Ellison is firm friends with Blair. The two holiday together on the billionaire’s yacht, which raises questions about Blair's role in Gaza. Ellison isn’t just one of the world’s richest men, he’s one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s more influential surrogates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tony-blair...

Trump ally Larry Ellison invested $130 million in the Tony Blair Institute between 2021 and 2023, with a further $218 million pledged since then. Here he tells Blair about his plan to use digital ID to "unify" all data on each country's citizens "so it can be consumed and used by" his AI models.

Jesus Christ

Breaking: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are being investigated by the Trump DOJ for allegedly obstructing law enforcement activities, two U.S. officials told WCCO. It's unclear how Walz and Frey allegedly obstructed law enforcement or what they were allegedly obstructing.

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Then when ICE zooms in on a specific person, it brings up their dossier. Name and most importantly, address. ELITE gives an address "confidence score" based on where the data came from. ELITE gets data from Department of Health, other sources www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Ordinary people who are protesting against Trumps militia are now referred to as insurrectionists, a step away from being called terrorists. Dangerous times.

A devastating new report detailing the intersection of starvation crimes and reproductive and obstetric violence in Gaza. By Physicians for Human Rights and the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. phr.org/our-work/res...

AI-generated videos purportedly depicting protests in Iran have flooded the web, researchers said, as social media users push hyper-realistic deepfakes to fill an information void amid the country's internet restrictions. Read more: u.afp.com/SXCT

Not even in the top 100 worst ethical lapses in Trump's presidency, but the Secretary of Labor apparently had her staffers create fraudulent records of fake work trips so she could take time off (and have an affair with a subordinate) news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

Oh, lookie here, more neo-Nazi white supremacist dog-whistle propaganda from the White House! "Which way, Greenland man?"

Maybe this should be bigger news. theintercept.com/2026/01/13/d...

Oh, lookie here, more neo-Nazi white supremacist dog-whistle propaganda from the White House! "Which way, Greenland man?"

Perfidy. Of course.

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw' www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

new rose garden sign is giving "kitchen nightmares"

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

We should fight the enemy with whatever we have.

Tap-tap.

We should fight the enemy with whatever we have.

Tap-tap.

🤡 Memelords at the White House:

We stand to lose a lot as governments push to age-gate the web. That's why EFF is pushing back. You can learn more about these age-gating laws and even ask us questions during our livestream on Thursday at 12 PM PT: eff.org/livestream-age

The Conservative position on this seems rather insane considering it involves CSAM material and sexuallt abusing women. Who is this for? bsky.app/profile/best...

Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.

This is a flat out lie by Elon. Ashley St. Clair only said she apologized for her anti trans rhetoric and regretted it. Elon took that at "she's going to trans a 1 year old" that he was fighting paternity of last year. He's punishing her for simply apologizing to trans people and lying about it.

For context, Border Patrol just gassed residents one block from where Renee Good was killed by ICE last week.

It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient War Trumpet That Once Struck Fear in the Hearts of Enemies on the Battlefield www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Nadhim Zahawi, man of the people, anti-establishment, the guy with a £100m property empire who fails to pay his taxes and needs to keep his horses warm, has just joined Reform. www.ft.com/content/9a49...

So here we have an x post by a well known member of your society:

It seems that destroying US federal science funding, putting the livelihoods of thousands of researchers at risk and setting back the advancement of science by years, is also ok according to the Royal Society. Is it cowardice or is it something else?

I'd say Elon is somewhere to the right of even SYL. Stop buying his fucking cars, unless your a white supremacist/Neo Nazi who's concerned about climate change. I see people who likely don't fall into that category, driving around in fairly new Tesla's. Some who Mu$k would call to be "remigrated"

Pieced together the surveillance video, including the new angle dropped by CNN (added slow-motion), and the condition of the officer after Renee Good was shot. What do you observe? Vehicles were able to drive around her with plenty of clearance. 1/2

Also continuing the widely discredited concept that "man who owns company which allegedly made scientific advancement" is the same as "man made scientific advancement"

The Royal Society is (another) national embarrassment. Rabbit in the headlights, starstruck joke.

cc @royalsociety.org Racism and white supremacy have no place in our scientific establishment. These are no different from the loathsome ideologies of Nazism. Our institutions CANNOT be accepting and approving of such vile world views.

cc @royalsociety.org In view of Elon Musk's recent posts that are without a doubt a call for white nationalism, his racist white supremacist views as espoused & publicised on his sm platform, the @royalsociety.org MUST re-evaluate his membership of this prestigious scientific organisation.

cc @royalsociety.org In view of Elon Musk's recent posts that are without a doubt a call for white nationalism, his racist white supremacist views as espoused & publicised on his sm platform, the @royalsociety.org MUST re-evaluate his membership of this prestigious scientific organisation.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

£16 trillion has quietly migrated out of the visible, regulated economy and into: •private equity •private credit •opaque asset vehicles •lightly supervised non-bank finance While the public economy is being told there is no money.

The committee calls on the Bank of England to work with the HM Treasury, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority to continue to monitor developments in private markets and emphasises that this work must progress swiftly.

The committee is concerned by the apparent passivity of HM Treasury about the concerns raised in its inquiry and highlights it has a responsibility to maintain financial stability, so the risk that the taxpayer serves as a backstop to the financial system is mitigated. ⬇️

Iranian state media outlet Mehr News says authorities are now deploying Revolutionary Guard ground forces into major cities. The aim is to protect the regime, not carry out policing duties.

At around 15:40 UTC (19:10 local time) on May 19, networks in Iran stopped announcing nearly all of their IPv6 address space, dropping measured IPv6 adoption from 15-20% to just 2%. radar.cloudflare.com/routing/IR?d... radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and...

Iran’s IPv6 networks have been fully disconnected from the global internet. An attempt by the regime to stop news of the protests spreading…and probably to cover any brutal clampdown.

I don't like the death squads

👀🇫🇷 Russian journalist found dead near Paris. He allegedly fell out of the window of his apartment on January 6. The person is believed to be journalist Yevgeny Safronov, 38 years old Safronov moved to Paris six months ago. A week before his death, his social media accounts were hacked.