US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

If the WSJ is noticing it must be true www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The tax law passed by Congress last year let Amazon pay just $2.8B in federal income taxes—down from more than $7B in each of the prior two years. All while its profits jumped 44.5% to $89.5B. This is the same company that announced 16k layoffs last month.

Yes. Every American should. Because over 70 million have chosen to vote for Trump 3 times and the last two times cannot reasonably have a doubt about his bad character and malign intent. And so should every U.K. citizen that is even thinking of voting for Farage - the 🇬🇧 Trump.

"Starmer didn't pick Mandelson in spite of his Epstein connections… He picked him because of them." Would he have made the same choice if Kamala Harris had won? "Absolutely not", says @lewisgoodall.com.

📢 Save the date! Submissions for the SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law open on 1st May 2026. Find out more 🔗 https://bit.ly/45OhNSz #InternationalEconomicLaw @sielnet.bsky.social @federico-ortino.bsky.social @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social

I completely disagree with the framing of coercion as pragmatism.

The battle of Cable street, London 4th October 1936. History is full of lessons for today's struggles. youtu.be/NE_xclpTAew?...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

"a pathological liar" The worst is the machine around him has become like him. And the harm to people's trust in the US administration will take time to repair. From www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

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The fundamental tenet of Robert Peel, who founded the first municipal police force in London, is that the police are the people and the people are the police. Once this connection is destroyed, you are simply an occupying force. This is why ICE should be withdrawn from Minneapolis, today.

The @financialtimes.com tells it like it is.

***DEEP SIGH*** This is just the latest in our centuries-long fight over how to commemorate George Washington's involvement in slavery. It began while he was still alive, and continued immediately after his death, in the lead-up to Civil War, through Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Lives Matter.

Point though is that purchasing Greenland is not somehow more reasonable or legal than conquering it, and other states, Denmark included, are unlikely to see it as such.

ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“since power and success are far harder to pin down than vanity metrics like list-growth and fundraising, there is a danger to legacy organizations struggling to embrace analytics that they will let the data lead them astray by optimizing for what’s easy instead of what’s important.”

My god, her face. That is now the face of America.

Trump started it. Reform and Tories are at it too. And Labour already heading in that direction. All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.

This is horrific.

This is where Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as Mayor of New York: the old City Hall subway station It looks like the secret lair of a Batman-like super hero 👀

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions. @hayleysmith.bsky.social @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

BBC News - Erasmus scheme to return for UK students, BBC understands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

If you subtract immigration out of America, this nation is nothing. We are immigrants.

US-Indonesia trade deal at risk of collapse on.ft.com/4pYJNKU

Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.

This is what Vovchansk looks like on the 565th day of non-stop shelling. It is completely destroyed. For 565 days russians have been pounding it with fire. The factory lies in ruins, the schools are gone, the church no longer exists, and no homes are left standing. 📹: 57th SM Infantry Brigade

this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #vawd, honoring the Mirabal sisters—Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa. Known as "Las Mariposas" (The Butterflies), they resisted Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship and were assassinated in 1960. www.un.org/womenwatch/d...

'Musk may have revealed that the platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.'

But more to the point - offering asylum to people fleeing war or torture or persecution is what decent nations do. It's what defines us. Without that it's just a race to the bottom.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

EU and Ecuador launch negotiations for a Sustainable *Investment Facilitation* Agreement policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-and-...

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

'D66 “have really embraced” universities’ call for the Netherlands to “grow towards a 3 per cent of GDP investment in research and innovation”, said van den Berg, while the party has pledged that “they won’t enter a government coalition that wants to cut back on the whole educational sector”.'

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

BBC News - Italian couple's families seek to bring hope out of Grenfell tragedy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farage: epic grifter

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

She was 15 — Anastasiia Hrytsiv. Killed by a Russian missile in Lviv overnight, along with her entire family. They died together, in their own home — torn apart in seconds. Just another Ukrainian family wiped out by Putin’s war. Source: Kyiv Post

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

🚨BREAKING: A group of Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday, activating their emergency plan to block a hastily-drawn Republican congressional map that’s poised to set off a national redistricting battle between red states and blue states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese are still yet to confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO (0) deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.

ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change: