The UK High Court just dismissed a legal challenge against London's planned "mega embassy" for China.
Here's why this is a massive deal:
It'll be the largest Chinese embassy in Europe, built on a site local councillors rejected twice, before the government overruled them and approved it anyway.
MI5 and FBI chiefs have jointly called China "the biggest long-term threat" facing their countries, and this embassy sits feet away from the fiber-optic cables linking Canary Wharf and the City of London.
Those cables don't just carry UK transactions.
They carry financial data tied to global markets, including the US.
Nearly an entire floor of the building's blueprints is redacted with no description or explanation.
Among those fighting against it is Luke de Pulford, founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).
Campaigners lost at the High Court, but they're not done. Next stop: the Court of Appeal, then potentially the Supreme Court.
@lukedepulford@ipacglobal
83-year-old grandmother Brigitte Stegemann was euthanized against her will in Canada.
She declined MAiD, citing her Christian faith and her preference for a natural death.
Her granddaughter and primary caregiver was away on a 10-day vacation when staff reportedly held private conversations with Brigitte to convince her to die by lethal injection.
They reportedly claimed she had agreed to be killed, despite there being no evidence of her consent.
On the day of her death, her family says she remained silent, with her hands in a prayer position, and did not give the final verbal confirmation they had been assured would be required.
The injection proceeded anyway, and she was killed on July 10.
❗️BREAKING - 🇨🇳 MEGA EMBASSY LEGAL FIGHT HITS FIRST HURDLE, SUPPORT NEEDED.
The High Court has found *against* the mega-embassy judicial review claimants (@StopTheEmbassy). Expected but disappointing.
Next stage: appeal.
To support 👇
https://t.co/n5rXXRQxOz
Ten years as a Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland was worth $600,000 entering and reported 40 Million in savings when leaving Politic's. Quite the financial planner!
🚨 SILENCE IS COMPLICITY: 3 Young Women In Grave Danger In Iran 🚨
Shakila Ghasemi (26), Mahdieh Yousefi (19), and Diana Taherabadi (16) have been held captive by the Islamic Republic for nearly six months.
They are being kept in complete isolation and subjected to severe physical and psychological torture, far from the media spotlight.
With no news, no headlines, and no legal rights, their lives remain in immediate danger.
The regime relies on our silence to commit these atrocities.
We cannot let these brave young women be forgotten in the shadows.
Amplify their names. Demand their release. Be their voice! 🕊️💔
#ShakilaGhasemi #MahdiehYousefi #DianaTaherabadi #StopExecutionsInIran
HOLY CRAP 👀 Chinese Canadian NATO spy already had a case in Canada 🇨🇦
Claire (Biwei) Zhang v. Attorney General of Canada. 2023.
Then CSIS cleared her to go be an intern at NATO in 2025
THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯
A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:
"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."
Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."
They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.
It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."
Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.
That's when they found the loophole.
Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.
One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.
Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.
If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.
They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.
And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.
The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.
They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.
Why has not a single celebrity spoken up about the horrendous executions of young protestors in Iran?
Why is it not an issue worth giving a damn about?
I guess it is doesn't matter bring the clicks or "likes" or views on TikTok
🔴Urgent:
Sagher Gholami is only 19 years old, and her death sentence has been confirmed.
Her mother has asked us to be her voice.
Please help and share her photo and her name.
#saghargholami#ساغرغلامی
This is the worst mass doxxing I've ever seen
Just personally searched several high end apartment buildings that include people I personally know's PRIMARY residence (not pied a terre)
Not only were their units listed, but nearly every unit in the entire building was listed
They clearly took an incredibly expansive view of "could be" and just doxxed a huge percentage of all expensive apartments in new york city
Fuck absolutely everyone involved in this, this is incredibly dangerous
👀 In response to the 2nd U.S. Consulate shooting this morning, @MayorOliviaChow says she called @Gary_SRP to "remove the illegal American guns off our street," the same response she gave 2 weeks ago, after the Salsa on St. Clair shooting.
A passerby yells "Olivia Chow sucks."
A Muslim man named Ismail Abrahimzada just drove through a crowd of children in Canada.
I wonder if any of our politicians will Tweet anything today. I'd say the odds of that happening are slim to none.