BREAKING: Russian state has started a campaign targeting the upcoming 2027 presidential elections in France. Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network posted a series of fake videos and magazine covers on X/Twitter today smearing Gabriel Attal, a candidate endorsed by Emmanuel Macron's party.

Despite the scale of Ukraine's needs for rescue operations, they still generously send support to France to tackle its massive forest fires Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

French Aid to Europe 🇫🇷🇪🇺@aidefranceukr.bsky.social · 6d ago

According to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, 70 🇺🇦 rescuers and 15 vehicles have left for France to fight forest fires, following a phone call with his French counterpart. Ukraine is also prepared to provide additional State Emergency Service aviation support if required. unn.ua/en/news/ukra...

According to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, 70 🇺🇦 rescuers and 15 vehicles have left for France to fight forest fires, following a phone call with his French counterpart. Ukraine is also prepared to provide additional State Emergency Service aviation support if required. unn.ua/en/news/ukra...

Ukraine sent 70 firefighters and equipment to France to combat forest fires

УНН Society ✎ On the instructions of President Zelenskyy, 70 rescuers and 15 special vehicles have been sent to France. Ukraine is also ready to provide State Emerg…

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Le député-maire Rassemblement National de Vauvert Nicolas Meizonnet dans toute sa splendeur sexiste

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 ...

Nearly 50% of French respondents said tgat climate change was the main global threat, well ahead of mass migration (28%), so guess which topic is going to dominate the 2027 presidential election campaign? Answers on postcards

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

A journalist reporting on the woman who was carrying a bomb up north misheard Saoradh and wrote Syria. So the lass did not spend any time in Syria. Instead she spent time with dissident republicans. The far right had loved the Syrian angle, and it's an error that's going to be hard to rectify

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · last wk.

So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre

Very depressing. A young woman allegedly tried to bring a bomb into Northern Ireland. Someone from the Republic who's known only peace BBC News - Law student is charged over intercepted bomb in car www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

County Monaghan bomb: Law student charged over device in car

An Irish court is told the accused, Isobella Perrie Sullivan, is studying to become a barrister.

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« Le financement de la campagne de Marine Le Pen est un enjeu démocratique. » En appui à la manœuvre de Matignon, cette phrase est imprimée dans Le Monde, et ce n’est pas une citation. Nous en sommes là. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Présidentielle 2027 : comment Matignon négocie avec les banques françaises pour qu’elles acceptent de financer la campagne de Marine Le Pen

Un consortium de banques devrait permettre à la candidate d’extrême droite d’obtenir un emprunt en France. Le premier ministre est disposé à ce que ce prêt soit partiellement garanti par l’Etat, par l...

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🧵The House of Commons administration plans to abolish its world leading parliamentary outreach team. @aileenwalker.bsky.social & @estrangeirada.bsky.social explain why cutting in person public engagement across the UK in favour of digital only engagement is a mistake. Blog 🔗⬇️

The man has nearly infinite resources and keeps giving himself unmanageable goals: going to Mars in 2 years' time (he said that several years ago, I believe), convincing people that the cybertruck is a serious car, making a historically accurate version of The Odyssey. No wonder he's always unhappy

The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 2w ago

And so Elon Musk‘s anti-Odyssey campaign continues: The X owner and recently-anointed trillionaire has vowed that his AI social media bot, Grok, will make “a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer” before the end of the year.

As EU ambassadors begin a crunch debate on the next round of Russia sanctions, with billions of euros worth of LNG exports and oil revenues hanging in the balance, the @financialtimes.com editorial board lays out the crude truth Background here: as.ft.com/r/3ac50792-e...

A bit late for an April's fool

Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gone

J'aimerais bien savoir pourquoi le gouvernement français, qui est un des plus grand distributeurs de visas aux Russes en Europe, est aussi opposé à la limitation des visas aux citoyens russes. Sommes nous si soucieux du confort des Russes fortunés qui viennent passer leurs vacances sur la Riviera?

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

Some of us became British because it left like the safest thing to do given the increasingly extreme language and policies on immigration in all sides. It looks like some even want to revoke naturalisations, now. Talk about radicalisation

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Spectator going full on ethnonationalist

We clearly don't always send our best to Belfast

Brendan Harkin@brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 3w ago

With the help of antifascists in Rouen the men behind the hateful spraypaint in Sandy Row have been identified as belonging to a group known as "Les Normaux" out of Rouen. The group are former Generation Identity and used to hold "Norman" marches. They use a bar called "Le Mora" for meetings.

Reform UK plans to jail candidates for using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish on their election leaflets. Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...

Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison

bylinetimes.com

PP politicians are clearly spending too much time with Vox or thinking that the only way can beat Vox is by being Vox. Examples throughout Europe show that this is a losing strategy

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 4w ago

Former Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy makes racist remarks about France's football team

EXC Big trade union urges Labour MPs not to vote for a donations cap next week. Labour whips also whipping against the move, warning it could damage union funding of the Labour Party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GMB warns Labour MPs that cap on political donations could endanger party funding

Exclusive: Sources say Labour whips are calling MPs urging them to heed union’s warning and not vote for cap

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Ahem, anyone available at Prevent?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kai Stephens is running for the British Democrats in Clacton. He was radicalised into far right politics when a teenager & has been active in Patriotic Alternative & Homeland. He promotes violence, such as posting that he wants to see "killing fields" of migrants & minorities, not deportations

📢 Job opening The Cevipof is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Political Science in the field of political institutions and contemporary transformations of democracy @cevipof.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

Recruitement : Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science

CEVIPOF / Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science, Topic Immigration and Democracy / Political Theory. The application deadline is 18 September 2026.

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ROBERT JENRICK ranting against the establishment. What a time to be alive

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4w ago

Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip

unbelievable www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

IOC lifts ban on Russian Olympic Committee, clearing path for athletes’ return to Games

The IOC said it will continue to monitor the situation but will allow Russian athletes to compete, if certain anti-doping criteria are met.

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[Substack] Chose promise chose due: un bref billet concernant les effet d'une condamnation définitive de Mme Le Pen à une peine d'inéligibilité déjà purgée sur la poursuite (ou non) de son mandat parlementaire. open.substack.com/pub/mathieuc...

L'effet de la condamnation de Mme Le Pen sur la poursuite de son mandat parlementaire

Sur une déchéance de Schrödinger

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After whispering that maybe she unwittlingly did something wrong during the appeal trial, le Pen claims once again that she is innocent. As she's launching another appeal, she will be able to campaign in the presidential election without an electronic tag until the decision of the Court early 2017

Banter outcome: Farage wins his self-inflicted by-election, standards commissioner rules against, recall petition, 2026 becomes the year of two Clacton by-elections

Nigel Farage has found another way to avoid attending Parliament. With an election coming, the good people of Clacton will get to see him, for once

🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...