Matthias Bruggmann

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

C'est peut-être une faute de ma part, mais j'ai trop de respect pour leur intelligence pour penser qu'il puisse s'agir d'aveuglement...

N'oublions pas, même si il est formulé différemment, l'alignement idéologique d'une certaine gauche avec projet Russe: en France, il y a eu 40% de vote Poutine aux Européennes.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People

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On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes.

To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

The Fall of the House of Assad A detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, refused every lifeline he was offered.

Behold, a rare case of a truly good Syria piece:

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Yet so little was written on the importance of the work groups like UGTT did... Tunisia, and probably Egypt, was as much a Nokia as it was a Facebook revolution, and that part of the story is so much more interesting than the comparatively rich and educated kids with access to foreigners.

An interesting sign that the Trump admininstration thinks documentary photography is still relevant.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Affaire Baud: quand l’UE s’invente des «ennemis intérieurs» - Le Temps OPINION. Comment l’UE ne réalise-t-elle pas qu’en mettant sous sanction l’officier à la retraite Jacques Baud, elle mime les «agents de l’étranger» instaurés par Moscou? écrit le journaliste Eric Hoes...

Alors on va mettre ça, publié dans @letemps.ch : letemps.ch/opinions/deb..., et mettre aussi ça, publié sur @rts.ch : rts.ch/info/regions..., pour un peu de contexte.

Do not use milk in your eyes. Water only.

Stop spreading misinformation. This is malpractice.

You might want to take a minute to read this thread by @samagreene.bsky.social... It won't take long, it's pretty good, and he kinda knows what he's talking about.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/20094...

Tangentially related useless napkin math factoid, afaict, a German V1 cost somewhere between 100k and 200k in today's money to build.

A measurable result of Trump’s so-called “peace negotiations” with Putin is a dramatic increase in the number of drones and missiles fired at civilian targets in Ukraine🤔

The whole piece is right here: archive.org/details/clos...

It is four pages long.

If you find you don't have time to read it, or that's too long for you, I'm not entirely certain you have your priorities straight.

Bryher's words, from What Shall You Do In The War?, published in 1933, echoing across time.

"To be a Jew is bad, and to be a Communist is worse, but to be a pacifist is unforgivable. - Popular German slogan.

Long term tactical success for small organizations can set conditions for significant strategic gains later. Who would have thought?

L'on va rappeler la séquence:

1. Emmanuel Macron fait une rechute de Galactérite aigüe, et annonce qu'il faut parler avec le Kremlin.

2. Le Kremlin amorce le dialogue par le retrait d'accords militaires avec 11 pays européens.

3. La France regarde quand elle est libre pour un thé.

Role reversal: how foot-dragging France blindsided newly assertive Berlin As Friedrich Merz pushed to finalise a deal on Russian frozen assets, it became clear that he was missing one key ally

Toujours difficile de savoir ce qui est vrai là-dedans, en revanche ce qu'on perçoit très bien depuis le sommet de Berlin et les fanfaronnades de Merz, c'est la guéguerre pour le leadership "diplomatique" que se livrent Macron et Merz. Pas à la hauteur. Pas l'enjeu. www.ft.com/content/99d2...

The scale of the problem Let’s start with the numbers that German authorities didn’t want public. According to classified BKA reports obtained by the team: 1,072 incidents involving 1,955 drones in 2025 alone (as of November 19). Forty-five percent occurred in evening hours. Drone swarms flew “almost exclusively over or near military installations.” In only 29 of 498 investigated cases could drone pilots be identified. In none of those cases were they state actors. In 88 percent of cases, authorities couldn’t even identify the drone type. The BKA’s own assessment: “Individual incidents indicate complex operations drawing on larger financial and logistical resources.” Translation: this isn’t hobbyists.

Great work by a group of Axel Springer Academy students...

www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

The New US National Security Strategy Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA

The new US National Security Strategy, fully Vancian, shows its hostility towards Europe & its cozy relationship with Russia.
Chilling, but at least clear: the US is no longer our ally, just the opposite.
Perfect points from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...

In more normal times, one would quip that @rikefranke.bsky.social typo'd and mistook whitehouse.gov with whitehouse.ru, but, alas...

Germany, France, and Britain should have summarized their response to Washington in three points:
Nein.
Non.
No.

@jconstant-fd.bsky.social , @europe1.bsky.social , @lefigaro.fr vous pensez pas que ça, c'est un peu plus une histoire d'intérêt public que des dealers qui détournent un OS sécurisé ?

Bref, même si @grapheneos.org était et faisait ce que prétendent les FDO, ça a l'air quand même déjà vachement bien défini au niveau pénal, hein @jconstant-fd.bsky.social...

IANAL, mais on va quand même rappeler un ou deux trucs au @lefigaro.fr et à @europe1.bsky.social...

D'abord, les conséquences de ne pas donner un mot de passe: www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/articl...

Ensuite, dans les lectures, peut-être essayer les articles 434-1 à 434-48 du Code Pénal.

Deux articles du Parisien hier, suivis aujourd'hui d'un article du Figaro, ont lancé une offensive honteuse contre GrapheneOS, un système d'exploitation open-source pour téléphones, gratuit et accessible à tous et toutes.

archive.is/202511190825...

Je connais pas mal de journalistes et décideurs qui feraient bien de lire ce qui est dit dans le papier du Parisien et d'en tirer les enseignements pour leur propre hygiène numérique...

@leparisien.fr , @grapheneos.org est un outil extraordinaire qui mérite d'être soutenu, et pas villifié.

What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.

Louis Menand, for @newyorker.com , on the sorely missed Catherine Leroy... it's such a pleasure to see her work in the wild, and to see her slowly re-emerge in the public consciousness.

www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Tony Clifton, who then worked for @newsweek.com, Beirut, 1983.

We have even been seen as a little bit paranoid talking about Russia’s threats [in the past]. But right now, everything we in the Baltics or Poland or the Nordics have been talking about has come to life."

Source: thetimes.com/world/europe/a…