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More assistance in covering war crimes newrepublic.com/article/1929...

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Another massive blow to free speech in the USA www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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The Inter-Con piece of this USIP story is REALLY weird. USIP had to fire their security firm and cancel their keycards because they suspected they were working with DOGE? The fired Inter-con employees then forced entry and accessed a cache of weapons? WTF? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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"our lack of proof is proof" we're literally doing Newspeak now

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The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

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Hungary threatens to cancel sanctions on 2,000 Russians unless EU exempts Mikhail Fridman https://www.ft.com/content/8d9a8b40-79fe-4604-bacc-70311620780c

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Last week we published about how Philippine activists are preserving memory (and EVIDENCE) of dictatorship and drug wars that the current government wants to erase unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

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Exciting developments out of the Philippines: www.rappler.com/philippines/...

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How did women in Liberia force warring parties to the table in an intractable conflict? With interfaith organizing, non violent confrontation and even sex strikes- read the breakdown here for Democracy Playbook unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

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Not having a residence permit in the Netherlands isn't a crime per se, but rather an administrative offence. Yet the punishment can mean months in prison, without the right to work, study, or know a release date. Now Wilders is calling for more detention. unbiasthenews.org/prison-of-pa...

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Here’s an interactive map of the “for sale” government buildings that GSA briefly posted and then pulled yesterday — see where they are, what they’re used for, and what Congressional districts they’re in. www.wired.com/story/map-fo...

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To get justice for people forcibly disappeared under Uruguay's military dictatorship, a wide ranging campaign has used a mixture of public awareness campaigns, human rights litigation, forensic archeology and archiving. Read how their efforts are getting results: unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

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The family members of those who disappeared under the rule of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh have been fighting relentlessly for truth and justice for their loved ones. Now with her outster, it seems their cries are finally being heard. Read: unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

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They're fighting for biodiversity, for European heritage, and also for tastier tomatoes: our latest piece meets the farmers in Greece, Romania and elsewhere preserving "peasant seeds" against the odds unbiasthenews.org/seeds-of-res...

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The right-wing media machine is now the US government www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/imp...

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“There are a lot of gaps in our history,” Crisanto says. “These gaps can be filled by social media and their version of what happened....That is the enemy of the memorial commission. The outright lies and changes to history.” unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

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Our new project looks at how people all over the world fight for their democracies and the first three stories are out TODAY!

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Greek authorities potentially lost millions in EU agricultural subsidies to fraud — and it looks like an inside job Our investigation finally available to read online www.politico.eu/article/gree...

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“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.

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How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’ There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/h...

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Hungary's Orbán has become one of the most influential far-right leaders in the world (particularly in 🇺🇸). This documentary from Direct 36 details his rise to power and how he weaponized the government to enrich his allies - a must-watch youtu.be/bZ4SXv9qJHM?...

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This is not just breaking a taboo on a day where the Bundestag was supposed to remember the Holocaust, it will backfire for the Conservatives as the pandering to the far right has backfired for the Tories in Britain. A huge victory for the AfD. A dark day for Germany. Why do people never learn.

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For the first time in postwar political history, a political majority in Germany's federal parliament has been secured with the votes of a far-right political party. For an entirely symbolic proposal on migration that violates European law.

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These are very dangerous times and any Germans still looking smugly at the chaos in America need to look closer to home.

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Today at 12, the Bundestag remembers the victims of the Nazi regime. Afterwards, the CDU/CSU will put forward resolutions for mass deportations, making German citizenship revocable for the first time since 1945, and the abolition of dual citizenship, and plans to pass these with Nazi votes.

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Shockingly bigoted commentary in Euractiv. Let's remember the Holocaust by making outrageously defamatory claims about an oppressed religious minority. Incredible. www.euractiv.com/section/poli... Hat tip, @fintelmann.bsky.social

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This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.

