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Roberto Rizzo

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Assist. Prof. in Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics at Utrecht University @uugeo.bsky.social. 🇮🇹->🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿->🇮🇹->🇳🇱. Co-author of FracPaQ | Rock Deformation | Synchrotron uCT | Image Analysis | Machine Learning | Wavelets | Statistics

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 11h
🚨 #JobAlert #EGU is currently seeking a full-time, permanent IT Systems Engineer, based in the Executive Office in Munich, Germany. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/1N9576 📅 Apply by 6 October 2026! 📸: Roshanak Tootoonchi on imaggeo.egu.eu
Image description:  Road with foggy sky and trees in between. Text reads:'' JOB alert, IT Systems Engineer. WE ARE HIRING! Join our team!''
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Robin Lacassin @rlacassin.bsky.social · 16h
Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years… 👇 "What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers…" 🏔️ ⚒️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gareth the Great Tit #vivid #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography #ECK
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Marianne Gros @mariannegros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎣 The European Commission wanted the next EU budget to link fisheries funding to ocean conservation measures. EU governments have other plans. Read more on @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
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EU countries push for weaker environmental safeguards in fishing sector funding rules
The move sets up a fight with the Commission over the treatment of fisheries in the EU budget.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Possibile @possibileit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Giustizia per #GiulioRegeni. Finalmente.
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il Post @ilpost.it · 26/09/2026
Ci sono altre conferme che Netanyahu fosse stato avvertito prima del 7 ottobre
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Ci sono altre conferme che Netanyahu fosse stato avvertito prima del 7 ottobre
Anche il New York Times ha ricostruito la storia della telefonata del presidente degli Emirati, mentre l'Atlantic racconta di una visita del capo dell'intelligence egiziana
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Andrea Bettini @andreabettini.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Venezia vista da uno dei satelliti del programma italiano IRIDE
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Julien Moreau @boorhin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So the new line to criticise discussing what is going on and what is very likely to happen in the near future due to the el niño situation as well as the absolutely insane social and military settings in the world is... Drum roll... I am a pessimist. Facts and predictions are now considered opinions
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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📣 Join the Seismica Editorial Board! We’re recruiting Handling Editors for a 3-year term beginning January 2027. We especially welcome expertise in statistical seismology, machine learning applications, and hazards communication. Details: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/announcement...
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Bernd Andeweg @berndandeweg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pretty dificult to find real and actual images of #Anak #Krakatau #eruption, in many cases I see pictures or videos from older eruptions, in some cases I just do not know. Any #volcano #addict has a reliable source? #geology ⚒️
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Eos @eos.org · 08/09/2026
Talc can form underground through metamorphism of minerals like serpentinite. When that happens in fault zones, the mineral can weaken faults and affect whether they creep, slip slowly, or rupture quickly. With that #FunFact, #talc gets our vote today! #MinCup26 eos.org/research-spo...
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Talc May Make Mexico’s Subduction Zone More Slippery - Eos
Production of the weak, water-bearing mineral at the interface between the Cocos and North American Plates could contribute to the occurrence of poorly understood episodic tremor and slow slip.
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Nature @nature.com · 08/09/2026
Fermat’s last theorem has been turned into computer-verified code for the first time, using an advanced prototype of AI chatbot Claude go.nature.com/46cYQc1
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Anthropic AI ‘formalizes’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem in just 11 days
Claude produced a 13-million-line, computer-checked proof of the famed conjecture — a major milestone in mathematics.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Hugo van Schrojenstein Lantman @hugolantman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Got to take this opportunity to show one of the coolest rocks I've ever come across: it contains both a trilobite fossil and big andalusite crystals. Monazite is also cool, though.
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Hugo van Schrojenstein Lantman @hugolantman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
...now with labels.
A picture of the same rock as the video in the previous message, but now with labels ("trilobite fossil"; "andalusite") labelling the key features of the rock. See alt text of video in previous message for more details.
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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Geotweeps, do you want a brief cameo in an upcoming subduction related video? If so: send me a short cell phone movie clip (landscape orientation, not "portrait") of you doing the "subduction" arm movements with your hand. No explanation, just 3 seconds of the "one arm goes under the other" motion.
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il Post @ilpost.it · 03/09/2026
Per l’ONU il superamento degli 1,5 °C è inevitabile
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Per l’ONU il superamento degli 1,5 °C è inevitabile
Un nuovo rapporto conferma le analisi già circolate sull'impossibilità di restare sotto la soglia dell'Accordo di Parigi entro pochi anni
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 03/09/2026
I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...
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Eos @eos.org · 02/09/2026
Humanity's 1.5°C warming goal must now be approached "from above" by carbon dioxide removal—as an overshoot of that limit is certain, a @unep.org report warns. eos.org/research-and...
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The World Will Overshoot 1.5°C and Must Now Remove Carbon, United Nations Says - Eos
Humanity is certain to exceed the warming limit set by the Paris Agreement, a legally binding treaty meant to cap the world’s carbon emissions, according to a new report from the United Nations Enviro...
