Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.

Confirmation que Macron souhaitait une majorité RN en faisant la dissolution (j'imagine pour apparaître comme un genre de "rempart républicain")

Another reason why the UN should change it's HQ. New York and the US, clearly doesn't deserve the world order to be based here. They're already moving a lot of their offices and work to Kenya due to costs, but they should consider moving their entire operations somewhere else.

Ce sujet doit être au cœur de la discussion budgétaire cette année et les suivantes. Il faut investir, massivement dans l'école publique: Elise Huillery, économiste : « Nous n’investissons pas assez dans l’éducation, et nous le faisons de manière injuste » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Le président qui se disait ni de gauche ni de droite nomme un septième Premier ministre de droite www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/10/l...

Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber has issued a statement following the release of graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023: bit.ly/4gkIB0P

France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu — the third consecutive conservative PM Macron has named since last year's elections — publicly opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2012. He said he was "exasperated" by "gay communitarianism." vernonpolitique.info/2012/11/pas-...

He keeps appointing people more to the right each time.

Breaking news: The failed confidence vote marks only the third time since the 1958 start of France’s fifth republic that a prime minister has been toppled by parliament. on.ft.com/4nn6MOt

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Surprisingly, we may get a center-left government in France next week.

And Trump's favorability among Republicans is still ~90% lol.

Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social‬, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.

US has become more & more unequal, with wealth continuing to concentrate at the very top. The bottom 50% of households has only 2.5% of nation’s wealth. Black ppl hold less of the nation’s wealth than they did 30 years ago, despite having a growing pop share. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

An extremely cruel authoritarian regime.

Latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Trump vs. the U.S. Economy Natasha Sarin walks through how Trump’s tariffs, the AI boom and the leadership shake-up at the Bureau of Labor Statistics are affecting the economy. open.spotify.com/episode/61Vq... youtu.be/PI6RmJRCwYE?...

Malnourished Palestinian woman dies in Italy after Gaza evacuation

Research Development Workshop by @arabpsn.bsky.social Gender and Politics in MENA Deadline for Application: September 20, 2025 www.arabpsn.org/events/rdw2025

Greece now indefinitely deploying naval vessels in Libyan waters, not to stop migrants as initially posited, but to defend their perceived 'maritime zone' . Another alarm bell that plans to develop Libya's offshore fields will set the region aflame www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

The considerable power of Boris Lojkine’s new film “Souleymane’s Story” depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented, seldom feel like choices at all, @justincchang.bsky.social writes.

NEW from @immcouncil.org: our research team analyzed President Trump's major travel ban and produced detailed estimates of the impact on visas and the economy. Check it out! We hope this research will help people understand the impacts. Read: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/trump...

Outstanding work by the Centre for Information Resilience. The findings not only reveal Haftar’s support for the ongoing genocide in Sudan, but also raise serious concerns that weapons supplied to him by France and other European countries were probably used against civilians in the conflict.

I love Ezra as much as the next person, but he keeps inviting the dumbest people on earth.

It seems we are the last standing institution.

This clip...I have no words. Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

I would like to apologize to California, you are the best state in the country!

✍️ Alain Passard, trois étoiles au Michelin, passe au tout végétal : une suite logique, rare et courageuse Depuis lundi, le chef ne sert plus aucun plat cuisiné avec des ingrédients d’origine animale (hormis le miel) dans son restaurant parisien.

Paris is becoming even more exciting.

It looks like Harvard is not up to the task of leading the defense of academic freedom and democracy in the United States. It was a big ask, to be sure, and sadly, it appears Harvard is not big enough. History will not look kindly on us.

From 2020: ‘Knees are a hard thing to rack up “I kept the casing of every round I fired,” says one of them. “I have them in my room. So I don’t have to make an estimate – I know: 52 definite hits.”’

With Russia's Libya presence continuing to grow and grow ever more malicious i wrote this commentary for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social outlining this deepening threat along Europe's soft underbelly and the European imperative to start combatting it www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

The Agence France Presse: “Since the AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners among our ranks, but none of us can recall ever seeing a colleague die of hunger.”

‘It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” ’

Happy to have this out (joint with @paolosantini.bsky.social & Ellora Derenoncourt). Stay tuned for more!

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

You thought only the US is attacking universities? France is doing a great job as well!

New newsletter: davidabell.substack.com/p/houses-div...

This was known and clear since February. It’s incredible that journalistic standards at the NYT are this bad that it takes them 5 months to report on this.

somebody *please* interview Tim Weah about this

PSG are cooking. Real Madrid are terrible.

The proofs are in. It has a website. It has blurbs from amazing scholars. So I guess my book is real, and @cornellupress.bsky.social must agree! Civilizing Contention: International Aid in Syria's War is coming out later this year 🤓 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Lander is my favorite superhero!

The parallel eastern government says it cancelled the European delegation's meetings and sent it back because it didn't respect Libyan sovereignty - presumably because the delegation wanted to meet Haftar without meeting his government, which is not internationally recognized.

«Opposant respectueux», «collègue estimé»… A l’Assemblée, l’hommage unanime au député Olivier Marleix

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

July 4th, 2025

💬 Au Festival d’Avignon, l’arabe à l’honneur : «Nous ne voulons pas mettre notre langue en cage» Cinq artistes décrivent ce qu’elle représente dans leur démarche créative. Leurs témoignages 👇

Just LFJL's latest film, and although very troubling I recommend watching it.

I heard @ezraklein.bsky.social say Mamdani is "motivated by his sympathies more than his resentments" and I think that's key to his brand of identity politics