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El Salvador's Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a new law that imposes a 30% tax on foreign donations to NGOs (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-buk…

Journalism association to leave El Salvador over government pressure
El Salvador’s Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a foreign agents law passed earlier this year. The law has been perceived as a way to pressure critical voices in the Central American nation. Founded in 1936, the association said Wednesday that to continue defending journalists’ rights and freedom of the press it would have to move to another country, which it did not name. The association announced plans in September to close its offices. E…

"Det handlar inte om pengar".
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/muhammed-i-solleftea-nobbar-regeringens-forslag-om-atervandring

Muhammed i Sollefteå nobbar regeringens förslag om återvandring
Från 10 000 till 350 000 kronor. Förslaget om höjt återvandringsbidrag spelar ingen roll för Muhammed som helst av allt vill stanna i Sollefteå. – Det handlar inte om pengar, säger han.

Solving the Mystery of the Electron Radiation Belt at #Uranus - Leveraging Knowledge of Earth's Radiation Belts in a Re-Examination of Voyager 2 Observations: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119311 -> SwRI may have solved a mystery surrounding Uranus’ radiation belts: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-may-have-solved-mystery-surrounding-uranus-radiation-belts

Trump's work.
#trump

'We lived through hell,' say Venezuelans released from mega-prison in El Salvador
Four men deported from the US to a notorious facility in El Salvador tell the BBC after their release they were mistreated.

CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/media/mario-guevara-journalist-deported-ice-el-salv…

Live-streaming journalist deported to El Salvador after months in ICE custody
The reporter was arrested while reporting from a “No Kings Day” protest in June and was deported on Friday — a major blow to press freedoms, say groups including the ACLU.

Abrego Garcia to get hearing on whether smuggling charges are illegally 'vindictive' | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-deportation-abrego-garcia-asylum-el-salvador-trump-9fd6f91efd35ad929c5af5781d3442d7

A sufficiently comfy cat is indistinguishable from genAI :neocat_confused:

“They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them.
Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile.
We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief.”
– @…

When I heard the prisoners were to be released, a fragile pulse stirred inside...
They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them. Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile. We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief. They spoke of nights drenched in cold water while they slept, of wrists bound until flesh gave way, of blows that d...

OK, now do a story on how scapegoating international students hasn't solved the housing crisis please.
#cdnpoli

International student visas for Canada plummet | CBC News
Permits for students from abroad to study in Canada plummeted in the first half of this year, with nearly 90,000 fewer issued than a year earlier, when the federal government introduced a cap on international student visas.

Mario Guevara, the Spanish-language journalist arrested while filming a Georgia protest in June, is set to be deported to El Salvador on Friday (WABE)
https://www.wabe.org/family-says-atlanta-journalist-mario-guevara-will-be-deported-tomorrow/