Pol Lloberas

Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept.

You may find these posts (or “truths”, as they’re called in the app) harmless, or simply well-intentioned mottos and comments, but that’s exactly where the point lies. The reduction of “normal” and “common” to “everyday, traditional knowledge” implies reverting to a time in which religion was king

Religion is neither presented nor perceived as “political”. Christianity is therefore inherent to normalcy and “common sense” rather than a fundamental principle of the US social framework.

I took a look inside Truth Social’s “Anything but Politics”.
These were the last published

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

In case you missed it 👇

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Mark Fisher's 'Capitalist Realism' has become so necessary in our day and age that it simply cannot be properly put into words

Ottoman map of America, c.1840

Ottoman map of the United States, roughly 20 years after becoming fully independent (1803)

You may have seen rare maps, but I bet you had never laid your eyes upon XIXth Century Ottoman maps of the Americas

President-elect Trump’s picks for his cabinet and other senior-level positions in his administration are connected in several ways. See some of the links between more than 60 potential members of the incoming administration: nyti.ms/4gebQB6

Progress made on returning Elgin Marbles, Greece claims The comments came before a meeting between Sir Keir Starmer and the Greek prime minister, but No 10 said the topic of the marbles is not on the agenda

Progress has been made in negotiations to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens, the Greek government claimed before its prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held talks with Sir Keir Starmer at Downing Street ⬇️

South Korea's President Declares Martial Law: Live Updates President Yoon Suk Yeol evoked a threat posed by “anti-state” forces, and criticized attempts by the opposition to impeach him.

Breaking News: President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea declared emergency martial law, invoking “anti-state” forces and criticizing attempts to impeach him.

Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3ZaX4UI

In case you had never seen what Barcelona looked like during the Roman Empire, here's how it was, and where it'd stand on the current city overlay. You can still see its outline on the map, even to this day!

L’Etat belge condamné pour crime contre l’humanité durant la colonisation du Congo La cour d’appel de Bruxelles a donné raison à cinq femmes nées d’une mère noire et d’un père blanc. Enfants, elles furent enlevées, placées dans des institutions religieuses, puis abandonnées à leur sort au moment de l’indépendance du pays, en 1960.

L’Etat belge condamné pour crime contre l’humanité durant la colonisation du Congo

'The Annunciation' (Yamamoto, Takato 1998)

Part of 'The Shimabara Rebellion of 1637' (Yamamoto Takato, 2004)

🖼️🗾 How would Christianity look outside of our western scope?
Japanese paintings can give us an insight into the matter. Here are two contemporary pieces by Yamamoto Takato that caught me off guard.

🖼️ Giovanni Morelli, 1890:

🌎🗺️ Did you know there is a copy of Marco Polo's travels commented by no other than Christopher Columbus? He even mirrored himself in the figure of the venetian merchant, just as Napoleon would later do with Machiavelli's Prince, lol

Who is financing this people and what are they pursuing exactly

Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it Social media influencers need “urgent” help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the spread of…

Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco

Fascists believe peace is made by imposing silence.

Read today at @newyorker.com

Who is Călin Georgescu, the far-right TikTok star leading the Romanian election race? A Russia-supporting vaccine skeptic who praises his country’s WWII fascist leaders won a shock first-round victory in Romania’s presidential election.

Călin Georgescu barely registered in national opinion polls, didn’t take part in big TV debates, and doesn’t even belong to a political party.

But he’s leading the race to become Romania’s next president.

@washingtonpost.com graph based on YouGov

Both Democrats and Republicans tend to feel their economic position is better when their party is in power, and worse when it isn't.
This trend is more so acute in the case of Republicans, though

The Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a western invention? Two dazzling new exhibitions at the British Library and British Museum show the riches of the supposed east-west link but also highlight problems with the whole idea

Provocative article for teachers. Did the Silk Road actually exist? Should we adopt a different framing? Fun stuff from @willdalrymple.bsky.social

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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

If you ever heard prehistoric people didn't live past 30, that is simply not true. Here's an insight on how and why 👇

Israël fait discrètement avancer l’annexion de la Cisjordanie Saisies record de terres, démolitions, nouvelles infrastructures et légalisation de dizaines de colonies… Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, le gouvernement israélien accélère sa mainmise sur le territoire...

Israël fait discrètement avancer l’annexion de la Cisjordanie

Par Clothilde Mraffko

Much of the toxicity in which masculinity instrinsically manifests itself can be seen in gaming circles actually

'Cara al sol' y saludos fascistas en un acto minoritario en Madrid que cierra la semana de homenaje a Franco por el 20N Los asistentes, ataviados con la habitual simbología franquista, se han concentrado en la plaza de Oriente "contra la Ley de Memoria Democrática" en una movilización marcada por los discursos de vario...

'Cara al sol' y saludos fascistas en un acto minoritario en Madrid que cierra la semana de homenaje a Franco por el 20N

Los asistentes, ataviados con la habitual simbología franquista, se han concentrado en la plaza de Oriente "contra la Ley de Memoria Democrática"

www.eldiario.es/sociedad/car...

I've been thinking about food and politics recently. If all consumption is a political act, choosing what to eat is political, too. So, are there left-wing and right-wing dishes?

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

Nada de Bluesky. Trump nos va a tener cuatro años actualizando su Truth Social.