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Israel's longest serving Prime minister is posting images of queues outside polling stations in Arab towns, describing Palestinian citizens exercising their right to vote as an existential threat: "The future of our Jewish State is hanging in the balance".

Finally, I've finished my second move in 2 months (tnx to russians). And this is what my first evening walk in ages sounded like (again, tnx to russians). Btw, my friend (whose voice you can hear) was returned in the recent POW exchange. #Ukrainianview

Ukrainian vibe. Sitting in the shelter because russia is a terrorist state. There were 6 ballistic missiles. #Ukrainianview

Putin: “Russia is exploring the possibility of cooperation with the US in the Arctic.” Just a reminder of Trump’s lies that he wanted Greenland to keep Russia out of the Arctic.

Ahmed Zewail, one of the world’s great spectrocopists, would like a word. scoopempire.com/egypts-six-n...

Dear Jeremy "Special K" Hunt, You say Burnham should not reopen the Brexit debate. Can you have a word with Kemi Bad Enough who wants to leave the ECHR, which may cause the collapse of the post-Brexit deal with the EU and the Good Friday Agreement, threatening peace in Northern Ireland?

If there’s a graph like this with the rest of it behind a paywall then the economist knows what it’s doing

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

Chers journalistes France Info, Chaque fois que vous mentionnez les échanges antisémites de Jordan Bardella avec un politicien du Rassemblement National, vous le laissez défendre Bardella en disant que le compte est un faux et que son auteur a simplement renommé son compte.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Rassemblement National says trade unions that get public funds are misusing them when they delve into politics. The party says such unions are thus misappropriating public funds. Exactly what Le Pen was sentenced for with the money she got from the EU. (She is appealing to the highest court)

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When the suspect in the racist attack at Trappes was sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation, some accused the French authorities of two-tier justice, claiming he was sent to a hospital rather than facing justice because he is white. He has been taken back into police custody.

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Why did you delete your post saying that arresting immigrants was “cleaning up our high streets”? Will you be releasing an apology or explanation, or are we just pretending it never happened?

There are 5 Arabs or people of recent Arabic ancestry who have won Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences. There is only one person of Greek background, by the way, a British born chap with a Cypriot father and Singaporean mother.

If someone wants a dogpile I can summon one up. I was merely trying to correct weird misinformation about a chemical weapon

10 procent vermogensstijging is zo'n 27 miljard euro. Het kabinet kiest vooralsnog voor een verzorgingsstaat voor de Quote 500, en de mensen die het minder of moeilijk hebben zwaarder te belasten. Enorme inkomensongelijkheid is een politieke keuze. /2 nos.nl/artikel/2636...

"To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." There's a good chance he will abscond to the US to avoid prosecution.

An additional 10 over a 3-year time span, after the population trebled. That doesn't really fir the narrative, does it? As the subheading says, this is hardly an epidemic...

The second point to note is that we are talking about pretty small numbers. Between 2010 and 2014, there were 106,000 cautions and convictions for sex offences. (ranging from rape to consensual sex in public) 80% of these were committed by British people. 11/

I've seen plenty of these charts, where they simply divide the raw number by the "population" (more on that shortly) to give a rate. And then they take the number of British nationals and divide that by the ENTIRE British population - babies, women, children, octogenarians and all... 4/

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Perfect.

Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @progintl.bsky.social delegation.

So angry about this i might go there tomorrow and hold a protest. Possibly one in Waterstones. Where i talk about my new book. YEAH

"The Most Racist Election in Israel’s History" If Netanyahu stays, Israel will become a pariah state – so the Israeli establishment is doing everything it can to ensure that he loses. But a Gadi Eisenkot victory won’t help Palestinians either, writes Peter Oborne for Zeteo UK:

The challenge for the UK and France will be using their veto to block this, because it will heighten the debate about whether either of them should still be UNSC members. By tradition, they almost never use their veto these days, and def not against the US, but Orban as UNSG is intolerable.

To everyone getting their knickers in a twist… All because @andyburnham.bsky.social suggested a sensible conversation about freedom of movement …do you perhaps need reminding of this?

Nigel Farage, Daniel Hannan, Aaron Banks: the remaining Brexiters look so stale and dated and old. Listening to them is like eating mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

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There are loads of videos of French police watching as fascists attack protesters, which include kids, and then the police dragging the protesters away x.com/vl_syndicali...

⚡️ "Our strikes did not affect global prices, of course. Russia's diesel exports are almost nothing in global terms — around 2%." Zelenskyy on claims that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries impacted global fuel markets.

It will be quite fun to have to reprogram millions of IT systems to display data in non-decimal units that require multiple units for the same measurement (ft and inches, stones and pounds, for instance) It will be very profitable for IT companies but ruinous for others. It will dwarf Y2K.

⚡️ Norwegian MP Peter Frølich bypassed outdated export restrictions to deliver thermal drones to Ukraine through his foundation, Fritt Ukraina. Following the delivery, Norway modernized its laws to legalize civilian drone exports. 🧵 1/3 ⬇️

⚡️"At that moment, we received nothing. Sanctions were lifted. Nobody gave us additional Patriot missiles. Instead of expanding Starlink access, they reduced the speed of what we already had. That is why there was a response."

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.