Description of current Commission “What it lacks is a culture that encourages early, uncomfortable truths. Until dissent is treated as an asset rather than a reputational risk, Europe will continue to react late, cautiously and find itself collectively surprised.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Large Swedish pension fund Alecta exits U.S. treasuries. Total sale about $7bn. www.placera.se/nyheter/-pen...

@nytimes.com SICKENING. "...refused to report..when it was tipped-off ahead of time, providing cover for the administration’s illegal acts, potentially enabling war crimes while violating its own ethical code to stand for the truth no matter the circumstances." www.zig.art/p/my-final-m...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... @ec.europa.eu sit up and take note. #internationallaw #ruleoflaw #fascism

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Una Mullally: How rotten does X have to be before politicians finally leave it?

Please ask any company or institution you are affiliated with to stop supporting this depraved person with their continued reliance on his child exploitation network. There is no excuse. Several excellent alternative networks exist.

New Gist: The Abuse Factory It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.

the trump admin and its allies are promoting a lie about european tech regulation. it's really not some niche technical/legal thing, though - it's about power & control over european access to information. i wrote about it here for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

This is 1) flat wrong on the facts 2) flat wrong on the law 3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street

After going after ICC judges in rogue state fashion, this is what’s seemingly in the pipeline. What will it take before EU Member State and EU institutions to grow a spine: www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

you think this is a one-off? don’t be deluded. we are firmly in the zone of lawlessness & impunity. repression at home and aggression abroad. and a sleeping congress.

Excellent and alarming piece by @cwherrmann.bsky.social : puts the Bari Weiss and Paramount sagas into context

#FreeSoftware plays a key role in the effective enforcement of the #DMA. In this article, we explain how gatekeepers continue to hinder Free Software and argue for enforcement that also takes into account smaller #FOSS and smaller developers. The DMA was not written only for big tech competitors.

I find this heartbreakig to read. Governace has collapsed in the UK across so many sectors. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

ICC judges wanted Netanyahu arrested. Now they’re being targeted by Trump www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Did it some time ago but if you haven’t yet; this will convince Thanks @bcmerchant.bsky.social www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...

🚨NEWS: A tech giant has filed a lawsuit asking federal courts to grant artificial intelligence algorithms a First Amendment right for to help landlords raise rent prices. What stage of capitalism is this?

It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.

Well done George Clarke. Blood on the hands of shameful companies #Kingspan #Celotex #Arconic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War 3 years - if you're earning £125k+ 15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall

vibe shift is <ON> (and like, don't blame the Fed, it's a bit lame imho)

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Kinda massive

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.

Reaping rewards for cheering on genocide, for endangering Palestinian journalists, and for helping sabotage ceasefire deals to prop up Netanyahu’s criminal government

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

the weak Anglo mind cannot comprehend "building more houses"

🧵 1/ Relevant debate today in the European Parliament on how free, independent and reliable media are key tools to foster sound debates and enrich our democracy.

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

This would require that the economics of our media be based on a metric other than attention.

The US may not have done the genocide itself, but it funded it, making them equally as responsible as if they had pulled the trigger themselves. The was while the Democrats was in power. Thou UK, Germany & EU helped too. Time to end Atlanticism for Europe.

Macron: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies" defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

US Federal Judge William Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence … In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it”

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Repeat after me: THE ADTECH STACK IS A HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERN…#humanrights #dignity #authoritarianism #democracy #dueprocess

I hate credulous headlines like this. It’s like saying Hitler is sending troops into Poland to address “border provocations.”

the business model of companies like openai is sustained user attention/large userbase. thus, these bots are designed to validate the user, including feeding delusional or harmful behaviour/action

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

On @antonsavage.bsky.social NewsTalk Radio this morning: We warned Helen McEntee (then Minister for Justice) five years ago about Data Protection Commission's refusal to stop the flow of data about Irish people to data brokers - as now exposed by RTE Prime Time. www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-wa...

What people can do right now: cancel their Disney+ streaming subscriptions. Disney is making an economic calculation here. Thus far -- they see only the benefits from cancelling Kimmel. We the media-consuming people have the power to make them see the costs.

Yes. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s... #spotify #humanrights

ABC (fired Kimmel for criticizing Trump) & CBS (fired Colbert for criticizing Trump) are now state media. Trump controls them. We need to break up these corporate media conglomerates before they completely destroy our democracy.

Says it all really: "...but simply because US democracy needs Congress, the principal check on presidential power envisaged in the US constitution, to start doing its job again." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Terrifying. #democracy #tyranny #dictatorship #USA