Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ
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Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ
Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
Noone gets peace - not #UA, not #Syria... :/
MAGA is in full meltdown as fears grow of "certain defeat" for the Republicans in next year's midterms.
Iraq's former president Barham Salih has been chosen as the next High Commissioner for Refugees for the United Nations, a letter showed on Friday, breaking with a tradition of appointing leaders from major donor countries.
About a dozen senior commanders in the Israeli military were told on Sunday that they face dismissal or discipline for mistakes tied to the deadly Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the war in Gaza.
A Chinese robot has earned a Guinness World Records after completing a100-km trek, the longest distance ever walked by a humanoid machine. In full: buff.ly/SswWAIG
"I can be a lawyer with a gendered lens, a development expert with a gendered lens, a political scientist with a gendered lens, and a professor with a gendered lens."
Great read, people!
Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
This is classic banality of evil stuff, but I want to know: who’s driving the bulldozer?
Great read, people!
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
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1812-2025. Presidents are doing it for themselves. #EastWing.
The EU today sanctioned the rector of a Moscow university after the school started a program on how to circumvent Western sanctions.
Leaving aside how nakedly partisan it would look (and indeed, be) and how it would tie up a government that is already - charitably - struggling to get to grips with everything, is there any evidence a written constitution provides any kind of bulwark anyway? America says hi here
Errrr, sorry guys, do you NEED an enormous ballroom in the White House? Have we returned to the 18th century and the assembled heads and nobility can prance around in swords and medals and swill champagne? Lmao!
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality' www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The committee said she had resisted death threats to fight for democracy in opposition to President Nicolas Maduro - widely considered a dictator who's cheated elections.
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The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
Belgium has laid out its red lines for using Russian assets to fund a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine.
This includes an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.
Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say reut.rs/3W4qfrm
96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:
