a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

Democrats in the US should talk to their Hungarian counterparts. The Republicans certainly have been.

Calling up Fitch to ask what time they are releasing a sovereign credit rating decision, 2012 vibes

France’s moment of peril as a debt mountain fuels a political crisis My piece: www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...

“There was a guy who had been asking for his medication for days, for his heart. When we were out in the rec yard, he dropped dead of a heart attack in front of everyone.”

Ursula von der Leyen has proposed for Gaza what Kaja Kallas proposed to the college of commissioners a couple of months ago. And Ursula von der Leyen rejected.

Excellent piece by @naomiohreally.bsky.social on the EU inaction on genocide in Gaza Why is EU deadlocked on Israeli sanctions over Gaza? www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

The EU long championed the idea of "responsibility to protect": that bystander countries should act to prevent atrocities such as genocide happening elsewhere. It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do. So what went wrong? My piece: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.

What's happened to Keir Starmer is like someone made a puppet of an international human rights lawyer and grotesquely made it do and say the things an international human rights lawyer would never say or do

I just asked the European Commission whether they would ask for the €50,000 back in this case, as it has clearly been used to develop a military product now contracted to be supplied to the IDF, in breach of Horizon rules. No comment on the specific case "have to look into it", spokesman says.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Great thread

Embarrassing

A remarkable investigation with utterly infuriating findings. Major European outlets should pick this up and demand answers from their respective countries' leaders

Incredibly detailed (complementary) journalism on the use of EU funds by Israeli entities involved in the defense industry.

I am able to read this article because I have a subscription, not sure if others will be able to, but it is a must read. O’Leary has done her due diligence!

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Dutch and Swedish foreign ministers send joint letter to the EU foreign affairs chief urging tougher action on Gaza/Israel. Note penultimate bullet point: the Commission is supposed to have drawn up an analysis about whether the EU itself is in compliance with International Court of Justice opinion

Chatting to Pat about EU inaction on Israel and the killing of journalists at Nasser hospital

According to Israeli media, the first strike on Nasser hospital was tank fire. The IDF says it was aiming at a camera. It killed Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was filming his usual livefeed there. So, same as the IDF killing of Reuters’ Issam Abdallah in 2023 www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...

In joint letter after Israel double-bombed a hospital and killed their journalists, Reuters and AP question “whether Israel is deliberately targeting live feeds in order to suppress information”. The second strike hit “while journalists and rescuers were responding” reutersagency.com/media-centre...

The horror journalist Mariam Dagga photographed in the last months of her life. The last one is from the hospital where she was killed today. Curated by @apnews.com editors apnews.com/photo-galler...

Gerrymandering? Two can play at that game. My piece on Democrats abandoning the moral high ground. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Excessive heat in homes, offices and public buildings has prompted a debate in France this summer about the excessive use of glass in building design, which is being increasingly seen as impractical as global warming drives up summer temperatures. My story: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Going to college and getting ChatGPT to write your essay is like going to the gym to watch YouTube videos of other people working out

I made the mistake of checking X twice this week and both times was spontaneously shown footage of someone dying. Random individual deaths- one was an accident and another a heart attack, I think. It’s still embedded as a news source for so many people in media, but it’s now what, rotten dot com?

The deadly “rule of 30” – temperatures above 30 degrees, relative humidity below 30, and winds of over 30km an hour .... Beyond tragic...

The new increasingly disastrous normal 🔥🔥🔥 “The map of major wildfires across Europe in the last 24 hours shows a constellation of infernos from Portugal to Turkey, a pattern that has become an annual event that consumes wilderness, destroys homes, forces thousands to evacuate and claims lives.”

‘He is returning to what was normality before’ Cautious communications and sparse use of English have helped the first US pope to keep a low profile while returning to the more formal Vatican structure of the past My piece on Pope Leo’s first 100 days www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Three people who saw the flames and rushed to help. Those were the people killed in wildfires in Spain this week, as drier summers and hotter temperatures fuel infernos that overwhelm the ability of firefighters to respond. My piece this weekend www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

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Statement in response to the killing by Israel of Al Jazeera journalists by the Irish Times chapel of the National Union of Journalists

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

This is a great read: an art mystery!

So I got obsessed with this mystery text at the centre of a 1920 painting by El Lissitzky that was smuggled out of Kyiv under Russian bombing in 2022. And we worked it out! How we did it and what it means- The hidden Jewish history at the heart of a Kyiv painting www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

‘They are proudly posting videos confessing. That’s new’: my piece on the efforts to pursue individual Israeli soldiers through national justice systems thousands of kilometres from Gaza www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

Sannd Abu al-Shaer was killed before his first birthday. Sannd was just 70 days old when an airstrike killed him and his 8-year-old brother, Abdul, and 5-year-old brother, Tariq, in September. wapo.st/3UCiAjn

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

I’m researching quite a niche early 20th century subject of art history at the moment and the AI slop and its errors is insidious and pervasive. My takeaway is that you have to basically disregard much of the internet, go back to non-internet sources, books and academic papers.

“Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government. They should halt all arms sales to Israel,” the FT editorial board writes

Absurd and obscene. JUST LET THE HUNDREDS OF TRUCKS OF AID IN.

Whenever public opinion and international pressure becomes unignorable, offer a token concession that will diffuse momentum and act as a fig leaf, while maintaining the mass death and expulsion. It’s a playbook.