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Commission unveils Roadmap for lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement

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Germany to boost defence spending at faster rate than France or UK

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EU executive kills anti-greenwashing bill ahead of final talks

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Greenland has given permission to a Canadian mining company to explore for molybdenum, a metal critical to the production of steel, amid growing demand from the defense industry.

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U.S. EMBASSY ALERT – QATAR: The U.S. Embassy has temporarily restricted personnel from accessing Al Udeid Air Base and is advising both staff and American citizens in Qatar to exercise increased vigilance.

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Why is taylor swift brazil one of the most blocked accounts on bluesky

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New Publication! 📣 When do governments limit digital rights through law? Read "Legalizing Control: The Rise of Restrictive Internet Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa" by @realmps.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1351... For a quick overview, read the 1-pager below.

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Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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It’s always kinda wild to me that, even in the West, journalists rarely mention the fact that RSS and Hindutva are the movement that killed Mahatma Gandhi, and are still proud of it to this day.

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Nigel Farage has announced that Reform UK will accept donations in Bitcoin. Who might make such donations? In March, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social detailed who funds Reform: www.prospectmagazine...

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All the people who were extremely proud of saying "I may not agree with what you're saying but I will defend your right to say it" suddenly seem to have forgotten those words

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“Until recently, what are known inside Meta as privacy and integrity reviews were conducted almost entirely by human evaluators. But now, according to internal company documents obtained by NPR, up to 90% of all risk assessments will soon be automated.”

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As U.S. heavy lift flights continue in and out the ME region (returning kit or flying even more in, who knows), what looks like AAR support for HMS PoW CSG transit of the Red Sea, and surveillance of the all important and vulnerable Straits Of Hormuz.

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband. Is there no end to our shameful behavior? www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

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Thank you, @altcdc.altgov.info for keeping our story in the headlines. Too bad @cnn.com @washingtonpost.com and others have catered to the Tangerine Empire. Maybe @apnews.com can help too? Let's make some noise!!! www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-tran...

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I got some of my silly little paintings into a local show and I am very happy about it

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this is just delaying the inevitable collective meltdown when maga bruce fans can no longer reconcile the boss’s open and completely characteristic disdain for their idiot hero, when they’re forced to choose between the two things they love most. you can only kick that can down the road for so long

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DIA mentions Russian nuclear air-to-air missile. armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfile... Potentially AA-13 (R37?) displayed in 2024 exercise. Says Russia "very unlikely" to use nukes unless facing existential threat to regime. Check FAS Russia nuke brief today: lu.ma/izqaqo3m

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They set fire to a hotel where refugees were forced to live, attacked mosques and homes, stopped people driving into an area if they weren’t white. “grievances” remember violent racism is always our fault

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ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.

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I wrote the definitive book on “continuity of government” and let me tell you: The idea of the US commander-in-chief flying on a plane from a foreign govt is a literal security nightmare. There’s a reason the US is the only country in the world that provides its leader his own helicopters overseas.

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The kid gives hope. The person with the mic, and the fact that these questions were even asked? Gives horror.

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Scoop: NIST's Computer Security Division — responsible for research & standards on cyber, privacy, cryptography, AI, etc. — has lost more than a dozen people, including its chief, to early retirements. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nist-cy... The departures could imperil key work.

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Technology Secretary Peter Kyle reportedly no longer prefers an "opt-out" approach to AI and copyright, according to The Guardian. An opt-out model would create the presumption that AI companies may train models on publisher and creator content unless they explicitly forbade it.

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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And this by @mmaggiori.bsky.social is just wildly impressive - use LLMs to parse earnings calls and figure out what kinds of economic coercion businesses are worried about - www.globalcapitalallocation.com/geoeconomic-...

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1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

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The fake election rigging item is the worst, but this whole list is outrageous. "Learn how President Trump was awesome and ushered in a Golden Age" is utterly wrong as public school learning standards

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"Finnish Coast Guard Reports Dangerous Incident with Shadow Fleet Tanker" maritime-executive.com/article/finn...

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This is another trope that helps associate grid catastrophes with energy transition without evidence. I call it the Object Proximity tactic: they drops (a) the blackout occurred and (b) there's a high share of renewables, and then just waggles their eyebrows meaningfully -> archive.ph/aaxUT

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Container bookings from China to the United States are nosediving. @financialtimes.com (via Kevin Gordon)

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not saying China doesn’t have a ton of structural problems as a global economic superpower but it is still punishingly funny that Trump and bunch of his MAGA deputies had psyched themselves into believing that in this kind of shambolic massive trade war, China wouldn’t immediately get the upper hand

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So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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My painting LOST COAST

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If you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private logs. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/20/i...

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