Luca Martinelli [Sannita]
@sannita.bsky.social
Born in 1985, Italian wikipedian/wikidatan/wikimedian since 2006. Sometimes I can be harsh. (he/him/his)
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It's just easy, sometimes, to choose which side to stand with. Цілий, незалежний, вільний.
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Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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The American right has grown so corrosively hostile to virtue that the kind of moral messaging for kids that we used to consider so unobjectionable as to be borderline banal is now read as a kind of personal attack.
July 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The American right has grown so corrosively hostile to virtue that the kind of moral messaging for kids that we used to consider so unobjectionable as to be borderline banal is now read as a kind of personal attack.
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The slightly depressing thing is that even in like the 40s, 50s, 60s, when American society was objectively way more racist, all the themes that provoke grumbling about “wokeness” now were there; you just didn’t have many people willing to openly argue that basic decency is a bad, partisan message.
July 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The slightly depressing thing is that even in like the 40s, 50s, 60s, when American society was objectively way more racist, all the themes that provoke grumbling about “wokeness” now were there; you just didn’t have many people willing to openly argue that basic decency is a bad, partisan message.
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12+ civilians killed and 65 injured by #Russia attacks across #Ukraine over past 24 hours
#Kharkiv: 6 civilian murdered & 44 injured in the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine (see Original Entry).
#Donetsk: 4 killed & 9 wounded
#Kherson: 1 slain & 9 injured
#Dnipropetrovsk: 1 man killed
#Kharkiv: 6 civilian murdered & 44 injured in the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine (see Original Entry).
#Donetsk: 4 killed & 9 wounded
#Kherson: 1 slain & 9 injured
#Dnipropetrovsk: 1 man killed
#UkraineWar, Day 1,200: #Zelensky --- #Kremlin "Wants The Complete Destruction Of Life"
#Ukraine #Russia #Kharkiv
eaworldview.com/2025/06/ukra...
#Ukraine #Russia #Kharkiv
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Ukraine War, Day 1,200: Zelensky - Kremlin "Wants The Complete Destruction Of Life" - EA WorldView
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky calls out Kremlin's murder of civilians, as Russia continues its missile, drone, and guided bomb attacks.
eaworldview.com
June 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Interesting thread, to be read and shared
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
March 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Interesting thread, to be read and shared
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Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
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JD Vance materially damaged American security today, picking an unnecessary and public fight for the purpose of picking the fight and driving a wedge between us and our allies.
A shockingly unpatriotic, anti-American display.
A shockingly unpatriotic, anti-American display.
February 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
JD Vance materially damaged American security today, picking an unnecessary and public fight for the purpose of picking the fight and driving a wedge between us and our allies.
A shockingly unpatriotic, anti-American display.
A shockingly unpatriotic, anti-American display.
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And by continually trying to solve the “concerns” that are produced by the right-wing information ecosystem they ultimately promote the right’s worldview and strengthen it. All because they refuse to play the real game, or even recognize that it is being played.
January 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
And by continually trying to solve the “concerns” that are produced by the right-wing information ecosystem they ultimately promote the right’s worldview and strengthen it. All because they refuse to play the real game, or even recognize that it is being played.
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And what’s inevitably happened is that Dems just end up living in the right’s reality - a country where crime is out of control (it’s low), the economy is bad when Democrats are in charge (it’s very strong), and immigrants make the country unlivable (they aren’t).
January 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And what’s inevitably happened is that Dems just end up living in the right’s reality - a country where crime is out of control (it’s low), the economy is bad when Democrats are in charge (it’s very strong), and immigrants make the country unlivable (they aren’t).
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Look, not to mince words, but Dems are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED for this style of politics. They’ve spent decades openly contemptuous of the idea that media matters, that propaganda matters, that the internet matters. In their head it’s still “Americans have concerns, we fix them, we get votes.”
January 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Look, not to mince words, but Dems are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED for this style of politics. They’ve spent decades openly contemptuous of the idea that media matters, that propaganda matters, that the internet matters. In their head it’s still “Americans have concerns, we fix them, we get votes.”
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In this new world it’s really critical to control or influence as many large platforms and informational sources as possible. If you don’t and the other side does, they’ll show millions of people things that convince them their own conception of reality is correct.
January 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In this new world it’s really critical to control or influence as many large platforms and informational sources as possible. If you don’t and the other side does, they’ll show millions of people things that convince them their own conception of reality is correct.
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The political paradigm we live in now is one where different political forces are competing to promote their entire view of the world, right down to “what are the biggest issues in the country? what is wrong with America?”
Basic questions like which problems even exist are contested.
Basic questions like which problems even exist are contested.
January 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The political paradigm we live in now is one where different political forces are competing to promote their entire view of the world, right down to “what are the biggest issues in the country? what is wrong with America?”
Basic questions like which problems even exist are contested.
Basic questions like which problems even exist are contested.
