvernement actuel est sensible à ce discours... www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell

Depuis près de deux ans, Blast collabore avec Mohamed El Saife, journaliste à Gaza. Dans ce long format exceptionnel, il donne la parole à des habitants épuisés, décimés, traumatisés par des mois de bombardements, destructions, déplacements forcés auxquels s’ajoute une famine organisée meurtrière.

Allez voir, diffusez ce reportage @blast-info.fr par Mohamed El Saife, journaliste à Gaza. ça vous retourne les tripes mais il est si important ce film, témoigner, documenter le génocide, la famine, surtout les mots des palestiniens qu'on ne pourra jamais oublier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKjl...

President von der Leyen is trying to sell yesterday’s surrender as the “biggest trade deal ever”. But this is not a free trade deal. It is a package of concessions that were extorted from Europe by Trump’s threats. My take: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-has...

Après Budapest en Hongrie, une autre Pride est interdite, cette fois-ci en Roumanie. La Marche des Fiertés d'Oradea est maintenue par les organisateurs malgré l'interdiction. www.ebihoreanul.ro/stiri/primar...

I had the pleasure of joining my @ceps.eu colleagues at @ilgaeurope.bsky.social’s #Equality Fundraiser last week. More than a very fun afterwork, it was the opportunity to connect and show my organisation’s and personal support to ILGA-Europe invaluable work! Consider supporting them!

I had the pleasure of joining my @ceps.eu colleagues at @ilgaeurope.bsky.social’s #Equality Fundraiser last week. More than a very fun afterwork, it was the opportunity to connect and show my organisation’s and personal support to ILGA-Europe invaluable work! Consider supporting them!

In this year's Budapest Pride, the spirit of Stonewall lives on. Pride is more than a celebration: it's about standing up to oppressors and never giving up on justice and equality. Proud of my hometown - thank you to the organisers and everyone who refused to back down! Time's up, Viktor!

Echoes. Dark echoes - and quite a few continuities - everywhere.

“Let’s deploy alligators to tear migrants to shreds when they try to cross - lol!!” Joking-not-joking! America is now governed by far-right trolls who have been molded by an extremist online culture that is devoid of humanity or dignity and operates entirely on bizarre, disgusting stunts like this.

Major turnout as Budapest Pride defies Orban’s ban in Hungary The 30th Pride march in the Hungarian capital took place despite a police ban, with organisers putting the number of attendees at between 180,000 and 200,000. (https://archive.ph/PCBcQ)

Tomorrow's #BudapestPride could have been legal and safe. The European Commission had the tools to act, and chose not to. Inaction has consequences. Complicity has a cost. Joint declaration by ILGA-Europe, Forbidden Colours, Reclaim EU, EL*C and OII-Europe www.ilga-europe.org/news/budapes...

Le gouvernement français veut imposer la présence du groupuscule d'extrême-droite "Eros" à la pride de Paris. Le Ministère de l'Intérieur aurait promis "50 CRS" pour protéger les fascistes à la pride. L'Inter-LGBT refuse et annonce que la pride ne partira pas si un cortège fasciste est imposé.

European Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib will next week attend Budapest Pride, an LGBTQ+ celebration that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has tried to ban.

Shameful from the EPP - the same group who vehemently opposes the 'ethics body', even in its watered-down form and generally resists calls for stricter ethical/transparency rules for MEPs. Let's then investigate their 'occult' ties to various big corporations, shall we?

There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide. The EU must SUSPEND the EU-Israel Association Agreement NOW. EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs & @kajakallas.bsky.social - words are not enough 🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-must...

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Israël: kidnappe des ressortissants français, dont un journaliste de @blast-info.fr. Macron:

🚨 Hungary has BANNED Pride. We won’t stay silent. Join us outside London's Hungarian Embassy at 1pm on Sat 21 June to protest this attack on LGBTs. March. Resist. Solidarity. Sing up here 🌐 https://solidaritypride.lgbt/ #SolidarityPride 🏳️‍🌈✊

I think a lot of Europeans don't realise the confusingly-named national guards are state militaries. What's happening in California would be like if Brussels "federalized" the Hungarian army and commanded them to occupy Budapest - over PM Orban's objections. For no reason other than flexing power.

En route vers Gaza, le navire humanitaire du Madleen portait la voix des peuples, face à l’abandon des États. L’arrestation illégale de la flottille de la liberté & de 6 de nos concitoyens est un mépris flagrant du droit international. L’équipage mérite tout notre soutien.

Il faut archiver chacune de ces saloperies.

“Bluesky is an echo chamber” X is currently overrun with users sexually harassing random women using the site owner’s built-in AI to edit their photos to look like there’s semen on their faces

The U.S. government must do better. We urgently call on authorities to respect the right to peaceful protest. We also call upon the Trump Administration to end the mass deportations that are at the heart of these protests.

On vous voit refuser de nommer un acte de piraterie pour ce qu’il est - exactement comme vous faites depuis vingt mois avec un génocide.

It's crazy to me how the country that celebrates the Boston tea party as a patriotic event is always aghast at property destruction during a protest.

Les médias ont tous soufflé la première bougie de la dissolution de Macron. Mais aucun n'a rappelé un point central: le président a offert les clefs du pouvoir au RN. Les sondages donnaient l'extrême-droite en tête et le locataire de l'Elysée répondait: "Je suis prêt pour une cohabitation. Folie...

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California is not about the protests. It is about expanding his never-ending grasp for more power. It is about moving this country toward authoritarianism. All Americans must stand together against this gross abuse of power.

Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive. But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.

Maintenant un plateau immonde pour insulter l'action, avec Manon Aubry attaquée de tous les côtés. Des propos atroces sont tenus ce soir, encore une fois médias complices du génocide en cours, on oubliera RIEN.

Nous on est là, tous les regards sur Gaza et sur BFMTV ya soirée spéciale organisée pour la raciste Knafo. C'est tellement impensable de faire ça. Vous êtes responsables, vous êtes coupables.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

💥🇪🇺 Meanwhile, a child abuse scandal is unfolding in Hungary involving the wife of Orbán’s top "Brusselian," MEP Tamás Deutsch. Erika Deutsch-Lazsányi is accused of physically abusing and bullying 7–13 y/o gymnasts. The International Gymnastics Federation’s ethics committee has launched a probe.

His consistent use of 'Brussels' and 'Brusselians' for anything EU-related (the CJEU is in Luxembourg) should be studied as an example of scapegoating and hypocrisy in modern autocracies... It's only eclipsed by his fake 'surprised Pikachu face' whenever the Court holds the HU govt accountable.

The Haka is an inherent part of Indigenous expression of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. States have a duty to respect and protect Indigenous Peoples’ human rights.

THIS IS HUGE! In COM v HU (child protection/homophobe law), the Advocate General asks the Court to establish a self-standing violation of Art 2 TEU. This is unprecedented and is likely to create a new chapter in the saga of Hungary's systemic violations of the rule of law/fundamental rights.

A rare occasion when I agree with... *checks notes* ...Michel Barnier! Von der Leyen has: - centralised power, - traded collegiality for increased hierarchy, - weakened EU law enforcement, - sidelined the EP and - reduced transparency. Her idea of the EC is incompatible with the Treaties.

And this in a moment when leading donor governments have pulled support from LGBTI movements around the world marks a critical moment for LGBTI people. An underfunded movement faces an enormous loss of resources and visibility while an enormous coordinated attack targets trans & non-binary people.

Now official: Today, as expected, police banned #BudapestPride citing Orban's constitutional amendment passed in April banning LGBT events in public. Police published a 15-page document to back up their decision, anticipating legal challenges. Organisers will illegally stage the parade anyway.

Many thanks to the Commission for doing nothing :) Of course, the Hungarian government is to blame, but the strategic inaction of von der Leyen made the Commission complicit. Apparently, not wanting to upset Viktor Orban trumps the rule of law and the constitutional duties of the Commission.

To them, it's nothing - they won't suffer save for some backlash. But to the criminally underfunded, stigmatised and restricted civil society actors who relied on performative corporate goodwill to survive, this could be a death sentence. Shame on all of these companies.

While it was less 'controversial', these corporate giants happily masqueraded as allies. But as soon as it threatened their bottom line, they turned their backs. Their previous 'support' for Pride was always a pink-washed marketing ploy. They only care about one single thing: their profits.

1. HRC has launched a more defiant protest tone for Pride this year. In their campaign announced today, "These Colors Don't Run," one feature went rather viral... the image of an Eagle with progress pride flag colors, painted nails, falsies, and a harness. Subscribe to support our journalism.

(1/2) I've seen people celebrating Musk's exit. But this isn't a victory. He managed to get what he wanted: gutted essential services, abused his position to steal personal data and secured his govt contracts worth billions.

Alongside strong calls for EU action against Hungary’s Pride ban (www.government.nl/documents/di...), last week’s Presidency conclusions on strengthening EU democratic resilience urged the European Commission to proactively enforce existing rules to protect democratic processes. It’s time to act.