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Heleen Touquet
@heleentouquet.bsky.social
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Researcher. Gender & violence, feminism, conflict, masculinities, former Yugoslavia. Runner. Biker. Queer stuff.
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benstanley.eu
Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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mihajlovicfreiburg.com
Update #Serbien: Es finden weiterhin täglich diverse Aktionen und Proteste statt. Dijana Hrka, Mutter eines der Opfer, befindet sich im 15. Tag ihres Hungerstreiks vor dem Parlament. Es sind stets (mal mehr und mal weniger Menschen bei ihr). Die Lage ist politisch weiter angespannt, aber ruhig.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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juergenzimmerer.bsky.social
Kinder kosteten in Sarejevo extra:
Wochenend-Scharfschützen auf der Jagd nach Menschen

Diese Geschichte ist so unfassbar böse, dass man sie zweimal lesen muss, um sie zu glauben.
Reiche zahlten um Menschen in Bosnien zu erschiessen.

www.n-tv.de/panorama/Woc...
Wochenend-Scharfschützen auf der Jagd nach Menschen
Der Mailänder Staatsanwalt Guido Salvini hat seit Februar dieses Jahres eine wahrlich unfassbare Ermittlungsarbeit aufgenommen: Es geht um den Vorwurf, dass reiche und einflussreiche Männer sehr viel ...
www.n-tv.de
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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oversightdemocrats.house.gov
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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jowens510.bsky.social
Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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meidastouch.com
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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edwyplenel.bsky.social
Maccarthysme : cédant à la pression du ministre de la recherche, lui-même cédant à la pression des soutiens de Nétanyahou, le Collège de France, jusqu’ici lieu de liberté académique, annule un colloque sur la Palestine conçu par l’historien Henry Laurens.
www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...
Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement
Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...
www.lemonde.fr
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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justinlawguy.bsky.social
All we need to do to solve the housing crisis is to deport ::checks notes:: one out of every three people living in this country.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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isabelott.bsky.social
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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generalboles.bsky.social
BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted). Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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laismartins.com
Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules.
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
This surge in applications from the US comes at a time where the grant and job market in Europe is already *very* competitive.

Unless Europe invests more in science and higher education this influx of talent will put a squeeze on an already fragile system.

www.ft.com/content/cd80...
Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe
EU grant applications hit record in 2025 amid surge in interest from American academics
www.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
heleentouquet.bsky.social
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justsecurity.org Just Security @justsecurity.org · Oct 30
The Trump administration’s decision to lift #sanctions on a Putin-backed Bosnian Serb separatist leader follows a range of lobbying and advocacy and comes in advance of a Russia-led #UNSecurityCouncil meeting on Bosnia.

@kurtbassuener.bsky.social puts the pieces together:
U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Putin-Backed Bosnian Serb Leader
The Trump administration's sanctions removal for Bosnian Serb separatist Milorad Dodik precedes a Russia-Led U.N. Security Council meeting.
www.justsecurity.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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bostonjoan.bsky.social
We have a whole academic article on strategic silence that you might find fascinating:

drive.google.com/file/d/1SXOS...
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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monsterdust.bsky.social
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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colborne.bsky.social
BIRN journalists obtained access to private Telegram groups where recruiters lure Serb mercenaries from Bosnia and Serbia to join Russian forces in Ukraine with promises of lucrative contracts and veterans’ benefits

detektor.ba/2025/10/30/m...
Moscow’s Balkan Recruits: Russia’s Drive to Enlist Serb Fighters for Ukraine War
BIRN journalists obtained access to private Telegram groups where recruiters lure Serb mercenaries from Bosnia and Serbia to join Russian forces in Ukraine with promises of lucrative contracts and vet...
detektor.ba
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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bieke.bsky.social
Longread (gratis gedeeld)
Wordt dit soort katholieke radicalisering wel gedoogd?

apache.be/2025/10/29/e...
Extreemrechtse VUB-professor bouwt conservatief-katholieke universiteit
De VUB haalt met historicus en filosoof Cornelis Schilt een Trojaans paard binnen.
apache.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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amnestyeu.bsky.social
🚨The Latvian parliament will vote today on a proposal to leave the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty protecting women & girls from violence. Such a move would put safety & lives risk.
@amnesty.org calls on Latvia to uphold the convention & work towards its full implementation.
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
heleentouquet.bsky.social
What a load of utter bollocks.
niedermeyer.online e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · Oct 28
Grokipedia: examples of "civilizational renewal via tradition and realism" include The Renaissance, the Meiji Restoration, Hungary under Viktor Orban, and Russia under Vladimir Putin

oh FOR SURE man
Pathways to Renewal via Tradition and Realism Proponents of civilizational renewal posit that societies facing internal decadence or external pressures can revitalize by recommitting to core traditions—such as religious, familial, and communal norms—that historically fostered cohesion and resilience, coupled with realist strategies prioritizing empirical security, demographic sustainability, and national sovereignty over universalist ideologies.[240] This approach contrasts with progressive narratives that view traditions as obsolete, instead drawing on evidence that cultural anchors enable adaptive responses to crises, as seen in historical recoveries where abandonment of roots correlated with fragmentation.[241] Realist elements emphasize power balances and causal incentives, rejecting illusions like borderless integration amid competition from rising powers.[242] A paradigmatic historical case is Japan's Meiji Restoration of 1868, which dismantled the feudal shogunate and reinstated imperial authority under Emperor Meiji, thereby preserving Shinto rituals, samurai ethics, and hierarchical social structures while selectively adopting Western military, industrial, and legal reforms.[243] This fusion propelled Japan from isolation to defeating Russia in 1905, establishing it as Asia's first modern imperial power with GDP growth accelerating from near-stagnation to industrialization by 1910, demonstrating how tradition provided legitimacy and motivation for pragmatic modernization without cultural erasure.[244] Similarly, Europe's Renaissance from the 14th to 17th centuries revived Greco-Roman texts, philosophies, and artistic techniques, sparking scientific advancements like Galileo's 1610 telescopic observations and economic expansions that lifted per capita incomes in Italian city-states by up to 50% over two centuries, countering post-plague malaise through renewed classical humanism. In contemporary contexts, Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán since 2010 …
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM