Detta, av @nathalietocci.bsky.social, som har varit rådgivare till två av EU:s ”utrikesministrar” och chef för Italian Institute for International Affairs, är högst relevant läsning om reaktionen till CEUTA-krisen.+

Ceuta Exposes Europe’s Enemies Within

A manufactured migration crisis shows how foreign powers and the nationalist right can work in concert to divide and weaken the continent

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Hot damn. Temperature change in Stockholm.

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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This is Russian “drone safari” in Kherson caught on camera. Unequivocal and blatant war crimes as drone operators deliberately target and hunt civilians like this elderly man. Unbelievably, he survived the attack.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · yesterday

🤬 Kherson. A Russian drone operator hunts down a civilian fruit seller and attacks him. The Russian with the remote control knows and sees what he is doing. They write that he survived.

Turkish forces deployed five F-16 fighter jets to Estonia, supporting the Baltic flank of NATO.

You’ve heard about Stockholm, the rape and murder capital of the world in which Islamist gangs make the streets unsafe. One brave man defied the dangers. Watch his frightening report from the globalist hellhole that used to be called Sweden. Viewer discretion advised.

Sweden has it figured out.

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

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“Does anyone have any ideas? Don’t be shy. Anyone ? Anything ? Please?!?”

Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN Politics

The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.

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Jag pratade med TV4 om ”vapenisering” av flyktingar och migranter i ljuset av krisen i Ceuta och den politiska splittringen i EU som följt på den.

Experten: EU extra sårbart när migranter används som vapen

”Antagonister kan använda migrationen för att försvaga Europa”

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The new face of warfare. So far, not autonomous on autonomous, but it gives a sense of what we will see in the future: robot armies against robot armies.

Roman Sheremeta@rshereme.bsky.social · 4d ago

Modern warfare: Ukrainian ground drone operator spotted a russian drone and made a last-moment maneuver to evade it.

Se agradece el análisis sensato de la situación. "Europa tiene que mejorar su modo de contrarrestar estas armas hibridas. Ahora mismo es efectiva dando combustible a la derecha populista y partidos antisistema. Hacen falta respuestas rápidas que no generen sentimientos anti-inmigración."

Paul T. Levin@paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Europe has to get better at countering this hybrid weapon. Right now, it is effective in fueling populist right and anti-establishment parties. There need to be rapid responses that do not fuel anti-immigrant sentiments. That’s not easy. Deterrence is one option, both by denial and by punishment.

Update: Spain's security forces estimate that about 69,500 people have left Ceuta and returned to Morocco in the last 30 hours. No new arrivals were detected overnight. The death toll has risen to 60.

I’m not the only one suggesting that Ceuta might have been a case of migrant weaponization: “It is impossible for nearly 50,000 people to cross the border between Morocco and Spain in a single day without Morocco having a hand in it.” Lorenzo Gabrielli, Pompeu Fabra University.+

What Caused the Surge of Migrants From Morocco Into Ceuta? (Gift Article)

Speculation has focused on lax Moroccan policing, attractive Spanish immigration policies and misinformation from human traffickers. In reality, experts said, it’s too early to know.

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The mind-boggling scale of the lawlessness of the Trump administration coupled with the impunity protections and pardon powers granted to the President will place any future Democratic administration with some tough choices.+

The Corruption Is the Point

An awful lot of folks are okay with bribing Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. What will the reckoning look like -- or will it happen at all?

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Refugees are simultaneously a) a product of sharp discrepancies in living conditions that create push & pull effects, & b) at times weaponized by states against adversaries. When 50,000 refugees arrive in 24 hours, some perhaps bused to the border, weaponization cannot be excluded.+

Perinemely@perinemely.bsky.social · 5d ago

Cette vidéo avec un filigrane du Tetouan Post, partagée par Taleb Alisalem, un militant sahraoui et analyste politique résidant en Espagne, m’intrigue beaucoup. Elle semble très récente.

Will we soon see US forces (“Gorkas”?) joining hands with Russia in these indiscriminate attacks?

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

Russia's Africa Corps kills Mali civilians in 'indiscriminate' attack, rights group says reut.rs/44XYIwA

A few points: • No shortage of maritime coalitions and missions in these areas already. • Seems to reinvent the Red Sea Council, but clearly Saudi-led? • Lots of filler members, but e.g. Egypt and Turkey are navally well-endowed. • Most notable feature: the UAE-shaped hole in its member list.

Aron Lund@aronlund.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition” founded in Saudi Arabia, also including Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Turkey, and Yemen. Aims to protect shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. arab.news/r66jy

First Ep.

Street Food Cooking

ALT: Street Food Cooking

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Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I assume this means that Infantino will pull his proposal. I hope this means that Infantino will soon resign.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d ago

The vote was 55-0.

Wait, so to dispel accusations that she is injecting political bias into the news, Bari Weiss hires a *conservative opinion columnist* for the job as a *investigative news correspondent* at CBS?

Ross Douthat Joins ‘60 Minutes’ as a Correspondent (Gift Article)

Mr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists.

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May none of us ever sink as low as the most powerful man on earth.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last wk.

12yrs ago russian terrorists murdered 16yo Stepan Chubenko in the Donetsk region. They tortured the boy for a week and then shot him dead w/ 5 bullets for wearing a 🇺🇦 ribbon. Rest in glory, Stepan. The world had turned a blind eye to the russian genocidal war for way too long.

Bra av @aronlund.bsky.social i DN om att vår förståelse av hur auktoritära stater fungerar måste bli bättre. Det håller inte längre att bara se dem med ideologiska skygglappar som endast bestående av onda män som vill berika sig där det enda intressanta motståndet är demonstranter & dissidenter.

Aron Lund: Diktaturerna dominerar snart världen – vi måste lära oss att förstå hur de tänker

Man kunde önska sig en roligare framtid, men det är som det är.

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The argument that NATO provoked 🇷🇺 by expanding to 🇷🇺’s borders ignores the perspective of 🇷🇺’s neighbors that joined. NATO didn’t “expand” as much as accept Russian neighbors who didn’t want to kneel & who desperately needed safety from 🇷🇺. I’m glad they did. Compare Estonia’s fate to 🇺🇦’s.

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · last wk.

"With Russia, you either kneel or you are the enemy. There is nothing in between." Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on meeting Putin in 2010—and why Lithuania immediately built an LNG terminal to completely cut off Russian gas.

I am in no position to weigh in on this matter, but Zelenskyy’s decision does underline the fact that Ukraine is a democracy, where public opinion matters even if the country is at war. Does anyone think that Putin would listen to protesters…?

Zelensky Dismisses Ukraine’s Top General After Protests (Gift Article)

The move followed the firing of a popular defense minister, who had clashed with the general over how to fight the war.

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If, like me, you don’t believe in God, what is the meaning of life? I’ve got bad news and good news.

Messi is the GOAT on the field, but Merino is now the GOAT off the field in my book.

Prashant 🌊@prasshant.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's Mikel Merino mocking you know who. 😂

German broadcast. Nailed it

“Odysseus ripped off his rags. Now naked, he leapt upon the threshold with his bow and quiverfull of arrows, which he tipped out in a rush before his feet, and spoke. -Heynong Man!”

Derek Gottlieb@derekgottliebphd.com · 2w ago

"Odysseus ripped off his rags. Now naked, he leapt upon the threshold with his bow and quiverfull of arrows, which he tipped out in a rush before his feet, and spoke. What’s up, jerks."

I'm watching in germany. The German commentators kept quiet for nearly the whole thing until suddenly the shot widened and we just hear with a German accent, "Oh, Miss Piggy"

HT to the producers for cutting from Will Ferrell to Pharrell Williams. 🫡😁