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Una Hajdari @unawrites.bsky.social · 23d

Back in Tirana, where the only constant in the skyline is Mount Dajt in the background

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Una Hajdari @unawrites.bsky.social · 24d

Today’s testimony is giving massive ICTY nostalgia lol

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Una Hajdari @unawrites.bsky.social · 24d

Watching James Rubin testify in The Hague today in the trial of Hashim Thaci reminds me of how extraordinarily capable US diplomats and State Department employees used to be — no matter what you think of his/Clinton’s relationship with the KLA.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26d

On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco.

What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk?

I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype:

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel & The Antichrist: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype

Why are some of the richest people in the United States suddenly talking about demons, apocalypse, and even the “Antichrist”? On Monday, Peter Thiel—Palantir co-founder, Trump ally, and one of the mo...

www.thenerdreich.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26d

reading Nick Fuentes' Wikipedia page, due to The News, and I mean I just don't think these are words that should be put together in that order, in the context of a person who is relevant to current affairs

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · Aug 23

Some prescient observations from twenty years ago

(Paul Ginsborg’s ‘Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony’, 2005)

“Between 1996 and 2001, Silvio Berlusconi came in from the cold, but he would never have been able to do so if the centre-left coalition which governed Italy in these years had not helped him along the way. If we return to the question of democratic antibodies mentioned in the Prologue of this book, to the degree of awareness and vigilance necessary in the changing conditions of modern democratic politics, we can see that the Italian centre-left suffered from major deficiencies.
Its leaders had few of the qualities needed to confront so fast-moving, opulent and dangerous a player as Berlusconi. They offered no proper analysis of his rise to power. They were not clear, until it was too late, about the danger he represented. Though well-intentioned, they were overall less than resolute about the democratic ordering of the
Italian state.”

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · Aug 22

Geuzenbond leader Thomas D., arrested last week on terror and weapons charges, has been evicted from his Erp residence - the group's clubhouse. The second person who lived there has been named as *another* one of the three individuals we identified in our Feb 2024 @bellingcat.com article

Omroep Brabant @omroepbrabant.nl · Aug 22

Extreemrechtse Geuzenbonder Thomas D. en huisgenoot uit 'clubhuis' gezet

De 24-jarige Thomas D. die vorige week is opgepakt op verdenking van een terroristisch misdrijf, is uit zijn anti-kraakpand in Erp gezet. Ook zijn huisgenoot moet op zoek naar nieuwe woonruimte, zo laat de provincie Noord-Brabant weten. Waarschijnlijk gaat het om de 27-jarige Diederik H., wiens bedrijf op het adres staat ingeschreven, zo ontdekte Omroep Brabant. Ook hij is verbonden aan de extreemrechtse Geuzenbond. Opmerkelijk: H. zou in de periode dat hij de woning kreeg, stage gelopen hebben bij de provincie, tevens de eigenaar van het pand.

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · Aug 19

Geuzenbond has (finally) confirmed in a statement that their leader Thomas D. was the individual arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offence and weapons charges last week (I’m not resharing here). The organization identifies him themselves as “Thomas”, for what it’s worth.

Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · Aug 15

In the Netherlands, a 24-year-old man from Erp was arrested yesterday in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offense. The suspect is believed to be a member of Geuzenbond, a far-right group we wrote about last year @bellingcat.com

www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...

Lid extreemrechtse Geuzenbond (24) aangehouden om voorbereiden terreurdaad

In Badhoevedorp is gisteren een 24-jarige man uit Erp aanhouden die wordt verdacht van het voorbereiden van een terroristisch misdrijf. De verdachte zou lid zijn van de Geuzenbond, een organisatie die...

www.rtl.nl

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Philip Taylor @philipjtaylor.bsky.social · Aug 16

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 16

Serbian protests turned violent this week, with even President Aleksandar Vučić acknowledging that a long-running standoff with his opponents has entered “the phase of beatings,” in a TV interview last night.

‘He is finished’: Serbian protesters’ fury with Vučić hits boiling point

POLITICO spoke to an opposition lawmaker who said he was beaten by masked men as demonstrations were met with a violent response.

www.politico.eu

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