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💔 Mock executions, electric shocks and dog attacks: Human Rights Watch accuses Russia of systemic torture of Ukrainian POWs
Mock executions, electric shocks and dog attacks: Human Rights Watch accuses Russia of systemic torture of Ukrainian POWs
Human Rights Watch accuses Russian authorities and military personnel of systematic torture and cruel treatment of Ukrainian POWs
www.pravda.com.ua
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
💔 Mock executions, electric shocks and dog attacks: Human Rights Watch accuses Russia of systemic torture of Ukrainian POWs
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US unsealed a California grand jury indictment on Russian GRU hackers targeting critical infrastructure: Missouri airport, water sites in Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and a California meat plant. Attacks caused a 757-ton water spill in Texas and spoiled 900 kg of meat, per Michael Weiss.
December 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
US unsealed a California grand jury indictment on Russian GRU hackers targeting critical infrastructure: Missouri airport, water sites in Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and a California meat plant. Attacks caused a 757-ton water spill in Texas and spoiled 900 kg of meat, per Michael Weiss.
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NEW: Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives.
In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP.
We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP.
We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
We Found A Solution To America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
NEW: Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives.
In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP.
We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP.
We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
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Terrible, no-good, horrible idea.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Terrible, no-good, horrible idea.
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(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: FBI Admits in Court Filing That It Is Aware of Epstein “Client Lists”—Months After the Personal Lawyer for Longtime Epstein Wingman Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Told America No Such Lists Existed
Take from this the obvious conclusion.
Take from this the obvious conclusion.
FOIA Files
Come behind the scenes as Bloomberg's FOIA expert uncovers interesting documents never seen before.
www.bloomberg.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: FBI Admits in Court Filing That It Is Aware of Epstein “Client Lists”—Months After the Personal Lawyer for Longtime Epstein Wingman Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Told America No Such Lists Existed
Take from this the obvious conclusion.
Take from this the obvious conclusion.
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A point I find myself raising repeatedly: people focus on tech policy within a silo (privacy, speech, safety, copyright, competition, etc.), without understanding the actual impact on the system, where you push on just one of those levers and don't realize it's disastrous for the other ones.
A vital point here, first driven home to me by Cory Doctorow in the context of copyright policy, is that many forms of tech regulation that strike lots of folks as appealing and commonsensical would in practice require a fairly massive surveillance apparatus to meaningfully enforce.
“In fact, it would not have occurred to any liberal before the 1950s that one could settle these issues by rejecting the desirability of human flourishing; and that without some conception of the good, even the public good, one could decide what policy is ‘best’ (and how to rank its kinds).”
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A point I find myself raising repeatedly: people focus on tech policy within a silo (privacy, speech, safety, copyright, competition, etc.), without understanding the actual impact on the system, where you push on just one of those levers and don't realize it's disastrous for the other ones.
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Cooperatives empower people, especially the marginalized and forgotten. It's a model addressing the injustices working people face under authoritarian economics.
If you desire a more inclusive planet, support co-ops where you can and talk about them with people you know. It makes a difference.
If you desire a more inclusive planet, support co-ops where you can and talk about them with people you know. It makes a difference.
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Cooperatives empower people, especially the marginalized and forgotten. It's a model addressing the injustices working people face under authoritarian economics.
If you desire a more inclusive planet, support co-ops where you can and talk about them with people you know. It makes a difference.
If you desire a more inclusive planet, support co-ops where you can and talk about them with people you know. It makes a difference.
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If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.
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The right pulled this off on gun control. Every legal scholar recognized that the Second Amendment was about gun ownership in the context of a well-regulated militia. Until right-wing pseudo-scholarship undermined the consensus.
But what if you wait? if you wait, the bullshit scholars will keep putting out bullshit law review articles advocating a bullshit theory. In a few months, they’ll have stood up a whole body of bullshit scholarship that you can cite to. Now you feel less embarrassed at dinner parties.
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The right pulled this off on gun control. Every legal scholar recognized that the Second Amendment was about gun ownership in the context of a well-regulated militia. Until right-wing pseudo-scholarship undermined the consensus.
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If you read one thing today, make it this article.
In case you're STILL confused about mafia enabler Merrick Garland, please read this article. I wrote it in 2023. It is not a response to current events. It explains why the these events would happen unless good people intervened -- which they did not. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you read one thing today, make it this article.
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One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
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You can actually just say "fled"
Highlights: Kristi Noem defends Trump’s immigration policies before departing early from hearing
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem testified before a House panel in a hearing focusing largely on the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
You can actually just say "fled"
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In 2018, the Trump FBI designated the Proud Boys as an extremist organization.
Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation.
So what did they do to earn this exoneration?
Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.
Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation.
So what did they do to earn this exoneration?
Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.
FBI official calls antifa biggest US threat but provides few details
A top FBI official called the anti-fascist movement antifa the biggest domestic terrorism threat to the U.S. during a congressional hearing on Thursday, but struggled to answer detailed questions abou...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In 2018, the Trump FBI designated the Proud Boys as an extremist organization.
Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation.
So what did they do to earn this exoneration?
Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.
Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation.
So what did they do to earn this exoneration?
Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.
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Started / Going
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Started / Going
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I have a thing maybe coming out about this next year but academic freedom is not a tradition, it's the law. People should act like it.
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I have a thing maybe coming out about this next year but academic freedom is not a tradition, it's the law. People should act like it.
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Russians are now boasting about Trump being on their side.
Lavrov said that the only Western leader to care about human rights in Ukraine is President Trump.
He then blamed the EU for changing the agreement to call Ukraine to comply with EU human rights policies.
"Feel the difference," Lavrov said.
Matviyenko's face behind him speaks volumes.
He then blamed the EU for changing the agreement to call Ukraine to comply with EU human rights policies.
"Feel the difference," Lavrov said.
Matviyenko's face behind him speaks volumes.
December 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Russians are now boasting about Trump being on their side.
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Yeah a lot of people who don't pay attention to Disabled folks and Disability-related topics probably have similar takes.
It's actually part of a really fucking horrible trend from the current regime, though, to continue to reverse decisions made specifically because they increased accessibility.
It's actually part of a really fucking horrible trend from the current regime, though, to continue to reverse decisions made specifically because they increased accessibility.
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Yeah a lot of people who don't pay attention to Disabled folks and Disability-related topics probably have similar takes.
It's actually part of a really fucking horrible trend from the current regime, though, to continue to reverse decisions made specifically because they increased accessibility.
It's actually part of a really fucking horrible trend from the current regime, though, to continue to reverse decisions made specifically because they increased accessibility.
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BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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Okay but I would like to talk about "if you're caught up in something detrimental to society, I think that you should die" because there is a lot to unpack there.
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Okay but I would like to talk about "if you're caught up in something detrimental to society, I think that you should die" because there is a lot to unpack there.
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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JFC. The weakening of America continues.
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
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I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.