War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Le Monde Editorial: "Who will dare to condemn the terror imposed by Israel in the West Bank? Two months after Donald Trump announced a 'lasting peace' in the Middle East, the level of violence imposed by Israel on Palestinian territory has drawn little protest" www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Exactly where are their headquarters? Oh wait...we know ARLINGTON CEMETERY

No histrionics, just receipts. Nice.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

In the 19th century, news travelled faster than ever before. In this 10-minute talk, Professor Pablo Mukherjee FBA unpacks how Victorian writers responded to misinformation at the time, and what it can teach us about the information revolution we are living through today. https://bit.ly/449nhXf

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Tarrant County Judge has repeatedly gone viral due to extremely petty authoritarian behavior, racism, and constantly mistreatment of the Black female commissioner when she questions him. Despite all 5 commissioners earning $200k yr, he switched to once monthly meetings to avoid more videos like this

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

“.. If you want to live in the best country on the earth, that is also the safest, and the one that will actually respect your work and offer you the right environment to flourish, well, come to Canada,” she said. 🇨🇦 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

Police surveil everyone driving in San Jose and search that data thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It’s an unchecked police power, an end run around the courts & a blatant privacy invasion, EFF’s Lisa Femia wrote for @MercuryNews.com. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/...

Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here. h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

This president is for sale. You don’t have to know him or even to have voted for him. You just have make a big ‘donation’ (aka bribe) to his campaign or ballroom or a peace prize - and he’ll get you out of prison or whatever you want

"This is decentralized violence, but it is also state-sponsored violence," Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says of settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/3/sari_bashi_israel_gaza_west_bank

It is surprising how little attention Joe gets from conventional media while being deeply involved in shaping state laws, federal regulations, and pushing things like criminalization of homelessness, isolation of mentally ill, reshaping healthcare with no ethical guardrails, etc.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

2/2 It was at Esri User Conference, nearly 20,000 technologists from *all* around the world gathered at huge San Diego Convention Center Hall At end of speech, spontaneous standing ovation from tech guys for Walz. Only one of the conference This is person Mr. Multiple MRI is insulting so crudely.

1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]

New from Amnesty: Israel’s genocide against Palestinians 'not over' despite ceasefire. www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has been released after over 9 months in an Israeli prison without trial. I was relieved to hear from his family today and to know that he’s safe and where he belongs — with his family.

I was right

Seeking to kneecap states and hand even more power over to his big tech cronies, the ever power thirsty and David Sacks gets ratioed. For now at least — this group is like mold and always returns www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Why two courts have concluded that Greg Bovino is a perjurer.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Again: Memphis is being poisoned so Elon can create a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda to benefit the ultra rich.

Understand that the Halligan thing is 100% Pam Bondi's fuck-up. She could have appointed Halligan Special Attorney and this thing would still be alive. So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot. It's that Bondi is too.

Remember the outrageous “podcasting patent” EFF defeated? Under the USPTO's proposed new rules, that challenge probably never would’ve been allowed.

But whether it was the NWSL or the club itself that hired this plane, they should know that they can stipulate in the contract that they will not accept flights with these specific carriers that are involved in daily transport of chained humans.

It is extremely funny that this bit of politicking includes … a reminder that servicemembers have to follow the law. Lamentably, this reminder means that there will need to be an investigation into the person who wrote the tweet; sorry, that's just the law.

Omar El Akkad spoke after winning the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” his book on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He accepted the award at a gala in New York City this week.

Congrats again, everyone

Proud to serve as an attorney for Congressman Yev Vindman (@gene4va.bsky.social) Rep. Eugene Vindman calls for release of Trump-MBS call transcript about Khashoggi share.google/vvFZJxX1ddVj...

REPUBLICAN commentator Steve Gill: “A horrible mistake. That wasn’t a clean CR — it was dirty. And it’s properly being exposed.” Gill backed @RepJohnRose in calling out @MarshaBlackburn’s shameless taxpayer money grab on @foxnashville

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said. MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

Silence is powerful.

I realize this prediction wasn’t especially difficult. But yes, it got worse. And it will continue to get worse. Vote every god damn enabler out of office.

New: White House kicks out @huffpost.com reporter from press pool, breaking with decades of precedent www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

Donald Trump is building a $300 million luxury ballroom and sending $40 BILLION to Argentina. But when the cost of groceries, health care, utilities — just about everything — is skyrocketing, America's seniors only get another $56 a month. That's not enough in Trump's economy.

I have been saying from the jump that there are three questions about DOGE that have not been answered. One. What did they bring in? Two. What did they take out? Three. What did they leave behind?