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He was an incredible lesson horse and took care of his riders. He was gentle and sweet and patient. He took me on my first trail ride in 12 years last year and was such a trooper, even when I fell off of him. He just stood there and waited for me to get back on.

Rip Buddy.

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Did you know that the feature request for an autosave feature is allowed to drink alcohol is the US as of last year? In Germany it could get a truck license.

With each successive trove of documents from the Epstein files the Department of Justice releases, we’re treated to rare insight into how our ruling class behaves in private, and how connected many of them were to the late sex trafficker.

The list of elites who maintained close relationships with Epstein is long and includes prominent politicians, media figures, academics, and business leaders. In contrast, the list of people who have faced any meaningful consequences, at least in the United States, is so far quite short. Recently, Brad Karp, a top Democratic Party fundraising “bundler,” was removed as chair of the white-shoe law firm Paul Weiss after his extensive ties to Epstein were revealed. Peter Attia, the celebrity doctor and a new hire at Bari Weiss’ CBS News, resigned from a protein bar company after emails showed him making dirty jokes with Epstein. The economist Larry Summers was deemed toxic after a previous DOJ disclosure, went on leave from teaching at Harvard, and was unceremoniously dropped by numerous institutions. So far, that’s about the extent of it.

To be very explicit, this lack of serious consequences is a choice that powerful people in the United States are making. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, Prince Andrew is prince no more, reduced to merely Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after King Charles removed all of his remaining royal titles; the former CEO of Barclays has been barred from the finance industry; the British ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, has been forced out; Morgan McSweeney, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and a Mandelson protege, was forced to resign under pressure; and Starmer risks losing his post over the Mandelson appointment. In Slovakia, the national security adviser to the prime minister has resigned. Accountability, if you care to enforce it, is in fact possible.

Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

The killing of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last month seemed to mark a breaking point for the United States on immigration enforcement. But rather than lowering tensions, the government appears intent on cranking the temperature up. President Donald Trump framed Good’s killing as the price of being “disrespectful of law enforcement” and described Pretti as an "agitator" and “insurrectionist.” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller described Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and “would-be assassin" (claims Vice President Vance amplified) while labeling broader protests as an “insurgency.”

The administration isn’t just criticizing anti-ICE protesters and observers; it is treating their conduct as criminal. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has claimed that merely filming ICE agents constitutes an act of violence, despite the fact that filming police is not only legal, it is a constitutionally protected right. DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin has labeled recording ICE personnel as “doxing” subject to prosecution, while a DHS statement described filming agents as "obstruction of justice,” threatening that “we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted.” Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who was removed from his position following Pretti’s killing, has said protesters could be arrested for making “hyperbolic” comments about immigration officers. A DHS bulletin to personnel lists “use of cameras,” “livestreaming,” and filming agents among “unlawful civil unrest” tactics.

These are not idle threats: As the Cato Institute’s David J. Bier has documented, there is a growing trend of ICE and Border Patrol agents threatening observers who film them with arrest for illegally “impeding” operations. Over the last month, the Department of Justice pushed efforts to investigate Good’s widow for activist ties and launched a criminal probe against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats, for criticizing ICE operations.

Americans should brace for broader investigation and persecution of those who document and criticize immigration enforcement, fueled by an array of powerful surveillance technologies and tools. But they can also take actions to protect their privacy rights.

Why do this? Because surveillance capitalism wants you to be less free. It wants you to be glued to the screen. It wants you to buy whatever advertisers want you to buy. But you can fight back by deliberately poisoning your data.

Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist and journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers, according to a copy of an ICE subpoena obtained by The Intercept.

Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a Cornell University job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting students who protested in support of Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding.

Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as The Intercept previously reported. But the full extent of the information the agency sought — including usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not previously known.

A powerful class of tech billionaires believes democracy is an obstacle — not a value.

From crypto empires and AI dominance to “network states” and effective altruism, a growing broligarchy envisions a future ruled by elites, insulated from accountability and untethered from democratic norms.

David Z. Morris — longtime technology and finance journalist and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia — joins the show to expose how Epstein’s elite network, Silicon Valley power players, and crypto utopians are reshaping politics in ways that threaten democratic institutions worldwide.

http://thelefthook.substack.com/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43017902

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday officially joined President Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” which is meant to oversee a ceasefire deal in Gaza despite the IDF’s constant violations of the truce and daily killing of Palestinians in the Strip. Netanyahu signed a document to join the board during a meeting with Secretary of […]

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