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PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."

BOMBSHELL CONFIRMED: The Supreme Court corruption scandal that was lingering from a year ago? We can now call it CONFIRMED today. Chief Justice John Roberts' wife pocketed $10.3 million recruiting for law firms with cases before his court. He illegally labeled it "salary" instead of commission on disclosure forms. Justice Clarence Thomas took $500,000+ luxury yacht trips, $133,000 real estate deals, and decades of private jet vacations from billionaire Harlan Crow—all hidden from the public. Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a $1.8 million property to the CEO of Greenberg Traurig—a law firm with 22 cases before the Court—just nine days after his confirmation. He left the buyer's name BLANK on his disclosure forms. Republicans: "The Supreme Court is impartial!" The Supreme Court: a billionaire-funded cash register. Three justices. Three scandals. Tens of millions in hidden money and favors. This isn't a court. It's a corruption convention with robes. Tell me again why we should trust these people with our rights?

@Gilles_Borghese @CO2Coalition "The image misrepresents a routine coordinate-geometry averaging step as deliberate fraud, then builds a false physics model on that misrepresentation. It's a common flat-Earth-adjacent argument that circulates in climate denial communities." -Claude

@CO2Coalition For folks unfamiliar with energy physics, it's just plain wrong to divide the Sun/4 and then call the energy values reduced by ¾’s an "average". Even math averages have to obey energy conservation principle. Absurdity that compromises intelligent people into moral corruption.

Developed countries (e.g., USA, Germany, and France) have the unfair advantage over developing countries (e.g., Republic of the Congo, Republic of Kenya, and Sri Lanka) in imposing climate rules that enforce the use of expensive renewable energy based on flawed climate models with inflated CO2 concentrations. This review attempts to bring attention to this irregular practice by amassing empirical data from field measurements on CO2 that contradict climate models. The content is presented in two parts, (1) the “PhanDA” model and (2) the CO2─1,000 ppm limit. Read the full publication using the link below! co2coalition.org/publications/t…

Dean: Why did you lie about your relationship with Epstein? Please don't repeat your gracious offer to speak behind closed doors, not under oath. Lutnick: The Oversight committee agreed— Dean: I do not accept that answer, heard that one. We are our own committee. Why did you lie?

Having grown up in the desert 💯

WHOA. In less than 12 hours, tens of thousands of Americans have helped launch GTFOice.org. People don’t want warehouse prison camps in their communities. Amazing to see the outpouring of defiance.

@LeavingMAGA No they're not. They're closeted racists before Trump and overt ones after. I'll give grace to the ones who are single issue like things such as abortion, which are understandably controversial. Fuck the rest of them

As someone who was in MAGA for 7 years, what I can attest to is: much of the appeal of MAGA is that it provides a community for those who feel politically disillusioned and left behind. These feelings should be acknowledged and validated; I am not defending ignorance, but most in MAGA are good people who have been led astray. The case that needs to be made to MAGA supporters is that we agree more than we disagree.

🚨🚨🚨 Big news from Brussels: the Hungarian veto has been officially lifted. The EU finally adopts its €90 billion loan for Ukraine and the 20th package of sanctions against Russia. It’s done.

Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. An elderly convict who regularly shits himself in public says it's open. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

We may disagree on damn near everything under the sun, but I think it's safe to say a bipartisan issue is convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: She should never, ever, ever, EVER receive a pardon. Am I right?

@anthon7yandrews @Sam74243610 It would take us decades to ramp up enough fusion power plants to make a difference. We could build regular nukes in the same time and about the same space for about the same value - and much lower cost. Fusion is no more danger to fossil fuels than standard nukes

My guess about the dead scientists is that a major breakthrough in Fusion technology occurred and it would destroy the fossil fuel industry. Significant progress had been made recently, then silence.

Bye, fucker! Sen. John Fetterman receives no support for re-election from Pennsylvania House Democrats

Wow. Tim Snyder with a chilling new term: “Superpower suicide.” “I’m trying to emphasize choices that are being made to make us weaker. Deliberately alienating allies, not being able to handle adversaries, breaking down the international order.”

🚨 SCOTUS SCANDAL EXPLODES: Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly HID $20 MILLION+ in his wife’s commissions from Big Law firms that argue before SCOTUS, then refused to recuse in over 500 cases! He mischaracterized the cash as “salary” and buried her equity stake for years. JOHN ROBERTS MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY or be impeached. WHERE ARE GOP "LEADERS"? @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune

@MyRadarWX Did I just learn why they are "high pressure" systems?

THE DRYLINE – no place in the world has a dryline as robust, sharp and impactful as we have in North America. It's an extreme clash that exists on an order of miles. Tropical, Florida-like moisture juxtaposed against desert dryness. In Oklahoma, a simple drive of 5 miles separates a Sahara-like airmass from rainforest-like moisture. Unless you've experienced it, it's hard to believe. Dew points will vary by 50 degrees in barely 8 miles! The dryline is responsible for some of our nation's most dramatic weather. The clashing air masses routinely brew severe thunderstorms with tornadoes, baseball-sized hail and torrential rains. Like clockwork, rounds of violent storms crop up every April and May. Unlike cold fronts, drylines don't bring dropping temperatures. It often stays warm or even gets HOTTER behind storms. So how does the dryline work? Thunderstorms happen because the dry air is denser than moist air. Yes, really! Air is mostly nitrogen gas (N2), which weighs more per molecule than water vapor (water gas). So the more water in the air, the lighter the air is compared to dry air, which is mostly N2. That's why the dry, dense air effectively impinges upon, and kicks up, pockets of moisture-laden air to the east. That often generates storms.

Because I get asked a lot. Why we must fight Palantir, in brief. 1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without censorship. The Internet is not the property of any one government or nation. 2. The Internet enables mass surveillance at a scale unimaginable to the Gestapo and the Cheka. Far too many programmers have wasted their lives at building surveillance systems under the guise of Web advertising. Today, these web tracking systems are being used to monitor, control, and even kill humans by companies like Palantir that seek to combine state violence with corporate efficiency, and thus create a new form of technofascism. 3. Surveillance justified by external national security threats will be turned against citizens inside the nation-state. Mass surveillance was once the exclusive domain of the NSA, but today it has been privatized to corporations like Palantir that are unaccountable to any democratic process. What begins as fear of external foreign nation-states turns inwards to focus on immigrants, dissidents, and eventually to anyone that might challenge the status quo or try to exit an increasingly dysfunctional society. 4. Everyone is a target. The “enemy within” continually expands until it encompasses the entire population of a nation regardless of their status and beliefs, justifying evermore paranoid and totalizing surveillance. The line between policing and military operations blurs, with legal frameworks being replaced by technological violence operating with total impunity. 5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Meek calls for regulation or moralizing demands for human rights are useless in this era. Any rights must be enforced by the hard power of code. Code, not laws, can be used to uphold the right to privacy by making surveillance difficult, if not impossible, even by nation-state adversaries. 6. We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations that fought in the world wars, most of our current rulers are degenerate pedophiles who would sacrifice the well-being of the youth and the entire planet due to their infantile desire for wealth and power. Technology of surveillance and automated warfare reflects their increasingly desperate attempts to maintain archaic forms of domination. 7. The American Empire is unraveling. Once, the United States of America presided over a globe where it could enforce its rule via the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency and a network of equally global military bases, but new regional powers now directly challenge the United States as its empire dissolves in the face of internal economic stagnation, political corruption, and the inflation of the dollar. 8. In a real war, fantasies of total technological dominance always backfire. When a faceless drone kills a child’s father, that child will one day take revenge regardless of the cost, something forgotten by those raised in comfortable suburbs. Going beyond zero-sum games, one can only truly win a battle against a people by demonstrating your victory provides a better way of life, increased prosperity, and an inspiring philosophy. 9. Oddly enough, proponents of fully automated warfare support a universal draft. Deep-down, these keyboard warriors know that their technofascist fantasies are a paper tiger when up against determined opponents that engage in asymmetric warfare. They also know none of their children will fight in a war for their state but they would be happy to see other people’s children come home in body-bags. 10. The problem is not whether AI weapons will be built; we must hold responsible those who are building them. No matter which country is deploying automated killing machines, no one is absolved from the murder of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure due to the parlour-trick of shifting the blame to AI. 11. Atomic war is on the horizon. As various states descend into wars over increasingly scarce natural resources, the possibility of tactical nuclear strikes over Teheran, Kyiv, and other areas of conflict has returned to the historical stage. Increasingly geriatric and authoritarian rulers face less guardrails than before to deploying nuclear weapons, and may even be willing to sacrifice the survival of humanity to appease their own petty egos. 12. Our goal is a world of peace where every person can be empowered by the Internet. Modern war is the quintessential game of sending young people to the meat-grinder. Why die for the profit of corrupt rulers when one could build real wealth and power for yourself using the Internet? 13. We should fight for the world we want, and build the tools needed by future generations. Pacifism would be suicidal in this period of global turbulence and resource wars, but real hard power lies in technology: Programmers should be creating technologies to live a free life and prosper in a hostile society of surveillance and control, and decentralization is the only way these technologies will survive against the inevitable repression. 14. The State will not help us. The state is a dying pre-Internet institution that increasingly resembles nothing but a Ponzi scheme fueled by taxes and debt. None of the youth alive today will likely inherit any benefits, such as welfare and health care. 15. Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it. 16. Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labour union. 17. Digital identity is the next step in their system of control. Within the next few years, access to the Internet–including in Europe and the United States–will require biometric national identity cards, using the flimsy excuse of “protecting children.” The real goal is to gatekeep free access to subversive political content and halt cross-border communication in order to prevent new forms of self-organization and resistance from emerging. 18. Only when one can be anonymous is one truly free. The freedom to express oneself without censorship and surveillance is a vital precondition for both the autonomous use of reason and the democratic evolution of society. Technology must enable the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves to the world–so that we can become who we want to be–by preserving the right to privacy over the Internet, including not just individual privacy but the right to transact and form contracts privately. 19. America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten or perhaps taken for granted the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the operating system of a cross-border global secret state while it pushes its own farcical version of ethno-nationalism. 20. Culture wars are a psyop. It is ironic that “Epstein class” virtue-signals about traditional morality and the superiority of forms of ethno-nationalism, while trying to return to the rule of hereditary elites, even in the United States. Rather than reverse the gains of the Enlightenment, we take the side of our ancestors who fought a centuries-long battle for individual liberty, scientific progress, decentralized markets, bottom-up democracy and the emancipation of humanity from feudal monarchs and their make-believe mythologies. 21. New forms of technology can reshape the world. Technology is not just a tool, but the world we live in and an extension of our cognitive capabilities. The co-operation of humans with the collective intelligence embedded in AI could accelerate human progress and overcome planetary crises such as climate change and atomic war that threatens the survival of our species. 22. Live free or die trying. We must bear eternal vigilance in the struggle against fascism, and the battlefield is technology. There is no middle ground: Technologists must choose whether to work for the enslavement of humanity or to create new spaces for freedom. These are my personal beliefs, not those of @nym. Yet as a philosopher that founded a tech startup, I have a responsibility to respond to this manifesto of Palantir and it's so-called "philosopher-CEO" Alex Karp.

