The U.S. deported 50 people to Ukraine this week, a Ukrainian border official said on Tuesday, in what appears to be the single largest such deportation from the U.S. since the country has been at war with Russia.

The flight landed near the Polish border in the early hours on Monday. Since Russia's invasion in 2022, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported 105 Ukrainians in total, with 13 in the last quarter of 2024, according to the latest data available in ICE's publicly available tracker.

The Trump administration originally wanted to send 80 people on the flight, according to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States. That original list also included at least one person that Ukraine had previously been unable to claim as a citizen of the country.

Brazilian authorities on Tuesday railed against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest where the United Nations’ Climate Summit is taking place.

“We live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Last week I asked some journalists who were with me in Brazil: Which of you would like to stay here? No one raised their hand,” Merz said. “They were all happy that, above all, we returned from this place to Germany in the night from Friday to Saturday.”

New research commissioned by WWF EU reveals that EU consumption of soy, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, industrial roundwood, cattle meat and products, and rubber led to the clearing of 149 million trees worldwide between 2021 and 2023.

Specifically, chocolate consumption is linked to the loss of more than 10 million trees each year, while beef and leather contribute to another 10 million.

I think i should be able to go for a while

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38973006

Alternatively: What if it was a BROADcast and it was just for the ladies.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37149930

A coalition of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds urged servicemembers and those in the intelligence community to defy any illegal orders.

The video, which is edited to show multiple lawmakers reading one statement, comes as President Trump has carried out deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean, near Venezuela.

“We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now, Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath to protect and defend this constitution,” the lawmakers said in the video.

“Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear,” they added. “You can refuse illegal orders…you must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.”

The video features Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.), and Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.), Chissy Houlahan (Pa.), Chris Deluzio (Penn.) and Maggie Goodlander (N.H.).

Since the boat strikes began in September, lawmakers have pressed the Trump administration on whether servicemembers involved could be held legally responsible for deaths that may be found unlawful. The military strikes have killed at least 83 people, and while the Trump administration has accused the boats of ferrying drugs, they have blown them up in deadly strikes rather than the typical practice of interdicting the boats.

DOJ claimed in an internal opinion that servicemembers cannot be held liable for the strikes.

But Senate Judiciary Democrats, in an October letter, argued that the strikes put servicemembers in a difficult position, as they are being asked to make illegal kills.

The United States Code of Military Justice “prohibits the premeditated and unlawful killing of a human being,” they wrote in a letter, but that it also requires obeying orders, “putting our service members in the impossible position of risking criminal prosecution for carrying out an unlawful order to kill civilians or risking prosecution for disobeying superior orders.”

That's the entire article.

Formatting emphasis mine.

Here is the video released by Democrats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iux161DZAA

(sorry, New York Post is the only source of the video itself, in its entirety, with no editorializing, that I can find at the moment.)

[EDIT] Thanks to DemBoSain:

https://bsky.app/profile/slotkin.senate.gov/post/3m5vtxjmgnk23

In case you missed it, this came soon after a 427-1 vote by the House of Representatives to release the Epstein Files.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/house-approves-epstein-files-bill-in-near-unanimous-vote-00656764

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I only listen to the sounds of metal scraping on the ground

I was hoping it was just gonna stop annoying me every 12-36 hours but it feels like it's updating even more recently.

Racist employer who actually prefers to hire POC because that gives him a ticket to exploit them the most

A clue in the Valais paper on November 18, 2023, was: “Swiss political party – racist, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-feminist, anti-ecological, anti-poor, nationalist.” The answer: UDC (the French abbreviation for the Swiss People’s Party).

interestingly, I was subscribed on other lemmy.ml communities where I was not banned.. but hey , now, I banned the instance... so we're even I guess

Hello,

I built an iOS app (got approved by Apple today) using Swift. The app uses native iOS Swift libraries. What is the best approach to port my app to Android?

Google is experimenting with a new feature that lets you share videos in YouTube app on iOS and Android.