Matthias Bruggmann
@mattbr78.bsky.social
"Adrenaline-driven nutcase" Swiss homophone of a serious German who writes for Handelsblatt.
RageSkeets in French and English.
I do photography, not bsky.
http://www.boring.ch/matt
Syria book: https://tinyurl.com/UnspeakableViolence
Signal: mattbr.78
RageSkeets in French and English.
I do photography, not bsky.
http://www.boring.ch/matt
Syria book: https://tinyurl.com/UnspeakableViolence
Signal: mattbr.78
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Matthias Bruggmann
The new US National Security Strategy, fully Vancian, shows its hostility towards Europe & its cozy relationship with Russia.
Chilling, but at least clear: the US is no longer our ally, just the opposite.
Perfect points from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...
Chilling, but at least clear: the US is no longer our ally, just the opposite.
Perfect points from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...
The New US National Security Strategy
Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA
phillipspobrien.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The new US National Security Strategy, fully Vancian, shows its hostility towards Europe & its cozy relationship with Russia.
Chilling, but at least clear: the US is no longer our ally, just the opposite.
Perfect points from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...
Chilling, but at least clear: the US is no longer our ally, just the opposite.
Perfect points from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...
In more normal times, one would quip that @rikefranke.bsky.social typo'd and mistook whitehouse.gov with whitehouse.ru, but, alas...
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In more normal times, one would quip that @rikefranke.bsky.social typo'd and mistook whitehouse.gov with whitehouse.ru, but, alas...
Reposted by Matthias Bruggmann
Germany, France, and Britain should have summarized their response to Washington in three points:
Nein.
Non.
No.
Nein.
Non.
No.
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Germany, France, and Britain should have summarized their response to Washington in three points:
Nein.
Non.
No.
Nein.
Non.
No.
@jconstant-fd.bsky.social , @europe1.bsky.social , @lefigaro.fr vous pensez pas que ça, c'est un peu plus une histoire d'intérêt public que des dealers qui détournent un OS sécurisé ?
They've made it pretty clear that they're going to come up with a rationale to take over our servers and arrest us. That's why we're moving the subset of our servers on a France-based provider away from it. We recommend others do the same if they have anything to do with open source or privacy.
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
@jconstant-fd.bsky.social , @europe1.bsky.social , @lefigaro.fr vous pensez pas que ça, c'est un peu plus une histoire d'intérêt public que des dealers qui détournent un OS sécurisé ?
Reposted by Matthias Bruggmann
Deux articles du Parisien hier, suivis aujourd'hui d'un article du Figaro, ont lancé une offensive honteuse contre GrapheneOS, un système d'exploitation open-source pour téléphones, gratuit et accessible à tous et toutes.
archive.is/202511190825...
archive.is/202511190825...
archive.is
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Deux articles du Parisien hier, suivis aujourd'hui d'un article du Figaro, ont lancé une offensive honteuse contre GrapheneOS, un système d'exploitation open-source pour téléphones, gratuit et accessible à tous et toutes.
archive.is/202511190825...
archive.is/202511190825...
Je connais pas mal de journalistes et décideurs qui feraient bien de lire ce qui est dit dans le papier du Parisien et d'en tirer les enseignements pour leur propre hygiène numérique...
@leparisien.fr , @grapheneos.org est un outil extraordinaire qui mérite d'être soutenu, et pas villifié.
@leparisien.fr , @grapheneos.org est un outil extraordinaire qui mérite d'être soutenu, et pas villifié.
We were contacted by a journalist at Le Parisien newspaper with this prompt:
> I am preparing an article on the use of your secure personal data phone solution by drug traffickers and other criminals. Have you ever been contacted by the police?
> I am preparing an article on the use of your secure personal data phone solution by drug traffickers and other criminals. Have you ever been contacted by the police?
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Je connais pas mal de journalistes et décideurs qui feraient bien de lire ce qui est dit dans le papier du Parisien et d'en tirer les enseignements pour leur propre hygiène numérique...
@leparisien.fr , @grapheneos.org est un outil extraordinaire qui mérite d'être soutenu, et pas villifié.
@leparisien.fr , @grapheneos.org est un outil extraordinaire qui mérite d'être soutenu, et pas villifié.