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Possibile @possibileit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
La questione meridionale riguarda il modello di Paese che vogliamo diventare. Settembre ce lo ricorda ogni anno, mentre qualcuno chiude una valigia e riparte. Silvia Giandoriggio possibile.com/fine-agosto-...
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A fine agosto il sud di svuota, di nuovo. Non rendiamo poetica una disuguaglianza | Possibile
La questione meridionale riguarda il modello di Paese che vogliamo diventare. Settembre ce lo ricorda ogni anno, mentre qualcuno chiude una valigia e riparte. Possiamo continuare a trasformare quella valigia in una fotografia malinconica della fine dell’estate, oppure domandarci quanta libertà possa contenere quella valigia: la libertà di restare, la libertà di partire, la libertà di tornare. La libertà di scegliere di avere una possibilità.
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Kamil Ustaszewski @wukaimi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm seeking to fill a #PhD position in my #structuralgeology group @uni-jena.de on deep #geothermal resources in central Germany. The post is ideal for #geoscience students with interest in brittle deformation, #tectonic stress analysis and #fieldwork. jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/4...
View of a quarry exposing fractured granitoid gneisses in a c. 20 m high vertical wall in the Kyffhäuser Mountains in central Germany. A person at the lower right bottom of the photo serves for scale. Closeup view of a fractured granitoid gneisses exposed on a vertical rock face in a quarry in the right portion of the photo serves as a scale. The field of view is approximately 2 x 5 m.
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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · 31/08/2026
🧵 Il clima collassa, il governo tace e noi parliamo di Ranucci e woke www.valigiablu.it/piano-clima-...
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Il clima collassa, il governo tace e noi parliamo di Ranucci e woke - Valigia Blu
Tra caldo record, incendi e consumo di suolo, l'Italia affronta il collasso climatico con un Piano senza fondi. Analisi del ritardo istituzionale.
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Spinoza.it @spinozait.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tajani: "Sono a disposizione della famiglia Di Battista". Ma non credo sia il momento della clownterapia. [pirata21]
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket
A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2026". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26."

The starting matches are, in chronological order in pairs from top to bottom alternating from left to right each match:
Azurite vs Smithsonite
Erythrite vs Skutterudite
Sphalerite vs Anorthite
Bournonite vs Vesuvianite
Cuprite vs Orpiment
Quartz vs Asagiite
Monazite-(Ce) vs Andalusite
Stichtite vs Talc
Hafnon vs Putnisite
Pyromorphite vs Gypsum
Calcite vs Julienite
Pyrrhotite vs Cylindrite
Arsenopyrite vs Halite
Riebeckite vs Gadolinite-(Y)
Chrysocolla vs Xocolatlite
Cassiterite vs Graphite
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Roberto Di Loreto @robertodiloreto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Vi sblocco un ricordo. Anno 2006.
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Possibile @possibileit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
È già successo in Basilicata, Puglia, Campania, Veneto ed Emilia Romagna. Ieri, invece, le conseguenze drammatiche della crisi climatica si sono abbattute su Cremona, distrutta da forti piogge e grandine. Il cambiamento climatico è già qui e non si sta nascondendo.
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
E la politica? Non pervenuta. L’economia reale sta pagando un prezzo altissimo a causa della mancanza di iniziative strutturali di adattamento e mitigazione. Esiste il PNACC (Piano Nazionale di Adattamento ai Cambiamenti Climatici) ma pare sia ricoperto di polvere, non del deserto ma dell’inazione.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/08/2026
🎓 MIT tells universities to stop relying on AI detectors Its new report says detectors misread non-native English speakers and neurodivergent students. 🔗 aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/#31-a... #AI #HigherEducation #CriticalAI 🧪
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INGVterremoti @ingvterremoti.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
26 agosto 2026: la frana in Nepal e l’analisi dei sismogrammi
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26 agosto 2026: la frana in Nepal e l’analisi dei sismogrammi
https://ingvterremoti.com/2026/08/27/26-agosto-2026-la-frana-in-nepal-e-lanalisi-dei-sismogrammi/
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Hannah Richter @hannah-richter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
3% of a giant Western Australian forest died in a record drought in 2023-24. Now, scientists have used the damage to develop a surprising new tool for predicting future die-offs: gamma rays.🌲⚡ Read more in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti... #tree #forest #drought #climate #climatechange
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To predict tree death, scientists tapped gamma rays to peer underground
Airborne radiation sensors could help forecast and prevent drought-driven tree mortality
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 26/08/2026
El Niño? Climate change? All of the above?
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What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
El Niño? Climate change? All of the above?
