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Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

Hackers suspected to be behind unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said.

Meanwhile, in the US of A :floofSad:
https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-files-formal-complaints-with-the-tr…

America First Legal Files Formal Complaints with the Trump Administration Demanding Investigations Into Three School Districts Ahead of Superintendents’ Testimony Before Congress
America First Legal (AFL) has sent formal complaints to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education detailing serious violations of federal law by Chicago Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, […]

Contrary to Trump's bloviating gasbaggery, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is precisely the fact that they aren't conducted at the federal level.
✅ Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure | PBS News
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Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure
One of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is the fact that they aren’t conducted at the federal level.

The people have moved on.
Americans are not just fed up with pandering to Israel by politicians beholden to funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The people have moved on from this notion that things need to move slowly or worse yet, nothing can be done at all.
The current fear-mongering about democratic socialists overshadows the fact it started in the early 1980s,
a time when Americans struggled to make ends meet.
And the current scare f…

Granderson: Voters want what the Democrats' left wing offers
The emergence of democratic socialists has caused some soul-searching, but the answers aren't mysterious. Just ask the public.

Amazon.com weitet Drohnenflüge großflächig aus
Dutzende Millionen US-Amerikaner sollen bei Amazon.com noch dieses Jahr Lieferung per Flugdrohne bestellen können. Lieferzeit ab 30 Minuten.
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Amazon.com weitet Drohnenflüge großflächig aus
Dutzende Millionen US-Amerikaner sollen bei Amazon.com noch dieses Jahr Lieferung per Flugdrohne bestellen können. Lieferzeit ab 30 Minuten.

SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-…

More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …

Nearly half of Americans in poll say Supreme Court bases rulings on politics
A majority of Americans disapprove of the job the court is doing, a Washington Post-Ipsos survey finds. Still, it fares better than the president or Congress.

"She said she cast her ballot for #Trump. In an interview, she said she saw him as a businessman, not a politician, who would put the country on a better track. And she still supports him. “I like how he cares about America,” she said. “He’s going to get for America what America needs.”"
"She was deported to Panama in June."
✅ Trump claims voting by noncitizens is …

Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bra

Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/08/20/tik…

TikTok’s Europe, Africa and LatAm Business Turns Its First Profit
TikTok made $9.1 billion and its first profit in Europe and Latin America but faces a wave of lawsuits and investigations from European regulators.