Liam is braver, wiser, and more compassionate than everyone in MAGAworld

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is ramping up its efforts to deport people to other nations, filing almost 5,000 motions in November alone seeking to dismiss asylum cases and arguing that applicants can get asylum there. w/ @Allison McCann + @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

"I know they killed him" Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3. I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.

Can Trump get Wiz Khalifa out of Romanian prison or is that reserved for sex traffickers?

Remember when we were told it’s called the Gulf of America now?

Paramilitaries in Sudan killed over 1,000 people, one-third of them in summary executions, in an attack in April against a famine-stricken camp for displaced people, the UN human rights body said on Thursday.

Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.

SCOOP: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

"I won a different kind of battle, the one where you walk away on your own terms" Congrats champ 🥊https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8P6pokgsUw

The Department of Homeland Security fast-tracked a contract worth almost $1 billion to a company led by a donor to a pro-Trump nonprofit group where one of the officials overseeing the deal previously worked, according to records reviewed by The Post.

These people should never know a moment of peace: "A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations..." www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Israel has killed 249 journalists in the last 2 years. That's more than were killed in WWII & the Vietnam War put together. A Vermonter, Dylan Collins, was wounded in one of these attacks, which killed another reporter. This war against journalists must be investigated & ended.

The good news? Nearly all the world’s advanced economies are now *cutting* their emissions, while still growing their economies. (It had little to do with the Paris agreement per se, though. It was due to better technology.) The bad news? We need to much more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Very easy to be a climate pessimist right now, but it's a lot easier to be an optimist if you look past the federal-level headlines and see communities like Fayetteville, Arkansas transforming to protect the planet and improve its residents lives www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/c...

Brazil has some of the strongest food banking infrastructure in the world and here's one cool way the government doesn't let good food to waste: illegally caught fish confiscated by Brazilian authorities is donated to our food banking partners at Sesc Mesa Brasil. Just this week they donated 15 tons

"A key enabling factor of this approach is moving away from GDP to indicators that also track human and natural capital—incentivizing economies to move towards circularity, decarbonization of the energy system, sustainable agriculture, ecosystem restoration and more." phys.org/news/2025-12...

😨⚠️| "Los periodistas no mueren, los matan". La advertencia de @RSF_esp llega tras un año letal: con 9 asesinatos 28 periodistas desaparecidos, México es el territorio más peligroso para ejercer el periodismo sólo después de Gaza.

"In response to the AP analysis, COGAT insisted Wednesday that the number of trucks entering Gaza each day was above the 600 mark. But when asked, it refused to elaborate why the figures it gave did not reach that amount or provide raw data on truck entry." apnews.com/article/gaza...

Raising a child is scary, confusing, and isolating. I feel for the people who think their best support is a shitty chatbot and I loathe the people like Altman hypercharging and preying on this isolation

So did the Trump administration ever even try justifying why they pardoned 400-tons-of-coke kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández or do they not even bother explaining their corruption anymore?

Israeli authorities raided a vacant compound of a United Nations agency in East Jerusalem on Monday, seizing property there and prompting accusations from the agency chief that Israel was violating its legal obligations as a UN member.

UPDATED: Mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew to be freed from ICE detention. DHS, after characterizing Brazilian mom with ties to Karoline Leavitt as a "criminal," did not oppose her release at a hearing today. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

U.S. journalists at this point should do trainings with LatAm counterparts to better understand how to cover Ruling Families totally enmeshed in the government and corporate uni-state

It just occurred to me that when Trump dies, they’ll just make AI videos of him dictating policy and saying how “hot” the US is so they never have to figure out who leads the GOP once Trump croaks. It won’t work but it will be very funny for a while

Sohla captures what it’s like for a freelancer made to feel grateful for the chance to sell labor to a giant company for pennies: “I should have just said no, but I was afraid of being difficult. I did not want to be the person that kept moving from job to job.” open.substack.com/pub/sohla/p/...

The case appears to be an example of a tactic that the Trump administration has used to pressure undocumented immigrants to leave the United States by separating them from their families after they refuse to comply with deportation orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...

The Trump admin's claim that it was targeting criminal aliens was always bullshit, and it's just hard for me to believe that most Americans don't know that. And assuming they do, this signals just how broken our society has become—it's a sick game we're playing.

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

"With aid eliminated for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, Kakuma [refugee camp] has seen a 50% rise this year in instances of severe malnutrition among infants under six months, according to the United Nations." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is really good @apnews.com reporting that takes seriously Trump's suggestions of going after Mexican cartels, while explaining the long, failed history to deal with cartels in Michoacan: apnews.com/article/mich...

“…several customers were overheard to say “That looks good” “Oh” and “I think those are fajitas.”” theonion.com/restaurant-p...

When I was reporting on migration, I saw firsthand the tremendous, round-the-clock work Al Otro Lado provides to immigrants from around the world and highly recommend supporting their work on #GivingTuesday

There’s a Latin American head of state who could be described as a capo and it’s not Maduro (not that he’s innocent, just that the evidence is flimsy), it’s Juan Orlando Hernández who Trump just pardoned. A nice example of how the US has prosecuted the drug war in LatAm

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville) www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

The latest @gallup.com poll: - "In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity." news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? (Posted just for you Snowy)

Incredibly, this article does not feature the word ”bribe” or “corruption”

In which @kbennhold.bsky.social is calm and elegant and I am shouting at the cellphone cam and my glasses keep sliding off my nose www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

When food is wasted, the land, water, labor & energy that went into making it are also lost, hurting the #ecosystem & contributing to #climatechange. It also costs the economy billions, undermines #foodsecurity, and it can spread #illness & pollute water supplies: doi.org/10.1002/fsn3... #foodwaste