Also on the daily podcast: why social-media bans are the wrong approach and the rise of “blouge” wine

De acuerdo a un estudio de Yahoo y YouGov realizado días después de la presentación del artista puertorriqueño en el Super Bowl, un 42% se identifica más con el artista, frente al 39% con Donald Trump. elpais.com/us/2026-02-1...

Russell Vought Uses $15M From Foreign Aid Agency He Gutted to Pay for Security Detail

The @hindrajabfoundation.be has filed a complaint in 🇨🇱 #Chile, seeking investigation and prosecution of sniper Rom Kovtun for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The filing details his alleged participation in the siege and destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital. → https://bit.ly/4tF1EJt

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!

Pakistan’s government has stepped up the use of in absentia convictions and arrest warrants against Pakistani journalists living overseas since late 2025, highlighting an escalating crackdown by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government on critical reporting and commentary.

No woman should be told to “shut up” while in agony. No one should feel unsafe giving birth. We’ve been campaigning to end racial inequalities in maternity care, and these latest revelations are shocking.

🎥 Dos cinestastas finlandeses denunciaron en #Berlinale2026 el silencio del mundo de la cultura ante el g3n0c1d10 en Palestina: "Cuando decenas de miles de personas mueren, no hay excusa para no denunciar"

Rubio says Orbán’s leadership is ‘essential’ to US interests ft.trib.al/AFvFw91

Pacto PP y Vox en la Comunidad Valenciana

CRÓNICA | Sánchez despliega una ofensiva para desenmascarar a Vox y denunciar los métodos por los que crece: odio y desinformación ✍️ Por Esther Palomera www.eldiario.es/politica/san...

"Yo ahora echo la vista atrás y me doy cuenta de que hay cosas que no he denunciado porque creía que eran lo normal", dice Belén Rueda. "Tengo ahora mucha más libertad de decir lo que pienso. Y lo voy a decir. Entonces no lo hacía, y era por miedo"

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

Alexandra Prokopenko wonders how much longer it can go on metabolising its own muscle tissue

La verdad puede ser relativa, pero la mentira siempre es absoluta, afirma Leonardo Padura.

Poles are taking control of their online presence. Requests to Google to delete personal data jumped 75% in 2025, with most seeking removal of false content from social media and news platforms.

Agnès Callamard fordert in ihrem Gastkommentar für die @taz.de die Regierungen, die die Desinformation über Francesca Albanese verbreitet haben, auf, sich öffentlich zu entschuldigen & die Rücktrittsforderungen zurückzunehmen. 1/2 taz.de/Angriffe-auf...

"It's dissidents that will soon replace immigrants in the detention facilities that are being built at the cost of billions around the country." --Ty Cobb, former Special Counsel to Donald Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn3A...

A lethal dose so small you can't see it. A toxin only a government lab can make. Two years of silence, then five countries spoke at once. The late Alexey Navalny's story is still being written. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Hungary under Orban created the toxic template for the likes of Trump and Farage. Now it shows in starkest terms the dark, destructive and divisive reality of hard-right populism. My @theipaper.com column asks if they can turn back the tide? inews.co.uk/opinion/euro...

Is a new book about the separation of powers, by Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein, remiss not to mention Trump? Matthew Reisz reports in today’s in-depth read https://ow.ly/BFJS50Yf9FM

Um das Berlin-Büro der @washingtonpost.com zu leiten, zog @aaronwiener.bsky.social vor einem halben Jahr mit seiner Familie nach Deutschland. Nun wurde er zusammen mit 300 Kollegen entlassen. Sein Gastbeitrag im @tagesspiegel.de: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/entla...

‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth

Julio Martínez, el empresario que llegó a Plus Ultra como “conseguidor” por sus contactos en Venezuela. Una investigación judicial secreta intenta esclarecer el papel del hombre de negocios que ayudaba a la aerolínea a través de sus contactos con el Gobierno de Caracas

⚡️Ex-energy minister charged in Ukraine's biggest corruption case. Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine's former energy minister, was charged of money laundering and involvement in a criminal group as part of the country's major corruption scandal, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced on Feb. 16.

