A Pakistani court on Saturday jailed a prominent rights activist and her husband for 10 years over "anti-state" social media posts, just one day after their arrest. u.afp.com/SBuU

Relentless lawyer Imaan Mazari have defended minorities despite years of regime harassment and conspiracy against her family. "Changes to the constitution and hasty legislation passed by parliament have pushed Pakistan towards tighter state control, with diminishing political and civil rights."

🇮🇶 Iraqi Kurdish women braid hair at protest in solidarity with Syrian Kurds Dozens of women gather in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to braid each other's hair in a show of support, after a Syrian soldier bragged in a video about cutting off a Kurdish fighter's braid in Raqa.

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Agreed. Also, Minnesota should become a Region of Norway. MMNA 🇳🇴

“The official social-media channels of the Trump administration have become unrelenting streams of xenophobic and Nazi-coded messages and imagery.” All government platforms that used to be authoritative sources of data and information now worse than useless. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Good piece by @seva.bsky.social. The cyclical nature of US betrayal of Kurds does seem to suggest a structural explanation of how/why. “And the lesson is not just for the Kurds or Iranians to be skeptical, but for the American public to stop being duped by their own presidential moralizing.”

Time someone reminds Trump his reckless rhetorical dealoguic is what signalled to the peoples of Afghanistan they had to welcome the Taliban as their controlling power, or emigrate. You could stretch it as far as saying, thanks to Trump, NATO personnel died in vain. Head Cheerleader of the Taliban.

2/ Government forces operating in northeastern Syria have committed isolated violations against local populations, which could trigger the resumption of intense fighting between Kurdish and government forces or broader ethnic violence.

US weighs complete military withdrawal from Syria, WSJ reports reut.rs/4bODJRb

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Other Key Takeaways: 2/ North Korean hacking groups generated over two billion US dollars in 2025. North Korea could use its hacking capabilities to circumvent international sanctions and fund its military expansion.

Rutte says the status of Greenland was not discussed as part of the “framework” deal Trump announced

Jonas Gahr Støre var Out Front CNNs hovedkritiker av Trump i kveld. Opptak fra før Trump roet seg ned om Grønland, vevd inn gjennom en god halvtime. Håper Norge slipper å smiske om unnskyldning for denne isfronten, men de mange som stemte Ap på grunn av god «dialog» må føle seg fortapt i disse dager

Looks like chicken taco is back on the menu

Arash Azizi asked Iranians whether they wanted U.S. intervention—and their answers surprised him:

Mike Johnson accuses Norway of “making a political decision & not awarding the Nobel Prize to probably the most deserving individual in history of the prize. There are 8 to 10 wars & conflicts that’ve been resolved by President Trump, & he got snubbed.” (Vid via Manu Raju on X)

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Nei faen… det kan se ut som Trump driver å planter opp fake news i en slags plan for å stjele norske OL-medaljer/Svalbard???

Karoline Leavitt is denying that Trump mixed up Greenland and Iceland multiple times during his speech today.

When you dementedly send the card you were holding for Greenland, to Iceland #TACO

Iran deaths went beyond protesters, hitting bystanders too, witnesses say www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy." (He means Greenland.)

Nå bør Børge skru av mikrofonen, ellers må vi faktisk redde Minnesota fra denne despotiske voldsmotoren før han oppildner total ødeleggelse

NEW | The Iranian regime has expanded its crackdown beyond protesters by targeting merchants and businesses that supported the protests. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...

BREAKING NEWS from Davos, stock markets are tanking because of Iceland, according to POTUS aka demented Cheeto-face

BREAKING: DOGE employees improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs. reut.rs/4pPCx3x

Trump posts what appears to be a private text message sent to him by Macron

Q: Did you invite Putin to be on the Board of Peace? TRUMP: Yeah. He's been invited Q: Thoughts on Macron saying he won't join? TRUMP: Did he say that? Nobody wants him bc he's going to be out of office very soon. If they feel hostile, I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines & champagnes & he'll join

The US framework for sustaining success against ISIS in Syria is collapsing as the Syrian government moves to fully take over northeastern Syria from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is a Syrian Kurdish-dominated group that the United States relied on to contain ISIS for a decade. 1/12

Jonas Støre confirming the reply received was to a call invite sent Trump alongside whisperer Stubb yesterday. Trump’s reply was later mass distributed by his team, to ensure everyone knows he no longer feels obligated to his Peace campaign - without a Nobel Prize (awarded by independent committee)

Er det dette som kalles tilfeldig estetikk? Tippoldemors servise skal få seg nye gamle aviser etter julens festligheter

China and Russia must be having a field day. They are the ones who benefit from divisions among Allies. If Greenland’s security is at risk, we can address this inside NATO. Tariffs risk making Europe and the United States poorer and undermine our shared prosperity. (1/2)

The Ugandan military forcibly removed pop star–turned–politician Bobi Wine from his home and took him to an unknown location, officials in his National Unity Platform party said, in a stunning development in a bruising presidential race marred by violence.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

While tension in northeast Syria is brewing, the Syrian president issues a decree guaranteeing Kurdish rights.

May we all heal, and may this sick man finally commit to treatment. No ally of him should feel the need to stoop to his levels, he has manipulated people in attempt to glorify himself, eliminating his humanity. There is no honour anywhere for scheming violence upon anyone. Peace be with us.

Bag secured. Trump will no longer need to bomb Iran in hunt for Shirin Ebadi’s stolen Nobel Peace Prize, said to have been confiscated by the IRGC. Unless… he wants to be the first man to get two?? Maybe three, if he approaches Iran according to Narges Mohammadi? Maaaybe that could award him his own

Looks like Jenrick is banking on a Rubio story arc. He’s playing the slimy long game. Eyes on the prize. Prime Minister of Pakistan?

Spain to launch sovereign wealth fund to extend stimulus from expiring EU funds reut.rs/49o1bTV

Jeg trenger en sesong til av Oljefondet

Great article by Amberin Zaman: "Turkey’s equally big fear is that a dissolution of central authority would encourage Iran’s restive ethnic minorities, notably the Kurds, the Baloch and the Azeris, to break away" www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

al-Modon: preparations for battle restricting SDF to Tell Tamer/Hasakah corner date back months, with window for negotiations open, upcoming axes = Deir Hafir, Homs desert, role for Barzani as potential guarantor + assist in removal of foreign PKK cadre www.almodon.com/arabworld/20...

Opprop for at NRK heller sender Paris 2024 i reprise. Når det gjelder fotball-VM så vurderes det litt at FIFA er nyetablert arena for fredsdiplomati, vikingane er beskyttere av the og prize, kan virke avskrekkende på Trump-regimet om Norge viser noen lange flate ballær, sånn i tilfelle Svalbard

Syrian Army's Operations Authority declares a humanitarian corridor for civilians to flee SDF-controlled Deir Hafir and Maskanah along the Aleppo/Raqqah road, open tomorrow between 9am-5pm. Presumably the offensive follows. Area taken by SDF in Dec 2024 during regime collapse t.me/AleppoGov1/9...