Voltando le spalle a Trump e Netanyahu, e pure facendo finta di non conoscere Orban, ovvero sconfessando quattro anni di politica estera, Giorgia Meloni conferma la massima per la quale l’Italia non finisca mai una guerra dalla stessa parte dalla quale l’ha iniziata.

Blown away by @piercepenniless.bsky.social conversation with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social on the @lrb.co.uk podcast. So much to think about. Podcast: James Butler and Sarah Stein Lubrano · On Politics: Why you can’t change someone’s mind share.google/LrONhpGTuoMM...

#Cile: il governo dell’estremista di destra José Antonio Kast ha ritirato l’appoggio alla candidatura dell'ex presidente Michelle Bachelet a Segretaria Generale ONU, di fatto affossandola. Bachelet, lunga e prestigiosa carriera internazionale, era ormai ampiamente favorita.

Se la politica è diventata la macchina spargiletame che è, se l’odio e la diffamazione e il razzismo intraitaliano sono stati sdoganati e divenuti capitale politico, sapete bene di chi è il “merito”.

El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States. Deportation cannot mean enforced disappearance. Read more from HRW:

Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.

"Preliminary analysis suggests the drone used AI for swarm operations, autonomous navigation, and target strikes without operator communication, according to Defense Express"

This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.

ICYMI: I wrote about how, in the wake of last week's attack on a synagogue in Detroit, the Trump administration is holding security funds for synagogues hostage to force them to cooperate with ICE and ban DEI programs. forward.com/opinion/8126...

They've cultivated a movement that is dedicated to tearing down every red line and taboo against bigotry. Islamophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Black racism have been normalized on the right for a long time. Of course antisemitism is next. They don't get to blame this on Qatar.

It you watch one thing from the Oscars, let it be this…

Gemeinsam mit anderen Organisationen hat medico international das Manifest für psychosoziale Arbeit in Zeiten gesellschaftlichen Zusammenbruchs veröffentlicht. Es stellt sich gegen den Missbrauch psychologischer Ansätze und ruft zu Solidarität und Vernetzung psychosozialer Begleiter:innen auf.

“It is hard,” Aryeh Neier writes, “to think of an instance in which the president himself has played such a direct and overt part in an assault on free speech.”

"Our hospital at the American University of Beirut is preparing for an imminent disaster, including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear scenarios." Anyone who knows anything about Israel understands that their goal is the destruction of Lebanon. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...

The Epstein Files, aka MeToo PartTwo, have shown that the extremely wealthy are still very vulnerable in the area of reputation. In this era of shamelessness, it feels as if there is still some leverage here. This release won't cause enough of a shift by itself, but it's done more than I expected.

🧵 Qualcosa si sta rompendo in Iran, ma non come vorrebbe la narrazione mediatica www.valigiablu.it/iran-protest...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

What do these corporations have in common? -Amazon -AT&T -Home Depot -Microsoft -Palantir They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine. Always follow the money.

This article and thread should be the most important news of the day. Their insistence in calling immigrants "aliens" is telling: anyone could be "alien" to this or future US or any other country's administration. The use of data from agencies unrelated to law enforcement is also a big red flag.

Eh ma il fascismo degli antifascisti signora, il grave delitto di impedire convegni razzisti signora E ora mi faccia per favore tacere sull’arresto di un giornalista signora

"The war on terror has become a war against ourselves. That forever war must come to an end. Enough with the military gear. Enough with the mass surveillance. Enough with the constant fear of an ever-shifting Other." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

An “ICE OUT” rally in being organised in Milan on Feb. 6, the same day as the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony, while opposition parties and left-wing groups plan a protest this Saturday against the attendance of ICE officers at the Games. www.huffpost.com/entry/2026-w...

Whenever the Gaza Health Ministry was cited they were called 'the Hamas-run Health Ministry' to make us all doubt the numbers. Now even Israel accepts the official death toll, because that's how confident Netanyahu is that he'll face no consequences. The real death toll is, obviously, much higher.

As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges from regulators, AI, the far right and Elon Musk: ft.trib.al/78FO7tf

Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...

"What was incoming, however, was something new, a new era of even more privatized border and immigration enforcement and, if the sweeps of 2025 were any indication, an era of profitable violence." www.theborderchronicle.com/p/profitable...

Nel Mar Rosso la sicurezza è ovunque, l’ordine da nessuna parte. Sicurezza senza architettura Serie: Il Mar Rosso come spazio di guerra substack.com/home/post/p-...

My latest www.hauntologies.net/p/how-hezbol...

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

Con Delcy Rodríguez oggi il #Venezuela è governato - con il Washington Consensus - dal "madurismo senza Maduro". Quelli che plaudono al blitz di Trump e all'uso della forza dovrebbero spiegare se va bene che abbia scaricato Machado e che NON sono previste elezioni a breve.

A fantastic series of conversations with multiple major scholars on the Israel/Palestine Podcast – a project by graduating high school students from Berlin-Neukölln, home to Germany’s largest Palestinian diaspora and a many young Israelis. www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltun...

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

My take is that the pathologies that exist in the Pro-Palestine solidarity sphere are at least in part a symptom of the absence of a broad based legitimate organised Palestinian social and political mobilisation. What the ANC was in South Africa or the PLO was before the 1990s. 1/

In the last two years, Yuval Abraham @972mag.com brought groundbreaking investigative reporting on war crimes in Gaza. This podcast gives a glimpse into the work behind it - and why you should support it. www.972mag.com/podcast-unco...

They were always going to unleash full-on ethnic cleansing. They were just waiting for a plausible excuse.

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

Ganz normaler fit. Teilnehmer des Gründungskongresses der neuen AfD-Jugend. #Gießen

Megarecherche zu den Aktivitäten der Siedlernahen Lobbyorganisation ELNET in Deutschland -- als Teil einer transnationalen Investigation taz.de/Lobbyorganis...

Die Reaktionen zeigen: Einige stört es, dass gebildete Bürger mit Migrationsgeschichte sichtbarer werden, ihre Interessen und Sensibilitäten artikulieren und Teilhabe einfordern. Das alte Bild des anspruchslosen migrantischen Arbeiters - malochen, schweigen, Projektionsfläche sein - ist vorbei.

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"But reliance on A.I. as a source of growth poses a question for the economy: What happens if the gold rush stops?"