Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉

"We are not heroes".

“En las izquierdas de Europa occidental hay un deseo de poner un muro e ignorar lo que ocurre en el este” Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente

🗣️Continuamos el domingo con esta interesantísima entrevista de @elenadesus.bsky.social al sociólogo Denys Gorbach.

📄 "Desde 2012 Rusia empezó una secuencia de guerras comerciales. Un mes era la leche, al siguiente las locomotoras." ctxt.es/es/20251001/...

In Romania, we entered the post-election phase when, aside from further limiting access to services & education through ineffective budget cuts, the Beautiful Decent Cultural Gatekeepers gather to insult those they've been gatekeeping from with stale metaphors. Annoying bc I like that Ionescu play.

I've been working on developing a critical ecosemiotic approach for the arts. A preliminary framework is the one I used in my article on Vajont & Michelucci's church. Still work in progress but for now, there are 2 regimes: 1. present-focused, vernacular-knowledge; 2. technocratic, future-projecting

Venezia lo sa da che parte stare!
Dal Ponte della Libertà per una Palestina libera

That's certainly the wiser choice.

It's an AI-produced image of the meeting between Trump and Zelensky at the White House with Steve Carell as Michael Scott from the show The Office in the gold-framed photos on the walls screaming NO GOD PLEASE NO

You mean you didn't torture yourself by watching that meeting? Here's a summary:

No, el ecologismo no quema el monte. Juan Miguel de la Fuente contesta en este artículo a las preguntas mediáticas que ponen al ecologismo, la despoblación rural y la ausencia de laboreo como origen del fuego.

Si hace unos meses todo cuñao era experto en riadas, ahora lo es en incendios forestales. Lo que escucho en las calles de mi pueblo es un verdadero manual de desinformación...

Buen diagnóstico (genial la imagen de "avivar las llamas dialécticas que ya devoraban las redes sociales") y fact-check:

Many folks are unhappy about the EU’s weak stance re: Trump. But how many would be raging if the negotiators went gung-ho and put the EU into recession? There is no material basis for this Principled Power some people demand, and there is no popular will to substitute virtues for welfare. So, then?

a man stands in front of a store that sells whites cigarettes ALT: a man stands in front of a store that sells whites cigarettes

Also known as the Chloe Kelly penalty run 🫶

Y a mí pero a las cucas les encanta.

Viví en uno de esos edificios en Valencia; luego me mudé a una ciudad pequeña, en una zona de clase media-alta, pero los problemas persisten: calor asfixiante, negacionismo climático y rechazo a la ayuda pública. Comprensible en este clima ideológico, pero desesperante al vivirlo y compartirlo.

Lo mismo en mi edificio (Gandía)-cubierta instalada hace 2 meses. No hubo manera de convencerles de que hicieran una reforma energética, ni siquiera con ayuda del ayuntamiento ("A quién le benefician las obras?") y nos acusaban de tener ideas raras y no entender como van las cosas (por extranjeros).

But my point is this: it’s not only about Zelensky’s personal approach to corruption; instead, changes in Ukraine president’s approach to corruption & EU integration follow broader geopolitical patterns in building sovereignty and establishing regional power.
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Of course, this shouldn’t be exaggerated—over the next few days/weeks, we'll see whether Ukraine's civil society can impact the decision (as @popovaprof.bsky.social argues), & whether European institutions can still activate the mechanisms to fight a law that's corrosive to democratic resilience
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In general, it's possible that in the current context, issues of corruption, human rights (e.g. new draconic immigration laws in UK & elsewhere), welfare, and rule of law are deprioritized. So, Zelensky’s government’s rollback of anti-corruption institutions may well be a strategic adjustment.
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Joint Ukraine-EU defence is a strategic win for both Maksym Beznosiuk argues that Ukraine’s defence production has grown, yet remains underutilised. With EU support, joint projects could sustain Ukraine’s war effort and advance the EU’s strategic autono...

