It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

FCC issues alert about hackers sending Emergency Alert System alert tones and broadcasting obscenities and bigoted information over radio stations, including those in Texas and Virginia in recent days […]

Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest https://feddit.uk/post/40129779

The U.S. envoy to Ukraine seemingly exposed as a Russian aide. “Witkoff… gave Ushakov tactical advice, including how the Russian leader should approach the issue with Trump.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/republicans-steve-witkoff-leaked-call-russia-ukraine

As @gregsargent.bsky.social points out, Trump *has* given illegal orders. But he’s also so allergic to democratic ideals that the very idea of a military (or any other institution) that serves the people rather than the ruler is totally illegible and incomprehensible to him.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today: - Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit - Lowering energy bills - Holding down transport costs - Increasing the minimum wage These will all assist families struggling to get by.

Trump regime, including DoJ on its own behalf, has identified to Judge Boasberg the individuals who together disobeyed his orders to return Venezualans in mid-flight to U.S. when the regime first acted to remove them pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. 1/ #lawfedi […]

The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been detained by ICE, as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area resident who migrated with her family to the US from Brazil as a child, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana. The White House […]

💼 What is an Exit Tax and why should the Government introduce one at the Budget? Currently, people who leave the UK while owning assets that have increased in value but haven’t yet been sold don't pay capital gains. If we want a fairer, efficient tax system, that should change ⏬

FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80). Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […] [Original post on federate.social]

Secret phone call between Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow. https://open.substack.com/pub/counteroffensive/p/newsflash-witkoff-was-secretly-giving?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2rqgi

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/it-fully-changed-my-life-how-young-rewilders-transformed-a-farm-and-began-a-movement

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Benny staged a photo of what he said were 11 "rioters" who were arrested. Bovino tackled one of them for...nothing. Only they weren't arrested. They were held all day, asked some Qs, then dropped off at a gas (petrol) station nearby. These people don't show up on list of people arrested that day.

Ann Telnaes! https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/trumps-putin-autopen?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #trumpandepstein #trumpandputin #ukraine #democracy #fascism #russia

#violafletcher, who as a child in 1921 saw her affluent Black neighborhood torched by white citizens in what became known as the #tulsaracemassacre — one of the most violent acts of racial violence in #americanhistory — & who, a century later, testified in #congress to the terror she witnessed […]

From Mark Kelly’s office, in response to threats from Hegseth.

"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."

"A calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.' https://progressive.international/wire/2025-11-18-a-calculated-attempt-to-erase-the-horizon-of-palestinian-liberation-/en

While we are promoting @liberalcurrents.com, consider checking out my latest column on purity culture, rape culture, and Megyn Kelly’s “barely legal” comments.

Moscow Calling. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-language-websites-link-pro-kremlin-russian-propaganda-pravda-network?CMP=share_btn_url

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ... who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ... either left government or were reassigned or removed […]

“We’re Broken”: As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us #ice #TrumpDidThis #republicansdidthis #norepublicanseveragain […]

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The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.

Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/19/microsoft-nhs-uk-contracts-public-sector-procurement

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/halted-nih-clinical-trials-list-reveals-slashed-treatments-for-cancer-covid/

BREAKING: Prosecution in Old Bailey confirms the payments to Nathan Gill came from ‘Putin’s man in Ukraine’, "It is clear that directions were coming from Viktor Medvedchuk.. .and indeed the source of the money was Viktor Medvedchuk" bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

My god. After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck. The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this. Which means this is not an isolated case. Trump's Lynching America

Sigh. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/european-commission-accused-of-massive-rollback-of-digital-protections

It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York. Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.

Lots of truly terrible stuff is happening in the US government, but 2 senators just reintroduced the "Dark and Quiet Skies Act" to protect the sky from light pollution and satellite pollution and that's a really big step in the right direction! […]

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 in Gaza, reports of IDF ground operations going beyond the "yellow line" and expanding in Gaza City, so I must ask again: What constitutes no ceasefire, rather than a "fragile" or "tested" ceasefire?

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

This the party whose migration policies Labour are stealing from! In Copenhagen the centre-left had been in control since 1903! Instead most votes went to the Eco-Socialists Unity List and second most to the Socialist People's Party. I think I want to emigrate to Denmark! […]

This is a moving story of a man offering space to a Syrian refugee in East London, who then became the main carer for his Mum. His response to a 'Labour Government' introducing 'laws that, when I was growing up in multi-ethnic East London, were the preserve of the National Front' […]

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@maeve_bkk/115578986841274863 Likely due to the Elon Musk disinformation platform X.

#RFKJr claims his new #CDC advisory committee on #vaccines#cdc#rfkjrs “unbiased.” He's lying. In reality, the panel is filled with figures who have long expressed anti-vaccine views. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-kennedys-unbiased-vaccine-panel-actually-packed-anti-vaxxers

On this day in 1863 Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

#giftarticle ‘Things happen’ #washingtonpost Editorial Board Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague. The #us govt often advances its interests by working with nasty people, & #saudiarabia Crown Prince #mbs is one of the nastiest. It’s one thing…to reluctantly deal with […]

The Saudi Crown Prince had Khashoggi dismembered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. Dismembered while still alive. But Khashoggi gave his phone to his fiancee and went in with his Apple Watch recording. His watch was connected to his phone. It captured the gruesome audio of his brutal killing.

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior.

"Epstein has long been rumored to have been an intelligence asset, specifically for Israel.[...] as early as the 1980s after working as an arms dealer, sources told journalist Vicky Ward a few years back, [...] More recently, Drop Site has done the best reporting on this front, running a series […]

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

Seriously, the reaction of plutocrats to the Mamdani campaign — histrionic freakout before the election, with promises to flee the city if he won, followed by a big “never mind” when he did — can teach us a couple of things. — @pkrugman.bsky.social

Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said Hu, “you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.”