When I see this & vividly recognize both the style & the mentality behind it, I feel ever-more strongly that they may find him cowering in a hole like Saddam or crawling through a sewer like Gaddafi before this is all over.

This is rather a shot in the dark, but does anyone in the Bluesky universe know of an authoritative history of the 1138 to 1153 civil war in England that became known as "The Anarchy?" It is far afield from my area of expertise & search as I might I have not found one yet. Merci d'avance.

I must say, though this place is a virtual ghost town, life has been so infinitely better since I bailed on Musk’s poisonous hall of mirrors that I’m almost embarrassed it took me so long to do so.

Fighting between ELN & FARC dissidents displaces hundreds more in Colombia's Tibú www.infobae.com/colombia/202...

For our last episode of @notesfromtheworld.bsky.social in 2025, we spoke to Haitian DJ and record producer Michaël Brun about his music, Haiti and its culture. Ayiti pap peri. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/if-you-don...

A Christmas thought: Don’t let the imbecile steal your joy, your gentleness, your grace and your hope. Let him twist in his rage, but continue to try to spread love and compassion wherever you can and try to enjoy a little happiness in this sweet, sad world as you do so. ❤️🙏👊

Christmas finds hundreds of Cuban healthcare professionals in Angola once again trapped between family separation, job insecurity, and official silence as they go unpaid by Havana regime for their work www.14ymedio.com/cuba/medicos...

Here is what "Greater Israel" looks like in practice (much like "Greater Serbia" etc): Five Settlers Arrested in West Bank After Palestinian Baby Wounded in Stone-throwing Attack www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

SPLM-North: ‘58,000 in South Kordofan flee to Nuba Mountains’ www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

Merry Christmas from the Deibert household!

Jacob Miller & Ray I - We Wish You a Merry Christmas youtu.be/pMPoWKyrDQk

A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story, read by Dylan Thomas youtu.be/zFSs2IdDmuU

Amen, brother: "On earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other. Where there is room for the human person, there is room for God. Even a stable can become more sacred than a temple." www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Merry Christmas from Damascus 🇸🇾🎄

May Bari Weiss be visited by the ghosts of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Ed Bradley tonight to teach how to be an actual journalist.

"The names of 10 potential co-conspirators that New York prosecutors intended to interview in 2019 were mentioned...[The included] Ghislaine Maxwell; French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel & Leslie Wexner, the billionaire former owner of Victoria’s Secret" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

ICE marked Christmas Eve by shooting someone just outside of Baltimore: ICE shooting in Glen Burnie leaves 2 people hospitalized, officials say www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Several gang members killed in clashes at sea with the Haitian Coast Guard lenouvelliste.com/article/2628...

Haiti's Montrouis attacked again by gang members from nearby Canaan lenouvelliste.com/article/2628...

Trois grands chefs Mobondo tués aux combats contre les FARDC à Kwamouth www.radiookapi.net/2025/12/23/a...

Testimony from Sudan's El Fasher: ‘We found the head, hands, and entrails, but we did not find the rest of the body…’ www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

May you all be, either physically or spiritually, with those who love you and who you love tonight, and may we all see more gentle, more humane days ahead as this year draws to a close and realize the human connection we all share to make them happen. Piti piti, zwazo fe nich-li.

For our last episode of @notesfromtheworld.bsky.social in 2025, we spoke to Haitian DJ and record producer Michaël Brun about his music, Haiti and its culture. Ayiti pap peri. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/if-you-don...

Tom Waits- Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis youtu.be/mxVo5mjK4eg

I guess we know why Trump fought so ferociously to hide these now. “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

As more than 1.4 million people around Haiti remain displaced, with many having suffered terrible violence & lost what meagre possessions they once had, members of the country's Conseil Présidentiel de Transition make sure to end the year on a high note. Come the day...

Letter newly released from the Epstein files allegedly penned by Jeffrey Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar just before Epstein's death in custody: “Our president shares our love of young, nubile young girls.”

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The squalid racism at the heart of the regime of Tunisia dictator Kais Saied on full display: En Tunisie, le procès de la militante antiraciste Saadia Mosbah s’ouvre dans un climat de répression www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

Guinea coup leader evokes memory of dictator Sekou Touré as election approaches www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

More results from Musk & Trump's horrors inflicted around the world: Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Maybe the DSA and other apologists for Cuba's dictatorship who blame everything on the "embargo" should read this: Cuba's "military continued using the dollars entering the island to construct new hotels – even if everything else in the country was collapsing." www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

107,000+ flee El Fasher as conflict and disease tighten grip on Darfur www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

A snapshot not from CECOT but from Miami's Krome Detention Center: “I had surgery because the policeman who hit me broke two of my ribs & punctured my lung. I'm here but it's very difficult because men treat you very badly. Sometimes I get very depressed, but I keep going” elpais.com/us/migracion...

The utter neglect & abandonment of Puerto Rico's beautiful & historic Viejo San Juan (my old neighborhood) under the tenure of mayor Miguel Romero should be a national scandal. One of the colonial gems of the Americas left to collapse & rot as the PNP continue with their corruption & incompetence. 😔

Slow release of Epstein files triggers victim outcry, legal threats from Congress www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Marie Lunix Hogla Cerisier is a member of the Executive Committee of Haitian feminist org Nègès Mawon. I had the opportunity to speak w/her regarding the challenges, inspirations & solidarity present in organizing from a feminist perspective in Haiti today michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/haitian-wo...

He could read the writing on the wall: Bryan Cutler, former Pa. House speaker, will not seek reelection next year lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

As a nearly 30 year career journo (including reporting from El Salvador), I can confirm this is an EXCELLENT, rigorous, wrenching report that any news outlet would be proud to broadcast. May these poor young men receive justice. May Bari Weiss lose her job. www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

His support must be reduced to Russian assets & pedophiles by this point: Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

So the U.S. will have no ambassadors in Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia & Uganda. I bet Moscow & Beijing can hardly believe their luck. apnews.com/article/dipl...

"[He] carried unimaginable sorrow" that left him dealing with severe mental health issues, including "depression, guilt, emotional instability, and long periods of isolation [which] replaced the vibrant young man we once knew." people.com/parkland-sch...

To those of us who have spent our professional careers watching tin pot tyrants naming streets, buildings, cities etc after themselves, it seems that Trump & co don't understand what weakness, insecurity & tacitly acknowledged illegitimacy these acts in fact reveal. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

It's extraordinary that, in the hours given to a single human being in a single day, Netanyahu manages to be so single-mindedly & relentlessly destructive: Netanyahu Ministers Approve Government-controlled Oct. 7 Probe, Push Judicial Overhaul Bills www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"In August 2025, the leader of the Viv Ansanm gang, Jimmy Chérizier, alias Barbecue, issued a plea for peace, inviting people to return to their neighborhood. A return that proved difficult, if not impossible, for most, as only ruins remained." www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?art...

Basic Journalism 101: Reporters are obliged to seek the response of subjects covered in/referred to by a story, but they are by no means required to hold a story indefinitely if that subject refuses/fails to respond. To do so gives effective veto power over the entire reporting process. No good.

The daughter of a chavista military officer, 32 year-old Alejandra Romero Castillo - despite a scant legal career - has become one of the judges most responsible for enforcing judicial state repression against opponents of the regime of Nicolás Maduro armando.info/la-verduga-p...

Happy now, MAGA cultists? "Trump’s tariffs and slowing exports are hitting U.S. spirits, leading the historic Kentucky distillery Jim Beam to pause production." www.thestreet.com/retail/iconi...