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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

“This is essentially despotism as a service.”

Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you.

A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:

Silicon Valley once laughed off OpenAI. Now it’s the world’s most valuable private company.

Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”

🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm

🎉 We have Circuit 06 Finalists 🎉 Selected from a stunning pool of 72 submissions these 12 fluxworks offer a brilliant sonic spread of creative tension, repetitive sound & color embodiment, just as the prompts called for. Deets here www.audioflux.org/circuit-06 & listen to them all at XMTR.fm (!)

Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins In exclusive prison interviews, the convicted crypto king is still fighting to control the narrative ahead of a high-stakes appeal.

“We were treated like digital peasants.”

What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.

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Sam Bankman-Fried recounts FTX’s collapse and why he feels he was wrongly convicted of fraud Through exclusive prison interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried and others, we put fresh eyes on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.

With exclusive interviews, we retrace the collapse of FTX in part 1 🔊 @revealnews.org

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Sam Bankman-Fried recounts FTX’s collapse and why he feels he was wrongly convicted of fraud Through exclusive prison interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried and others, we put fresh eyes on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.

🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:

Has Trump ended Staten Island’s wind power dreams? The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts.

The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

Has Trump ended Staten Island’s wind power dreams? The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts.

The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

CDC Exodus Includes Lead Official Tracking Food Safety and Animal Agriculture Disease Health expert warns that personnel losses at the Centers for Disease Control and low morale are ‘strangling public health.’

CDC Exodus Includes Lead Official Tracking Food Safety and Animal Agriculture Disease

The GOP Is Choosing Pesticides Over the MAHA Moms RFK Jr.’s MAHA coalition is already made up of unlikely GOP allies, from anti-Big Food activists to regenerative farmers. The issue of pesticides threatens to come between the movement and its Republi...

I've been waiting for MAHA's anti-industry stances to run smack into the administration's pro-industry positions. Pesticides are proving to be the first major battleground and the MAHA Moms are losing. My latest with @rachelcohrs.bsky.social (gift link)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a 'grueling hell on earth.' The inside story of how the celebrated startup AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.

This story is wild!

🧵1/ A celebrated startup promised Eastern Kentucky green jobs. Workers say it delivered "a grueling hell on earth." Tomatoes, tech dreams, and a trail of trauma — the rise and fall of AppHarvest is a story you won't forget.

grist.org/agriculture/...

#Food ##Kentucky #Farms

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT “Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

It's Brad Lander's victory, too The former NYC mayoral candidate weighs in on Mamdani’s win, his own campaign, and what’s next.

It was a pleasure speaking with @motherjones.com about the primary, how we need collaborative—not divisive—politics, and what comes next.

(And that Liberty game offer is still open, Tim Robinson!)

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained.

They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

Federal agents handcuff and detain New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander was taken into custody at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

Will Trump End OSHA’s Federal Heat Protections for Workers? As workplace deaths from heat increase, OSHA will debate the future of the first federal rules to protect workers from extreme heat.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold hearings on the first proposed federal rule to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths at work by requiring water and rest breaks when temperatures surpass certain levels, put forward by the Biden administration.

Defying a ban, Long Islanders masked up for "No Kings" “If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can."

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.

No Kings crowd marching to the Nassau County legislative building on Long Island.

Speaking with protestors about the existing county wide mask ban for a @motherjones.com story with @juliametraux.bsky.social

No Kings crowd gathering in front of Nassau County Court House in Mineola, NY.

Parental rights is a movement with deep roots. It's spreading nationwide. A "no-guardrails" version has become a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda.

The modern conservative concept of parental rights is deeply connected to our country’s original notion of children as “chattel” of their parents. Scholars and advocates warn that, with Donald Trump as president, its national influence and scope is unprecedented. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data

“American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent.”
“The top 10 countries for intensive pig and poultry farms combined are 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇮🇹, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇰, 🇵🇱, 🇧🇪 and 🇭🇺.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NO KINGS: Mineola/Garden City · Progressive Democrats of America 🚨 On **Saturday, June 14th**, we’re taking to the streets! Join us as we RALLY and MARCH to say: NO thrones! NO crowns! NO KINGS!! 🚨 ▪️11:30am: Rally at Nassau County Court House ▪️12pm: March to Nas...

If you're going to be at this Nassau County NY No Kings event and plan to be masking also for health reasons (there's a covid wave). Please get in touch with me for a @motherjones.com piece, as I'd like to connect you with @artiscuriskis.bsky.social who will be there. www.mobilize.us/progressived...

Trump wants an "American Iron Dome." Experts say that's ridiculous. A central campaign promise, the building of an over two trillion dollar missile shield would be costly, ineffective, and unnecessary.

They're talking about the "golden dome" again.

So let us remind you that experts overwhelmingly reject the proposal as “the insane ramblings of a senile old person.”

Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate s...

🔴NEW: Major food firms like Nestlé, PepsiCo and JBS are overstating progress on their climate goals, a new report finds

Firms are criticised for a reliance on vague carbon removals, weak no-deforestation claims and a lack of progress on key transitions

www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f...

A LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”

NEW: the LAPD reportedly used a helicopter unit to tell protestors they were on camera and “I’m going to come to your house.” The ACLU and EFF both say the statement is chilling: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Honored to be selected for this fellowship. Looking forward to convening with the cohort in the near future!

CLF is delighted to announce the new fellows who comprise the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. The 2025 cohort is the fellowship’s second cohort and is composed of 12 journalists. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining Doug Burgum says Biden order that banned drilling in the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be reversed.

Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining.

Doug Burgum says Biden order that banned drilling in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be reversed.

grist.org/energy/trump...

#Alaska #Mining #AK #Oil #FossilFuels