Pasta sauce companies are now making spytech?

Also StoryCorp is a dystopic name like something from an 80s sci-fi film

Good everything is bleak and uncreative

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
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BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

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So out of all the parties in the Scottish Elections, the SNP are the only one to include a stated commitment to stamp out #SLAPPs.

Yet, the Tories and Reform always present themselves as the only ones to protect free speech...

We are proud to support the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition's day of action today to #StopSLAPPs. The law needs to protect those who speaking out against corruption.

We are supporting the call for universal anti-SLAPP legislation to be included in the King's Speech.

The King's Speech is next month but there's still time to prod and push the gov to include an Anti-SLAPP commitment - that will mean parliamentary time will be given to this issue that already benefits from cross-party support. Here is a letter you can send to your MP - antislapp.uk/solutions/ta...

Hear from the voices they tried to silence - Day of Action - UK Anti-Slapp Coalition This is a version of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition newsletter sent out earlier on 15 April as part of the Day of Action. If you would like to receive the newsletter add your details to the form at the b...

SLAPPs are not abstract or technical legal measures they are abusive tactics that impact peoples' lives directly and aggressively.

They need to be stopped and the Prime Minister has it in his power to take the first step antislapp.uk/2026/04/15/h...

#StopSLAPPs

Today is Anti-SLAPP Day of Action.

SLAPPs can target journalists, whistleblowers, campaigners and anyone speaking out in the public interest. The government must act.

Contact your MP and call for action to stamp out #SLAPPs ⬇️
antislapp.uk/solutions/ta... #StopSLAPPs

We should not take it as a given that Tisza will seek to undo Orban's power grab. They may seek to benefit from the system Fidesz built as opposed to demolishing it.

Caution and vigilance is required whatever happens.

An update on the attempt by a tax barrister to sue me for £8m.

Last month, the High Court threw out the claim.

The Court then made a highly unusual order: Mr Kamal was required to pay all of our costs, £146,644.

And today I received payment in full.

Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims The FT had said 15 women were willing to testify in court against former hedge fund boss

Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims ft.trib.al/ltCxjpR

Hungary: IPI outlines 10 media freedom reform priorities as election approaches – ipi.media Ahead of the general election in Hungary on 12 April, the International Press Institute (IPI) today outlines its top priorities for democratic reform of the country’s media landscape that are…

🇭🇺#Hungary: Ahead of the general election on 12 April, IPI today outlines our top priorities for democratic reform of the country’s media landscape that are required to bolster #pressfreedom & regenerate media pluralism after years of sustained decline👇

In #Hungary, children’s books with LGBTQ+ themes are sealed in plastic. It’s not just writers being targeted, artists are censored too.

Index's @katiedd.bsky.social writes in our latest magazine issue.

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Last year, @martinbright.bsky.social attended Battle for the Soul of Europe, organised by Orbán-funded MCC Brussels. The event brought together far-right figures from across Europe, highlighting growing networks opposed to the EU & free expression.

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Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind.

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says

Thank you for your kind words but I didn't do anything. This was all @katiedd.bsky.social and the courage of Emily coming forward

The cyanotype I am currently developing (drying stage) is inadvertently somewhat Easter 🐇🐣 themed

Streaming channel for pets launched in China Cats and dogs can now fill the hours their owners are at work with a dedicated all-day streaming channel for pets launched by Chinese tech giant Tencent.

So Tencent is using old Bill Murray films to direct their R&D department.

Or is Preston Rhinelander their head of programming? www.rte.ie/news/newslen...

You may not like it, but this is what soft power looks like.

a cartoon of a deer swimming in a body of water Alt: a cartoon of a deer swimming in a body of water

Me and my wetshoes

Serbia: Authorities must stop the spiral of violence against journalists Media freedom in Serbia remains trapped in a downward spiral amidst record levels of physical violence against journalists, death threats and online ...

Following a two-day mission to #Serbia we warn that media freedom is in a downward spiral amidst record levels of physical attacks on journalists and rampant online smear campaigns led or amplified by influential members of the ruling party.🧵 @coemediafreedom.bsky.social @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social

@europeanjournalists.org @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social @rsf.org @indexoncensorship.org @article19europe.bsky.social @ebu.ch @ecpmf.bsky.social @balcanicaucaso.org

Plaque representing the location where journalist Slavko Ćuruvija was murdered in 1999 in Belgrade, Serbia

We spoke to the press about our findings at the spot where, in 1999, journalist Slavko Ćuruvija was killed. 27 years later his murderers are still free, while journalists investigating his killing face death threats and co-ordinated smear campaigns.

Serbian authorities must stop the spiral of violence against journalists - Index on Censorship Media freedom in Serbia remains trapped in a downward spiral amidst record levels of physical violence against journalists, death threats and online smear campaigns, alarming levels of impunity, and t...

Last week I was in Serbia on a media freedom mission with @coemediafreedom.bsky.social. A spiralling situation defined by violence and smear campaigns, while authorities fail to even acknowledge the scale of the issue.

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Donate to In honour of Dan McGarry, organized by Tess Newton Cain Dan McGarry passed away in Brisbane on March 25th, 2026. Tributes have poured in from around… Tess Newton Cain needs your support for In honour of Dan McGarry

OCCRP Pacific editor Dan McGarry passed away suddenly at 62 last week. His friends raising money for his Children’s education. Dan was a tireless supporter of Pacific media cooperating with dozens of journalists and helping to build local non profits:

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Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable? - Index on Censorship Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week's book banning story

Important follow up to the book banning scandal in a Greater Manchester school, highlighting the weaponisation and devaluing of safeguarding procedures

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It was a remarkable and important book.

It really is the point. If a Conservative front bencher is allowed to make a discriminatory Islamophobic argument like this without sanction from his party - indeed with support from its leadership - that represents a major erosion of anti-prejudice norms and indeed of religious freedom norms.

Naked Lunch by Burroughs. Read it when I was around 15/16 in the back seat of the car on a family roadtrip to Italy.

I didn't know fiction could do that.

Tempting though it is, please don’t try to identify the school. That would identify the librarian, and she wants to stay anonymous, for understandable reasons.