Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens
Wyden, Ocasio-Cortez Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden, Ocasio-Cortez Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizenswww.finance.senate.gov
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getoffpocket.com, my guide to Pocket alternatives, just got a redesign
I previously posted this at lemmy.world/post/30816595
I really appreciate all the feedback from the community! I haven't had time to address everything yet, but I thought I'd share the redesign as I continue to make this a useful tool for everyone who needs to find a new home for their articles. For anyone who saw the old version, I think you'll agree it has come a long way!
I'm making a guide to Pocket alternatives: getoffpocket.com
Still a work in progress, but even at this stage, I hope it can help you and anyone you know who has been affected by the Pocket shutdown.Guide to Open Source Pocket Alternatives
Comprehensive comparison of open source read-it-later tools and hosting optionsgetoffpocket.com
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Washington's imperialist amibitions fuel unrest in Middle East — expert
ROME, June 17. /TASS/. Israel attacked Iran to help US interests in the Middle East as it loses its grip on global power amid the shift to multipolarity, former Italian envoy to Tehran and Beijing Alberto Bradanini said.
In his opinion, Israel's aggression, carried out under the pretext that Iran will soon have an atomic bomb, is actually aimed at bringing this energy-rich country to heel.
"The United States, though approaching its sunset, is still an empire, waging imperial wars in Europe against Russia through Ukraine, which is paying a huge price. The task of fighting Iran, which refuses to bend to America’s will, has been assigned to Israel, whose interests in this case coincide with its own colonial interests in relation to the lands of the Palestinians, as well as Lebanon and Syria," Bradanini told TASS in an interview.
Washington's imperialist amibitions fuel unrest in Middle East — expert
Alberto Bradanini dismissed the Western narrative that Iran is a nuclear threatTASS
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Why Chinese firms building foreign factories are no longer focused on US market
Why US market is no longer top priority for Chinese companies building foreign factories
Countries like Brazil, Serbia, Hungary and Saudi Arabia have become top choices for Chinese companies looking to explore other markets.Ji Siqi (South China Morning Post)
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.Kate Park (TechCrunch)
Google mocks Apple for iOS 26 features Pixels have had for ages
Google mocks Apple for iOS 26 features Pixels have had for ages
First Samsung, now Google, everyone's picking on Apple for its latest innovations. After Apple's unveiling of iOS 26, Samsung was quick to poke fun at some...Vlad (GSMArena)
Tumblr's content-filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as 'mature,' users blame AI
Tumblr's content filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as 'mature,' users blame AI | TechCrunch
Tumblr users are complaining that content is being falsely labeled as mature, the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
'Years of work down the drain': Iranian missile tore through Israel's science institute
When the Iranians targeted the Weizmann Institute early Sunday morning, they destroyed labs that will have to be rebuilt from scratch and set back research by many years
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"It felt like we were in a war zone," he recalls. "You can't step on the floor. Everything is full of broken glass. It was unbelievable. In the vicinity of my lab, three floors had collapsed. There was no trace of the lab. It's incomprehensible."
That's a daily life for Palestinians if they get to live at all.
The Department of Defense Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed
DOD Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed
The Department of Defense is spending billions modernizing the IT systems it uses for everything from health care and human capital needs to logistics and contracting.www.gao.gov
Spain says April blackout was caused by grid failures and poor planning, not a cyberattack
Spanish authorities say the massive power outage in April across Spain and Portugal was due to technical and planning errors that led to a cascade of failures in the grid.
