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Two things both true:

The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home.

And.

It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.

Nakary Mena, la única mujer periodista presa en Venezuela El Tribunal 1º de Control del Área Metropolitana de Caracas ordenó privativa de libertad y pase a juicio de Nakary Mena y su pareja

Nakary Mena, la única mujer periodista presa en Venezuela: https://www.el-carabobeno.com/nakary-mena-la-unica-mujer-periodista-presa-en-venezuela/

Writing about cricket and identity next week. England and India go to Old Trafford for the fourth test. That was where Ranji made his England debut on this day in 1896. He scored 154 not out in the Ashes, after the popular + press outcry against the MCC leaving him out at Lords on racial grounds

Ministers Urged To Publish Strategy For Saving Local Journalism The government has been urged to set out a strategy for reversing the decline of regional media 'before it is too late'.

A new piece by our Lord Cormack fellow Fin Gray on a subject close to his heart (he has scores of bylines at his local paper)

Amnistía Internacional alerta sobre “el escalamiento de las desapariciones forzadas” en Venezuela La organización exhorta en un informe a “no normalizar la crisis de derechos humanos” en el país

🇻🇪 Amnistía Internacional denuncia que en Venezuela las desapariciones forzadas han escalado tras las elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio de 2024 y se han convertido en parte de un patrón de persecución sistemática contra los disidentes del Gobierno dozz.es/ov7b415

Respecting reporters Free speech restored as court lifts unprecedented super-injunction

When Mr Justice Chamberlain lifted the first super-injunction ever granted contra mundum (“against the world”) at 12 noon yesterday, news outlets published instant and highly detailed coverage. Many hundreds of journalists must have known about the data breach

rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...

We Transfer is a convenient way to move large files online, but the new terms of service grant it a royalty-free license to use your content "for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving" its service, presumably including feeding it into AI LLMs. wetransfer.com/documents/We...

Teach First brand that helps top graduates into poorest s... Leading brand that trains teachers for most deprived areas of the country will not be allowed to operate under its current name

This is *mental*. The TeachFirst brand is worth a vast sum. And DfE proposes to torch all that? Lunatics.

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Espacio Público registró 144 violaciones a la libertad de expresión en primer semestre "Periodistas, medios de comunicación y personas particulares concentran el mayor número de} detenciones", dice Espacio Público

Espacio Público registró 144 violaciones a la libertad de expresión en primer semestre: https://www.el-carabobeno.com/espacio-publico-registro-144-violaciones-a-la-libertad-de-expresion-en-primer-semestre/

Venezuela y Haití, los países más vulnerables ante el cambio climático y con menos recursos para responder Ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe están en la “zona roja”, según un índice creado por Columbia y la Fundación Rockefeller

Son ocho los países de América Latina que han entrado en lo que los expertos llaman la “zona de alto riesgo”, por estar entre el 30% más vulnerable. Los lideran negativamente Venezuela y Haití dozz.es/_mja_15

One of the great things about political strategists is that they are all, in fact, eminently replaceable. Indeed, it's usually best to replace them before they get to the 'you can't replace me, only I have the magic' stage.

Far from the biggest news today, but I am shocked by how far down the authoritarian path the US already is, in just a few months. Orban, Erdogan, Putin: these guys must be watching in awe, with their jaws on the floor.

This a terrible idea and reflects fear and indecision not strength of purpose

Veo difícil que en el masculino haya más tíos.

A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’. (The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each) Baby: Such a mysterious world! Child: I must search for answers Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now From grave: Such a mysterious world!

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

See the only known photos of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace at Bonhams London If you’re quick, there’s a rare chance to see the only known photographs of the early computing pioneer, Ada Lovelace, as they will go on display in London for a few days.

If you’re quick, there’s a rare chance to see the only known photographs of the early computing pioneer, Ada Lovelace, as they will go on display in London for a few days.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...

The higher the bonnet, the bigger the blind spot. Diagram showing how drivers can't see children in high fronted cars.

NEW RESEARCH: new car bonnets are trending higher every year and drivers of high fronted cars unable to see children as old as nine 😱🚙🚸❗

#Carspreading is out of control. What’s the latest? 🧵1/8

@transenv.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org

Familiares de venezolanos deportados llegan a El Salvador y exigen a Bukele una “prueba de vida” La comitiva ha acudido a distintas instancias judiciales y gubernamentales sin obtener respuesta y planea pedir ayuda al Papa

Una comitiva de familiares y allegados de venezolanos deportados desde Estados Unidos y encarcelados en la megacárcel de Nayib Bukele llegó este lunes a El Salvador para exigir “pruebas de vida” y conocer el estado de salud de los detenidos dozz.es/1nacl9

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

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Your regular reminder that fraudsters read the news more closely than anyone - and use real hooks like the winter fuel payment u-turn to make their fraudulent scams more believable. Please warn your family members

So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

💡 Very excited to announce new features: better interactive maps! 🗺️

– Enhanced country/region selection with several sorting options and a bar chart preview
– Selecting a country highlights it and shows its value on the map
– Zooming to your selection brings up a 3D globe view 🌍

The campaign itself seems quite disorientating in retrospect.

The most pro-European party was the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher.

Papers like The Sun, The Daily Mail & the Telegraph all backed staying in.

The young were more Eurosceptic than the old, and women more hostile than men.

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

www.economist.com/britain/2024...

I have been repeating this for the past 2 years and it’s time to repeat it once again to everyone in the west now complaining about escalation risks:

If we in the west don’t help Ukraine, they will help themselves. And we will have no control over how they do that.

US judge prevents Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents granting lawful status to about 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections the U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed to be terminated.

US judge prevents Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents reut.rs/3HiOWwk

The case for using "global majority" by institutions should be rejected unless + until it can be shown
- most people understand what it means (most don't)
- most people it is about would like it used (most don't)

I find it a deeply incoherent fiction + a highly regressive term in some many ways