"Fewer than 100 days out, host cities haven’t received promised funding, and fears about ICE’s presence are widespread," writes @repnellie.bsky.social.
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"Fewer than 100 days out, host cities haven’t received promised funding, and fears about ICE’s presence are widespread," writes @repnellie.bsky.social.
Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social
As the U.S. gets dragged into yet another endless war in the Middle East by Donald Trump, at a bare minimum the American people deserve someone heading up the NSA who won’t have to learn on the job while defending our country against cyber attacks.
He also has no experience in national cyber matters. The country needs someone who is prepared on day one to protect this country from cyber adversaries like Iran, China and Russia.
This week the Senate is going to vote on Joshua Rudd to be Director of the NSA. He's a dangerous nominee to lead an agency with a history of abusing domestic surveillance capabilities. Here's why:
On Lawfare Daily, @pwbeck.bsky.social sat down with @seamushughes.bsky.social and @jacobware.bsky.social to discuss the FBI’s new NVE classification, the online terror group 764, challenges counterterrorism professionals face with a younger set of aspiring terrorists, and more. youtu.be/RwPAsGEz7HA
Read Claire Armitstead's report here:
thenerve.news/p/medics-extinction-rebellion-jp-morgan-climate-emergency-protest-trial-victory-empathy
Shattered windows, broken rules... and victory! The medics who protested against the climate emergency
The case of the six medics who broke the windows of JP Morgan during the heatwave of 2022 and were last month dramatically acquitted of causing criminal damage. The story was put on stage by Empathy Museum - In Case Of Emergency.
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
“Ellison and Oracle are deeply entwined with the Israeli government... Ellison is the biggest ever donor to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)... And Oracle’s technology plays a critical role in the Israeli military’s tech stack.”
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Picture of Farage from GB News website with the caption For GB News's funders, £130m is a small price to pay fro vast influence
GB News, the channel of “reactionary rage bait”, has released its latest accounts showing a £22m loss for 2024/25 (and a £131m total loss since launch)
Yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, writes @writesbright.bsky.social for the Nerve
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We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...
Today’s Litigation Tracker updates:
-Anthropic sues Pentagon over “supply chain risk” designation
-Student loan borrowers sue Education Dept for denying loan discharges, maintaining inaccurate info
-New suit challenges Trump admin’s “Censorship Policy”
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
A report out today from Yale Humanitarian Research Lab offers new evidence of starvation crimes in #Darfur.
#InternationalLaw professors Tom Dannenbaum and Oona Hathaway provide their legal analysis of the new data.
#Sudan
not particularly news to anyone, but it's still amazing & scandalous how people (or esp the supreme court, privileging donors over the public interest) think a democracy can survive with this level of oligarchic distortion (assuming against evidence that they want it to survive)
Today is day 1,476 of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine.Russia attacked civilians&kept destroying our country
▪️In Dnipro,10 people were injured,a 12yr old child among them.At least 8 residential buildings damaged.
▪️In Kharkiv,-10 people were injured,2 teenage girls among them
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Trump knows the power of leverage, but not of asymmetry. He needs to learn fast (via Bloomberg Opinion)
Multiple gunshots were fired at the Los Angeles home of Rihanna and police have taken a woman into custody.
On International Women’s Day we think of all the fabulous women past and present - including the female crew members at RNLI Queensferry who finished speaking to us and then headed out on a shout to rescue people on Cramond Island who were stranded without food and water
Advice to future proof landline phone systems now
In 2027 BT Openreach will close down landline phone systems, but it is possible to future proof phone systems now according to one West Lothian based business. It is 150 years to the day since Alexander Graham Bell first made the first phone call,…
📢 A Perth woman has fled the country after her ex-partner was granted bail ahead of his sentencing for assaulting her.
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📢 Thank goodness the government acted quickly to offer protection to the Iranian women’s soccer team. Let us hope they will do the same for refugees stranded in Iran.
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📢 A shortlist of developers has been finalised for the 12,000-seat indoor arena at Southport, which is slated to host Olympic events.
📢 Lachlan Bowles, 25, shot father-of-one Terry Czernowski in a rural WA town before turning the gun himself hours later during intense negotiations with WA Police’s tactical response unit.
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Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies? | Nasrin Parvaz
BREAKING Iran will continue missile attacks for as long as necessary says foreign minister, adding negotiations with US 'no longer on the agenda'
What we know about alleged strike on Iran school
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BREAKING The US Federal Aviation Administration says it has lifted a brief order grounding all JetBlue flights, after the airline suffered a system outage.
The FAA said in an advisory that the ground stop, which was in force for less than an hour, was issued at the airline's request
Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklisting.
The firm alleges the US government retaliated against Anthropic for refusing to let its Claude AI model be used for autonomous lethal warfare and mass surveillance of Americans
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