Having succeeded in getting protestors to be sentenced under terrorism guidance having only been convicted of criminal damage once, prosecutors are trying to pull this off for a second time - this time for five (more) Palestine Action protestors who vandalised a Barclays Bank branch & were convicted of criminal damage.

The Rule of Law in the UK is being dismantled through the manipulation of sentencing rules.

Andy Burnham needs to stop this, now!

#politics #protests #PalestineAction
h/t FT

So, after NHS England's claims that Palantir's technology had raised patient discharges de-clogging hospital handling capacity were queried for being based (largely) on one London hospital's experience (incidentally with good links with the tech firm), now the Health Foundation in independent research on the issue has concluded (confirmed) the deployment of Palantir's software has made 'no meaningful difference' to discharge delays across the NHS!

Its a con!

#NHS #Palantir #politics
h/t FT

So Trump has used up so many interceptors and other ammunition that it will take at least four years and 1.5 trillion dollars (perhaps much more) to replace them.

The US has been bullying the rest of the world for decades, in part based on a vastly overstated reputation for military power and prowess.

The bully has just been shown to have a glass jaw. What will the rest of the world do now?

#Politics #IranWar #Trump #Fascism

Hannah Arrendt was nazi-fucking hack. There, I said it.

"In #HannahArendt: A Life of the Mind, #ThomasMeyer (a professor of #philosophy at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of #Munich and #editor of a 12-volume edition of #Arendt’s #German #writings) asserts that her life and work is best understood as an attempt to move beyond the limits of an allegedly timeless philosophy - and philosophy’s preoccupation with itself - by embracing #politics, “which, in the final analysis, is the human sphere,” and the movement from thought to action and only then, back to thought.

#Meyer is acutely aware of the limitations of Arendt’s published work. She was frequently categorical, he emphasizes, and “not always consistent.” Her arguments were not always supported by footnotes or references to secondary sources. Instead of weighing all sides of an issue, she “required her readers to make a stark choice of pro or con.”

https://www.jpost.com/history/article-903503

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

#cybersecurity #privacy #politics #GrapheneOS

Don't miss out ... Catch up with everything we've published from the July/August 2026 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-august-2026/

#journalism #media #Texas #politics #education #USpol #news #law #police

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The July/August 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine features an illustration of a BIPOC boy in a classroom, holding a toy white school bus, while looking pensively out the window at barbed-wire festooned prison walls. Headline: The Texas School Arrests Crisis, How kids as young as 10 bear the burden of tough-on-crime policies, by Josephine Lee. Other headlines: An East Texas Love Letter by Dalyah Jones, The Houe That Youtube Built by Steven Monacelli.

#US government says #Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American #water and #energy providers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/us-government-says-iran-linked-hackers-are-disrupting-american-water-and-energy-providers/

#cybersecurity #politics #infrastructure

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As Charlotte Woodworth argues (in a post on LInkedIn) we should see busses not as a back-up for those without cars, rather it would be great to see them presented as the preferred transport (for green & social reasons).

And, given that women are much larger bus users, it would be great to see cheaper & expanded bus provision as a clear gendered social benefit, stressing its positive impact for (especially) key workers getting to work.

A positive case for busses!

#busses #politics #transport

Leaked Document Shows the #Surveillance Tech at #ICE’s Fingertips

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

#privacy #politics

#SouthKorea discloses #DataBreach impacting diplomats worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/south-korea-discloses-data-breach-impacting-diplomats-worldwide/

#privacy #cybersecurity #politics

Isn't #politics itself part of the same war on people inside any country?

Picture shows a line of people arm on arm towards the same main thing:

Spending for war. From politician on the left to the soldier on the right.

A domino chain of sorts.

Stuff like '#hospitals' and #healthcare are just different for-#profit machines that they don't care or pay properly for in #teaching or #care jobs (even in their own measure of paying for #work).

It's just about even-more #profit & #power right?

Alt...

Picture represents a line of people arm on arm towards the same main thing: spending for war. From politician at the left to the soldier on the right of picture. A domino or chain of sorts.

You Opened a #CreditCard. #ICE Now Knows Where You Live

https://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/

#privacy #politics #PersonalFinance

A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt

My duty was to stand with every one while he was right, and to stand against him when he went wrong; and this I have tried to do as regards individuals and as regards groups of individuals. When a business man or labor leader, politician or reformer, is right, I support him; when he goes wrong, I leave him.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #duty #integrity #loyalty #obligation #partisanship #political #politics #rightandwrong

States Want #ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The #Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

https://www.wired.com/story/states-want-ice-agents-to-show-their-faces-the-trump-administration-is-blocking-them/

#privacy #politics

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#France becomes first #EU country to ban #SocialMedia access for under-15s

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/21/france-ban-social-media-access-under-15s

#SocialMediaBan #privacy #politics #Europe #AgeVerification #cybersecurity

People will say you have no expectation of privacy in public, and that is true, but it's not what we're actually talking about.

For the VAST majority of human history, we had no expectation of being *recorded*.

It's only the last few decades that that was even possible.

Our laws need to catch up.

#privacy #politics #data

Last week: Students who have been taught that they must revere the barons of “free enterprise,” that inequality is not worth discussing, & that they should accept their circumstances will become a compliant workforce & a malleable voting base. https://www.texasobserver.org/sboe-bible-curriculum-requirements/

#Texas #education #religion #politics #USpol #news

What Does #OliveGarden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With #Voting Rights?

https://www.404media.co/olive-garden-never-ending-pasta-id-save-act/

#privacy #politics

An Explosion of #Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion

#border #DHS #privacy #politics

The (new) Govt. will reduce business rates by 20% for a wide range of hospitality businesses, but will also review rate relief received by businesses that 'do not make a positive contribution to local communities' - perhaps vaping shops, and one might hope, betting shops?

This would likely involve a shift from business rate relief based on size of business to one based on business focus... the Q. is how business lobbying (betting specially) will respond?

#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/23/business-rates-to-be-cut-by-20-for-england-pubs-clubs-and-music-venues

I was distracted by the notion of colonialism today, so I took some notes. We tend to treat colonialism as pertaining to countries 'out there' – 'over there'. If we are victims of colonisation, the oppressor is 'out there' but looking in.

📝 https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-299870495?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=pvxh5

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mNHkZWfXKDyCC5Ljsj758?si=Yd41XyNVRbSUcwXmzP8oKA

#philosophy #politics #power #language #colonialism #control #foucault #mbembe #marx #heidegger #fanon #perspective #podcast #blog #substack #spotify #culture #empire #hegemony #essay

A quotation from Molly Ivins

Friends, soulwise, these are trying times. Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of our country, and it won’t help if you all cower in places like Madison and the Upper West Side, having hot fantods over the approach of fascism. To the barricades, team. And for Lord’s sake, don’t leave your sense of humor behind.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-03), “Use It or Lose It,” The Progressive, Vol. 69, No. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/85094/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #anxiety #barricades #citizenry #complaints #cowardice #cowing #difficulty #engagement #fantod #fascism #nation #patriotism #politicalaction #politicalmovement #politics #senseofhumor #trial

Featured story: What changed? How did Christianity become the political weapon we see today?

A new book from historian Joseph L. Locke investigates how "militant" Christian nationalism became the state religion. https://www.texasobserver.org/one-state-under-god-book-review/

#books #religion #Texas #politics #USpol #culture #history #bookstodon

In this follow-up to the Merits of Meritocracy, I delved a little deeper into Trump and Plato's Republic.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/22/the-merits-of-meritocracy/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #merit #business #linkedin #meritocracy #video #podcast #substack #politics #language #culture #dei #promotions #statistics #heuristics

I've been wittering on about the history and failings of Meritocracy, but I hadn't drafted a version for Substack.
👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-merits-of-meritocracy

I've purposely left Trump, but clearly he's a central figure in this perspective. Very few situations merit meritocracy as a lens, but we seem to overextend it. It is certainly overrepresented in business.

#philosophy #merit #business #linkedin #meritocracy #video #podcast #substack #politics #language #culture #dei #promotions #statistics #heuristics

Much of the camp infrastructure we see today was es­tablished in the Obama years. In 2014, as more families fled violence and poverty and headed toward the United States, the Obama administration reverted to using detention as an attempted means of deterrence.
https://www.texasobserver.org/excerpt-how-to-close-a-camp/

#books #bookstodon #immigration #ICE #history #politics #USpol

New from Deliah Brown: As America marks its 250th year, the question remains: Are we committed to continuing to build a more inclusive democracy, or are we willing to accept the erosion of the protections previous generations fought so hard to secure? https://www.texasobserver.org/voting-rights-civil-rights-future/

#politics #USpol #democracy #history #racism

Perhaps to no-one's surprise the new Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting has repeated the Labour appeal to Military Keynesianism (albeit not termed as such) in his 'promise' that defence spending will rise (with the implied collusion of the ex-defence minister turned Chancellor John Healey).

If Andy Burnham is focussing on the cost-of-living crisis & also expecting to raise the defence budget something is going to give.... the benefits bill comes to mind!

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/22/increased-defence-spending-uk-economic-growth-wes-streeting-military-andy-burnham

We discuss electoral reform a lot on Mastodson (well, at least on my neighbourhood of the fediverse), so here is some new research on the results from different models of proportional representation.

There's lots of interest here, but perhaps the biggest issue is not so much what different systems might deliver, but rather how one might get from here to one of these other options (as well as which might be preferable; in itself an issue for argument)

#politics #voting
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/jul/22/how-britain-would-look-proportional-representation-local-mp

As France follows Australia in banning social media use for the under-15s the key will be the form & practice of the state-approved age-verification process mandated from January.

Here, the debate on such a social media ban (supported by Keir Starmer) has been the age-verification process' invasion of privacy & its data requirement(s).

The Q. is: can France find a way to meet such objections, or merely ride roughshod over them?

#SocialMedia #politics #privacy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56l9p4y93o

That girl who asked the question wasn't expecting an answer like this from Jeff Daniels

#thenewsroom #jeffdaniels #willmcavoy #america #debate #tv #interview #drama #aaronsorkin #politics #newsroom #journalist #journalism #usa #oliviamunn #dumbanddumber #USA

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@IsMitchMcConnellDeadYet/116960870698186198

Bare in mind, I am in a country where a man with a bin on his head might defeat a fascist who has been plaguing us for decades...but this is getting fucking ridiculous.

SHOW US THE CORPSE!

#Politics

New in #books: It starts with questioning the legitimacy of the camps. In this excerpt, John Washington explains how we got here ... and looks toward a future where we put an end to immigrant detention. https://www.texasobserver.org/excerpt-how-to-close-a-camp/

#books #bookstodon #ICE #immigration #HumanRights #history #politics #USpol @bookstodon

This is what the USA should have done when they first voted Trump out. Instead they let him get away with it, and now look at the mess they are in.

#Trump #Orban #Fascists #Politics

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Prosecutors in Hungary raid offices of Viktor Orban's Fidesz and seize databases, says party - Europe live ‘The opposition party, led by former prime minister, says officers took ‘entire communications system and databases’

Where the USA and Israel blurs into one big fascist state.....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/muslim-leader-ice-detention-wisconsin

#ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #FuckICE #Israel #USA #Politics #Fascism #Islam #Wisconsin #Islamophobia

"Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings"

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/20/auditors-tell-uk-government-to-do-the-math-before-banking-on-45b-ai-savings/5274194?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

#AI #technology #UK #Politics #ukpol

#UK's #Burnham drops #DigitalID scheme to prioritise cost of living, say allies

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/next-uk-prime-minister-andy-burnham-drops-digital-id-scheme-2026-07-18/

#privacy #politics

#Malaysia: The #CybercrimesBill 2026 is a threat to freedom of expression and the right to #privacy

https://sinarproject.org/projects/safeguarding-our-information-ecosystem/malaysia-the-cybercrimes-bill-2026-is-a-threat-to-freedom-of-expression-and-the-right-to-privacy

#politics

So those of you were hoping for a change under Andy Burnham's incoming administration around the politics of immigration will be sorely disappointed to find that Shabana Mahmood has not been moved to the Chancellorship but remains at the Home Office.

