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...

Podcast: James Butler and Sarah Stein Lubrano · On Politics: Why you can’t change someone’s mind

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#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:

US/El Salvador: Deportees Forcibly Disappeared

El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States.

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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"

Kyiv Post@kyivpost.com · 7mo ago

First AI lancet drone attack rocks Kyiv? Drone debris from Russia’s new AI-powered Lancet was spotted near Kyiv’s Independence Monument amid a massive morning drone attack. www.kyivpost.com/post/71981

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...

Trump has forced an impossible choice on American synagogues amid antisemitic attacks

New conditions on federal security grants pit Jews' safety against that of immigrants

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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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Cruz: "What we've seen in the last 18 months on the Republican side I think is terrifying. I've seen more antisemitism in the last 18 months than at any time in my life, & it's growing. There are a handful of loudmouths, self-appointed influencers, driving it. I think they're being paid by 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.

Resist, Connect and Stand Up! - A Manifesto for Psychosocial Support in Times of Collapse

Ein Manifest für psychosoziale Arbeit in Zeiten des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenbruchs | A Manifesto for Psychosocial Support in Times of Collapse

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“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.”

The New War on Speech | Aryeh Neier

Partway through his second inaugural address on January 20, Donald Trump started listing the executive orders he planned to sign that day. Among others,

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"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...

Millenarian Fantasies

In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

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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...

Qualcosa si sta rompendo in Iran, ma non come vorrebbe la narrazione mediatica - Valigia Blu

Qualcosa sta cambiando in Iran, ma non nel modo che la televisione preferisce raccontare. Non con una colonna sonora pulita, non con eroi che risplendono nel buio, non con cattivi che spiegano tutto i...

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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.

John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · 8mo ago

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

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

CNN@cnn.com · 8mo ago

Don Lemon has been taken into custody after anti-ICE confrontation in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. https://cnn.it/4roAO6t

"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...

Opinion | The Rot Goes Deeper Than ICE

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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...

‘ICE OUT’ Rally Planned In Milan

In Minneapolis and communities nationwide, trust is built on reporting that follows the facts wherever they lead -- even when powerful institutions resist scrutiny. Support journalism that stands…

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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

Wikipedia may be the largest compendium of human knowledge ever created, but can it survive?

As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges from regulators, AI, the far right and Elon Musk

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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...

US Hackers Reportedly Caused a Blackout in Venezuela

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

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"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...

Profitable Violence: A New Era of the Border Industrial Complex

In 2025, a dramatic increase in contracts to private industry correlates with increasing violence committed by border and immigration police forces.

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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-...

Sicurezza senza architettura

Serie: Il Mar Rosso come spazio di guerra - Episodio 2

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