Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🇬🇱 on the US/DK agreement on Greenland, negotiated by State rather than by Trump's oligarchs, and whose outcome is still asymmetrically in favour of the US. Given previous credible threats of armed attack, I wonder if it may be challenged / invalidated as obtained "under duress". 010
Reposted by Davide DentiCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I really liked the Nacional Museo de la Muerte in Aguascalientes. So cool how Mexican culture has embraced death. 1404
Reposted by Davide DentiGennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026È stato sottile Mark Zuckerberg, nel suo sicariato pro-Bolsonaro per conto di Trump. A dieci giorni dalle presidenziali in Brasile non ha sospeso gli account Instagram e Facebook di Lula ma ha bloccato i suoi investimenti pubblicitari al massimo dell’intensità. Bora Lula. 1144
Reposted by Davide DentiDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Since I'm not going to Liverpool this year to discuss, a short state of play on UK EU relations and the Labour Party. The very short version - they're terrified. And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work. 1113352
Reposted by Davide DentiJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092953067
Reposted by Davide DentiGrodaeu @groda.eu · 26/09/2026There is a weird media storm because poor people and immigrants who normally have low participation rates in elections voted in unusually large numbers probably because of 4 years of relentless persecution of poor people and immigrants. Rich people hate it when poor and immigrants vote 161
Reposted by Davide DentiJoerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Antisemitisprobleme lechts und rinks auf dem politischen Spektrum 24913
Reposted by Davide DentiTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026In the 90s S-A saw the best result of a far-right party in Germany before the AfD. 13% for the DVU in 1998. S-A should not be the basis for sweeping conclusion about the electoral sociology of the AfD. The consequences might be far-reaching but your reporting will contribute to these consequences. 120949
Reposted by Davide DentiTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold. 12473156
Reposted by Davide DentiPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I can’t stop laughing. All the birds of Rakiura celebrating getting a province all to themselves, well nearly, there’s 500 or so humans living there too. 3102
Reposted by Davide DentiTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I do wonder /why/ it is that voter frustration gets treated as "more real" if it comes from a cultural conservative than a cultural progressive now. Why does a mainstream political party figure, even fairly low-ranking, listen more to their father than their son? 210615
Reposted by Davide DentiLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Wikipedia has aligned with the comparative politics scholarship on parties before most international or US media, which keep living in a bothsidesist fantasy land. 23710
Reposted by Davide DentiOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp 3540921147
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And the anti-woke will die out by the mid-century. A literally reactionary old-generation trend. 010
Reposted by Davide DentiMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Today in “Juan Linz was right” 03911
Reposted by Davide DentiFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Brutalism or postmodernism? 1112
Reposted by Davide DentiFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Egregious French tourist Théophile Gautier is dismayed to arrive in Granada in 1840 and find people are wearing Paris fashions, not moorish garb. One of the earliest rants about mass-tourism making everywhere the same. Just 5 years after the first train ran in mainland Europe. 274
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 22/08/2026open.spotify.com/s/dcu1gEt A beautiful conversation with Abed Abou Shhadeh about the story of Jaffa and the struggle of the few Palestinians who remained behind in 1948, and how that memory reverberates against the background of the Gaza genocide.open.spotify.comRemembering the Nakba of urban PalestineThe +972 Podcast · Episode 010
Reposted by Davide DentiFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Some movement at the old Brocante café at Jeux de Balle. New windows and a bar. And they've uncovered the late-1930s tiles with the old name, Café Primus Blaes. 1316
Reposted by Davide DentiIva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is to deflect criticism, perform attention for a high profile case that will never go anywhere, and ensure they have the ability to say they're conducting legitimate investigations domestically. 2 and half years to start an investigation. #Gaza #accountability www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/w...nytimes.comIsrael Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killings of Hind Rajab and Gaza Medical WorkersTwo high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions. 1155
Reposted by Davide DentiHiro Ohta @xlix.me · 19/08/2026Libraries are the last proof that the richest things in life are free. 1124743818
Reposted by Davide DentiWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI. 804213501
Reposted by Davide DentiFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 19/08/2026First look. The decking is being laid at Brussels' new rooftop bar at the Kanal Museum. It occupies the entire roof of a 1930s modernist car showroom. Rendez-vous in November. 2243
