https://theintercept.com/2019/04/05/pegasus-spyware-pr-skdknickerbocker/

A prominent political communications shop that works on Democratic campaigns, employs Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign alums, and boasts of its role in the fight for gun control and LGBT equality is representing an Israeli firm notorious for selling powerful surveillance technology to authoritarian governments around the world.

NSO Group, which is facing multiple lawsuits charging that its technology was used to spy on journalists and dissidents, hired SKDKnickerbocker to help with media inquiries as the spy firm tries to turn around its marred image.

The hiring, which was first reported by FastCompany, is the latest example of how SKDKnickerbocker is anything but progressive, despite the way it markets itself.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/mexican-official-rejects-democratic-effort-reopen-new-nafta

“Reopening it is as good as killing it,” said Jesús Seade, Mexican foreign affairs undersecretary for North America.

The Mexican position rebuffs efforts by some Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi who said earlier this week that parts of the agreement should be reopened to strengthen labor enforcement and address the 10-year monopoly that pharmaceutical companies would have in pricing biologic drugs.

Seade, who met with the New Democrat Coalition and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Thursday, told reporters later that he is working to convince U.S. lawmakers that their concerns about labor rights can be addressed without renegotiating the trade agreement. If approved by legislatures in the United States, Mexico and Canada, the trade pact would replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. or NAFTA for short

https://www.theblaze.com/twitter-bans-french-government-tweets-under-fake-news-laws

In an effort to encourage voter registration, the French government created a #OuiJeVote (#YesIVote) campaign. This campaign was set to launch Thursday — or, at least, that was the plan.

The French government wanted to run paid advertisements promoting the campaign, but since the #OuiJeVote campaign didn't meet the regulations laid out in the new law, Twitter rejected the government's request. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner scolded Twitter in a tweet in French, telling the company to focus on banning pro-terrorism content and not a voter registration campaign.