Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Amazon doing a good ole price fixing conspiracy, apparently www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Schrödinger's Toast

Haha this must be from the Ulrich Larsen school of pranksters. Nice job either way.

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

Strategically, Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks increasingly plausible, while Russia’s is crumbling.

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Musk called French prosecutors 'retards' in a French-language post before skipping his summons. The investigation now covers X's algorithm interfering in French politics plus Grok generating Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes.

Because the corrupt president is more important than raped women and children.

The future of making sure you don’t leave this guy alone with your drink

"Sweden agreed with the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, that Russia was understating its budget deficit by $30bn, and had also noticed some financial indicators that could point to a future banking crisis" www.ft.com/content/04a9...

Tim Cook is a collaborator.

Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.

Hopefully this transition will allow him more time to do what he does best: betray his supposed principles by appeasing authoritarian leaders like Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that "Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!!" — notably including the stock ticker, because why not just…

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.”
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Do not allow this to happen. Every chance you get to link the two in the minds of the public you should take. In the real world the US *OFFICIAL NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY* is to covertly and overtly fund and help extreme right wing groups in Europe in order to destroy the Union.

Hungary Must Arrest Visiting Leaders Sought by ICC, Magyar Says Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect ...

After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.

[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Every single millennial and Gen Z Republican politician you will ever see in office will be like this or worse.

Mining China’s ‘Little Red Book’ for Open Source Gold - bellingcat Xiaohongshu, a female-focused lifestyle app, is a rare window into China for researchers outside the country.

The app has evolved from a shopping guide into a lifestyle and e-commerce platform, as well as a search engine. Despite its growth in and beyond China, Xiaohongshu remains underexplored by journalists compared to Weibo. Learn how to explore the app here:
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Reads like a manifesto confiscated at intake.

Vercel truly is the dogshit stuck to the bottom of your shoe of the web.

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.

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record

nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

Hungary, Ukraine & Orban's End - How Russia Lost Its Best Friend in the EU YouTube video by Perun

For anyone who happens to be at the cross section of “interested in the geopolitics of Europe” and “doesn’t know who perun is”. You’re welcome. youtu.be/qpEZoK2JmOg

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Well it’s been a good run folks but I think it’s time to cut the hard line before the infection gets worse.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

You are free to be fascist on Xitter but you are not free to point out fascism on Xitter

I’m having an incredibly, incredibly hard time thinking that Andrew Cuomo belongs anywhere near a show titled “pulse of the people”.

I can't stop thinking about Palantir's manifesto and how (as far as I've seen anyway) there has been very little pushback on it

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

In a nutshell. 😊

Israel’s toxic legacy: Bombing southern Lebanon with white phosphorus Scientists, historians point to a pattern in Israel's white phosphorous use that destroyed swathes of southern Lebanon.

There is now nearly five decades of evidence of Israel trying to destroy the land on the Lebanese side of the border as part of its attempt to create a so-called buffer zone. Lebanese researchers have been documenting this since the 1978 invasion.

www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...