Louis Menand, for @newyorker.com , on the sorely missed Catherine Leroy... it's such a pleasure to see her work in the wild, and to see her slowly re-emerge in the public consciousness.
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War
Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.
www.newyorker.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Louis Menand, for @newyorker.com , on the sorely missed Catherine Leroy... it's such a pleasure to see her work in the wild, and to see her slowly re-emerge in the public consciousness.
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
Tony Clifton, who then worked for @newsweek.com, Beirut, 1983.
September 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Tony Clifton, who then worked for @newsweek.com, Beirut, 1983.
Reposted by Matthias Bruggmann
We have even been seen as a little bit paranoid talking about Russia’s threats [in the past]. But right now, everything we in the Baltics or Poland or the Nordics have been talking about has come to life."
Source: thetimes.com/world/europe/a…
Source: thetimes.com/world/europe/a…
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
We have even been seen as a little bit paranoid talking about Russia’s threats [in the past]. But right now, everything we in the Baltics or Poland or the Nordics have been talking about has come to life."
Source: thetimes.com/world/europe/a…
Source: thetimes.com/world/europe/a…
Reposted by Matthias Bruggmann
Estonian PM Kristen Michal: Russia is an acute threat to every sane country and Europe is only at the beginning of rebuilding its defences.
Key points from the interview with The Times:
▪️ "Russia is an acute threat to Europe, to Nato, to every sane country in the world.
Key points from the interview with The Times:
▪️ "Russia is an acute threat to Europe, to Nato, to every sane country in the world.
September 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Estonian PM Kristen Michal: Russia is an acute threat to every sane country and Europe is only at the beginning of rebuilding its defences.
Key points from the interview with The Times:
▪️ "Russia is an acute threat to Europe, to Nato, to every sane country in the world.
Key points from the interview with The Times:
▪️ "Russia is an acute threat to Europe, to Nato, to every sane country in the world.
While we're at it, Marianna Patrona's From Victim to Avenger: Trump’s Performance of Strategic Victimhood, is also worth a read www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/6/... .
September 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
While we're at it, Marianna Patrona's From Victim to Avenger: Trump’s Performance of Strategic Victimhood, is also worth a read www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/6/... .
Though I personally remain to be convinced that the message is this shallow, both this video and the article linked below (cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/lost-in-th... ) are worth your time.
On the same topic, oilab.eu/frozen-antag... is as well.
On the same topic, oilab.eu/frozen-antag... is as well.
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Though I personally remain to be convinced that the message is this shallow, both this video and the article linked below (cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/lost-in-th... ) are worth your time.
On the same topic, oilab.eu/frozen-antag... is as well.
On the same topic, oilab.eu/frozen-antag... is as well.
There's one more subset of the pro-Palestine, pro-Russia group that deserves mention: the left-of-the-left fringe who simultaneously believe that Russia has a legitimate claim to Crimea, NATO manipulated Ukraine into defending itself, and are pro-Palestine (and were often pro-Assad despite Yarmouk).
Brilliant piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social, both in spotting the phenomenon and parsing it so insightfully.
How Ukraine and Gaza scrambled the ideological map
The two wars have divided the west — and not along the old left-right lines
www.ft.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There's one more subset of the pro-Palestine, pro-Russia group that deserves mention: the left-of-the-left fringe who simultaneously believe that Russia has a legitimate claim to Crimea, NATO manipulated Ukraine into defending itself, and are pro-Palestine (and were often pro-Assad despite Yarmouk).
Western societies are like Steve Jobs, only they'll kill you with them: they've got a perfectly treatable cancer, and chose to treat it with fruit juice because screw the professionals they know better. 1/2
September 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Western societies are like Steve Jobs, only they'll kill you with them: they've got a perfectly treatable cancer, and chose to treat it with fruit juice because screw the professionals they know better. 1/2
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We’re already at 25% of his goal! 🥳 If we can get just ten $100 donations, we’ll be nearly halfway there.
Help a refugee student, feel good all day!
Help a refugee student, feel good all day!
This refugee student is in the final months of his dissertation after a long journey out of war. Helping him helps assure the future of Syria.
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There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
Help a Refugee Student Finish his PhD, Save Endangered Heritage!
