Ciarán Fahey
@cfahey.bsky.social
Associated Press sports writer, often distracted by news. I’m not German. I run @abandonedberlin.com in my free time. bio.site/cfahey
Someone was behind the social media posts that convinced Moroccans that the border to Spain was opening up. They didn't all start by accident. (AP) #Ceuta #Spain #Morocco apnews.com/article/ceut...
Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta
By the time authorities reacted, an estimated 60,000 people had reached Ceuta in just a few days, the largest migration surge between Morocco and Spain in years.
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Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle crash and there has been an outpouring of love for him in Ireland, where, as he once noted himself, people prefer their heroes dead and gone rather than living and possibly answering back. I for one would like to hear him answer these words from Neko Case.
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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Disturbing writing from Neko Case on a certain recently deceased Irish singer. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
nekocase.substack.com
Facts don’t matter and reality is immaterial for assholes who thrive on stoking fear. “Across Europe, far-right parties continue to flourish, even though it has become harder for migrants to reach the continent by any route.” (NYT) #migration #farright #nazis #xenophobia #assholes #giftarticle
Europe’s Far Right, Once Marginal, Now Sets Tone on Spain Migrant Crisis (Gift Article)
Europe sheltered many refugees in 2015. Its hard-line reaction to a new crisis in Ceuta shows how, 11 years on, the far right has reshaped European attitudes.
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Self-serving, fear-stoking, xenophobic politicians freaking out about Ceuta should pipe down. Ceuta is not part of the Schengen area. Border checks are carried out when traveling from the exclave to continental Spain or other European countries in the Schengen zone. (AP) #Ceuta #EU #politics
Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67
Spain has installed a 500-meter containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and Morocco.
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Infantino may have schemed his last scheme at FIFA. “The time has now come for football political leaders to ask themselves the right questions and make the right decisions.” (AP) #Infantino #FIFA apnews.com/article/infa...
UEFA declares no confidence in Infantino and vows accountability for failed World Cup equity plan
UEFA says it has lost confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino and that “no option should be off the table” as it will pursue a full review of his now abandoned plan to sell stakes of the World C...
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One of Musk’s rockets is going to crash into the moon on Wednesday. He’s not on it. (AP) #Musk #Moon #rocket #rubbish apnews.com/article/spac...
A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon
A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers last year.
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🚨#Israel plans for more potential war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank as Defense Minister Israel Katz instructs the military to take control of another West Bank refugee camp. New from @hrw.org 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...
A Hamas official has confirmed agreement on the group’s disarmament. Israel is not being asked to more than what it already agreed to, “which essentially involves withdrawing its forces from Gaza and committing to ending airstrikes on the territory.” (AP) #Gaza #Israel #Hamas #disarmament #Trump
Trump announces a deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza, but many hurdles and uncertainty remain
President Donald Trump says a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza.
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European teams are going to boycott FIFA competitions as long as Gianni Infantino persists with his plan to flog off the World Cup and commercial interests to private investors. (AP) #FIFA #Greed #UEFA #Infantino #investors 💰💰💰 apnews.com/article/fifa...
UEFA members to boycott FIFA competitions in protest of World Cup private investors plan
UEFA member federations will boycott all FIFA competitions in protest of Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors.
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Climate change is bringing new and invasive fish species to the Mediterranean, decimating indigenous populations. (AP) #climatechange #mediterranean #fish 🐟 apnews.com/article/medi...
The Mediterranean's warming waters are drawing hundreds of invasive species
Scientists say climate change is heating the Mediterranean Sea, inviting invasive fish species that harm native populations.
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Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Musk’s AI company is suing the state of Minnesota for outlawing “nudification” technology that creates fake nude images of real people. (AP) #Musk #nudification #AIslop #priorities 🤮 apnews.com/article/minn...
Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology
Elon Musk’s company xAI is suing Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps.
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Gunther von Hagens, who used donated corpses for plastination in his Body Worlds exhibits, has died. He wished for his body be made available for plastination too, and “his family will respect and carry out this wish.” (AP) #BodyWorlds #plastination #corpses 💀 apnews.com/article/anat...
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died.
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Sometimes compound German words go a bit awry! I'm sure WOW could have found some other title for this genre!😂
What would I be prepared to do to fight fascism? The perennial question. But not posting on Twitter seems a pretty small ask. Amazed how many people I have admired are still doing it.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
German police are looking for a suspect identified as 21-year-old Abdul B. after the attack on Berlin Pride festival. (AP) #Berlin #Pride #CSD 🏳️🌈 apnews.com/article/germ...
German police hunt suspect in Berlin Pride van-ramming attack that left 1 dead and 16 injured
German authorities have issued a wanted notice for a fugitive suspect in the van ramming near Berlin’s Pride festival that left one person dead and injured at least 16 others.
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There’s so much fucking awful news, so much hate, so many assholes in the world. It’s overwhelming. My heart breaks.
Berlin’s LGBTQ+ pride parade called off with several participants injured after car drives into crowd at Tiergarten (AP) #Berlin #CSD #Pride 🏳️🌈 apnews.com/article/germ...
Several people are injured at Berlin's LGBTQ+ march after a car drives into the crowd
Berlin police have called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured.
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Four locals and one Israeli settler killed after settlers backed by Israeli soldiers entered the village of Tell in the West Bank. Video shows Israeli forces firing on a group of Palestinians on the ground in a field. (AP) #WestBank #Israel #settlers apnews.com/article/isra...
Israeli military kills 4 Palestinians after settler killed in West Bank
The Israeli military has shot and killed four Palestinians in the village of Tell in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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“All goats are beautiful” in Dublin. (Cops are called Gardaí in Ireland.) 🐐
For outraged Germans, the Jens Spahn scandal is about more than his surrogate baby
For outraged Germans, the Jens Spahn scandal is about more than his surrogate baby
The powerful politician was no stranger to controversy, but brazenly defying a ban on surrogacy that he had long defended, was the last straw, says Berlin-based journalist Tania Roettger
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“The best products should succeed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search engine.”
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoThe European Union has fined Google $1 billion for breaking digital antitrust regulations. The tech giant is accused of using Google Play and its search engine to steer consumers toward its own services, harming competitors.
"While Guatemala has brought some perpetrators to justice, the enduring influence of military officials and elites implicated in the period’s abuses from that period has hindered efforts." (AP) #Guatemala apnews.com/article/guat...
Guatemala races to save 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses during armed conflict
Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028.
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Israel is quietly but quickly building a giant berm cutting more than half of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, heightening fears it will become a border. (AP) #Gaza #Israel #berm #landgrab apnews.com/article/isra...
Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division
The Israeli military is rapidly constructing a large earthen barrier in the Gaza Strip, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave.
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"Genocide may come to be seen by some nations as the legitimate and lucrative extension of politics by other means." Omer Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, in the NYT. #Gaza #Israel #USA #Germany #UK www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza (Gift Article)
Israel has not been held accountable for its actions in Gaza. The nation and the individuals and countries enabling it to escape punishment may only benefit.
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Bah. Possession fetish anti-football. Congratulations Spain. #WorldCup
"A disgrace": that is how Spain forward Borja Iglesias described the ticket prices for the #2026WorldCup final.
