With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

Canada: Walk away from negotiations. Don't retaliate. Diversify. Find new markets. Buy European military equipment. Reinstate the digital services tax. Let Americans pay more for the things they want from us. Keep up the public boycott. Welcome American refugee talent. Be Canadian. #cdnpoli #USpoli

Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

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NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

Germany, same country that gave the world Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi & Volkswagen, has just seen battery electric vehicles become the best-selling powertrain for the first time. In June, BEVs outsold petrol, diesel, hybrids & plug-in hybrids individually, with BEV sales up 78% year-on-year.

In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany

In June, for the first time, electric cars outsold each other powertrain in Germany, with sales up 78% since last year.

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The kind of security state nightmare @doctorow.pluralistic.net has warned about for years. "Falconet, from Israeli company Cognyte, serves as a cell tower simulator that intercepts cell phone data from all devices within range." cybernews.com/privacy/us-p...

US police SUVs can sweep up every nearby phone signal

The controversial devices impersonate legitimate cell towers, compelling nearby phones to connect and revealing their unique identifiers and locations.

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Historically, fascism has been most enthusiastically brought to power by corporatism. Google is no exception.

The Intercept@theintercept.com · 2w ago

Much of this record is now permanently deleted, erasing detailed testimony of people ingested by the U.S. deportation machine. interc.pt/3TJjOw0

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin sought the phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter's mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of Trump's new Air Force One jet.

Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

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The biggest trick in economics might be convincing people that wealth is only about individual choices. In Part 2 of our conversation, we discuss why inequality isn't just about who works hardest, but about how the system rewards different types of ownership. Watch here: youtu.be/gKVovqhfCzY

The Trick The Rich Play On The Poor

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Great to speak to lots of different channels this morning about what's needed to turn our country around. Rent controls, wealth taxes and action on climate. Half measures won't cut it. Time to be bold. Join.greenparty.org.uk

New publication from me! 🎉 Please check out my latest investigation where we identify (no surprise) a crypto guy to a popular 'leaked' nudes website. Users could even get paid out for sharing leaked/hacked nudes from women. Within 48 hrs of reaching out to him, the site went offline. Impact! 🙌

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 3w ago

Bellingcat and @thepress.co.nz have uncovered a series of links between a New Zealand-based man and the adult forum LeakedBB – a site with over 2.3 million registered users, including some who distributed leaked nude photos and videos. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

BREAKING MS NOW: The Trump White House hosted about two dozen election denial activists this week ahead of Trump's address where he's expected to spread election lies. The session was convened by conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell — who advised Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 result.

Election denial activists briefed at White House ahead of Trump’s primetime speech

The session, convened by Cleta Mitchell and closed by nondisclosure agreements, presented material one attendee described as recycled from conservative media.

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Alberta’s flagship carbon capture project (Pathways/Oil Sands Alliance) just had a quiet but massive walkback. 2021 pledge: 68 megatonnes/yr. Finalized May 2026 deal: just 16 megatonnes/yr. That’s a 77% CUT.

Alberta’s crown jewel of emissions reduction drops its targets by 77% | The Narwhal

The Oil Sands Alliance promised to eliminate 68 megatonnes of emissions each year. Now that number has dropped to 16

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🔴 NEW: The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture By Olly Haynes Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country Read the full story below.

The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture

Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country

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Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit. Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for layoffs.

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims

Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a ​lawsuit against the tech company, accusing it ‌of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who...

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📌 ICYMI — The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture — Olly Haynes Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country

The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture

Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country

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🔴 NEW: Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation…

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?

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Tamara Lich wasn’t the only one at Pete Hoekstra’s Fourth of July bash I did a head count: Over a dozen Canadian far-right activists and right-wing alternative media personalities, (including from the Juno and Rebel media outlets) got invites to the US ambassador’s official residence

PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · last mo.

NEW: US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra hosted over a dozen far-right activists and right-wing media personalities at his ‘Fourth of July’ party in Ottawa this weekend The US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist

Now seems to be a good time to remind Farage I’m still up for debating him. Anytime.

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Proof there is reason for hope! Do yourself a favor, and if there's one creator you subscribe to and watch regularly here, watch this guy, Barry. @barryseconomics.bsky.social also has a Patreon! youtu.be/66wen6C4UNw?...

There Is Reason For Hope. Here's The Proof - Barry's Economics

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This week's video starts with Downton Abbey and ends with a much bigger question: Why do people so often defend systems that disadvantage them? Featuring John Jost, Robert Sapolsky and the psychology of inequality. youtu.be/ApSH0fCIjTY #Psychology #Economics #DowntonAbbey

The Psychological Trick That Keeps you Obedient

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Ahead of his Channel 4 documentary, Gary Stevenson and I sat down for a two-and-a-half-hour conversation about wealth, power, trading floors and why cynicism often serves the status quo. Part 1 is now live. youtu.be/2Fer855GgQQ #Economics #Inequality #GaryStevenson

The Economics Of Getting Filthy Rich

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Why can’t someone just find out if Mitch McConnell is dead? They have to use his death to steal another senate seat? Can’t someone go to the hospital? Where is TMZ when you need them?

The future of this country is extreme poverty, unless we tax the super rich more.

We’re not weird, we’re part of the 75% of millionaires who would be proud to pay more tax. #TaxTheSuperRich #TaxWealthNotWork 🎤 @adambrichto.bsky.social

💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "The first priority for our new Prime Minister has to be a wealth tax." #WealthTaxNow

We're suing Ofcom for its continued failure to stop hate and misinformation. Namely, in TalkTV's transphobic broadcasts. Will you help us? 👇

TalkTV: We're suing Ofcom for failing to stop hate and misinformation | Good Law Project

The media regulator is giving the right-wing channel a free pass to spread toxic lies – so we’re taking legal action

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🚨BREAKING: The Canary have been DEBANKED, removing us from vital funds - this is an attack on free speech. Support us by donating here 👇 www.thecanary.co/make-donatio...

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the president the authority to remove the leadership of most agencies that Congress had set up to act independently of presidential control. “Today, the majority reshapes our Government.”

The Roberts court just put Trump in charge of independent agencies, vastly expanding his powers

"Today the majority reshapes our Government."

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