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A very important new poll in Germany on the country’s constitutional debt brake has been published: Over the past 7 months, there has been an enormous swing in public opinion. Now, only 42 % of voters want to keep it as it is, 55 % want to loosen or abolish it. 1/ bsky.app/profile/dgap...

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“Silicon Valley's startup culture relentlessly pushes research in the direction of the consumer market. But sometimes, open research tends to overwhelm secret research.” Could Big Tech’s zero-sum focus on market dominance be its Achilles heel? www.axios.com/2025/01/27/d...

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" #Spanien warnt: Rechtsextreme nutzen Wut über Klimakatastrophen aus. Die (rechtsradikale) Vox nutzt die 'emotionale' Reaktion der Öffentlichkeit auf den falschen Umgang mit den Überschwemmungen." Apropos "Rechte nutzen den #Kollapsspace besser, als wir". steadyhq.com/de/friedlich...

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China's DeepSeek and why it's freaking out the world, particularly Silicon Valley AI giants. The AI startup has come in from behind , released AI models comparable to the best and captured global AI developers' attention @bloomberg.com tinyurl.com/4x28txux #AI

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Central part of Project 2025 for federal hiring was to reinstitute discriminatory IQ tests - very curious to see whether this comes out of the voluminous reforms to federal hiring practices

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Trump did not invite France’s Macron, the UK’s Starmer or Germany’s Scholz for the inauguration but instead invited those countries’ fascists Reconquest/Zemmour (France), the AfD/Weidel (Germany) and Reform/Farage (UK). As a friend just said, it’s not an inauguration. It’s a rally.

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🌳 Interested in reporting on climate change? Check out our new fellowship in Pakistan — through a year-long initiative, journalists will have access to mentorship, training and grants. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3P2Hsyb

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🚨 We have a new Call for Pitches 🚨 seeking compelling, underreported stories on Climate and Migration! Open to all journalists, especially those facing structural barriers. 📅 Deadline: February 9th 💶 Pay: €500 per story, per author Details and pitch here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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As Pete Hegseth tries to persuade senators to support him to lead the Department of Defense, several lawmakers, women veterans and military advocates warn that his confirmation could be detrimental to women in the military.

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On Jan 18, 2025, activists from Tajik and German Civil society are holding a protest in Germany, in Dortmund against unlawful deportation of Tajik dissidents to Tajikistan where they face torture and lengthy imprisonment. If you are around, please, join. Or share to spread the word.

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Mark Zuckerberg cited a "cultural tipping point" to justify dumping fact-checks and relaxing hate speech rules. I wrote about how, for Meta, these kinds of tipping points seem to come along every four years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Waffle House employees say owners rob them of up to $46.8 million a year Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages

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the real takeaway from the H1B wars is that there are approximately 4 people in America who know what an immigrant is

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The EU isn't living up to its climate commitments, particularly worryingly when it comes to carbon sinks, which are shrinking dramatically. Still the worst polluter is cars- and the union faces a deadline to reduce auto emissions in 2025. www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

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The far-right Freedom Party of Austria, founded by former Nazis in the 1950s, gained a realistic chance this weekend of leading the country’s next government, after talks between three mainstream parties collapsed.

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British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This week’s cover: PERSON OF THE YEAR 2024, Gisèle Pelicot In shops Thursday. Subscribe here and receive your copy early, every Wednesday: theneweuropean.co.uk/subscribe?utm_source=soc&utm_medium=blue

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Good EU Commission sticks to view that conditions aren't met for safe returns to #Syria. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & @kajakallas.bsky.social should urge EU states to come back to their sense: absolutely premature to suspend asylum application for Syrian refugees. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

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After years of conflict, Syria's land has vast environmental destruction- everything from heavy metals, destroyed irrigation systems, to uprooted olive groves. Will the parties responsible pay for the clean up? unbiasthenews.org/syria-war-po...

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"The legal precedent was cited in more than 18,000 decisions over the past four decades. Its demise has unleashed a new flood of challenges to the regulatory power of federal agencies, and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy seized on it last month as a key tool..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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