IllyrianDescendant

Passionate about politics, art and a true football lover.

[IllyrianDescendant @IllyrianTribe]

KM "artist” i lidhur me pastrimin e parave të pista , i cili e shëtit Tiranën “sikur të ishte një galeri e hapur”.
https://t.co/fRzImNkFH6

[Whale Scan @WhaleScan]

ALBANIAN PROTESTERS JUST PUBLISHED EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS THEIR COASTLINE FOREVER

Not vague threats. Not "we oppose occupation." NAMED PROJECTS. SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. Site by site.

🇦🇱 Sazan Island — former Albanian military base → $4,000,000,000 Kushner-linked luxury resort approved on protected land
🇦🇱 Pishë Poro-Narta wetlands — protected coastal zone → flamingo habitats, sea turtle nesting, migratory bird corridors slated for development
🇦🇱 Southern Albanian coastline — UNESCO-adjacent protected areas → "strategic investor" framework overrides environmental law
🇦🇱 Prime Minister Edi Rama — 13 years in power → approved resort plans despite active legal challenges from environmental groups
🇦🇱 Albanian parliament — passed laws weakening protected-area status → cleared the path for foreign investor projects
🇦🇱 Kushner/Ivanka Trump development group — linked to the resort project → Guardian, CBS, Reuters all confirmed June 2026
🇦🇱 Albanian hospital system — suffering blackouts → protesters cite domestic neglect while billions flow to foreign resort deals
🇦🇱 Foreign worker contracts — government accused of hiring abroad → while Albanian workers are unemployed
🇦🇱 Bosnian football fan footage — circulating as Albanian protest clips → misidentified video spreading the "occupation" narrative
🇦🇱 Celebrity amplification campaign — protesters asking global voices to speak out → about the resort and corruption, not military occupation

💀 20+ consecutive days of protests
💀 Protests expanded from one resort to full anti-corruption movement
💀 ZERO evidence of US or Israeli military occupation of Albanian territory
💀 100% domestic political crisis — a government, a billionaire project, and protected land

Every target on this list keeps something alive. Not soldiers. FLAMINGOS. SEA TURTLES. WETLANDS. And a democracy trying not to be sold to the highest bidder.

Albania has been in the streets for 20+ days. The resort approvals are still standing. These are the targets the protesters are fighting to protect RIGHT NOW.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Admirim @admirim]

The demands of the anti-corruption protests in Albania. 🇦🇱

[European Democrats @democrats_eu]

In his @FT interview, @ediramaal answered citizens protesting over the Kushner-linked resort with accusations, deflection and contempt. Calling the square a foreign plot, or replying with “f**k you” to those demanding answers, is not leadership. When people ask about protected land, money laundering and power, democracy requires respect. The square must be heard, not insulted. Albania deserves transparency, not arrogance.

[Blerim Vela @Blerim_Vela]

Dalja deri ne oren 13:00 shfaq nje trend interesant:
- Dalja eshte pak me e ulet se ne dhjetor 2025.
- Dalja ne komunat e Rrafshit te Kosoves duket se eshte mesatarisht 3 deri 5% me e larte se ne ato te Rrafshit te Dukagjinit.

Qendrat me te banuara ndodhen ne Rrafshin e Kosoves.

[Blerim Vela @Blerim_Vela]

Retrospektive. Intervista ne fund te mandatit e ish presidentit 🇷🇸 Nikolić ne 2017

Tregon si Asociacioni u pranua me lehtesi nga pala 🇽🇰 n’Bruksel pa i kuptuar implikimet e saj

Thote se ASK do t’i delegoheshin kompetencat e njejta si te institucioneve 🇽🇰 + e drejta per pavaresi

[Vudi Xhymshiti @VudiXhymshiti]

Baton Haxhiu si Jehona e Beogradit 🇷🇸 🚨

📰 Ndërsa familja e Haxhiut sigurohej nga SDB-ja, populli masakrohej. Sot, Leonard Kerquki dhe T7 e rehabilitojnë këtë spiun 🇷🇸, duke e sfiduar hapur sigurinë tonë kombëtare dhe kujtesën historike.
https://t.co/VkldxXThi7

[Alicia Kearns MP @aliciakearns]

Now the ringleaders please.

You’ll find them within the Serbian Government, and others being hidden and protected by the Serbian Government.

[Riho Terras @RihoTerras]

Ambassador @AgronBajrami is an excellent choice to serve as @kosovo's Chief Negotiator in the Priština–Belgrade Dialogue.

Hopefully, this brings long-awaited progress in talks between the two countries.

@EPPGroup
@Europarl_EN
@eu_enlargement_

[Admirim @admirim]

Albanian students in North Macedonia held a massive protest against being denied the right to take the bar exam in 🇦🇱 Albanian.

They demanded equal language access as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Law on the Use of Languages.

[Dewdrop @dewdropping00]

Today has potential to be an awful day to be serbian

[IllyrianDescendant @IllyrianTribe]

❤️ Në Bratislavë, rrugës për në Amerikë ❤️ https://t.co/Jx2mdKAR0I

[Two Balls and a Caine @OssoKuka]

Kaçanik is one of oldest cities in Kosova with a medival castle in the middle of the town.

Historically, never, not a single record of serbs living there.

The only time some serbs moved in was during yougoslavian occupation when they brought in some serbian colonizers who build that church.

And they all left becouse they were not welcome.

[Ljubomir Filipović 🇲🇪🇺🇸 @ljubofil]

As an Orthodox Christian—part Serb from Kosovo—I can say this song isn’t about religion. It’s ethnonationalist, claiming Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslim lands for “Greater Serbia.” Remember the massacre of Catholic Albanians in Meja, Kosovo, by Serbian forces.

[IllyrianDescendant @IllyrianTribe]

@AgonMaliqi Both very late initiatives taken by @VjosaOsmaniPRKS were taken in rush and as sign of despair. As Head of State and a "mature" politician it would had been more appropriate to not seek re-election, re-enter in the political scene actively to bring new dynamics as she claimed.

[IllyrianDescendant @IllyrianTribe]

@AFCAjax What a night that one was...

[Agon Maliqi @AgonMaliqi]

Politically Nazis, but not grammar Nazis.

[IllyrianDescendant @IllyrianTribe]

Të ❤️ fort Kosovë! Dhe n'momentet ma t'vështina dhe ma t'lumtuna të ❤️ fort, ta dish!

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

#Serbia has become the 1st gov't anywhere in the world to publicly express opposition to #Assad's fall in #Syria.

President Vučić just said he missed #Assad's "freedom loving approach to leadership."

(This comes after #Syria's new gov't recognized Kosovo on Wednesday).

[Adrian Shtuni @Shtuni]

.@lea_ypi's Indignity: A Life Reimagined (comes out in the U.S. on November 4) is one of those books that splits you down the middle: you want to devour it in a single sitting, yet you also want to linger over every detail, stretching the pages. As someone intimately acquainted with the places and histories she evokes, I feel that the depth and pull of storytelling in her second book match—and even surpass—the heights of Free.

Her suspenseful, novelistic style threaded with wry humor and philosophical reflections is intimate yet universal, warm yet unflinchingly honest. It is cinematically vivid and penetrating. She doesn’t merely describe, she renders characters, cities, historical turning points, and even subtle currents of emotion in ultra-high definition. You walk the streets of Salonique le magnifique and 1930’s #Tirana, meet those faces that refuse to fade, inhabit those fractured stories. In a rushed world of tweet-long attention spans and identity politics where history shrinks to memes and identities to outrage bait, Ypi’s refreshing prose reads and feels like a quiet act of resistance, an exquisite, deliberate reclamation of depth, beauty, and human dignity.

The book carries distinct echoes of #Chekhov, #Kundera, and #Marquez. It opens with a list of characters and a historical setting reminiscent of The Cherry Orchard, a tragicomedy of lives fraying beneath the weight of larger transformative forces. At its heart stands Ypi’s grandmother Leman—navigating the twilight of Ottoman aristocracy and a lifetime of quiet indignities—her identity a persistent, unanswerable question: “What am I?” “The Albanian” in Greece and “the Greek” in #Albania. A perpetual stranger? As the world pivots—empires collapse, borders redraw, populations exchange, ideologies rise and fall—the question lingers, passed down like a cracked heirloom, now refracted through the lens of a granddaughter born under a different red flag with a different star. Who was Leman, truly? Why was she smiling in a photo of 1941 taken in the Alps of Italy in the depth of the war? Was that smile real? Can we ever fully know another person—even one who raised us, whose hands once steadied our first steps?

Like Kundera, Ypi employs subtle irony, fragmented timelines, and existential inquiry to reveal how ideology, surveillance, and political oppression erode freedom and individual dignity. She vividly depicts Hoxha’s regime as a dehumanizing fog where every conversation, friendship, and gesture risks being reported, misinterpreted, or weaponized—a world thick with paranoia: Who is listening? Who is informing? Who is merely performing loyalty? In a way, her approach echoes Kundera’s “novel of ideas,” where history is not mere backdrop but a co-protagonist—an overwhelming force that shapes the destinies of characters, cities, and nations, erasing memories or imposing new realities in absurd ways that need not conform to conventional sense.

Ypi’s reimagining of Albania's fractured 20th century—from global financial crashes to Tirana's wartime shadows and secret police whispers—evokes Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude in its blend of archive, family lore, and invented truths, turning history into a fever dream where the dead linger in the living's silences and unsettling doubts as they struggle for answers. “What do we owe the dead: judgment, silence, or imaginative witness?” Ypi answers with imagination, not just to defy indignity and see more clearly, but as an act of faith in the power of art to bridge feelings and moral imperatives. Perhaps, more than to the dead, we owe this reconciliation to ourselves and one another. #Balkans