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American Techno-Oligarchy, the Far Right, and the Battle over Europe’s Future US tech oligarchs like Thiel and Musk align with Europe’s far right to weaken EU regulations, fragment unity, and advance anti-democratic agendas.

American Techno-Oligarchy, the Far Right, and the Battle over Europe’s Future buff.ly/iSXkRDY US tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk align with Europe’s far right to weaken EU regulations, fragment unity, and advance anti-democratic agendas - echoing Putin’s goals.

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The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/Hqq63Z2

Excellent thread on the US Department of Education
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Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors

Labour did this to itself and it desperately needs to figure out what political scientists already know, which is that trying to appeal to xenophobic voters who may have voted left decades ago is a fool's errand for today's social-democratic parties & destructive to maintaining a viable coalition

1/ @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social have drafted a seminal brief: (a) that centers Black American beliefs on birthright citizenship and (b) uses a set of primary sources, such as speeches and Colored Conventions, fought for (and won) broad birthright citizenship for everyone.

Questions of Race and Repair The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain.

Catherine Hall (@cslbs.bsky.social) examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

❗️Dozens of people wounded as a result of the Russian attack, including children: the enemy launched 39 missiles and 420 drones at Ukraine overnight, – Zelenskyy.

There is destruction in eight regions: many private houses and apartment buildings were damaged.

The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front In interwar Europe, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini forced leftists into pragmatic alliances. The popular fronts they built were a defense against fascism, but also pointed to how to win broad-based ...

"The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front", via @jacobinmag.bsky.social. My essay on what the Popular Front can teach us, and how the strategy could be used to move the political centre towards the left: jacobin.com/2026/02/inte...

Alarming Criminalization of Green Card Holder Based on “Antifa Materials” - National Lawyers Guild As the federal government’s repression of dissent expands, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is increasingly alarmed at the situation evolving in Johnston County, Texas, in relation to the Prairieland ...

A Texas man is facing 40 YEARS in federal prison for moving a box of “antifa” pamphlets. Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the July 4th protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. His wife was.

www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...

What the actual fuck?

As Tommy Robinson continues to tour America and meet up with prominent figures on the far-right, here's another example of just how intertwined the extremist movements on both sides of the Atlantic have become

(Jared Taylor heads up the white supremacist American Renaissance group)

The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front In interwar Europe, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini forced leftists into pragmatic alliances. The popular fronts they built were a defense against fascism, but also pointed to how to win broad-based ...

"The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front", via @jacobinmag.bsky.social. My essay on what the Popular Front can teach us, and how the strategy could be used to move the political centre towards the left: jacobin.com/2026/02/inte...

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Tomorrow President Zelenskyy will address the world from Ukraine during the extraordinary @europarl.europa.eu Plenary Session marking 4 years since the start of the invasion.

We stand with the brave people of Ukraine. Together we will keep pushing for a just peace & sustained security for Ukraine.

Postwar Mnemonic Anti-fascism 1946–1975: How Nordic “Committees” Organized a Continuity of Resistance and Remembrance “We remember – but we do not remember enough.” –Georg Branting   After the Second World War, famous anti-fascist organizers and intellectuals grew increasingly concerned with the survival of what t…

Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) explores in this new essay the postwar evolution of antifascism in the Nordic countries: #Spain #Portugal #Greece helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/02/17/p...

You’re on social media, so this should concern you.

The U.S. government has been asking platforms like Meta for user data.

You don’t have to be paranoid to see the problem. You just have to be paying attention. If you’re online, this includes you.
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Check out this new publication on preventing online harm to researchers by C-REX affiliates @audreygagnon.bsky.social and @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social👇

Postwar Mnemonic Anti-fascism 1946–1975: How Nordic “Committees” Organized a Continuity of Resistance and Remembrance “We remember – but we do not remember enough.” –Georg Branting   After the Second World War, famous anti-fascist organizers and intellectuals grew increasingly concerned with the survival of what t…

Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) explores in this new essay the postwar evolution of antifascism in the Nordic countries: #Spain #Portugal #Greece helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/02/17/p...

