Nick McGeehan
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Infantino is a symptom of the problem. š FIFA is unfit to govern world football. FIFA is unfit to govern world football. FIFA is unfit to govern world football. FIFA is unfit to govern world football. FIFA is unfit to govern world football.
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Substitute: FIFA not fit to govern world football, external reform essential to prevent future harm
A major new report from FairSquare, published today, identifies serious structural flaws within FIFA, footballās global governing body, that have resulted in the organisation contributing to a wide ra...
https://fairsq.org/substitute-report/
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www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
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LIV Golf insists season will go ahead āat full throttleā amid doubts over future
LIV Golf has insisted the tour intends to continue āuninterrupted and at full throttleā this season amid claims its Saudi Arabian backers will imminently withdraw
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/16/liv-golf-doubts-future-saudi-pif-funding
3 days ago
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Andreas Selliaas
6 days ago
Det er ingen grenser for FIFA-presidenten.
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FairSquare
8 days ago
Loans from a UAE bank were funnelled into the Libyan war effort "likely including payments to Russiaās Wagner Group". More brilliant investigative work from
@thesentryorg.bsky.social
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Martin Calladine
10 days ago
Dimitrios Psarrakis was the business partner, co-author and, for eight years, parliamentary researcher of Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP arrested in 2022 in a huge corruption investigation involving MEPs being paid to praise Qatar's human rights record ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
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Martin Calladine
10 days ago
On Monday, we revealed that the overseer of Fifa's newest sponsor had paid a six-figure sum to settle insider trading allegations. Today, we reveal that the company's newly appointed CEO has close ties to the MEP at the heart of the Qatargate corruption scandal...
josimarfootball.com/2026/04/09/m...
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Meet the new boss - josimarfootball.com
Twenty-four hours after Josimar revealed that Fifaās new āprediction marketā partner ADI was run by a man accused of insider trading, the Abu Dhabi firm appointed a CEO linked to āQatargateā, one of the biggest lobbying scandals in the history of the EU Parliament.
https://josimarfootball.com/2026/04/09/meet-the-new-boss/
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elia ayoub
10 days ago
Theyāre still looking for potential survivors trapped under the rubble in Tallet El Khayat Beirut after the Israeli strike that levelled an entire building
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elia ayoub
11 days ago
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to
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Lina Mounzer
11 days ago
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a ācode disaster.ā Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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Adam Crafton
11 days ago
NEW
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
White House wants FIFA to follow lead of IOC by issuing policy to bar transgender women from professional womenās soccer ā with Trump yet to sign off on required government guarantees for US-led bid to host Womenās World Cup in 2031.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...
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White House wants FIFA to change transgender policy, with Women's World Cup guarantees on the line
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7172280/2026/04/08/world-cup-trump-transgender-policy/?source=emp_shared_article
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FairSquare
12 days ago
FIFA's new "prediction market partner": - backed by UAE royal family - no working product - unlicensed in most jurisdictions - run by a man credibly accused of insider trading š
@uglygame.bsky.social
@philippeauclair.bsky.social
@samindrakunti.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2026/04/06/i...
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Inside Deal - josimarfootball.com
Ahead of the World Cup, Fifa has signed a prediction market partner. But the company, ADI Predictstreet, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family, has no working product yet, is unlicensed in alm...
https://josimarfootball.com/2026/04/06/inside-deal/
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Sam Kunti
15 days ago
By
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With some input from both
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www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-wo...
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FIFA World Cup 2026: In Trumpās America, nothing can be ruled out
While thousands of reporters prepare to cover the FIFA World Cup, concerns grow over the Trump administrationās crackdown on critics and foreigners. Nick Harris from Sporting Intelligence takes a clos...
https://www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-world-cup-2026-in-trump-s-america-nothing-can-be-ruled-out/
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Justin Salhani
16 days ago
How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon
Israel's attacks on hospitals, medical centres and healthcare workers are fuelling displacement and a health crisis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/3/how-israel-is-destroying-healthcare-infrastructure-in-southern-lebanon
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Dubai is like catnip to the British far-right
16 days ago
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Damian Carrington
16 days ago
āAmazingā: how to grow a meadow in the sea - Vibrant
#seagrass
meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them
@projectseagrass.bsky.social
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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āAmazingā: how to grow a meadow in the sea
Vibrant seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/03/hard-work-how-to-grow-a-meadow-in-the-sea
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Important to point out that Jesus was never legally classed as a sexual predator nor was he ever fined for tax fraud.
