Sara Barbé

Libertatem quam maiores peperere studeat servare posteritas

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

🚨 JUDGE KATHLEEN WILLIAMS DROPS A BOMBSHELL:

Federal Judge Kathleen Williams has referred key Trump lawyers — including Acting AG Todd Blanche — to state bar authorities for disciplinary action in the IRS settlement scandal.

In a scathing ruling, she found the $10B lawsuit was filed for an “improper purpose”: a collusive, bad-faith scheme lacking real adversity between parties. It was designed to rubber-stamp audit immunity for Trump and allies plus a $1.8B taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” fund.

Self-dealing that abused the courts.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Psychopathologies as aberrant as Trump's are neither controllable, nor curable. He cannot pivot, sit still, shut up, or stop. He cannot see beyond himself. EVER. He cannot feel empathy, shame, or contrition. Not that he WON'T ... he CAN'T! He is an emotional void, comprised only of impulse, rage, malice, needs, urges and cravings. He lies constantly, brazenly, because he doesn't speak to convey information, he speaks to further a result that he craves. And some of the things he says, he says simply because he can't NOT say them. He's pure "id." Pure self.
You couldn't build a worse person in a laboratory.

[Ce jour-là dans l'Histoire @CeJour_Histoire]

13 juillet 1927, Nice. Une famille juive, laïque et patriote, accueille sa quatrième enfant. Une petite fille.

Rien, ce jour-là, ne laisse deviner ce qui l'attend.

Elle a 16 ans quand elle passe son baccalauréat, le 30 mars 1944.

Le lendemain, la Gestapo l'arrête.

Drancy, un wagon, Auschwitz-Birkenau. On lui tatoue un numéro sur le bras gauche : 78651.

Un jour, une kapo réputée pour sa cruauté s'arrête devant elle. Tu es trop belle pour mourir ici, je vais te faire transférer. La gamine répond du tac au tac : à condition que ma mère et ma sœur viennent avec moi.

Les trois partent ensemble.

Sa mère mourra du typhus à Bergen-Belsen, quelques semaines avant la libération. Son père et son frère ne reviendront jamais.

Elle rentre à 17 ans. Et elle fait un choix qui dit tout : le droit.

Elle devient magistrate. Elle choisit le monde des prisons, les dossiers dont personne ne veut. Elle qui a connu les camps se bat des années pour le sort des détenus, surtout des femmes.

En 1974, le président Giscard d'Estaing la nomme ministre de la Santé. Seule femme du gouvernement.

Il lui confie le dossier le plus explosif du pays : l'avortement.

Car la réalité est brutale. Des centaines de milliers de femmes avortent chaque année, en secret, sur des tables de cuisine. Les riches vont à Londres. Les pauvres risquent leur vie.

Le 26 novembre 1974, elle monte à la tribune, face à un hémicycle presque entièrement composé d'hommes.

Trois jours et deux nuits de débat. Les coups les plus durs viennent de son propre camp. Un député ose évoquer devant elle, devant elle, des embryons jetés au four crématoire.

Elle ne bronche pas. Elle tient.

Dans la nuit du 29 novembre, le texte passe.

Cinq ans plus tard, l'ancienne déportée devient la première présidente du Parlement européen élu au suffrage universel. Pour elle, les deux combats n'en font qu'un : l'Europe, c'est la promesse que ce qu'elle a vécu ne reviendra jamais.

Elle s'appelle Simone Veil.

[Cherry 🌺 @LilCherryCheryl]

Non se ne parla abbastanza, ma la nostra stella ha vinto l’oro per il Cerchio ai Mondiali 2026 di Ginnastica Ritmica 🥇
#SofiaRaffaeli

[Ultimora.net - POLITICS @ultimora_pol]

🇭🇺 #Ungheria – La maggioranza di due terzi del parlamento ha approvato un emendamento costituzionale che determina la cessazione dell'incarico del presidente della Repubblica Tamas #Sulyok. I deputati di Fidesz di Orban hanno abbandonato l'aula. L'emendamento introduce mandato massimo di 12 anni per i deputati, età massima 70 anni per i giudici della Corte costituzionale e istituisce un Ufficio di recupero del patrimonio pubblico: "i miliardi rubati dagli oligarchi del regime corrotto di Orban". L'emendamento deve essere firmato da Tamas #Sulyok entro 5 giorni; in caso di rifiuto il governo avvierà la procedura di destituzione per demerito, ha precisato il premier Magyar, che definisce la misura transitoria e annuncia una nuova Costituzione dopo ampia consultazione, probabilmente l'anno prossimo.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
Suspends New Cooperation with the United States

The Natural Resources Institute has decided to halt all new collaborations and travel involving the United States. Instead, it is shifting its focus toward cooperation within the Kingdom of Denmark and with European countries.

The Director of the Natural Resources Institute, Josephine Nymand, says the institute will no longer enter into new partnerships with the United States.
She previously served as Chair of the Research Council, where she worked to strengthen scientific cooperation with Greenland's western neighbor.
Since then, the situation has changed significantly—particularly after January, when the United States spent an extended period refusing to rule out taking over the country by military force.

"We have collaborations that were established before all of this happened. We will continue those because they involve researchers we have worked with for many years and whom we trust," says Josephine Nymand.
"—However, we are not entering into new agreements or projects with U.S. partners whom we do not already know."

In recent weeks, KNR has reported that the alleged influence agent Tom Dans has become Chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
This has prompted warnings from two prominent research figures: U.S. affairs expert Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard from the Danish Institute for International Studies, and Marianne Holmer, Chair of Denmark's Research Committee and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Josephine Nymand explains that only a few months ago, Tom Dans attended a conference in Aarhus where the Natural Resources Institute was also present.
She says the institute was aware of his whereabouts throughout the event so that its representatives could avoid interacting with him.
Break with the United States
It is not only new research partnerships that have been suspended. The Natural Resources Institute has also halted all travel to the United States.

"We have instructed our staff and researchers that, as a general rule, they should not travel to the United States for conferences, meetings, research, or similar activities."

According to Josephine Nymand, there are several reasons why cooperation with the United States is no longer considered appropriate.
One reason, she explains, is that the Trump administration has censored certain research because it contained terminology that did not align with its views on diversity.

—KNR

[Sara Barbé @SB1865]

@emmevilla In realtà ha per lui ha molto senso, se parti dal presupposto che Trump ragiona come un boss mafioso. Sta semplicemente chiedendo il pizzo.

[Matteo Villa @emmevilla]

So che è l’ennesimo commento simile che faccio, ma Trump che chiede il pagamento di un pedaggio per uscire dallo Stretto equivalente a 20 volte quello che chiede l’Iran è completamente senza senso.

Nessun altro giudizio è possibile.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Initial reports of a Houthi attack targeting Abha International Airport in southern Saudi Arabia.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 Rep. Sarah Jacobs just left Pete Hegseth STUNNED in this hearing.
With 2,500 Marines from her district off the coast of Iran and military families calling her office in panic, she asked the question no one else would:
“Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be Commander-in-Chief?”
Hegseth deflected hard.
She didn’t flinch.
Then she dropped this:“If you think this is what winning looks like… maybe we should be questioning your mental stability.”
Pure accountability. No notes.
It takes a woman to say what needs to be said when lives and billions of dollars are on the line. This clip is everything.

[Simone Scavo @Simne1core]

Bella storia, ma manca il pezzo più importante: quella tecnologia è italiana.
Si chiama CO2 Battery, la fa Energy Dome, Milano. Non è magia né "batteria che sfida la chimica" ma è termodinamica pura. Comprimi CO2 in un circuito chiuso quando c'è surplus di rinnovabili, la riespandi in turbina quando serve. Acciaio, acqua e CO2, zero litio e zero terre rare.
Ma niente entusiasmo a vuoto, i numeri veri sono questi:
Rendimento ~75%, quindi un quarto dell'energia la perdi. Non è un difetto, è il prezzo dello storage lungo.
8-24 ore di scarica, dove il litio si ferma a poche ore.
Dettaglio non a sottovalutare è che il partner è Google, ed il sito è vicino a Dublino, la capitale europea dei data center. Non è una batteria "green" per far contenti gli ambientalisti. È base ferma per alimentare l'IA quando il vento cala.
L'Italia stavolta ha inventato e sta scalando, con Google che ci mette i soldi. Per una volta godiamocela⚡🔋🇮🇹

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

BROWDER: I know Putin very well. I've been in a man-to-man fight with him for over 17 years. He doesn't negotiate.

Any discussion of negotiations is purely tactical. Anything that he agrees to can't be relied on.

Putin knows that if he says 'We've made agreement with Ukraine,' he will be perceived in Russia as being weak.

If he's perceived as being weak, then he potentially will be overthrown, then best case is jail, worst case is death.

And so, he's not going to negotiate. I don't believe that for a minute.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board tears apart Trump’s tariffs in a blistering editorial:

“The President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025, including 25,900 in motor vehicle and parts production...

there’s no question his tariffs are raising costs for U.S. manufacturers.…Mr. Trump and his advisers claim that foreigners pay his border taxes, but the evidence shows that U.S. companies, workers and consumers are picking up most of the tab.

The Anderson Economic Group estimates that auto tariffs on Canada and Mexico alone added about $1,600 to the cost of each car made in the U.S. last year. While auto makers absorbed some of the Trump tariff costs, they also passed on a large share to customers…Call it the Trump tax.”

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MASSIVE FIRE at Iran's Poldokhtar oil and petrochemical refinery.

If this was done by Israel or the US, then it is very possible Iran will lash out at surrounding energy infrastructure like they promised they would.

Not great news going into the weekend.

[Alessandra Libutti 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 @a_libutti]

Per sfuggire alle indagini Nigel Farage ha provocato un’elezione suppletiva, cercando una nuova investitura popolare. Ma i partiti gli hanno sfilato il terreno sotto i piedi, lasciandolo solo contro Lord Binface.

Voleva trasformare un’indagine parlamentare in una prova di forza con il sistema. Ha invece ottenuto una campagna elettorale contro un bidone della spazzatura.

Il mio pezzo in thread

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: Iran is willing to return to a large-scale conflict with the United States if necessary to secure its control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s behavior after the latest US strikes indicates that the Iranian regime values control over the strait more than avoiding renewed escalation with the United States.

Other Key Takeaways:

The present pattern of US strikes does not appear to be changing Iran’s calculus on controlling the Strait of Hormuz. US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported on July 7 that it struck over 80 targets in Iran in response to repeated Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the strait.

Iran is attempting to coerce Gulf states and others to acquiesce to Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz after Iran failed to secure recognition of its control over the strait through diplomacy.

Iran is attempting to unilaterally impose a vision for the strait’s ”arrangements,” which are supposed to be created in dialogue with the Gulf states, not through coercing the Gulf states. Iranian coercion of the Gulf states is an effort to circumvent the intent of Clause 5, which administration officials noted was designed so that Gulf states would moderate Iranian positions about controlling the strait.

Iran is using the ceasefire to reconstitute its military capabilities, as ISW-CTP has previously assessed.

The Lebanese government announced on July 8 that it will participate in negotiations with the US and Israel in Rome, Italy, on July 15 and 16. The Lebanese government earlier claimed that its participation in negotiations would be contingent on an Israeli withdrawal from “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.