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Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better.
But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
January 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better.
But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
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Have you been in contact with the Russian authorities?
-No.
When are you going to be in touch?
-We are not.
-No.
When are you going to be in touch?
-We are not.
December 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Have you been in contact with the Russian authorities?
-No.
When are you going to be in touch?
-We are not.
-No.
When are you going to be in touch?
-We are not.
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If you're looking to raise alarm over Trump's promises to go after Liz Cheney, it might be more USEFUL to point out that he plans on attacking Speech and Debate protections than disseminating his posts designed to be maximally spectacular.
Bc that's what it would entail.
Bc that's what it would entail.
December 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
If you're looking to raise alarm over Trump's promises to go after Liz Cheney, it might be more USEFUL to point out that he plans on attacking Speech and Debate protections than disseminating his posts designed to be maximally spectacular.
Bc that's what it would entail.
Bc that's what it would entail.
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Interesting that Carlson asks "why am I required" to hate Assad. But nobody is "requiring" him. it's just that normal people, with what used to be normal American/Christian moral values, find torture and mass murder repugnant. He does not. And he also does not want to feel bad about that.
“I don’t have strong feelings about Assad one way or the other,” Tucker Carlson said. “Apparently he’s protected the Christians, so I’m grateful for that as a Christian. But, I don’t—why am I required to hate Assad?”
Russia Stooge Tucker Carlson Is Now Shilling for Syrian Ex-President
Tucker Carlson defended Bashar Al Assad during an interview.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Interesting that Carlson asks "why am I required" to hate Assad. But nobody is "requiring" him. it's just that normal people, with what used to be normal American/Christian moral values, find torture and mass murder repugnant. He does not. And he also does not want to feel bad about that.
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Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.
December 3, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.
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"While pundits have busied themselves over the past 10 days nitpicking Kamala Harris’s campaign, one thing is abundantly clear: She was held to the highest standards of leadership while Trump was held to no standard at all."
Kamala Harris’s hidden barrier
Her rise and fall illustrates the Glass Cliff.
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November 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM
"While pundits have busied themselves over the past 10 days nitpicking Kamala Harris’s campaign, one thing is abundantly clear: She was held to the highest standards of leadership while Trump was held to no standard at all."
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Here's a link. Its results align with my thinking on what "majorities support mass deportation" mean (that majorities don't actually support the kind of police state tactics required for mass deportations, they just think the "bad hombres" should be removed). publicconsultation.org/ss-immigrati...
SS-Im-Im | Program for Public Consultation
publicconsultation.org
November 17, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Here's a link. Its results align with my thinking on what "majorities support mass deportation" mean (that majorities don't actually support the kind of police state tactics required for mass deportations, they just think the "bad hombres" should be removed). publicconsultation.org/ss-immigrati...
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Also, if anyone mentions that mass deportations are popular, remind them that people think it means “kick out the bad people only.” When you tell voters what mass deportations entails — breaking up families, internment, rounding up people here for years — it suddenly becomes a very unpopular idea.
November 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Also, if anyone mentions that mass deportations are popular, remind them that people think it means “kick out the bad people only.” When you tell voters what mass deportations entails — breaking up families, internment, rounding up people here for years — it suddenly becomes a very unpopular idea.
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There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries?
www.threads.net/@profsander....
www.threads.net/@profsander....
Sander van der Linden (@profsander.vanderlinden) on Threads
New computational analyses from the University of Queensland on algorithmic bias suggest that the X algorithm substantially boosted Republican accounts right after Elon Musk's endorsement of Donald Tr...
www.threads.net
November 17, 2024 at 6:13 AM
There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries?
www.threads.net/@profsander....
www.threads.net/@profsander....
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Prediction: As BlueSky grows, there will be a slew of pieces by Atlantic/Free Press type writers about how they tried to join, but were rejected from the echo chamber.
So, don't engage with them. Don't give them material. Mute/block and move on.
So, don't engage with them. Don't give them material. Mute/block and move on.
November 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Prediction: As BlueSky grows, there will be a slew of pieces by Atlantic/Free Press type writers about how they tried to join, but were rejected from the echo chamber.
So, don't engage with them. Don't give them material. Mute/block and move on.
So, don't engage with them. Don't give them material. Mute/block and move on.
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Some months ago I wrote an article about a NASA mission with 40 mice to send on the ISS for studying a gene therapy for nAMD. I asked my dear friend @caosinfernale.bsky.social to draw a mouse in space and please take a momento to look at how cute this is 💙
#art #artists #digitalart
#art #artists #digitalart
November 13, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Some months ago I wrote an article about a NASA mission with 40 mice to send on the ISS for studying a gene therapy for nAMD. I asked my dear friend @caosinfernale.bsky.social to draw a mouse in space and please take a momento to look at how cute this is 💙
#art #artists #digitalart
#art #artists #digitalart