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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges,
seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial,
after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases
accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters.
He hasn’t been convi…

Israeli leader Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial. His office on Sunday confirmed the request was submitted to the president's legal department. The president's office called it an “extraordinary request” with “significant implications.” Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. But he hasn't been convicted. He denies the allegations and calls the trial a witch hunt. The request follows U…

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Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: Then what do you propose?
AVON: Doing nothing.
VILA: Oh, fine. I may not be the bravest man in the galaxy -
AVON: Are you sure?
VILA: - but I'd rather go down fighting than doing nothing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/64

Uh, that's called a pizza cutter. I thought this city knew pizza? https://gothamist.com/news/man-posing-as-fbi-agent-tries-to-free-luigi-mangione-from-jail-with-a-fork-officials-say

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

"France’s largest rewilding project"
#France #Rewilding #Environment

France’s largest rewilding project
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. He has spent much of his life in the shadow of the Dauphiné Alps in southeastern France, where limestone cliffs catch the morning light and the silhouettes of horned ibex move across the ridgelines. To Fabien Quétier, who […]

Many are surprised as the owners/managers of big high-tech companies have embraced and paid de facto bribes to trump.
I was part of the silicon valley (and Boston) era when those now-huge companies got started.
Having observed many of the people who controlled those then-new companies, I am not surprised that those companies are now institutions of political reaction and economic concentration.
Back then the Silicon valley was filled with cocaine and money-worshiping people…

"Wenn Du aufhörst, gegen das zu kämpfen, was Du bist, öffnet sich das Tor zu dem, was Du noch werden kannst. #Transformation beginnt nicht mit dem Wunsch, anders zu sein, sondern mit dem Mut, sich selbst zu sehen – ganz."
Jan Frerichs
#Zitate

Ein kleiner Türöffner für etwas mehr Intuition (ohne ganz die Kontrolle zu verlieren) … [PODCAST #260] | barfuß+wild
Wenn Du aufhörst, gegen das zu kämpfen, was Du bist, öffnet sich das Tor zu dem, was Du noch werden kannst. Transformation beginnt nicht mit dem Wunsch, anders zu sein, sondern mit dem Mut, sich selbst zu sehen – ganz.

I love that so many Americans turned out to not just protest policies that hit personally,
but to rally in support of democracy writ large.
For many, it was their first time taking this kind of action,
and they were doing it in a way that expressed optimism and possibility rather than giving in to anger or despair

Commentary: America tried something new in 2025. It's not going well
Glow up or grow up? Times columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak look back and assess whether 2025 was good for America or an unmitigated disaster.

The first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office was marked by the rapid implementation of his far-right program.
From ICE to DOGE,
from anti-DEI to anti-antifa,
and from bombing boats to $400 million bribes,
Trump’s regime has turned out even more extreme than feared after he was elected to a second term in November 2024.
His words and actions as president have been covered extensively over the past year,
as have those of a number of internal advise…

The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump
Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration.