‘Factory of lies’: what will #PéterMagyar do about #Hungary ’s state #media ? #Journalists brace for sweeping reforms after years of pro-government control under #ViktorOrbán By @ashifakassam.bsky.social and @floragaramvolgyi.bsky.social share.google/CUfWd3DdFlYA...

Relatives of, sanctioned individuals and entities linked to RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemedti, have amassed a £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai

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‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Trump’s ‘ #racist hate speech’ and #migration crackdowns violate #HumanRights UN panel says Watchdog ‘disturbed’ by president and US political leaders’ use of dehumanising language to target #migrants @ashifakassam.bsky.social share.google/DZBm7Jfs5ahq...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

VERY IMPORTANT. The Paul Foot Award is free to enter, insanely credible and career-enhancing and judged impeccably fairly and on merit. This is how to enter www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/pau...

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions." Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Greenland: @ashifakassam.bsky.social on imperial claims and geopolitical rhetoric dominating over indigenous voices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

“Despite the enormity of what had happened, the one thing everyone could agree on was that the people of Adamuz had done all they could to help,” writes @swajones.bsky.social from Adamuz, Córdoba. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Colombian President “does have to watch his ass” - Trump just now at presser Also says Maduro will be brought to New York

Articles about Brigitte Bardot after her death on Sunday have referred to her far right sympathies, which supposedly emerged later in the film star's life. Here she is, though, in 1958 with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde, future founder of the extremist OAS terror group

OF ALL THE VESSELS SUNK BY THE U.S. it was the likeliest to have been carrying drugs: a semisubmersible with at least one convicted trafficker on board. The U.S. blew it up, destroyed the evidence and let the survivors go GIFT LINK @schmidtsam.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social wapo.st/4qq5ymS

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

The AfD has been flatlining at a high level for months nationally despite the Merz govt’s unpopularity - @diezeit.bsky.social asks whether it has tapped out its voter potential

Russia’s banning of @hrw.org as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public today, is yet another mark of the Kremlin’s repression. It only redoubles our determination to document the Russian authorities’ human rights violations and war crimes www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Judgments from the @echr.coe.int have influenced policy in areas like mental health, reproductive rights and access to essential medical treatments. Leaving the #ECHR would be a blow for health, justice and accountability, writes @martinmckee.bsky.social👇 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/391/... via @bmj.com

My Antifa book is on the New York Times Bestseller list 8 years after publication. Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán

Grim by @ashifakassam.bsky.social on the Antifa expert driven out of the land of the free (into, ironically, Spain). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

I look ahead at the Dutch elections this Wednesday and assess the missed opportunity of media, parties, and voters to move beyond far-right dominance.

‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“The poll is seen as a litmus test for the Netherlands and its democratic ideals, as activists decry a hardening of political discourse driven by Geert Wilders” @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study. @tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read! Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

My dispatch from North Karelia: ‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Nigel Farage has the unpopular position on scrapping human rights. The media/political discourse always implies his position is gaining ground. The evidence since Trump was elected is quitting has flatlined, and staying in increased.

As our @federicatoscano.bsky.social explains in the piece: family reunification is one of the safest, most secure pathways for migration—supporting integration and reducing risks. Restricting it fractures families and pushes people towards dangerous routes.

“I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life.” These are not just words—they’re the reality for Ahmad Shikh Ali, separated from his child due to Europe's tightened reunification rules, with children paying the highest price. Full article below www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Americans on the sorrow – and relief – of leaving Trump’s US for Europe. Sad, fascinating piece by @ashifakassam.bsky.social‬ on US citizens who have made the move on why they left and what they think could happen back home @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.

'An act of pure betrayal of the highest order.' The reaction among Villarreal fans to news of the club's proposed signing of Thomas Partey. Story: @ashifakassam.bsky.social

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

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