Marco Balzarini
@marcobalzarini.bsky.social
Camuno europeo.
Mi interesso di un po' troppe cose contemporaneamente.
Mi interesso di un po' troppe cose contemporaneamente.
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Violent attacks by settlers in West Bank at highest level since UN began collecting figures nearly 20 years ago.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge
Several Palestinians were also injured when settlers launched arson attacks targeting an industrial area, a Bedouin village, and farmland east of Tulkarm.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Violent attacks by settlers in West Bank at highest level since UN began collecting figures nearly 20 years ago.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Minigun vs Shahed
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Minigun vs Shahed
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“If you’re just an average citizen, you can’t even get in the line,” said a lawyer rep'ing a man seeking a pardon for decades-old tax crimes.
“I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”
“I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”
How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“If you’re just an average citizen, you can’t even get in the line,” said a lawyer rep'ing a man seeking a pardon for decades-old tax crimes.
“I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”
“I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”
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🇩🇰Denmark signs contract with Saab for additional 84mm Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifles, ammunition and training equipment worth 450m DKK (47m EUR) as a follow up on the first M4 order in 2022.
The Danish Army had 1,117 Carl-Gustaf M2 and M3 by the end of the #Coldwar
The Danish Army had 1,117 Carl-Gustaf M2 and M3 by the end of the #Coldwar
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🇩🇰Denmark signs contract with Saab for additional 84mm Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifles, ammunition and training equipment worth 450m DKK (47m EUR) as a follow up on the first M4 order in 2022.
The Danish Army had 1,117 Carl-Gustaf M2 and M3 by the end of the #Coldwar
The Danish Army had 1,117 Carl-Gustaf M2 and M3 by the end of the #Coldwar
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The best view in WW1? An Austrian machine gun position on Lagazuoi Piccolo in the Dolomites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The best view in WW1? An Austrian machine gun position on Lagazuoi Piccolo in the Dolomites.
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My latest piece → By the end of the year, the German defence company HENSOLDT expects further orders for the production of TRML-4D air surveillance and target acquisition radars intended for #Ukraine.
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
HENSOLDT expects further TRML-4D orders for Ukraine shortly | GAU
By the end of the year, HENSOLDT expects further orders for the production of TRML-4D air surveillance and target acquisition radars intended for Ukraine.
deaidua.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My latest piece → By the end of the year, the German defence company HENSOLDT expects further orders for the production of TRML-4D air surveillance and target acquisition radars intended for #Ukraine.
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
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Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships.
oddnews.com/article/this...
oddnews.com/article/this...
“This Comet Thing Is Aliens,” Says Resident Harvard Fraud Avi Loeb
Like he does every week, without evidence.
oddnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships.
oddnews.com/article/this...
oddnews.com/article/this...
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At least 7166 Russian officers (including over 5000 Junior Officers) have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022.
Weekly update: +33 newly registered.
Sources: public Russian obituaries and graves (see link in bio).
Weekly update: +33 newly registered.
Sources: public Russian obituaries and graves (see link in bio).
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
At least 7166 Russian officers (including over 5000 Junior Officers) have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022.
Weekly update: +33 newly registered.
Sources: public Russian obituaries and graves (see link in bio).
Weekly update: +33 newly registered.
Sources: public Russian obituaries and graves (see link in bio).
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❗️The 🇸🇰Slovak prosecutor's office has concluded that the transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets to 🇺🇦Ukraine was not a crime, despite the insistence of the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
❗️The 🇸🇰Slovak prosecutor's office has concluded that the transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets to 🇺🇦Ukraine was not a crime, despite the insistence of the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
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The Danish MOD announced the interim solution for short/medium range air defence has been converted into permanent confirming acquisition of (Altinget):
2 x NASAMS (Kongsberg) i.e. not leased
2 x IRIS-T SLM (Diehl)
2 x MICA (MBDA)
In additon (long range)
2 x SAMP/T (MBDA)
2 x NASAMS (Kongsberg) i.e. not leased
2 x IRIS-T SLM (Diehl)
2 x MICA (MBDA)
In additon (long range)
2 x SAMP/T (MBDA)
🇩🇰Denmark surprises nearly everyone and selects three interim short range ground-based air defence systems at one time in order to have everything in operation by 2026:
NASAMS (Kongsberg)
IRIS-T SLM (Diehl)
MICA (MBDA)
Here we go!
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...
NASAMS (Kongsberg)
IRIS-T SLM (Diehl)
MICA (MBDA)
Here we go!
