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"President Maduro and his wife have been flown out of the country" makes it sounds like they were whisked away on holiday. They were kidnapped.

Carel Pedre is in ICE custody, apparently being held at the brutal Everglades detention camp. M sezi. haitiantimes.com/2025/12/26/c...

"What coup d'etat? There's no coup d'etat in Guiné-Bissau, the president simply invented that coup because he realized that he didn't have a chance of winning the election."

I admire Nick Hune-Brown's tenacity as an editor. This is a despairing, compassionate, and very worthy read.

A little joy for your timeline. The Haitian national team beat Nicaragua 2-0 - and this is the moment they found out they're going to the World Cup! First time since 1974! Grenadye Alasooooooooo

"Here," he said, "nothing is too precious for you."

two-twos you say?

"I didn’t understand why he would ask that. It seemed evident to me that 'open air prison' was not a metaphor." Ismail Ibrahim on fact-checking Palestinian genocide at the New Yorker: bidoun.org/articles/hou...

"Many of the Haitians who settled in Springfield had good lives in Haiti before violence forced them to leave, Aimé said. They’d... worked hard and well at jobs locals wouldn’t take, and helped revitalize the local economy. 'They’re not gonna let people treat them anyhow.’” @bhatiap.bsky.social

i still think about james foley all the time. all the time.

"Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people….[and] experiencing the hunger and suffering they documented through their lenses." Nauseous over this.

"The first time my three-and-a-half-year-old son, Rafik, asked me 'Are we going to die today?' was in December of 2023, roughly two months after the war began." A gripping account by @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the toll of war on Gaza's children in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Are CBC journalists allowed to say Palestine on air yet.

Gostaria de saber se "a maior recriação histórica medieval da Europa," em homenagem a D. Afonso V, vai mencionar que a invenção e o desenvolvimento do comércio criminoso da escravatura atlântica ocorreu sob o seu reinado. Os restos mortais de 158 Africanos encontrados em Lagos datam da sua época.

Active and retired members of Portugal's Armed Forces led exercises and gave weapons training to members of several neo-Nazi groups (1143, NOS, MAL) in preparation "for a civil war scenario." #Portugal

The US wasn’t “prompted” to invade Haiti and install a brutal military occupation so much as it actively planned for it, helping create conditions to make invasion seem necessary. The Farnham Plan (named for a VP of now-Citibank) to occupy Haiti was already in place when President Sam was lynched.

Hotel Oloffson is gone. The iconic Port-au-Prince gingerbread was set alight and burned to ash last night. #Haiti

🆕 NEW INVESTIGATION — HAITI 🇭🇹 Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse. @Ayibopost 1/5

"Stipulations in the bill to increase information sharing between law enforcement agencies also means U.S. authorities could use the rule changes to find out whether an American has accessed private Canadian health facilities to obtain an abortion, for example."

“It would allow the RCMP and CSIS to make information demands from internet providers, banks, doctors, landlords and even therapists, without judicial oversight…. This is not about border security. It is about government overreach and Big Brother tactics, plain and simple.”

Six members (so far) arrested of a Portuguese neo-nazi militia, plus seized explosives, 3D-printed guns, Hitler texts, and plans to storm parliament. The apparent militia leader, a Lisbon police chief, shot and killed 18-yr-old Flávio Rentim (unarmed, running away) in 2012. He was never disciplined.

He was apparently punched with brass knuckles/rings by a young member of Blood & Honour, a designated and sanctioned terror group in other countries. In Portugal, meanwhile, the 2024 Annual Internal Security Report released in April erased all mention of neo-nazis from its final version.

"In contrast, sadism is focused on demonstration: on showing how reasoning itself is a form of violence, on negation as the absolute idea of reason, on always being right…. As Deleuze notes 'nothing is in fact more alien to the sadist than the wish to convince, to persuade, in short to educate'"

"This logic of demonstration over education seems to define our “learning” technologies, and I would like to conclude this short piece by asking: To what extent can we characterize our machine learning technologies crude and cruel?" critinq.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...

"what sea can melt away all this sorrow?" I crossed paths with Mohammad al-Zaqzouq at New Alphabet School in Berlin (of all places) a couple years back. He writes from Gaza: arablit.org/2024/10/30/m...

A standing ovation turned into the full house clapping on beat to the outro, singing along - "Ô na ri na, ô na ri na/ Ô na ri na, nu ta brinka sô iá iá..." Gorgeous premiere last night for this tender Orlando Pantera documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs5J...

The Lisbon Court of Appeal overturned a Sintra judge’s decision that found Carlos Canha, an off-duty cop who brutalized Cláudia Simões in 2020, not guilty and described her extensive injuries as "self-inflicted.” Canha, two other officers, and the Portuguese state now owe Simões 22,500€ in damages.

only took one photo today

14,874 Haitians (or people who DR military and police assumed were Haitian) have been expelled across the border from the Dominican Republic just *in the last two weeks*

“More than 50 official buildings, including ministries, courts, port facilities, schools, and other strategic institutions, have been vacated, signaling a significant decline in state authority.” For months, #Haiti ‘s criminal gangs have been pushing the country’s capital further into chaos.

"If we accept that universities continue to be apparatuses of the State, and extensions of it, like the police are, then we will allow our children and the future generations to become increasingly subservient people, people who reproduce colonial thought.” [reading Krenak still/again]

"Port-au-Prince, where more than 60,000 people fled their homes last month alone. (Source IOM)" "'The gang attacks, punctuated by automatic gunfire, amplified by rumours and the apathy of authorities, leave no other choice but to flee.'" #haiti

PhD-level agent Military-grade encryption World-class enshittification

Cedric Robinson on the 19th century emergence of modern nationalism

"short term pain" never quite seems to touch the people who insist on its necessity