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17 days ago
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Damian Carrington
17 days ago
Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ... > IPCC: āFrustrating and disappointingā meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock
#climatecrisis
@carbonbrief.org
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IPCC: āFrustrating and disappointingā meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock - Carbon Brief
Governments are still at loggerheads over the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
https://www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustrating-and-disappointing-meeting-leaves-ar7-timeline-in-deadlock/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2026-04-02&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+Global+wave+of+energy+rationing+SNP+reverses+drilling+stance+US+halts+crucial+climate+data+
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Peter Geoghegan
19 days ago
Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? Itās bizarre, frankly
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FairSquare
20 days ago
"The USA under President Trump ... is facing a human rights emergency marked by discriminatory immigration policies, mass detentions and arbitrary arrests by masked, armed agents" Somebody needs to remind
@amnesty.org
that Football Unites the World.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Global: FIFA and World Cup hosts must prevent tournament becoming a threat to fans and communities
Millions of football fans attending the 2026 FIFA Menās World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA risk coming face to face with troubling attacks on human rights, not least those stemming from abusive a...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/global-fifa-and-world-cup-hosts-must-prevent-tournament-becoming-a-threat-to-fans-and-communities/
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Ian Rennie
21 days ago
Academic publishing is a massive scam that impoverishes academics.
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Simon Cox
22 days ago
Talked with a fellow barrister ther night abt other barristers using AI to do first draft of judicial review grounds. And we were likeā¦. āWhy?ā Itās our job (privilege, pleasure) to analyse that problem, formulate that argument. Why would you want a machine to attempt that first?
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Ketan Joshi
22 days ago
It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre.
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Adam Crafton
23 days ago
Exclusive: Approval of U.S.-led bid to host Womenās World Cup in 2031 was postponed in significant part because⦠Trumpās White House has not provided required govt guarantees to FIFA & host cities want much better terms than 2026.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...
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U.S. 2031 Womenās World Cup bid waiting on Trump guarantees while host cities want better deal
FIFA has not yet received crucial Trump government guarantees around the 2031 bid from the U.S., Costa Rica, Mexico and Jamaica
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7151022/2026/03/27/us-2031-world-cup-bid-donald-trump/?source=emp_shared_article
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Sally Hayden
23 days ago
Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week, part two. More up here:
www.instagram.com/p/DWYXD0Rjak...
At least 1,116 people have been killed since March 2, incl 121 children, acc to min of health. At least 3,229 have been injured, incl 399 children.
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Jules Boykoff
26 days ago
My latest w/
@edgeofsports.bsky.social
: FIFA just released a pair of highly anticipated decisions regarding Israel & Palestine. Taken together, they're an obscene abdication of FIFAās own statutes & its publicly stated commitment to human rights. For
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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2 FIFA Rulings on Israel, 1 Familiar Deference to MAGA
The worldās soccer governing body reminded fans what its theoretical commitment to āneutralityā means in practice: siding with the genocidaire.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fifa-israel-rulings-complicity-world-cup/
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Philippe Auclair
27 days ago
I had a closer look at the results of the council elections in France's 20 most populated cities: 13 are now controlled by left-wing parties, with the Parti Socialiste performing best; centre/"republican" right candidates won in 6 cities. Which leaves us with Nice - extreme-right, yes, but..
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Cat Neilan
28 days ago
For several months, people have been wondering why Reform hasn't declared any crypto donations, despite Nigel Farage saying they'd received some Now
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Given the western media is barely reporting this, it seems Lebanese lives matter as much as Palestinian, Iranian, and Yemeni lives. There must be some sort of pattern in there...
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Given the western media is barely reporting this, it seems Lebanese lives matter as much as Palestinian, Iranian, and Yemeni lives. There must be some sort of pattern in there...
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Abu Aardvark
28 days ago
It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israelās absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.
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Fifa has ruled that the Israel Football Association (IFA) is bringing āfootball into disreputeā and said that it is practising a āde facto system of segregationā by excluding Palestinians from football infrastructure in Israeli settlements.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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Israel has 'brought football into disrepute', says Fifa
Israel Football Association is condemned by Fifa's disciplinary committee, but is not banned and is fined just $190,000
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-has-brought-football-disrepute-says-fifa
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FIFA and the Israel Football Association: and the plot very much thickens. Yesterday FIFA Council dismissed the complaint about clubs in illegal settlements, but it also released a Disciplinary Committee into racism in Israeli football. Makes for remarkable reading. š§µ
inside.fifa.com/legal/judici...
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FIFA Disciplinary Committee sanctions Israel Football Association
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has decided that the Israel Football Association (IFA) has committed multiple breaches of its obligations as a FIFA Member Association.
https://inside.fifa.com/legal/judicial-bodies/media-releases/disciplinary-committee-sanctions-israel-football-association
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Very much hope this development is widely and accurately reported. FIFA's assessment of the legality of West Bank settlements is plainly wrong, and they know it. Thus, they have taken a political decision to side with Israel.
