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The author presented "Glavlit" as the translation, in "Stalinist Russian," of the word ARCOM, describing the organization as a state apparatus responsible for total ideological control and censorship. He concluded that "we're there." https://t.co/O3eQYF1zpG #Censure #Contrôle #Idéologie #RU (translated)

Press briefs indicated that Europe 1, which it presented as a radio station of the Bolloré galaxy, had been ordered by Arcom to comply with its obligations following comments by Christine Kelly on migrants. According to the report, the decision found that these comments were likely to incite hatred and encourage discriminatory behavior. #migrants #haine #discrimination (translated)

The author of the message believed that the formal notice sent by Arcom following remarks made by Christine Kelly on air constituted a serious editorial interference and imposed surveillance on freedom of expression. #christinekelly #europe1 #Arcom https://t.co/Tr81oWirKr #LibertéDexpression #MiseEnDemeure #Arcom #FR #EU (translated)

Sleeping Giants FR stated that Arcom had implicated Christine Kelly for comments made on Europe 1, which the account described as racist and characterized as inciting hatred and promoting discriminatory behaviors based on origin or nationality. https://t.co/Q66fs02YBO https://t.co/bV31ChAuFL #racisme #discrimination #libertédexpression (translated)

Manuel Bompard wrote to Olivier Truchot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon that their status and the agreement binding their channel to Arcom did not allow them to let racist remarks be made without controlling their broadcast. He urged them to reflect on their own behavior. #racisme #libertédexpression #médiatactivité (translated)

Hello @arcom.fr? We are gladly offering you a subscription to @mediapart.fr. And this is just a glimpse of all these indignities, collected by @davidperrotin.bsky.social. They are spread widely through audiovisual channels that are public goods and that you are supposed to regulate. (translated)

