Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

5. In general, I believe the #CAS should also chastise the #IOC for failing to provide clarity through its guidelines about what "political propaganda" entails. This is a blatant violation of the principle of legality, which affects strongly the fundamental rights of athletes.

2. If there is a sanction, it will most likely be challenged at the #CAS, which will decide the following issues: a) Does the helmet constitute #PoliticalPropaganda ? b) Is a rule 50 OC whose scope bans this type of expression reconcilable with Article 10 #ECHR?

#Sportslaw in action at #MilanoCortina2026 Will the #IOC/#IBSF dare to sanction #heraskevych if he wears his memorial helmet during the competition? Here are some thoughts on a case to watch 👇👇👇 #CAS #OlympicCharter #FreedomofExpression #ECHR #Neutrality www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Not going to lie, this is happening faster than I predicted, and I’m glad that it is.

It’s one thing to lose the presumption of regularity, but for a direct finding of bad faith…

This was a failed coup by the Trump administration against Democratic members of Congress. Everyday Americans on the grand jury stopped it. The 6 targets were right all along—don’t follow illegal orders. Speak truth to power. Because it will prevail.

The Trump Regime actually tried to indict Democratic members of Congress who made the video letting troops know they take an oath to the Constitution not a man. And they failed. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Foreign tourism to the U.S. fell 5.4% in 2025 while the rest of the world saw a 4% increase. Canadian visits dropped nearly 30%. buff.ly/MSynHSJ

This all started with one fake post from a right-wing clickbait account that posted translated lyrics that Bunny never sang during the show. But now they've all convinced themselves that it happened because they don't know Spanish. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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I still have Kinky for Governor merchandise somewhere, and he would have done the off-beat elements of Texas proud. [A word of warning to those unfamiliar with the Kinkster; he had a… robust sense of humour.] m.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSW...

It might even be better for America and the rest of the world if America's soft power is defined less by a myth of Texan machismo and more by an ethos of Minnesotan solidarity

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Canada agreed to pay for the full cost of construction, land acquisition on the US side, and connecting Interstate highway links, AND also isn't charging tolls on the US side of the bridge. This amounts to saying America should be allowed to steal Canadian money.

He can walk between Strabane and Lifford any time he feels like.

“To suggest there was anything untoward about that, in 2012…” Six years after arrest; four years after guilty plea and conviction; three years after release from prison.

America is learning the hard way that "we make a lot of money together, you benefit from trade with us" does not actually equal "we own you and you must be subservient," and that countries will forgo some money to preserve sovereignty. Today's corrupt, self-interested US leaders don't get that.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange. Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119. me, for @forbes.com

Discuss with reference to the career and opinions of Avery Brundage.

Thread suggesting rather strongly that there may be an upper limit to how much salty liquorice the human frame may safely ingest.

Over 28 years, 140 people died at the Berlin Wall from all causes (intentional shooting, drowning, accidents, etc.). #comparativeborderregimes

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

Gee, can someone remind me who is responsible for this antagonism?

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Reform is threatening Bangor University over a student society’s decision. The society isn’t Bangor University—but this is a neat preview of how a Reform government would work: public money for supporters only. Trump-style politics, UK edition. Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇

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Because you’re not sharing a continent with Spanish speakers, so the incentives and rewards are different? The English hang-ups over French are all the more baffling when English is just a creole from German speakers trying to speak French.

Roland Fischnaller competed at the 2026 Olympics wearing a helmet with the Russian flag, despite a ban. Though it also showed flags of other countries he’d competed in, Russian and Belarusian flags are taboo. The IOC couldn’t explain the exception to Tribuna.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from using a helmet at the 2026 Olympics that depicted fallen Ukrainian athletes. At the same time, an Italian snowboarder competed wearing a helmet with the Russian flag - which is prohibited and "there was no reaction to this."

Europe faces a “geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency” Macron told us, and will be “swept aside” if it does not reform. After its “Greenland moment”, Europe can’t go on as before. The US is “openly hostile” to Europe and wants it “dismembered” economist.com/europe/2026/...

Because I see rugby writers are trying to paint Ireland getting stuffed in contact as the referee’s fault, a brief note: there was no forward pass in the first French try. Dupont offloads flat, it travels flat, Bielle-Barrey takes it way behind him and the AR is looking right down it to confirm it.

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively. All due online by 2029.

You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year 1 9 9 9. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing.

As Le Point and Le Monde have both reported, Epstein was running a major project out of his luxurious apartment in Paris' 16th arrondissement to advance the interests of Marine Le Pen and her Pétainiste party, which appears to have been coordinated on several levels with the Kremlin. Here's Bannon.

When trying to explain the strategic predicament that Canada now is in to people in London you really do find yourself wondering what the UK would be willing to do if Trump decided to escalate against Britain's most loyal ally

If you're wondering why Canadians are nervous, it's never good to become the focus of the mentally unwell ruler of a larger nuclear armed neighbour

Emmanuel Macron : « C’est le moment pour l’Union européenne de lancer une capacité commune d’endettement, via des eurobonds »

Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

With variable memberships when it comes to the Euro, Schengen and the EPPO the EU has had a variable speed Europe for 35 years

If you see it, post a banger not in English. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDC...