Lizbeth Barnard

🇺🇦 ⚖️Battlefield travails are one thing, but corruption remains one key challenge for Ukraine to overcome on its road to joining the EU. From the perspective of civil society work, yet another change of the MoJ means revisiting prior arrangements and slowdowns that could have been avoided.

“Bottom line: partisan sources + lobbying conflicts + a choreographed leak = a weaponised attack on public-service journalism.”

#BBC #journalism #Trump

Important to note that Trump was able to collect the IEEPA tariffs during litigation (no TRO/PI, no shadow docket, etc) because DOJ told the lower courts that the Treasury could refund everyone if they lost the case.

Federal Data Exposes Border Patrol's Extreme Use of Force Investigative reporting by POGO shows Greg Bovino’s leadership linked to disproportionate use of force during high-profile immigration operations in Chicago and Los Angeles.

Federal Data Exposes Border Patrol's Extreme Use of Force

Investigative reporting by POGO shows Greg Bovino’s leadership linked to disproportionate use of force during high-profile immigration operations in Chicago and Los Angeles. migrantinsider.com/p/federal-da...

The Trump administration is pushing to strip language from a resolution that affirms the country’s territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and other regions, according to two people familiar with internal UN discussions.
www.kyivpost.com/post/63999

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

this was a good convo - not just anger (totally warranted) - but potential solutions too

This is a good piece of analysis, one that doesn’t give into doomerism

amifieldsmeyer.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again On the agenda: pro-natalism, freedom of expression, opposing trans rights and fighting Chinese influence.

“The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook for countering progressive policies.”
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Ed Martin seemed to explicitly link the pardons to his “No MAGA left behind” mantra—tweeting the news in reply to a post that said exactly that.

In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.

Among Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, it was Hungary that exited Moscow's grip in 1990 with the highest GDP per capita.

The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.

Look what you made us do: How to realise a European-led NATO America’s gradual retreat from European security under the current Trump administration is reshaping NATO’s centre of gravity. To keep the alliance credible and united, Europeans not only need to…

It’s not just strategic enablers:
Look what you made us do: How to realise a European-led NATO

ecfr.eu/article/look...

Beyond absurd

How A Former Ukrainian TV Producer Built A Drone Unit That Destroyed $12 Billion Of Russian Equipment The exclusive story of how Pavlo Yelizarov went from TV talk-show producer to the creator of Ukraine’s premier military drone unit.

Article on the drone unit mentioned in the discussion

www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

More Trouble for the Comey Indictment? Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.

The indictment against James Comey charges him with lying to Congress about authorizing someone at the FBI to speak to the media about the Clinton investigation.

@AnnaBower.bsky.social finds that public documents may undermine a core premise of those charges. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Exclusive | Inside Trump’s ‘Guns-a-Blazing’ Threat and Nigeria’s Race to Head It Off The West African country is trying to persuade the president not to insert the U.S. military or cut off aid as largely Muslim cattle herdsmen are accused of killing Christians.

“Less than 48 hours earlier, U.S. officials said, Trump had been watching Fox News aboard Air Force One…”

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Cool, just awesome.

Sure, buddy…

Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do

Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are. Independent monitors in Nigeria report 33 deaths this year in attacks against Christians (fewer than the 88 Muslims killed). But Trump cut off aid that helped save 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria. 270,000 > 33.

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship.

Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

By contrast, the German Federal Court said that it was unconstitutional for the German state to NOT provide a "third gender option": www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/P...

Robert Reich The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

Lina Khan, the former head of the FTC, will now co-chair Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Her understanding of corporate power and how to combat it, which she examines in the video below, make her a perfect fit. Watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdgxIJZDns

“We can’t afford a king” (not an actual ad — yet)

As a musician stages his comeback, his accusers ask where the accountability is Four years after allegations of grooming and sexual misconduct, David Henzie-Skogen is back on the road with Youngblood Brass Band.

"The women interviewed for this story all pointed out that accountability and making amends are crucial concepts in the world of recovery, and yet they’ve seen little in the way of [that]."

Four years after grooming allegations, David Henzie-Skogen has reemerged. @scottgordonwi.bsky.social reports.

EXCLUSIVE: EU Commission mulls joint debt, bilateral grants to plug Ukraine funding gap | Euractiv The European Commission’s strongly preferred option to support Kyiv’s war effort remains the €140 billion ‘reparation loan’ currently blocked by Belgium

This is the obvious next step. Drop the "reparations loan" and just do Eurobonds. Frankly, it's way better for Ukraine. The rep loan effectively prevents the Russian assets from being used by Ukraine b/c now claimed by EU. Eurobonds+seizing RF assets is way better!
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does.

Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.