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November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Fifty years after Francisco Franco’s death, Spain is still reckoning with the legacy of dictatorship. Few places are more iconic of its struggle over identity than Franco’s hometown of Ferrol.
Franco’s Hometown Struggles With an Inglorious Past
Fifty years after Francisco Franco’s death, Spain is still reckoning with the legacy of dictatorship. Few places are more iconic of its struggle over identity than Franco’s hometown of Ferrol.
jacobin.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fifty years after Francisco Franco’s death, Spain is still reckoning with the legacy of dictatorship. Few places are more iconic of its struggle over identity than Franco’s hometown of Ferrol.
‘The break with democratic rule opened space for far-right ideas to gain ground, not just the hysterical anti-communism of the Argentinian generals but also the authoritarian neoliberalism of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile.’
Tony Wood on the Latin American far right.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood on the Latin American far right.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · Sell Your Children: The Latin American Right
It’s striking how thoroughly Latin America’s contemporary right has absorbed neoliberalism. Earlier cohorts...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Violent, racist, authoritarian: How Franco tyrannised Spain
The Spanish dictator’s most surprising achievement was simply his survival
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7c4776...
The Spanish dictator’s most surprising achievement was simply his survival
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7c4776...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7c4776a724a0938?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=Being-Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Violent, racist, authoritarian: How Franco tyrannised Spain
The Spanish dictator’s most surprising achievement was simply his survival
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7c4776...
The Spanish dictator’s most surprising achievement was simply his survival
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d7c4776...
Mubi faced backlash when it was announced it had secured $100m in funding from Sequoia Capital. The firm is linked to Kela, a defense tech firm founded in 2024 by 4 veterans of the Israeli military. Kela is developing a battlefield OS enabling militaries to integrate AI with commercial technology.
No Other Land to be self-released on US platforms after ‘unethical’ Mubi deal rejected
Oscar-winning documentary, about displaced Palestinians in West Bank, will not be heading to Mubi due to links with Sequoia Capital, which has ties to Israeli military
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Mubi faced backlash when it was announced it had secured $100m in funding from Sequoia Capital. The firm is linked to Kela, a defense tech firm founded in 2024 by 4 veterans of the Israeli military. Kela is developing a battlefield OS enabling militaries to integrate AI with commercial technology.
81% said the ban has improved students’ learning, 86% said it has improved socialisation among students and 87% believed students were less distracted in the classroom. The absence of phones has also significantly reduced opportunities for in-class cyberbullying or harassment
Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what has changed?
Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference?
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
81% said the ban has improved students’ learning, 86% said it has improved socialisation among students and 87% believed students were less distracted in the classroom. The absence of phones has also significantly reduced opportunities for in-class cyberbullying or harassment
Denmark introduced a cap on social benefits in 2000s, with questionable results.The cap, which led to more people joining the labor force,was "moderate and temporary. This effect was combined with side effects that the government "did not want."Decrease in school results and increase in delinquency.
Swedish government to slash welfare payments to large families
Sweden's government on Wednesday said it would cut welfare benefits for large families as part of its 2026 budget. It predicted the measure would affect around 5,000 families and increase the incentiv...
www.thelocal.se
September 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Denmark introduced a cap on social benefits in 2000s, with questionable results.The cap, which led to more people joining the labor force,was "moderate and temporary. This effect was combined with side effects that the government "did not want."Decrease in school results and increase in delinquency.
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
The president and his followers are forging an international movement devoted to their authoritarian cause.
Trump Is No Nationalist
The president and his followers are forging an international movement devoted to their authoritarian cause.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The president and his followers are forging an international movement devoted to their authoritarian cause.
How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news
Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online
Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online
How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news | D+C - Development + Cooperation
Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online. We talked to Kari Ki...
www.dandc.eu
August 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news
Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online
Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online
Sweden is moving away from criminal rehabilitation in favour of US-style mass incarceration, experts have said, as the country prepares to rent places in Estonian jails to help house its rapidly expanding prison population.
Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Centre-right government rejects long-established national policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Sweden is moving away from criminal rehabilitation in favour of US-style mass incarceration, experts have said, as the country prepares to rent places in Estonian jails to help house its rapidly expanding prison population.
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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
When he died on Monday,Pope Francis had been on the cusp of signing into canon law a huge reform of Opus Dei.OD was due to vote on a new set of statutes, which have been rammed down its throat by the Vatican, at a meeting this week.But,within hours of Francis’ death, the vote was quietly cancelled
April 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
When he died on Monday,Pope Francis had been on the cusp of signing into canon law a huge reform of Opus Dei.OD was due to vote on a new set of statutes, which have been rammed down its throat by the Vatican, at a meeting this week.But,within hours of Francis’ death, the vote was quietly cancelled
In Giorgia Meloni’s Italy, celebrating freedom is suspicious. In Ascoli Piceno, baker Lorenza Roiati was ID-checked twice by police for displaying a banner on 25 April – Italy’s Liberation Day" « 25 April: as good as bread, as beautiful as antifascism. »
April 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In Giorgia Meloni’s Italy, celebrating freedom is suspicious. In Ascoli Piceno, baker Lorenza Roiati was ID-checked twice by police for displaying a banner on 25 April – Italy’s Liberation Day" « 25 April: as good as bread, as beautiful as antifascism. »
Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EUhttps://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/rig...
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EUhttps://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/rig...
Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EUhttps://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/rig...
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EUhttps://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/rig...
Scott Siskind: “We wanted a swift, lean government that stopped strangling innovation and infrastructure. Instead we got chain-saw-style firings, total devastation of state capacity in exactly the way most likely to strangle innovation more than ever, & the worst and dumbest people in the world...”
Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right
People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Scott Siskind: “We wanted a swift, lean government that stopped strangling innovation and infrastructure. Instead we got chain-saw-style firings, total devastation of state capacity in exactly the way most likely to strangle innovation more than ever, & the worst and dumbest people in the world...”
...European fascism of the 1930s and 1940s also had a horizon: a vision for a future golden age after the bloodbath that, for its in-group, would be peaceful, pastoral and purified. Not today.
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
...European fascism of the 1930s and 1940s also had a horizon: a vision for a future golden age after the bloodbath that, for its in-group, would be peaceful, pastoral and purified. Not today.
SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."
SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."
YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
TariffTokers, Gen Z’s ‘it couple’, Easter potatoes, anti-MAGA hats, Zuck's D.C. mansion, Amazon's TikTok bid, Silicon Valley's cupid, and the fastest growing political channels on YouTube
www.usermag.co
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."
Phones, COVID, & fascism have pulled us apart. The growing queer bar scene could reconnect us.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/phones-pulled-us-apart-but-the-growing-lgbtq-bar-scene-could-bring-us-back-together/
Phones, COVID, & fascism have pulled us apart. The growing queer bar scene could reconnect us. - LGBTQ Nation
It's one of the best times in years to hit the gay bars and leave pandemic loneliness behind.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Phones, COVID, & fascism have pulled us apart. The growing queer bar scene could reconnect us.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/phones-pulled-us-apart-but-the-growing-lgbtq-bar-scene-could-bring-us-back-together/
