Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Transitional Presidential Council says plans to remove Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, flouting warnings from US.

Good. And long overdue. Now Plan International, World Vision? You're next.

Heroes everywhere if you look for them. Now we get to be the ones who figure out how to rise to this moment.

Video was leaked today of UK police setting dogs on and using CS spray on people seeking asylum, protesting their detention under the "one in, one out" policy, inside a detention centre (in case you thought the UK immune from what ICE is doing in the US): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

At least 32 Palestinians, including 7 infants, have died from extreme weather in Gaza’s displacement camps. More than 1.5 million Palestinians remain without heating, winter supplies, or safe shelter as Israel continues to restrict aid. #Infograph

Read Sir Paul Nurse's (President of the @royalsociety.org) interview in the @theguardian.com from Sunday...and then read this from @profrachelgan.bsky.social 👇🏾 [1/3]

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Meanwhile, over on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@mhoye/11586...

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

The administration is going to declare Bellingcat a terrorist organization before the year is out

Twats

When potential supply is expensive they seek subsidies rather than not extracting. When governments are unstable, they lobby, influence and become political players. When demand isn't high enough they manufacture by killing policies, encouraging wasteful industries (SUVs, GenAI, single-use plastics)

there are just so many posts from oil industry guys babbling about bbls and I really think the context of the fact they're basically just the asbestos of energy has been forgotten

Despite the fact that the world is clearly oversupplied for oil in the coming years, it hasn't put a single dent in enthusiasm for accelerated expansion of new oil projects The idea that this industry operates on a rational or logical basis is itself irrational... productiongap.org/2025report/#...

Did anyone snap the Foster/Holcim Essential Homes prototype at the Venice Biennale 2023? If so might I be able to use your photo for an article? I'm not getting replies to my request for permission.

This is a move in the right direction.

For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Interesting as some of you know De Villepin best for his long tirade at the UNSC against the Iraq war (that angered US so much there was a brief stint of ordering “freedom fries”). He states Macron’s reaction was “blind, ignorant, and irresponsible” when it comes to the future of France and the EU

Worth noting that the Rubio/Miller administration's plans for Venezuela are entirely dependent now on the regime and opposition not fracturing into rival factions willing to use armed violence to destroy their rivals

Look Starmer, EU leaders. This is how you do it.

A good summary of the US's many "interventions" in Latin America. They don't end well. Though the last one (in this list) was 1989, countries like Haiti are still suffering from these imperial aggressions.

The thing about being a "lifelong advocate of international law" is you have to have the courage to speak up when it’s broken

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Tents are not suitable accommodation at all; the only reason more durable and dignified shelter can't be provided is the Israeli prevention of suitable aid materials. If tents must be used, they should at the very least meet well established standards. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps: 1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.

Anyone interested in EU defence and security might right now want to take a look at Dutch defence and security commitments to Curacao and other islands linked to the Netherlands just off the coast of Venezuela

Woefully inadequate response

The thing is that once USA is attacking a sovereign country without a reason, as Russia, there is very little to keep China from escalating the situation with Taiwan. Also, this is the most embarrasing double-standard talk ever: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Unconstitutional. Illegal. Impeachable.

Every world leader should be condemning Trump. We’ll see who steps up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

FIFA peace prize in action

And now, kidnapping, too? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Using US taxpayer dollars to bomb people and steal another country’s oil for oligarchs to sell to US taxpayers. Taxpayers pay twice, the rich get richer, and climate change from burning fossil fuels gets worse, spreading disasters globally. Murder, corruption, theft, terrorism, climate destruction.

What the actual fuck

This is sub-Cummings shit. "stiffened spine and renewed purpose". Oh yeah? To crush the saboteurs, is it? The government has run aground because it lied repeatedly, promised the earth, didn't do its homework, kept saying "change" without knowing what it meant, and then repeatedly shat its own bed.

This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

The list also includes Caritas International, the aid agency of the Catholic Church. The Israeli authorities are banning the Catholic church from helping the poorest and most vulnerable in the Holy Land.

Solidarity to my former colleagues and good friends at @actionaiduk.bsky.social and other affected agencies following this move by the Israeli authorities. It shows you stand by your principles and the rights of the people of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Banning MSF and CARE is about as rogue state as it gets.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.

Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.

The people of the DRC must be punished until their government becomes sufficiently enthusiastic about the UK‘s obsession with expelling people

Filippo Grandi on a decade as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the bleak situation at the moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Merry Christmas!

NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years. My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed. www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...