Most likely the most important thread all year, yes 2025. “All (LLM authored books) promoting propaganda reflecting talking points of the UAE, Israel and right wing European movements” If they are using AI and LLM to create propaganda elsewhere, you know they’re using it everywhere.

More than 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody in 2025 That’s the most in over 20 years

The nyt’s first story on the Cass report didn’t come out until the next day, when it portrayed the document, falsely, as part of a movement in Europe to restrict care. No such movement existed. France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria were taking positions in opposition to Cass and in line w doctors

"I understand Belgium is under a lot of pressure from Russia...but also from the United States" says @KajaKallas "In order to get off that pressure we should have a European proposal. Then 🇧🇪 will just abide by the law, and whoever has any concerns can go to court against 🇪🇺"

Mensen die veilig in het Westen roepen dat Oekraïne maar moet inbinden, laten vaak het lot van een paar miljoen Oekraïners volledig buiten beschouwing. En dat is niets anders dan een koloniaal bewind. Vooral mensen die menen tegen kolonialisme op te komen, vallen door de mand.

In a surprise move, Italy has tonight joined Belgium in its opposition to sending Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine, asking for alternative options at next week's🇪🇺summit Meanwhile, Brussels was informed that the new🇺🇸peace deal draft says Ukraine will joint the EU in a year - logistically impossible

An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.

The Trump administration is sending draft age Russian asylum seekers back to Russia via Cairo, where they are given military summons upon arrival. Pressing for a peace deal while feeding the war machine. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/10/a...

Loved this profile of the mother+son duo helping bring wildflowers back to L.A. fire-ravaged neighborhoods (and there's a link to support their mission, timely for Giving Tuesday!!) via @jmarantosplants.bsky.social www.latimes.com/lifestyle/ne...

They were 8 and 11 years old

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

Update #Serbien: Es finden weiterhin täglich diverse Aktionen und Proteste statt. Dijana Hrka, Mutter eines der Opfer, befindet sich im 15. Tag ihres Hungerstreiks vor dem Parlament. Es sind stets (mal mehr und mal weniger Menschen bei ihr). Die Lage ist politisch weiter angespannt, aber ruhig. 1/x

Kinder kosteten in Sarejevo extra: Wochenend-Scharfschützen auf der Jagd nach Menschen Diese Geschichte ist so unfassbar böse, dass man sie zweimal lesen muss, um sie zu glauben. Reiche zahlten um Menschen in Bosnien zu erschiessen. www.n-tv.de/panorama/Woc...

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom 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”

The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Maccarthysme : cédant à la pression du ministre de la recherche, lui-même cédant à la pression des soutiens de Nétanyahou, le Collège de France, jusqu’ici lieu de liberté académique, annule un colloque sur la Palestine conçu par l’historien Henry Laurens. www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...

All we need to do to solve the housing crisis is to deport ::checks notes:: one out of every three people living in this country.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

BBC really burying the lede there

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

There are no words for how evil this is

Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules.

This surge in applications from the US comes at a time where the grant and job market in Europe is already *very* competitive. Unless Europe invests more in science and higher education this influx of talent will put a squeeze on an already fragile system. www.ft.com/content/cd80...

👇🏼

We have a whole academic article on strategic silence that you might find fascinating: drive.google.com/file/d/1SXOS...

Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai

BIRN journalists obtained access to private Telegram groups where recruiters lure Serb mercenaries from Bosnia and Serbia to join Russian forces in Ukraine with promises of lucrative contracts and veterans’ benefits detektor.ba/2025/10/30/m...

Longread (gratis gedeeld) Wordt dit soort katholieke radicalisering wel gedoogd? apache.be/2025/10/29/e...

🚨The Latvian parliament will vote today on a proposal to leave the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty protecting women & girls from violence. Such a move would put safety & lives risk. @amnesty.org calls on Latvia to uphold the convention & work towards its full implementation.

What a load of utter bollocks.

As Elon Musk programs his "Grokipedia" to say that Russia under Putin is an example of "civilizational renewal", am asking, again, why so many people associated with Peter Thiel spread Russian propaganda. It's not random and it's not just a fad. They are committed to Putin's talking points. 1/

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Russia’s list of “terrorists and extremists” increasingly includes not militants or separatists but ordinary opposition politicians, journalists, and public figures. meduza.io/en/cards/rus...

"Sir we're concerned that the chaotic damage you're doing to the economy, country and populace may be too abstract for the average American to fully grasp, do you have any ideas for a compelling visual metaphor?"

Le nouveau bras droit du président du RN, Jordan Bardella, fut l’un des poissons-pilotes du parti d’extrême droite en Russie. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Far-right AfD lawmakers in Germany accused of using their positions to spy for Russia u.afp.com/Ssub

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

"Even the most advanced systems make small mistakes or slightly misunderstand directions, requiring a human to carefully review their work and make changes where needed." Sounds a lot like working with student assistants... www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.

Klimaat is impopulair door vrouwenhaat, we hebben een ruige Charlie Kirk-achtige figuur nodig die zegt Safety First! Fijn dat er iemand op zulk hoog niveau voor ons denkt!

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.

Vučić now calls student protestors “satanists” obviously in an attempt to pit them against the religious people. The regime seems to be running out of labels to discredit the movement, as all the others have worn out: terrorists, foreign agents, self-haters, traitors etc vreme.com/vesti/vucic-...

Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó: "We are waiting for President Putin with respect, of course. We will ensure that he can enter Hungary, hold successful talks,& return home safely. There is no need to consult with anyone. We are a sovereign country. And we will welcome Putin with respect,host him⤵️