By Stephennie Mulder
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August 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We’re already at 25% of his goal! 🥳 If we can get just ten $100 donations, we’ll be nearly halfway there.
Help a refugee student, feel good all day!
Help a refugee student, feel good all day!
I respectfully beg to differ: I can't think of a historical precedent of a diplomatic humiliation of the United States as thorough as what has just been inflicted by Trump's fault.
This, in itself, is a momentous win for Putin.
This, in itself, is a momentous win for Putin.
I don't think a man who has lost repeatedly a war he promised would take hours has won much of anything. Putin got nothing from this. If photo ops with Trump help him, he's not in a good place. And it's already unravelling as a joke. He got five minutes of fame, and now he's just foil to a stooge.
The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.
August 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I respectfully beg to differ: I can't think of a historical precedent of a diplomatic humiliation of the United States as thorough as what has just been inflicted by Trump's fault.
This, in itself, is a momentous win for Putin.
This, in itself, is a momentous win for Putin.
Today in know your shitcoins: WASHTA, international currency of NGO bullshit.
July 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Today in know your shitcoins: WASHTA, international currency of NGO bullshit.
The most frustrating aspect being that no one seems to be clearly stating that anyone who purports to speaks from authority on when or where this all ends is absolutely, resolutely, and completely full of shit.
One of the more frustrating aspects of debate in Europe and America over developments in Iran is the extent to which it is shaped by analysts and commentators whose links are predominantly with a handful of larger Iranian cities rather than regional towns and rural communities
June 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The most frustrating aspect being that no one seems to be clearly stating that anyone who purports to speaks from authority on when or where this all ends is absolutely, resolutely, and completely full of shit.
La grosse différence, c'est que Netanyahu bénéficie d'une impunité dont Assad n'aurait même pas pu rêver.
Imaginez : Fabrice Balanche, Georges Malbrunot, Hubert Védrine mis sur le même visuel que Farouk Mardam Bey ou encore Samar Yazbek.
Car non à ce stade, je ne fais plus aucune différence entre le régime Assad et le gouvernement Netanyahu. J’estime que le deuxième s’inspire largement du premier.
Car non à ce stade, je ne fais plus aucune différence entre le régime Assad et le gouvernement Netanyahu. J’estime que le deuxième s’inspire largement du premier.
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
La grosse différence, c'est que Netanyahu bénéficie d'une impunité dont Assad n'aurait même pas pu rêver.
Et aussi, et surtout, ça.
On a un mélange des genres tellement malaisant ds les personnalités choisies. La dernière photo en bas à droite, c’est Karim Kattan, écrivain palestinien incroyable avec qui j’ai eu la chance de discuter longuement au festival de Couthures l’an passé. Le mettre à côté de BHL et Sfaer, comment dire?
«L’étau s’est desserré» : comment intellectuels et artistes ont haussé le ton dans la dénonciation de la guerre à Gaza
Une clarification, parfois un revirement, aux ressorts complexes, mêlant déchirements intimes, images d’atrocités virales et climat géopolitique. Enquête ⤵️
Une clarification, parfois un revirement, aux ressorts complexes, mêlant déchirements intimes, images d’atrocités virales et climat géopolitique. Enquête ⤵️
June 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Et aussi, et surtout, ça.
"Que serait la cause Palestinienne sans les tribunes d'Almodovar et Sarandon dans @liberation.fr ? Nous, qui travaillons chez
@liberation.fr, on se le demande."
(h/t @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social)
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
@liberation.fr, on se le demande."
(h/t @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social)
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
«L’étau s’est desserré» : comment intellectuels et artistes ont haussé le ton dans la dénonciation de la guerre à Gaza
Tribunes d’écrivains, lettre de cinéastes à Cannes, posts sur les réseaux sociaux… Une pluralité d’acteurs du monde des idées et de la culture n’hésite plus à prendre position contre la politique du g...
www.liberation.fr
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Que serait la cause Palestinienne sans les tribunes d'Almodovar et Sarandon dans @liberation.fr ? Nous, qui travaillons chez
@liberation.fr, on se le demande."
(h/t @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social)
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
@liberation.fr, on se le demande."
(h/t @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social)
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
The same conclusion applies to Gaza.
As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The same conclusion applies to Gaza.