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Una Hajdari
@unawrites.bsky.social
Journalist. Balkans for @politico.eu, otherwise focused on instability, nationalism and the far-right. Previously: @iwm.at @mit.edu @rsf.org
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban being like “we allow zero migrants in without permission… for that we have to pay €1 million to the Brusselian [sic] budget daily,” and Trump is probably thinking “the Brazilian budget? I just gave Argentina €20 billion, I know what that’s like…”
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lily Allen has mounted a *feral* millennial girl comeback and I’m absolutely here for it 🔥
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Back in Tirana, where the only constant in the skyline is Mount Dajt in the background
September 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watching James Rubin testify in The Hague today in the trial of Hashim Thaci reminds me of how extraordinarily capable US diplomats and State Department employees used to be — no matter what you think of his/Clinton’s relationship with the KLA.
September 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco.

What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk?

I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype:

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...
Peter Thiel & The Antichrist: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype
Why are some of the richest people in the United States suddenly talking about demons, apocalypse, and even the “Antichrist”? On Monday, Peter Thiel—Palantir co-founder, Trump ally, and one of the mo...
www.thenerdreich.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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reading Nick Fuentes' Wikipedia page, due to The News, and I mean I just don't think these are words that should be put together in that order, in the context of a person who is relevant to current affairs
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Some prescient observations from twenty years ago

(Paul Ginsborg’s ‘Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony’, 2005)
August 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Geuzenbond leader Thomas D., arrested last week on terror and weapons charges, has been evicted from his Erp residence - the group's clubhouse. The second person who lived there has been named as *another* one of the three individuals we identified in our Feb 2024 @bellingcat.com article
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Geuzenbond has (finally) confirmed in a statement that their leader Thomas D. was the individual arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offence and weapons charges last week (I’m not resharing here). The organization identifies him themselves as “Thomas”, for what it’s worth.
In the Netherlands, a 24-year-old man from Erp was arrested yesterday in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offense. The suspect is believed to be a member of Geuzenbond, a far-right group we wrote about last year @bellingcat.com

www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...
Lid extreemrechtse Geuzenbond (24) aangehouden om voorbereiden terreurdaad
In Badhoevedorp is gisteren een 24-jarige man uit Erp aanhouden die wordt verdacht van het voorbereiden van een terroristisch misdrijf. De verdachte zou lid zijn van de Geuzenbond, een organisatie die...
www.rtl.nl
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Serbian protests turned violent this week, with even President Aleksandar Vučić acknowledging that a long-running standoff with his opponents has entered “the phase of beatings,” in a TV interview last night.
‘He is finished’: Serbian protesters’ fury with Vučić hits boiling point
POLITICO spoke to an opposition lawmaker who said he was beaten by masked men as demonstrations were met with a violent response.
www.politico.eu
August 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Putin said “Trump says the war wouldn’t have started if he was in power, and I can confirm that.” Right — as if he hadn’t personally ordered the invasion, but was merely swept along by some cosmic force beyond his control. Give me a break
August 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I swear, Putin rambling on about WWII and visiting WWII monuments over and over again — and I say this as someone obsessed with Eastern European history — is getting really fucking old
August 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“Next time in Moscow.”

When Putin says it, in English, it suddenly sounds like the most ominous phrase in the English language
August 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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asked if he'll "commit to not killing any more civilians," Putin smirks and says something that you can't hear above the total chaos of the pool spray
August 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I hate this cursed feeling when, yet again, the fate of me and my people is being decided by some old man across the ocean who has nothing to do with my country.
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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In the Netherlands, a 24-year-old man from Erp was arrested yesterday in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offense. The suspect is believed to be a member of Geuzenbond, a far-right group we wrote about last year @bellingcat.com

www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...
Lid extreemrechtse Geuzenbond (24) aangehouden om voorbereiden terreurdaad
In Badhoevedorp is gisteren een 24-jarige man uit Erp aanhouden die wordt verdacht van het voorbereiden van een terroristisch misdrijf. De verdachte zou lid zijn van de Geuzenbond, een organisatie die...
www.rtl.nl
August 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s battered post-war political system could lose its villain after the country’s election body stripped pro-Russian separatist politician Milorad Dodik of office and banned him from political activity for at least six years today.
Pro‑Putin Balkan disruptor stripped of political office in Bosnia
Milorad Dodik, the brash nationalist who cozied up to the Kremlin and divided Bosnia for years, could finally be booted from office.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Man, I can’t remember the last time I went through someone’s mentions and ended up liking almost every response disagreeing with them
The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid - which, generally speaking, they are v.interested in doing and will continue to be interested in regardless of whether progressives want to talk about it. So the stage has been left entirely clear for the far-right.
August 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Stark warning from the AFP journalists association

"Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger"
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
AFP journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation, warns journalists' association
'We have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded, prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing colleague die of hunger,' says French news agency's journalists' association - Ana...
www.aa.com.tr
July 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A searing and exquisitely written piece by @julianborger.bsky.social from Srebrenica as Bosnia marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide today. The rawness of the grief and pain is felt in every line 💔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica
Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Opinion | Why We Couldn’t Sell America on U.S.A.I.D.
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
At a recent Oval Office event Trump invoked Serbia and Kosovo again, claiming he’d just defused an “imminent” war — a conflict so stealthy that literally no one in Kosovo, Serbia or the wider Balkans knew it was taking place.
June 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Armenia’s Pashinyan and his fight with the Apostolic Church has gotten so bad that they’re accusing him of “not really being Christian” because he’s “circumcised.”

So naturally Pashinyan does the mature thing and proceeds to offer the bishops a *live demonstration* www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Armenian PM says he is not circumcised in ongoing duel with Church
Pashinyan responded to a challenge by the Armenian Apostolic Church leader's spokesperson, saying he was ready to prove he had not been circumcised. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Thousands of miles away from the Israeli airstrikes raining down on Iran, the Iranian hacker group Homeland Justice is chipping away at the digital infrastructure of a southern European country.
Iranian hackers target Albania in retaliation for hosting dissidents
A group tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard targeted the capital of Tirana in retaliation for Albania hosting around 3,000 Iranian dissidents.
www.politico.eu
June 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM