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Helena Janeczek

@helenajaneczek.bsky.social
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Writer, Italy. Here more for politics than literature.

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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Voltando le spalle a Trump e Netanyahu, e pure facendo finta di non conoscere Orban, ovvero sconfessando quattro anni di politica estera, Giorgia Meloni conferma la massima per la quale l’Italia non finisca mai una guerra dalla stessa parte dalla quale l’ha iniziata.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Blown away by @piercepenniless.bsky.social conversation with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social on the @lrb.co.uk podcast. So much to think about. Podcast: James Butler and Sarah Stein Lubrano · On Politics: Why you can’t change someone’s mind share.google/LrONhpGTuoMM...
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Podcast: James Butler and Sarah Stein Lubrano · On Politics: Why you can’t change someone’s mind
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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#Cile: il governo dell’estremista di destra José Antonio Kast ha ritirato l’appoggio alla candidatura dell'ex presidente Michelle Bachelet a Segretaria Generale ONU, di fatto affossandola. Bachelet, lunga e prestigiosa carriera internazionale, era ormai ampiamente favorita.
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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Se la politica è diventata la macchina spargiletame che è, se l’odio e la diffamazione e il razzismo intraitaliano sono stati sdoganati e divenuti capitale politico, sapete bene di chi è il “merito”.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 18/03/2026
El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States. Deportation cannot mean enforced disappearance. Read more from HRW:
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US/El Salvador: Deportees Forcibly Disappeared
El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States.
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Preliminary analysis suggests the drone used AI for swarm operations, autonomous navigation, and target strikes without operator communication, according to Defense Express"
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
ICYMI: I wrote about how, in the wake of last week's attack on a synagogue in Detroit, the Trump administration is holding security funds for synagogues hostage to force them to cooperate with ICE and ban DEI programs. forward.com/opinion/8126...
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Trump has forced an impossible choice on American synagogues amid antisemitic attacks
New conditions on federal security grants pit Jews' safety against that of immigrants
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
They've cultivated a movement that is dedicated to tearing down every red line and taboo against bigotry. Islamophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Black racism have been normalized on the right for a long time. Of course antisemitism is next. They don't get to blame this on Qatar.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It you watch one thing from the Oscars, let it be this…
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medico international @medico.de · 16/03/2026
Gemeinsam mit anderen Organisationen hat medico international das Manifest für psychosoziale Arbeit in Zeiten gesellschaftlichen Zusammenbruchs veröffentlicht. Es stellt sich gegen den Missbrauch psychologischer Ansätze und ruft zu Solidarität und Vernetzung psychosozialer Begleiter:innen auf.
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Resist, Connect and Stand Up! - A Manifesto for Psychosocial Support in Times of Collapse
Ein Manifest für psychosoziale Arbeit in Zeiten des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenbruchs | A Manifesto for Psychosocial Support in Times of Collapse
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 16/03/2026
“It is hard,” Aryeh Neier writes, “to think of an instance in which the president himself has played such a direct and overt part in an assault on free speech.”
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The New War on Speech | Aryeh Neier
Partway through his second inaugural address on January 20, Donald Trump started listing the executive orders he planned to sign that day. Among others,
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"Our hospital at the American University of Beirut is preparing for an imminent disaster, including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear scenarios." Anyone who knows anything about Israel understands that their goal is the destruction of Lebanon. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...
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Millenarian Fantasies
In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Epstein Files, aka MeToo PartTwo, have shown that the extremely wealthy are still very vulnerable in the area of reputation. In this era of shamelessness, it feels as if there is still some leverage here. This release won't cause enough of a shift by itself, but it's done more than I expected.
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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · 05/02/2026
🧵 Qualcosa si sta rompendo in Iran, ma non come vorrebbe la narrazione mediatica www.valigiablu.it/iran-protest...
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Qualcosa si sta rompendo in Iran, ma non come vorrebbe la narrazione mediatica - Valigia Blu
Qualcosa sta cambiando in Iran, ma non nel modo che la televisione preferisce raccontare. Non con una colonna sonora pulita, non con eroi che risplendono nel buio, non con cattivi che spiegano tutto i...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What do these corporations have in common? -Amazon -AT&T -Home Depot -Microsoft -Palantir They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine. Always follow the money.
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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 01/02/2026
This article and thread should be the most important news of the day. Their insistence in calling immigrants "aliens" is telling: anyone could be "alien" to this or future US or any other country's administration. The use of data from agencies unrelated to law enforcement is also a big red flag.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Eh ma il fascismo degli antifascisti signora, il grave delitto di impedire convegni razzisti signora E ora mi faccia per favore tacere sull’arresto di un giornalista signora
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Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"The war on terror has become a war against ourselves. That forever war must come to an end. Enough with the military gear. Enough with the mass surveillance. Enough with the constant fear of an ever-shifting Other." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
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Opinion | The Rot Goes Deeper Than ICE
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Lee Morán @leemoran.huffpost.com · 29/01/2026
An “ICE OUT” rally in being organised in Milan on Feb. 6, the same day as the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony, while opposition parties and left-wing groups plan a protest this Saturday against the attendance of ICE officers at the Games. www.huffpost.com/entry/2026-w...
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‘ICE OUT’ Rally Planned In Milan
In Minneapolis and communities nationwide, trust is built on reporting that follows the facts wherever they lead -- even when powerful institutions resist scrutiny. Support journalism that stands…
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Whenever the Gaza Health Ministry was cited they were called 'the Hamas-run Health Ministry' to make us all doubt the numbers. Now even Israel accepts the official death toll, because that's how confident Netanyahu is that he'll face no consequences. The real death toll is, obviously, much higher.
= Israel News IDF Accepts Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll of Over 71,000 Palestinians Killed During the War Although many international experts have accepted the Health Ministry's data as reliable, and even conservative relative to the true death toll, Israel had refused to accept the Health Ministry's count until noiw

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17/01/2026
As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges from regulators, AI, the far right and Elon Musk: ft.trib.al/78FO7tf
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Wikipedia may be the largest compendium of human knowledge ever created, but can it survive?
As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges from regulators, AI, the far right and Elon Musk
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/01/2026
Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...
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US Hackers Reportedly Caused a Blackout in Venezuela
Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"What was incoming, however, was something new, a new era of even more privatized border and immigration enforcement and, if the sweeps of 2025 were any indication, an era of profitable violence." www.theborderchronicle.com/p/profitable...
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Profitable Violence: A New Era of the Border Industrial Complex
In 2025, a dramatic increase in contracts to private industry correlates with increasing violence committed by border and immigration police forces.
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Leila Belhadj Mohamed @leilabelmoh.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Nel Mar Rosso la sicurezza è ovunque, l’ordine da nessuna parte. Sicurezza senza architettura Serie: Il Mar Rosso come spazio di guerra substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Sicurezza senza architettura
Serie: Il Mar Rosso come spazio di guerra - Episodio 2
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My latest www.hauntologies.net/p/how-hezbol...
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How Hezbollah Lost Everything
It's not just Israel
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.
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ICE officer who killed Minneapolis woman said he 'feared for his life' while arresting another driver last year
In courtroom testimony obtained by MS NOW, Jonathan Ross said he was dragged more than 100 yards by car during a traffic stop.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.
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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Con Delcy Rodríguez oggi il #Venezuela è governato - con il Washington Consensus - dal "madurismo senza Maduro". Quelli che plaudono al blitz di Trump e all'uso della forza dovrebbero spiegare se va bene che abbia scaricato Machado e che NON sono previste elezioni a breve.
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omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A fantastic series of conversations with multiple major scholars on the Israel/Palestine Podcast – a project by graduating high school students from Berlin-Neukölln, home to Germany’s largest Palestinian diaspora and a many young Israelis. www.katholische-akademie-berlin.de/veranstaltun...
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Israel/Palestine Podcast - Katholische Akademie in Berlin e.V.
by Berlin Students
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 29/07/2025
It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...
Screenshot from DFP crosstabs:

The candidate pledges to support the Block the Bombs Act, a new bill in Congress which would withhold U.S. weapons to Israel and address concerns about Israel's violations of U.S. and international law.

More likely (total): 72%
Less likely (total): 11%
More likely (net): +61%Screenshot from DFP crosstabs:

The candidate declines to take an international trip to Israel, saying they want to focus on addressing New Yorkers' issues and needs.

More likely (total): 60%
Less likely (total): 15%
More likely (net): +45%
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein
I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture, says Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and c...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/12/2025
A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race. And over the next year, the Court will face more cases that could further erode both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, pushing America back toward what some on the right believe is the true, Antebellum Constitution.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My take is that the pathologies that exist in the Pro-Palestine solidarity sphere are at least in part a symptom of the absence of a broad based legitimate organised Palestinian social and political mobilisation. What the ANC was in South Africa or the PLO was before the 1990s. 1/
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
In the last two years, Yuval Abraham @972mag.com brought groundbreaking investigative reporting on war crimes in Gaza. This podcast gives a glimpse into the work behind it - and why you should support it. www.972mag.com/podcast-unco...
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Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide
+972's Yuval Abraham takes us inside his investigations into the Gaza war and the legal and moral challenges he faces when reporting.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
They were always going to unleash full-on ethnic cleansing. They were just waiting for a plausible excuse.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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Homeland Security
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The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear:
Remigration now.
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Fabian Eberhard @fabianeberhard.com · 29/11/2025
Ganz normaler fit. Teilnehmer des Gründungskongresses der neuen AfD-Jugend. #Gießen
Junger Mann mit Hitlerjugend-Frisur und Militär-Outfit.
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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Megarecherche zu den Aktivitäten der Siedlernahen Lobbyorganisation ELNET in Deutschland -- als Teil einer transnationalen Investigation taz.de/Lobbyorganis...
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Lobbyorganisation Elnet: Meinungs­bildungsreisen nach Israel
Elnet lobbyiert für die israelische Regierung. Über hundert deutsche Abgeordnete reisten nach Israel mit dem Verein, der Verbindungen zu Siedlern und Trump-Fans hat.
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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Die Reaktionen zeigen: Einige stört es, dass gebildete Bürger mit Migrationsgeschichte sichtbarer werden, ihre Interessen und Sensibilitäten artikulieren und Teilhabe einfordern. Das alte Bild des anspruchslosen migrantischen Arbeiters - malochen, schweigen, Projektionsfläche sein - ist vorbei.
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David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"But reliance on A.I. as a source of growth poses a question for the economy: What happens if the gold rush stops?"
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