Brigitte Le Normand 🟥
@blenormand.bsky.social
Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.
Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.
NYT spelling bee not accepting Arab or Arabic... Tempted to jump to conclusions.
Likely a flex by Morocco, using migrants as pawns, maybe supported by other states/actors w/ political motives. Nothing to do w/ migration control (deliberately lifted), Spain’s regularization law (new arrivals can’t qualify), or Schengen (none could travel). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
How 50,000 People Surged Into a Spanish Exclave in Africa
On Thursday, tens of thousands of Moroccans broke into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbors Morocco. By Friday evening, most of them had left, hungry and disappointed.
nytimes.com
Giving birth in Serbia: 'You leave your dignity at the door'
Giving birth in Serbia: 'You leave your dignity at the door'
A months-long DW investigation into childbirth in Serbia revealed a striking pattern in women's negative experiences, the widespread use of practices not universally recommended by the WHO and a system under pressure.
dw.com
UEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.
Honored by this very positive review of my book by Amir Duranović!
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas@jahrbuecherjgo.bsky.social · 6d ago@blenormand.bsky.social : Citizens Without Borders. Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe. Rezension von Amir Duranović im Heft 1/2025 #OpenAccess in #JahrbücherJGO: biblioscout.net/article/99.1...
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
It was a moment for #Spain’s #WorldCup football team to receive accolades well earned. As players crossed the stage for trophies and medals, they received congratulatory hand shakes and applause from #PMCarney, #PresidentScheinbaum, #PresidentTrump. Some more enthusiastic than others. #cdnpoli
That was just the wildest game... I went from dismay crossed with embarrassment to astonishment and delight. France may have lost, but the game was so much fun to watch.
“The conflation of Hebrew with Israel is itself a consequence of Zionism’s success in appropriating the language for its nationalist project.” A good survey of big and small acts of linguistic disobedience not only for Jews or Hebrew-learners www.972mag.com/hebrew-israe...
Can Hebrew be decolonized?
For many, the language is indelibly linked to Zionism and now forever tainted by genocide. But it was not always so — and a growing movement of Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews are attempting to rec...
972mag.com
‘Abandoned and left to die’: Family of Hussam Abu Safiya says he has been betrayed by rights groups - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/abandoned-and-left-die-family-hussam-abu-safiya-say-he-has-been-betrayed-rights-groups
‘Abandoned and left to die’: Family of Hussam Abu Safiya says he has been betrayed by rights groups
Abu Safiya has been held by Israel since December 2024, his son told MEE he may die unless he is released
middleeasteye.net
The Hungarian public broadcaster is showing this message now, after its news service was temporarily shut down: "Public broadcasters must not lie. We apologize for having done so for years. The public broadcaster will undergo changes to make its news service independent and credible."
The positive of Balogun is it's the first time a Republican has intervened to reduce a black man's sentence.
This seems unbecoming of the organization that oversees the FIFA Peace Prize.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last mo.Consistent with international law, FIFA determines that rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to the US.
Cabo Verde made their fans very proud tonight. So inspiring...🫶 What an amazing run in this World Cup. ⚽️🇨🇻
In case you want to read about the (explicit) links between football/soccer and politics, here is a selection of books.
a world cup reading list for the politically-inclined fan
the World Cup is about more than just football—here's what to read
thefrankiedlc.news
Canada is the best. It has problems, but our problems have solutions if we work together to solve them, and there is enough cohesion that we might. This is not true of most countries in the world. Canada is the best. Happy Canada Day, everyone. We've earned it 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦❤️
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
The frozen treat section at my neighborhood Albert Heijn today
No words. www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
Palestinians grieve for a father-to-be shot by Israeli troops the day his son was born
Nayef Samaro, 25, was killed in an Israeli military raid on Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, as he prepared to meet his wife at the hospital for the birth of their first child.
npr.org
On Tuesday, historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944) was inducted into the Panthéon with his wife Simonne Vidal (1894-1944). A medieval scholar and co-founder of the Annales School, Bloch served in the First World War and in the resistance before his murder by the Nazis in 1944 bit.ly/4eyAq1O #Skystorians
Heeding Resistance fighter Marc Bloch's warning against 'strange defeats'
EDITORIAL. The courageous member of the Resistance, who sacrificed his life and was inducted into the Panthéon on Tuesday, embodies many of the virtues the French Republic seeks to uphold. At a time w...
bit.ly
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,…
ohchr.org
