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Docs: DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, allowing agencies like ICE to skip the competitive bidding process (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/department-homeland-security-ice-billion-dollar-…

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir
“If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

Sehr lesenswerter Kommentar zum Social-Media-Verbot für Jugendliche:
https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/social-media-verbot-fuer-minderjaehrige-ausgrenzung-statt-schutz/2310987

Ausgrenzung unter dem Deckmantel des Jugendschutzes
Das Argument, Social-Media-Verbote für Minderjährige dienen zum Jugendschutz, ist vor allem eins: eine Nebelkerze, kommentiert Michaela Maya-Mrschtik.

TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/media/tiktok-deal-agreements-us-investors.html

Bundeskanzler: Friedrich #Merz strebt zweite Amtszeit als Bundeskanzler an
"Beim Politischen Aschermittwoch sagt Merz, er wäre gerne #Bundeskanzler auf "längere Zeit". Die Deutschen will er zu "Fröhlichkeit an der Arbeit" motivieren."
Fasching ist doch jetzt vo…

Bundeskanzler: Friedrich Merz strebt zweite Amtszeit als Bundeskanzler an
Beim Politischen Aschermittwoch sagt Merz, er wäre gerne Bundeskanzler auf "längere Zeit". Die Deutschen will er zu "Fröhlichkeit an der Arbeit" motivieren.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states
that would require election officials to
🆘 remove any
🔸alleged 🔸
ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
The agreement
— called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU
— would❌ hand the federal government a major role in election administration,
a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution.…

UK delivers 350 ASRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of record £4.5 billion aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/uk-delivers-asraam-airtoair-missiles.html

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/department-homeland-security-ice-billion-dollar-agreement-palantir/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p78#a260219p78

Carney offers to ‘broker a bridge’ to build giant anti-Trump trade club
#EU #Canada #CPTPP
Via @… (& @…)

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components…

Congressional negotiators are expected to release a
bipartisan health care package
as soon as today
that revives major parts of a deal that was torpedoed in late 2024 by Elon Musk and then President-elect Trump.
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities like
— an overhaul of the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers — the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurers
— and new controls on how hospitals bill for outpatien…

Scoop: Bipartisan health package likely moving forward
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities but no extension of Obamacare subsidies.