Moldovan tycoon Plahotniuc sentenced to 19 years in fraud case A Moldovan court sentenced business magnate and former political powerbroker Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison on Wednesday in a fraud case involving the theft ​of $1 billion from the country's banking sector.

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Less America, more Europe in Germany’s new military strategy The strategy sets out a three-phase expansion of troops and capabilities as Germany aims to become Europe’s strongest conventional force.

Germany aims to rely less on the U.S. and more on Europe to deter the growing Russian threat, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius spelled out during an announcement of the country's new military strategy.

Predators have a new business model - and humans, not AI, need to catch them, experts warn For a long time, images and videos of child abuse were hidden away in the darkest corners of the internet, intentionally hard to find.

Predators have a new business model - and humans, not AI, need to catch them, experts warn

Africa, Southeast Asia drive China solar panel exports to record in March China's solar panel exports soared to a record in March, China customs ‌and industry data showed, as Southeast Asia and Africa stockpiled ahead of expected price increases and fallout from the Iran war boosted demand.

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“We knew that Boris Johnson was a cad and bounder, we thought Starmer would be a straight-shooter - maybe a little dull, but dull was fine.

“But he’s fallen short on the standards that he’s set himself”

Please donate to the @goodlawproject.org if you can spare a few pennies.

Ive been following the issues with Palantir and I knew the moment the Good Law Project got involved, there would finally be some scrutiny.

You should be worried. Your medical data isnt all this is about.

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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I'd be perfectly happy with Palantir's UK operations being severely disrupted.

@takebackpower.bsky.social forget shoplifting, this is where the action should be.

Zack Polanski straight up condemning Palantir, Peter Mandelson, ICE, Starmers links to Epstein, and Israel in a single video.

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.

70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.

30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.

7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
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Early cloud and stiff breeze

22nd April 2026. 05.50

Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this.

At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government.

Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting

It is morning, and again
I am the lucky person to be in it

Mary Oliver

🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Left- The U.S. and Israel have killed 3,375 Iranians; 2,294 Lebanese and 28 in other Gulf states.

Right- Sexual violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers is pushing Palestinians from the West Bank. 16 cases lately.

Israeli settlers kill students at school in Ramallah on the West Bank.

Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."

The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄
We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment
Putin must be laughing his head off.

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.

One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.

Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

Indeed, and those who find the Home Secretary's policies too restrictive have made similar criticisms of Noem and ICE, and of comparable restrictions by the EU/its Member States, usually adopted by white politicians too

A bad policy is a bad policy, IDGAF if the politician is white, brown or purple

Not a President……a terrorist!

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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A Life Hack for the Ultra-Wealthy Is Going Mainstream More families who can afford it are hiring a house manager, a kind of “chief of staff for the home.” By Nancy Walecki

Not a single shred of evidence in the article that this is an actual trend.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...