There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans
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How tenaciously Palantir courted Switzerland Internal documents show how the country finally rejected pitches by tech company Palantir.

Read the report on Palantir’s activities in Switzerland — now available in English: republik.link/pltr-en

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Trump begs for every government building to be named after him - Kennedy Center, Dulles, Penn Station - but not the new detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz. Trump doesn’t want history to remember his cruelty, but it will.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

wirtschaftlichem Erpressungsdruck ausgesetzt zu sein. Dafür nimmt man die Schwächung just jener UNO in Kauf, auf die Kleinstaaten wie die Schweiz angewiesen sind und die trotz aller Probleme immerhin demokratisch legitimiert ist.

Es ist eine wahre Schande für dieses Land. 2/2

🤮 Die Schweiz prostituiert sich, indem sie Trumps Korrup-...äh Friedensrat als Beobachterin den Anschein von Legitimität verleiht...

Traurig, wie man hier bereit ist, seine Integrität das Klo runter zu spülen und seinen guten Ruf zu ramponieren, nur, um kurzfristig vielleicht weniger 1/2

The DOJ offers only excuses as the Epstein Files remain secret Read more here.

It has been more than 30 days since the Department of Justice was required by federal law to make all of the Epstein Files public. According to the DOJ’s own estimates, it has released less than 1% so far. The last time the Department of Justice released any documents was Dec. 23, 2025.

Yes.

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

you feeling passive and overwhelmed, because that's the only way the gang ofncrooks that is taking over your county can get away with screwing you all over.

Don't let them. (But be smart and peaceful about it)

It's precisely "because this isn't a movie" that civil society should be doing so much more. Peaceful protests, general strikes, pressuring congresspeople and senators to do their job for once.

Unlike a movie, just standing by and watching the horror unfold will have real consequences.

They want

U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers

The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

Enshittification isn't a strategy that's exclusive to only the the digital space...

POV: You put Donald Trump’s personal lawyers in charge of vetting the #EpsteinFiles.⁩

"The pattern is also a lesson. News organizations that have stood up for themselves and pushed back against the attempts at intimidation prevailed.

"The only way to lose a fight against Trump is to pursue appeasement.

"It’s true for law firms, higher ed, news orgs..."

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what level it is.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter much, because this is one area where digital tools are clearly superior...

Firefingers, it would go somewhere else.

Additional lists can of course always help, no matter what organizing principle you pick for your inflexible printed database. I'd be all for an additional strictly alphabetical list for those cases where you somehow know the exact name of a spell, but not

by spell levels actually has mechanical meaning and thus value. E.g. are you a DM that wants to create a magic item that mimics a spell? browse a spell level that matches the power level you had in mind.

Alphabetical order otoh has no meaning, it's just random. If Burning Hands were called ...

I preferred those AD&D books. At the table as a player you know which level your spells are, as that is also how your character sheet is organized.

So what other use cases should we prioritize? Imho players levelling up and picking spells is one such case. Ther's also the benefit that organizing

weirdly specific areas.

Like the stubbornly alphabetical-first spell list in the PHBs. What a fun time for new players who just leveled up and want to pick new spells that happen to be spread all over the (alphabetical) section! Spell level first, then alphabetical order would make much more sense

Some cases may be less clear and one could imagine homebrew world lore that would justify having all Zombie versions of creatures under Z.

But I agree the MM24 ordering of monsters is bad and disregards imporant real-world use cases, making weird assumptions about users with amazing memories in

Zombie / Undead is an optional little trait for creatures that are defined by there essence (a Beholder is something very different than a Human or a Giant).

In mechanical terms, a Beholder Zombie is much closer in CR to a Beholder than to a Zombie Frog, so it makes more sense to group the former.

I'd say Zombie versions of monsters are variations of that type of monster, zombified monsters aren't variations of the typical Zombie. I doubt people think "oh, let's put some sort of zombie creature in there, hmm, maybe a Giant, a Beholder or a ZRabbit, rummaging through the Zombie section." 1/n

How Russia’s Invasion is Impacting Ukraine’s Youth - bellingcat Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainian educational facilities and spaces used by children have been damaged in air strikes or closed because of them.

War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

The main issue is that the USA under Trump (and ofc Russia) can't be trusted. Doesn't matter much if it's their commitment to NATO or some new promise of a security guarantee (they broke their last promise).

Imho NATO is still the best security guarantee available, thanks to its other members.

WSJ: Russia making “marginal advances” on Ukrainian front despite Moscow’s claims Russia's military advance in Ukraine is moving slower than virtually every major campaign over the past century, including World War I's Battle of the Somme, according to analysis by the Center for…

Russia's advance in Ukraine is slower than virtually every major campaign of the past century, reports WSJ. After nearly 4 years of full-scale war, Moscow still hasn't taken Donetsk province—a target since 2014.
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Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork