Maggie Heraty

[vincent cochetel @cochetel]

The protest demonstrates that no single progress has been achieved to build asylum in #Libya in spite of their legal obligations under the 69 OAU Convention. For years, UNHCR to please the authorities by agreeing to a discriminatory registration policy ..1/2

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The EU issued nearly half a million tourist visas to Russians in 2025.

Not to dissidents. Not to refugees. Tourist visas. For holidays. The highest number since Putin sent his army into Ukraine, up 10% on the year. France, proud, principled, morally unimpeachable France, raised its Russian approvals by 23% in a single year.

When the numbers got awkward, the EU did what the EU does. It deleted them. Russian visa statistics quietly vanished from the official Schengen tracker in early 2026. Eight countries had to formally demand they be put back.

They hid the data. Not the policy. The data.

Ten countries, the Nordics, the Baltics, and the Netherlands among them, had to write an actual letter to get this onto a ministers’ meeting agenda. The remaining seventeen apparently saw nothing strange about any of this.

No law is coming before summer. Because before any law can exist, there must first be a proposal. Before the proposal, a consultation. Before the consultation, a scoping exercise. Before the scoping exercise, a working group must be convened to determine whether a scoping exercise is appropriate. The working group requires terms of reference. The terms of reference must be approved by a subcommittee. The subcommittee reports to a committee. The committee feeds into a framework. The framework informs a roadmap. The roadmap gets amended seventeen times and renamed a “strategic pathway.” The strategic pathway is then circulated to member states for comment. France requests more time. The whole thing goes back to the working group.

Any legislation won’t pass before 2027. Possibly 2031, if Italy has a strong summer season.

Ukraine is entering year five. Russians are entering Italy.

Four years of sanctions packages, candlelit solidarity vigils, and solemn declarations about European values, and Paris increased its Russian tourist approvals by nearly a quarter.

The EU didn’t fail to stop the missiles. It didn’t even try to stop the sunbathing.

[Maggie Heraty @HumLoggie]

This demonstrates the need to support hosting communities as well as refugees. But cuts in aid don't often allow for this.

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

Imagine being forced to choose between feeding your family and losing your identity. In 2009, Farrah Budhul Uleh, like thousands of Kenyans, faced a devastating drought and sought food at Dadaab refugee camp.
But a desperate act for survival led to a cruel twist: because his fingerprints were captured in the UN refugee database, the Kenyan government later stripped him of his national ID. Now, over 40,000 Kenyan citizens are trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare, stateless in their own country, unable to work, travel, or access basic services. Even after a landmark High Court ruling ordered their reinstatement, their fight for recognition and dignity continues.
Our exclusive investigation in patnership with @pulitzercenter uncovers the untold stories of Kenya’s forgotten citizens, caught between survival and erasure. Read the full story

Full story: https://t.co/5eHMUQ460H

@naipanoilepapa @Refugees @UNHumanRights @IEBCKenya @Maskani254 @AfUncensored

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Think this one through. Beautiful olive trees that grow and mature and serve as the livelihoods of families. People who think they are righteous and devoted to an all-seeing god, burn them down. And it happens again and again and again.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage and Reform UK want to

- leave the European Convention on Human Rights which protects our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials and so much more

- repeal the Equality Act - a key piece of legislation that prevents against discrimination in Britain

- Strip back workers rights

- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts and Legalize "fire and rehire" tactics

- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” that allow landlords to remove tenants without giving a reason and introduces new duties over health hazards

and to sell all this to the country Farage offers nothing in return but grievance and division. PLEASE DON’T FALL FOR IT.

That anyone could be supporting Farage and Reform with these policies must surely be a damning indictment of UK media in failing to explain all this to the public

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

People keep asking me what America is actually capable of, now that it has driven away every ally it has. The answer is not hypothetical. It is the Persian Gulf, right now.

Iran is a nation of 90 million people sitting on a mountain range that runs the entire length of its borders. Its military infrastructure is buried inside those mountains. Command centers, missile batteries, fuel depots, weapons production, all of it underground and dispersed across a country roughly the size of Western Europe. Operation Epic Fury struck approximately 6,000 targets.

Iran is still firing.

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since late February. A quarter of the world’s daily oil supply has nowhere to go. The entrance is mined, patrolled and locked. And the most expensive military in human history is sitting outside it, unable to go in.

This is the moment to be honest about what America is missing.

Europe operates roughly 10,000 military aircraft. Not little propeller trainers. More than ten thousand combat-capable jets that would immediately transform the air campaign over the Gulf, free up American assets for the deep-penetration mountain missions that actually matter, and sustain an operational tempo no single nation can manage alone.

Britain fields two aircraft carriers and seven nuclear-armed hunter-killer submarines. France brings a nuclear carrier, fifteen frigates and its own nuclear submarine fleet. Belgium and the Netherlands operate the finest mine countermeasure vessels on earth, built specifically for strait-clearing operations of exactly this kind. Italy contributes two carriers and eight FREMM frigates. Poland has the largest land army in Europe. Norway has completed its conversion to the F-35 and fields fifty-two of them.

The map below shows some capabilities in Europe, but It represents only a fraction of what Europe actually has. It does not include Finland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Greece or Portugal, each of which contributes substantial air power, naval tonnage and ground forces of their own. The full picture is considerably larger than what fits on one page.

And then there is Ukraine. Four years of industrial-scale warfare have produced the most battle-tested drone force in existence. Autonomous strike systems, mass swarm tactics and electronic warfare capabilities developed under live fire at a pace no peacetime military can replicate. An allied force with Ukrainian drone expertise integrated into it would look fundamentally different over the mountains of Iran than what America has there now.

European intelligence services have human networks inside Iran and across the Gulf that no satellite can replace. Germany and France maintained functioning diplomatic back-channels into Tehran until late 2025. That kind of quiet credibility is the difference between a negotiated shipping corridor and a permanent blockade. It cannot be improvised. It cannot be bombed into existence.

None of this is available, because Washington spent years treating its allies as freeloaders, adversaries and negotiating targets, and then went to war expecting the same loyalty it had spent years deliberately destroying.

The alliance built after 1945 was never charity. It was a force multiplier that no defense budget, however grotesque in size, can replace on its own. America is learning that now, at roughly a hundred million dollars per day in operational costs, with the strait still closed and the oil still not moving.

Trump was not acting in America’s interest. He was acting in the interest of a man who has never in his life had to live with the consequences of his own decisions. America is living with them now.

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[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

Another so-called "ceasefire" being floated by the US and the unelected Lebanese delegation. Let's not forget: for 15 months, Israel was to abide by a ceasefire, yet killed an average of 4 people a day in Lebanon. For 15 months, Hezbollah showed restraint and did not respond, despite their right to retaliate.

In the last hour, Israel has targeted multiple southern Lebanese towns and villages including Ghazieh, Qatraniyeh, and Arab al-Jal and Majdal Zoun.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I condemn the recent killing of a Serbian @UNIFIL_ peacekeeper in Lebanon.

Seven peacekeepers serving with UNIFIL have now been killed & several more have been wounded since the escalation in hostilities since March this year.

These attacks must stop.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

As a result of a corruption probe, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner’s $4B Albania resort project just had its Albanian bank accounts frozen.

Stay tuned.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks.

But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof.

They were held in prison for 3 days then deported.

DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is a place where a granny holding a cardboard sign protesting Genocide gets arrested.

But people coming back to the UK who committed that Genocide.

Just get waved in without any checks.

Is there anyone who actually supports that?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Just take the Albanian Island deal. Jared and Ivanka secured a $1.4 billion resort on Sazan, a protected island on state land. By his own account, he was introduced to Albania's prime minister on the Rothschilds' yacht. Ivanka called the place a "private island" they "discovered." Albanian prosecutors have now opened a corruption inquiry into how that land lost its protected status.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

The party balloon people should voluntarily stop selling helium filled balloons for the next year. I know it's not their fault but we need the helium for medicine and computer chips.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Henry Nowak's mother has said:

"We are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. We want his memory to help bring our society together."

And there you have it.

[ReliefWeb @reliefweb]

Humanitarian needs are at record highs while funding drops. 17 countries host 70% of those in need yet receive little support. @RESCUEorg highlights high‑impact interventions that stretch each dollar. https://t.co/5e3uj6FVrq

📷 WFP/Arete/Siegfried Modola

[Sea-Watch Italy @SeaWatchItaly]

Ieri a bordo di #Seabird la nostra portavoce Giorgia Linardi ha avvistato una motovedetta libica intercettare in acque internazionali un gommone con circa 50 persone.

La motovedetta apparteneva alla stessa milizia che poche settimane fa ha aperto il fuoco contro la Sea-Watch 5.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

A $368 million data collection system was giving data that Donald Trump didn't like so he is having it destroyed.

[ReliefWeb @reliefweb]

Driven by unusually warm tropical Pacific waters, #ElNiño is forming and set to shift global temperatures and rainfall—raising the likelihood of extreme weather in the months ahead, says @WMO https://t.co/pr4MIEem4T

📷 WFP/Irenee Nduwayezu

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Remarkable. He’s compared a puddle to three skyscrapers and somehow made it sound like a moon landing. The Lincoln Reflecting Pool is 2,000 feet long because it’s horizontal, Donald. So is the floor you’re standing on, but we’re not putting that on a chart.

And Fox just sat there and took it seriously. These are grown adults with broadcast licences and, presumably, a basic grasp of geometry. Any European journalist who tried to present this without bursting into tears of embarrassment would be out of a job by Friday. In Britain, a politician who pulled this stunt would be filleted live on Newsnight and served cold by morning. In America, Fox gives it a graphic and a theme tune.

In 250 years, the United States has produced Lincoln, the moon landings, and the Marshall Plan. And now this. A man with a chart comparing a pond to the Freedom Tower, surrounded by people nodding like dashboard dogs. For god’s sake.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 REPORT: Investigation reveals Trump officials have likely stolen over $220 million by giving government contracts to fake shell companies.