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Fresh fighting erupts in eastern DR Congo, forcing hundreds to flee across the border into Rwanda, a day after a peace deal was signed in Washington u.afp.com/S7wN
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Fresh fighting erupts in eastern DR Congo, forcing hundreds to flee across the border into Rwanda, a day after a peace deal was signed in Washington u.afp.com/S7wN
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🇺🇸🇪🇺 US Urges EU to Block Use of Russian Frozen Assets for Ukraine
If EU countries cannot resolve internal disagreements, Kyiv may face a shortage of funds early next year. At the same time, US pressure could affect talks in Brussels.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/us-urges-eu-...
If EU countries cannot resolve internal disagreements, Kyiv may face a shortage of funds early next year. At the same time, US pressure could affect talks in Brussels.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/us-urges-eu-...
US Urges EU to Block Use of Russian Frozen Assets for Ukraine
The United States is urging some European Union countries to block plans to use frozen assets of Russia’s central bank for a large reparations loan to Ukraine
theukrainianreview.info
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🇺🇸🇪🇺 US Urges EU to Block Use of Russian Frozen Assets for Ukraine
If EU countries cannot resolve internal disagreements, Kyiv may face a shortage of funds early next year. At the same time, US pressure could affect talks in Brussels.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/us-urges-eu-...
If EU countries cannot resolve internal disagreements, Kyiv may face a shortage of funds early next year. At the same time, US pressure could affect talks in Brussels.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/us-urges-eu-...
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Trump threatened ICE raids at the World Cup. I wonder if the silly "FIFA Peace Prize" was to buy him off so he wouldn't interfere. Both FIFA & Trump are so corruptly transactional, it would work that way. Or course, money may have changed hands, too.
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump threatened ICE raids at the World Cup. I wonder if the silly "FIFA Peace Prize" was to buy him off so he wouldn't interfere. Both FIFA & Trump are so corruptly transactional, it would work that way. Or course, money may have changed hands, too.
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insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
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John Roberts has been a GOP operative, in "institutionalist" clothing, through all of his career.
Chapter and verse, here: www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
He was on GWBush team during the 2000 Florida recount battles.
Think: Mike Johnson, with Harvard vs LSU pedigree.
Chapter and verse, here: www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
He was on GWBush team during the 2000 Florida recount battles.
Think: Mike Johnson, with Harvard vs LSU pedigree.
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
John Roberts has been a GOP operative, in "institutionalist" clothing, through all of his career.
Chapter and verse, here: www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
He was on GWBush team during the 2000 Florida recount battles.
Think: Mike Johnson, with Harvard vs LSU pedigree.
Chapter and verse, here: www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
He was on GWBush team during the 2000 Florida recount battles.
Think: Mike Johnson, with Harvard vs LSU pedigree.
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In addition to the flammable netting, bamboo scaffolding, and foam boards, Wang Fuk Court’s recessed alcoves created by the cruciform shape to maintain floor plan efficiency and natural ventilation despite a mid-sized vertical circulation core created chimneys www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In addition to the flammable netting, bamboo scaffolding, and foam boards, Wang Fuk Court’s recessed alcoves created by the cruciform shape to maintain floor plan efficiency and natural ventilation despite a mid-sized vertical circulation core created chimneys www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
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FBI agents now serving as Uber drivers for Kash Patel’s girlfriend’s drunk friends www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
FBI agents now serving as Uber drivers for Kash Patel’s girlfriend’s drunk friends www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Ms Phillimore promised she would sue me for this tweet, and raised over £37,000 for that purpose, but more than three months on, I am still yet to receive a letter before action from her.
Obviously I stand by my tweet.
Obviously I stand by my tweet.
A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs.
That's where she now is.
That's where she now is.
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ms Phillimore promised she would sue me for this tweet, and raised over £37,000 for that purpose, but more than three months on, I am still yet to receive a letter before action from her.
Obviously I stand by my tweet.
Obviously I stand by my tweet.
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Amu Gib is extremely frail
For 10 days the prison refused to acknowledge she was on hunger strike
Another prisoner, Qesser (20), has dangerously low BP + high heart rate, blocked from hospital care
They're political prisoners held without trial
They must be bailed and proper medical treatment 🇵🇸
For 10 days the prison refused to acknowledge she was on hunger strike
Another prisoner, Qesser (20), has dangerously low BP + high heart rate, blocked from hospital care
They're political prisoners held without trial
They must be bailed and proper medical treatment 🇵🇸
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Amu Gib is extremely frail
For 10 days the prison refused to acknowledge she was on hunger strike
Another prisoner, Qesser (20), has dangerously low BP + high heart rate, blocked from hospital care
They're political prisoners held without trial
They must be bailed and proper medical treatment 🇵🇸
For 10 days the prison refused to acknowledge she was on hunger strike
Another prisoner, Qesser (20), has dangerously low BP + high heart rate, blocked from hospital care
They're political prisoners held without trial
They must be bailed and proper medical treatment 🇵🇸
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For those keeping track, we are at the sitting member of congress being pepper sprayed by federal agents while trying to protect her constituents stage of fascism.
AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper sprayed during Tucson ICE raid
"When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-rep-...
Video from @repgrijalva on Instagram.
"When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-rep-...
Video from @repgrijalva on Instagram.
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
For those keeping track, we are at the sitting member of congress being pepper sprayed by federal agents while trying to protect her constituents stage of fascism.
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Why was this story about the Young Britons Foundation 10 years ago so important?
Read my follow up four years later about how it was a Mercer organisation and incubated Trump, Bannon and Brexit bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/t...
Read my follow up four years later about how it was a Mercer organisation and incubated Trump, Bannon and Brexit bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/t...
December 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Why was this story about the Young Britons Foundation 10 years ago so important?
Read my follow up four years later about how it was a Mercer organisation and incubated Trump, Bannon and Brexit bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/t...
Read my follow up four years later about how it was a Mercer organisation and incubated Trump, Bannon and Brexit bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/t...
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social
- I’m glad you reported (for @msnowreports.bsky.social) on the Roger Stone connection to the pardon of JOH in Honduras, but the article in @wsj.com (which you cited) missed the part about Prospera and the network state, which provides the motive!
- I’m glad you reported (for @msnowreports.bsky.social) on the Roger Stone connection to the pardon of JOH in Honduras, but the article in @wsj.com (which you cited) missed the part about Prospera and the network state, which provides the motive!
Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/
How President Trump Can Crush Socialism and Save a Freedom City in Honduras
In the impoverished nation of Honduras, there are geopolitical developments afoot that have major implications for U.S. policy and the future of freedom throughout the world.
www.stonecoldtruth.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
- I’m glad you reported (for @msnowreports.bsky.social) on the Roger Stone connection to the pardon of JOH in Honduras, but the article in @wsj.com (which you cited) missed the part about Prospera and the network state, which provides the motive!
- I’m glad you reported (for @msnowreports.bsky.social) on the Roger Stone connection to the pardon of JOH in Honduras, but the article in @wsj.com (which you cited) missed the part about Prospera and the network state, which provides the motive!
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BREAKING: cert. was just granted in our @democracydefendersfund.org case to defend birthright citizenship
We and our wonderful coalition incl. ACLU, LULAC & more have won at every level & we have a strong case at SCOTUS as well
We are fighting for the babies, their parents--& the Constitution!
We and our wonderful coalition incl. ACLU, LULAC & more have won at every level & we have a strong case at SCOTUS as well
We are fighting for the babies, their parents--& the Constitution!
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
BREAKING: cert. was just granted in our @democracydefendersfund.org case to defend birthright citizenship
We and our wonderful coalition incl. ACLU, LULAC & more have won at every level & we have a strong case at SCOTUS as well
We are fighting for the babies, their parents--& the Constitution!
