Reposted by Mauro GattiThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026All executions are barbaric. The primary difference with a public execution is that the barbarism is made obvious. Mankind cannot bear that reality. 925251
Reposted by Mauro GattiClem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Apparently, states can tax their elites doing overseas tax evasion. Apparently, almost no billionaire flies away when you raise taxes (see the norwegian case). But in the EU, we still try to lower public debt & deficits via austerity because we cannot tax the richs. 021
Reposted by Mauro GattiGiulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why did the EU not protect its solar-PV industry from China? Oh, I see... doi.org/10.1016/j.er... 107126
Reposted by Mauro GattiNick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The real reason working-class people almost never become politicians anywhere is that running for office is extremely personally burdensome, and that screens out the people who live the most precarious lives, including working-class people. 14211
Reposted by Mauro GattiFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A propos of nothing: my grandfather was a politician who spent the last stretch of his career during the Berlusconi ascendance years. he'd say you can lose and lose again, but the most important act for anyone involved in politics is to preserve the seeds of anti-fascism for the next generation. 16320
Reposted by Mauro GattiLouis Witter @louiswitter.com · 06/10/2026« Je préférais l’époque où c’était la petite souris et non les CRS qui nous enlevait nos dents » Orléans, mobilisation lycéenne du 6 octobre. Suivez notre live sur @politis.fr 📸 www.politis.fr/articles/202... 131072405
Reposted by Mauro GattiFinbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026💥Boom - it's ready, the joint Franco-German paper / letter to VDL on China. Berlin & Paris - previously at polar opposite ends of the scale on China policy - now want a kill switch to cut China out of the EU market. This would have been unfathomable a few short months ago 🤯 16836
Reposted by Mauro GattiJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... 311083
Reposted by Mauro GattiRaimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...bellingcat.comViral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcatEarlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new. 11114
Reposted by Mauro GattiShane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is starkest example of the war crime of “wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity“ in the 80 years since it was first codified and prosecuted at Nuremberg. A grave, continuing and tolerated breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. 0911
Reposted by Mauro GattiDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026Google has retained the old street layouts for neighborhoods in Rafah that no longer exist at all. Not even ruins. Dystopian. 13611
Reposted by Mauro GattiNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026After Prosecutors in Milan investigated exploitation of 300 mostly Indian workers employed on the construction site of new US Consulate in Milan, American company Caddell Construction is paying €19m in back pay & compensation to the workers. They were forced to work a 12h day & paid less than €2/h.open.onlineCaporalato nel cantiere del Consolato Usa a Milano, 19 milioni di risarcimento e permessi di soggiorno a centinaia di operaiCaporalato nel cantiere del Consolato Usa a Milano: oltre 19 milioni agli operai sfruttati e permessi di soggiorno 24424
Reposted by Mauro GattiStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google Earth images of Rafah I remember in 2024 President Biden stating that an Israeli invasion of Rafah would be a "red line" for him. He even threatened to withold some weapons deliveries. Over one million displaced Palestinian refugees were sheltering in Rafah and in tents on the beach then. 511259
Reposted by Mauro GattiDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. 18772103003
Reposted by Mauro GattiMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Universities abandoning essays and switching to oral or off-line, hand-written exams, even for grad courses. 🙋 3626
Reposted by Mauro GattiSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The president of the European Council of the EU tells the UN: "there can be no double standards in terms of international law". Compare & contrast his language seconds later: "the war of aggression by Russia on Ukraine" and "the stalemate in Gaza" 13723
Reposted by Mauro GattiBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps. 412484
Reposted by Mauro GattiChristine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 17/09/2026Yeah, this was the thing that dumbfounded me when I was a little 19 year old who went to study in the West Bank. And it’s gotten way worse in the last 25+ years! 22214
Reposted by Mauro GattiStanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A reminder that there is no such thing as "associate membership" of the EU, that to create one would require re-opening the EU treaties, which in turn requires referenda in several countries and probably a decade of haggling. or it's a PR thing. 74612
Reposted by Mauro GattiLuděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"What we see, we pass on". And that's precisely the problem. That's precisely how Frontex becomes routinely complicit in a regime of deadly pushbacks and pullbacks, as documented by the agency itself. Detect, alert, share, and, occasionally, drown, would be be a more accurate motto. 136
Reposted by Mauro GattiNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2024At 1.30 a.m., in the night between 13 & 14 September 1943, the various units of Italian troops (12,000 in all), mostly conscripts of the Acqui Division, occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia, receive an unusual message from their Commander, General Antonio Gandin [Warning: long thread] >> 1 49433
Reposted by Mauro GattiWeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You know that moment at the supermarket when your kid reaches for the colourful bottle? That's not an accident. It was designed that way. Coca-Cola, Kellogg's and Ferrero spend millions making sure their sugary products are everywhere your children look. 2198
Reposted by Mauro Gattimurchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Many of humanity’s worst crimes occurred beyond the gaze of the people who might have stopped them…If only we knew! Gaza, and Israel’s genocide there, has destroyed that self-congratulatory myth” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 023
Reposted by Mauro GattiAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett. 5330281281
