‘This is the real Santa’s workshop’: a trip to Germany’s toy village

Emile Heskey: ‘Gone are the times when you just ignore abuse. No. Why should we?’

Le satellite franco-chinois SVOM détecte les traces de la plus vieille supernova jamais observée

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z74a... A shocking twist halts Trump’s $300M White House ballroom project after a reported Friday incident. Ari Melber investigates how political ego, corporate money, and unchecked power collided — leaving behind more than just rubble.

Dumbest motherfuckers ever to walk the face of the earth. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

President Zelenskyy has rejected the Trump peace plan, submitted to him in its original Russian.

Marc Elias is one of the heroes of our time, leaving Big Law to fight this assault on democracy at every level. Heather Cox Richardson is my second inspiration, using her deep history knowledge to show how these disparate attacks fit larger patterns—and to chart a path forward against all adversity.

ChatGPT cannot fathom that we are living in this timeline.

Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China. His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority." Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.

RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women >100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

“Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump” Annie Correal for @nytimes.com

OK, seriously. This is wild. Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;

This is nothing short of mandatory right wing indoctrination at Texas high schools & colleges. Wow.

Florida’s voucher audit is a warning: the state lost track of 30,000 students and hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that should have supported public schools. Kids pay the price when there’s no oversight. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Despite a last-minute plea for more time, eviction looms for the remaining residents of the troubled South Shore apartment building raided by immigration agents earlier this year.

Brutality, Oligarchy, Murder, Trump: What the Powell Memo Has Delivered www.commondreams.org/opinion/powe...

Affordability, Abundance, and a New American Agenda www.commondreams.org/opinion/affo...

Report Tracks Trump 'War on Free Speech' and Urges Systemic Resistance www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...

Thank you @stardustbluepr.com for including me in this group! ❤️

In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting. Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

Nazis systematically attacked, destroyed & burned synagogues in Hitler Germany. These actions were not spontaneous but a state-sponsored campaign of terror. Now in the US, we're seeing state-sponsored terror of immigrants as our government invades churches & grabs random people. #ICELawlessness

“The county’s underground water supply had been tainted with nitrates — a byproduct of chemical fertilizers used by the megafarms and food processing plants where most of his constituents worked.”

How's that whole AI thing going?

If Hegseth were any more screwed, Jerry Falwell Jr would be sitting in the corner watching.

Prada finalizes purchase of fashion rival Versace for $1.4 billion. Or, three purses and a couple of dresses...

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If AI eliminates millions of jobs, how will people survive? Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy? Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet? We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.

The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare. Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.

"A widely awaited Department of Defense report concluded that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, violated departmental policies when he shared secret information in a Signal messaging chat in March that included details of a planned airstrike in Yemen against Houthi fighters"

The ruling comes in a major consolidated class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI initiated in 2023, in which The New York Times, The News and affiliated outlets allege the AI company is stealing and distorting their copyrighted works.

“I don’t know that it would touch him,” Gere says. “... boy, I don’t know how you explain what he has done to this country, what it feels like to be an American now, 10 or 11 months in. It’s just astonishing. It’s beyond what anyone could ever imagine.”

For AI, copyright is kryptonite.

"This new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law," Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement.

They couldn't be more obvious.

@iamseanastin.bsky.social was featured on CBS Sunday Morning discussing AI tsunami in Hollywood. #SAGAFTRA

In a joint post with the Committee for the First Amendment, Jane Fonda is weighing in on Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros.⁠

45 years ago today. Wish you were here, John. #JohnLennon

Texas: On December 4, they quietly unleashed HB 7, a law built not just to ban abortion, but to hunt down anyone who helps someone get care. Clinics, doctors, friends, organizers — no one is safe from their $100,000 bounties or their attack on medication abortion

The incredible creative crew who stood up for all of us at Stanford at this mornings hearing! We thank you!! @navavoices.org @sagaftra.org @digelsrud.bsky.social #CAAB412 #March2Testify

🧵A joint hearing by the Judiciary Committee of the CA Senate & Consumer/privacy protection of the Assembly was held today at Stanford to balance concerns of creative artists with the economic engineering of AI. The room overflowed. Real issue? This President & Congress won't regulate AI.

Good website to follow lawsuits against big AI: Chatgptiseatingtheworld.com

Hundreds of actors, writers, musicians and digital artists packed Paul Brest Hall in Palo Alto for what organizers described as the largest public mobilization yet for AI regulation. #March2Testify #CAAB412 #AB412