Shocking but not surprising account of police violence in Berlin.

An yglesias flashback

The man’s life, ironically, is now one long hectoring, deranged harangue at the Golden Cleric Awards. “And now, we move on to liars”

all i'm saying is that there were better options

Sky News: "The West Bank is just one of many flashpoints between Israel and Palestine" Maybe the fact that the West Bank is occupied is relevant to what happens there? The least you can do is call it the occupied West Bank.

Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.

They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?

Flute guy having a different, bigger, type of flute every time they cut to him is genuinely one of the best things #TheGameAwards has done.

Free DLC for Expedition 33 dropping literally two days after I started playing the new Pokémon game is like being told I can't have any dessert until I finish another whole bottle of vintage pinot noir

Worth recalling that after Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump and the administration threatened to unleash a broad persecution campaign directed at the left. A big tool they have at their disposal is immigration law, which can be weaponized in all kinds of malicious ways. With @swin24.bsky.social:

As pointed out by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social there is in fact an entire article about how much of a jerk this Legrand guy is, from 2017. Let that be our reading for this day. scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/545/

Please please please somebody leak the email he sent to the editors explaining why he had to exceed the word count limit.

There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan. They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents. One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

The oil and nuclear industries are working behind the scenes to kill offshore wind. @fieseler.bsky.social's has an excellent profile of the face (he has solar panels on his roof!) www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

This story also includes a fossil fuel-funded group comparing calls for it to publicly share its donor list to the NAACP being attacked by white supremacists

The war on renewables is being driven in part by nuclear operators and fossil fuel interests. 🎁🔗 to an absolutely comprehensive look at the backroom alliance shaping opposition

Workers in Portugal striking over the govts proposed 'labour reforms' (making it easier to sack people, allowing fire and rehire, letting employers hire workers on temporary contracts that last for years, etc)

New from me: How can China meet its 2030 emission commitments after falling badly off track? The country will have to very substantially overachieve its clean energy targets and limit plans for runaway expansion of coal power & petrochemical expansion in the next 5-yr plan.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention on judge's order and returns home

Scoop, w the incomparable @kateriga.bsky.social: John Fetterman asked Israel's President to pardon Netanyahu in a previously unreported letter talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterm...

Important post & interview, but problematic wording here. Don't use "U.S. government" as a euphemism for "the Trump administration". It normalizes this outrageous behavior by making it sound as if both sides do this.

🚨BOMBSHELL: Federal judges caught the U.S. government lying in over 35 court cases; falsified records, fake declarations, and sworn statements built on fiction. This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit. Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional. 📺60 Minutes

We are barely 30 days removed from Housing Minister James Browne saying he believes he can end the housing crisis in the next four years

I was at the council vote where he got his first nomination. Gavin Duffy showed up for the lunch break before the vote to schmooze an FG councillor into breaking ranks and advancing the vote to nominate. watched it happen with my own eyes in the canteen while I was eating a delicious stew

I look at the treatment of Holmes for falsifying the tech at her company and I wonder why Musk doesn't get the same treatment for doing the exact same thing, only even more dangerously and obviously

"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind

I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks

Ossoff: "This is one of the most consequential votes this Senate will take all year. By saying yea or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die. Senators will decide whether Georgians & folks across the country are financially ruined or have a shot."

“The robots are here. And they’re not even cool. Instead, they’re harbingers of a soulless dystopia architected by the jaundiced men who bought the presidency. They’re death doulas for the middle class.” Read more: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Good that the facts are out there because membership of the EU remains broadly popular. Even Orban, its more dogged internal critic, has made no meaningful moves to exit. Trump's position here is no different than Putins: Europe is weaker when it is divided. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

This is a wild—and chilling—story about Hegseth and the Pentagon. An incredible example of how smart, fair, courageous, valuable journalism is done. Holding power to account—and never cowing to threats, corruption. Proud to call @dfriedman.bsky.social a colleague. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Federal judge holds that victims plausibly pled that Trump Education Secy Linda McMahon and & husband "had relevant knowledge at relevant times," "could have and should have taken action" to prevent sexual abuse of young WWF ring attendants by employees. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1/

In a previously unreported letter obtained by TPM, Fetterman asked Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Great journalism by Nashville local tv news investigator @philinvestigates.com

Today, members of the House will vote on a dangerous bill that will expand government censorship under the guise of protecting youth online. Tell your representative to protect the First Amendment and vote NO.

They're referring to people with work visas in the US, who would lose their jobs and have to leave the country that some of them have lived in for years. Especially tough on people with families, those married to US citizens and perhaps with children born in the US.

I see EBU and Martin Green once again are using every opportunity to bring up the " #Eurovision was created to unite after war " line, and just like before I find it tasteless. Meaningless words that become an irrelevant excuse to justify actions.

There’s more on Martin Green. In 2022, when Birmingham hosted the Commonwealth Games he, as the chief creative officer in the organisation, claimed there weren’t any local non-white creative organisations, when in reality there were plenty. #Eurovision iambirmingham.co.uk/2022/04/08/b...

Islandia se cae de Eurovisión. Portugal peligra porque sus aspirantes no quieren ir si va Israel. José Pablo de RTVE contesta la carta de Martin Green, director del festival. "Green no menciona en su carta ni a Gaza ni a Israel". jenesaispop.com/2025/12/11/5...

What's the Eurovision equivalent of the "Do Not Call" list? Because I would like Martin Green to please stop sending me letters.

I see #Eurovision are in damage control mode. www.eurovision.com/newsroom/let...

SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter. The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.

Given a choice between reading a physical book and reading the same book in the Libby app, I’ll prefer the latter 99% of the time, solely because of the magical OpenDyslexic font. I’m not aware of any rigorous scientific studies that prove the superiority of sans serif, but personally I abhor TNR.

Would a strictly professional communication ever contain the word “radical” and “immoral” when informing workers of a typeface change? That seems… extreme.

A question for every member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews: if you’re so afraid of what Farage will do if you speak out now, what do you think he’ll do to us if he’s vested in all the powers of the state Labour will grant him and his party? You fools.

In 1938 Time named Hitler as their Person of the Year so they clearly have an indisputable moral track record

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

1. Yeah and how do you think Disney is gonna feel about the first, tenth and a hundredth “Mickey assault” video? 2. Making people use Sora more is not a good thing for OpenAI’s ability to continue 3. This starts sometime in 2026 and lots will happen before then bsky.app/profile/nume...

Wow $1bn? That should cover a month of OpenAI’s inference costs

With ACA tax credits set to expire, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says premiums are "doubling, tripling" and warns "millions" could lose coverage if Congress fails to act.