Heading in for surgery in an hour. Won't have the use of my dominant hand for a few days after, so probably won't be online much, but send me some comforting pictures or messages for when I come back? My anxiety has been through the roof!

Using the same tactic that gained her notoriety in the first place, Greta Thunberg has been arrested in the UK. The notion that such a peaceful tactic has become an arrestable offense in a democracy like the Uk is really concerning. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin The party has been accused of attempting to disclose sensitive information on arms supply routes and drone defenses.

Poll: Major allies see US as unreliable and destabilizing Pluralities in Germany and France — and a majority of Canadians — say the US is a negative force globally, new POLITICO-Public First polling finds.

"PS [the Socialist Party] has compiled 'more than 100 verified lies, inaccuracies, and manipulations' from the Chega party and sent a dossier to Ventura."

Hah hah hah! Let these losers fight. You love to see it!

In a presidential candidate debate, the Iniciativa Liberal (libertarian party) candidate accuses Ventura (far-right Chega party candidate) of having previously voted for *gasp* a Socialist. Ventura says it's "fake news!" Fact checkers: "It's true tho." 😂 🍿

"By restricting legal avenues of access, the law may thus increase the vulnerability of foreign workers to situations of labor exploitation." "It remains to be seen whether... the State is regulating immigration or (de)regulating the vulnerability of those who immigrate."

Oito candidatos outsiders, aparentemente por ordem do mais sensato ao menos sensato. Embora fosse divertido ver o Chega obrigado a usar uniformes amarelos e chapéus de orelhas de burro. Destes, prefiro o professor André Pestana.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

if you forgot how to do piracy you should unforget that for the back half of the decade prolly

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

It just occurred to me that this is one dad joke that doesn't work in Portuguese.

bari weiss is like, wait, I want to hear the concentration camp’s side

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The Free Speech wing of the Free Speech party has made it so you have to upload journalism like it's an ISIS video

the looker looks

Bari Weiss still having the temerity to call herself a "centrist" after openly acting as Trumpworld's highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist is exactly why they gave her the roles of highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist.

When they ask me what radicalized me

I'm out here you ficuus birch

Fascism selects for people who think they see through the lie of liberal democracy but who are actually just too broken and malformed to eke out a reasonably satisfying life on conditions of general equality with their fellow citizens.

chat is it good for a republican president to be underwater with white people

I was wondering if they were going to fuck up the redaction because nobody remaining at DOJ knows how to tie their shoelaces and, well

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

A candidate for Chega running in this year's elections, and also in 2021, was arrested by the Judiciary Police on December 12th, suspected of child sexual abuse and child pornography. The victims include at least one 11- and one 14-year-old.

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

OK, I was skeptical about the partial use of generative AI in this documentary, but I just finished it and... it's well done & quite impactful. Really, really good & worth watching. And if you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it.

This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit

especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win

We zitten in een digitale noodsituatie, wanneer nemen we die eens serieus? De macht van Amerikaanse Big Tech in combinatie met de 'veiligheidsstrategie' van het Trump regime vraagt om een andere, strategische kijk op technologie. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺 www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Thank you to Novara for spreading the word... We need carefully to assess the political implications of these deep fakes. Could they be a good thing in undermining the credibility of social media ? Or are they a boon to 'flood the zone' protofascists? www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Ze...

Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future. www.wired.com/story/expire...

From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s “Halo” memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics. www.wired.com/story/expire...

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

And there it is...

Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought. www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Some hero inside CBS with access to the 60 Minutes tape could do the funniest possible thing right now

No one has to dehumanize people like Lendrum (which he claims is a real thing that's happening). They do a perfectly fine job of dehumanizing themselves every time they speak.

as Jesse once said to another nazi: WHERE THE F#%* IS YOUR CHIN?

when you have the neonazi propaganda rally at 6 and your amateur stage magic show at 9:30

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious