Techno fascism, genocide and Trump’s “Board of Peace”

And the defense of democracy

The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

There is another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Anthropic in the cross-hairs.

Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.

The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”