(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Confesses to Impeachable Offense on Social Media, Revealing That He Pardoned a Democratic Congressman to Try to Illicitly Gain a GOP House Seat, Retain His GOP Majority in Congress, and Stave Off a 2027 House Impeachment

Can we talk about Steve Bannon helping Jeffrey Epstein behind the scenes a fraction as much as we talked about Hunter Biden's corruption?

Waterstones says they would sell plagiarized books.

Once upon a time, cholesterol was simple. This molecule, it was proclaimed, came in two varieties: an artery-clogging sort and an artery-clearing one. Now the picture is more complex

This does NOT have to become our horrifying reality! The future is NOT inevitable. It IS within our power change to change this devastatingly terrifying possibility. BUT 1/4

More than a dozen of small children have died in Cuba in recent days, including my cousin’s granddaughter who was just 8 months old. There are several viruses making live unbearable for Cubans on the island, in addition to regular hardships and blackouts. It’s heartbreaking and downright sad.

Bruna Ferreira said she asked the White House staffer "to be godmother over my only sister," adding “I made a mistake there."

Is Christian religiosity driving backlash against Muslims in Western Europe? 📺 Watch the video, or read the full paper (open access) here 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

OPINIÓN | “¿Cómo resignificar un espacio cuyo corazón sigue gobernado por quienes custodian el significado original?”, por Andrea Momoitio

The week in #LatinAmerica: cartels infiltrating militaries, U.S. strikes killing civilians, drones attacking bases. Even the safest democracies now fielding criminal organisations 🇵🇪🇨🇷🇨🇴🇭🇳🇻🇪 What's at stake? sinfiltroya.substack.com/p/latin-amer...

Oleksandra Matviichuk, abogada ucrania: “Putin no quiere la paz. Quiere restaurar por la fuerza el imperio ruso”. La activista preside la organización ucrania Centro para las Libertades Civiles, Premio Nobel de la Paz. elpais.com/internaciona...

Some people in Germany want to ban the Alternative for Germany, a far-right party, to prevent a repeat of Nazism. “We cannot be unserious about preventing this kind of thing,” Ralf Stegner, a social democrat, said.

Politicians across Europe fear the wrath of retirees. But how will the continent cope with an ageing population? We dig into the data

How and when exactly did a president acquire the authority to rule in all matters great and small by diktat?

The president is muffling the opposition and consolidating power

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Maga’s strange rage against Europe on.ft.com/4iI8gSm | opinion

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) against Microsoft, alleging the tech giant's data processing on behalf of the Israeli Military facilitated severe human rights violations and continues to enable

The cronyism being investigated relates to the establishment of an academy for junior diplomats. It comes at an awkward time for the EU’s institutions

Exklusiv: Tausende bisher geheime Dokumente zeigen: Russlands Agentennetz in Wien ist weit größer als gedacht. Eine Spionin gesteht – andere werden noch gejagt. Link zum E-Paper: https://epaper.profil.at/

In Wien 🇦🇹 wurde bei einem Start-Up-Zentrum Feuer gelegt - in dem Gebäude befindet sich auch ein Hotel. Der Brand endete glimpflich. Die Täter sehen sich wohl als linke #Palästina -Aktivisten. Die #Israel hassende Szene feiert den "antizionistischen #Brandanschlag". Text von @msulzbacher.bsky.social.

NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media The case isn't getting much attention. But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers My story: www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...

Stupidity is a concept that dates to Socrates’ time. Yet many new kinds of stupidity have been invented, or discovered, since antiquity, Joshua Rothman writes.

It is Festival-de-Cine time in Havana. A friend sent me this picture and this voice message: The Film Festival hasn't been the same without you for many years now. And this year is particularly hard, because movie theatres are empty. I don't even plan to go near them. And her voice cracks.

Like much of his approach to the Americas, Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, appears more impulsive than strategic

Dozens of New Yorker staff protested at a screening of the Netflix documentary The New Yorker at 100 in New York last night over recent controversial firings. They said they "won't stop fighting until our colleagues are reinstated" www.thewrap.com/new-yorker-d...

The President of PEACE goes to war… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Víctor Hugo Morales y una dura reflexión del presente: “El fascismo que se respira oprime”

School students across Germany skipped class today to demonstrate against the government reform on military service.

The WC-135R atmospheric collection aircraft is capable of detecting radioactive "clouds" in real time.

Russia's frozen state assets in the EU are better suited as a bargaining chip to achieve peace in Ukraine instead of financing a €165 billion reparations loan for Kyiv, according to the chief executive of Euroclear.

Now that’s something that adds to the challenges ahead when it comes to #verification and #disinformation detection: wearing an “artifical finger” to dispute visual evidence as AI-generated…

What is transdisciplinary philosophy? This week, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani introduce their new open access book with Oxford University Press. In it they explore the development and facilitation of community-based philosophy. #philsky #philpsy imperfectcognitions....

KI-Bilder zeigen eine Welt, die es nie gegeben hat - und eine Welt, in der ganz, ganz viele Menschen offensichtlich nicht vorkommen. So viele Facetten von Diversität fehlen auf dem Bild (Post gesehen via @bildoperationen.bsky.social, Credit: Carina Schießl)

❗️Update on Croatian alert: Homeland Movement MP announces plan to abolish future funding for Novosti. Find out more 👉 go.coe.int/0GPVs @europeanjournalists.org @ifjglobal.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social

A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

Whispers of dissent are growing among the Alawites in Syria. In recent months calls to arms have circulated among some in the sect

David Uclés: “La libertad sin empatía implica siempre egoísmo. Aquel que se siente libre de actuar sin tener en cuenta al otro, bien podría llamarse liberticida". www.eldiario.es/rastreador/d...

Víctor Manuel define lo que para él significa ser de izquierdas y más de uno debería tomar nota dozz.es/0hnsv4

The transformative effect of psychoanalysis on Samuel Beckett's life and craft.

>spend a year berating our allies for not spending enough >threaten their economies with tariffs and repeatedly claim we won’t honor our article 5 commitments >they spend more on defense >start berating them because they’re spending the money on their own defense industries

These are the individuals attempting to gather data, track digital footprints, and publish information about their targets. We will continue to investigate and report on their activities.

Michael Reiners’ deleted account included degrading depictions of women, unsolicited sexual messages, and repeated calls for the deportation of 15 million “browns”.

Also involved is Michael Reiners, a trained barrister who has presented himself as an analyst of free speech and immigration. However, HOPE not hate has learned he has also used a pseudonymous account as an outlet for racism and sexualised misogyny.

Smith claims the unit has collected info on more than 10,000 “ideological enemies, fifth columnists and subversive types”. He has attempted to build a team of “list builders” using Signal and discussions about data-collection tools.

At the heart of the project is Ashley Dean Smith, a former member of the fascist Homeland Party who has described himself as a “blood and soil Ethnonationalist”. A private group run by Smith mixes self-help PDFs with far-right material, including Holocaust denial.

🚨 NEW: We’ve dug into the people behind the far-right research unit we exposed last month, and the picture is grim. This follow-up uncovers the extreme histories of the individuals building a database of progressives across the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/04/r...

#Lithuania: LRT journalists will protest on 9 December against efforts to undermine the safeguards that protect the public broadcaster's independence. We strongly condemn any attempt to seize political control, and call on MPs to stand for media freedom and act in accordance with the #EMFA.

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"