Favorite Donald Trump walks on stage to speak at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference, on Aug. 26, 2024, in Detroit. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP Over the last few years, as it grew increasingly likely that Donald Trump would mount a third campaign for the White House, leading press critics and…
Favorite Activists arrested protesting Israel’s war on Gaza outside the Democratic National Convention on Monday have reported injuries from police violence that required hospitalization and a lack of access to attorneys or medication while in custody, according to legal observers and attorneys representing demonstrators. Chicago police arrested 13 individuals at demonstrations on Monday, according to…
Favorite The OSI joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) at the beginning of 2023 to support its mission to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of and investment in digital public goods. Digital public goods include Open Source software, open…
Favorite On Friday morning, Israel resumed its bombing campaign against Gaza, and the civilian death toll is once again rising. Both Hamas and Israel accused the other of violating the temporary truce. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has promised, “We will fight in the entire [Gaza] Strip.” Despite meekly worded suggestions from Secretary of State…
Favorite Penguin Random House The media world over the last few week has been rocked by major disruptions: Fox ousts Tucker Carlson, CNN fires Don Lemon, BuzzFeed News is shutting down, Twitter has become a less reliable resource, and Vice Media shutters its flagship program “Vice News Tonight.” Over the last two decades, the media…
Favorite In a matter of a few days, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed when a panic set in, causing a run on deposits. “The blue chip VCs suggested something, then that leaked to other ones, then other ones — we had all our investors calling us and basically demanding we pull our cash,” one source told Ryan…
Favorite Tibetan police inked a deal last month to buy over $160,000 worth of profiling kits and other supplies made by Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts-based company that has come under fire in the past for selling similar supplies to police in Xinjiang. The deal, revealed in procurement documents published on a Chinese government website, will provide…
Favorite Intercept Deputy Editor Roger Hodge has been named acting editor-in-chief of the investigative news site, effective August 1, 2022. He will fill the role previously held by Betsy Reed, who was named editor of Guardian U.S. on Thursday. Nausicaa Renner, The Intercept’s Washington editor, will assume the role of deputy editor, reporting to Hodge. Hodge…
Favorite The FBI’s secretive spy plane program targeted a man in Florida last year with nearly constant surveillance, logging more than 400 hours in the air with a fleet of Cessna aircraft registered to what appear to be front companies. This aerial surveillance, described in a filing made Monday in federal court, reveals for the…
Favorite CIA-trained death squads massacring children. Big Pharma putting profits over people’s lives in a pandemic. Police “kettling” protesters who dare to oppose their racist brutality. The U.S. government executing prisoners in death chambers largely hidden from public view. A new president with a 50-year record of promoting U.S. militarism and attacks on whistleblowers. These…
