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[From 2025]
It is well past time for journalists to stop granting any credibility to statements from the Department of Homeland Security.
Time after time, official statements from DHS — including ICE and the Border Patrol — have turned out to be malicious fabrications, often intended to blame the victims for their own brutality.
On Thursday, a federal judge in Chicago did us all an enormous favor by documenting lie upon lie told by DHS agents and officials in her courtroom.

DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says

The first half of the summer was the hottest on record here in the central Netherlands (1901-2026)

Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-rises-deals-slump-h1-2026/…

Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a sign that investors are writing fewer, but much larger checks into the sector as they focus on areas such as wealth management, financial infrastructure and enterprise automation. We take a look at the numbers.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and US citizens.
During the operation, there have been 28 incidents where immigration agents shot at people,
resulting in eight deaths,
according to an analysis by The Trace.
On July 13, an ICE officer fatally shot Joan Sebastian Duršn Guerrero,
a 25-year-old delivery driver from Colombia authorized to work in the US…

How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s deployment of immigration agents. Know of an incident? Please be in touch.

San Francisco, please vote no on D, E, and F. This mayor and his billionaire buddies already think they're above the law when it comes to public records requests, let's not give them even more power.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/01/dani…

New evidence suggests Lurie’s office is concealing or destroying public records
Lurie pledged in 2025 to hand over his work messages. Now his office says it has none in instances where other departments readily produce them.

15 years remote and counting
#tips

Raiders Get Intriguing Trade Proposal for Bengals’ 18-Pressure DT https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/bengals-intriguing-trade-proposal-kris-jenkins/

Ich habe seit Anfang 2025 glaube ich jede Folge @… gehört und fand sie meistens ziemlich gut.
Aber die aktuell Folge hier (#LdN490) ist mit A b s t a n d die beste, weil hier mal wirklich kontroverse Positionen in einem hoch relevanten Thema aufeinander treffen und richtig gut Argumente ausgetauscht werden. Absolute Hörempfehlung. 👍
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LdN490 Pazifismus: Lässt sich Putin wirklich mit Gesang aus der Ukraine vertreiben? (Olaf L. Müller, Professor für Philosophie)

There's a new SwampGas zine coming out soon -- SwampGas issue #3!
While you wait for it, why not check out the first two issues? They're free, and they're rad as fuck. ⬇
SwampGas #1: https://quietmeow.itch.io/swampgas-1-zine
SwampGas #2:

Swampgas #1 - Winter 2025 by Quiet Meow Design
Issue 1 of a new zine with art, poetry, stories, music reviews & previews

France's wildfires already are the most widespread in modern records. (In other 'news', climate deniers in the UK and from the Trump regime deny the severity of the situation).
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-europe-is-not-hav…

Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used "mind-blowing" encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/world/e

A $2.5 Billion Whodunit: The Hack That Dented the U.K. Economy
A loose collective of cybercriminals initially took credit for crippling Jaguar Land Rover last year. Investigators now see Russian hands behind the ransomware attack.

The Department of Justice has moved to dismiss charges against a prominent California union leader who was arrested while protesting against an immigration raid in Los Angeles last year, in the latest US government case against protesters to fall apart.
David Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West, was arrested at a June 2025 demonstration and has been fighting the charges ever since.
On Monday, the US attorney’s office in LA fi…

US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader
David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles

Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

C.F.T.C. Begins Investigating Polymarket, a Test of a Key Regulator
Last year, the powerful agency overruled its enforcement attorneys and killed a separate inquiry into whether the company was illegally serving U.S. customers.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsForeverDark
Siouxsie and the Banshees:
🎵 Cities In Dust
#SiouxsieandtheBanshees
https://djcesardecastro.bandcamp.com/track/siouxsie-and-the-banshees-cities-in-dust-cesar-de-castro-remix-2025
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xq9cLlOPyLoi8kLlR4miz

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 Don't Throw Rocks (6 Music Session, 17 Dec 2025)
#WestsideCowboy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4B31jv3HqAJ3yYDlpo5ZYm

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Annahstasia:
🎵 Slow (6 Music Session, 29 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/slow-live-at-glasshaus
https://open.spotify.com/track/5i5Rt40zinWyID6QGp8gso