Ellin Stein

They Droned Back Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

Now there is evidence - the drone swarmes over European critical Infrastructure come from Russian vessels. Sink them all.

www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.

All those private meetings between Witkoff and Putin are really paying off for the Kremlin.

Can't examine what ain't there.

AND it doesn't mean I want to advise you about your marketing effectiveness every two seconds. I didn't sign up to be an unpaid marketing consultant just because I bought something.

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Everyone recognizes the increasing inequality but some people have been brainwashed by appealing to their lizard brains into blaming the least powerful instead of those really responsible.

Justice Department Uses Children's Book Character To Promote Deportation The Department of Justice posted a faux book cover, “Franklin becomes a deportation judge,” on social media Thursday.

The Department of Justice posted a faux book cover, “Franklin becomes a deportation judge,” on social media Thursday.

Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.

Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery.
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

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What's weird is HE OWNS HOTELS. Does he want them to go bankrupt (like so many of his previous enterprises)? Is it a tax write off?

Yet another very damaged individual nestling up to Reform.

I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today The long read: Among the many people I met, there was a pervasive feeling of hopelessness and a sense that resistance is slowly becoming a memory

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain.

From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.

No thanks.

A tax structure that worked against the concentration of excessive wealth should take care of the problem if rigorously enforced. Under Eisenhower, a Midwestern Republican, the top tax rate was 90%. The Trumpists always forget this part in their nostalgia for the Good Old Days.

The Billionaire Coup: How the Supreme Court and Corporate Money Captured America Our elections, our media, even our justice system, are all owned by the few. The Powell Memo lit the match; Citizens United poured on the gasoline. The fire of corruption is now a national inferno...

Our elections, our media, even our justice system, are all owned by the few. The Powell Memo lit the match; Citizens United poured on the gasoline. The fire of corruption is now a national inferno...

hartmannreport.com/p/the-billio...

So @bylinetimes.bsky.social is planning a Christmas cracker box - all Farage’s pro Putin statements - do share and add any you find to this thread

Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.

My story:

You'd think someone with major holdings in the hotels and resorts sector would have thought this through a bit more...

Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network A year ago, as the world convulsed from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, his allies were already identifying their next frontier. In December, the Heartland Institute hosted a...

🔴 NEW - Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network

The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

And if Zelensky wins, Trump will just claim the elections were rigged (well, he's the expert on rigging elections).

"Four historic Washington, D.C. buildings may be demolished by the Trump administration, per a court declaration filed yesterday" including a Breuer-designed one and one with a Ben Shahan mural. They're also eyeing up the Saarinen-designed terminal at Dulles airport www.archpaper.com/2025/12/hud-...

An invitation for mobster oligarchs to further entrench themselves in America.

This is going to do wonders for World Cup and the Olympics ticket sales!

Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold Bullion Firm for Just 12 Hours Work The Reform UK leader has pocketed £415,500 so far this year to act as the company's “Brand Ambassador”

So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding

Even better if a bunch did it in an "I'm Spartacus" moment ("I'm Piggy"?)