Reposted by Mauro GattiOsservatorio sul complottismo @sulcomplottismo.bsky.social · 31/08/20261/ In Italy a strange new gesture has appeared. Leading members of radical right party National Future, founded by Vannacci, have begun flashing a three-fingered sign at the camera: a Chetnik salute? A symbol of the God, Fatherland, Family triad? Or more disturbingly a reference to the Kühnengruss? 175
Reposted by Mauro GattiOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/09/2026On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. 34401109
Reposted by Mauro GattiCatherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Lots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵 26417
Reposted by Mauro GattiMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026How dare you forbid vehicles in cities! We cannot have towns where the only vehicles will be for deliveries and services! This is an insane left-wing idea, a novelty against any tradition and it will kill the inner cities. Lex Iulia Municipalis from 45 BCE: 016859
Reposted by Mauro GattiBenjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Gov. Mike DeWine directed Ohio State University to adopt the IHRA Definition of antisemitism, which explicitly prohibits “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” Am I allowed to teach this Haaretz article in my Peace Studies class? I don’t know. 310036
Reposted by Mauro GattiRaimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Here's a hostage released last Friday. A hostage held by Israel. And his condition is common. 1912
Reposted by Mauro GattiOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Look at how Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian children. 38292189
Reposted by Mauro Gattirobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 29/08/2026the article is now available in English: apache.be/2025/12/22/p...apache.bePhilosophy professor from Ghent University spoke at secret conference of “race scientists”Bouke de Vries from Ghent University gave a lecture to ‘race scientists’ and eugenicists. 03922
Reposted by Mauro GattiJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New report concludes that the BBC is systematically biased against Palestinians in Gaza war coverage. Analysis of 35,000+ pieces of BBC content shows Israeli deaths given 33 times more coverage, per fatality, and significantly more emotive language cfmm.org.uk/resource/bbc... 34633
Reposted by Mauro GattiDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 27/08/2026Today, Chancellor Merz is today hosting a meeting of the frugals (🇩🇪🇦🇹🇳🇱🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮) in Berlin demanding cuts to the EU budget Here's how that "bloated" 🇪🇺budget compares: Federations: 🇪🇺: 1% of GDP 🇩🇪: 12% 🇺🇸: 24% Unitary states: 🇳🇱: 46% 🇫🇷: 57% They's tasking 🇪🇺 to do more, but then starving it of 💶 to do itdavekeating.substack.comNorthern leaders want to cut an EU budget already on a shoestringEU national leaders keep saying they want a union that “does more.” Then they show up in Brussels asking it to spend less. 12815
Reposted by Mauro GattiPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...forms.gleOpen letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent UniversityWe, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th... 421493642
Reposted by Mauro GattiPaolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026People completely missing the taming effect of the Italian constitutional system on Meloni, exhibit 345745 2286
Reposted by Mauro GattiVitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Un solo commento: «Vuoi sapere perché è successo qui? Perché la gente ha lasciato che succedesse. Perché non si è opposta finché non era troppo tardi». 2617147
Reposted by Mauro GattiResist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Israeli forces pouring concrete into several natural water springs and irrigation wells used by Palestinian farmers in the West Bank. 26145199
Reposted by Mauro Gattizeno @egrettt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...aljazeera.comIsrael’s Chief Rabbi says Palestinians are not a people and have no rightsIsrael’s Chief Rabbi denied Palestinians are a people, claimed Gaza for Jews and called for its destruction and return. 224
Reposted by Mauro GattiAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account. 229114125339
Reposted by Mauro GattiRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026IDF marks Palestinian detainees with numbers as it expands northern West Bank operations. “An image reminiscent of dark periods, and one that should shock everyone” MK Ahmad Tibi Jack Khoury www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...haaretz.comIDF marks detained Palestinians with numbers as northern West Bank raids expandAfter a West Bank raid the IDF said targeted Palestinians involved in planning attacks, several Palestinians were released with numbers written in marker on their face or bodies 0231141
Reposted by Mauro GattiFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026<stares at academic journal desk rejection with similar message> 0122
Reposted by Mauro GattiTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Would the Left not be more successful if it only focused on economic redistribution and not social progressivism? The answer is no. People who want redistribution also want “woke” policies. One could know that if one engaged with the research. But then one couldn’t write the same article every year. 725031
Reposted by Mauro GattiLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If there is one piece of advice I can give to expectant parents it is this: do not buy baby furniture new. Cribs, playpens, high chairs, toddler towers, they’re all over Marketplace and Buy Nothing groups. Also, thrift stores have tons of baby clothes and toys in great condition 2541258
Reposted by Mauro GattiEUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 07/08/2026L’Espagne impose des contrôles aux frontières aux voyageurs venant d’Italie, en réponse aux mesures similaires introduites par Rome après la crise de Ceutalemonde.frL’Espagne impose des contrôles aux frontières aux voyageurs venant d’Italie, en réponse aux mesures similaires introduites par Rome après la crise de CeutaCes contrôles, mis en place « face à la persistance de la pression migratoire irrégulière » à laquelle l’Italie est confrontée, débuteront samedi à 00 h 00, et dureront jusqu’au 7 septembre, selon le gouvernement espagnol. 083
Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"This is all theatre" is a perfect description of Meloni's government, in general 000
Reposted by Mauro Gattinatangelo @natangelo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026La vignetta che non avrei mai voluto disegnare ma sentivo che sarebbe arrivato il momento. Provo dolore come fosse morto una specie di papà, conosco tutte le tue storie, tutte le tue parole. Addio Guccio, scusa se ti ho disegnato giovane ma ora che sei morto vale come ti ricordiamo. #guccini 518645