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20.04.202517:12
Via the Independent 🇬🇧 Reform UK would be on course to win most seats with no party close to an overall majority if an election were held imminently, a new poll suggests.
Labour could lose 246 MPs, including 10 Cabinet ministers, with major losses in the so-called red wall, Scotland and the Welsh Valleys, according to the More in Common survey.
Based on polling of more than 16,000 people, the data suggests a potential fracturing of the vote that could reshape the electoral map, with Labour’s support splintering left and right.
Reform would win 180 seats on an implied vote share of 23.7%, with the Tories and Labour tied on 165 seats each at 24.3% and 24.5% respectively, according to the modelling.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband are among those who could lose to candidates from Nigel Farage’s party, More in Common said.
Labour could lose 246 MPs, including 10 Cabinet ministers, with major losses in the so-called red wall, Scotland and the Welsh Valleys, according to the More in Common survey.
Based on polling of more than 16,000 people, the data suggests a potential fracturing of the vote that could reshape the electoral map, with Labour’s support splintering left and right.
Reform would win 180 seats on an implied vote share of 23.7%, with the Tories and Labour tied on 165 seats each at 24.3% and 24.5% respectively, according to the modelling.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband are among those who could lose to candidates from Nigel Farage’s party, More in Common said.
20.04.202503:41
From the Daily Beast 🇺🇸 🇻🇦 Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement.
Pope Francis was absent from Vance’s conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin. However, the statement said there was “an exchange of opinions on the international situation, especially regarding countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”
It called for “serene collaboration” between the White House and the Catholic Church in the United States—a seeming hint to the tensions that have brewed between the two since President Donald Trump took office.
Pope Francis has repeatedly rebuked the president’s mass deportation effort, calling it a “disgrace” and a “grave sin.”
The pontiff has also specifically confronted Vance, the highest-ranking Catholic in the U.S. government, having converted in 2019.
Without mentioning the VP by name, the Pope corrected a Catholic concept Vance had invoked to defend the administration’s deportations, ordo amoris (order of love). In a February letter, Francis pointedly explained, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”
Pope Francis was absent from Vance’s conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin. However, the statement said there was “an exchange of opinions on the international situation, especially regarding countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”
It called for “serene collaboration” between the White House and the Catholic Church in the United States—a seeming hint to the tensions that have brewed between the two since President Donald Trump took office.
Pope Francis has repeatedly rebuked the president’s mass deportation effort, calling it a “disgrace” and a “grave sin.”
The pontiff has also specifically confronted Vance, the highest-ranking Catholic in the U.S. government, having converted in 2019.
Without mentioning the VP by name, the Pope corrected a Catholic concept Vance had invoked to defend the administration’s deportations, ordo amoris (order of love). In a February letter, Francis pointedly explained, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”
19.04.202522:04
From the Kyiv Independent 🇺🇦 A clash broke out between police and far-right protesters outside the Zhovten cinema in Kyiv on April 19, where the Sunny Bunny LGBTQ+ film festival is taking place, Suspilne media reported.
According to a Suspilne correspondent at the scene, members of the group called "Prava Molod" ("The Right Youth" in Ukrainian) gathered outside of the venue in support of what they described as "traditional values." The protest escalated into a confrontation with police.
Police detained all demonstrators, citing the need to verify their identities, according to Suspilne. Authorities have not yet confirmed whether charges will be pressed.
The LGBTQ+ community continues to face frequent threats and violence, particularly from far-right groups. Events such as Pride marches and queer cultural festivals are often targeted by the far right.
According to a Suspilne correspondent at the scene, members of the group called "Prava Molod" ("The Right Youth" in Ukrainian) gathered outside of the venue in support of what they described as "traditional values." The protest escalated into a confrontation with police.
Police detained all demonstrators, citing the need to verify their identities, according to Suspilne. Authorities have not yet confirmed whether charges will be pressed.
The LGBTQ+ community continues to face frequent threats and violence, particularly from far-right groups. Events such as Pride marches and queer cultural festivals are often targeted by the far right.
19.04.202515:43
From the Guardian 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 As the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.
The ceremony on Holy Thursday, in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes the feet of 12 monastic priests to commemorate the Last Supper, is one of many Easter rituals that have taken place in the Old City of Jerusalem for hundreds of years. For Christians, there is no holier place to commemorate Easter than here, the site where they believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected.
Yet the crowd that assembled outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Thursday morning was small and muted. International pilgrims jostled with dark-robed Greek Orthodox monks, but one group of native worshippers was noticeably absent.
But centuries of tradition have been ruptured by Israel’s increasingly draconian control over Palestinian movement – which means any Palestinian in the West Bank living outside Jerusalem, must obtain a military permit if they want to enter the city. For years, Christians in Palestinian territories were regularly granted permits to visit Jerusalem around Easter but since the war with Hamas broke out on 7 October 2023, they have become almost impossible to obtain.
The ceremony on Holy Thursday, in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes the feet of 12 monastic priests to commemorate the Last Supper, is one of many Easter rituals that have taken place in the Old City of Jerusalem for hundreds of years. For Christians, there is no holier place to commemorate Easter than here, the site where they believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected.
Yet the crowd that assembled outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Thursday morning was small and muted. International pilgrims jostled with dark-robed Greek Orthodox monks, but one group of native worshippers was noticeably absent.
But centuries of tradition have been ruptured by Israel’s increasingly draconian control over Palestinian movement – which means any Palestinian in the West Bank living outside Jerusalem, must obtain a military permit if they want to enter the city. For years, Christians in Palestinian territories were regularly granted permits to visit Jerusalem around Easter but since the war with Hamas broke out on 7 October 2023, they have become almost impossible to obtain.
19.04.202506:16
🇺🇸 🇭🇹 🇸🇻 Haitian gangs and individuals financing and arming them could soon find themselves labeled as “terrorists” and imprisoned in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, the same facility the Trump administration has been sending alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, the Miami Herald has learned.
The U.S. State Department, which earlier this year designated the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and seven other criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations, is working on issuing the same designation, or a less severe category —“specially designated global terrorist”— to leaders and members of Haiti’s powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition, and the Gran Grif armed group operating in the country’s rural Artibonite region.
The U.S. State Department, which earlier this year designated the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and seven other criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations, is working on issuing the same designation, or a less severe category —“specially designated global terrorist”— to leaders and members of Haiti’s powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition, and the Gran Grif armed group operating in the country’s rural Artibonite region.
18.04.202522:10
From MSNBC 🇺🇸 The suspect in the Florida State University shooting on Thursday is the stepson of a local sheriff’s deputy, according to law enforcement officials, and some of his classmates said he had espoused white supremacist and far-right views.
Authorities said Phoenix Ikner, 20, opened fire near the student union on the Tallahassee campus, killing two people and injuring six others, and was believed to be a current student at FSU. He used a handgun that belongs to his stepmother, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said Thursday.
FSU junior Lucas Luzietti, who said he shared a government class with Ikner at Tallahassee State College, told NBC News that the suspect had made racist comments and denied the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“He espoused the election denialism belief that Joe Biden was not the legitimate president,” Luzietti said. “He said that Rosa Parks was in the wrong. He also talked about how Black people are ruining his neighborhood and Stonewell was bad for society. He would also talk about how multiculturalism is dangerous.
Authorities said Phoenix Ikner, 20, opened fire near the student union on the Tallahassee campus, killing two people and injuring six others, and was believed to be a current student at FSU. He used a handgun that belongs to his stepmother, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said Thursday.
FSU junior Lucas Luzietti, who said he shared a government class with Ikner at Tallahassee State College, told NBC News that the suspect had made racist comments and denied the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“He espoused the election denialism belief that Joe Biden was not the legitimate president,” Luzietti said. “He said that Rosa Parks was in the wrong. He also talked about how Black people are ruining his neighborhood and Stonewell was bad for society. He would also talk about how multiculturalism is dangerous.
20.04.202515:52
Several women told the Observer their partners had been sucked into the manosphere – the name given to parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content – or consumed far-right material online.
With surveys reporting that an increasing number of young men are subscribing to these beliefs, the number of women finding that their partners share the misogynistic views espoused by the likes of Andrew Tate is also on the rise. Research from anti-fascism organisation Hope Not Hate, which polled about 2,000 people across the UK aged 16 to 24, discovered that 41% of young men support Tate versus just 12% of young women.
“Numbers are growing, with wives worried about their husbands and partners becoming radicalised,” says Nigel Bromage, a reformed neo-Nazi who is now the director of Exit Hate Trust, a charity that helps people who want to leave the far right.
“Wives or partners become really worried about the impact on their family, especially those with young children, as they fear they will be influenced by extremism and racism.”
With surveys reporting that an increasing number of young men are subscribing to these beliefs, the number of women finding that their partners share the misogynistic views espoused by the likes of Andrew Tate is also on the rise. Research from anti-fascism organisation Hope Not Hate, which polled about 2,000 people across the UK aged 16 to 24, discovered that 41% of young men support Tate versus just 12% of young women.
“Numbers are growing, with wives worried about their husbands and partners becoming radicalised,” says Nigel Bromage, a reformed neo-Nazi who is now the director of Exit Hate Trust, a charity that helps people who want to leave the far right.
“Wives or partners become really worried about the impact on their family, especially those with young children, as they fear they will be influenced by extremism and racism.”
20.04.202501:59
Via Yahoo News 🇺🇸 Ryan Kelley thought he had a good shot at becoming Michigan’s governor in 2022. That is, until he was charged with misdemeanors for participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. His campaign sputtered and he finished fourth out of five candidates in the Republican primary.
Three years later, Kelley says, people ask him all the time to run for governor again. In today’s America, where President Donald Trump returned to the White House and within hours pardoned some 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, Kelley's two-month prison sentence for his actions that winter day in 2021 isn't the obstacle to public life that it might once have been.
It may even be a ticket to political prominence.
Far from being sidelined, those who rioted, assaulted police officers or broke into congressional offices during the violent attack are now being spotlighted as honored guest speakers at local Republican events around the country. They are getting a platform to tell their version of events and being hailed as heroes and martyrs. Some are considering running for office, recognizing that at least among a certain segment of the pro-Trump base, they are seen not as criminals but as patriots.
Three years later, Kelley says, people ask him all the time to run for governor again. In today’s America, where President Donald Trump returned to the White House and within hours pardoned some 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, Kelley's two-month prison sentence for his actions that winter day in 2021 isn't the obstacle to public life that it might once have been.
It may even be a ticket to political prominence.
Far from being sidelined, those who rioted, assaulted police officers or broke into congressional offices during the violent attack are now being spotlighted as honored guest speakers at local Republican events around the country. They are getting a platform to tell their version of events and being hailed as heroes and martyrs. Some are considering running for office, recognizing that at least among a certain segment of the pro-Trump base, they are seen not as criminals but as patriots.
19.04.202520:52
From Sky News 🇬🇧 Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK's classrooms, according to teachers.
More than 5,800 teachers were polled as part of the survey by the NASUWT teaching union, and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils' behaviour.
Andrew Tate was referenced by a number of teachers who took part in the survey, who said he had negative influence on male pupils.
One teacher said she'd had 10-year-old boys "refuse to speak to [her]...because [she is] a woman".
Another teacher said "the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils at an all-boys school] interacted with females and males they did not see as 'masculine'".
While another respondent to the survey said their school had experienced some incidents of "derogatory language towards female staff...as a direct result of Andrew Tate videos".
More than 5,800 teachers were polled as part of the survey by the NASUWT teaching union, and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils' behaviour.
Andrew Tate was referenced by a number of teachers who took part in the survey, who said he had negative influence on male pupils.
One teacher said she'd had 10-year-old boys "refuse to speak to [her]...because [she is] a woman".
Another teacher said "the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils at an all-boys school] interacted with females and males they did not see as 'masculine'".
While another respondent to the survey said their school had experienced some incidents of "derogatory language towards female staff...as a direct result of Andrew Tate videos".
19.04.202514:22
From Reuters 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump 🇺🇸 telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. was for now unwilling to support such a move, according to an Israeli official and two other people familiar with the matter.
Israeli officials have vowed to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and Netanyahu has insisted that any negotiation with Iran must lead to the complete dismantling of its nuclear program.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators are set for a second round of preliminary nuclear talks in Rome on Saturday.
Over the past months, Israel has proposed to the Trump administration a series of options to attack Iran’s facilities, including some with late spring and summer timelines, the sources said. The plans include a mix of airstrikes and commando operations that vary in severity and could set back Tehran's ability to weaponize its nuclear program by just months or a year or more, the sources said.
Israeli officials have vowed to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and Netanyahu has insisted that any negotiation with Iran must lead to the complete dismantling of its nuclear program.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators are set for a second round of preliminary nuclear talks in Rome on Saturday.
Over the past months, Israel has proposed to the Trump administration a series of options to attack Iran’s facilities, including some with late spring and summer timelines, the sources said. The plans include a mix of airstrikes and commando operations that vary in severity and could set back Tehran's ability to weaponize its nuclear program by just months or a year or more, the sources said.
19.04.202504:09
From Reuters 🇺🇸 🇨🇩 Prominent Trump supporter Erik Prince has agreed to help Democratic Republic of Congo secure and tax its vast mineral wealth, according to two sources close to the private security executive, a Congolese government official and two diplomats.
The agreement, aimed at reaping more revenue from an industry marred by smuggling and corruption, was reached before Rwanda-backed M23 rebels launched a major offensive in January that has seen them seize eastern Congo's two largest cities.
The discussions now on implementing the deal with Prince come as the U.S. and Congo explore a broader deal on critical minerals partnerships, after Congo pitched a minerals-for-security deal to U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
Prince founded Blackwater before renaming the private military company and selling it in 2010 after several employees were indicted on charges of unlawfully killing Iraqi civilians. The men were convicted but later pardoned by Trump during his first term.
The agreement, aimed at reaping more revenue from an industry marred by smuggling and corruption, was reached before Rwanda-backed M23 rebels launched a major offensive in January that has seen them seize eastern Congo's two largest cities.
The discussions now on implementing the deal with Prince come as the U.S. and Congo explore a broader deal on critical minerals partnerships, after Congo pitched a minerals-for-security deal to U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
Prince founded Blackwater before renaming the private military company and selling it in 2010 after several employees were indicted on charges of unlawfully killing Iraqi civilians. The men were convicted but later pardoned by Trump during his first term.
18.04.202521:29
From Axios 🇺🇸 🇸🇻 Kilmar Ábrego García, mistakenly deported from the U.S., was moved from CECOT to a detention center in Santa Ana, El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on Friday.
Ábrego García said he was traumatized at the Salvadoran megaprison.
"He said he's sad every day," Van Hollen said at a news conference after returning from El Salvador. Ábrego García's wife, mother and brother were present.
Van Hollen met with Ábrego García on Thursday after the senator spent days working to meet with him.
The Trump administration has confirmed that he was mistakenly deported and has defied a Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the U.S.
Ábrego García said he was traumatized at the Salvadoran megaprison.
"He said he's sad every day," Van Hollen said at a news conference after returning from El Salvador. Ábrego García's wife, mother and brother were present.
Van Hollen met with Ábrego García on Thursday after the senator spent days working to meet with him.
The Trump administration has confirmed that he was mistakenly deported and has defied a Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the U.S.
20.04.202513:34
From NPR 🇭🇺 Viktor Orban, 61, is in his fourth consecutive term as the Hungarian prime minister. In that time, he and his allies have dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken control of the country's media, civil society and universities, and consolidated power in himself and his Fidesz party. The dismantling of Hungary's democracy is a point of fascination for political scientists around the world — including those advising the Trump administration.
20.04.202500:28
From the Associated Press 🇪🇨 Ecuadorian authorities warned Saturday that the Andean country is on “high alert” after it received intelligence about an suspected attempt on President Daniel Noboa’s life.
Ecuador’ s Government Ministry, providing no evidence for its claims, wrote on a post on the social networkTwitter that it was warned “about the planning of an assassination, terrorist attacks and ... violent protests.”
The ministry said it had taken security measures to neutralize the alleged threats.
The Noboa government claimed that those behind the recent threat were “criminal structures” and “political sectors defeated at the polls.” Noboa alluded to an alleged military intelligence report circulating on social media which said that after Sunday’s elections, “the transfer of hired killers from Mexico and other countries to Ecuador has begun.”
But the lack of evidence from Ecuador’s government fueled criticism from former candidate González. On Saturday, she wrote on Twitter that the assassination claims were simply the government’s “desperation to silence us” and added that “more persecution is coming.”
Ecuador’ s Government Ministry, providing no evidence for its claims, wrote on a post on the social networkTwitter that it was warned “about the planning of an assassination, terrorist attacks and ... violent protests.”
The ministry said it had taken security measures to neutralize the alleged threats.
The Noboa government claimed that those behind the recent threat were “criminal structures” and “political sectors defeated at the polls.” Noboa alluded to an alleged military intelligence report circulating on social media which said that after Sunday’s elections, “the transfer of hired killers from Mexico and other countries to Ecuador has begun.”
But the lack of evidence from Ecuador’s government fueled criticism from former candidate González. On Saturday, she wrote on Twitter that the assassination claims were simply the government’s “desperation to silence us” and added that “more persecution is coming.”
19.04.202518:34
From the NYTimes 🇺🇸 With America’s fertility rate at a historic low — 1,616 births per 1,000 women, far under the rate needed to maintain the population size — a “pronatalist” community has emerged, calling for bigger families and policies that encourage childbearing. This movement has skewed heavily right, made up of cultural conservatives who see conventional family units as the bedrock of society, as well as of technologists concerned that humanity is not replacing itself.
Many on the left, including those who share the goal of making it easier for people who want to have big families, have criticized the movement for embracing far-right voices: white supremacists who fear developing countries’ outpacing wealthy white people in their childbearing, misogynists calling for a return to traditional gender roles.
The Natal Conference was started by Kevin Dolan, a conservative who came up with the idea after watching a Tucker Carlson documentary about falling testosterone levels. Since the inaugural conference, held in December 2023, political winds have shifted for the pronatalists. There, in the White House, is Vice President JD Vance, who has urged Americans to have “more babies.” Often by President Trump’s side is Elon Musk, who posts prolifically about “population collapse” and has fathered more than a dozen children. President Trump last month called himself “the fertilization president.” But the push for babies, of course, can only go so far without a crucial element: women.
Many on the left, including those who share the goal of making it easier for people who want to have big families, have criticized the movement for embracing far-right voices: white supremacists who fear developing countries’ outpacing wealthy white people in their childbearing, misogynists calling for a return to traditional gender roles.
The Natal Conference was started by Kevin Dolan, a conservative who came up with the idea after watching a Tucker Carlson documentary about falling testosterone levels. Since the inaugural conference, held in December 2023, political winds have shifted for the pronatalists. There, in the White House, is Vice President JD Vance, who has urged Americans to have “more babies.” Often by President Trump’s side is Elon Musk, who posts prolifically about “population collapse” and has fathered more than a dozen children. President Trump last month called himself “the fertilization president.” But the push for babies, of course, can only go so far without a crucial element: women.
19.04.202513:06
From the Associated Press 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed more than 90 people in the last 48 hours.
The dead include 15 people who were killed overnight, among them women and children, some of whom were sheltering in a designated humanitarian zone, according to hospital staff.
At least 11 people were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, several of them in a tent in the Mwasi area where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living, hospital workers said. Israel has designated it as a humanitarian zone.
Four other people were killed in separate strikes in Rafah city, including a mother and her daughter, according to the European Hospital, where the bodies were brought.
Israel has vowed to intensify attacks across Gaza and occupy large “security zones” inside the strip. For six weeks Israel also has blockaded Gaza, barring the entry of food and other goods.
The dead include 15 people who were killed overnight, among them women and children, some of whom were sheltering in a designated humanitarian zone, according to hospital staff.
At least 11 people were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, several of them in a tent in the Mwasi area where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living, hospital workers said. Israel has designated it as a humanitarian zone.
Four other people were killed in separate strikes in Rafah city, including a mother and her daughter, according to the European Hospital, where the bodies were brought.
Israel has vowed to intensify attacks across Gaza and occupy large “security zones” inside the strip. For six weeks Israel also has blockaded Gaza, barring the entry of food and other goods.
19.04.202502:04
From Politico 🇵🇱 Far-right European Parliament lawmaker and long-shot Polish presidential candidate Grzegorz Braun is facing a potential investigation after he stormed a hospital on Wednesday and threatened a doctor with a citizen's arrest for performing a legal late-term abortion.
Gizela Jagielska said she was signing some administrative documents when a crowd of about 30 men, led by Braun, burst into the hospital around 11 a.m. She said the men surrounded her, stopped her from leaving and told her she should be arrested.
“He insulted me, he called me a serial murderer,” Jagielska told POLITICO, describing Braun's actions, which have been condemned by both the Polish justice minister and the country's equality minister.
Gizela Jagielska said she was signing some administrative documents when a crowd of about 30 men, led by Braun, burst into the hospital around 11 a.m. She said the men surrounded her, stopped her from leaving and told her she should be arrested.
“He insulted me, he called me a serial murderer,” Jagielska told POLITICO, describing Braun's actions, which have been condemned by both the Polish justice minister and the country's equality minister.
17.04.202513:01
From the WSJ 🇺🇸 🇸🇻 El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele plans to double the size of the maximum-security prison where his government is holding U.S. deportees.
Bukele plans to expand the Terrorism Confinement Center, the sprawling compound known as Cecot that is already the largest prison in the world, he told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she visited last month, people familiar with the discussion said.
Opened in 2023 to house up to 40,000 inmates during Bukele’s crackdown on El Salvador’s gangs, the facility currently holds roughly 15,000 people, including hundreds of alleged gang members the Trump administration has recently deported from the U.S. Doubling the prison’s capacity would create space for a total of 80,000 inmates.
Bukele plans to expand the Terrorism Confinement Center, the sprawling compound known as Cecot that is already the largest prison in the world, he told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she visited last month, people familiar with the discussion said.
Opened in 2023 to house up to 40,000 inmates during Bukele’s crackdown on El Salvador’s gangs, the facility currently holds roughly 15,000 people, including hundreds of alleged gang members the Trump administration has recently deported from the U.S. Doubling the prison’s capacity would create space for a total of 80,000 inmates.
20.04.202511:08
From the Guardian 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.
The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies.
Israel unilaterally abandoned a two-month ceasefire with Palestinian militant group Hamas on 2 March, cutting off vital supplies. Just over two weeks later, it resumed large-scale bombing and redeployed ground troops withdrawn during the truce.
Since then, political figures and security officials have repeatedly vowed that aid deliveries will not resume until Hamas releases the remaining hostages. Israel’s government has framed the new siege as a security measure and has repeatedly denied using starvation as a weapon, which would constitute a war crime.
The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies.
Israel unilaterally abandoned a two-month ceasefire with Palestinian militant group Hamas on 2 March, cutting off vital supplies. Just over two weeks later, it resumed large-scale bombing and redeployed ground troops withdrawn during the truce.
Since then, political figures and security officials have repeatedly vowed that aid deliveries will not resume until Hamas releases the remaining hostages. Israel’s government has framed the new siege as a security measure and has repeatedly denied using starvation as a weapon, which would constitute a war crime.
19.04.202523:13
From Mother Jones 🇺🇸 For the past six years, Gavin Wax has held court as the president of the New York Young Republicans Club, a group he helped turn from a small, stodgy establishment outfit into “a vanguard of the Trump movement,” as he said last year. Under his leadership, the club has moved far to the right. It’s hosted events attended by white nationalists, budding foreign authoritarians, and of course, George Santos, whose congressional campaign it endorsed before he became a convicted felon.
Wax announced this month that he was stepping down as the club’s president, and on Friday he revealed that he would be taking a post in the Trump administration as chief of staff and advisor to Federal Communications Commissioner Nathan Simington. The 31-year-old former day trader has long been a die-hard Trump loyalist.
Wax announced this month that he was stepping down as the club’s president, and on Friday he revealed that he would be taking a post in the Trump administration as chief of staff and advisor to Federal Communications Commissioner Nathan Simington. The 31-year-old former day trader has long been a die-hard Trump loyalist.
19.04.202517:17
From the Washington Post 🇺🇸 🇸🇻 Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has a long history of using social media to flaunt his powers — from declaring himself “the coolest dictator in the world” to posting dramatically shot videos of people being herded into his country’s prisons.
That audacious style was once again on display when Bukele shared photos of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) visiting with Kilmar Abrego García on Thursday. Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident who is married to a U.S. citizen, was mistakenly deported last month to El Salvador. He was being held in the country’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.
Bukele mocked the senator’s visit, telling his followers that Van Hollen and Abrego García were drinking margaritas in the “tropical paradise of El Salvador.”
Van Hollen said his attempts to meet with Abrego García were initially refused, even though Bukele previously allowed Republican officials and social media influencers to visit the prison. But late Thursday, Van Hollen shared an image of himself seated at a table with Abrego García in a restaurant in El Salvador. Only in Van Hollen’s photo, there were no salt-rimmed glasses and cherries.
That audacious style was once again on display when Bukele shared photos of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) visiting with Kilmar Abrego García on Thursday. Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident who is married to a U.S. citizen, was mistakenly deported last month to El Salvador. He was being held in the country’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.
Bukele mocked the senator’s visit, telling his followers that Van Hollen and Abrego García were drinking margaritas in the “tropical paradise of El Salvador.”
Van Hollen said his attempts to meet with Abrego García were initially refused, even though Bukele previously allowed Republican officials and social media influencers to visit the prison. But late Thursday, Van Hollen shared an image of himself seated at a table with Abrego García in a restaurant in El Salvador. Only in Van Hollen’s photo, there were no salt-rimmed glasses and cherries.
19.04.202511:53
From the Guardian 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer has made his pitch to party faithfuls after launching the Trumpet of Patriots campaign at his own resort.
Palmer hopes his Trumpet of Patriots can bring “common sense” back to Australian politics after launching the party’s campaign in front of a strong crowd at his resort.
Palmer, the Victorian senator Ralph Babet and the federal party leader Suellen Wrightson led the party pitches to a crowd of 400 at the Palmer Coolum Resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, pointing the finger at Australia’s major political parties.
“The uni-party of Labor and the coalition have provided the blueprint for a disaster since the turn of the century,” Palmer told the crowd.
Attendees at the event were provided yellow hats saying “Make Australia Great Again”.
