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Mauro Gatti

@maurogatti.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of EU Law, University of Bologna. Research on EU foreign policy and freedom of religion. Opinions are mine and do not represent those of my institution.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All executions are barbaric. The primary difference with a public execution is that the barbarism is made obvious. Mankind cannot bear that reality.
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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Apparently, 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.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why did the EU not protect its solar-PV industry from China? Oh, I see... doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 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.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 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.
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Louis 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...
Photo de la pancarte et au loin la cathédrale d’Orléans :
« Je préférais l’époque où c’était la petite souris et non les CRS qui nous enlevait nos dents »
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Finbarr 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 🤯
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Joe 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...
Photo of Gaza
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier 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.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 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.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Google has retained the old street layouts for neighborhoods in Rafah that no longer exist at all. Not even ruins. Dystopian.
Satellite image of a yellow sandy wasteland in eastern Rafah. A Google Maps overlay shows where the streets of a residential neighborhood used to be, but there are no homes or even ruins of homes visible along them.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After 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.
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Caporalato nel cantiere del Consolato Usa a Milano, 19 milioni di risarcimento e permessi di soggiorno a centinaia di operai
Caporalato nel cantiere del Consolato Usa a Milano: oltre 19 milioni agli operai sfruttati e permessi di soggiorno
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google 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.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 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.
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Universities abandoning essays and switching to oral or off-line, hand-written exams, even for grad courses. 🙋
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 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"
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.
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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 17/09/2026
Yeah, 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!
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A 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.
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Luděk 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.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
At 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
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You 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.
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murchadhfinn.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 ☕️🥐
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This 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.
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Osservatorio sul complottismo @sulcomplottismo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1/ 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?
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/09/2026
On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lots 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. 🧵
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How 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:
14) After January 1 next no one shall drive a wagon along the streets of Rome or along those streets in the suburbs where there is continuous housing after sunrise or before the tenth hour of the day, except whatever will be proper for the transportation and the importation of material for building temples of the immortal gods, or for public works, or for removing from the city rubbish from those buildings for whose demolition public contracts have been let. For these purposes permission shall be granted by this law to specified persons to drive wagons for the reasons stated.
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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Gov. 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.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here's a hostage released last Friday. A hostage held by Israel. And his condition is common.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Look at how Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian children.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the article is now available in English: apache.be/2025/12/22/p...
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Philosophy 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.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New 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...
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
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 27/08/2026
Today, 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 it
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Northern leaders want to cut an EU budget already on a shoestring
EU national leaders keep saying they want a union that “does more.” Then they show up in Brussels asking it to spend less.
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We 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...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
We, 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...
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
People completely missing the taming effect of the Italian constitutional system on Meloni, exhibit 345745
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Vitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Un 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».
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Israeli forces pouring concrete into several natural water springs and irrigation wells used by Palestinian farmers in the West Bank.
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zeno @egrettt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Israel’s Chief Rabbi says Palestinians are not a people and have no rights
Israel’s Chief Rabbi denied Palestinians are a people, claimed Gaza for Jews and called for its destruction and return.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I'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.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
IDF 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...
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IDF marks detained Palestinians with numbers as northern West Bank raids expand
After 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
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
<stares at academic journal desk rejection with similar message>
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Would 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.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If 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
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 07/08/2026
L’Espagne impose des contrôles aux frontières aux voyageurs venant d’Italie, en réponse aux mesures similaires introduites par Rome après la crise de Ceuta
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L’Espagne impose des contrôles aux frontières aux voyageurs venant d’Italie, en réponse aux mesures similaires introduites par Rome après la crise de Ceuta
Ces 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.
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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"This is all theatre" is a perfect description of Meloni's government, in general
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some kind of Ys guy @meldric.cc · 07/08/2026
book cover for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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natangelo @natangelo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
La 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
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