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, an ICC judge sanctioned by the U.S. says the measures are meant to intimidate other European judges — and is urging the EU to push back.

OPINIÓN | "Que Robert F. Kennedy se metiera por la nariz una mezcla de coca, orines y mierda lo confirman como más que posible candidato a otra Medalla Internacional de la Comunidad de Madrid", por David Torres

Journalist Jasper Nathaniel spoke to The Majority Report about Israel’s new security cabinet measures that represent a significant move toward the de jure annexation of the West Bank. “Israel’s entire annexation project is meant to be done without ever formally declaring annexation,” he explains.

PM Giorgia Meloni is passing new hard-line policing measures to style herself as Italy’s guardian of law and order. But her opponents fear the move is intended to prevent critics — particularly on the left — from protesting.

This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets. We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years. 2/

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The fallout from Bill Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has reached the $86bn Gates Foundation global health philanthropy. Foundation staff raised concerns at a quarterly town hall meeting with chief executive Mark Suzman last week. www.ft.com/content/2ecd...

Viktor Orbán’s rival Péter Magyar said that his government would extradite Polish fugitives—former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro and his ex-deputy Marcin Romanowski—both sheltered by Orbán—on day one in office. Magyar added they may flee to Minsk or Moscow, hinting Orbán could, too.

‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18

"He tomado otra vez Rayuela, después de muchos años, con la saludable intención con que uno abre una medicina amarga". Rayuela, que algo queda, por Alex Joyce.

Two years ago today, opposition politician Alexey Navalny was killed in a Russian prison. After his memoir Patriot was published posthumously, readers shared what it meant to them. We’re revisiting those reflections. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Latin America scores major wins at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, with THE SECRET AGENT and Adolpho Veloso (Brazil), ESTA ISLA (Puerto Rico), and Sofía Subercaseaux (Chile) among last night’s honorees

A strange find from the Epstein files: A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev." Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Ingrid Brodnig (Ex-Falter-Kollegin) verkörpert das Sinnbild einer Netz-Volksaufklärerin für jung und alt und bespielt alle Bühnen. Ein langes Interview mit ihr - geführt von @barbaratoth.bsky.social findet ihr auch im nächsten Falter.

Orban hat die Pride Parade verboten. Und erlaubt einen Marsch zum Gedenken an die SS. Klarer geht es wohl nicht.

"Donald Trump ist nicht nur die Parodie eines Sonnenkönigs, der alle Macht als persönliche Macht auffasst. Er ist zugleich der erste Höfling seiner selbst, der ranghöchste Kriecher am eigenen Hof." www.zeit.de/2026/07/dona...

Muestra y ciclo de homenaje a Pino Solanas

Recherchen zum Unternehmen Palantir, die von der Republik und dem Recherche­kollektiv WAV gemacht wurden, haben internationales Medien­echo ausgelöst. Nun klagt das US-Unternehmen gegen die Republik auf Gegen­darstellung. Der Fall liegt beim Zürcher Handels­gericht.

La trumpista colombiana y congresista de extrema derecha Ángela Vergara celebraba cuando el ICE detenía a sus propios compatriotas en Estados Unidos. Hace 18 días, el ICE secuestró a su hijo y ahora ya no le parece divertida la crueldad que tanto aplaudió.

“It became a massive political problem” for the president, Greene, who left Congress earlier this year, said.

Reminder that more networks, just like the Epstein network, exist, and you know exactly who they are.

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work: zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

"Everybody understands that this is a massive violation of human rights," Cuba's U.N. ambassador says of the U.S. oil blockade against the island.

Si alguien sabe de primera mano lo dura que es una transición entre una dictadura comunista y una democracia es Lech Walesa. havanatimesenespanol.org/mundo/lech-w...