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Rose Girone, who was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, died this week at 113. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, "Aren’t we lucky?" Read more: nyti.ms/3Xlk3fM

Little known, recently discovered fact: Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk. Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines. Gift🔗👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants killed by Saudi border forces, with witnesses reporting machine-gun fire and rotting bodies. “Bullets hit two young women—one in the chest, the other in the neck. Both died instantly. Many fell off a cliff trying to escape.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

That this index hasn't coloured Tunisia red on the authoritarian spectrum is an egregious error. We're talking about a country whose president shut parliament w army tanks, singlehandedly wrote a new constitution & jailed every remotely competitive candidate in the Oct 2024 presidential "election."

Xi Jinping ha incontrato Sergei Shoigu segretario del Consiglio di sicurezza della Federazione russa venerdì a Pechino www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202502/28/...

Unlike in the war’s early phase, when Ukraine drew broad international support, many non-Western UN members opted to keep a low profile this time, signalling a shift in global attitudes, writes @richardgowan1.bsky.social. www.crisisgroup.org/europe-centr...

ossignur, ce ne siamo accorti troppo tardi.

"'Historic call, yes, but the PKK will not disappear tomorrow. On a practical level, the PKK needs security guarantees to hold a congress, at least a big one, and that's going to require more than Ocalan’s statement' said Aliza Marcus" by @amberinzaman.bsky.social www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Mirroring the far right on immigration backfired for Germany’s political centre Even the Greens hardened their rhetoric and lost votes as a result. The message is clear: the new government must offer hope, not hatred.

Will be fascinating to see how this declaration reshapes Kurdish diaspora community life in Germany and other EU states over the next few months

The mother of jailed British-Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has been on hunger strike for some 150 days, has been admitted to the hospital. She's lost almost 70 pounds. www.reuters.com/world/jailed...

Got it. But it still worth repeating.

'....the value of US demands was some four times its assistance...according to the Kiel Institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker, Europeans provided more assistance than the US, which made just 31 per cent of total bilateral commitments and 41 per cent of military commitments to Ukraine...'

“Bearded belly dancers for thee but anti-LGBT for me” is extra rich & also extra reflective of double standards that Western conservatives have historically harboured re: Muslim-majority countries. British colonial governors who rejected women’s rights at home promoted them in Egypt, etc.

Deport people who work hard for a living, import international criminals

Das ist das perfekte Beispiel für ein Produkt der Aufmerksamkeits/Erregungsindustrie des Kulturkampf-Faschismus. Das ist so skurril, wirr und böse in allen Implikationen, wo soll man nur anfangen? Es dient aber auch nur der reinen Provokation. Es wurde rein für Leute wie uns erstellt.

Good🧵 on the horrible "Gaza Riviera" video.

Als ich sagte, antifaschistische Demonstrationen könnten irgendwann kriminalisiert werden, konnten sich viele von euch das nicht vorstellen.

Nein, nicht nur Frauen können sich für Gleichberechtigung einsetzen. Gleichzeitig deutet diese Grafik schon sehr deutlich an, für welche Parteien Gleichberechtigung eine Rolle spielt. Und für wen nicht.

You can share the Bibas family inconceivable grief & say "no to ethnic cleansing" in #Gaza" & the West Bank, not wanting any other child, Palestinian or Israeli, to be murdered and mourned. Plus, you can stand with #Ucraine and its' killed and deported children. Used to be called simple humanity.

Enough! This Bullshit Has to End www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

Paid ad on Italian daily signed by dozens Italian Jews intellectuals denounces "Israeli government's and settlers violence" in the West Bank and Trump's plan for Gaza : "NO to ethnic cleansing. Italy must not be an accomplice"

The chainsaw should have been a clue

Non è la cessione indiscriminata delle terre rare a Trump, ma di un 50% delle revenue (che è comunque tanto), ma escludendo dal pacchetto (“salvando”) Naftogaz e Ukrnafta, ossia la quasi totalità dello sviluppo dell’oil & gas ucraino. Zelensky ha giocato il meglio che poteva ft.trib.al/h2kr4Zn

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Thousands of Israelis line streets for funeral of Bibas family killed in Gaza

Watch this. Share this. Demand more reporting like this.

Colonialismo nuovo nuovo! E a portata delle tasche di ognuno. L'Italia sovrana si compra un po' d'Albania candidandosi a parco tematico e bella colonia estiva per Trump, Putin e rispettivi oligarchi. Fortuna non è prevista distruzione totale, come per la "Riviera di #Gaza".

💈 Germania, la vittoria di Friedrich Merz fra vocazione europeista e maggioranza fragile www.valigiablu.it/germania-ele... via @valigiablu.it

On top of all the other things that are so deeply wrong with this unhinged video, it is also deeply misogynistic

Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...

Inserzione uscita oggi su @larepubblica.bsky.social e @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social. Insieme al video di #Trump in cui ci sono lui con Bibi e Elon a scialarsela da padroni del mondo nella nuova "Riviera di Gaza".

Bari Weiss è la giornalista ex liberal e ora trumpiana, che proprio ieri ha difeso il saluto romano di Bannon. Giustamente Il Foglio pubblica un suo discorso

Sweet

Very tough day yesterday, with the US siding with Russia against Ukraine. But at least all of those people who told us for three years that Ukraine was just a US proxy will now admit they were wrong (no?)

Meno stranieri, più voti Afd. È la propaganda, bellezza: non funziona così solo in Germania.

Diamo spazio e attenzione anche alle buone notizie.

Marie Claire Italia mi ha chiesto di scrivere una lettera alla Pace Oggi in edicola il numero con ciò che ho scritto

Chissà se #Meloni abbia capito che l'Italia sarebbe solo un bocconcino prelibato di questo "spezzatino coloniale" - cito Tocci - gradito a Trump e Putin? Se è questo ciò che vuole per la "grande nazione" che guida? La tradizione di "Franza o Spagna, pur che se magna?

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#FreeAlaa

This truly remarkable woman hasn't eaten for 149 days in protest at the Egyptian authorities' refusal to release her son (a British national) from prison, where he is being detained illegally. UK government needs to up the ante.

Mercenaries for deportation. What else?