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Facial Recognition Rejected In Europe Is Monitoring Brazil’s Schoolchildren Europe-made biometric software has embedded itself into Brazil’s education sector — with potential consequences far beyond the classroom.

1/ As Europe tries to restrict AI technologies at home, systems developed on the continent are being rolled out overseas. Reporting by Investigate Europe, published in partnership with Tech Policy Press, tracks how Europe-made biometric software has embedded itself into Brazil’s education sector.

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How the presser ended when the box wine had run its course.

Yikes

Mike Johnson: It truly is promises made, promises kept

No change: Page still leads Berger by 23 in NC Senate District 26 after final county tallies • NC Newsline NC Senate Leader Phil Berger is expected to ask for a recount in his race against Sheriff Sam Page, where the final county canvass shows Berger still trailing.

Final count (before a recount): The state senate president of NC, Phil Berger, lost his primary by 23 votes. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/13/n...

Trump says white South Africans are persecuted; some are returning to a better life — Reuters Andrew Veitch left South Africa after being held up at gunpoint in his car. But now he feels there are greater threats in the United States, ​he said, citing mass shootings in public places as well as...

South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...

Impressively deadpan delivery of this whopper.

Trump ally Ric Grenell stepping down as Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell, the longtime Republican foreign policy adviser who instituted far reaching changes at the Kennedy Center that prompted many artists to abandon the iconic performing arts venue, will step down as the institution’s president.

Richard Grenell, President Trump's ally who oversaw far reaching changes at the Kennedy Center, will step down as the institution’s president.

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I wrote about congressional Democrats’ incoherent, AIPAC-friendly, lawyerly messaging strategy around Iran that largely focuses on Trump’s supposed lack of “planning” and “consulting Congress,” while deemphasizing—or outright ignoring—clear demands to immediately end the war.

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Again, we ask: Why?

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Federal Judge Temporarily Maintains Deportation Protections for Somalis The termination of protections was set to go into effect Tuesday.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s termination of deportation protections for Somalis on Friday.
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Jerome Powell

Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.

Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.

But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.

BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked DOJ subpoenas targeting Fed Chair Jerome Powell, ruling there is “a mountain of evidence” they were used to pressure Powell to lower interest rates or resign. Trump’s social media posts are featured prominently in the opinion.

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has rejected DOJ’s subpoenas for Jerome Powell, finding they were issued for an improper purpose — Trump’s bid to pressure him to lower interest rates storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oh jeez. A judge said no go for harassing Jerome Powell feed chair. No subpoena.

Judge box o wine gonna have a cray cray presser coming up

Jerome Powell subpoena quashed. 💯👍

Breaking: Judge Boasberg quashes subpoenas sent to the Federal Reserve Board as part of an investigation into Jerome Powell, per newly unsealed court records.

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This guy is really something. He truly thinks everyone else besides him is a complete moron. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

A ballistic missile fired by Iran at central Israel on Friday carried a cluster bomb warhead, according to initial military assessments and video footage. - TOI