Trump has removed National Parks free entry days for two national holidays - MLK and Juneteenth. He’s replaced them with his birthday.

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

The new US National Security Strategy out today positions the US as an enemy of Europe. It wants to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” - as a multicultural society - and explains Vance’s vocal support for the Far Right AfD. Interfering in internal affairs until it’s a new TrumpWorld.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Very good read on how David Ellison is turning Paramount/Skydance into a safe haven for men accused of sexual abuse as he prepares to pump out movies aimed at TrumpWorld.

If you love movies and watching them in cinemas, this is disastrous news. Whatever Netflix says, this will erode a long tradition and have massive repercussions across the entire entertainment landscape.

Celebrations continue in Al-Assi Square in the city of #Hama, marking the anniversary of victory and one year since the city’s liberation.

I’m a woman and I have. Considered jumping out of a moving car once. Hid in a bathroom once. All these men in this admin bring back bad memories.

Russian propaganda is embedded into the most used Chat bots/LLM’s. Hat tip to @newsguard.bsky.social: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...?

Phil Klay: I suspect the question the administration cares about is not “is this legal,” “is this a war crime,” “is this murder” or even “is this good for America,” but rather, “isn’t this violence delightful?” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

JUST IN: US court says Trump can remove Democrats from two federal labor boards reut.rs/44cUmBH

This is 100% not going to work in Alaska. (Ask FedEx and UPS who gets their packages to the final destination in AK.) Also - can we please stop talking about how much the USPS loses every year? It's a service. There is no way in hell it will ever make money serving rural America.

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

The other thing to remember about Tom Cotton is that he & his staff are hyper-credulous ignoramuses. The Greenland letter was a forgery created by Russian intelligence. Cotton couldn’t be bothered to vet it or check w/the embassy, he just took it straight to Trump at the White House.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study #Climate

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

Are we inching forward to a new era of actual consequences?

The official policy now is just to lie. Desperate stuff.

Netherlands and Spain taking a stand after Israel allowed to compete in Eurovision.

Finland President Alexander Stubb has been doing some thinking about the world we need to create.

The cost.

Ffs. Writing the rules after the fact. These asshats have no shame.

Just fuck that guy. Good god.

“The Democratic Party of Albania lost badly in the May elections, despite efforts by Mr. LaCivita and Paul Manafort, who briefly ran Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign, to position the party’s leader, former President Sali Berisha, as a sort of Trump-like figure.” (Paul Manafort???) 11/3/25 … 1/

As of Monday, Trump has fired over 100 immigration judges, essentially on suspicion of them being judges, as opposed to sure-thing compliant cogs in the mass deportation machine ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

they are doing it because they want to.

two things are true at the same time: (1) hillary clinton faces unfair and sexist attacks that many of her male centrist colleagues are never subjected to; and (2) hillary clinton is a prototypical example of the centrist-corporate-war hawk ideology dragging democrats down like cement boots

George Carlin’s “It’s a biiiig club, and you ain’t in it” line is looking more prescient by the day

Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/

My first unlawful order was given to me as a Lance Corporal at the age of 18. I had the grit and tact to not follow. This Admiral and personnel around Bradly KNOWS better. If I could do it, so could they. There’s no fucking excuse. I hope they rot in the brig where the cowards belong.

Sudan is offering Russia a 25-year deal to establish its first naval base in Africa, giving Moscow a strategic foothold on the Red Sea. The proposed facility would host up to 300 personnel and four warships, including nuclear-powered vessels.

You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

“Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.” 10/23/25 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.

I'm sadly not surprised Democrats won't speak up because Islamophobia but it's incredibly shameful.

NEW — RFK Jr.’s HHS sent out a survey asking employees to report instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration, and the Dept. of Labor announced its inaugural prayer service. These are just the latest instances of Trump’s extreme Christian creep within the federal government.

Roger Stone (Trump adviser) said that he sent Juan Hernandez’s letter requesting a pardon to Trump and that he was not compensated for his role as an intermediary. On Jan. 6, 2021, Stone was filmed discussing a potential $100,000 fee for pardon advocacy: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Courage has a name. Ukraine. A small reminder of what it really takes for a country to stand up to something this huge. Not numbers. Not speeches. Courage. Real, everyday, human courage.👇

Lots of media are reporting Pu’s bravado today, so let’s get this straight: Ru tried but failed to conquer Ukraine, Ru tried but failed to conquer Donbas, Ru tried but failed to cut off Ukr from the Black Sea; all these failures despite Ukr fighting alone and Ru getting NKorean help.

"Datacentre power demand in Australia could triple in five years and is forecast to exceed by 2030 the energy used by electric vehicles." Another reason to detest AI. It gobbles up power and water, and pushes up power prices for everyone. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

The entire npr news brief I just heard was nothing but Trump/putin/maga talking points. Wow

Most Europeans have no idea how much danger they will face if the war ends with Russia getting even part of what it wants in Ukraine. Russia could be fighting inside the EU much sooner than most realize