“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5517232-kamala-harris-donald-trump-tyrant-private-sector/

ver the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its targets – from social media posts to location history and, most recently, tax information.

And there’s been one, multibillion-dollar tech company particularly instrumental in enabling Ice to put all that data to work: Palantir, the data analytics firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, the rightwing mega-donor and tech investor.

For years, little was known about how Ice uses Palantir’s technology. The company has consistently described itself as a “data processor” and says it does not play an active role in any of its customers’ data collection efforts or what clients do with that information.

Now, a cache of internal Ice documents – including hundreds of pages of emails between Ice and Palantir, as well as training manuals, and reports on the use of Palantir products – offer some of the first real-world examples of how Ice has used Palantir in its investigations and during on-the-ground enforcement operations.

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency.

^{Johana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)}

The General Services Administration is looking to reinstate hundreds of laid-off employees who managed its governmentwide real estate portfolio.

GSA’s Public Buildings Service is giving laid-off employees the option to return to their jobs, after sending them reduction-in-force notices earlier this year.

“This serves as an update to your previously issued notice of reduction in force. Your specific notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) has been rescinded, effective immediately,” acting PBS Commissioner Andrew Heller wrote in a notice obtained by Federal News Network.

GSA is giving PBS employees until the end of the day on Friday, Sept. 26, to accept or decline reinstatement. If employees accept the offer, they must report to their previous posts by Oct. 6.

GSA walks back mass layoffs of its federal buildings workforce

The Public Buildings Service faced the brunt of GSA's widespread layoffs, amid plans to drastically shrink its real estate portfolio.

^{Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)}

Questo ottavo capitolo del manga di Sailor Moon rimane sul semplice, cominciando proprio da dove lo scorso si è interrotto, ma è davvero così...

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Exclusive: After being struck with ‘the force of an approximately 8,000-pound counterbalance weight,’ court filings say Peter Hinterdobler has already racked up $1 million in medical bills

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Tesla technician sues for $51mln after assembly-line robot knocks him unconscious

Exclusive: After being struck with ‘the force of an approximately 8,000-pound counterbalance weight,’ court filings say Peter Hinterdobler has already racked up $1 million in medical bills

Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…

Tesla factory technician sues for $51 million after assembly-line robot knocks him unconscious

^{Justin Rohrlich (The Independent)}

Exclusive: After being struck with ‘the force of an approximately 8,000-pound counterbalance weight,’ court filings say Peter Hinterdobler has already racked up $1 million in medical bills

Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…

Tesla factory technician sues for $51 million after assembly-line robot knocks him unconscious

^{Justin Rohrlich (The Independent)}

Huawei Technologies Co. openly admits its silicon can’t match Nvidia Corp.’s in raw power and speed. So to pack the same punch, China’s national champion is counting on its traditional strengths: brute force, networking, and policy support.

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Elon Musk hypes the AI-enabled system, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored some street signs and squashed a mannequin child.

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An app for anonymously reporting individuals accused of speaking ill against conservative Charlie Kirk leaked personal data about its users.

App for outing Charlie Kirk’s critics leaked its users’ personal data

^{Mikael Thalen (Straight Arrow News)}

Sinclair Broadcast Group confirmed that its affiliate stations would not be showing Kimmel's return, and would instead "replace it with news programming".

Map shows where Jimmy Kimmel won't be aired by Sinclair Broadcast Group

^{Theo Burman (Newsweek)}

Disney is raising the prices of its Disney+ and Hulu plans in the U.S., including most bundles, as of next month.

Price of Disney Plus, Hulu: Services Raising Prices in October 2025

^{Todd Spangler (Variety)}

ai-pocalypse: Signatories include 10 Nobel Prize winners

Stop runaway AI before it's too late, experts beg the UN

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}

A recent Russian assault in the embattled city of Kupiansk has once again thrust an uncommon, but often highly-effective tactic into the spotlight — using underground pipes to penetrate Ukrainian defensive lines.

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'Suicides and suffocation' — Russia sends troops into gas pipelines to bypass Ukrainian defenses

^{Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)}

In the period between April and August this year, Russian planes on three occasions violated the airspace over Eastern Finnmark, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre says.

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Prime Minister Støre: Russian aircraft violated Norwegian airspace

^{Atle Staalesen (thebarentsobserver)}

Former detainees reported experiencing a broad array of torture and ill-treatment during their captivity. Commonly described methods included severe beatings with various objects such as batons and sticks, electric shocks to different body parts, mock executions, kickings, threats of death, and violence directed either to a detainee or their loved ones, according to the report.

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'We'll leave you to rot' — UN report details horrific torture of Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity

^{Yuliia Taradiuk (The Kyiv Independent)}

Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.

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Students at a high school in Wisconsin are upset about their district's new electronic pass system that limits the number of times a student can use the bathroom during the school day and week.

The new ePass system at Arrowhead Union High School, located in a suburb of Milwaukee, functions as an electronic hall pass that students must use to take bathroom breaks during school hours.

New electronic pass system limits students to 7 bathroom breaks per week

^{Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

CISA has revealed that attackers breached the network of an unnamed U.S. federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency last year after compromising an unpatched GeoServer instance.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-says-hackers-breached-federal-agency-using-geoserver-exploit/

QWOP meets Death Stranding meets Getting Over It to form wonderfully surreal, unique game.

Baby Steps is the most gloriously frustrating game I’ve ever struggled through

^{Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)}

Here comes another screen overlay.

Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

Jimmy Kimmel will return to the airwaves Tuesday night after his suspension by ABC was met with a massive public backlash. But while they say the comedian’s reinstatement is cause for celebration, advocates say that it’s just one small victory in a much larger fight against the Trump administration’s campaign to censor dissent.

Andrew O’Neill, the advocacy director of the group Indivisible, which called on its members to boycott ABC‘s parent company Disney in response to the company’s capitulation to President Donald Trump, said that Kimmel “wasn’t reinstated because Disney executives slept on it and had a change of heart.”

“He’s back on air because those executives got a wake-up call from the American public,” O’Neill said. “People all over the country showed up, canceling subscriptions, protesting outside ABC and Disney, Nexstar and more, and made it damn clear this political alliance with Trump was not in Disney’s best interest. Trump’s authoritarian playbook is unpopular, and when these CEOs comply, it’s not only cowardly. It’s unstrategic.”

'The Fight Doesn’t End Here': Despite Kimmel's Return, Accountability Demanded for Trump's FCC Chair, Media Execs

"Congress should investigate and put everyone involved under oath at a public hearing to get to the bottom of this threat to free speech," said the co-CEO of Free Press.

^{stephen-prager (Common Dreams)}

Shields and other researchers have repeatedly flagged concerns about lower quality of care at mental health facilities owned by for-profit corporations, in part due to efforts to cut staff and reduce costs. Companies have defended the quality of care they provide.

ProPublica reported Monday that over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years. The vast majority of them — around 80% — are owned by for-profit corporations.

Yet only a handful have faced any consequences from either the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, both of which are responsible for regulating the law. In the rare cases when hospitals have faced fines, the penalties have been trivial compared to the earnings of each for-profit hospital chain, the investigation found.

For-Profit Hospitals Continue to Violate EMTALA With Few Repercussions

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.

^ProPublica