Public interest journalism/press freedom/national security. Author: Council of Europe press freedom report; Terrorism and the Media" (Unesco);« Balancing Act", "Fragile Progress" (EU and press freedom, CPJ). Ex-HRW, Le Soir. Motto: "Giustizia e Liberta"
The mother of US news anchor Savannah Guthrie has been abducted and "didn't go willingly" from her home, Arizona law enforcement officials suspect.
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Rough translation: "Too many powerful people are suspects - including my bosses - so, we're not going to investigate. To hell with the victims. To hell with justice."
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L’extrême-droite est aussi aux portes du pouvoir en Allemagne.
Tant qu’on ne réalise pas qu’un parti soutenu financièrement et technologiquement par des puissances étrangères hostiles ne devrait pas être autorisé à participer aux élections, on ne fera rien d’efficace.
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Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency in 2016 and no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years (New York Times).
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Je ne mentionne pas assez souvent cette magnifique émission 📻
Soulignons le lien avec l’actualité, par exemple, l’épisode d’hier se penchait sur l’œuvre de George Orwell!
A journalistic duty: establishing the truth on the massacres in Iran. The mollahs and their thugs should not be allowed to win the news war by resorting to shutdowns and violence.
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We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
When I saw this dispatch I thought it was in Georgia, USA. A reminder that the U.S., under the Trump administration, has lost any credibility if it thinks of condemning other autocrats www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
Twice since the start of the year, federal officers have gunned down protesters in Minneapolis with cellphone cameras rolling and twice Trump and his lieutenants have essentially told the American people: Don’t believe what you see with your own eyes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
Gov. Walz: "You heard the most powerful people in the world, certainly in this country — the president, VP, Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem — narrate to you what you were looking at, that this was a domestic terrorist…sullying his name within minutes of his death."
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
La perquisition du domicile d'une journaliste du Washington Post illustre l'indépendance que pratique sa rédaction par rapport à une Administration Trump qui a coopté son propriétaire, Jeff Bezos.
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"How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?" Paul Krugman
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L'Iran a bloqué internet pour masquer les massacres perpétrés par ses milices. Comment "marauder" l'info et faire toute la lumière pour établir la vérité, mais aussi les responsabilités, pour que le régime ne puisse bénéficier d'une totale impunité?
jeanpaulmarthoz.substack.com/p/iran-comme...
ProPublica is real journalism. Checking what Trump's decisions really mean. Like cuts in USAID which lead to deaths and despair in Africa. What's the Trump-voting U.S. Christians' reply?
www.propublica.org/series/the-e...
BRENNAN: What percentage of those you have in custody have committed crimes?
NOEM: 70% of them
B: It's not 70%
N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers
B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions
N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers
B: Well, that's from your agency