Also, Ukraine's stalled EU/NATO membership & muted response to the intensifying RU attacks, have forced a shift in strategy. Instead of integration, Europe offers a militarized partnership, as Ukraine’s wartime industry, now the most advanced in the region, is central to the new military posture
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Starmer and Merz find their happy place: War Germany’s leader will use a London visit Thursday to finalize a wide-ranging pact that goes big on security cooperation.

Second, between the Russian threat & economic and ideological pressure from both the US and China, EU has emphasized military buildup (first tentatively, then with clumsy enthusiasm), while marginalizing focus on the welfare state and democratic accountability.
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First, wartime and crisis governments tend towards hard power, backdoor dealing, centralism, etc. ‪Ukraine could be an exception, but amid the global authoritarian drift, when exemplar countries cannot uphold their own democratic integrity, this sets tone and precedents for aspirants. ‬
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As for Ukraine’s new law stripping the independence of two anti-corruption agencies, preceded by a dramatic crackdown on individual corruption investigators, which many of us are trying to make sense of—perhaps this should be understood in a broader geopolitical turn. Some factors: 🧵
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Fără biblioteci, fără povești. Ce pierde un sat când i se închide biblioteca? Am vorbit cu trei bibliotecare, un antropolog și o creatoare de conținut ca să înțelegem ce se întâmplă atunci când statul decide că un bibliotecar cu normă întreagă e „prea mult” pentru un sat și ce ...

If you were wondering how it's going under Romania's new government: as part of the fiscal measures for reducing deficit, rural libraries are downsized & librarian positions cut, while book VAT is up from 5% to 11%. But, gambling is decentralized so local mafias can freely develop their activity.

En este lado de la costa valenciana llevamos ya unos dos meses practicando el becoming-charco, de hecho me parece que estamos entrando en la fase del becoming-moho.

Uau, super logică! 1. Legea e neclară, riscăm să pedepsim nevinovați; 2. Amenințările cu moartea la adresa jurnaliștilor sunt "extrem extrem de concrete"; 3. Schimbăm legea în loc să o aplicăm. Înafară de un exemplu de sofism de-al bun (Euthydemos), legile la care se referă pt. 1 și 2 sunt diferite.

„Legea Vexler” privind combaterea extremismului va fi retrimisă la Parlament pentru reexaminare, anunță președintele Dan - HotNews.ro Preşedintele Nicuşor Dan a declarat vineri că va retrimite în Parlament „Legea Vexler”, după ce Curtea Constituţională va publica motivarea deciziei prin care

🇷🇴 news outlet Hotnews reports that president Nicuşor Dan will use his presidential prerogatives to send the law banning fascist organizations (& the display of fascist symbols etc) back to Parliament for re-examination. Not good.
hotnews.ro/legea-vexler...

A Detailed Report of War Anarchist Front of Iran and Afghanistan A Detailed Report of War and a Few Million Forced to Flee June 24 2025

Detailed account by an anarchist in Iran on protest, survival, repression and escape in the period of last month’s Israel-Iran war. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anar... via @anarchistlibrary.bsky.social

The Socialist Mayors of Madrid and Barcelona Forget the fear-mongering. Madrid and Barcelona tried it. Trash was collected. Housing was built. Power was challenged.

El ruido y el cinismo nos han hecho olvidar que España fue, hace no tanto, un laboratorio político admirado mundialmente. Aquí @waleedshahid.bsky.social toma las experiencias municipalistas de Madrid y Barcelona como modelo para la NYC de Zohran Mamdani.

My appreciation for Junie's existence in grand style between a rock and a hard place.

L'idée de discriminations climatiques va faire son chemin : nous ne sommes pas égaux devant les canicules. Sur un même territoire, les disparités sont flagrantes. L'exposition aux chaleurs extrêmes n'est pas partagée et tout le monde n'a pas un accès égal aux possibilités de s'en abriter.

Meanwhile, in Venice... Proud of my colleagues from the Political Epistemology group and elsewhere for participating!