U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

I have frequently said that it is hard for me to imagine how Trump could further damage the institution of the DOJ, but that only demonstrates the limits of my imagination.

I did not imagine Trump putting Joe diGenova in charge of investigating his political enemies. It just got worse.
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Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny FSB colonel Dmitry Kovalev has traveled the world to support Team Russia, sitting with his colleagues in the stands at hockey matches in South Korea and…

Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny

The Insider exposes the FSB directorate that handles both athletic doping and political assassinations.

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I recall being told yesterday that it would never close again.

Procès en appel de Nicolas Sarkozy : le résumé de la cinquième semaine YouTube video by Mediapart

Cette semaine, au procès en appel des financements libyens,
Claude Guéant s'est retourné contre Nicolas Sarkozy avec trois mots — « Claude, voyez cela » — qui vont peut-être entrer dans les annales judiciaires et politiques.

Le résumé en vidéo de l’audience.
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Alberto’s point is crucial. Whatever the platform talking points, manipulating platform systems with deceptive behaviour is harming public debate.

Boosting, encouraging and remunerating such manipulative behaviour is boosting the harm.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

Exposure leading to impact. I love it!

Congrats to @citizenlab.ca and @vsquare.bsky.social for their top-notch work on this.

We unveiled the internal infrastructure of the most secretive Russian #intelligence units by studying their military decorations. If you want to find out more about our methodology, join us on our #webinar with @disinfo.eu!

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Le gouvernement régional va-t-il bâillonner IEB ? – Inter-Environnement Bruxelles Les subsides régionaux perçus par Inter-Environnement Bruxelles (IEB), qui financent son travail en mobilité et en environnement, risquent de ne pas être reconduits par le nouveau gouvernement…

La démocratie ne vit que par l’existence et le maintien des contre-pouvoirs.

Quoiqu’on pense d @iebruxelles.bsky.social, leur travail sans relâche a souvent conduit à la condamnation de la Région Bruxelloise pour l’illégalité de ses actes.

Soutenons-les.

Déclaration à l’AFP de l’avocat de Claude Guéant.

« The King is mad. He’s saying mad things. But he hasn’t done anything mad yet. So please disperse »

Q: Trump has repeatedly threatened civilian infrastructure. Last week he said that if his demands weren't met, an entire civilization would die. Are you comfortable w/that?

THUNE: I think you gotta look at what the president is doing. He's trying to open up the strait, which we're all supportive of

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

“In my view this stuff isn’t complicated. You say, ‘don’t set the cookie.’ They set the cookie. The regulators see a fox going into the henhouse and the fox says, ‘I’m just here to count the eggs, not to eat any chickens.’ And they take them at their word."

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”

Meta recently added new restrictions around "Antifa content" on Facebook and Instagram. Internal documents I reviewed show it applies when a user merely uses the word "Antifa" in a post.

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Do you plan to release any online material ? :)

No prigo-gin, no Lego avatar!

Celle ci reste pour mes archives quand même.

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Au moins y’aura plus personne pour payer la CPAC en Europe. 😅

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Quand on te laisse le choix entre passer pour stupide ou malhonnête.

HOWLING

JD is sad, boss.

Magyar revealed to the press that Peter Szijjarto has #barricaded himself with his closest colleagues and is destroying and shredding evidence.

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Pragmatism in that case could be translated as« Ruszkik haza! » (Russians, go home).

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

My all-time favourite of this #Budapest week-end.

Despite the disinformation, the ads, the locking of public media, Orban lost tonight.
It’s a slap in the face of his supporters and sponsors.

Nothing is inevitable.