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submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk quietly deleted a post that said he would hand out two $1 million checks to people who had already voted in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Federal law prohibits payments to Americans in exchange for their registering to vote or casting ballots.

submitted 52 days ago • 180 comments

As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid. An analysis by The New York Times reveals how these words are being removed from government websites. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 73 days ago • 67 comments

TLDR: The 51st state talk is not a joke. It is a consistent delivery of threats to Canadian sovereignty at the highest levels of government. Our reporting out today. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

submitted 73 days ago • 86 comments

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."

submitted 101 days ago • 49 comments

This is the worst classification scandal in 20 years. According to someone who knows: Trump has done more for China in a couple of weeks than Xi could have dreamed.

submitted 101 days ago • 122 comments

"This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 101 days ago • 57 comments

Un ancien conseiller de George W. Bush affirme qu'un homme d'affaires ouzbek l'a engagé pour faire pression en faveur de sanctions américaines contre un rival commercial local @icij.org #lobbby

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Neuer Trend: Immer mehr Autofahrer steigen von SUV auf Panzer um

submitted 113 days ago • 15 comments

I joined @daralind.bsky.social on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social’s podcast to dig into the weeds (so to speak) of Trump’s first week in office. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...

submitted 114 days ago • 14 comments

Ted Cruz, 2/3/16: "We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark. That’s not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...

submitted 114 days ago • 120 comments

Thousands of leaked emails show that, while Demetris Ioannides served as MeritServus' director and the firm administered portions of Deloitte’s business in Cyprus, the companies collaborated intimately to support Roman Abramovich’s vast offshore network.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Nachhaltig: Saudi-Arabien will Stadien nach WM für Hinrichtungen verwenden

submitted 158 days ago • 33 comments

An honor to have the No. 1 #TEDTalk of 2024. Many thanks to my team. Full talk here: youtu.be/qEJ4hkpQW8E?...

submitted 159 days ago • 22 comments

Five years since ICIJ’s #ChinaCables investigation, Uyghurs in exile and advocates say the ethnic minority group’s conditions haven’t improved. Read the investigation's anniversary piece:

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent

submitted 163 days ago • 60 comments

Kash Patel, whom Donald Trump plans to nominate as F.B.I. director, "has helpfully provided us with a list of people President Biden should pardon before he leaves office," writes the columnist Michelle Goldberg. nyti.ms/3VpSAsk

submitted 164 days ago • 13 comments

In Venezuela, at least 10 journalists have been arrested since the recent electoral campaigns began, and eight remain in prison “under false charges and in worrying conditions,” according to @rsf-inter.bsky.social, which advocates for freedom of information.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

The British government’s decision to sanction Isabel dos Santos and associates follows a series of criminal charges and asset freezes brought by multiple governments against the daughter of Angola’s former president after ICIJ’s #LuandaLeaks in 2020. https://buff.ly/3CZbRui

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Solid column by Peggy Noonan, whom I usually do not recommend: “But these nominees seem as if they want a demolition derby everywhere. That isn’t a plan for progress but a recipe for unproductive chaos—nonstop, systemwide, all agencies involved.” www.wsj.com/opinion/bipa...

submitted 165 days ago • 48 comments

“There are just two major pacts governing nuclear weapons in the cosmos, both of which predate Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon,” W.J. Hennigan writes. Decades later, are they enough to protect against a new space Cold War? nyti.ms/4imfWsG

submitted 165 days ago • 10 comments

Politico is reporting that Ric Grenell offered MAGA influencers five-figure contracts to promote him on social media for Sec of State. I went back and looked and found a bunch within a 3-day window. Here are a few.

submitted 165 days ago • 593 comments

My article today - How one of the world's richest men, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang, is on pace to dodge $8 billion in taxes: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

submitted 165 days ago • 18 comments

Breaking News: Top leaders at the World Anti-Doping Agency froze out their own investigators after they flagged concerns about doping among Chinese athletes.

submitted 167 days ago • 14 comments

"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie." My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:

submitted 167 days ago • 603 comments

President Vladimir Putin of Russia and senior Kremlin officials “intentionally and directly” authorized a program of coerced fostering and adoption of Ukrainian children during the war in Ukraine, according to a new report that provides strong evidence for a war crimes case.

submitted 167 days ago • 72 comments

💯 f’g %

submitted 168 days ago • 340 comments

2,000 Mules -- a movie full of debunked and bogus claims -- is a central part of the election denialism movement. Now - two and a half years after its release - its creator Dinesh D'Souza is admitting the movie got some things wrong.... www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/p...

submitted 168 days ago • 35 comments

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

submitted 167 days ago • 403 comments

The lack of self-awareness is almost impressive.

submitted 169 days ago • 1329 comments

Great to see #CaspianCabals @icij.org @zdfde.bsky.social @derstandard.at @spiegel.de (&many more) featured in @gijn.org‘s „Stories of the Week“ 🎊

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

This is just a small handful of the hundreds of pardons Trump gave to drug traffickers, violent felons, fraudsters, donors, friends, cronies, wealthy businessmen, campaign aides, and Republican politicians.

submitted 168 days ago • 233 comments

#Xodus #BlueSky

submitted 171 days ago • 164 comments

When making a MAGA cabinet, it's very important to strike a careful balance between billionaires, sex criminals, Russian assets, anti-vaxxers, and just plain unpleasant people.

submitted 170 days ago • 195 comments

@radiofreetom.bsky.social: “If Trump’s goal is to break the FBI and undermine its missions, Kash Patel is the perfect nominee.” theatln.tc/cOjt89s7

submitted 170 days ago • 11 comments

www.change.org/p/grant-amne...

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

www.srf.ch/news/dialog/...

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Günstiger, als Spielgeld zu drucken: Neue Monopoly-Edition verwendet Rubel-Scheine

submitted 172 days ago • 9 comments

In Poland, one death of this kind sparked a huge national protest

submitted 171 days ago • 72 comments

Much of the money in this agreement climate negotiators reached in Baku will likely be structured as debt, even though, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social writes, that stands in the way of COP’s stated goals.

submitted 176 days ago • 7 comments

they died for nothing

submitted 176 days ago • 56 comments

Was soll man von #Klimakonferenzen wie #COP29Baku halten,die von CEOs der Gas & Ölindustrie geleitet werden, ihnen geht's um die Absicherung ihrer Pfründe solange das Ölgeschäft im Karussell von Angebot/Nachfrage bestimmt wird ➡️#Verbrenneraus ist zwingend www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...

submitted 176 days ago • 10 comments

Ich liebe Weltklimakonferenzen, am Anfang heißt es immer „dieses Mal braucht es aber wirklich einen Durchbruch“, dann zwei Wochen „schwierige Verhandlungen“, dann „naja das rettet jetzt das Klima nicht, aber immerhin ein Kompromiss!“

submitted 176 days ago • 67 comments

ICIJ's new #CaspianCabals investigation reveals how Chevron and partners prioritized profits, enabling runaway costs and ballooning budgets worth billions as Russia deployed strong-arm tactics and steered contracts to cronies. Read the story:

submitted 177 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

submitted 177 days ago • 9 comments