and I was a never a “migrant” or “immigrant” there in casual speech. More hmm.
01.03.2026 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0and I was a never a “migrant” or “immigrant” there in casual speech. More hmm.
01.03.2026 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
yeah…
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Somehow I suspect this “foreign-born voters” klaxon didn’t apply to me voting there as a Commonwealth citizen. Alas.
01.03.2026 10:30 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1somehow I suspect this didn’t apply to me when I lived in the UK as a Commonwealth citizen who could vote, hmm
01.03.2026 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
In case you’re wondering how MAGA is taking the news. Let’s just say the group chat is in full meltdown mode.
Here’s what the loudest right wing voices are saying:
📌 Tucker Carlson: the decision to attack Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.”
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(Google translated from Dutch) "Conviction for possessing a large quantity of firearms, ammunition, and parts and accessories for firearms and ammunition, and for converting a gas pistol into a working firearm and manufacturing 100 corresponding cartridges. These offenses occurred against the backdrop of the defendant's political activism. The defendant's interests and beliefs will also determine the sentence and the special conditions to be imposed. Despite the defendant's young age and clean criminal record, the court considers a lengthy prison sentence appropriate. However, given the negative consequences of this criminal case for his future and the removal of the previous suspicion of terrorism, the court will not impose a longer prison sentence than the one requested by the public prosecutor."
In the Netherlands, Thomas D., a leader in far-right group Geuzenbond, was sentenced today in a Rotterdam court to 24 months in prison (12 months suspended/conditional, ~6 months time served) for firearms and weapons offenses
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Extreemrechtse student Thomas D. krijgt 2 jaar cel voor wapenbezit, waarvan 1 jaar voorwaardelijk
26.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 6
(Google translated from Dutch) "Conviction for possessing a large quantity of firearms, ammunition, and parts and accessories for firearms and ammunition, and for converting a gas pistol into a working firearm and manufacturing 100 corresponding cartridges. These offenses occurred against the backdrop of the defendant's political activism. The defendant's interests and beliefs will also determine the sentence and the special conditions to be imposed. Despite the defendant's young age and clean criminal record, the court considers a lengthy prison sentence appropriate. However, given the negative consequences of this criminal case for his future and the removal of the previous suspicion of terrorism, the court will not impose a longer prison sentence than the one requested by the public prosecutor."
In the Netherlands, Thomas D., a leader in far-right group Geuzenbond, was sentenced today in a Rotterdam court to 24 months in prison (12 months suspended/conditional, ~6 months time served) for firearms and weapons offenses
uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E...
In unsurprising news: outside the Bernabéu, some Real Madrid supporters/hooligans giving Nazi salutes and singing fascist songs. This comes as a fan was expelled from the match for giving a Nazi salute to the camera beside a ‘No To Racism’ banner
26.02.2026 07:57 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0they do exist even if it really seems…few and far between
25.02.2026 08:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2/2 And at an anti-war rally held in Belgrade in the evening, members of the far-right People’s Patrol (Narodna Patrola) — who’ve made trips to Russia to hang out with Wagner and co friends — were there to shout pro-Russian slogans at protestors
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1/2 In Novi Sad, Serbia, a monument to Taras Shevchenko was vandalized with black paint, and the surname ripped off, on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 🙄
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my next article will be debunking claims of the sun’s existence
24.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0it’s something I’ve read about in books, am currently unsure of its actual existence
24.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Donald Trump’s envoy to Paris will not be permitted to carry out his diplomatic duties until he has explained his refusal to comply with a foreign ministry summons over US comments about the killing of a far-right activist”, a 2026 lede
24.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Netherlands “where is the sun in winter” challenge (onmogelijk)
24.02.2026 10:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Exactly four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bellingcat’s Volunteer Community looks back at the data we have collected on civilian harm during this time - documenting attacks on cities and the near-total destruction of rural villages. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
24.02.2026 09:20 — 👍 728 🔁 293 💬 5 📌 9“Migrants appear only as blurred bodies, never as people with stories or rights. The message is not just that the state is in control. It is that migrants' suffering is part of the show. The account reframes deportation as a sharable lifestyle genre”
23.02.2026 07:23 — 👍 44 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
People on Bluesky: “sPoRtS aReN’t PoLiTiCaL”
The United States men’s national hockey team: *parties in their dressing room with Kash Patel*
for the uninitiated
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oui
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ouais c’est vrai
22.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0tabarnak
22.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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22.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0they see countries in CEE as more like the white ethnostates that they want without realizing (or caring) that 1) none of them are 2) they all have demonized internal capital-O Others, ethnicized or not and 3) there’s a, um, 1939-1945 reason these countries have the populations they do….
20.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0the fascination American right-wingers have with CEE never stops — all these countries have far more political & cultural diversity, including a whole lot of what these guys don’t like, but to them they’re little fantasies of a simultaneous past & future solely because they see them as more ‘white’
20.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 51 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
Alt-Text: Grafik auf grünem Hintergrund mit gezeichneten Porträts der zehn Todesopfer des rechtsterroristischen Anschlags von Hanau am 19. Februar 2020. In zwei Reihen sind die Gesichter von Ferhat Unvar (23), Said Nesar Hashemi (21), Ibrahim Akkus (70), Hamza Kurtović (22), Fatih Saraçoğlu (34), Sedat Gürbüz (29), Vili Viorel Păun (22), Gökhan Gültekin (37), Kaloyan Velkov (33) und Mercedes Kierpacz (35) abgebildet. Unter den Porträts steht: „19. Februar 2020, Hanau“ und „#KeinVergessen“. Unten rechts ist das Logo der Amadeu Antonio Stiftung zu sehen.
#KeinVergessen: Am Abend des 19. Februar 2020 verübt ein Rechtsterrorist einen rassistisch motivierten Anschlag in Hanau, bei dem zehn Menschen ermordet werden. 1/10 www.belltower.news/rassismus-to...
19.02.2026 06:58 — 👍 314 🔁 147 💬 4 📌 8
“…gendered AI-enabled harms…function as early-stage enabling infrastructures through which new techniques of coercion, evidentiary evasion, and networked mobilisation are tested before diffusing into overtly political or violent online ecosystems” (cc @koltai.bsky.social)
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this all sounds like something drawn up on a dribbled-on napkin at the bar
18.02.2026 23:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0