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FairSquare
about 1 month ago
FIFA's decision today to dismiss the Palestine FA's complaint against the Israeli FA is predictably shameful. FIFA's approach to this issue has been dishonest and cowardly in the face of unquestionably unlawful Israeli policies and practices.
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FIFA Council highlights power of football and the FIFA World Cup⢠to build bridges and promote peace
FIFAās steadfast commitment to peace and unity was at the core of the online FIFA Council meeting held at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, at which FIFA President Gianni Infantino called for p...
https://inside.fifa.com/organisation/fifa-council/media-releases/council-power-of-football-world-cup-build-bridges-promote-peace
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
"The public has lost trust in government and come to think that everyone involved is corrupt." Oh? Interesting. I guess they just concluded that through their own comparative study of gov't efficacy? Or was it something else? Thoughts? Anyone?
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
Every day, I talk to earnest liberals who describe to me, in great detail, problems that have resulted from this ... but they won't name the cause! "Turns out, all the sudden the public is obsessed with trans girls trying to play sports." Oh? Any thoughts about why? Any at all? No? No thoughts?
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
... of that last half-century, upstream of virtually any other problem that you can identify, and yet in mainsteam political discourse we *never talk about it*. It's the biggest, most salient political fact of all, just sitting there, looming, and no one fucking speaks it aloud.
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
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FairSquare
about 1 month ago
Do better, EU sports commissioner tells Infantino.
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EU warns FIFA over leadership before World Cup
Sports Commissioner Glenn Micallef tells POLITICO that Gianni Infantino has not provided safety assurances for European fans heading to the U.S. this summer.
https://www.politico.eu/article/glenn-micallef-fifa-gianni-infantino-world-cup/
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This is a spectacular piece of writing, as moving as it is insightful.
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about 1 month ago
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FairSquare
about 1 month ago
FairSquare is preparing a follow-up complaint to the FIFA Ethics Committee. Drops Saturday, 21 March.
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FairSquare
about 1 month ago
If this isn't enough for you, the UAE also has a ski slope in a shopping mall, and one of the highest rates of political prisoners per capita anywhere in the world.
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FairSquare
about 1 month ago
"The UAE looks to be combining soft influence and potential hard levers of power in British politics. If its influence is not countered, the effects could be disastrous."
@alexcarlen.bsky.social
for Arab Digest explains why Tommy Robinson is tweeting about Yemen.
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What is going on with Tommy Robinson and Yemen? - Arab Digest
Summary: we planned to publish this newsletter about the far right influencer and his links with the UAE on 2 March but the Iran war intervened. We are publishing it now because it is an important sto...
https://arabdigest.org/sample-newsletters/what-is-going-on-with-tommy-robinson-and-yemen-2/
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing
about 1 month ago
"The Saudis (owners of NUFC) also want to protect fossil fuel interests and have clear climate goals; to slow the transition to renewables and keep the world hooked on oil." Interview with
@frankhuisingh.bsky.social
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@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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āIt is important that fans push backā
An interview with Frank Huisingh from Fossil Free Football, discussing the organisationās current efforts
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/it-is-important-that-fans-push-back/
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing
about 1 month ago
"Women from marginalised backgrounds ā including migrant workers, poor defendants, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities ā are overrepresented among those sentenced to death." The Saudi state which treats women this way owns š
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alqst.org/en/post/wome...
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Women Facing the Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia: Invisibility and Structural Injustice
This report examines Saudi Arabiaās use of the death penalty through a gendered and intersectional lens, with particular attention to migrant women.
https://alqst.org/en/post/women-facing-the-death-penalty-in-saudi-arabia-invisibility-and-structural-injustice
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Peter Geoghegan
about 1 month ago
It's a very high bar but I think this might be my favourite Democracy for Sale interview yet, with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff talking about 'Muskism' And if the phrase 'sovereignty as a service' doesn't terrify you, if should....
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Itās Elon Muskās world - but we donāt have to live in it
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on Musk, the far right, and the AI future being built without our consent
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-elon-musks-world-but-we-dont
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elia ayoub
about 1 month ago
Nabatiyeh is being completely razed to the ground by the Israelis. It was one of the largest cities in South Lebanon, around 100,000 people. Now around 150 families left there. Video:
www.instagram.com/p/DV0q4AbCBLB/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 1 month ago
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
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Prem Thakker ć
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia ā the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention. DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.
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Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year?
Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
https://zeteo.com/p/why-has-this-columbia-university
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Jolyon Maugham KC
about 1 month ago
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men." Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
Theyāre saying the quiet part out loud now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social
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