#UK: The Booksellers Association is urging lawmakers and policymakers to recognise the growing threat facing booksellers, after recording an average of 1,600 incidents of violence against retail workers each day in 2025 - mostly linked to the books they sell ⬇️ www.thebookseller.com/news/ba-warn...

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit. (Published Aug. 2025)

Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.

A small group of doctors who were compensated lavishly by Jeffrey Epstein gave VIP medical services to the sex offender and the young women around him. Some of them bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession, The New York Times found.

“Yes the Supreme Court Saved Us From Higher Prices, But There's No Guarantee It Will Save Our Democracy” Constitutional law professor Kim Wehle cautions that while the Court's tariff victory was a clear win for the rule of law, it's not a reset from the conservatives and we can't get complacent.

This Monday, join us for a timely discussion on #Iran and cultural resistance. Following a screening of Jafar Panahi’s film, journalists, filmmakers and writers will reflect on creating art under repression and the realities facing those in Iran today: www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/PhoenixCinem...

How did the Chinese government mark international mother language day on February 21? By legalizing the erasure of mother languages.

Die Regierung des US-Bundesstaates Kansas hat die Führerscheine und Geburtsurkunden von Transgender-Einwohnern, die das Geschlecht auf diesen Dokumenten geändert haben, für ungültig erklärt. Da ermöglicht ein Gesetz, das gestern in Kraft trat.

A plumber by trade and vocal in her Palestine solidarity, Hannah Spencer’s by-election win in the seat of Gorton & Denton has spectacularly shattered a once-safe Labour stronghold in northern England, marking a breakthrough victory that heaps pressure on unpopular PM Keir Starmer

Israeli army raids, biometric data collection, and weekly arrests are normalising a military administration in Syria's southwest that resembles the West Bank:

A new report by @pressfreedom.bsky.social finds that 2025 was the deadliest year for journalists since it began documenting killings more than three decades ago. Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings in both 2025 and 2024. Read the full report⬇️ cpj.org/special-repo...

Two-faced coloniser #Indonesia - Wenda - “It is an international disgrace that Indonesia has been chosen to lead the UN Human Rights Council. How can Indonesia lead on human rights when they are dropping bombs on refugees?” www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/benny-w... #FreeWestPapua #Gaza

Palestinian journalist Shadi Abu Sido was detained in the notorious Sde Teiman prison for over 100 days. “Sde Teiman is a cemetery of the living, with torture no one can imagine, not even the human mind,” he told CPJ. Read CPJ's new special report: cpj.org/special-repo...

There are more than 9,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian prisoners' rights groups:

As China continues to expand its nuclear capabilities, and Russia and the U.S. walk away from arms control, the future is terrifying: a new nuclear arms race, with more players, and less predictability.

New report: On February 19, 2026, CPJ will release a special report documenting the conditions Palestinian journalists report experiencing while in Israeli detention. The report draws on in-depth interviews from 59 Palestinian journalists released since October 7, 2023. cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-...

We are deeply concerned by reports that #HamdanBallal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, has been attacked in the #WestBank by the same settlers who targeted him following last year’s Oscar win. Those responsible must be brought to justice.

Visit the always-fascinating and acrobatic ʻiʻiwi at our partners Haleakalā and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes national parks (on Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, respectively). #Iiwi #HawaiiBirds #HawaiiParks

Since 2023, the Israeli army has been using white phosphorus in Gaza, an incendiary weapon that causes uncontrollable fires, burns to the bone and leaves the soil unusable. Boycott Bayer-Monsanto, dismantle poison production chains, support struggles for the Earth! 1/2

#Iran: The secret transfer of Nobel laureate #NargesMohammadi to a prison in the north of the country is deeply concerning. With ongoing concerns about her health, the authorities must immediately end her persecution and release her.

#UK: We are deeply troubled by reports that think tank, Labour Together sought to investigate journalists to uncover their sources. Any steps to target journalists and weaken source protection threatens press freedom. This must be investigated: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Kick genocidal #Israel out of the Winter Olympics. Protesters in Milan 'accused Olympic organisers of double standards, arguing that #srael should face the same restrictions imposed on Russian athletes following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.' www.newarab.com/news/milan-r... #BDS

Zoe Roger's mother expressed joy over her daughter's not guilty verdict and finally having her back home after over a year in prison:

CPJ calls on authorities to cease targeting journalists and release all those behind bars, ahead of Monday’s expected sentencing of publisher Jimmy Lai and six former colleagues from his defunct Apple Daily newspaper, in the city’s largest media trial. cpj.org/2026/02/jimm... #FreeJimmyLai

He may be an idiot but he sure has perfect ‘scooting’ form. 😂

Since New START took effect, Russian and U.S. warhead counts have been capped. Meanwhile, China’s nuclear arsenal has more than doubled, to an estimated 600 warheads as of mid-2024.

The Israeli regime is a hate group under your new legislation, @albomp.bsky.social and its President is an inciter of genocide and violence. Put your actions where your mouth is - #BDS #Israel, and withdraw your invite to Herzog. #auspol

Join #HVNP in #Kahuku for preparedness tips, talk-story & a living history presentation that commemorates 50 years since the 1975 tsunami reshaped the coastline of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Sat., Jan. 24, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 70.5-mile marker on Hwy 11 in Kaʻū. #VolcanoAwarenessMonth

As right-wing populism reshapes Europe, the UAE is cultivating alliances and courting media figures under the guise of combatting political Islam: www.newarab.com/analysis/uae...

Cutting the internet has become a tool of repression. From #Iran to #Uganda, leaders are using blackouts to control populations and suppress dissent. Is help from #Starlink the answer? ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/01/star...

Watch how European stances shift when comparing the oppression of women in Iran vs. Palestine. Why the loud condemnation for one and silence for the other? Let us know your thoughts in the comments ⬇️

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

A new investigation by CPJ, @rsf.org and @freepressunlimited.bsky.social — unified under the A Safer World for the Truth coalition — has uncovered new evidence in the killing of Pakistani journalist Shan Dahar, exposing police misconduct, political inaction, and years of impunity. cpj.org?p=555332

In unleashing the power of the presidency against American colleges, President Trump has managed to chisel away at the independence of the U.S.’s top universities by pairing investigations with pre-emptive strikes on federal funding for schools.

A fast-spreading virus is sweeping Gaza as Israel’s bombardment and blockade cripple healthcare, doctors warn, putting children and the sick at grave risk ⬇️

Israeli authorities have cancelled the planned demolition of the Aida Youth Center football pitch in in Bethlehem, occupied West Bank, due to pressure from FIFA, UEFA, and a viral online petition that received the backing of Ms Rachel.

Next week, Belarusian journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau spends yet another birthday behind bars. Show your solidarity with Andrei & all those unjustly imprisoned. Record yourself reciting Andrei’s poem and share it on socials on Tuesday 27 January 2026 with the hashtag #FreeAndrei. Poem in the thread ⬇️

Jerusalem church leaders warn that Christian Zionism threatens the Christian presence in the Holy Land ⬇️

Israeli occupation forces arrested Palestinian farmer Mohammed Ali Bani Odeh and his son on Sunday evening after raiding their home in Khirbet al-Hadidiya, in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank.

#China: The CCP's “war against the soul” is intensifying. At least six people have been arrested this month amid a growing crackdown on unofficial Christian churches - another step in the CCP’s drive for total ideological control. Read the background ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/ther...

From challenging French colonial nostalgia to critiquing Algerian nationalism, revolutionary historian Mohamed Harbi served truth, writes Rachid Sekkai ⬇️

#Belarus: Five years ago today, Andrei Aliaksandrau - our colleague, our friend - was arrested in Belarus. He's spent five years in prison simply for protesting Lukashenka’s fraudulent election. Andrei is just one of many jailed for demanding freedom. Raise your voice today for all of them 1/2

This was the second complaint made against him to the GMC by UK Lawyers for Israel

The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social: "We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.