So, I'm guessing for many Burnham's 'change' agenda is already fatally compromised (unless Mahmood is going to work to a different set or priorities for Burnham?)

#ShabanaMahmood #politics #migrants #AndyBurnham

h/t BBC

Shock??? If you're experiencing shock, you've been living under a rock since at least 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/trump-grant-funding-attack-scientists
#news #science #politics #GrifterInChief #grants #OBM

Just Wow. Modern-day fascism/totalitarianism 101.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-8eN3Mks8
#politics #democracynow #fascism #totalitarian #power #coup #history #bollox #trump #Leftards

#ICE to Pay #ThomsonReuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-thomson-reuters-125-million-to-find-voter-fraud/

#privacy #DataBroker #Reuters #election #politics

As hosepipe bans have been imposed (to save water in the heatwave), so Greenpeace have concluded that while banning hosepipe use can save around 4% of water use, this is dwarfed by the approx. 20% *still* lost through leaks in the water infrastructure, which the utilities have been (very) slow to maintain & repair.

So, for customers the inconvenience of a hosepipe ban is a direct result of the money siphoned out of the sector by the privatised water firms.

#water #politics
h/t Guardian

How much is it going to cost to fix this massive fuckup by this Republican administration?

#Politics #WasteAndFraud #RepublicanDeathCult #TrumpCrimeFamily #Immigration #DHS #RioGrande #Texas

https://www.theborderchronicle.com/breaking-news-laredo-on-alert-as-trumps-buoys-cause-chaos-on-the-rio-grande-close-international-bridges/

Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
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Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
https://www.propublica.org/article/human-rights-aid-right-wing-causes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #Europe #HumanRights #HumanitarianAid #Rightwing #Politics

#introduction

Simon Brooke, crofter, ex #Lisp hacker, still dabbles in #Clojure.

Lives at Standingstone, which is not a commune but a conspiracy: what happens when a bunch of homeless people buy a farm.

Posts mostly about crofting, living #offgrid, #LandReform, Scottish #politics, mental illness.

he/him, #autistic, cis male, #transally.

#California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law

#privacy #AgeVerification #cybersecurity #politics

Across the private sector business leaders & lobbyists are complaining they cannot establish contact with the team around Andy Burnham as they prepare to set up his administration as PM.

Of course, having been used to relatively un-fettered access to the Govt. for decades, business figures are now starting to panic about Burnham having other priorities.

They're likely shocked that for once they are *not* at the front of the political queue - tiny violin time!

#business #politics
h/t FT

Funny how the right says the left is "so hateful" when it comes to the death of Lindsey Graham

About the whole of the alt-right is build on literal hate so they really don't have anything to say

Personally I could not be more happy when a hateful person is checked of the list

Don't let the hypocrites try to make you feel bad, they do that enough already 🤷‍♂️

#politics

Perhaps (now) to few people's surprise, the inquiry into the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic as concluded nearly two thirds of the money spent was wasted (£10bn of nearly £15bn spent), identifying the (so-callled) VIP lane as a key element in that wastage.

The mismanagement of PPE is a classic example of insiders enriching themselves while criticising benefits 'cheats' & 'greedy' pubic sector workers.

What a country we we live in.

#politics #covid
h/t FT

And so the denial of climate change continues;

analysis of media reporting on the heatwave(s) in June concludes that three-quarters failed to mention any link with climate change.

Given the scientific consensus is firmly that human actions have caused the accelerated change in the world's environment, the media's denial looks (once again) like the interference of Right wing climate change denying owners in the operations of their media outlets.

#environment #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/14/most-coverage-june-heatwave-did-not-mention-climate-crisis

Children's #SocialMedia curbs planned across #EU, von der Leyen says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/eu-propose-limit-kids-social-media-access-von-der-leyen-says-2026-07-13/

#AgeVerification #privacy #cybersecurity #Europe #politics #SocialMediaBan

Authoritarianism begets authoritarianism.
In Hungary Tisza are using their supermajority—as well as laws inherited from the rule of their opponents Fidesz—to rid the political scene of Fidesz.
Not too different from what Fidesz themselves did before that.
(Still, it's not cut and dried, perhaps, as Tisza are promising a new constitution in two or three years.)

This reminds me of a detail I seem to recall from one of Ursula Le Guin’s novels (must have been _Planet of Exile_).
Colonists who possess weapons that are technologically more advanced than those of the locals should nevertheless restrict their own weapons to the latter's technological level.
Otherwise the colonists would be pelted with their own stones, once the locals get hold of the colonists’ weapons.

I have no sympathy for Fidesz.
There is a different problem here.
If one starts resembling one's enemy, one's fight against that enemy starts losing its grounding.

BBC article:
Hungary parliament votes to remove president from office
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8r002gdevo>

#Politics

Amusing. And accurate.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-a-democratic-member-of-congress-i-dont-wish-to-speak-ill-of-the-dead

#Politics #Humor

"Yes, #Israel has become a bright-red dividing line among #Democrats. Yes, it’s an important issue right now in #American #politics. But if this means #Jews in the public square cannot be credible on any subject, then that is disturbing, to say the least. It’s a trope that smacks of #theProtocols of the #EldersofZion, which claimed that Jews orchestrate shadowy networks of power. Today, this perverse logic would disqualify the vast majority of #AmericanJews from ever weighing in on politics at all."

https://www.notus.org/perspectives/not-everything-is-about-israel-including-graham-platner

Every so often, reading about (some) politicians (and others) reminds me of Chaucer's
“but only with the rich and victual-sellers”.

Mutatis mutandis for today: replace “victual”, insert more occupations before “friar”, keep “rich” and “profit".

Nothing new under the Sun, but We the People must not shrug this off.
Of course.

#Chaucer
#ChaucerOnPolitics
#ChaucerQuote
#ClassicQuote
#Politics

#EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says 'We Need You in the Fight'

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/10/2241251/eff-celebrates-36th-anniversary-says-we-need-you-in-the-fight

#privacy #politics

The Housing Bill, which is now law, is a "major, bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at boosting housing construction":
https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/07/road-housing-california-federal/
#politics #housing #reform

In Clacton there's a political trade-off:

If Count Binface wins, the Fascist Frog will become a laughing stock, likely ending his political career (its difficult to see how he could come back from losing an election to a bin), but, this would mean the investigation into his financial affairs as an MP would effectively be ended - this will only re-start if the Frog wins;

so if he loses, he's likely finished; if he wins, we get to see his sleaze better exposed. Clacton gets to decide!

#politics

'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure'

- Clarence Darrow

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-lindsey-graham-dies-71-brief-sudden-illness-rcna552722

#LindseyGraham #USA #Politics

These are America's ten worst states to live in for 2026 according to a recent CNBC article.

10. Arkansas (103)
9. Oklahoma (103)
8. Alabama (99)
7. Missouri (98)
6. Utah (95)
5. Georgia (89)
4. Louisiana (89)
3. Indiana (82)
2. Texas (78)
⭐ Tennessee (64)

I did a bit of light digging and every single state on this list has a Republican governor and a Republican majority in their state legislatures.

Crazy, right?

src: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/worst-states-to-live-in-america-2026.html

#StupidestTimeline
#Politics

And so the surveillance society continues to expand as retailers deploy facial recognition technology (that triggers immediate police alerts) into the high street.

