Trump's ICE Gestapo Thugs stage massive night raid on Chicago Apt building, breaking down doors, dragging Latino men, women & children out of their beds to throw them into brutal ICE Detention Camps...this is Germany 1930's..What has happened to the USA?! chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

New from me! The Trump administration is gearing up to take aim "radical left" institutions aka nonprofits that work on everything from democracy to climate change. The industry is bracing for the hit. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

read this - on revenge by Trump and backlash against @opensocietybr.bsky.social on.ft.com/4pVuUtK Why Trump is going for Soros by @edwardluce.bsky.social in today’s @financialtimes.com

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook stay on Federal Reserve board for now, sets January hearing www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

read the references to Canada 🇨🇦 and Palestine 🇵🇸 in this contribution by Chrystia Freeland on Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺: ‘no internationally recognised state may be annexed by foreign conquest’ on.ft.com/4pO18ab We need Ukraine as much as it needs us

Cheers, Slovakia - such unity. EU journalist Rikard Jozwiak reports Bratislava is blocking the already watered down 19th set of "Russian" sanctions.

Russia’s war against Ukraine is a primary driver of global instability. I call on the G20 to help build international pressure on Russia to stop the killing and engage in meaningful negotiations. Extract from my speech at the G20 Ministerial Meeting ↓

The American finance minister casually drops that NATO doesn't exist anymore.

The White House was controlling the teleprompter. The White House videographer triggered the escalator. But we're gonna hear about it anyway to distract from how weak and feckless this administration is.

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Nearly 7 million views for ABC's official YouTube video of Kimmel's 28-minute monologue overnight. It is already the most-viewed Kimmel clip of the year on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

hard reading - good reporting by @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/46T9Z2H Advertising giants change tune on climate as industry grapples with AI

good analysis by @martinsandbu.ft.com in today’s @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/427ffgt The EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity

Journalist Matthew Cassel went to Tel Aviv, described as “Israel’s liberal capital,” to ask regular Israeli’s what they thought of Palestinian suffering amidst a genocide He found that next to no one cared about the mass suffering they were inflicting on Palestinians, and many even celebrated it

“Are we heading towards derogation from the ECHR?” Trevor Philips

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

America plunges headlong into Onion territory Oklahoma lawmakers introduce legislation requiring every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader" Or get fined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

- Een NPR-journalist vraagt hoe Trump Antifa als terroristische organisatie wil aanpakken. Trump reageert: 'NPR? Ik dacht dat die verdwenen waren. Ze zijn er nog? Gefeliciteerd. Niet lang meer. Hebben Antifa en uw netwerk iets met elkaar te maken?’

[email protected] proposal by @ec.europa.eu: With its intervention in the Gaza Strip and the ensuing humanitarian catastrophe, incl. 10s of 1000s of civilian deaths and rapidly rising numbers of extreme malnutrition esp. of children, Israel is violating HR and IHL. ec.europa.eu/transparency...

on.ft.com/47UxedX ‘The EU’s secret weapon for economic success’ @martinsandbu.ft.com on the proposed 28th company law regime to make full use of EU’s single market - Societas Europaea (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societa...) & other company forms proposed (www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/e...) revived

Het is tijd voor verandering, het is tijd voor verantwoordelijkheid, het is tijd om op te staan voor het goede. Vandaag, tijdens de APB, maakt de ChristenUnie dat concreet.

Israel’s finance minister says Gaza could be a “real estate bonanza” and that he is discussing with the Trump administration how to share the proceeds.

Emboldened by the Trump 2.0 administration, Orban-funded "researchers" are laying the ground for questioning some of the key tenets of European integration.

'Honger, mortieren en een ‘kill box’ maken Al-Fashir al ruim een jaar de hel op aarde  ' fd.nl/samenleving/... (gratis te lezen) @fd.nl

Van der Plas liegt ook gewoon. What's new? bsky.app/profile/nrc....

A couple thoughts as a reporter who's been covering RFK Jr and watched today's hearing with fired CDC director Susan Monarez 1) the biggest things I heard today were about the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule. Monarez testified that RFK Jr told her he talks to Trump "every day" about changing it.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to improve conditions for migrants being held in a Manhattan federal building, writing that he was intervening to protect detainees from potentially “unconstitutional and inhumane treatment.”

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

Police remove protesters in Tel Aviv calling for Gaza ceasefire

Trump's DOJ deleted a study about the rise of far right violence in America. Meanwhile, Trump baselessly smears so-called "far left" critics and threatens to unleash the government on them. Make no mistake: Trump's sole focus is suppressing dissent & consolidating more power.

the trump administration is counting on enough people not caring about Ayman soliman’s fate so they can deport him as soon as they can get away with. That is true for an exceedingly large number of people and families, but to make this very simple: It’s not an exaggeration to say his and others’…

on.ft.com/4gqUhPw How Ukraine and Gaza scrambled the ideological map by @gideonrachman.bsky.social in yesterday’s @financialtimes.com remains recommended reading

Let's drop the naivité and accept that this war will end on the battlefield after Ukraine achieves the necessary military strength, not in a conference room after a round of talks and a carafe of wine.

Dit is welbewust een crisis organiseren door VVD en BBB.

#FreeTunduLissu #Tanzania #repression #democracyattacked 🇹🇿

What a thing. First-person POV footage as a Gaza City resident rides through what was the promenade. No blood, no weeping families, just: what it looked & sounded like last week, w/ pauses to highlight details: a water tanker, boys carrying aid parcels, etc. [1/2] 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Blumenthal to Patel: "I'm not going to mince words -- you lied to us."

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Het is allemaal niet zo BIG als in de States, maar ook hier zijn we ver aan het afglijden van wat te verwachten van de leider van een land. Hij is premier van alle Belgen, en niet van de NVA of Israel.

Also, it's pretty incredible how far the @nytimes.com has bent over backwards over the last decade to take the view from nowhere in giving Trump credit he doesn't deserve, and he repays their capitulation with a $15 billion lawsuit because they endorsed Kamala in the end.

Trump will call for major restrictions on the right to asylum at the UN General Assembly to replace the post-WW2 refugee framework, Reuters reportsz Asylum seekers would have to apply in the first country they enter, make asylum temporary, and give host nations discretion over return conditions.

When President Donald Trump told Texas Republicans to find him five more GOP seats in Congress this summer, they hastily redrew their map to deliver exactly what he wanted. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group. We are disappointed with this decision, which means our concerns around freedom of religion will not be heard in court.

The media frenzy to elevate Charlie Kirk to iconic status is honestly one of the most bizarre occurrences of this kind that I've ever witnessed.

FACTS MATTER

One side has many prominent leaders who support political violence against opponents. The other side has zero prominent leaders who support political violence against opponents. You can’t accurately cover America in 2025 without acknowledging that.

The Faith of Charlie Kirk: A Guide by @jaymichaelson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...

@tjeerdroyaards.com in @trouw.nl vanochtend

Predictable historical parallel: this is how Hitler began in Austria and Czechoslovakia.