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cartoon from the @newyorker.com

Two weeks left to apply to 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐃𝐇𝐂/𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 '𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 – 𝐚 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲'! The conference will be held in Paris, on 10-12 September 2026. The extended 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝟑𝟏 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. See the CfP and instructions here: tinyurl.com/4tm8vx4a

Pas de famine à Gaza...

Holiday greetings for Ukrainians from Robert de Niro. Thank you, Sir!

Russian attacks on Odesa are relentless. Many people are without electricity in the city. Last night, Russia attacked Odesa port, containers with flour and sunflower oil were set on fire. Russia is a food terrorist.

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

L’UE ha scelto di finanziare l’Ucraina con debito comune, rinunciando a usare i 200 miliardi di asset russi congelati. Una decisione che garantisce il sostegno, ma rivela una debolezza politica: l’Europa accetta il rischio finanziario, non quello del confronto giuridico e strategico con Mosca.

open.substack.com/pub/mrandrew... @mrandrewfox.bsky.social

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17 December 1943 | Łucja Charewiczowa (b. 1897, no. 64373) perished in Auschwitz. A historian of Lwów (Lviv) & researcher on the history of women. In July 1943, for joining the resistance, she was imprisoned in Pawiak prison in Warsaw & deported to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus.

The Soviet Union's impunity for the occupation of the Baltic states in the 1940s is one of the reasons behind Putin's actions. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said. "Our history teaches us how vital accountability and reparations are for international wrongful acts”, he said

da La Stampa: Guido Corso, Quella confusione sull'antisemitismo

Il Mattinale Europeo è online. L’analisi del giorno di @grimmse.bsky.social: “Ora siamo soli”. Nelle brevi: una guerra transatlantica su (una mini multa a) X; accordo sulla solidarietà migratoria; Lussemburgo contro Commissione su Schengen. Con @cspillmann.bsky.social👇

And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.

@mrandrewfox.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/mrandrew...

(dall'archivio) www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2023/... David Meghnagi

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2025/..., di Micol Flammini

Un esempio di giornalismo sportivo infame. Jacopo Cecconi, Tg3: "stasera possiamo eliminare Israele ALMENO sul campo".

Carlo Panella sul piano di Trump www.linkiesta.it/2025/10/la-p...

Each child has lived in turmoil because of the war in Ukraine.

@gloquenzi.bsky.social x.com/gloquenzi/st...

Setteottobre #7

Andrea Graziosi, L'Italia e Gaza: una storia triste | Il Foglio www.ilfoglio.it/politica/202...

An interview with Izabella Tabarovsky on the Soviet roots of anti-Zionist rhetoric. www.timesofisrael.com/why-are-us-s...