Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, who is serving a seven-year sentence on bogus espionage charges, marks his 64th birthday in prison today. A month ago, Dong was transferred from a prison in Beijing to another location further away from his family. cpj.org?p=580506

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We calculated how much Nick Fuentes earns from live-streaming hate The far-right provocateur has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

We calculated how much Nick Fuentes earns from live-streaming hate

The far-right provocateur has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025.

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Abraham Lincoln on the Founders' decision to keep the "most oppressive of kingly oppressions" out of a president's hands.

D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show A woman called 911 to report that the Florida congressman had assaulted her, then recanted the story after appearing to talk to Mills, body-camera footage shows.

D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show

The Florida Republican is the focus of a House ethics probe stemming, in part, from the alleged assault.

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You are my hero.

“It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.”
One of Batra’s children recently enlisted in the military.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Scott Alexander is sensible

Again, college is too expensive & there are many things universities must do better. But acting like the abused partner of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits is totally unhelpful for addressing either of these issues.

Kuwait Detained Journalist After Comments on Iran War Images, Watchdog Says

“A Kuwaiti American journalist has been detained in Kuwait after he commented on videos and images related to the war in Iran, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.”

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Pope Leo decries ‘tyrants’ ravaging world, days after insults from Trump The pontiff did not name the president during a speech in Cameroon. He criticized those who manipulate religion “for their own military, economic or political gain.”

Pope Leo decries ‘tyrants’ ravaging world, days after insults from Trump

Leo sharply condemned those “who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

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Trump Is on a Real Losing Streak The president had a very bad weekend.

Trump's very bad weekend (in Hungary, Islamabad, London, and here at home too). slate.com/news-and-pol...

📌 The @journalismfestival.com session, “Misogynistic attacks as a tool to silence women journalists and how we fight back,” examines the ways that political leaders wield misogyny globally to chill free speech and undermine press freedom.

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CPJ calls on Kuwait to release US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., April 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. Shihab-Eld...

Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s detention came amid military escalations during the Iran war, with Kuwaiti authorities — and other Gulf countries — imposing increasingly tight censorship over the press. cpj.org?p=580258

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A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out
The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation.
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

"In advance of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

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Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

A large majority of the people of the United States agree with Pope Leo XIV. The tension is between the American people and their current president.

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Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

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We can't ignore that the President of the United States threatened to commit war crimes in our names.

Congress must vote to stop Trump’s war.