We and our wonderful coalition incl. ACLU, LULAC & more have won at every level & we have a strong case at SCOTUS as well
We are fighting for the babies, their parents--& the Constitution!
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Anyone who buys a second-hand phone off the UK government is a collaborator.
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Anyone who buys a second-hand phone off the UK government is a collaborator.
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The twist at the end is that the locals start murdering the foreign soccer fans, and when the visitors go to the authorities for protection, they're arrested and trafficked to Central American prisons to serve life sentences. A film for the whole family to enjoy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The twist at the end is that the locals start murdering the foreign soccer fans, and when the visitors go to the authorities for protection, they're arrested and trafficked to Central American prisons to serve life sentences. A film for the whole family to enjoy.
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"I'm not crazy. It's really there and its bad."
This farmer was able to finally see the invisible pollution from oil and and gas on her farm with the help of our optical gas imaging camera.
This farmer was able to finally see the invisible pollution from oil and and gas on her farm with the help of our optical gas imaging camera.
Meet Teresa from Vermillion, #Alberta.
Teresa’s story is but one of thousands from Alberta landowners living with the fallout of leaking oil and gas wells and a #regulator that won’t protect them.
Learn more >> ecojustice.ca/news/landown...
TAKE ACTION >> www.cleanupyourmess.ca/write-your-mla
Teresa’s story is but one of thousands from Alberta landowners living with the fallout of leaking oil and gas wells and a #regulator that won’t protect them.
Learn more >> ecojustice.ca/news/landown...
TAKE ACTION >> www.cleanupyourmess.ca/write-your-mla
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"I'm not crazy. It's really there and its bad."
This farmer was able to finally see the invisible pollution from oil and and gas on her farm with the help of our optical gas imaging camera.
This farmer was able to finally see the invisible pollution from oil and and gas on her farm with the help of our optical gas imaging camera.
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I don't know why we are surprised that a man who built his brand on xenophobia turns out to be a racist, but if this means his political career ends, I say it's cause for celebration
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I don't know why we are surprised that a man who built his brand on xenophobia turns out to be a racist, but if this means his political career ends, I say it's cause for celebration
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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War Notes: From the Battlefield
“It's simple math — if 50 Russian soldiers on foot don't break the defenses, Russian commanders send 100 of them. And they will keep going, despite knowing the casualty rate is extremely high,” writes Dimko Zhluktenko, callsign Liber, in this op-ed.
“It's simple math — if 50 Russian soldiers on foot don't break the defenses, Russian commanders send 100 of them. And they will keep going, despite knowing the casualty rate is extremely high,” writes Dimko Zhluktenko, callsign Liber, in this op-ed.
War Notes: From the battlefield
Editor’s note: To mark the fourth birthday of the Kyiv Independent, the War Notes newsletter team decided to pass one edition of the newsletter to a special guest writer, who could capture the time an...
kyivindependent.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
War Notes: From the Battlefield
“It's simple math — if 50 Russian soldiers on foot don't break the defenses, Russian commanders send 100 of them. And they will keep going, despite knowing the casualty rate is extremely high,” writes Dimko Zhluktenko, callsign Liber, in this op-ed.
“It's simple math — if 50 Russian soldiers on foot don't break the defenses, Russian commanders send 100 of them. And they will keep going, despite knowing the casualty rate is extremely high,” writes Dimko Zhluktenko, callsign Liber, in this op-ed.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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oh my god, he admit it x.com/Acyn/status/...
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
oh my god, he admit it x.com/Acyn/status/...
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Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
AI dialogues shifted political support by 2 to 3 points in trials, eclipsing standard ads. Roughly one-third of this effect persisted for a month. However, models optimized for persuasion proved more factually error-prone.
#MLSky
#MLSky
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
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Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs
on.ft.com/3WSCN6h
on.ft.com/3WSCN6h
How flawed data is leaving the UK in the dark
Trouble at the Office for National Statistics means policymakers cannot rely on key economic numbers, including on employment
on.ft.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs
on.ft.com/3WSCN6h
on.ft.com/3WSCN6h