What’s one way we can rein in ICE?

We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.

Watch.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Russia launches another massive attack amid freezing temperatures On the night of February 17, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 29 missiles of various types and 396 strike drones. The Air Force Command of the Armed

🙏 In Odesa, tens of thousands of people were left without heating and water supply after drone strikes.

Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk region…The damage included fires and the destruction of enterprises and residential buildings.

Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/russia-launc...

Perussuomalaiset | Purra ehdottaa: Maahanmuuttajat palkattomiin töihin sosiaalitukien saamiseksi Tanskassa velvoitetöitä voi joutua tekemään 37 tuntia viikossa, jotta saa tukia. Suomessa vastaava ei onnistuisi helposti, sanoo tutkimusprofessori.

Naturligtvis med Danmark som exempel... www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

“Välfärdschauvinism” – eller hur invandringen förvandlades till välfärdens fiende | Åbo Underrättelser Det är idag så gott som omöjligt att föra en politisk diskussion om välfärdssamhällets framtid utan att invandringsfrågan tar över.

Skulle dela min nya kolumn om högerpopulisternas välfärdschauvinism, för att samtidigt upptäcka dagens nyhet om att Riikka Purra föreslår att invandrare ska göra obetalt arbete för att få socialbidrag i Finland... www.abounderrattelser.fi/artikel/valf...

France and Algeria: ideas of the nation in the French political elite discourse 1954–1956 It has been argued that the French national identity after World War II demanded a future Algeria within the French colonial empire. And that the political elite at the outbreak of war in 1954 was ...

Ny artikel nationsbegreppet i relation till Algerietkriget - publicerad i Journal of Political ideologies: doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Angesichts der stehenden Ovationen für die gestrige MAGA-Rede von #Rubio sollte spätestens jetzt der Blick auf die bereits etablierte Zusammenarbeit zwischen EVP und den rechte(re)n Parteien im EP gelenkt werden. Das sind nämlich beileibe keine Zufallsmehrheiten, wie #Monitor zeigt: 🧵

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AOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in ‘age of authoritarianism’ at Munich conference Congressperson says US president and Marco Rubio are tearing apart transatlantic alliance Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an “age of authoritarianism”, as she condemned his administration’s foreign policy in front of its allies’ top policymakers at the Munich Security Conference. Speaking at a panel on populism on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez outlined what she called an “alternative vision” for a leftwing US foreign policy, challenging the Trump administration’s shift to the right in front an audience of US allies who have grown increasingly wary of the US’s increasingly nationalist – and militaristic – global posture. Continue reading...

AOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in ‘age of authoritarianism’ at Munich conference

February 12 - The Most Dangerous Woman in America On this day in Labor History the year was 1913. That was the day that the labor leader known as “Mother” Jones was arrested in West Virginia. She was there to support coal miners during the Paint and Cabin Creek strike of 1912-1913. The West Virginia coalfields were one of the bloodiest sites of labor conflict in US History.

February 12 - The Most Dangerous Woman in America

On this day in Labor History the year was 1913. That was the day that the labor leader known as “Mother” Jones was arrested in West Virginia. She was there to support coal miners during the Paint and Cabin Creek strike of 1912-1913. The West Virgi

Why AOC Should Run for President Two words: Analilia Mejia

@aoc.bsky.social should run for president because (a) 2028 is the year she could win, and (b) we desperately need a president who actually is enthusiastic about crushing fascism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-aoc-sh...

Unidentified oil washes up on South African beaches A mysterious oil spill is raising concern among South African conservationists and coastal communities. On Jan. 22, reports started emerging of congealed oil washing up on South Africa’s southeast…

Oil of unknown origin is washing up along 1,200 km of South Africa’s coast, closing beaches and alarming conservationists.

Tar balls and oil-filled barrels have been reported on 20+ beaches, with no confirmed source — raising fears for wildlife, including critically endangered African penguins.