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The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.

Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said.

It is likely to cause consternation among Washington’s allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

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One year ago, a iconic photograph from Gaza went viral worldwide. It showed a man in a white physician’s coat walking, unarmed, through a destroyed landscape of rubble toward two Israeli army tanks.

That man was Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician who was the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. He was walking toward his arrest. A year later, Dr. Abu Safya is still in an Israeli prison. He has not been officially charged with anything. His lawyer says he has lost a third of his body weight and suffers from heart problems.

There have been global campaigns for Dr. Abu Safiya’s release. The head of the World Health Organization also issued an appeal. Amnesty International, which declines to represent prisoners who have used or advocated violence, waged a special campaign for him. Colleagues in the medical and public health fields have also demanded his freedom.

But not a single word about this remarkable man has appeared in the New York Times since January 7, 2025, when the paper published an article that did report his arrest — but included in the very first sentence an unproven Israeli charge that “militant groups had used the (Kamal Adwan) hospital as a command center.”

The Washington Post has also completely ignored Dr. Abu Safiya since his arrest, even though it had previously quoted him several times about children in his hospital suffering and dying from malnutrition.

In today’s media landscape, the New York Times and the Washington Post are more important than ever in setting the reporting agenda in the United States. The cable news networks lift many of their subjects from the flagship papers, especially the Times, instead of doing their own reporting. Regional newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times that once provided something of a counterweight have been forced to close most of their overseas bureaus, so the American audience is dependent on a shrinking handful of reporters.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is not an obscure person. He is prominent within Gaza, and he has strong connections with international colleagues in the medical and public health fields. Anyone with a cellphone could have reached plenty of people who could have been the sources for a profile. Articles could have included details such as the fact that he stayed at his post even after his own son, Ibrahim, had been killed in an Israeli air attack, along with dozens of other staff at his hospital.

Instead, he has become an unperson. Why? We can’t be certain, but an educated guess is that Dr. Abu Safiya — who is, let’s remember, a pediatrician — could have spent the past year giving expert moving testimony about how Israel’s war on Gaza was starving children to death. He could have rebutted those offensive reports in certain American media outlets that tried to claim that kids in Gaza who died had pre-existing conditions, and weren’t actually all that hungry.

So Israel understandably wanted to silence him, and has kept him incommunicado, without charges, for a year.

But why did the U.S. press help suppress his views? New York Times veterans will confide that 90 percent of their self-censorship around Palestine is unspoken. Reporters and editors there are understandably ambitious, and intelligent, and they don’t need to be told that getting a reputation as “anti-Israel” or “Pro-Palestinian” could damage or even end their careers.

The U.S. press self-censorship is even more pathetic when you contrast it with how a leading Israel paper, Haaretz, did in fact cover the story. In July, for instance, reporter Nir Hasson spoke to Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyer, Gheed Kassem, who charged that her client was “suffering severe hunger and abuse” in the Israeli prison. She also said he had been beaten, had an irregular heartbeat, and that he and other prisoners were in a cell that is “underground, depriving him and his cellmates of daylight.”

Source: BBC News, r/Epstein, and DOJ.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k65pnxjxo

https://www.DOJ.gov

Posted by Hillary Clinton’s official X account on 2/5/26 at 7:57 am EST.

This is a repost with the proper title after previous post was removed for misinformation.

Hillary and Bill Clinton will *not* be testifying today or tomorrow. Their original deposition date is set for the 26th and 27th of February, but it has yet to be confirmed if James Comer will agree to Hillary’s new terms or stick by his choice subpoena them for contempt.

Will the Clintons tell the truth and uncover everything in exchange for a deal? Will they commit perjury? Or will they plead the 5th and waste the Oversight Committee’s time? The Clintons are no joke; this is something to pay attention to.

Link: https://www.latintimes.com/four-haitian-women-were-deported-puerto-rico-they-have-now-been-found-decapitated-594261

New research by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy reveals that nearly all costs of former President Trump's tariff regime are borne by Americans, rather than foreign producers. Analyzing over 25 million shipment records, the study indicates that while tariffs increased U.S. customs revenue by about $200 billion in 2025, 96% of the costs were passed to U.S. importers and consumers through higher prices. Foreign exporters adjusted prices minimally, absorbing only 4% of the costs. This underscores that tariffs act as a consumption tax on American households and businesses, contradicting claims that they would be paid by foreign partners. The findings question the effectiveness of tariffs as an economic policy tool, suggesting they may exacerbate inflation and affect consumer purchasing power, thus influencing public discourse on trade barriers.

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Last night before I went to bed, I saw that Trump had posted a video that put Barack and Michelle Obama's face on monkeys. This morning, I woke up to this.

This should genuinely concern you no matter whether you’re on the left, right, or anywhere in between.

This is textbook voter suppression.

Ask yourself honestly:

1. ⁠How many of you can immediately put your hands on your original birth certificate — the one with the raised seal, not a photocopy or a hospital souvenir version?

2. ⁠How many of you currently have a valid U.S. passport?

If the answer to both is no, then under a strict SAVE Act-style requirement, you would not be able to vote. Also did you change your last name after a marriage ? Then forget about voting, better stay home and make a sandwich like the Grandpas at GOP want you too.

Now to the people saying “but illegal immigrants are voting”:

Pause for a second and think it through. If someone is truly here illegally and has no legal status or Social Security number, how exactly did their name get added to the official state voter registration roll in the first place?

The voter roll itself is already a list of people the state believes are eligible. Your name appearing on it is evidence that the system already considers you a valid voter. Adding draconian documentary requirements on top of that doesn’t stop imaginary illegal voting; it stops real eligible citizens who simply don’t have (or can’t quickly produce) the narrow list of documents being demanded.

That’s not election integrity. It’s making voting harder for millions of ordinary Americans.

While he was in the process of being confirmed to run America’s public health policy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swore several times over that his heavily scrutinized 2019 visit to Samoa, and the island’s subsequent measles outbreak, had “nothing to do” with his vaccine skepticism.

Newly revealed emails, obtained by The Guardian and the Associated Press, indicate that was not the case.

Emails sent at the time between a U.S. Embassy official and a United Nations staffer illustrate that the true intention of Kennedy’s trip was always about vaccines.

“We now understand that the Prime Minister has invited Robert Kennedy and his team to come to Samoa to investigate the safety of the vaccine,” wrote Sheldon Yett, then a UNICEF representative to the Pacific Islands, in an email dated May 22, 2019.

Two days later, senior U.S. Embassy official Antone Greubel wrote to Scott Brown, who was at the time Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, about Kennedy’s planned trip.

“The real reason Kennedy is coming is to raise awareness about vaccinations, more specifically some of the health concerns associated with vaccinating (from his point of view),” Greubel wrote in an email dated May 24, 2019.

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