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Knowledge artist and technology watcher

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Incredible that the rule of law in the US is so weak that we need Albanians to provide support for anti-corruption activities in the US!
The US is unable to even check the corruption of the Trump family.
Pathetic!
The US can no longer lecture anybody about anything!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.

After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.

[The Other 98% @TheOther_9]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the kind of things the Republican Super Majority in Missouri has decided to cut after blowing a $600M hole in the budget by getting rid of the Capital Gains tax for the top 1%. They decided to spend another $10M in an already $50M school voucher program for private school attendees. But, yeah, cut free books for needy kids. This is absolutely monstrous (1/2)

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Here’s the deal for those confused: “America 250” is the bipartisan celebration committee. “Freedom 250” is a Trump organization celebrating him masquerading as a celebration of America. The concert was Freedom 250. Hence the cancellations

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It wasn't a secret, even then, who he was

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Barbarism from Israel. Again. And the world just watches.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The United States does not have corruption in its system today, corruption is the point of the system.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.

Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.

Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.

But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.

The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 China just switched on the world's largest offshore solar farm

2.3 million solar panels. 2,934 steel platforms. 11,736 piles driven into the ocean floor. Built to survive force-11 gales and sea ice.

It sits 5 miles off the coast and powers 2.67 million people.

Oh, and they're also farming fish underneath it 😳

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

We did it folks

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Trump Lost Iran, and America Lost The World.

He's such an unmitigated failure that it would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

https://t.co/aQCdyGJFEX

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 161
Active Redistricting Cases: 42
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 81
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 77
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29

Help them by spreading the word and subscribing now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Read George Packer's profile of David Sacks if you want to understand how a part of Silicon Valley turned against American democracy

https://t.co/VWz6USvWR8

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans:

1940: 81%
1950: 84%
1960: 91%
1970: 72%
1980: 70%
1990: 28%
2000: 40%
2010: 35%

For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.

The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly.

1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting.

No fertilizer. No crops. No food.

Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025.

160,000 farms closed since 2017.

Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year.

They're not struggling. They're being wiped out.

And the media is busy covering everything else.

The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

Long term follow up of a phase 1
trial of an mRNA tumor vaccine shows that 7/8 patients with pancreatic cancer, who mounted an immune response to the vaccine, are still alive 6 years later. This is breathtaking data and shows the promise of mRNA vaccines. https://t.co/J1kDmMRZQY

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Essential point, and it only gets more intense with time, such that a handful are oligarchs and the rest basically hopeless.