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In the article, Jérémy Silvares Jerónimo addresses the political return in Portugal, expressing skepticism about the effectiveness and seriousness of the rulers, questioning whether the motion of censure against the Government by Chega truly represents a significant change or if it is just another episode of the political-media circus that characterizes national politics, while criticizing the corruption and mediocrity that permeate the Portuguese elites. (translated)

Quand l’AfD triomphe, Poutine jubile, le RN roule les mécaniques, LFI rêve de chaos. Et, comme toujours, les cyniques accusent «les élites qui méprisent le peuple opprimé». La République de Weimar est tombée quand la dénigrer est devenu la règle dans les salons et les rédactions. #politique #République #Histoire

Welcome back populism! The vote in Saxony, where AfD is close to an absolute majority, is a signal. Right and left have nothing to do with it: it is the people's rebellion against the elites. Germany has entered a serious political crisis, with a chancellor who wants war. (translated)

En France on n’a pas demandé l’avis du peuple pour faire rentrer 550 000 immigrés l’année dernière… Évidemment que les élites s’en foutent car dans les beaux quartiers ça n’a aucune conséquence. Aujourd’hui on a une vengeance du peuple https://t.co/9fdRCEnUzH #immigration #France #politique

J-M Aphatie en PLS 😄 Victoire de l’AFD : "En France on n’a pas demandé l’avis du peuple pour faire rentrer 550 000 immigrés l’année dernière… Évidemment que les élites s’en foutent car dans les beaux quartiers ça n’a aucune conséquence. Aujourd’hui on a une vengeance du peuple" https://t.co/jIPyAgz66s #politique #immigration #France

SciLight Global South Sustainable Development (GSSD) – Street Art as Participatory Infrastructure and Community Mental Health SOURCE: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scilight-global-south-sustainable-development-gssd-sardella-ph-d--ojtlf/ It is with considerable satisfaction that I have the honour of announcing the publication of our scholarly contribution, produced in collaboration with Professor Matteo Mantuano (Unitré, Università degli Studi di Milano), with the generous support of the Stramurales International Street Art Festival, Stornara Life APS, under the direction of Lino Lombardi, and the Banda dei Fischietti of Stornara, Puglia, Italy: "Street Art as Participatory Infrastructure and Community Mental Health: The Case of the Stramurales Festival of Stornara Life APS" Global South & Sustainable Development, 2026, 1(1), 6 🔗 https://www.sciltp.com/journals/gssd/articles/2602003135 Published by Casa Editrice SciLight, with its headquarters at Suite 4002, Level 4, 447 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia. What Does this Research Concern itself with? The present study examines the Stramurales International Street Art Festival of Stornara (Puglia) as an innovative instrument of participatory public health intervention, analysed through the theoretical lenses of environmental psychology, resilience theory, and the emerging framework of "EnvironMental Health." Stornara constitutes a paradigmatic instance of the structural violence that afflicts rural Southern Italy: youthful emigration, infrastructural deterioration, and collective despondency together form a constellation of deeply interconnected public health crises. The Stramurales model—founded by Maestro Lino Lombardi under the auspices of the association Stornara Life APS—addresses these considerable challenges by means of three cardinal democratic mechanisms: the voluntary participation of property owners, the democratic selection of mural content through annual community assemblies, and a system of transparent governance expressly designed to forestall appropriation by local political élites. Principal Findings ISTAT data document a reduction in the annual rate of youth emigration from approximately 175 per 1,000 young adults during the period 2014–2017 to approximately 118 per 1,000 between 2018 and 2022: a diminution of some 33 per cent, notably coincident with the festival's inception. Whilst one must naturally refrain from attributing this variation causally and exclusively to the intervention in question, the quantitative evidence integrates compellingly with a rich body of qualitative testimony: participants who now describe their community no longer as "a place from which one flees", but rather as "a place actively engaged in becoming something". The psychological mechanisms thus documented — affective regulation, social cohesion, narrative reconstruction, and collective self-efficacy — are produced not by the murals as such, but by the democratic process through which they are brought into being. It is participatory governance, one must insist, that constitutes the genuine therapeutic agent. Why Does This Matter at the Global Level? Through comparative analysis with experiences drawn from the Global South—among them Casa Kolacho in Medellín, post-apartheid initiatives in South Africa, and festival projects within the Brazilian favelas—the study demonstrates the transferability of this model to contexts of structural marginalisation of markedly different character and provenance. The implications for public policy are unambiguous: democratic governance of urban space is not a procedural nicety but a fully-fledged therapeutic intervention, at once economically sustainable and eminently replicable. This work forms part of a broader research programme initiated with the publication of Street Art as Public Health Infrastructure in the Harvard Health and Human Rights Journal, and aspires to contribute, both theoretically and empirically, to the consolidation of an integrated discipline at the intersection of cultural policy, urban design, and public health. I remain profoundly grateful to all those in Stornara who possessed the singular courage to paint their own future.