THE "BATTLE OF CERIGNOLA (1503)" ON "POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY USA" (by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA) SOURCE 1: https://popular-archaeology.com/author/sardella/ SOURCE 2: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-2026-battlefield-archaeology-of-the-battle-of-cerignola-1503/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- CERIGNOLA (FG) — On April 28, 1503, at sunset, a shallow trench cut between the vineyards outside Cerignola rendered heavy cavalry obsolete. For five centuries, its exact location has only been conjectured, its archaeology ignored, its most important sources never translated into English. We are on the Tavoliere of Puglia, a corridor of battles for two thousand years: from Cannae in 216 BC to the falcon hunt of Frederick II from Torre Alemanna. Cerignola, at that time, was not a city but a rural village of 350 families at 120 meters above sea level, custodian of the Mena della Dogana delle Pecore, the great pastoral system of transhumance that financed the Kingdom of Naples. Its possession was fiercely contested. Facing each other were two worlds. Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Viceroy of Naples for Louis XII, in his thirties, splendidly armored, confident of victory. On the other side was Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Gran Capitán, who on April 27-28 marched from Barletta with about 9,000 exhausted men and decided to settle on a low ridge. He deepened what was already there: not an invention, but an agricultural ditch. The French gendarmes, the last heirs of the medieval knight, lowered their lances and never reached the line. From behind a parapet reinforced with vine stakes, over 1,000 Spanish arquebusiers opened fire. Nemours fell, almost certainly the first European army commander to die from a portable firearm. With him, the charge of cavalry as a dominant tactic died. And here is the scandal denounced by the article: no cartographer of the 17th-18th centuries ever mapped the battlefield. No monument commemorates it. It is not protected as a cultural landscape under the Code of Cultural Heritage. Every deep plowing of the Tavoliere, standard practice since the Bourbon reforms, destroys an archaeology never recorded. Yet the perimeter can be reconstructed. By cross-referencing the 16th-century descriptions of "vine-covered slopes fifteen miles north of the Ofanto" with the Via Traiana, the engagement area is a rectangle of 3-4 square kilometers northeast of the current settlement. With the 1m LiDAR DTM from ISPRA, it could reveal anomalous linear depressions, and the lower filling of a ditch 2-3 meters deep, under the plowed layer, is still readable with magnetometry and ground radar. Why did we arrive late? Not for lack of sources, but for lack of translation. The Municipality of Cerignola and the Torre Alemanna Research and Study Center of Prof. Matteo Stuppiello, who in 1978 obtained the first monumental protection for Torre Alemanna, have digitized a corpus that has never entered Anglophone historiography. Here are the 3 pillars: 1. The letter that still smells of gunpowder. The “Letter from Consalvo de Córdoba to the Spanish royals dated April 29, 1503,” edited by Stuppiello in 2003 and updated to 2025 on comune.cerignola.fg.it/biblioteche-digitali. A handwritten page written in Cerignola the day after the battle, “rich in flashes, twilight lights, and gunfire.” Not a polished chronicle like that of Giovio, but a field dispatch: the fatigue of the night march, the decision to entrench upon arrival, the recovery and honorable burial of Nemours, the intact capture of the French artillery. 2. The graffiti, a monument inside the monument. In the 14th-century church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, known as the Incoronatella, on the Via Trinitapoli Vecchia, where tradition holds that the body of Nemours was brought. On the triumphal arch, a 1503 graffiti gives, in almost notarized form, the date, sixth indiction, Friday at the hour XXIII-XXIIII. It was indeed Friday, as confirmed by the perpetual calendar of Cappelli. Decoded in 1995 by Prof. Francesco Magistrale, Latin paleographer at the University of Bari, in *The Battle of Cerignola (1993)* and in the municipal monograph *S.M. delle Grazie (1999)*. Today it is fading due to humidity and neglect. 3. The land registry that explains the ditch. The Survey of 1672 preserved at the State Archive of Naples, Pignatelli Aragona Cortes fund, Scanzia 63, fasc.1: “At the time of the battle, thick vineyards covered the hill reaching to the plain, and were distinctly separated from the rest of the countryside by a not very deep ditch.” Córdoba did not improvise; he adapted. This is confirmed by the catasti of the Giustiniani: 277 households in 1532, 699 in 1595. The landscape of 1503 was intensely horticultural, not the deeply plowed monoculture of today. In addition to these, there is the first monograph by Vincenzo Buonassisi, *The Battle of Cerignola* (1908, died in Via Fanfulla 10 on June 27, 1928), and the first modern military analysis by Piero Pieri, “Consalvo de Córdoba and the Battle of Cerignola,” Archivio Storico Pugliese 1952, which 30 years before the Anglophone rediscovery of the “pike-and-shot” defined Cerignola as an engineered killing ground. While Cerignola forgot, others remembered. The “Regimiento de Infantería Cerinola n.42”, later “Fuerteventura n.56”, carried the name of Cerignola until the 20th century. The coat of arms, described in *Heraldica e Historiales del Ejercito, Tomo V” (Madrid, 1981): silver field, dying white swan entangled in a hedge, golden wall crown, with the scroll “Cerignola.” Dossier officially transmitted on April 30, 1986, prot. 4565/509, from the Servicio Histórico Militar of Madrid to the Torre Alemanna Center thanks to Col. Alessio Antonutti and Gen. José Cifuentes. And in Amsterdam, at the Rijksmuseum, the anonymous bronze commemorative medal: Hercules with lion skin and club and Janus with the keys next to an eagle-armed coat of arms, legend “Consalvus Agidarius… Janum clausit,” on the reverse a battle scene “Consalvi Agidari Victoria de Gallis ad Cannas,” an artist's mistake that confuses Cerignola with Cannae. It belonged to Mrs. J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff, donated in 1885. The author's conclusion is clear: Gonzalo's ditch is the most consequential earthwork in European military history. It inaugurates the infantry armed with firearm and conditions the Mediterranean for 160 years. It may still be there, filled, plowed, invisible to the naked eye but accessible to a magnetometer. It is not a matter of medieval archaeology but of the will to protect. (translated)

Miguel Ángel del Arco, awarded the National History Prize for the book *The Spanish Famine*, stated that Franco sent food to Nazi Germany while the Spanish population was dying of hunger. He also maintained that Francoism used hunger to indicate who the victors were and who the vanquished were. https://t.co/k51HHul4Nx #Historia #Franquismo #España #ES #DE (translated)

The person behind the message stated that in France, media outlets were freely broadcasting hateful content, despite the law which, according to her, classified racism and discrimination as offenses, as well as the rules set out by their agreements with Arcom. She thanked Sam Gontier for documenting the situation in Télérama. https://t.co/onA4X91FkV #Haine #Racisme #Discrimination #FR (translated)

The historian Miguel Ángel del Arco, awarded the National History Prize, argues that Franco sent food to Nazi Germany while Spain suffered a famine caused by the regime, which denied and concealed the magnitude of the suffering and the responsibilities of the dictator. #HambrunaFranquista #HistoriaDeEspaña #MemoriaHistórica (translated)

The rainbow mural of CEIP Asunción Rincón in Chamberí was vandalized with Nazi graffiti and homophobic messages, but the school's administration has decided not to give the matter more relevance after removing the graffiti within a few hours. #Vandalismo #Homofobia #Educación (translated)