The United States has taken the unusual step of penalizing European officials not for corruption, criminal behavior, or human rights violations, but for enforcing their own election-protection laws, as reported by mainstream media and confirmed by EU officials. 5/29

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

🧊 WAREHOUSING HUMANS 😲 ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pretty sure these embassies are always closed on these days but now they’re required to bestow thanks upon great Donald for his limitless blessings

I’ll make it easy for ya: cut the WaPo, since it ain’t news anymore but a Bezos mouthpiece

1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide. Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now. But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately. Our latest story.

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request It's definitely real apnews.com/article/jeff...

The U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly attempting to seize a third Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, escalating its pressure campaign against the Nicholas Maduro regime.

In every response this year, WCK’s work was powered by local community members—people who, even while facing crisis themselves, stepped up to care for their neighbors and helped serve more than 130 million meals across thousands of communities impacted by disaster. #ChefsForTheWorld (1/2)

Something to remember when looking at the Epstein files. Don't forget that in the first batch that was dumped, there were pictures of people who had nothing to do with Epstein.

If you live in any of those 15 states above, its more important than ever to constantly ensure youre registered to vote. I have no doubt they will look for any reason to pull anyone off of the voter rolls if they arent registered republican.

🚨🚨🚨This entire thread is incredibly important 👇👇👇👇👇

I'm sharing this again, just because.

#arrested #Greta Thunberg #London #Palestinian #protest #Terrorism #UK

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No, people are not exaggerating the significance of what's going on at Heritage. We're talking massive capital flight, in every sense of the word. It will never be the same, and it will be less powerful.

UPDATE: Madeira has been found. Thank the heavens for immigrant communities and their lovely niche shops; may they ever be protected from big box stores, tech bros, and nationalist loonies

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Bill Clinton calls your highly redacted selective release, and raises you all in.

I kept seeing people use the word samizdat to refer to the Canadian sourcing of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT pulled by Bari Weiss. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster:

P.S. here's the leaked 60 minutes segment, in case you hadn't seen it. These kidnappers and human traffickers can't hide from us.

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism: Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches. Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵

New in PN: Make America Weak "It's become clear that Trump's efforts to sabotage America’s economic, political, and defense relationships with major democracies abroad are part and parcel of 'policies' he’s been pursuing at home — all calculated to make our nation more susceptible to autocracy."

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got

The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Please make sure you’re a backer of this community. It’s revolutionising how media works - structurally… putting the news mix and content generation into everyone’s hands. ✊

Boulder-based BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of Geo Group, signed a contract with ICE this month to track down immigrants in immigration court proceedings (not detained cases). The contract is worth up to $121 million over the next 2 years. BI generally provides ankle monitoring services to ICE/Geo.

🔥 THIS IS HUGE! Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger. Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.

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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Good luck today, to all those working this week. A comprehensive review of all refuges and fish hatcheries sounds like a targeted mission to divest of federal lands. It really makes me nauseous. I am not sure what to expect based on marching orders from Brian. If anyone knows, please DM me!

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱 Denmark will summon the U.S. ambassador after Washington appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as Special Envoy to Greenland. Danish FM Lars Rasmussen said President Trump remains interested in Greenland.

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

More than 300,000 voices in Missouri are being told their signatures against a gerrymandered map don't count because of a calendar date. At the same time, the DOJ is suing states to demand unredacted private voter data. We see the strategy-Run out the clock-Suppress voting-We say no. bit.ly/4g5RcEq

In 1944, the Icelandic Publishing Association created the first ‘book bulletin’, known as Bókatíðindi,  a list of books released for the Christmas season | Amanda Ellison

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

The language being used for people seeking refuge abroad is unacceptable. Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised. Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.

Israel’s Cabinet approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Settlements are widely considered illegal under international law.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

DOD is sending a contingent of Air Force personnel to Ecuador in support of “anti-drug trafficking” operations. US embassy in Quito announced the deployment on Dec. 17, saying that the American forces will operate out of the military base at Manta, with the Ecuadorian Air Force.

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

What actually happens on the day someone leaves prison? Not freedom, but a tightly choreographed race through appointments that, if not achieved, could send them straight back inside. By J.J. Jackson eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I've said it before & I'll keep saying it: centrism is alignment with *the centre of power & privilege*, the ideology of elite/gatekeeper antisocialist "liberals" who exist to occupy that space to fight tooth and nail against any sort of social liberalism, protosocialism, or worse *actual socialism*