The Pulitzer board sometimes issues special citations — eg for the videographer at the George Floyd murder, or for journalists covering Gaza and Ukraine. They could do that this year, to ameliorate the error made years ago in not awarding Brown a Pulitzer Prize. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women. As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us: Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery in Philadelphia in response to an executive order from President Trump. But he doesn't get to rewrite history — and a federal judge agrees.

here you go

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Facilitating the spread of illegal content such as hate speech and terrorist propaganda has nothing to do with freedom and democracy. But everything to do with enabling and promoting authoritarianism, violence, and oppression worldwide.

So, Murdoch’s WSJ has gone woke now? ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏻

This is huge news. US credit cards are a major lever for the US in the global financial system. A viable alternative would significantly weaken US financial power (and would greatly help people sanctioned by the US, like ICC judges....) www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This is just blatant self soothing, it refers to global events like covid or the war in Ukraine as explanations for Britain's malaise, but then ignores them for other countries, the reality is the UK was hit worse and has recovered worse, in part due to brexit, in part because you were in government

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

“They want our daughters and granddaughters to have zero information about their bodies and sex, no ability to protect themselves from pregnancy, limited choices for an intellectual and professional life, and—once our girls have been corralled into early marriages—few opportunities to leave.”

🇺🇦❗️ Stoltenberg: The big mistake was not to provide more support earlier to Ukraine. We should have started in 2014. The Ukrainians would control more of their territory today, and we might even have prevented the full-scale invasion if we had armed and trained them in 2014 and in 2022.

Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials ft.trib.al/dtjheVT

Jess Phillips calls for Epstein files to be catalyst for long-term legislative change

🇵🇱🇺🇦“Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything. The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.” - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald How we got here jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-year...

EU foreign chief Kaja Kallas said Russia is receiving more at the negotiating table than it achieved on the battlefield. She stated Moscow barely moved beyond the 2014 front line at the cost of 1.2 million casualties and is now putting forward unrealistic demands in negotiations. #Ukraine

Kaja Kallas now talking @ Munich "Contrary to what some may say, woke, decadent Europe is not facing civilisational erasure. In fact, people still want to join our club and not just fellow Europeans. In Canada, I was told over 40% of Canadians have an interest in joining the EU"

Kaja Kallas: The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield Russia is no superpower.After more than a decade of conflict,including 4yrs of full-scale war in Ukraine,Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

PM Tusk: Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything. The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.

Unbelievably this wasn’t even raised on SkyNews just now during the interview with Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf. If UK news shows won’t call this boll**** out let’s do it ourselves

In France, special magistrates are being assigned to investigate Epstein’s ties and possible criminal activities involving French nationals. Meanwhile, in the U.S. …. #EpsteinFiles

It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.

Did you see this today? Anti #ICE protesters carried a MASSIVE U.S. Constitution through the streets of Minneapolis. Not a flag. Not a slogan. The Constitution. Thousands marched, demanding accountability and asking whether federal enforcement is aligning with the rights written on those pages.

There sure is a lot about Trump in the Epstein files... slate.trib.al/9dkCHfW

Canada has legal obligation to cancel the export permits for the armoured vehicles being purchased by ICE. Here is my piece on what is needed to get the Prime Minister to respect international and domestic law in dealing with the ICE paramilitaries. charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋‍♀️ Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote. Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...

SCARBOROUGH: “Bondi refused to turn around and even look at them… the real ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is the people who have thrown their careers overboard to try to get in Trump’s good graces — that they will literally ignore child rape victims.” (From @marcofoster.bsky.social )

It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise. Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants.

Harsh, but accurate: voting for Trump wasn’t protest or disruption, it was a choice to burn alliances, norms, and credibility for nothing but grievance theater. The damage will outlive the excuses.

Ukraine: De Meloni à La Gauche, le Parlement européen a adopté à une large majorité le prêt de 90 milliards d'€uros en faveur de Ukraine 🇺🇦. Le groupe des Patriotes (Bardella/Le Pen), ainsi que les députés Knafo et Mariani ont voté contre. L'extrême droite confirme sa proximité avec le #Kremlin.

This is my mission at Bluesky; Together with my followers and other activists, try to awaken #Europe to the certainty that we OF COURSE can fix the problem with Russia ourselves, even without the Americans. But we must ensure a mental awakening among our leaders! #Ukraine #Russia #US

“If Britain is ever to give up clutching at Uncle Sam’s coattails, it must change its partner for upgrading its nuclear deterrent from America to France, and use that cooperation to present Vladimir Putin with a combined European nuclear deterrent that should keep him honest.”

Aux JO d’hiver, un sacre sur la glace et des accusations de violences sous le tapis Le duo français médaillé d’or aux Jeux olympiques, Guillaume Cizeron et Laurence Fournier Beaudry ont soutenu un patineur accusé d’agression sexuelle. Par @laurawoj1.bsky.social‬

Just sent out this free piece. For two weeks now we have heard senior European policy makers speak lies. Europe cannot defend itself without the USA, the USA under Trump it committed to NATO, Europe is too weak. It is a generation of failure justifying its mistakes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

What does Peter Mandelson have to do with Palantir? Learn more in the video below, about click here to read our Palantir investigation: : www.prospectmagazine...

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

French government encourages women who were victims of Epstein to come forward. This is major. #EpsteinFiles

While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember... Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts. Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts. Is this the world we want to live in?

"no employee should even be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values" MFW she has more backbone than centuries old universities

BREAKING: Steve Reed backs PM

This report implies that 'Andrew' may have broken the Official Secrets Acts (& I wonder if the same could be possible of Mandelson?) and if so I wonder whether that, rather than 'Misconduct in Public Office' might, in both cases, form the basis of a prosecution? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Media is a strategic industry with massive consequences for society. Europe cannot afford to replicate the American collapse. We need strict regulation now: oligarchs and hostile nations cannot be allowed to own or influence the platforms that shape our reality

Musk and Thiel are the loud ideologues, but Bezos and Zuckerberg are the indispensable enablers. They are the infrastructure of the new fascism. Whether through cowardice or greed, they have done almost as much to dismantle democracy. Stop giving them a pass

I’m glad Jeffries came out swinging on this one. Trump is an unrepentant racist and his posts should not be normalized.