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jenwilliamsft.bsky.social
Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay

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Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen
[FREE TO READ] EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen
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December 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.
Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
www.brusselstimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
BREAKING on MS NOW:

Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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drgitlin.bsky.social
So, you guys only stock expensive trims and not entry level models, you ran prices up 25% during COVID and never brought them back down, and now you're whining about not having affordable cars to sell people? GTFOOH.

www.autonews.com/ford/an-ford...
As Escape ends, Ford dealers fret over shrinking affordable options
As Ford ends production of a longtime volume driver, some dealers question why the company is deleting another popular, low-priced option from showrooms when affordability is top of mind for buyers.
www.autonews.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
NEW: House Democrats' discharge petition to force a vote on a three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies just reached 218 signatures — the threshold needed to force that vote — following the signatures of Mike Lawler, Rob Bresnahan, Ryan Mackenzie, and Brian Fitzpatrick.
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Global Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

ProPublica uncovered that after USAID funding cuts, cases of cholera in South Sudan spiked.
Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera.
ProPublica uncovered that after USAID funding cuts, cases of cholera in South Sudan spiked.
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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gazza-d.bsky.social
Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
Cited after potentially killing someone when driving an oversized vehicle in a city without properly clearing their windshield.

This cite and release policy is fucking insane.
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.

Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
I can confirm that the search for the information you requested has been
completed and I can advise you of the following:

Southend-on-Sea City Council do not hold the information you have requested for.
A wide view of the classroom and all the kids are cheering around a dejected Bart Simpson.
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
my latest
prospectmagazine.co.uk Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d
Those opposed to the ECHR will never be satisfied by tinkering, just as Brexiters were never satisfied by the many opt-outs and rebates the UK received, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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theguardian.com
Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears
Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears
The HCDA, which sought to expose police corruption and violence, was secretly monitored for a decade Undercover officers secretly monitored a community organisation that sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Previously secret reports show that the Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA) in east London and its key organiser were monitored by police spies for a decade. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
ambuss.bsky.social
athul.acharya.cc Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 5d
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! "Tis the season to be jolly: a, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Troll the ancient Christmas carol. Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
@404media.co has done great work on uncovering the details of this app. It raises a lot of constitutional questions.
casuallylucid.bsky.social 🌬CasuallyLucid🌀🌊 @casuallylucid.bsky.social · 5d
"Without Gutiérrez’s ID, the agents resorted to another approach. They took a photo of his face... “Oh yeah, he’s right. He’s saying the right thing. He does got papers,” Gutiérrez recalled the agents saying."

He was just walking home.

They are doing this everywhere, no matter who you are.

#Pinks
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
www.404media.co
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Okay, let's reframe this. An independent coffee shop hires someone who then racially abuses their customers. Is it then okay to fire them?

You cannot try and say someone should not be fired for abusing customers just because the company firing them is large.

Firing racists is a good thing to do.
Wilsey's is just the latest high-profile tale of an American who lost her job on account of a viral video. The racism she's accused of is not debatable. In the TikTok video that circulated last week, Wilsey, a 43-year-old white woman, hurled a racist epithet at her customers and declared, “I am racist, and I'll say it to the whole entire world.” She gestured to her crotch and added: "Suck it!" Cinnabon was quick to terminate Wilsey's employment and declare that her actions didn't reflect the "values of Cinnabon." Progressives who abhor racism may applaud this move. But as a socialist, I can't easily take the side of a billion-dollar corporation over that of an ordinary worker. (Cinnabon is owned by the Georgia-based conglomerate GoTo Foods, which also owns Auntie Anne's, Schlotzsky's, and many other brands popular in the South.)
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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muellershewrote.com
The government has also asked the DC Circuit to re-assign the case because Judge Boasberg is a big meanie.
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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aphclarkson.bsky.social
This also pretty much ends the ability of European musicians and artists to tour in the United States
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

1/
- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
December 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Full opinion here. Judge Xinis is clearly hopping mad with the government's repeated refusals to comply with her requests to be forthright about the situation, and suggests she will take it into account in pending sanctions motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion – #110 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 12/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 12/11/2025)
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December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found: The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
ORDER For the reasons stated in the foregoing Memorandum Opinion, it is this 11th day of December, 2025, by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, ORDERED that: 1. Petitioner Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s Petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 at ECF No. 1 is hereby GRANTED; 2. Respondents SHALL release Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately; 3. Respondents SHALL notify Abrego Garcia’s counsel of the exact time and location of his release no fewer than four hours prior to releasing him, and notify the Court of the status of Abrego Garcia’s release by email to chambers no later than 5:00 p.m. today, Thursday, December 11, 2025; 4. A representative of the United States Pretrial Services Office for this District SHALL separately contact Abrego Garcia’s criminal counsel with further instruction for installation on the release conditions previously imposed in his criminal case, United States v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-CR-00115-1 (M.D. Tenn.); 5. Respondents SHALL immediately transmit this Order and the accompanying Memorandum Opinion to all relevant officers, agents, and employees under their control and who are involved in this matter and the pending criminal case, United States v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-CR-00115-1 (M.D. Tenn.); 6. Within a week of the date of this Order, by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 18, 2025, the parties SHALL submit a joint status report as to the parties’ position regarding resolution of Respondents’ pending motion to dissolve at ECF No. 72; and 7. The Clerk is DIRECTED to transmit a copy of this Order to all counsel of record. December 11, 2025 /s/ Date Paula Xinis United States District Judge
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Unlike Supreme Court Justices, the rest of the fed’l judiciary is governed by canons of ethics. Among other things, they’re not supposed to attend political events & should avoid even an appearance of impropriety. joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-e...
Judicial Ethics
Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke.
joycevance.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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writesbright.bsky.social
🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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syfuhs.net
Last week I announced that we're finally killing off RC4 in the Windows Kerberos stack.

This has been a long time coming, so much so that we've been working on it for more than a decade, albeit off and on as we sometimes had to target other more pressing issues.

What does this mean?
Beyond RC4 for Windows authentication
As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever.
www.microsoft.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM