It's why he is threatening Colombia + Mexico. Why he bought elections in Argentina + Honduras. And interfered in Brazil's courts. Latin America's democratic left bloc is the most principled opposition to Trump in the world, defending international law while richer + more powerful nations cower. 2/3

New: Trump admin officials tell Zeteo that Trump is “very interested” in secret plans drawn up last year to send US Special Forces into Mexico. One official even says Trump recently asked for updates on preparations for a possible operation.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

the consistency in the european deflections, deceptions and prevarications is striking amidst the military-industrial complex, the international-law-is-complex complex

I also think that the perception of double standards in the Middle East is genuine and has a basis in reality.

There are also the 190 other countries in the world to consider. Ukraine struggled to get solidarity from key Middle East and South Asian states who could have helped enforce sanctions but who saw the Western positions as hypocritical.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Starmer asked to respond to Trump breaking international law and seizing the leader of another sovereign nation replies that it is his "responsibility" to have a good relationship with the US President. "I have stepped up that responsibility [and] I do get on with President Trump," he tells the BBC

Who needs CBS when Reuters can do state propaganda just as well?

Please god let 2026 be the year that we get this slimy shyster out of public life.

Wrote this in 2017 about the Russia 2018 World Cup and reposted it four years later about Qatar. In 2026, only the names have changed.* Ultimately, nothing makes a difference, but you'll at least know you weren't part of it. theuglygame.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/w...

A reminder that not only did FIFA award Trump a peace prize four weeks ago, they effectively broadcast a pro-Trump propaganda video during the ceremony 👇

A reminder that Russia was suspended from FIFA because teams refused to play them, and FIFA argued this was a "force majeure" situation. The most plausible way the US could lose hosting rights for 2026 is if national associations whose teams have qualified refuse to play. This is highly unlikely.

On Fifa peace prize: “It shouldn’t be a political organisation but now you’re doing this, it’s shameful … It shows that the way is lost. At least that’s how everything has been presented with this ridiculous piece of work. And I’m sorry for that. Sorry for Fifa, sorry for him, sorry for football.”

FIFA peace prize in action

Get. Off. X.

"I write this letter, as I wrote my original letter ... simply because, in the light of having worked for nearly fifty years in education and mental health, I regard these pupils’ accounts to be painfully authentic and sadly consistent with Farage’s previously recorded views and behaviours."

"Alaa is not a saint. He is, however, a hero of a stolen revolution, and a potent symbol of hope for millions still living under brutal dictatorship" @naomiaklein.bsky.social sets the record straight www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Man City have spent more than £500m pounds on new talent since being charged with more than 100 Premier League rule breaches. As another window opens, they’re poised to add another top talent, and still there is no ruling. Shames the Premier League how long it’s taken. Man City deny the allegations

Rising Heat, Failing Kidneys: Climate’s Hidden Toll on Migrant Workers By Natalie Donback For 24 million migrants in Gulf states—from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan—construction work in high temperatures is driving heat-stress-related kidney disease. inthesetimes.com/article/risi...

Begum was one of the worst legal decisions ever made.

Anyone suggesting someone should have their citizenship taken away for tweets should be considered, automatically, an extremist on this issue. We know hypocrisy doesn't matter but if the focus is on tweets that undermine "British values" then the far right has that industry cornered.

The worst people in Britain are trying to have this remarkably courageous and principled man stripped of his UK citizenship. This is his statement in response to the attacks he is facing. freealaa.net/alaa-response

I will never understand the soullessness of people who try to strip a human rights defender and torture survivor of the safety that his family won at impossible cost. I have nothing but the most profound admiration for Alaa Abd el-Fattah

2025: Liz Truss criticising Keir Starmer over the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah 2022: Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary trying to secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated. Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom. #FreeAlaa Always. freealaa.net/alaa-response

The fight for the living world is upon us... back to writing!! 😰

So… big news. (Keep reading.)

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

The Times is running a front-page story about the Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv away fan ban without noting Maccabi's long history of racist disorder, which includes a €20k fine *this week* for racist disorder for singing the "rape song" at the club's *first* away game with fans since the Villa ban.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times. First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.

This video will probably get fewer likes than my posts on taxing billionaires. That difference says it all. Factory farming only survives if we don’t look. It’s time to hold these companies accountable. Every donation is matched, so $1 becomes $2 through Dec 31, 2025. Donate: MoralAmbition.org/food

This is deeply troubling. The silence of so much of the mainstream. That this should be happening when a former human rights lawyer is Prime Minister… Peace is a greater threat to the powerful than war.

UEFA finally sanctions Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters for engaging in “racist and/or discriminatory behaviour” in Dec 2025. Begs the question, why did UEFA not act after the Ajax game in Nov 2024? www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...

Lol, I think the Labour Party is the only political organisation in the entire world with enough self-loathing to listen to a guy tell them that the last 80 years of their party, including every majority government they ever had, was a mistake and then make them head of strategy.

Photo reminds me of one of the highlights of 2025, when @kenearly.bsky.social said of Maresca that "he looks like a loyalist mural of Pep"

More money to be dished out by FIFA. This time framed as "Post-conflict recovery fund". Remember there is $2.8 billion from FIFA Forward, $1.5 billion from the FIFA Covid Fund, $1 billion from the Saudi-led development fund...

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

Gianni Infantino's grubby dealings with Trump are part of a pattern. Excellent post from @sportingintel.bsky.social detailing Infantino's very chequered record as FIFA President. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/from-the-c...

I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning. I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss. We stand with you.

I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS. I'm heartbroken for him.

Here’s my message to our health secretary: The era of politicians ignoring health experts is over. Put your big boy pants on and go meet with the BMA and RCN and end the staff haemorrhage crisis once and for all. #DoctorsStrike #SOSNHS

Ticket prices released by FIFA this week for the men’s World Cup in 2026 were, on average, 174 per cent higher than projected in the official bid book submitted by the joint United States, Canada and Mexico. Full story from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...

@fanseurope.org "call on FIFA to immediately halt PMA ticket sales, engage in a consultation with all impacted parties, and review ticket prices and category distribution" 👏 www.fanseurope.org/news/stateme...

Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.