Señor Ocampo, no hubo en la historia del país un gobierno que favoreció más a Avianca. Uds sacaron a los funcionarios de la @sicsuper y la @AerocivilCol que tenían decidido negar la integración con VIVA e investigaron todos los detalles de una operación oscura e irregular. Petro, Sergio Paris y la SIC se arrodillaron ante Avianca. Uds sacaron a "los trabajadores" técnicos y honrados para favorecer a los dueños de Avianca-Viva con un pacto de elites de espalda al país. #Avianca #Colombia #Corrupción

🔴🇫🇷INFO - Adresses de luxe, soirées jet-set, costumes sur mesure, hôtel aux Maldives, compagne au sang bleu… Comment dénoncer le « #système » et les « #élites » quand on y est immergé jusqu’au cou ? Une position intenable qui inquiète au #RN. « Jordan #Bardella a toujours été attiré par tout ce qui brille, le luxe c’est son point faible », affirme un ancien conseiller. Côté fréquentations « bling bling », Jordan #Bardella et Cyril #Hanouna se connaissent bien. Avec le jeune animateur télé Jordan de Luxe, ils ont longtemps écumé des adresses huppées, de Paris à Saint-Tropez. Début juillet, le Canard enchaîné révélait que le président du RN s’était rendu au Jimmy’z, une boîte de nuit sélect de #Monaco, dans la foulée du Grand Prix. Prix des tables affichées ce soir-là dans le club : 25 000€ ! À Paris, Bardella est régulièrement repéré dans les lieux les plus clinquants, notamment au Cercle de l’Union interalliée, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, pour déjeuner avec des francs-maçons de la Grande Loge nationale française. Pour être sûr de le croiser, il faut se rendre chez Laurent, ancien pavillon de chasse de Louis XIV. On y croise en effet Sébastien #Chenu, Jean-Philippe #Tanguy, Erik #Tegnér, le directeur du magazine identitaire Frontières, et nombre de têtes d’affiche de #CNews. Sans y venir aussi fréquemment, Pascal #Praud y déjeune de temps en temps... Jordan Bardella, le jet-setteur ou quand le train de vie XXL d’un responsable politique finit par poser une question : peut-on durablement dissocier ce que l’on est de ce que l’on prétend défendre ? #Politique #Élites #Luxe

In the face of the heat wave, we don't even have a window shutter plan, we have a "survival cover for the windows" plan. In the face of the fires, firefighters are fighting without protective hoods. Our elites have failed, and for a long time. They no longer protect the French people. (translated)

🚨 Malmö FF och Viking Stavanger är nu överens om en övergång gällande Erik Botheim. Anfallaren är redan på plats i Norge, som TV2 rapporterat. Nu ska klubbarna ha löst allt sinsemellan. Botheim ska läkarundersökas innan återkomsten till norsk fotboll är ett faktum. https://t.co/TAvCJN1aRi #Eliteserien #MalmöFF #ErikBotheim

