marc 🇪🇺
@mbanon38.bsky.social
Worked for french subsidiary of a US IT company which ignited Silicon Valley and put diversity of cultures at the heart of success. Science and Technology for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Sad and angry about new tech values and moguls.
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marc 🇪🇺
@mbanon38.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Today's capitalism: the way we spend our money creates monsters, the way we cast (or not) our ballots elect them. Dystopia ??
Never forget, how it starts, how it ends, unless everyone in society acts according to shared values and never bows down. Keep this small and beautiful writing close to you, and remember Étienne de la Boetie too.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Never forget, how it starts, how it ends, unless everyone in society acts according to shared values and never bows down. Keep this small and beautiful writing close to you, and remember Étienne de la Boetie too.
Hey, Justice matters
Affaire Bygmalion : Nicolas Sarkozy définitivement condamné pour le financement de sa campagne de 2012
L’ancien chef de l’Etat « prend acte » de sa condamnation définitive à un an de prison dont six mois ferme, ont déclaré à l’AFP ses avocats Patrice Spinosi et Emmanuel Piwnica. La cour avait ordonné, ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Hey, Justice matters
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A chronology of what the Kremlin has been saying about the US peace plan.
Nothing here signifies that Russia is interested in real peace talks.
🔷 Putin
◾️ November 24, 3:25 pm
As usual, Putin was the least talkative.
Nothing here signifies that Russia is interested in real peace talks.
🔷 Putin
◾️ November 24, 3:25 pm
As usual, Putin was the least talkative.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A chronology of what the Kremlin has been saying about the US peace plan.
Nothing here signifies that Russia is interested in real peace talks.
🔷 Putin
◾️ November 24, 3:25 pm
As usual, Putin was the least talkative.
Nothing here signifies that Russia is interested in real peace talks.
🔷 Putin
◾️ November 24, 3:25 pm
As usual, Putin was the least talkative.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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2 photos - 85 years apart
1940: Londoners huddle in Underground while Nazi bombs rained down overhead.
Today, Ukrainians take shelter from Russian missiles & drones in Kyiv Metro.
Different times, different countries. London got thru it & so will Ukraine
📷 London Transport Museum, Yan Dobronosov
1940: Londoners huddle in Underground while Nazi bombs rained down overhead.
Today, Ukrainians take shelter from Russian missiles & drones in Kyiv Metro.
Different times, different countries. London got thru it & so will Ukraine
📷 London Transport Museum, Yan Dobronosov
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
2 photos - 85 years apart
1940: Londoners huddle in Underground while Nazi bombs rained down overhead.
Today, Ukrainians take shelter from Russian missiles & drones in Kyiv Metro.
Different times, different countries. London got thru it & so will Ukraine
📷 London Transport Museum, Yan Dobronosov
1940: Londoners huddle in Underground while Nazi bombs rained down overhead.
Today, Ukrainians take shelter from Russian missiles & drones in Kyiv Metro.
Different times, different countries. London got thru it & so will Ukraine
📷 London Transport Museum, Yan Dobronosov
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Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵
Experimental mRNA flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵
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Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
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This is a totally brilliant strategy for eliminating corporate power & skulduggery from our elections by exercising the right of states to define corporations’ power. Read and share!
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way
robertreich.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is a totally brilliant strategy for eliminating corporate power & skulduggery from our elections by exercising the right of states to define corporations’ power. Read and share!
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
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Pendant ce temps, en Russie...
Meanwhile in Russia: Dimitri Simes said that Trump never even read the "peace plan" he wanted Zelensky to sign. Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov said Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
Andrey Kartapolov says Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Pendant ce temps, en Russie...
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn’t Strategy — It’s Surrender abovethelaw.com/2025/11/marc...
Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn’t Strategy — It’s Surrender - Above the Law
Above the Law’s 2020 Lawyer of the Year Is still fighting to protect your right to vote.
abovethelaw.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn’t Strategy — It’s Surrender abovethelaw.com/2025/11/marc...
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Former MEP Nathan Gill got 10.5 years for taking bribes to spread pro Russian messages.
🧵 1/9 ⬇️
🧵 1/9 ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Former MEP Nathan Gill got 10.5 years for taking bribes to spread pro Russian messages.
🧵 1/9 ⬇️
🧵 1/9 ⬇️
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I stand with Senator Mark Kelly! 💯🗽💙
#IStandWithMarkKelly
Thank you @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social 💯
#IStandWithMarkKelly
Thank you @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social 💯
When Mark Kelly spoke to the troops, he wasn’t talking politics. He was reinforcing the pillars of a free country.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I stand with Senator Mark Kelly! 💯🗽💙
#IStandWithMarkKelly
Thank you @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social 💯
#IStandWithMarkKelly
Thank you @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social 💯
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The six Democrats in Congress who recorded a video informing troops that they could refuse illegal orders said they were being investigated by the FBI. The inquiry is part of a campaign by the Trump administration to seek retribution against the president’s perceived political enemies.
Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video
The move came one day after the Pentagon said it was investigating Senator Mark Kelly for his participation in the video.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The six Democrats in Congress who recorded a video informing troops that they could refuse illegal orders said they were being investigated by the FBI. The inquiry is part of a campaign by the Trump administration to seek retribution against the president’s perceived political enemies.
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The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
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The people running Silicon Valley are some of the craziest people alive, and the people running the White House are the most loathsome demons in the western world, and the rest of the billionaires are mostly evil weirdos, and all of them have the equivalent of lead poisoning from the Internet
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The people running Silicon Valley are some of the craziest people alive, and the people running the White House are the most loathsome demons in the western world, and the rest of the billionaires are mostly evil weirdos, and all of them have the equivalent of lead poisoning from the Internet
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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#Ukraine
Comme souvent avec le gouvernement Trump : si on propose ça en pitch pour un roman ou une série, personne n'accepterait pour manque flagrant de vraisemblance🤦🏻🤬.
Comme souvent avec le gouvernement Trump : si on propose ça en pitch pour un roman ou une série, personne n'accepterait pour manque flagrant de vraisemblance🤦🏻🤬.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#Ukraine
Comme souvent avec le gouvernement Trump : si on propose ça en pitch pour un roman ou une série, personne n'accepterait pour manque flagrant de vraisemblance🤦🏻🤬.
Comme souvent avec le gouvernement Trump : si on propose ça en pitch pour un roman ou une série, personne n'accepterait pour manque flagrant de vraisemblance🤦🏻🤬.
Welcome to the club of countries with free Justice not shy to judge and imprison former presidents who violated the law or constitution of their countries. Maybe others will follow.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Welcome to the club of countries with free Justice not shy to judge and imprison former presidents who violated the law or constitution of their countries. Maybe others will follow.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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🎁 Gift Article: This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. Read: belib.org/applebaum-uk...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
belib.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🎁 Gift Article: This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. Read: belib.org/applebaum-uk...
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America needs more patriots like Senator Mark Kelly and fewer miserable cowards like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
Sen. Mark Kelly facing military investigation after clashing with Trump
A statement from the Pentagon said all service members have a "legal obligation" to "obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful."
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
America needs more patriots like Senator Mark Kelly and fewer miserable cowards like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.