Douglas Quail

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

You’ve got some shit on your nose, Pam.

They tortured me for three days and put me in solitary confinement for three months, and I was sentenced to one year in prison.

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

I can’t believe the number of brain dead dipshits in the USA who voted for this fucking idiot 3 times.

I’m sure @elonmusk and the rest of the free speech brigade and ‘Europe has fallen to censorship’ brigade will be all over this story, right? Right???

The new Acting Attorney General 🤡 Todd Blanche: We’re not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files or release their names to the public. Keep talking, keep sharing.

JUST IN - Pete Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George — Reuters

🇫🇷 French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan was taken into police custody in Paris on Thursday over a social media post French authorities allege constitutes “apology for terrorism,” according to multiple French media reports. The allegation centers on a March 26 post on X in which Hassan quoted Kozo Okamoto — a member of the Japanese Red Army convicted for his role in a 1972 operation with PFLP at Ben Gurion Airport that killed 26 people — writing: “I gave my youth to the Palestinian cause. As long as there is oppression, resistance is not only a right, it is a duty.” Hassan later deleted the post. A complaint was filed by far-right National Rally lawmaker Matthias Renault. Hassan is a French-Palestinian lawyer and activist elected to the European Parliament in 2024, and one of France’s most prominent pro-Palestinian voices. Her party, La France Insoumise, condemned the detention. “So there is no longer parliamentary immunity in France. Intolerable,” party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon wrote on X.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ She was released on Thursday and is set to hold a conference Friday.

⭕️🇷🇺 The Strait of Hormuz is “open for us,” Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said Thursday – a public acknowledgment of the geopolitical reality emerging in the world’s most critical oil shipping lane. 🔹While nearly 2,000 vessels remain stranded inside the Persian Gulf, Iran has continued to grant passage to ships from countries it considers non-hostile. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed last week that China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan have been allowed through. Philippines announced a deal today as well. 🔹The remarks came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Araghchi spoke by phone Thursday to discuss what the Russian government later noted as the “safety of navigation” in the waterway. The statement added that both sides also exchanged views on UN Security Council discussions on the strait and “the unprovoked aggression of the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran.” 🔹 Iran’s readout noted that FM Araghchi in the phone call condemned U.S. and Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure, including universities, bridges, and an Orthodox Church in Tehran, calling the attacks a “clear violation of international regulations.” He also warned that any UN Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz “not only solves no problem but itself becomes part of the problem.”

Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance. Not a peep from Sheryl Sandberg.

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn. Every time you log in, we search your computer. Not metaphorically. We run code that scans your installed software. Every browser extension. Every application. We catalog it. We transmit it to our servers. We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of. The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide. We hid it off-screen. You never consented. We never asked. Our privacy policy doesn't mention it. That's networking. We call the program Project Handshake internally. The Slack channel is handshake-telem. In 2024 we scanned for 461 products. By February this year we scan for over 6,000. I don't know what all of them are. Nobody does. Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims. Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users. Someone added 509 job search tools. That last one is my favorite. We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs. On the platform where their current boss checks their profile. That's networking. We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools. Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo. We know each user's real name, employer, and job title. We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products. We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers. Without anyone knowing. Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught. The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools. We published two restricted APIs. They handle 0.07 calls per second. Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times. That's networking. I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter. The conference room is called The Fishbowl. Glass walls. Appropriate. There's a plaque on the wall. Q3 Competitive Landscape Award. I won it for the extension scanning initiative. Someone asked if users had a way to opt out. I said they can close their browser. The room laughed. I wasn't sure why. I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions. Most of the team does. The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit. We know your name. We know your employer. We know your religion. Your disabilities. Your politics. Whether you're looking to leave. That's networking. The system works exactly as designed. I designed it.

🚨 BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down immediately and retire. This dramatic shakeup comes in the midst of the ongoing war against Iran, which raises some significant questions. This is scary!

1/ Arrivé récemment sur X, j'ai été effaré par le laisser-aller de la modération. J'ai toujours combattu le racisme et je ne vais pas m'arrêter là. J'ai du temps et je suis prêt à en payer le prix mental. ➡️ #Signal1facho

Hundreds of U.S. personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the U.S. launched a war on Iran just over a month ago. CENTCOM has sent outdated statements on casualty numbers. interc.pt/4cm5Ua4

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Pendant toute la journée, sur la base de fuites policières illégales, Rima Hassan a été salie, insultée et calomniée dans toute la presse. En vérité, ELLE N’AVAIT AUCUNE DROGUE SUR ELLE, seulement du CBD, parfaitement légal et utilisé à des fins médicales. Ce n’est pas la première fois que des fuites sont organisées dans la police et la justice pour salir les insoumis. Ces pratiques sont illégales, en violation totale du secret de l’enquête et de la présomption d’innocence. Elles n’ont rien à faire dans la police et dans la justice. Le ministre de l’Intérieur et le ministre de la Justice doivent diligenter immédiatement des enquêtes internes pour sanctionner les responsables de ces pratiques et y mettre un terme. Les journalistes qui ont diffusé ces fausses accusations infamantes sans aucune prudence doivent présenter leurs excuses et rétablir la réalité des faits. Nous saisissons l’@Arcom_fr pour que des sanctions soient prises contre ces médias. Quant aux responsables politiques de la macronie et de l’extrême droite qui, comme à leurs habitudes, ont sauté sur l’occasion pour dénigrer la France insoumise, ils ont à nouveau fait la démonstration de leur malhonnêteté et de leur opportunisme. Les voilà désormais tous couverts de honte.

Rima Hassan libérée. Donc, ni motif de garde à vue (mais la dénonciation d'un député RN), ni drogue en dépit d'une fuite organisée de la police sur les médias qui se sont dépêchés de la diffuser sans vérifier. La boucle française habituelle justice-police-média pour persécuter les militants de la défense des palestiniens. Minable. Tous ces exécutants de basses oeuvres croyaient que la loi Yadan était adoptée comme prévu. La macronie n'est pas une démocratie.

Je réserve l’ensemble de mes déclarations à la conférence de presse que mon avocat et moi tiendrons demain après-midi. Pendant toute la journée, sur la base de fuites illégales, j’ai dû subir des accusations m'imputant la possession de plusieurs drogues. Ces accusations sont totalement fausses : seule la présence de CBD a été constatée parmi mes effets personnels, ce qui est parfaitement légal et que j’utilise à des fins médicales. Mon avocat engagera des poursuites pour diffamation contre toute personne ayant propagé ou relayé ces fausses rumeurs.