Vous avez le droit d’aimer vos voitures. Vous avez le droit de vivre votre passion. Et surtout, vous avez le droit d’avoir du plaisir! Ne laissez pas les élites qui se pètent les bretelles en faisant la guerre à l’auto vous regarder de haut et vous dicter comment vivre. On est capables de cohabiter. On est capables de trouver un compromis intelligent pour bâtir une nouvelle école, tout en vous permettant de continuer à vivre pleinement votre passion. C’est ça, le gros bon sens. C’est ça, respecter le monde! #passion #voitures #grosbonsens

September 11 transformed the global perception of America, shifting from an unquestionable moral reference to a focal point of distrust and criticism, culminating in a crisis of credibility for American elites and the emergence of political movements that challenge the traditional establishment. (translated)

Esta imagen es tan vergonzosa! Hoy el presidente del Gobierno ha dado explicaciones con mucha tranquilidad y transparencia. Y los ultras invaden hoy Ceuta para exagerar, alarmar e incendiar a la población. Después se comerán una mariscada y volverán en un helicóptero que pagan las élites. #Política #España #Ceuta

The Victimhood Economy: Why Young People Prefer Socialism Western civilization is increasingly shaped by entitlement and a culture that rewards displays of victimhood. At elite universities, disability claims have risen: 18% of male and 22% of female undergraduates report a disability, and 54% of non-binary students, with higher rates at some wealthy schools than at community colleges. The issue isn’t genuine disability; it’s what happens when accommodations become status and advantage. Extra time, separate housing, and exemptions can turn diagnosis into leverage. When weakness is rewarded, some will learn to perform it. This matters because today’s students become tomorrow’s institutional elites. If grievance produces rewards, the lesson may spread into journalism, government, HR, academia, and business, letting beneficiaries inherit the power to expand the system. Research on victimhood signaling raises uncomfortable questions: people who habitually emphasize victim status, on average, show higher narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—not to say genuinely suffering people are manipulative, but that systems rewarding victimhood create incentives for manipulators to exploit the category. Rob Henderson describes this as a status game: in elite institutions, grievance can become the currency of virtue signaling. For some, the rational strategy is to manufacture grievance and convert it into status. Nietzsche similarly argued that displays of helplessness can become covert power, while pity can create moral superiority for the caregiver. The danger isn’t compassion; it’s a culture that turns suffering into currency and teaches ambitious people that the easiest route to power is to claim they are powerless.

Leftist “Empathy” Is Actually Narcissism Leftist “empathy” is often narcissism, not real compassion. Over the past decade, Western politics has debated whether empathy is the highest value—yet many policies justified in its name have produced serious unintended consequences: safe-supply programs, lenient bail, mass migration, identity-based social policy, and gender medicine for minors. Hannah Arendt helps explain why. In *On Revolution*, she contrasted the American Revolution’s focus on institutions and limits on power with the French Revolution’s “politics of pity,” an effort to eliminate suffering through political action. Robespierre’s compassion for the masses helped justify terror. Pity isn’t compassion: it creates a hierarchy between the person who pities and the person pitied. Once you claim to represent “the oppressed,” you can stop listening to real people. Much progressive “empathy” projects idealized versions of others, erasing cultural differences and treating disagreement as ignorance or prejudice. Adam Smith warned about the “man of system,” who thinks society can be rearranged like chess pieces, ignoring human wills. Dostoevsky argued abstract love is easy; loving real people is hard. Nietzsche described a morality that flatters weakness and condemns what rises above the herd, while Orwell questioned whether some socialist intellectuals truly loved workers or simply used them to vent resentment. Rob Henderson calls these “luxury beliefs”: status-providing ideas for elites that impose costs on those below them. The moral prestige is immediate; the damage unfolds over decades. So “suicidal narcissism” may fit better than “suicidal empathy”: projection, superiority, and power disguised as compassion.