American journalist Tucker Carlson was fed in to proceedings via video to begin the launch.
Palmer hopes his Trumpet of Patriots can bring “common sense” back to Australian politics after launching the party’s campaign in front of a strong crowd at his resort.
Palmer, the Victorian senator Ralph Babet and the federal party leader Suellen Wrightson led the party pitches to a crowd of 400 at the Palmer Coolum Resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, pointing the finger at Australia’s major political parties.
“The uni-party of Labor and the coalition have provided the blueprint for a disaster since the turn of the century,” Palmer told the crowd.
Attendees at the event were provided yellow hats saying “Make Australia Great Again”.
American journalist Tucker Carlson was fed in to proceedings via video to begin the launch.
18.04.202523:58
From the NYTimes 🇺🇸 President Trump has replaced the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service after his appointment just days earlier set off a power struggle between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the billionaire Elon Musk.
Mr. Bessent’s deputy, Michael Faulkender, will be the new acting leader, replacing Gary Shapley, the Treasury Department confirmed on Friday. Mr. Faulkender will be the third acting leader of the agency this week.
Mr. Bessent had complained to Mr. Trump this week that Mr. Musk had done an end run around him to get Mr. Shapley installed as the interim head of the I.R.S., even though the tax collection agency reports to Mr. Bessent, the people familiar with the situation said.
The clash was the latest instance of Mr. Musk’s influence in the Trump administration that has alarmed top officials. It was also the latest upheaval at the tax agency, with much of its staff pushed out or quitting. Mr. Trump earlier this week called for the I.R.S. to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status after the school refused to impose sweeping changes demanded by the administration.
Mr. Bessent’s deputy, Michael Faulkender, will be the new acting leader, replacing Gary Shapley, the Treasury Department confirmed on Friday. Mr. Faulkender will be the third acting leader of the agency this week.
Mr. Bessent had complained to Mr. Trump this week that Mr. Musk had done an end run around him to get Mr. Shapley installed as the interim head of the I.R.S., even though the tax collection agency reports to Mr. Bessent, the people familiar with the situation said.
The clash was the latest instance of Mr. Musk’s influence in the Trump administration that has alarmed top officials. It was also the latest upheaval at the tax agency, with much of its staff pushed out or quitting. Mr. Trump earlier this week called for the I.R.S. to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status after the school refused to impose sweeping changes demanded by the administration.
17.04.202511:49
From the BBC 🇪🇺 The European Union has identified seven countries it considers safe countries of origin, as part of proposals to speed up asylum applications, especially from those countries involved.
Citizens from Kosovo 🇽🇰, Bangladesh 🇧🇩, Colombia 🇨🇴, Egypt 🇪🇬, India 🇮🇳, Morocco 🇲🇦 and Tunisia 🇹🇳 would all have their claims fast-tracked within three months on the assumption that they were likely to fail.
Markus Lammert of the European Commission said it would be a "dynamic list" that could be expanded or reviewed, with countries suspended or removed if they were no longer seen as safe.
Ever since EU countries saw an influx of irregular migrants in 2015-16, they have sought to reform asylum rules.
A pact on migration and asylum was agreed last year, but the EU says as it does not come into force until June 2026 it wants to push through two key rules on speeding up processing.
Citizens from Kosovo 🇽🇰, Bangladesh 🇧🇩, Colombia 🇨🇴, Egypt 🇪🇬, India 🇮🇳, Morocco 🇲🇦 and Tunisia 🇹🇳 would all have their claims fast-tracked within three months on the assumption that they were likely to fail.
Markus Lammert of the European Commission said it would be a "dynamic list" that could be expanded or reviewed, with countries suspended or removed if they were no longer seen as safe.
Ever since EU countries saw an influx of irregular migrants in 2015-16, they have sought to reform asylum rules.
A pact on migration and asylum was agreed last year, but the EU says as it does not come into force until June 2026 it wants to push through two key rules on speeding up processing.
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