Oversight Republicans are canceling hearings and hosting “round tables” where there are no rules; no motions or subpoenas allowed; and Democrats can’t call witnesses.
They’re scared that we’ll get to the truth in our Epstein investigation. Well, we won’t stop until we do.
Fresh free link (they expire after 300).
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These quotes show what a fanatical and ideological company Palantir is, obsessed by American force and power, wholly devoted to malign U.S. interests, and completely unsuitable as a contractor in any part of UK government, let alone the NHS. A company wedded to “might is right”. techrepublicbook.com
A small point from the Mandelson/Robbins saga. Refom and many Tories argue for a civil service than can be more easily bent to the will and whims of their elected political masters.
This is precisely what happened here.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that the bloc intends to cut funding to the Venice Biennale following a decision by the art exhibition to readmit Russian artists to its 2026 edition.
And so it begins … exactly right
Arresting persons indicted by the ICC if they show up in your country …
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization founded to promote racial justice in the South, said it is facing a Justice Department investigation including possible criminal charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
Can the president send ICE agents to police the polls? No — it's illegal, and ICE has no role in elections. Here’s what you need to know.
"DP World, which is controlled by the government of Dubai, has expanded rapidly and handles some 10 per cent of global trade daily..." - we really need to talk about the interaction of government and major companies... www.ft.com/content/873b...
This though is the missing piece of too many discussions - global corporates provide resilience against government actions to restrict markets but create their own threats as we also see particularly in the tech space, as well as probably reducing overall growth. Untangle that...
I haven't commented on Palantir specifically but their actions are clearly in line with the rise of corporate giants as significant actors in the world order which is routinely under-discussed by pieces that only focus on what national governments do. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Nice book you got here, McQuade . . . be a shame if anything happened to it."
- Robert De Niro, on "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"
Completely agree. Replete with insights & anecdotes.
Leaves one wondering how he would have handled Trump II, in which US friends of NATO are entirely excluded from the administration. I still suspect he would have more backbone than Rutte.
Mark's right: If you can't report on clearly, concisely and persistently on Trump's authoritarian rot, then you are part of the problem.
'We cannot allow private companies, acting as both judge and party, to set the rules of the AI game'
Elon Musk snubbed a summons by French prosecutors investigating how AI chatbot Grok was allowed to spew out sexually explicit deepfakes and Holocaust-denying content, according to AFP
On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Warehousing human beings these conditions will accelerate to the spread of diseases in any population.
Javier Milei remains a super internationally, but domestically, the Argentine president is in real trouble. And as James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes, every political challenge Milei faces brings his government one step closer to an economic crisis.
“Putting your devices down can help your mental health, and some young people online are calling the trend ‘digital rawdogging.’”
In my day, we were mainly concerned about antivirus protection.🫣
Some prominent former Trump supporters are now openly questioning the official account of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The DOJ under both Presidents Biden and Trump said Thomas Crooks acted alone.
The Carolingian–Abbasid Axis: Charlemagne and the Caliphate www.medievalists.net/2026/04/the-... #history #Carolingians #Abbasids
President Trump views himself as the master of coercive diplomacy, forcing his opponents to capitulate quickly to U.S. demands or face the threat of attack. But in dealing with Iran, he's discovered that he is up against a nation that prides itself on resilience and delay.
A cartoon by Mick Stevens.
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Fgj9Rj
"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told me she saw 1,500 detainees housed in cages at the site, a cage area that smelled like urine, and one cage configuration where detainees appear to have no option but to go to the bathroom in front of everyone."
Headphone jack.
Could this be the 1st time EU funding is suspended on rule of law related grounds, with EU condition to unlock the suspended amount compliance with non-binding recommendations of a non-EU body?
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Rousseau's formulation provides a nice symmetry to Plato's highly legible numerical threshold of inequality in a just state:
"No citizen should be so rich as to be capable of buying another citizen, and none so poor that he is forced to sell himself."
