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[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

On Thursday, the European Parliament “adopted” the extension of Chat Control 1.0. This is the temporary suspension of the EU’s ePrivacy rules that allows tech platforms to mass-scan citizens’ private communications, ostensibly to detect child sexual abuse material. “Adopted” is placed in quotation marks here because the word implies something that conspicuously failed to happen: a majority of MEPs voting in favour. In fact, 314 MEPs voted to reject the text, against 276 in favour. And yet it passed anyway.

This was made possible through a procedural sleight of hand worthy of Brussels at its most cynical. The file was rammed through under an “urgency procedure”: European Parliament President Roberta Metsola unilaterally reopened a dossier that MEPs had already rejected in March, and the Council conveniently bounced it back at the start of the summer recess, when securing attendance is hardest. Rejecting it a second time would have required not a simple majority but an absolute one: 360 votes. The law was therefore approved despite a majority of MEPs voting against it. The regulation will now remain in force until April 2028, buying time for negotiations on its even more ambitious successor, Chat Control 2.0.

As German MEP @FabioDeMasi noted following the vote, Chat Control is a “legislative zombie” — a measure the European Parliament has rejected multiple times, revived again and again until the desired outcome emerges. This episode should give pause to those who insist that the EU’s democratic deficit could be cured by handing more power to the European Parliament. Here is that very institution’s president working with the Council to resurrect a file the Parliament itself had buried. If this is how the Parliament operates, empowering it further would only deepen this democratic deficit, lending a thicker veneer of legitimacy to what remains, at bottom, an executive-bureaucratic machine that treats votes as obstacles to be engineered around.

Continue reading here: https://t.co/yxWOZ07vTA

[Stefano Barazzetta @stebaraz]

Colpa dei giovani che non hanno voglia di lavorare

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I’m so happy Trump and Infantino tried to rig this for the US. This feels so delicious.

[pollane @pollane8x]

@USMNT Sukate merde.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I’m trying to imagine being 20 years old and being ordered to torture an elderly celebrated physician who’s being endlessly detained without charges. Most would refuse that order. It’s an indictment of Israeli society that they seem to have no problem finding people to do it.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Crime is legal my dudes

[Onze Masr 🇪🇬 @onzemasr]

En pleine séance photo avec un jeune supporter, le staff égyptien est violemment agressé par la police américaine à Dallas. 🤮

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.

We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.

Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The US ended Germany access to cheap energy by destroying Nord Stream and then provided economic incentives for the struggling German industries to relocate to the US. However, our "journalists" can inform us the problem is a "full-blown assault" by China.

[ottolinatv @ottolinatv]

🇺🇸 Per 12 anni Miles Guo è stato presentato come un eroico dissidente cinese in fuga dal regime di Pechino.

💰 Oggi l’oligarca cinese in esilio è stato condannato negli Stati Uniti a 30 anni di carcere per una frode da circa 1 miliardo di dollari ai danni di comuni cittadini.

🛥️ Secondo l’accusa, con quei soldi avrebbe finanziato una vita da super lusso tra yacht, attici e spese milionarie.

📺 Eppure, quando lasciò la Cina nel 2014 per sfuggire a una condanna per frode e corruzione, molti media occidentali e diversi ambienti politici americani lo descrivevano come una vittima della persecuzione politica.

🌍 Questo nonostante su di lui pendesse anche un mandato internazionale richiesto dalle autorità cinesi.

⚖️ Dopo anni di polemiche e propaganda, i tribunali statunitensi hanno stabilito che Guo era effettivamente un criminale e non l’eroe che per anni era stato raccontato all’opinione pubblica.

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[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

Since we’re back on this subject, another reminder:

No Palestinian journalist has ever been filmed literally blowing up civilian homes while on the job. Can’t say the same for Israeli journalists.

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

In Monaco, Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Yermolaev was blown up in a terrorist attack. His wife and child were injured.

Yermolaev had a conflict with Zelensky’s team. In 2023, Zelensky imposed sanctions against him, leading to attempts to seize his business in Ukraine.

He owned significant real estate in Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s largest cities.

The Yermolaev family controls around 150 fraudulent call centers in Ukraine that scam pensioners in the EU, the US, and Russia. Profits from these operations amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

In December 2025, his son was detained in Cyprus at Interpol’s request for organizing scam call centers. The charges were extremely serious, but in April 2026 Artur was released from an Estonian prison on €8 million bail.

Yermolaev was also involved in the production of construction materials and fuel supplies - very profitable businesses in wartime conditions. Zelensky’s team tried to take them away for a long time, but Yermolaev resisted.

As a result, there was an attempt to assassinate his entire family.

Reminder: A year ago in Spain, former head of the Ukrainian President’s administration Andrey Portnov was killed. In Ukraine, this murder is also linked to his conflict with Zelensky.

[pollane @pollane8x]

@VideoCardz You may easily erase all your data.

[pollane @pollane8x]

@VideoCardz Be careful with the downloadable iso because it is basically a recovery tool and does not work like other linux based installation tools.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

I'm voting for whoever promises to put these 9 people in jail... forever.

[You Know Who @MuskTillDawn]

People are dragging him for walking in with his finger on the trigger but you have to understand that he’s trained to do that when he sees children

[pollane @pollane8x]

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[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

"No, on Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."

More cold, hard evidence of the Israeli government's stated intention to commit genocide in Gaza while killing hundreds of its own citizens under the Hannibal Directive on Oct 7