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Danish MOD announced the interim solution for short/medium range air defence has been converted into permanent confirming acquisition of (Altinget):
2 x NASAMS (Kongsberg) i.e. not leased
2 x IRIS-T SLM (Diehl)
2 x MICA (MBDA)
In additon (long range)
2 x SAMP/T (MBDA)
2 x NASAMS (Kongsberg) i.e. not leased
2 x IRIS-T SLM (Diehl)
2 x MICA (MBDA)
In additon (long range)
2 x SAMP/T (MBDA)
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Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s.
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s.
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
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OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.
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Meant to post this from one of underlying documents:
Meta earns $3.5B ever six months in "higher legal risk" revenue from scams, and that such amount is could be the cumulative "outside order of magnitude" for fines from regulators for accepting scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta earns $3.5B ever six months in "higher legal risk" revenue from scams, and that such amount is could be the cumulative "outside order of magnitude" for fines from regulators for accepting scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Meant to post this from one of underlying documents:
Meta earns $3.5B ever six months in "higher legal risk" revenue from scams, and that such amount is could be the cumulative "outside order of magnitude" for fines from regulators for accepting scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta earns $3.5B ever six months in "higher legal risk" revenue from scams, and that such amount is could be the cumulative "outside order of magnitude" for fines from regulators for accepting scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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An owl knocks down a Russian reconnaissance drone.
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
An owl knocks down a Russian reconnaissance drone.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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1/ New photos of the gaudy decorations that Trump has installed in the White House have once again raised claims of "dictator chic". But actual dictators, past and present, haven't gone in for this kind of style. Read on to see the true inspiration.
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1/ New photos of the gaudy decorations that Trump has installed in the White House have once again raised claims of "dictator chic". But actual dictators, past and present, haven't gone in for this kind of style. Read on to see the true inspiration.
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"There are only nine missed meals between mankind and anarchy"
- Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906
- Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906
Brother in San Antonio (a PT) told me that his colleagues are working with no pay treating patients. Some are a pay cycle away from being in dire straits.
I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"There are only nine missed meals between mankind and anarchy"
- Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906
- Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906
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Full video of the crash of the Russian Ka-226 with the military factory workers on board.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Full video of the crash of the Russian Ka-226 with the military factory workers on board.
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Federal agents forbidding faith leaders from praying sounds like a violation of religious freedom.
But then I remember that “religious” means “white Christian identity politics,” and “freedom” means “Christian nationalists’ unrestricted ability to impose their beliefs on others.”
But then I remember that “religious” means “white Christian identity politics,” and “freedom” means “Christian nationalists’ unrestricted ability to impose their beliefs on others.”
Donald Trump's administration is banning prayer outside a public building in the Chicago suburbs. Super curious how the right wing - including SCOTUS- squares this with their claims that religious expression is under attack from the left...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Federal agents forbidding faith leaders from praying sounds like a violation of religious freedom.
But then I remember that “religious” means “white Christian identity politics,” and “freedom” means “Christian nationalists’ unrestricted ability to impose their beliefs on others.”
But then I remember that “religious” means “white Christian identity politics,” and “freedom” means “Christian nationalists’ unrestricted ability to impose their beliefs on others.”
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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A viral online video, which claims to show "Ukrainian soldiers" threaten to kill Charlie Kirk's wife Erika Kirk, is fake.
Not only do the "soldiers" in the clip speak Ukrainian with a notably strong Russian accent, but it has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.
Not only do the "soldiers" in the clip speak Ukrainian with a notably strong Russian accent, but it has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A viral online video, which claims to show "Ukrainian soldiers" threaten to kill Charlie Kirk's wife Erika Kirk, is fake.
Not only do the "soldiers" in the clip speak Ukrainian with a notably strong Russian accent, but it has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.
Not only do the "soldiers" in the clip speak Ukrainian with a notably strong Russian accent, but it has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.
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Putin might be disappointed by not getting the Budapest meeting, but the reality is that it had nothing to do with Lavrov. The problem was on the American side: That they sent Rubio instead of Witkoff—i.e. someone who actually understood what Lavrov was saying.
Bets are open on
a) heart attack
b) fall from a window
c) nicotine poisoning
d) suicide in the shower
a) heart attack
b) fall from a window
c) nicotine poisoning
d) suicide in the shower
Kremlin denies growing rumors of Sergey Lavrov’s ouster
“Completely untrue,” insists Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, as chatter builds about the veteran foreign minister.
www.politico.eu
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Putin might be disappointed by not getting the Budapest meeting, but the reality is that it had nothing to do with Lavrov. The problem was on the American side: That they sent Rubio instead of Witkoff—i.e. someone who actually understood what Lavrov was saying.
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#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 07/11/2025
Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 07/11/2025
Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...