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Spinoza.it @spinozait.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meloni: "Se avessimo vissuto in quell'epoca, avremmo percepito il fascismo diversamente". Con le buone o con le cattive. [gionuein dei poveri]
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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Barry the Blue Tit #birdoftheday #thinperches #birds #birdphotography
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Andrea Bettini @andreabettini.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Di record in record stiamo entrando in territori inesplorati. Il 22 agosto la superficie dei mari ha raggiunto una temperatura media senza precedenti da quando si rilevano dati: 21,10 °C. Superato di un centesimo di grado il triste primato stabilito nel 2024. Lo comunica Copernicus
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Nuova ondata di calore. A partire dal 24-25 agosto il caldo tornerà ad intensificarsi sull’Italia meridionale, sui Balcani, sulla Grecia e sulla Turchia occidentale. Italia. Sulla nostra penisola maggiormente colpite Sardegna, Sicilia, Calabria, Campania meridionale, Basilicata e Puglia…1/8
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Andrea Bettini @andreabettini.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Immagini drammatiche dal satellite Sentinel-1: dal ghiacciaio Petermann in Groenlandia si è staccato un iceberg di 76 km quadrati. Si stima che possa essere spesso fino a 150 metri www.esa.int/Applications...
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Christoph Grützner @ch-gruetze.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Me and my 20 co-authors wrote a review paper on the active tectonics of the eastern part of the Alps. We summarise data from many decades of research to see the pattern of active deformation. We discuss if it's controlled by the configuration of slabs at great depth: eos.org/editor-highl...
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Tectonics and Deglaciation Govern Eastern-Southern Alps at Slow Rates - Eos
Transnational, multiproxy, and interdisciplinary datasets locate seismic hazard and show that slow-rate tectonic and deglaciation deformation overrate mantle processes in the Southern-Eastern Alps.
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fase frontale. L’immagine mostra una vasta area temporalesca “ad arco” che si estende dalla Provenza alla Toscana nord occidentale passando per la Liguria. Nelle prossime ore il sistema raggiungerà rapidamente tutte le regioni del Nord, la Toscana centromeridionale, la Liguria e il Lazio. 1/4
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 20/08/2026
Fiumi in secca, coltivazioni a rischio, impennata dei prezzi dei prodotti agricoli, costo dell’energia in aumento, inflazione: il cambiamento climatico pesa sull’Europa.
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Le ondate di calore danneggiano l’economia
Fiumi in secca, coltivazioni a rischio, impennata dei prezzi dei prodotti agricoli, costo dell’energia in aumento, inflazione: il cambiamento climatico pesa sull’Europa Leggi
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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A geologist and a systems engineer walk in to a bar... ...and start arguing about whether we can actually pump enough CO2 underground to hit net zero. That's more or less how this paper got started with @hdaigle.bsky.social. Read on to find more: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality
Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/08/2026
Remigration binds Maga to Europe’s far right ft.trib.al/LaRNLCV
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Remigration binds Maga to Europe’s far right
Once-taboo idea of mass expulsions returns to European nations after Trump embrace
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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#PostDoc opportunity: evaluation and analysis of #AI tools and #ML models for Small Molecule #DrugDiscovery at Gilead (Foster City CA USA) ref: R0053915 | duration: 3 years #cheminformatics #CompChem #chemsky 🧪 gilead.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/gileadcareer...
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Post Doc Scientist, Structural Biology and Chemistry
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies...
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Philip Stockbrugger @philipstock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A questo punto votare ancora partiti negazionisti climatici sarebbe come prendere per i fondelli Cassandra anche dopo la caduta di Troia.
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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 16/08/2026
Groundwater levels around the country are showing resilience, depsite widespread drought and the driest July on record, demonstrating their value as a crucial resource and indicating they could play a more significant role in mitigating the impacts of extreme weather. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/many-uk...
BGS analysis of the groundwater baseline observation network at the end of July 2026.  Groundwater level data are provided to the British Geological Survey National Groundwater Level Archive by the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales — Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and, for Northern Ireland, the Department for Infrastructure — Rivers, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. BGS © UKRI 2026.
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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 14/08/2026
📣2 year Postdoc opportunity at Uppsala University – Graphite exploration and geophysics combining geology, petrophysics & seismic methods within SERC / ICE-GRAPH. 📍 Uppsala, Sweden 🇸🇪 ⏳ Application deadline: 28 August 2026 📅 Expected start: 15 October 2026, or as agreed 🔗 lnkd.in/gYUQ6FXd
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 14/08/2026
Mentre tagli i fondi alle agenzie umanitarie, il presidente degli Stati Uniti usa i soldi dei contribuenti per sostenere i centri studi europei che vogliono diffondere il trumpismo a livello globale. L'opinione di Arwa Mahdawi.
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Trump finanzia la destra europea con i soldi degli statunitensi
Mentre tagli i fondi alle agenzie umanitarie, il presidente degli Stati Uniti usa i soldi dei contribuenti per sostenere i centri studi europei che vogliono diffondere il trumpismo a livello globale L...
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Leyla Boulton @leylaboulton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Absolutely heartbreaking in Lebanon: ‘the FT saw entire villages with barely a building left standing: historic markets, squares and winding streets reduced to a sea of concrete. The sound of blasts, apparently from building demolitions, continued through the day.’ as.ft.com/r/153a7c25-e...
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How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/08/2026
How to stop global warming ft.trib.al/JqSm6at
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How to stop global warming
The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement
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