Lino Molteni

Yet we must learn the lessons at least now. Better late than never.

Unpunished evil always grows. Sweet appeasement won't stop it. Only prevailing firepower.

#Makerussiapay

🧵 Matryoshka, Russian-state aligned bot network has introduced a hashtag HollywoodAgainstZelensky on X/Twitter yesterday.

With deepfaked audio, multiple manipulated Cameo videos make celebrities to "demand" that European leaders force Zelensky to sign a peace treaty on Russia's terms.

As defence chiefs, we warn you today about Russia, and say this rearmament is not warmongering | Richard Knighton and Carsten Breuer Our security is more uncertain than in decades. But by working together, and by showing strength, Britain, Germany and the rest of Europe can preserve peace, say defence chiefs Richard Knighton and Ca...

This is a good publication because 1) it's clear-eyed but not scary and 2) it shows that German & British perspectives converge. Should, however, be underpinned by high-level political messages.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The EU has sanctioned those responsible for Navalny’s poisoning, arbitrary arrest and sham sentencing. We will continue to use our Russia human rights sanctions regime to ensure accountability for repression. (3/3)

Fascinating about the not entirely explained global surge of myopia and the attempts of vision biohackers of many stripes to will themselves into seeing. share.google/rcMsdA1A1722...

Cecchini italiani a Sarajevo negli anni Novanta, altri quattro entrano nelle indagini C’è un indagato di San Vito al Tagliamento. Ma ora gli inquirenti stanno accertando altre posizioni, tra cui quelle di un banchiere di Trieste, un residente ne…

At least 5 people from northern Italy are under investigation by Public Prosecutors in Milan on suspicion of being "weekend snipers" who paid to act as snipers, shooting and killing people during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996 for "recreation".

Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles.
We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive.

Today, we present our 20th sanctions package.

Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy.
And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)

Russian terror bombing of Ukraine continues. Ukraine's allies donate generators but not long range missiles to strike Russia's capacity to terrorize. Western media ignore the humanitarian disaster altogether.

White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains.

And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

Bondi: "At my direction" feds arrested journalists.

At direction of AG may be because:

"Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved...The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges." (per @kylegriffin1.bsky.social re @carolleonnig.bsky.social)

This week, Europe has a historic opportunity, and duty, to finally designate the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. 

This is more than symbolic. This matters.

""Extrajudicial killings are not the sign of a strong regime," ... Paul Musgrave writes. “But they may be the portent of a bloody one." This is what we in America now have to prepare for: a hostile government that has lost patience with establishing sufficient control by more subtle means"

This isn't a crisis we fact-check our way out of, we need to build something bigger and more radical to resist the tide of authoritarianism engulfing our democracies. We can't wait for institutions to act, it's up to us to organise.

“There is a strong chance that — within a month — Trump will have moved on from Greenland and will be indulging another obsession or looking for another victim to pick off. But Europeans, Canadians and other American allies will not forget the Greenland episode.”
@gideonrachman.bsky.social

Trump will lap this up. Europe has to assume that as long as Trump is in the White House, it will face a Trump-Putin partnership determined to divide and conquer Europe (Trump will divide; Putin will conquer - if they're allowed to).

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

The world is so broken that somehow Cow Tools are real now -
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Trump tariffing countries over Greenland is a test. If Europe just swallows it and tries to move on, it increases the odds of the WH thinking it can seize Greenland without consequences. Europe therefore has to respond.

Euro publics have had enough and want their leaders to push back 2/

I hope humour will shield us from the madness of today's international politics. (My ChatGPT app has almost started boiling creating these pics)

POURQUOI l’ayatollah Khamenei ne reculera pas face aux manifestants en #Iran ⬇️.

Don’t Count on Voters to Punish Trump’s Autocratic Moves Saskia Brechenmacher on why polarization erodes electoral accountability

🆕Will voters punish President Trump for undemocratic actions?

Research suggests not, writes @saskiabr.bsky.social for Democracy Without Exception. In polarized contexts, voters rarely cross partisan divides to rebuke autocratic policy.

Instead, pro-democracy advocates need new coalitions⬇️

MAGA Senator Shockingly Advises Trump to ‘Kill’ World Leader The MAGA senator called Donald Trump “the Ronald Reagan-plus of our time.”

Recommending the assassination of a foreign leader to the most deranged president in history?! What can possibly go wrong?

www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...

У 2026 фейки про війну посиляться в TikTok і Telegram Синтетичні відео, ШІ та масові вкиди робитимуть фейки переконливішими. Як у 2026 розпізнавати маніпуляції в TikTok і Telegram – поради.

"The Telegram–TikTok linkage will become tighter. Telegram will remain the space where fakes are launched, while TikTok will serve as the channel for mass emotional reach and normalization of the desired interpretation."
frontliner.ua/tiktok-i-tel....

An Israeli intelligence assessment says the number of protesters killed is in the thousands, not hundreds. Bear in mind there’s always an agenda at work. But The Economist’s Shashank Joshi says the figure is “plausible”.

Georgians stand with the people of Iran.

Everyone but the regime pillars, that is.

Day 409 of #GeorgiaProtests

#FreeIran #FreeGeorgia

📷 MOSE

The internet shutdown that started on January 8 have made it impossible to obtain a full picture of events on the ground. However, the volume and consistency of incoming accounts suggest that lethal force is being widely used to disperse protesters. The most conservative estimates indicate that at least 2,000 people have been killed over the past 48 hours. A doctor in the northern city of Rasht told Iran International that one hospital alone received at least 70 bodies. Sources describe particularly intense violence in areas including Fardis in Karaj, and parts of Tehran, while stressing that similar reports are emerging from many other locations across the country including the western provinces of Ilam and Kermanshah. Despite the near-total internet blackout, videos and messages continue to reach Iran International through limited channels, including Starlink users. These users are largely based in major cities and more affluent areas, leaving large parts of the country with little visibility. Even so, journalists say they are receiving credible information indicating that mass protests a continuing nationwide.

2000 people killed by the regime in the last 48 hours, according to opposition news agency Iran International.

Iran’s Attorney General Movahedi Azad said protesters will now be considered “enemies of God”. That charge carries the death penalty

No flag
No insurance
No problem!

Rustbucket zombie-tanker ARCUSAT/TAVIAN/TIA will enter Baltics in ~3 days.

This will be her third fetch of Russian oil since October.

No flag, no state, no identity and no registry -> she is basically lawless.

Some would even argue states have obligations here.

Sounds like a good place to hold a mass trial for treason when all this is over.

In this first (and maybe last?) Basiji Soup, we’ll look at… the Islamic Republic of Iran, its disinformation operations, its hypocrisy, how it sells its atrocities as virtue and its repression as morality, how it serves the Kremlin, and the current protests against it.

1/20

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...