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UK will look into more ‘transactional’ approach to granting visas, says Starmer
Prime minister outlines plans to penalise countries that refuse to take back refused asylum seekers
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The Department of Defense Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed
DOD Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed
The Department of Defense is spending billions modernizing the IT systems it uses for everything from health care and human capital needs to logistics and contracting.www.gao.gov
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Mel Gibson calls for his fellow Angelenos to overthrow Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass
Oscar winner accuses political leadership of ‘incompetence’ and ‘destructive decision-making’ in handling of anti-ICE protests and wildfires earlier this year
Kenyan police shoot protester at close range during latest protests over blogger's death
Kenyan police have shot an apparent bystander at close range during the latest protests over the killing of a blogger in custody earlier this month
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OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’
Program with the defense department is first under the startup’s initiative to put AI to work in governments
New rules will see 95% of pan-European party funding come from EU budget
The rules on how pan-European political parties can access EU funding are set to be tightened under a new agreement between MEPs and EU governments.
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New rules will see 95% of pan-European party funding come from EU budget
The rules on how pan-European political parties can access EU funding are set to be tightened under a new agreement between MEPs and EU governments.Benjamin Fox (EUobserver)
Houthi official says Yemeni group will intervene in support of Iran
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti says the Houthis will come to the aid of any Arab or Muslim nation under attack.
“We will intervene to support Tehran against Zionist aggressions as we supported our brothers in Gaza,” al-Bukhaiti said.
The Houthis have been carrying out drone and missile attacks against Israel in a campaign that they say aims to pressure the country to end its war on Gaza.
Over the past days, Houthi missiles have coincided with Iranian launches against Israel.
LIVE: Israel, Iran trade attacks; Trump claims ‘control of skies over Iran’
Fighting between Iran and Israel rages for a fifth day with all eyes on US President Donald Trump’s next move.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
Iran Now First Line of Defense of BRICS and the Global South
Iran Now First Line of Defense of BRICS and the Global South
This is as serious as it gets. Let’s survey the chessboard - from micro to macro.Sputnik International
‘Defectively designed’ Cybertruck burned so hot in crash that the driver’s bones literally disintegrated: lawsuit
Exclusive: “There’s my challenge to Elon,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “Make these vehicles so safe that I don’t have to do this anymore.”
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US | Florida can't enforce a new immigration law while court challenge continues, judges rule
Authorities can’t enforce a new Florida law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state while the law is being challenged in court
Two mothers denied ‘rape clause’ exception to benefit cap discriminated against, UK court told
Women are challenging rule that two-child benefit cap exception applies only to third or later children
Trump's claim about "control of the skies over Iran" raises questions about U.S. involvement in conflict
Trump's claim about "control of the skies over Iran" raises questions about U.S. involvement in conflict
President Trump also asserted the U.S. knows "exactly where" Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei "is hiding."Kathryn Watson (CBS News)
Children of murdered Minnesota lawmaker release statement instructing people how to ‘honor’ their parents’ lives
‘We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family’s privacy as we grieve,’ the children said.
Poland adds minefields to 'East Shield' protective barrier with Russia and Belarus
Authorities in Warsaw say they have added minefields to the "East Shield" project, the name given to the protective barrier at the border with Russia and Belarus. Construction began in November last year and now occurs year-round, seven days a week.
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NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by masked agents at immigration court
The city’s elected financial watchdog was accosted by masked officers in Manhattan
NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by masked agents at immigration court
The city’s comptroller was grabbed by masked officers and accused of ‘assault’ days after US Sen. Alex Padilla was handcuffed at a Kristi Noem event on ICE enforcement in CaliforniaAlex Woodward (The Independent)
FDA to offer faster drug reviews to companies promoting 'national priorities'
The Food and Drug Administration says it will begin offering faster reviews to new medicines that align with Trump administration priorities for Americans' health
Stephen Miller’s wife told Social Security staff to cover up a lie from Musk: report
Former White House aide remains at Tesla chief’s side even after barrage of Epstein allegations
Ex-senator Bob Menendez arrives at prison to begin serving 11-year sentence
The New Jersey Democrat will be held in Pennsylvania facility after his conviction on bribery charges
Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country’s public to remove the messaging app WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without offering any evidence the app gathered user information to send to Israel.
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How Drone Swarms Work—From Iran’s Shahed Attack to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb
Six hours after Israel’s air strikes in Iran last Friday, farmers in Iraq could have looked up and seen Iranian drones traveling west: more than 100 of them flew on a 1,700-kilometer journey to Israel, with their propellers buzzing like Weedwackers.Among them was the Shahed-136. Composed mostly of foam and plywood, each Shahed-136 drone is 3.5 meters long and has a 2.5-meter wingspan and a 40- to 50-kilogram warhead at its nose. The drone’s “brain,” a sensor the size of a cough drop, measures every movement while a credit-card-sized GPS onboard listens for microwave chirps from navigation satellites. The Shahed’s route (its waypoints in latitude, longitude and altitude) is uploaded before a booster rocket fires it into the sky. And it is loud: its 50-horsepower motor is slightly more potent than that of a 1960s Volkswagen Beetle and would be as noisy as a lawn mower or a moped at full throttle—now multiplied by 100 in what military strategists sometimes refer to as a rudimentary swarm.
Iran’s recent launch of drones at Israel—or Russia’s use of them against Ukraine, where Shahed drones are nicknamed “flying mopeds”—the swarm’s power is in its numbers. One missile with a similar range can cost upward of $1 million, but a Shahed can be knocked together for $20,000 to $50,000. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fires them from portable rails or from racks on trucks, and the small pulse rocket on the bottom of each drone slams it to cruise speed before falling off. The Center for Strategic and International Studies describes such drone salvos as tools “used as much to saturate air defenses as they are to attack targets, cluttering radar screens and forcing command centers to make decisions about where to fire their more capable surface-to-air missiles,” exactly the situation Israel faced.
Last Friday, as the more than 100 Iranian drones flocked toward Tel Aviv and were shot down by fighter jets, Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system and a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Mediterranean, they couldn’t adjust their course based on what was happening on the battlefield.
The Shahed, which means “Witness” in Persian, is generally a “fire and forget” drone: it cannot transmit information back or receive updated trajectories (though it is often modeled in different ways, and some Shahed drones used by Russia have reportedly had communication equipment). Rather the swarmlike power of such attacks is based in their cost: in the one late last week, the IRGC could afford to fire drones in a wave so dense that fighter pilots, radar operators and Iron Dome crews had to sort through a moving cloud of identical radar blips.
How Drone Swarms Work—From Iran’s Shahed Attack to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb
Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defenseDeni Ellis Béchard (Scientific American)
Trump threatens to keep 25% tariff on UK steel imports over Port Talbot concerns
Exclusive: Sources say US wants information on when importing of raw materials from abroad at Port Talbot site will stop
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Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing
Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.David Pierce (The Verge)
Max Mara e lo sfruttamento nel lusso: le lavoratrici denunciano body-shaming e condizioni di lavoro disumane
Max mara sotto accusa: sciopero delle lavoratrici il 22 e 23 maggio: “Ci chiamano grasse.”
Nel cuore del lusso italiano si nasconde una contraddizione inquietante. Mentre Max Mara è celebrata per la sua eleganza senza tempo e i cappotti impeccabili, le lavoratrici dietro al marchio, perlopiù donne, rompono il silenzio denunciando una realtà dura: regole rigide, esaurimento fisico, salari rubati e promozioni bloccate.
L’ultima protesta arriva dallo stabilimento di San Maurizio a Reggio Emilia, dove 220 lavoratrici hanno scioperato con il supporto del sindacato Filctem-CGIL
Le loro richieste? La fine di “condizioni di lavoro inaccettabili” che, a loro dire, appartengono agli anni ‘80, non all’Italia di oggi.
Le lavoratrici di Max Mara: “Ci chiamavano grasse. Contavano le pause bagno”
All’interno della fabbrica, le dipendenti descrivono un ambiente disumanizzante:
Body-shaming: “Ci chiamavano vacche da mungere. Ci dicevano che eravamo troppo grasse, suggerendoci persino esercizi per dimagrire.”
Salari da sfruttamento: “Siamo pagate a cottimo, come macchine su una catena di montaggio.”
Controllo e umiliazione: “Contano le pause bagno, nonostante siamo donne con il ciclo.”
Erica Morelli, segretaria generale di Filctem-CGIL Reggio Emilia, ha condannato l’immobilismo dell’azienda: “Max Mara ha costruito un muro. Questo sciopero è la nostra ultima risorsa per ottenere rispetto.”
Marco Grimaldi, vicecapogruppo di AVS alla Camera, è intervenuto sulla vicenda presentando un’interrogazione parlamentare: “Il colosso Max Mara non applica nemmeno il contratto collettivo nazionale del tessile (CCNL), né offre alcuna trasparenza su emissioni e tutela climatica.”
Moda di lusso, realtà da sweatshop
Non si tratta di un caso isolato. Max Mara si aggiunge a una lunga lista di marchi della moda segnati da abusi lavorativi.
Indagini hanno rivelato l’esistenza di laboratori in subappalto — le cosiddette “fabbriche dormitorio” vicino a Milano e Bergamo — dove lavoratori cinesi cuciono borse di lusso a 2€/ora. Le stesse borse vengono poi vendute a 1.800–3.000€.
Facciamo due conti:
• Costo di produzione per borsa: 40–90€
• Prezzo al dettaglio: fino al 3.000% di ricarico
• Quota del lavoratore: meno dell’1% del prezzo finale
In breve, i colossi del lusso fanno affari sulla pelle delle persone e del pianeta.
La moda genera il 5% del PIL italiano, ma si basa su un sistema di schiavitù moderna. Questo è inaccettabile.
Considerazioni finali: la verità scomoda del capitalismo
Max Mara sotto accusa rivela il volto scomodo del lusso. L’industria della moda è lo specchio del capitalismo: glamour in superficie, sfruttamento dietro le quinte. Infatti, dietro la patina del lusso si nasconde un sistema fondato sulla compressione del lavoro per massimizzare i profitti.
Eppure, come affermano i sindacati, aumentare il compenso di appena 1–5€ per capo potrebbe cambiare radicalmente la vita dei lavoratori.
Le testimonianze delle lavoratrici Max Mara rivelano quanto sia marcio l’intero sistema economico. Ma può davvero l’industria della moda continuare a esistere umiliando proprio chi la sostiene?
In definitiva, si possono mettere cerotti — soluzioni che sembrano funzionare — con la mediazione di sindacati, forze dell’ordine o altri attori. Ma finché non si affronterà la causa profonda ( cioè il sistema economico stesso), nulla cambierà davvero.
Se vuoi altri approfondimenti su moda, sostenibilità e cultura, trovi tutto sul blog indipendente suite123:
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Caso Max Mara alla Camera: “Insulti e oppressioni alle operaie”
“Il governo non resti in silenzio. È bufera dopo lo sciopero indetto nei giorni scorsi alla Manifattura San Maurizio dalla Filctem Cgil Avs e M5s chiedono al ministro Calderone un’informativa urgente in merito ai “gravi episodi”ANTONIO LECCI (Il Resto del Carlino)
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Body-shaming: “Ci chiamavano vacche da mungere. Ci dicevano che eravamo troppo grasse, suggerendoci persino esercizi per dimagrire.” Salari da sfruttamento: “Siamo pagate a cottimo, come macchine su una catena di montaggio.” Controllo e umiliazione: “Contano le pause bagno, nonostante siamo donne con il ciclo.” Erica Morelli, segretaria generale di Filctem-CGIL Reggio Emilia, ha condannato l’immobilismo dell’azienda: “Max Mara ha costruito un muro. Questo sciopero è la nostra ultima risorsa per ottenere rispetto.”
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Retail sales fell 0.9% in May, worse than expected, as consumers pulled back
Retail sales fell 0.9% in May, worse than expected, as consumers pulled back
Consumer spending pulled back sharply, weighed by declining gas sales and looming unease over where the economy is headed.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
Argentine tribunal allows ex-President Fernández to serve corruption sentence at home
A federal court in Argentina has granted former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s request to serve a six-year prison sentence for corruption at her home in Buenos Aires
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in reply to LibertyLizard • • •The Abandon Harris movement was huge in the Biden sphere. They got a large amount of people to not vote for Harris because she refused to fulfill their demands of stopping the genocide in Gaza.
And instead of doing a pity regret dance they now use their proven determination to threaten Trump to cave to their demand or face electorale backlash for it.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •The people who might opt to not vote for Biden or Harris aren't people who would have voted for trump in the first place, so I don't see them having a lot of leverage.
I can't tell you what code to follow, but the whole thing reeks of people who didn't get the memo that trump doesn't need them to bleed votes from the Dems anymore.
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in reply to ricecake • • •They told voters to abandon Biden and Harris because of their genocide.They didn't tell peoppe to vote for Trump, because Trump refused to be anti-genocide as well.
Abandon Harris subsequently endorsed Jill Stein, the most popular anti-genocide candidate.
The whole thing sends an extremely clear and important message for politicians to not support war and genocide.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •And then Jill Stein won, and the genocide stopped, right?
Like I said, I don't question the intention or code of ethics for the people involved, but there's a reason they and people like them get a lot of support from the RNC.
They aren't voters who are realistically going to vote Republican, so the best they can do is be diverted to a spoiler candidate.
Thinking that that translates to political leverage against the Republicans is just naive though. They didn't vote for them in the first place, so it's an empty threat.
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in reply to ricecake • • •No because there's too many genocide supporters. At least Democrats learnt that there are people who unlike Democrat and Republican voters have morals and will not tolerate genocide no matter how hard they fearmonger.
Because Republicans were not the one doing the genocide at that time, whereas Democrats were. Now they Abandon Harris applies consistent morals and use their leverage to oppose Trump.
Surprisingly Red MAGA is providing a lot more opposition to the Iran invasion the Blue MAGA ever has. I was almost shocked to find out that the Democratic party is a bigger cult than Republicans. This momentum can certainly be translated into a campaign opposing Trump.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •It's an AND situation.
Dems went with the fucked up status quo.
Single-issue voters suddenly started caring about a genocide that's been going on for nearly 80 years that they previously didn't give two shits about (because of right-wing influence campaigns and bourgeoisie-owned media). They decided that the best course of action was to engage in purely performative, pseudo-political wankery that was only ever going to result in enabling fascists, as was easily seen in all extant historical election data from FPTP systems, so that they could pretend that they were doing something meaningful and stoke their egos by claiming that they had anything resembling moral high-ground.
Sorry, the world isn't black and white. It takes consistent, strategic engagement to effect positive change and these people chose instead to inflict greater suffering on humanity and pat themselves on the back for a job well done, while also doing fuck all in the way of direct action or attempting anything to meaningfully improve the human condition.
Oh! And to add to that, I'm regularly seeing the same people deriding anyone engaging in non-violent action as "shitlibs", specifically as it is not involving violence, while still doing absolutely nothing but be up themselves on the Internet. Want violence? Stop being a coward and do it yourself, rather than trying to pressure people into it on the online or engaging in the amoral religion that is accelerationism.
Both the genocidal neolibs and the egocentric protest non-voters are significant contributors in this. And before you try saying that I'm going easy on the nazis in order to deflect, no. Just stop with the dishonesty.
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in reply to DominusOfMegadeus • • •Kernal64
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Holy shit, the post title is damn near unintelligible. After reading it over a few times, I'm pretty sure this is what the title is trying to say:
"The Abandon Harris movement threatens to launch a massive campaign against Trump, as they did against Harris, if he joins Israel's war of aggression against Iran."
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