"La mentira siempre ha sido vista como una herramienta necesaria y justificable para la actividad no sólo de los políticos y los demagogos sino también del hombre de Estado". #HannahArendt , fallecida el 4 de diciembre de 1975. 📷Tarjeta de acceso a la Biblioteca Nacional francesa, 1939.

The New York Times launches First Amendment lawsuit against the Pentagon, alleging new rules for journalists violate freedom of the press. #NewYorkTimes #NYT #PeteHegseth www.jezebel.com/new-york-tim...

Failed far-right candidate tries Texas comeback but Islamophobic campaign video gets backlash - https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/failed-far-right-candidate-tries-texas-comeback-islamophobic-campaign-video-gets-backlash

Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country” The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

3D look at the Athletics' Vegas ballpark

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Uzbekistan is the first double-landlocked nation to qualify for the World Cup Here is an eclectic mix of facts, stats and pieces of trivia about each of the 64 teams in the draw. nyti.ms/4pM1r4v

The wait is now over for Spanish speakers hoping to hear about Melania Trump's aversion to raw fish or the disputed kiss she once received from the king of Saudi Arabia.

The United States is not commemorating World AIDS Day this year as it has done for decades in the past. Observance of the day was started by the World Health Organization, from which the Trump administration withdrew this year. https://cnn.it/4pHLpZ9

A private jet with Venezuelan registration crashes on takeoff from Caracas airport; two passengers survive; one of them is Ramón Carretero, a Panamanian businessman who serves as a contractor for Nicolás Maduro's regime.

A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes. Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.

Kristi Noem on defying a court order: " I made that decision and that decision was under my complete authority… I'm so grateful that we get the opportunity every day to do that and to make decision… This is an activist judge…but  I'm proud of the decisions that I've made."

Our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has recorded more than 240 press freedom violations in 2025. Help us bolster our team and fight for your rights by setting up a recurring donation today:

Wave of people filled the streets tonight for the one-year anniversary of daily, uninterrupted, non-stop #GeorgiaProtests. It’s day 366 and the resistance is as alive as ever. Until the end, until the victory.

Swiss lawmakers have urged prosecutors to assess whether gold gifts received by Trump broke the country’s anti-bribery laws.

The terms of "peace" now being proposed for the war in Ukraine also represent a signal that China could interpret as meaning that the world would accept a fait accompli in Taiwan achieved by military force.

The FBI has requested interviews with six Democrats regarding their video, which reminds troops to follow the Constitution. The Trump administration saw the now-infamous video as treasonous, called for them to be hanged, and is weighing court-martialing Sen. Mark Kelly. trib.al/ELXKBpd

The Venezuelan regime wanted to clean up its image with sports but couldn't come up with anything better than organizing a basketball super league played atop El Helicoide, the sinister torture center where nearly a hundred political prisoners remain confined. armando.info/el-basket-qu...

Mujer venezolana se encuentra a Messi y le pide grabar un saludo para su pareja: la despiden de su trabajo. #Latinus #InformaciónParaTi latinus.us/deportes/fut...

"The objective of the armada in the Caribbean is not solely counter-narcotics … it’s like killing mosquitoes with a shotgun", James Story, former US ambassador to Venezuela told Thomas Graham. https://bit.ly/4nZqhMN

ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Here are our findings:

Breaking News: A federal judge said that the case against James Comey, the former FBI director, could be in serious trouble because of apparent misconduct by the Justice Department's inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter.

Ben Gvir says Israel must arrest Abbas and kill PA officials if Palestinian state recognised - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ben-gvir-says-israel-must-arrest-abbas-and-kill-pa-officials-if

“Un contingente que tenemos en Líbano y que estaba haciendo una misión de reconocimiento fue atacado por un tanque de Israel”, ha dicho Robles. “Se protegieron y están todos bien”

Four women on how sports gambling turned their relationships upside down.

Trump Tells Reporters ‘Just Today I Stopped A War’ — That He Took Credit For Ending Weeks Ago

In 1925, the all-Black Wichita Monrovians beat the KKK’s baseball team 10–8—a small but undeniable crack in the lie of white supremacy. Frederic J. Frommer tells the story.

The routes by which strategic minerals extracted in Venezuela illegally pass through Colombia, are smelted, and then sent to processing plants in China (in Spanish). armando.info/asi-se-blanq...

UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

A London court ordered Ukrainian oligarchs Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholyubov to pay more than $3 billion in damages and costs on Nov. 10, marking a major milestone in an almost decade-long saga revolving around once Ukraine's most powerful oligarch.

"Managerial timidity, overcorrection for perceived internal liberal bias, and a continued reliance on the news agenda of a largely right-leaning British press, has led the BBC to haemorrhage support among many of its natural supporters" @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

The many, many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement

Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump. www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ

The illegal trafficking of "black sands" from Venezuela to Colombia leaves indigenous people and artisanal miners poor, guerrillas and intermediaries who control the trade rich, and satisfies Chinese demand for raw materials for its technology industry (in Spanish). armando.info/el-contraban...

An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court.

Repression is no longer confined to the borders of authoritarian countries.

MEANWHILE: Bari Weiss' "anti-woke" University of Austin just announced a $100 million donation from Jeff Yass, the Pennsylvania billionaire who recently funded the Gov. Greg Abbott's school voucher push in Texas. UAustin says they will no longer charge tuition or accept government money.

Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.

As with the Houthis, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the RSF, which just massacred thousands as it took a city.

The Maldives has become the first country in the world to impose a generational smoking ban, barring anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, from ever smoking, purchasing or using tobacco.

Emails reveal that Jeffrey Epstein was investigated for money laundering. A federal prosecutor requested that a grand jury issue subpoenas for "every financial transaction conducted by Epstein and his six businesses" dating to 2003. She even called one of Epstein's most important clients.

A video that shows a fake Zohran Mamdani dancing while New York burns is one of many deepfakes surfacing in the New York mayoral race and beyond.

JPMorgan flagged $1B in ‘suspicious’ Epstein-linked deals to Trump administration

Maduro & co are depraved criminals who deserve to be in a cell in The Hague but the United States has no right and no business launching military action against Venezuela. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The rethorical groundwork for a new Aktion T4 has been laid.

A former consultant and DOGE staffer is now serving as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research, after Trump booted a decorated admiral from that position. An early, newsy Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) announced it had received a $60 million gift from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and her organization, Yield Giving, which has donated more than $19 billion to thousands of organizations. trib.al/ABBgCUM

“It is more necessary than ever to ensure that the press is not forced to spend precious resources defending against lawsuits designed to chill speech,” @rcfp.org argues in a new friend-of-the-court brief.

All that stucco, molding, and wood from the East Wing of the White House had to go somewhere. So @nancywalecki.bsky.social tried to find it.

NOW ON @armandoinfo.bsky.social The dismantling of a criminal gang in Lebanon revealed the mechanism by which drug sales flown from Venezuela to the Middle East financed the Shiite militia Hezbollah, a group considered terrorist in the West. armando.info/esta-carta-o...