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RE: #Söder
Er hat sich seither selbst in einem ungeheueren Ausmaß korrumpiert.

Brian Morales, a U.S. citizen,
has been deported to Mexico despite telling arresting officers that he had proof of citizenship at home, according to a new report.
According to Univision’s Lidia Terrazas, 25-year-old Denver-born Brian Morales was threatened with either deportation or prison time following a traffic stop in Texas by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents.
This is the latest in a string of incidents involving U.S. citizens and Department of Homeland Security …

DHS deported a US citizen to Mexico after threatening him with prison time: report
A man deported to Mexico has claimed that officers not only refused to see his documents but accused him of fraud

The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
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Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing. It was part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. A declaration filed Wednesday by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo stated that the IRS was only able to verify roughly 47,000 of the 1.28 million names requested by U.S…

The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (Martin Matishak/The Record)
https://therecord.media/rudd-confirmed-nsa-cyber-command-chief

Rudd confirmed to head NSA, Cyber Command after near year-long vacancy
Rudd, who was confirmed 71-29 to serve as the “dual-hat” leader of the organizations, takes the reins as the U.S. faces mounting aggression in cyberspace from foreign adversaries at the same time the Trump administration has sought to shrink the size of the federal government.

On a whim, I went to the Royal Festival Hall to see Bruce Liu playing Ravel. Pretty cool. He makes the fiendishly difficult appear entirely effortless.
I think last time I went there, I was a callow youth. It's bigger than I remember!
#music #classical

#USpol

“Originally launched as a casual meet-up in a cafe, the club has flourished into a network of offline events across Europe.
“Facilitators now organise sessions in 18 cities, and the club has built a following of around 600,000 on Instagram.”
'A simpler way of being': The rise of the offline club ht…

'A simpler way of being': The rise of the offline club
There's a growing movement of young people coming together to switch off their phones and rediscover life offline.

As bombs have been falling across the Middle East, I’ve been re-reading Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet and painter, especially her book The Arab Apocalypse.
At the same time I have returned to her paintings, which I first encountered at Documenta 13 in 2012. These paintings are small, yet they offer expanses of color and light that fill the eye and lift the spirit.
I thought you might like to see them too.

Just Seeing: Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan's paintings are abstracted landscapes made of color and light.

Iraq oil ports halt operations after tanker attacks – report
Iraqi officials are saying oil ports have “completely stopped operations” while commercials ports continue to operate after an attack on a fuel tankers, according to Iraqi state media.
Iraqi port security officials have said two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi fuel oil were in flames after being attacked by Iranian boats laden with explosives, killing a foreign crew member.
Iraq’s General Company for Ports chief Fa…

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright,
a former fracking executive,
was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets
after he posted a striking claim on social media:
The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing.”
The post on X was deleted minutes later,
after “oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years,” according to the Wall StreetJournal.
The White House pres…

Trump Energy Chief Accused of Manipulating Oil Markets With Deleted Post About Strait of Hormuz | Common Dreams
"The fusion of war-making and market manipulation by top Trump officials isn't entirely without precedent," said one observer, "but the speed and brazenness does seem new."