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Mauro Gatti
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Associate Professor of EU Law, University of Bologna. Research on EU foreign policy and freedom of religion.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 21h
"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 1d
Asked ChatGPT how it thinks I look like and that’s the answer…

That’s because I use it for python codes and we all know women don’t code, so I must be a man

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 1d
"Atlanticists... are living in a world of the past, and they are still convincing themselves that their solutions (appeasement and servility) are a recipe for European success"
davekeating.substack.com Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1d
EU prime ministers and presidents are about to arrive at the emergency 🇪🇺 #EUCO summit on transatlantic relations.

Europe's three camps - the hawks, appeasers and collaborators - are each trying to claim victory for Trump's retreat. Only one camp is right.

My curtain-raiser:
Meloni was wrong, Macron was right
The Italian prime minister is trying to claim victory for Trump's retreat. But it was Europe showing its teeth through retaliation threats and troop deployment that spooked the US government.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1d
EU prime ministers and presidents are about to arrive at the emergency 🇪🇺 #EUCO summit on transatlantic relations.

Europe's three camps - the hawks, appeasers and collaborators - are each trying to claim victory for Trump's retreat. Only one camp is right.

My curtain-raiser:
Meloni was wrong, Macron was right
The Italian prime minister is trying to claim victory for Trump's retreat. But it was Europe showing its teeth through retaliation threats and troop deployment that spooked the US government.
davekeating.substack.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d
Smallbones was exactly the kind of chap he looks like in this photo (with his wife Inga). Small 'c' conservative. Described as a bit dull but always good company. Happy family man.

A solid diplomat. In 1932, the Foreign Office sent him to Munich. By '38 he's British Consul-General in Frankfurt /2
an older gent with a moustache in a suit, next to his wife in a string of pearls. they look very british.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 3d
We hear it all the time:

Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically.

This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe

But it's simply not true!

Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 3d
I think everyone protesting needs to learn Bella Ciao. I will die on this hill, but in Europe when you encounter fascists the default is to sing Bella Ciao. This is the most famous anti fascist anthem and it’s pretty easy to learn—and fun if you want to speak some basic Italian. 👇

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AAUP @aaup.org · 3d
“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 4d
TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 4d
European Union 's "good ally" attacks United Nations aid agency in occupied State of #Palestine 's East #Jerusalem.

"Demolition equipment and bulldozers, accompanied by security forces, demolish the #UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem."

www.threads.com/@moein_gaza/...
#FreePalestine #News #WorldNews

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d
The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
Tidligere forsvarssjef om Trumps USA: – Neo-fascistisk bananrepublikk (+)
Tidligere forsvarssjef Sverre Diesen mener USA er blitt «en normløs og fiendtlig innstilt stormakt», og advarer samtidig mot å feste vår lit til Europa. Harald Sunde mener det haster med en plan B.
www.dn.no

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 4d
Maybe Von der Leyen could solve the problem by making a statement about Groenland without any political or legal support. It wouldn't be the first time 3/3

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 4d
adapting previous positions to Groenland would take some creativity. Borrel did something of the sort with regards to Palestine. But the track record of Kallas is not encouraging. 2/3

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 4d
The High representative can always publish a statement - without even consulting the Member States - as long as it's based on an "established position" of the EU. And surely there are established positions about inviolability of borders, self determination etc. 1/3
jonworth.eu Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 4d
You do by this point have to wonder what the downside would be of putting out an EU statement anyway, and seeing if Orbán can become any more destructive. Would he really eventually find a legal way to challenge it?
szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4d
💥Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó says Hungary is BLOCKING a joint EU statement on Greenland.

After years acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and China, Budapest now does the same for Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, Orbán ally Andrej Babiš’s Czech government also refuses to back Denmark...

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 4d
You do by this point have to wonder what the downside would be of putting out an EU statement anyway, and seeing if Orbán can become any more destructive. Would he really eventually find a legal way to challenge it?
szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4d
💥Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó says Hungary is BLOCKING a joint EU statement on Greenland.

After years acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and China, Budapest now does the same for Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, Orbán ally Andrej Babiš’s Czech government also refuses to back Denmark...

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murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 4d
After going missing for over 2 years the EU has finally found the book on International law. Strange that.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 6d
The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

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Markus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 6d
The best position for the EU would be to ask all countries to return to international law and sanction those who don’t. Perhaps start calling out breaches of international law @kajakallas.bsky.social?
kajakallas.bsky.social Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 6d
China and Russia must be having a field day. They are the ones who benefit from divisions among Allies.

If Greenland’s security is at risk, we can address this inside NATO.

Tariffs risk making Europe and the United States poorer and undermine our shared prosperity. (1/2)

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 8d
I feel like maybe giving her the Peace Prize was a mistake?
María Corina Machado "awarding" her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 8d
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.

(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 8d
Italians: we have too many police forces, what's the point of having both the Police and the Carabinieri? Two is too much.

Americans: hold my beer

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 8d
I'm not even joking, those are actual quotes.

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 8d
The European Outrage Scale:
- Brown people kill white people: "heinous, brutal terrorism"
- Brown people kill brown people: "excessive use of force"
- White people kill white people: "closely monitoring"
- White people kill brown people: ...
vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 11d
The rising number of casualties in Iran is horrifying. I unequivocally condemn the excessive use of force and continued restriction of freedom.

The European Union has already listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in its entirety under its human rights sanctions regime.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 8d
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”

A profile in absolute courage.
The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.” From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites. Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d
UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.'

“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
“That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva. “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones,” he said, speaking from Gaza City. “They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from [remote-controlled] quadcopters.” Mr. Elder pointed out that more children have also died of hypothermia in the last few days, as harsh winter conditions expose the most vulnerable Gazans.

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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 9d
WE GOT MORE VIDEO OF ICE FALLING ON ICE

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 10d
Heba Muraisi is in critical condition on day 72 of her hunger strike. She struggling to breathe and suffering uncontrollable muscle spasms.

Kamran Ahmed is on day 65. He is experiencing shrinkage to the muscle of his heart and has been diagnosed with bradycardia.
Heba (on the left) and a photo of Kamran and his sister (on the right)

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 10d
Every western country on earth is currently both (A) hollering about the need to free people from authoritarian governments and (B) gradually making it illegal to criticize the state of Israel.