Mathias Westerlund
@mathy77.bsky.social
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The real issue on Ceuta is the lack of solidarity with a Member State under external attack for reasons of internal politics and political exploitation. Italy, Denmark, Finland, but also the von der Leyen Commission. Meanwhile, more than half have already returned to Morocco.
“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
reason.com
Why you should never go to your 40th high school reunion.
Following in the footsteps of France and Switzerland's Government who banned Palantir from Government contracts, Spain has now banned Palantir from signing ANY contracts in Spain. Lets get Palantir OUT.
Om Sveriges regering bryr sig om demokratins framtid i Sverige bör de ta efter Spanien. www.lbc.co.uk/article/span...
Spanish government ‘quietly bans use of Palantir’ in critical state systems over fears of national security leaks | LBC
Spain has started quietly banning companies from signing contracts with controversial US tech firm Palantir amid security fears.
lbc.co.uk
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · last mo.Following in the footsteps of France and Switzerland's Government who banned Palantir from Government contracts, Spain has now banned Palantir from signing ANY contracts in Spain. Lets get Palantir OUT.
En video från israeliska B’tselem om att mängder av palestinska barn och unga mördas av ockupationsmakten på Västbanken – 54 under 2025 – och att det råder straffrihet för det. Jag vill att vi ska minnas att vi visste, att alla egentligen visste.
Vi pratar ofta om Zuck, Thiel, Altman, Musk, Bezos som de värsta tech-ondingarna. Men glöm inte Bill Gates. Inget techföretag har orsakat så mycket lidande hos så många under så många årtionden som Microsoft.
Redan 2024 varnade jag för att Sverige rör sig på den rättsstatliga skalan. Då fick jag mothugg av flera ledarsidor. Nu bekräftas min dystra bild dock av Liberties Rule Of Law Report 2026. Sverige kategoriseras där som en ”Slider” - ett land där rättsstaten är på väg utför.
Liberties Rule of Law Report 2026
EU Rule of Law Erodes Further as Commission Struggles to Respond
liberties.eu
time and time again, liberalism gives way to fascism. why does this happen? @jasonhickel.bsky.social explains:
Wow - so the US attacks on Iran send European energy prices sky high. Then its EU ambassador tells Brussels to ratify the Turnberry trade deal with no amendments or else lose favourable access to US gas www.ft.com/content/6bf1...
US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing ‘favourable’ access to LNG
European parliament set to vote this week on whether to ratify Turnberry agreement signed last year
ft.com
Academic freedom or lack thereof: Decline of institutional autonomy in the United States compared to its decline in other prominent (former) democracies that have autocratized, namely Hungary, India, and Türkiye academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel.
The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
propublica.org
Det var när vi slutade med elektronik i genomskinliga plasthöljen som allt började gå åt helvete. Coincidence? I think not. Bring it back!
There’s something very Starship Troopers about the thought of a fascist coward president sending the Marines into the Gulf to slaughter (and be slaughtered) an enemy they’ve consistently dehumanised. Except, it took 30 years to get here, not 3 centuries.
Spain's decision to expel US assets being used to attack Iran exposes an uncomfortable truth for countries like Germany, Italy, Britain & Belgium. The rest of Europe is still indirectly collaborating in the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack by allowing bases here to be used.
US aircraft leave Spain after government says bases cannot be used for Iran attacks
Fifteen U.S. aircraft have left the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain since the U.S. and Israel launched weekend attacks on Iran, maps by flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed on ...
reuters.com
Who cares if Trump & his allies attack a few European NGOs?, you might ask. You're wrong. We are seeing a campaign that doesn't just hurt a few NGOs. It strikes at the heart of the EU's tech laws, and European sovereignty. Inside MAGAs quiet campaign to undermine the EU: www.ftm.eu/articles/tru...
Trump allies target European NGOs in battle over Big Tech rules
Trump allies have waged an aggressive campaign against civil society and academics in the United States. Now, they're setting their sights across the Atlantic, threatening Europe's efforts to rein in ...
ftm.eu
So to recap: if you're a MAGA American official you have the free speech right to say whatever you want and meddle into other countries politics. But if you're not a MAGA American, then you have no free speech right to criticise the United States or Trump. The hypocrisy is farcical.
American ambassador says Conner Rousseau is now barred from entering US
Following up on his earlier threats, American ambassador has forced prohibition of entering the US on Vooruit party leader Rousseau.
brusselstimes.com
KRÖNIKA | Den amerikanska utrikesministerns anförande i Tyskland, inför det säkerhetspolitiska etablissemanget, har beskrivits som lugnande och ett nytt tonläge från USA. De som förmedlar den bilden sprider dimridåer, skriver German Bender. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/marc...
Marco Rubios tal i München var fascistiskt | Dagens Arena
Den som säger att det var ett nytt tonläge sprider dimridåer.
dagensarena.se
1. This 2016 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel is so essential, really gets to the heart of Epstein's project. Epstein: brexit, just the beginning. Thiel: Of what? Epstein: return to tribalism... finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain
Ingen cyklar på vintern i Stockholm hävdar en del. Cykelbanorna lyser tomma. Andra verkar se massor av människor som cyklar.
Greenland would be the Sudetenland moment. You can say, "well we can't defeat the US in a conventional war, so we have to give into them." Or do you "cultivate resistance" in the hope of a return to democracy in Washington? I don't have answers, but people need to start thinking fast.
It's Ursula's texts once again. 🤳 The EU's official watchdog is investigating a text message sent by French president Emmanuel Macron to the commission president last year. Guess what, it just... disappeared. Some news that could spell trouble for the commission. 🧵
Dutch Green MEP Bas Eickhour denounces 🇪🇺President von der Leyen to her face on 🇪🇺Parliament. "You are serving the Trumpist agenda," he tells her. "We put away our dependency on Russian gas, but we've exchanged it for dependency on American gas. We've only made ourselves more dependent on 🇺🇸."
What's happening to the ICC judges could happen to all of us if the US cuts off access to the basic infrastructure that Europe's economy runs on. As I argue in my new book The Owned Continent, Europe needs to urgently transition to sovereign economic infrastructure. www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
Sergey Vasiliev@sevslv.bsky.social · 8mo ago“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