Reposted by Davide DentiKatie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Shout-out to libraries. Where else can you just chill outside with a 4yo as you pretend to be magic fairies careening about a large grassy area, then pop indoors for air conditioning, coloring pages, and benches to read four books in a row that you then get to take home, no charge? Libraries rule. 14355616
Reposted by Davide DentiT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral. 6144421069
Reposted by Davide DentiSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Because both the demographics + the social relationships in a multiethnic Britain are (very) different to the dynamics of race in America, we might well expect anti-racism to take a different form in Britain to America. [From my book, 2023] 213511
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A very good conversation about the racial order of Europe. At some point Shada tells of her astonishment at being accused of "using Russian talking points" when mentioning our double standards. open.spotify.com/episode/78wP...open.spotify.comBBESW Podcast EP4: After Ceuta Is Before CeutaBlack and Brown in Europe So White Podcast · Episode 000
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026open.spotify.com/episode/4ayO... Very interesting interview with Rashid Khalili. Skip the 1st part in case you don't care of his family property issues, and head straight to his discussion on Middle East geopolitics todayopen.spotify.comIsrael stole Rashid Khalidi’s land. The U.S. is building an embassy on itThe +972 Podcast · Episode 000
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Il podcast del manifesto è fatto molto bene, e questa puntata con Nadia Addezio lo è in particolare. Ceuta, Marocco, Sahara occidentale. open.spotify.com/episode/0NZF...open.spotify.comLa crisi di Ceuta vista dal MaroccoEsterno notte · Episode 030
Reposted by Davide DentiJasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is one of the smartest takes on the secessionist phantasms of the regime in Banja Luka yet written. It takes seriously the project of Dodik et al and thereby demonstrates the fundamental impossibility of their effort to break up the Bosnian state. odgovor.ba/article/21916odgovor.baRepublika Srpska’s Cyprus Dream: A State It Cannot Have—and Should Not WantRepublika Srpska invokes Northern Cyprus as a model for secession, but the comparison exposes the risks: conflict, isolation and deeper dependence. 2106
Reposted by Davide DentiFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Chief Minister of Gibraltar on Ceuta (20km away across the strait). Sets the record straight, calls out the bullshit of the European right and defective journalism. x.com/i/status/208...x.comFabian Picardo (@FabianPicardo) on XMy interview with @TimesRadio this morning on the issues in Ceuta. 1155
Reposted by Davide DentiThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026NEW at the Empty City On the early release of prisoners The political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences emptycity.substack.com/p/on-the-ear...emptycity.substack.comOn the early release of prisonersThe political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences 1211441
Reposted by Davide Dentiwww.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Beer Garden sundowner #berlin 0316
Reposted by Davide DentiGingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 317254966965
Reposted by Davide DentiDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 18/07/2026Men are too emotional to be in politics 2299
Reposted by Davide DentiNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Tomorrow is the anniversary of the via D'Amelio bomb. I still reflect on this photo of Carabinieri Captain Giovanni Arcangioli walking away from the scene, with cars still burning, carrying Borsellino's briefcase containing his red diary, which then disappears. May all those concerned rot in hell. 54715
Reposted by Davide DentiJakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"The media cannot lie. We apologise, for we've been lying for many years! The media is now transforming to be independent and credible. The news service is temporarily suspended. Stay with us!" Well, this makes the Tusk government's takeover of Polish public media look like a smooth transition. /25 1122
Reposted by Davide DentiJakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The longer I read this draft, the more I'm thinking that Peter Magyar looked at the rule of law restoration quagmire that Poland found itself in and thought, "lol, nope, we have a 2/3 majority in the parliament, we can just speedrun this" 22/ 2243
Reposted by Davide DentiJakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026🇺🇸🇪🇺🇭🇺 We need to urgently stop Americans from writing about Europe. 3868794
Reposted by Davide DentiFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Alexis Dumont. A Belgian architect's journey in 4 buildings. Tiny Doll Cottage, 1899, built on the sand dunes at De Panne. 1235
Reposted by Davide DentiBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/06/2026On European heatwaves: Thinking back on an archaeological dig on a farm near Rome w/ a British/Finnish/Italian team. It was hot (~40C), but the northern Europeans initially tried to excavate through the midday. Meanwhile, the Italians cleaned out a livestock tank and used it as a swimming pool. 56210
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Sul Corriere, da Gerusalemme, Francesco Battistini racconta di famigerate proteste anti-Hamas a Gaza. Sulla Stampa, da Gaza, Majd al-Assar spiega che non ci sono mai state. Choose your kind of journalism. 100
Reposted by Davide DentiDan Izzo @izzos.net · 19/06/2026Not to downplay the seriousness of this but... I don't think this is the all-time high for antisemitism in GERMANY 36769391009