The technical problems with FR systems are well known as are the challenges to privacy - the UK's road to becoming a police state continues (no, we're not there yet, but the direction of travel is pretty clear).

#politics #privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/facewatch-facial-recognition-uk-shops-instantly-alerts-police-civil-liberties

The #House Passed The #KIDSAct—The #Senate Should Reject It

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/house-passed-kids-act-senate-should-reject-it

#privacy #AgeVerification #politics

So as a YouGov poll suggests the majority of Britons think the Fascist Frog is sleazy, the FT is reporting that many of ReformUK's key players have been deepening their connection(s) in Montenegro, likely reflecting the President's aspiration for the country to become a 'crypto-hub'.... and its character as a 'flawed democracy' open to political corruption. All things ReformUK folk are keen on.

#ReformUK #corruption #politics

I share my core philosophical positions on Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/a-provisional-map-of-my-philosophical?r=pvxh5

See map and hashtags for content guidance.

#philosophy #metaphilosophy #ontology #objectivity #selfhood #ontologicalgrammar #language #languageinsufficiency #minds #ai #artificialintelligence #ethics #agency #substack #blog #podcast #video #subjectivity #institutions #law #map #history #politics #governance

Even as the Govt. wonders why people (and pension trustees) don't wan't to invest in UK firms, the Financial Conduct Authority concludes that just over 40% of all take-overs in the UK are preceded by 'suspicious trading' in the two days before announcement; given that such insider trading could also be happening before that period, the figure of 40% is most likely an underestimate.

People think the UK share market s rigged, and as this shows, indeed it is!

#investment #politics
h/t FT

#OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

https://www.wired.com/story/onlyfans-creators-dmca-hacked-government-websites/

#cybersecurity #politics #DMCA #nsfw

What Happens if #China Hacks the #US #Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-if-china-hacks-the-us-water-supply-war-game-volt-typhoon/

#cybersecurity #infrastructure #utilities #politics

And it's really that simple. When you allow oversight of your decisions, you have some measure of protection because the oversight, an independent review, was part of the process.

Alternatively, when you are the final decision and signature on everything WITHOUT OVERSIGHT, don't expect anyone to blame but YOURSELF.

It's leadership 101 and US #Republicans obviously failed #math before they could get that far in basics of #politics.
#CNBC
#CNN
#premarket
#investing
#NoKings

The Trump admin says lead in tampons is just fine.

Plants love glyphosate.

PFAS makes food yummy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/tampons-toxic-heavy-metals-fda-report-menstrual-health-rcna353210

#news #uspol #politics #health #science

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/116888489925603336

Just used the website to contact a lot of the representatives.
It's depressing how much effort is put into mass surveillance 😭

#politics #privacy

I didn't hear #platner take responsibility for his conduct, or say anything about ensuring the party is left in the best possible position to ensure Collins is defeated by him making a rapid & complete exit.

I don't think he apologized for putting the voters in this predicament. I didn't hear him say anything about supporting the eventual candidate.

Why can't people see through all of these sociopaths that seem to thrive particularly in #adtech driven politics?

#USPol #politics

Whether the US/Iran 'ceasefire' is still in place after the overnight exchange of attacks seems unclear... or perhaps like so many things connected to the Tangerine Tyrant, the meaning of 'ceasefire' is only what suits him at any particular moment.

In any case, overnight oil prices have risen, Iran's ability to sell its own oil has been constrained by the US, and this second round of strikes is larger than those a week ago.

Perhaps Trump needs a new distraction?

#MiddleEast #politics
h/t FT

Hacktivists call out #Trump by hacking and defacing US #Army websites

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/hacktivists-call-out-trump-by-hacking-and-defacing-us-army-websites/

#cybersecurity #politics #military

It seems that in the "AI Idiot" race, China feels left behind and now decides that its biggest marketing and sales advantage, Open Source, is a risk, and they need to regulate it. Maybe they should look at the US experience in AI, Encryption, or Nukes and see how that didn't work out.
#opensource #AI #politics
https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/