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Davide Denti

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PhD @sisunitn. BXL-based. EU, Italy, Malta, Bosnia. Personal opinions only.

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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".
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I really liked the Nacional Museo de la Muerte in Aguascalientes. So cool how Mexican culture has embraced death.
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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
È 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.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since 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.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just 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.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 26/09/2026
There 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
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Antisemitisprobleme lechts und rinks auf dem politischen Spektrum
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In 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.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A 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.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I 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.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I 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?
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🇲🇹 #DaphneCaruanaGalizia
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fabbrini: l'Europa e la destra
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rassegna Mladic (29 agosto)
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wikipedia has aligned with the comparative politics scholarship on parties before most international or US media, which keep living in a bothsidesist fantasy land.
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a right-wing populist and neo-nationalist political party in the United States, sitting on the right-wing to far-right of the political spectrum. Founded in 1854, it emerged as the main rival of the Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.

[one paragraph on history, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)]

Following the civil rights era, the Republican Party's use of the Southern strategy appealed to many white voters disaffected by Democratic support for civil rights, and de facto flipping the two parties' stances. The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as president realigned national politics, consolidating a coalition of free market advocates, social conservatives and foreign policy hawks under the Republican banner. Since 2009, a shift toward right-wing populism culminated in the 2016 election of Donald Trump as president, whose leadership style and political agenda—often referred to as Trumpism—reshaped the party's identity and political platform.

The present-day Republican Party is primarily right-wing populist and neo-nationalist with smaller conservative, Christian right, and libertarian factions, all of which have greatly diminished in influence since 2016. Its ideology has since largely shifted towards illiberalism, favoring strong presidential power[38][39] and a statist government to enforce conservative cultural values.[40] This includes broad opposition to abortion, LGBT rights, immigration, and gun control. On economic policy, it supports mercantilism while opposing labor unions. During the 20th and early 21st centuries, it cooperated internationally with conservative parties. Since the 2020s it has aligned with global far-right parties,[41][42][43] and white nationalist beliefs have become influential within the party,[44] including support for remigration.[45][46][47][48]
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
seems 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
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And the anti-woke will die out by the mid-century. A literally reactionary old-generation trend.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Today in “Juan Linz was right”
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Brutalism or postmodernism?
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Egregious 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.
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
open.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.
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Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Some 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.
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This 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...
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Israel Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killings of Hind Rajab and Gaza Medical Workers
Two 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.
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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 19/08/2026
Libraries are the last proof that the richest things in life are free.
Photo by Talha Resitoglu. A library reading room seen from the rear. A barrel-vaulted ceiling opens to a long skylight of pale glass. Tiered wooden shelves hold books along two galleries, with a stained glass window, a round clock, and carved lions on marble at the right. Below, people read and work at long tables, laptops and bottles beside them. A white-haired man in a pale shirt sits nearest, turned away. Red and cream patterned carpet covers the floor.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI.
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
First 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.
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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Shout-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.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If 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.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Because 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]
Fortunately, there are good reasons to expect that the new
anti-racism will take a diff erent form in Britain than America,
because inter-ethnic relationships are diff erent here. Th e basic
demographic facts – while black Americans make up 13 per cent
of the population, the black British are a 4 per cent group –
interact with a diff erent history, geography and patterns of
education and social life to mean there is less social distance
between black and white Britain than between black and white
America.
Geography matters too. Half of the black British live in
Greater London and half outside of it. So there is a signifi cant
diff erence in the familiarity of everyday social contact in the capi-
tal, where black people make up a sixth of the overall population,
and contact in the rest of the UK, outside the major cities, where
the black British are closer to one-fi ftieth of the population. For
many people, contact is indirect. If the black British are more
familiar from news and politics, television, culture and sport
than from real-life contact, then cultural and media representa-
tions, whether negative or positive, will have a bigger impact on
perceptions.
Overall, there is considerably less residential and educational
segregation by race in Britain than America: the main centres of
black British population are either mixed areas with no single
majority group, as in most inner London boroughs, or are mixed
areas that are majority white. And there are much higher levels of
inter-ethnic relationships – British-born people of black
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A 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...
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BBESW Podcast EP4: After Ceuta Is Before Ceuta
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
open.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 today
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Israel stole Rashid Khalidi’s land. The U.S. is building an embassy on it
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Il 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...
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La crisi di Ceuta vista dal Marocco
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This 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/21916
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Republika Srpska’s Cyprus Dream: A State It Cannot Have—and Should Not Want
Republika Srpska invokes Northern Cyprus as a model for secession, but the comparison exposes the risks: conflict, isolation and deeper dependence.
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The 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...
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Fabian Picardo (@FabianPicardo) on X
My interview with @TimesRadio this morning on the issues in Ceuta.
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mary @roughrider994.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW 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...
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On the early release of prisoners
The political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#Genova2001 resterà una frattura generazionale
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Beer Garden sundowner #berlin
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 18/07/2026
Men are too emotional to be in politics
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Tomorrow 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.
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Jakub 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
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The 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/
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇭🇺 We need to urgently stop Americans from writing about Europe.
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Alexis Dumont. A Belgian architect's journey in 4 buildings. Tiny Doll Cottage, 1899, built on the sand dunes at De Panne.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
On 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.
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Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sul 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.
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 19/06/2026
Not to downplay the seriousness of this but... I don't think this is the all-time high for antisemitism in GERMANY
Breaking News
Antisemitism hits all-time high in Germany: A Record 8725 antisemitic incidents in 2025
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