“Europeans have foundered in letting themselves be so dependent on the whims of an America commanded by a rogue president. Almost by default, they have colluded in the conditions of their own endangerment.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
“The far right has never been as strong as it is today in Paris, but it’s still much weaker here than in the rest of the country,” said Grégoire. “We have powerful antibodies here against their ideology.” www.ft.com/content/7aa4...
🇱🇧 La France s'apprête à tripler son soutien humanitaire au Liban, en y dépêchant jeudi 60 tonnes d'aide pour les réfugiés quittant le sud du pays où Israël mène des opérations militaires contre le Hezbollah pro-iranien, a annoncé le chef de la diplomatie française
www.ft.com/content/2f3e... “One piece of damage that Trump cannot repair is to trust in America. Long after oil prices have stabilised, the world will recall his administration’s glory in the imagery of “lethality”…”.
Watch this video.
This is the start of the MAGA Nuremberg tribunals.
We will put Nathan Cavanaugh on trial for breaking the law, and we will put him in prison for a long time. It’s the only way to prevent this from happening again and restore rule of law.
“With machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness toward the lives of US troops, they say, Hegseth’s puerile displays on TV are aimed at sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose
Looks like Republican NIMBY-ism is our best defense against the United States of ICE. 🤷♂️
a year is a long time in politics
"Due to the prevailing chaos there, difficulties in recovering and identifying bodies from the rubble, and a lack of official death declarations when entire families were killed, a substantial share of deaths went unrecorded by the local administration." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Travail, famille, patrie….
Ils elles ne se gênent même plus
C est totalement dingue
www.bfmtv.com/politique/el...
There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
"Après nous, le déluge.
One might be forgiven for thinking ... that France can’t get Trump and Viktor Orbán’s friends in the French far right in power fast enough. The rightward lurch of the country under Emmanuel Macron is accelerating." mirakamdar.substack.com/p/a-hard-rai...
We are a nation of laws, not of men. This banner symbolizes a disgusting betrayal of our values.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
Censorship regimes are getting worse worldwide.
“It’s a massive blow. The need is bigger and other funding is also gone. Organisations that provide these tools are being overwhelmed,” said the digital rights expert. “It’s not sustainable.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
We are governed by a coalition of Huck Finn’s dad, the insane race war rant from Gatsby, and Ahab’s mad quest for vengeance.
“The White House has indicated that the summit for his new ad hoc council at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace will heavily function as a fundraising round,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“I don’t want to rely on shareholders that want to end our European democracies,” Sebastian Schäfer, the Green party’s defence specialist on the budget committee said. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Palestinian paramedic from Gaza dies in Israeli custody - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-paramedic-gaza-dies-israeli-custody
No one can. But what to do?!
“People have such a hard time here believing that the country that played this role in liberating Europe and built the Marshall Plan and alliances is turning its back. And doing it by accommodating Russia.” www.ft.com/content/fdd6...
"In a pre-photography age of scientific discovery and obsessive taxonomy, the intricate work of these Indian artists was crucial to the European project of identifying, knowing and, therefore, possessing the world." My latest for Substack. mirakamdar.substack.com/p/flora-indica
“There is a reason why Mandelson kept returning to government, despite sackings for his over-enthusiastic relationships with plutocrats. He was brought in to do the dirty work. The governments in which he served could loudly claim to be doing something, while subtly and simultaneously undoing it.”
"ICE mirrors the same patterns of state terror I have documented for decades... . All of this is justified by the guardians of legality: the White House, the Knesset, the office of the prime minister." @janinedigi.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
mirakamdar.substack.com/p/the-empire... My latest for Mixed Borders on Substack: A review of the Singh Twins' exhibition Botanical Tales and the Seeds of Empire at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and a reflection on economic botany, imperialism, racism, art and more.
"What people have witnessed with their eyes and ears is questioned by rolling commentary of lies and conjecture, given the imprimatur of truth through being shown or printed on credible platforms." @nesrinemalik.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So weird how this keeps happening.
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
"Appeasing Trump isn’t working. Rutte has gone to enormous lengths to appease and flatter Trump (at one point likening him to a benevolent “daddy”), and what did it get him?" foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/04/n...
mirakamdar.substack.com/p/the-empire... My latest for Mixed Borders on Substack: A review of the Singh Twins' exhibition Botanical Tales and the Seeds of Empire at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and a reflection on economic botany, imperialism, racism, art and more.
