The Trump administration's efforts to criminalize opposition to fascism are taking effect. Two banks are shutting down the accounts belonging to Rote Hilfe—a German legal aid organization over a century old—because of Trump designating so-called "Antifa Ost" as a "foreign terrorist organization."

Nazi Germany’s worst extermination camps were not inside Germany. They were built in occupied Poland, deliberately placed away from the German public to hide the scale of the crimes. Trump made CBS pull the segment because it exposes CECOT for what it is, a concentration camp.

Under pressure. We have fought for our 🇪🇺 digital safety laws. Some want to unravel them. We must not give in. Op-ed @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Faith in the US amongst its allies is collapsing. The majority in Canada & pluralities in Germany & France, see the US as a negative force in the world. This comes as the Trump administration has threatened to invade its allies Denmark & Canada & called for breaking up the EU.

I do appreciate the US state department strengthening my case here with their sanctions on former EU officials & other supporters of EU digital safety acts just now: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Users need to revolt against what will very likely be an even more widespread effort to censor voices critical of Israel.

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

This, but for the whole world, not just the UK.

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Please join the thousands of others taking action today in demanding “NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA” by calling your representative.

This is very troubling.

Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan

In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake. In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak. Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

“The FBI missed an attack on the Capitol in significant part because they treated right wing threat actors as informants rather than a far more urgent threat.” www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/12/c...

Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic

Press Release - Survivors of Super Typhoon Rai (known as Odette) in the Philippines are suing Shell Plc for propelling the climate catastrophe with knowledge of the risks, in the first major transnational lawsuit seeking personal and property damages from an oil and gas company. act.gp/4q6FrS7

Criminal regime demands to not be prosecuted.

The European Commission's proposed "Digital Omnibus" package would gut GDPR protections under the guise of cutting red tape. This is a terrible idea that would undermine privacy rights across the EU. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

People like Clinton are the problem.

An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics. Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?

Trump has declared civilisational war on Europe. It won’t be easy – but here’s how to fight back | Paul Taylor

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

"those minorities deserve what trump is doing to them" is an opinion shared by both the worst of the MAGA types and also too many spiteful liberals excited for an excuse to join in on the bigotry. real bipartisan effort

racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

People in the enclave fear the resumption of the full-scale genocidal war as Israeli ceasefire violations persist.

Himes: It was exceedingly hard to watch. Even if you stipulate that it is a war, there is a very specific prohibition against killing individuals who have been removed from the fight. And there is no question that these individuals were removed from the fight.

Trump is so debasing to republicans that their only way to deal with him is by playing stupid. this shit is so embarrassing, honestly

Thames Water half-year profits leap to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third. Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years. £20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments. Captive customers have no choice. End the scam. Nationalise water.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.

It’s now official: Trump has pardoned one of the world’s most notorious drug traffickers. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking last year in the U.S. and sentenced to 45 years in prison. 1/

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

Regulators need to investigate and hold accountable Epstein’s enablers – and I’ll believe they’re taking action when I see it. Americans deserve to know that their banking system isn’t facilitating the disturbing crimes of the rich and powerful.

Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order.

“The ceasefire must not become a smokescreen for Israel's ongoing genocide," said Agnès Callamard,Amnesty International's secretary general, as Israel continued bombing Gaza.

Today I learned that the US poverty line is still calculated as 3x the minimum food diet in 1963, a metric completely disconnected from today’s cost of living. Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and... www.myeu.uk

The US-backed GHF is halting operations after more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and foreign contractors in and around its distribution sites, according to UN figures aje.io/7jd82r

The EU’s top court ruled today that when a same-sex couple is legally married in one member country, any other member country where they move or reside must recognize that marriage.

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Wealthy Nations Place Burden “On the Backs of the Poor”

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil is suing the Trump administration for secretly working with anti-Palestinian doxxing groups like Canary Mission. These groups helped ICE target and detain students for their speech. He wants all their communications made public. zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

This is the ad for which Trump thinks Democratic lawmakers should be executed: