Spanish Immigration Is Different Madrid is preparing for one of the most ambitious regularization schemes in European history.

Spanish Immigration Is Different
According to @nandosigona.bsky.social Pedro #Sánchez is trying to regain control of the narrative around migrants at home while presenting himself as a pillar of the international #left and a defender of #European liberal values.

foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/13/s...

Humour CSP++

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Opinion | This Might Be the Most Economically Destabilizing War in Decades Even if this cease-fire holds, the war’s shocks may last for years.

Looking out over a devastated Europe in 1919, the French prime minister, Clemenceau, said that it was “far easier to make war than to make peace.”
The same is true when it comes to the world economy
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Guess who was most opposed to the Channel Tunnel in 1986?

Women, the elderly, the far right, and those who believed the European Community was a bad thing.
#EU #History #Opinion #UK

Almost the same result in Gallup survey

Public opinion is weird.
In 1986, Eurobarometer asked #Europeans whether the construction of a Channel Tunnel, decided by the #British and #French governments, was a good or a bad thing.
Guess who said a bad thing?

Seems like just enough time to impeach and convict him.

Pour ou contre la reconnaissance d'une citoyenneté européenne et l'attribution d'un #passeport européen à tous les citoyens des pays membres de la Communauté européenne?
(Eurobaromètre sept. 1975)
#EU #History

Should one progress towards the political union of Europe?
~80% YES in the six Member States in 1975
#eu

Et voilà.

Comme cela était prévisible, l'interdiction par le préfet de police de la « rencontre annuelle des musulmans de France» est suspendue par le juge des référés.

Atteinte grave & manifestement illégale aux libertés fondamentales car *rien* ne justifiait cette interdiction.

> bit.ly/47Hp3AJ

Wells and cosmopolitanism, too

Hundreds of thousands of people expected at London march against the far right – live Together Alliance march begins in central London at midday; a separate event organised by the Palestine Coalition is also taking place The Metropolitan police have said there will be a “significant policing presence” in Westminster on Saturday with a number of large protests expected. In addition to the marches organised by the Together Alliance and the Palestine Coalition, a number of protests against the Iranian regime – both static assemblies and marches – are due to take place in the Westminster area on both Saturday and Sunday. Continue reading...

Hundreds of thousands of people expected at London march against the far right – live

Vient de paraître ! « Mobilités étudiantes », numéro coordonné par Antonin Durand et Guillaume Tronchet, 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire, 2025/4, n°168
shs.cairn.info/revue-20-21-...

less than three months out from the World Cup, Trump touts the presence of ICE agents at airports and says they're "very fertile territory" for arresting foreigners

Oui, je pense qu'en France le manque d'éducation concernant les courants politiques (dont le libéralisme fait partie) fait naître des monstres. Même Lisnard qui se dit libéral est étatiste et ne jure que sur la coercition. Ce Stérin aussi. Dans l'article NYT, il se dit catho mais contre Vatican🤡

C'est vrai: les communistes avaient fermé les frontières (à la sortie et à l'entrée). En interne, pas de mobilité résidentielle ou professionnelle. Les diplômés étaient "répartis" selon leur note et on ne pouvait pas refuser d'y aller.
Vous n'imaginez pas le bonheur qu'apporte le libéralisme🫣

The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field? Abstract. Methodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social science

On #immigration, true #cosmopolitans should argue that states violating people’s right to #free movement should either be sentenced, or owe compensations to the people harmed, or that States deserve #amnesty
Why has nobody ever considered these positions?

academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

🚨 Le 9 et le 11 mars, 2 personnes ont été expulsées depuis le CRA de Toulouse alors que leur recours suspensif était toujours pendant devant les juridictions nationales : ces expulsions sont donc illégales

📢 Partagez cette histoire pour faire pression

En savoir +
www.lacimade.org/presse/deux-...

Oui, elle aurait pu dire, comme "Benito" lui-même l'a dit, qu'en France une majorité des gens est d'accord avec Benito. Si ce n'est pas une insulte pourquoi lui demander des excuses?

Elle a été suspendue aussitôt...

Les lectures qu'on regrette instantanément : le compte rendu d la minute de silence pour un militant néo-nazi à l'assemblée nationale.

www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/compt...

Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

#Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

Dozens #OpenAI employees and #Google employees — including Jeff Dean, chief scientist of Google DeepMind — filed a legal brief supporting Anthropic’s position against the Defense Dept
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/t...

Ah, les immigrés de 1901 ! gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (lire la légende, attention, lire la légende)

Il y a aussi un autre biais, que Kahneman a appelé WYSIATI=What You See Is All There Is et qui est la tendance à créer une histoire cohérente à partir des éléments disponibles mais disparates.
Vu sous cet angle, c'est étonnant qu'on ait inventé le "cv narratif".

This New Jersey immigrant backed Trump for over 10 years. Then ICE detained him. ICE detained Abdellatif Hafraoui, a New Jersey Trump supporter, over a decades-old in absentia removal order.

"To think we were MAGA," Sandra said, adding that, if she could speak to the president now, she would say, "You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life."
reason.com/2026/02/26/t...

British dual nationals risk imminent refusal of travel to UK, Home Office affirms Government ignores pleas for a grace period before new rules come into force on Wednesday

Pleas for a grace period have been ignored by government, & use of an expired British passport are at the discretion of the airlines.
It seems the Home Office want to make it difficult &/or expensive for all visitors to the UK, even the British ones.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“What makes you proud of your country?” 🇫🇷

About a quarter of French adults (26%) say they are proud of their arts and culture – one man dubbing it “culture with a capital C” – and praise the know-how of artists, like the “craftsmen and women who rebuilt [the] Notre Dame” cathedral.

"Board of peace" 🤡