"Grandma, please bake me pliatsky (homemade pastries) and cookies..." The first call of a Ukrainian Defender who returned home today from Russian captivity to his family. They are both crying. I have tears in my eyes, too.

Greenland apparently provided emergency medical treatment to a US submariner in the last 24 hours, which under the circumstances was extremely generous of them. But might that have prompted this somewhat bizarre response from Trump?

Muy interesante open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...

Súper inquietante. www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

Esto es muy sensato "We argue that the main focus of climate action in 2026 & beyond should be on accelerating the clean-energy revolution. And the rate at which clean energy displaces fossil fuels in the global econ should become the key measure of climate progress" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Recomendable esta charla en @gascondaniel.bsky.social y J A. Zarzalejos open.spotify.com/episode/6Nfs...

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Footage of French forces conducting a helicopter assault to seize the Russian dark fleet oil tanker Grinch in the Mediterranean yesterday morning.

After twelve years of work, the world’s most beautiful subway station has been inaugurated in Rome: Colosseo, an underground archaeological museum.⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️

Russian soldiers on the Sumy direction proudly showed off an expensive new EW system. It was apparently destroyed the same day.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

"What we are facing is a radical shift(.) where three of the four richest territories keep their (above-average) resources, have their pension deficits covered, and leave the rest of the country to fend for itself with lower-quality public services" letraslibres.com/politica/spe...

Corruption scandals put Spain’s Sánchez under pressure to call snap elections www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Merz getting out of Washington with Trump too distracted to target Brussels, Berlin or Kyiv with stupid shit is a win for Germany

DOGE is a sabotage risk to any administration and likely already did irreversible damage.

La noticia de El Plural (repetida por rtve, El Diario y otros) elimina intencionadamente dos mensajes. El agente de la UCO menciona la bomba lapa como una coña de algo que le pueden pasar a él. Que se la pueden poner a él. Contesta a lo de la Laureada de San Fernando que dice el otro.

"El Gobierno propaga un mensaje manipulado de una «bomba lapa» de la UCO contra Sánchez Los medios afines a Moncloa omiten partes clave de una conversación para hacer creer que se barajó un magnicidio" theobjective.com/espana/polit...

Porque esto es una burda manipulación de El Plural. Cuando Juan Vicente Bonilla habla de una bomba lapa en los bajos, se está refiriendo al riesgo de que se la pongan a él en su propio coche. Pero El Plural dice otra cosa. A ese nivel hemos llegado.

Es una mala persona. Sin principios, sin caridad, nada. Una maldad aleatoria y mezquina

Reforma Bolaños: "los fiscales se encargarán de dar órdenes a las policías judiciales, ya sea a la UCO, a la UDEF o cualquier otra unidad de auxilio judicial y conducir así la marcha de las investigaciones" www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

The moronic uselessness of MAGA Trump governance summed up in one soundbite

Este artículo está lleno de testimonios sobre el acoso que sufren los periodistas por parte de agitadores y energúmenos de ideologías extremas. Pero solo Ana Pastor apunta lo obvio: este fenómeno no es patrimonio de la extrema derecha. Muchas reporteras pueden dar fe elpais.com/espana/2025-...

DOGE’s drastic cuts to foreign aid has caused new HIV infections to surge and threaten to derail plans to eradicate AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. They’ve jeopardized the rollout of a newly developed injectable that is “the closest thing to a vaccine that we have ever had in HIV response.”

La degradación de la juventud y la mejora de las rentas de los jubilados en los últimos 20 años en España en un solo gráfico. (Autor: @Jongonzlz)

Madremía #Modric 😭

Epigenética "evidencia de una forma de evolución en la que las presiones ambientales inducen cambios hereditarios que no alteran el ADN del organismo" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 NEW: The Secret Service has paid Trump’s campaign entities $13M for travel. His campaign entities then paid his own jet company $18M. Nothing illegal here. Just taxpayer dollars and campaign contributions flowing to a company Trump completely owns. me, for @forbes.com

😤😤😤 "El Gobierno presiona a países del este vinculando el sí al catalán con la ayuda militar española" www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

Este precioso, dulce y elegante recuerdo. Qué maravillosa despedida, Dani @gascondaniel.bsky.social elpais.com/opinion/2025...

"Esta "infraestructura desinformativa", que posee 228 dominios y 25.000 cuentas de redes basadas en "comportamiento inauténtico coordinado"[.] se centra en X y está extendiéndose a BlueSky[.] dominios falsos para manipular los algoritmos de las plataformas" www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

Espectacular youtube.com/watch?v=ssVC...

“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...

Y aunque en el 2024 solo pedimos los de los últimos 3 años, están tardando en darnos la información - a pesar de una resolución firme del Consejo de Transparencia que les insta a darnos los datos. 🧵Aquí nuestra odisea. ⬇️

I useful reminder, when folks insist without any evidence that the 'neo-liberal' world order has obviously failed or whatever, that this is the global poverty trend graph since 1820: I suppose you can argue these trends are *unrelated* but it's hard to argue liberalism ruined everything.

He took the plane www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A lot of good things are happening in Europe: the EU is implementing more sanctions (I won a bet on this) and Ukraine is being integrated into the European defence industrial and technological base. Some Europtimism on this week’s Europe Dispatch with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social

NEW: West Nile virus found in mosquitoes in UK for first time Discovery shows how climate change is driving spread of tropical diseases to new regions www.ft.com/content/9d23... Register here to read some FT articles free: www.ft.com/register

NEWS: These filings allege the Trump administration has *already* sent flights to South Sudan in violation of an existing preliminary injunction.

España único país de la UE que no ha ratificado la ley electoral aprobada 2018: todos los países umbral mínimo entre 2- 5% votos emitidos para obtener representación en la Eurocámara. Incumplimiento de legislación europea q favorece a sus aliados nacionalistas www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

There is much more fighting to come between Ukraine, Russia and maybe the EU too, accompanied by many more rounds of talks about talks about talks. A paralysed America under Trump isn't much use to anyone at all. Not to Kyiv, not to Brussels, not to Moscow either.

A holding statement to hide that he's delusional and has failed. The US won't drop sanctions and will continue intel sharing as his attention wanders to domestic politics, trade and Western Hemisphere stuff. But Europeans won't get more than that minimum from him, ever.

En la Fundación Rafael del Pino. A punto se escuchar a Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Francisco de la Torre y @lugaricano.bsky.social "El precio de abandonar el concepto de ciudadanía individual en favor de los intereses nacionalistas puede ser incalculable y va más allá de la economía"

Preciosa columna de Tim Harford "Es más difícil rendirse y más fácil ser valiente cuando se está con amigos" www.ft.com/content/8fa1...

Acabo de ver "The old oak" Qué mezcla agridulce de odio, miseria, esperanza y bondad...

Medios y "justicia social" en nuestros días “Vd es una bruja, un vampiro... [.] acusaciones las podía[n] haber proferido [.] todas aquellas personas que, bajo el pretexto de ser ayudadas, son utilizadas para hacer que los sueños de otros se hagan realidad" Arendt. "Hombres en tiempos de oscuridad"

@danielgasol.bsky.social : El TC corrige una infmamia elpais.com/opinion/2025...

This is the definition of how you get bad intelligence: Fire officials who tell you things that you don't like www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

‘Elon Musk’s …Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...