📉 Visiting and posting on X and Facebook has collapsed: nearly 50% drop!
On X, it is mostly Democrats who have become inactive.
Many still occasionally log on, but rarely and quietly.
A new book, Governing Digital China, offers crucial insights into China's governance ecosystem. Written by the Hertie School and the Center for Digital Governance's Daniela Stockmann and the University of Birmingham's Ting Luo, the book reveals a more complex reality than simple top-down control.
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"Two Indian-flagged vessels carrying crude oil were on Saturday attacked while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, India's Ministry of External Affairs confirmed in a statement." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
With some heads up over the switch on polymarket
Dutch journalists have tracked frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) live during combat operations in east Mediterranean.
By sending a Bluetooth tracker to a sailor with the official military post they managed to get live positions for several days.
Dutch Navy has since adjusted protocols.
Plus des trois quarts des pays européens sont dépendants du cloud américain pour des fonctions essentielles à leur sécurité nationale, met en garde un rapport
🚨 VACATURE Het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap van Uni Leiden is op zoek naar twee UD2s met expertise in één of meer van de volgende gebieden: de Europese Unie-politiek, politieke economie, milieupolitiek, beleid en/of de Nederlandse politiek.
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi...
At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
After Ukraine, France is the European country most targeted by foreign disinformation ops
• Many campaigns come from Russia, which finds fertile ground in France for such ops
• Pro-Russian (/anti-US) sentiment is more widespread in France relative to other EU states
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Loser across three continents
Who has the cards now?
🗳️Résultats sur 90% des bulletins :
🔵Tisza (conservateur) : 53,7%, 138 élus
⚫️Fidesz (droite populiste) : 37,7%, 54 élus
⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 5,9%, 7 élus
La modification par Orban du mode de scrutin en 2012 a fini par se retourner contre lui en amplifiant sa défaite.
one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:
Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine
No amount of gerrymandering will fix that
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Sweet lord, 138!
Israel has refused to allow France to be involved in the direct talks between it and Lebanon, which are set to begin next week in Washington.
www.jpost.com/internationa...
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad
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Had the opportunity to write in the latest issue of India’s world on Iran.
Many argued India abandoned its balancing approach & tilted toward Israel & US but India’s middle east pivot began well before the current crisis & points less to Israel than to the UAE indiasworld.in/indias-real-...
TSDT: Trump se dégonfle toujours
To provide more context for Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s remarks on Israel (www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/A...), sharing a piece I wrote last September on the complex history of relations between Pakistan & Israel indiasworld.in/growing-apar...
What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement.
That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance.
Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.
“New Delhi & Ankara’s move to revive bilateral talks days after a visit to Azerbaijan, where ties had also been strained over its government’s support to Pakistan..particularly on the supply of drones ..indicates that the Modi government may be revising its position” www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
“Under this president, the United States has rewarded Russia, ignored China, punished Europe, and abandoned its Asian allies and partners to an economic crisis that it helped set in motion” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Russia will see revenue from its biggest single oil tax double to $9 billion in April due to the oil and gas crisis triggered by the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, Reuters calculations showed, the first concrete evidence of a windfall for Russia.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
From our FirstView: Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India by @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social and FLORIAN SICHART. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
