Se quiserem perceber os motivos da greve geral marcada para 11 de dezembro, podem começar por aqui 🧵

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Podiamos fazer uma semana de recordação de Salazar. Durante esses 7 dias, os miúdos de pais no 1° e 2° escalões de IRS iam para as fábricas ou lavoura, não para a escola. Os jovens desses escalões iam para exercícios de fogo real na mata. Salário mínimo ficava cancelado...

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

Link: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Report: www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Picture of Biff Tannen's casino from "Back to the Future Part II". The sign says "Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise" and includes a picture of him burning a wad of cash with his lit cigar.

The White House (2028)

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Ainda é ministro da Defesa quem nunca o devia ter sido O ministro da Defesa de Portugal disse ao mundo que os israelitas que tinham detido simpatizantes de terroristas, pondo em risco a segurança de cidadãos portugueses, incluindo uma deputada. Se pudesse...

A viagem da Flotilla foi um ato político, como o foi o Lusitânia Expresso. O objetivo era confrontar nações aliadas de Israel com a sua hipocrisia. Perante a detenção ilegal de centenas de cidadãos, em águas que nenhum país reconhece como israelitas, o MNE espanhol chamou o embaixador de Israel,

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Menchildren pillaging the wealth of nations.

Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Firefly, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Rome, Journeyman.

At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.

We've just had a special weekend email from the Russian troll factory (they usually email us their latest fake videos Monday to Friday, so this is out of character), and they're all about Charlie Kirk. Unusually, they've also posted them on Truth Social, which they don't usually do in my experience.

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

O barco que encabeça a Flotilha Global rumo a Gaza e onde viaja, entre outros, a @marianamortagua.bsky.social foi atingido esta noite. Um barco com bandeira portuguesa em missão humanitária. Todos estão bem, o barco será reparado e a viagem seguirá. O governo português já condenou o ataque?

I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim.
1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵

Lies, deceit and betrayal Britain's role in the making of Palestine and the dismemberment of Syria

My new Coppola Comment post traces the events that led to the creation of Mandatory Palestine, and unpicks some of the web of lies and deceit that obscures the truth.
open.substack.com/pub/coppolac...

Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech Levies and restrictions could hit UK’s digital services tax and EU states such as France, Italy and Spain

1/EU-US deal quickly unraveling. This is not a new peace where Europe can go about its business. Instead, it is a steady drip of asks/coercion, which threaten not only profits but also national security. Latest US target: Digital.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It might also be the exact opposite. They believe democracy has ended, so to save themselves they are transitioning to "controlled opposition" that doesn't threaten the dictator and helps maintain the illusion of elections, see Russia for the most obvious example.

This too

“We allowed markets to produce a class of politically connected billionaires… Now that enough billionaires have lined up behind fascism and authoritarian consolidation, it’s clear…liberal governments…will need to figure out ways to greatly reduce the wealth and social power of that class overall.”

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

False. Israel does have a strategy, the same they have been pursuing for a long time, the ethnic cleasing of Palestianians. It was never a just war.

Ben, financial historian here. I have been completely on board with your frustration with crypto, but we have to get past the “wildcat banking” story of the 19th century. It prevents us from seeing why crypto and in particular stablecoins are so spectacularly misconceived. 🧵

US and EU reach tariff agreement to avert trade war Deal follows Scotland talks between Donald Trump and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen

What a deal!
The EU has "agreed to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on additional US energy products and weapons, in exchange for the broad 15 per cent levy that covers many European exports including cars."
Not a misprint. Unthinkable during my lifetime. But this is 2025.
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Um Estado. Reconhecido internacionalmente. Com um dos maiores PIB per capita do mundo. Com enorme inovação e também capacidade militar. Com os aliados mais ricos do mundo. Decidiu impor a morte pela fome a uma população inteira.

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social: