The bonanza for federal contractors comes as the Trump administration’s focus on deportations has led to a massive increase in ICE’s budget.

Malawi is grappling with a triple crisis – a deep-seated food emergency, diminishing aid, and soaring debt. With over four million Malawians at risk of acute malnutrition until the next harvest in March, the president declared a nationwide state of disaster. Read more:

🌎🎙📸 🗞 La fédération internationale des journalistes publie la liste définitive des 128 journalistes et professionnels des médias tués en 2025, dont 10 femmes et 9 décès accidentels Les trois pays les plus meurtriers : 🇵🇸 Palestine : 56 🇾🇪 Yémen : 13 🇺🇦 Ukraine : 8 www.ifj.org/fr/salle-de-...

Médecins sans Frontières, Handicap International ou encore Oxfam... Au total, 37 organisations humanitaires internationales sont désormais interdites d’activités dans la bande de Gaza depuis le 1er janvier 2026. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/BeC

" . . . she lifted her hand and gave the middle finger to the cross on the wall. The gesture was unambiguous, audacious and courageous: I was her audience and her viewer, and she was giving death the middle finger with me as her witness." 💔

If there's a holiday, Marsha P Johnson had an outfit for it! In 1991, she celebrated the New Year in Randy Wicker's lighting shop with a tuxedo, pearl necklace, and party hat.

« Jamais autant de Français n’ont eu un emploi ... nous devons tenir bon sur ce que nous chérissons : l’humain, la paix, la liberté ... cette année doit être et sera une année utile ... nous y arriverons parce que nous sommes français » etc. Dix ans de bullshit @info.gouv.fr

Nulle femme ne pouvait le battre, se vantait-il. En septembre 1973, Billie Jean King a applati Bobby Riggs en trois sets. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

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L'autrice du révéré "Matrix" 🌈

"Bohemians" as in "Lesbians" 💜

December's boat strike death toll (so far)...

For a sixth time, you chose an interview with @reproutopia.bsky.social as one of your favorites of the year. Today on "Best of 2025," it's Sophie on "Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (@haymarketbooks.org). ... and IT'S FREE! www.patreon.com/posts/happy-...

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ICE with the assistance of the POLICE, “takes” a woman then assaults a different woman (an American citizen).

Marion Maréchal n'a pas aimé que je lui rappelle les vrais chiffres de l'immigration, donc elle a passé son temps à me couper. Mais les faits sont têtus, malgré ce qu'elle et ses chaînes amies racontent pour faire croire qu'il n'y a que des immigrés et des musulmans en France.

pots.lydia.me/collect/pots... Ma compagne doit payer les obsèques de son papa. Les frais d'obsèques sont de 7675€. Ma compagne n'a pas les moyens de payer cette somme, puisqu'elle est handicapée et attend de pouvoir toucher l'AAH, et sa maman est également handicapée et au minimum vieillesse.

The whooping crane recovery is a miracle. Then reality hits. A drought dries their drinking ponds. Development breaks their habitat. Wind farms dot nearby areas. A conservation scientist says it plainly: "They're all human-driven. It's us."

Dans une interview sur France Inter il a confessé ne pas parler un mot de français mais qu'il adorait la France et sa culture. A-t-il donc passé le test de connaissance du français obligatoire pour toute naturalisation ou c'est réservé aux pauvres non médiatisés ?

Par Gildas Le Dem blogs.mediapart.fr/gildas-le-de...

meanwhile, l'autre est bien au chaud à Bregançon @info.gouv.fr

Hundreds rescued off Greek coastline as officials continue search for missing child #Refugees

In 2025 alone, ICE used tracking tech on 8,343 people in the D.C. region. Nearly 5,000 wore ankle monitors. Others were tracked by phone apps; some for over a year. All without detention. www.wric.com/news/virgini...

They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.

she just got the house to pass her bill criminalizing trans care for people under 18 years old. the only mention in this piece is about how she’s upset trump hasn’t done *enough* to harm trans kids. oh and a quote from her saying trans people are all “perverted”. what is going on at NYT?

I have to wind down a little due to my health, but I'll be here every two hours for as long as it's needed. Food, emergency healthcare, winter & newborn supplies for six families and a camp. Give, click "weekly" on anything to sustain that help, then act. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Please share this far and wide. On and off line. Together we can get them to and past this goal. Together. donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...

Dont 437 enfants. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Autodidacte, invalidée, Hazel Knapp peignit avec l'aide de sa mère et les encouragements de Gertrude Stein news.artnet.com/art-world/ha...

Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.

La militante d'extrême-droite Brigitte Bardot est morte. Elle était une multi-condamnée pour incitation à la haine raciale et en raison de propos tenus concernant notamment l'immigration, l'islam en France, l'abattage rituel des animaux, le métissage et l'homosexualité.

[VIOLENCE] À Mont-de-Marsan (France), des individus ont violemment tabassé un couple d’hommes devant leur domicile le 25 décembre 2025. Les victimes ont reçu 8 et 15 jours d'ITT.

@drlcagray.bsky.social (one of my favourite novels)

As you well know @drlcagray.bsky.social

Hopefully.

Un commentaire @info.gouv.fr ?

“Right now it’s dangerous because we’re seeing a steady rise of the far right in every aspect of society. It’s more important than ever to figure out how to mitigate this.”`

Téléskis en ruines www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What 2025 was like for Queer People, and what we'll carry into 2026 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/what-2025-wa...

For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026

Doctors interviewed 21 deported mothers. More than half said ICE never asked if they had children before deporting them, leaving babies and young children behind in the U.S. sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/24/d...

41% des personnages LGBT+ des séries de 2025 ne reviendront pas en 2026 en raison de l'annulation de leur série, de leur départ de la série ou de leur mort dans l'histoire.

Le pays où la presse dominante tient à afficher une neutralité face au racisme et n'en parle plus qu'entre guillemets est mûr pour le fascisme.

Intéressante animation, @lemonde.fr , mais structurée uniquement du point de vue de l'industrie : zéro corps humain, non-humain ou autre dans ton histoire 🙄

“So the very basic, simple premise that kickstarted the original new towns programme isn’t being followed through today. No one is addressing the question: if you can’t afford to buy, will you be able to move to a new town?”

The island nation of Palau will take up to 75 migrants, in return for financial aid. Palau is independent since 1994 but allows the US military to use its territory. In return, the US gives Palau hundreds of millions of dollars in support and assumes responsibility for its national defence.