The United States has just nuked its own arms export business. Not with a missile. With a phone call. Pete Hegseth rang Estonia’s defense minister and told him the HIMARS and Javelin deliveries are on hold. Indefinitely. Months, not weeks. No timeline. No alternative. Just: sorry, we’re busy bombing Iran. And that’s it. Twenty years of patient alliance-building, vaporized in a Monday morning call. Here’s what European defense planners now know for certain: American weapons come with an asterisk. The asterisk reads “subject to cancellation whenever Washington decides its own adventure takes priority.” You can sign the contracts. You can train your soldiers. You can build your entire defensive posture around US systems. And then one day, the ammo stops. No warning. No plan B. Estonia is already shopping elsewhere. So is everyone else, with the kind of focus that only comes from genuine betrayal. The Americans think this is a pause. Europe knows it’s a divorce.

There is no excuse. None. Republicans have the votes, they have the power—and tonight they are choosing, deliberately, to do nothing for families and everything for ICE.   It’s past 3 AM and they’re jamming through $70 billion for ICE and $0 for families.   Spread the word.

He painted her for three months — stopping every time the sirens came, starting again every time the sky cleared. Artist Oleksandr Korban created the mural "Вільна" ("Free") on a wall in Kyiv's DVRZ district. No projector. No tracing. Straight onto the surface, freehand. Dozens of air alert interruptions. The girl has no name — she is, the artist says, every Ukrainian woman who waits, hopes, and believes. That's not just paint on a wall. That's what staying looks like.

George Galloway reveals a staggering corruption scandal inside the White House. He confirms the BBC tracked how someone in Donald Trump's inner circle made hundreds of millions through blatant insider trading just minutes before his market moving announcements. Total corruption.