Marianne
@lifeinjoy.bsky.social
Safeguarding, anders durven denken, 'intraconnection'.
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The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership.
“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”
mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...
“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”
mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...
The seven richest billionaires are all media barons - MR Online
What the planet’s mega-rich capture of our media system shows is that billionaires are not only a serious drain on resources, but an existential threat to an open society and the free flow of informat...
mronline.org
January 25, 2026 at 7:38 AM
The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership.
“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”
mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...
“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”
mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...
This book is a gem (and I am pleased it's been translated into Dutch too) media.s-bol.com/mm1yEJ3VL1v3...
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This book is a gem (and I am pleased it's been translated into Dutch too) media.s-bol.com/mm1yEJ3VL1v3...
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NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy.
The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy.
The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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"As Trump embraces Catholic symbols and allies, a new “Catholic moment” emerges in U.S. politics—one shaped less by theology than by spectacle, power, and a willingness to cross sacred lines in ways the Church may struggle to confront"
my latest in "La Croix International" @LaCroixInt
'Pope Trump' and the dangers of the new 'Catholic moment' in the United States
international.la-croix.com/opinions/pop...
'Pope Trump' and the dangers of the new 'Catholic moment' in the United States
international.la-croix.com/opinions/pop...
'Pope Trump' and the dangers of the new 'Catholic moment' in the United States
Signs of the times. As Trump embraces Catholic symbols and allies, a new “Catholic moment” emerges in U.S. politics—one shaped less by theology than by spectacle, power, and a willingness to cross sac...
international.la-croix.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"As Trump embraces Catholic symbols and allies, a new “Catholic moment” emerges in U.S. politics—one shaped less by theology than by spectacle, power, and a willingness to cross sacred lines in ways the Church may struggle to confront"
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"The mechanism of the election is structured in such a way that the pope appoints those who will elect his successor. But this does not mean that the conclave will elect a pope in his predecessor’s mould"
One of the world's leading experts on how to cover the conclave
One of the world's leading experts on how to cover the conclave
How to cover the conclave: insights on the pope’s election from one of the world's leading experts
“You can’t approach it as you would approach a political election. The patterns are just different,” says Corriere della Sera’s Gian Guido Vecchi. Lee este artículo en español
buff.ly
May 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"The mechanism of the election is structured in such a way that the pope appoints those who will elect his successor. But this does not mean that the conclave will elect a pope in his predecessor’s mould"
One of the world's leading experts on how to cover the conclave
One of the world's leading experts on how to cover the conclave
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It is not lost on me that a man who attended the funeral of Pope Francis also deported a child with metastatic cancer, innocent people to a gulag, and feels not one shred of remorse about either.
April 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It is not lost on me that a man who attended the funeral of Pope Francis also deported a child with metastatic cancer, innocent people to a gulag, and feels not one shred of remorse about either.
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“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.”
On the loss of a mighty moral voice on climate change.
www.politico.eu/article/pope...
On the loss of a mighty moral voice on climate change.
www.politico.eu/article/pope...
Pope Francis, the isolated climate moralist
In the weeks before his death, Francis repeated a decade-old plea for a break from both Trumpian greed and the left’s economic rationalism.
www.politico.eu
April 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.”
On the loss of a mighty moral voice on climate change.
www.politico.eu/article/pope...
On the loss of a mighty moral voice on climate change.
www.politico.eu/article/pope...
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Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’
Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’
Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babiš, dubbed ‘the Czech Trump’
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’
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‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors
‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors
Ever since the artist’s repellent crimes were brought to light, the world has grappled with how to treat his work. Now a new exhibition at Ditchling, where he lived, is giving survivors a say
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors
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Öztürk had recently thought about avoiding communal dinners during Ramadan.
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” her close friend recalled. “And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” her close friend recalled. “And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…
www.propublica.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Öztürk had recently thought about avoiding communal dinners during Ramadan.
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” her close friend recalled. “And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” her close friend recalled. “And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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How to protect democracies from falsehoods?
By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills
“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
How to protect democracies from falsehoods?
By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
I must admit that I like this one... www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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March 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I must admit that I like this one... www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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The Irish famine of the 1840s reminds us that the Great Hunger was shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendent: the poor are the authors of their own misery, and the market must be obeyed at all costs.
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
www.newyorker.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Irish famine of the 1840s reminds us that the Great Hunger was shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendent: the poor are the authors of their own misery, and the market must be obeyed at all costs.
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Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writer
Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writer
Jack Thorne, whose Netflix series has shone a light on incel culture, calls for restrictions on teens’ social media access
Smartphones should be treated like cigarettes and banned until the age of 16 in the UK, according to the writer of Adolescence,…
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writer
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Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social
The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
Republicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisons
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
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Trump is tearing up the rights of women. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works | Hibaaq Osman
Trump is tearing up the rights of women. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works | Hibaaq Osman
The new administration threatens to undo decades of progress in America, but as North Africa and the Middle East have shown, there is power in female solidarity
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Trump is tearing up the rights of women. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works | Hibaaq Osman
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Trump’s war against truth and against faith
My latest in @LaCroixInt
The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institution amid rising authoritarianism.
international.la-croix.com/opinions/tru...
My latest in @LaCroixInt
The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institution amid rising authoritarianism.
international.la-croix.com/opinions/tru...
Trump’s war against truth and against faith
Signs of the times. As Trumpism distorts truth and history, Catholics face a critical choice. The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institut...
international.la-croix.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Trump’s war against truth and against faith
My latest in @LaCroixInt
The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institution amid rising authoritarianism.
international.la-croix.com/opinions/tru...
My latest in @LaCroixInt
The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institution amid rising authoritarianism.
international.la-croix.com/opinions/tru...
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En met deze wijze woorden wens ik jullie een mooie nacht.
March 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
En met deze wijze woorden wens ik jullie een mooie nacht.