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Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/08/18/f…

Francisco Partners to acquire Weave Communications for $650M
The deal comes less than five years after Weave went public at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Attention Star Wars Galactic StarCruiser alumni - coming to San Diego ComicCon:
✅Disney's Most Ambitious Failed Star Wars Attraction Is Coming to SDCC - Collider
https://collider.com/halcyon-daze-the-final-voyages…

Disney's Most Ambitious Failed Star Wars Attraction Is Coming to SDCC
Halcyon Daze, the fan documentary exploring Disney's ambitious Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser attraction, is officially coming to SDCC and Gen Con.

Finally, the Philippines’ Department of Transportation has published railway standards for line colors, station names, station codes, and announcements. 🚈
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

File:Department of Transportation (Philippines) Railway Network Legibility Standards (RNLS) - D.O.-2026-014 - 19 June 2026.pdf - Wikimedia Commons

Cowboys Headlines: Reinforcements coming, Pickens a Chiefs trade target? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/19/cowboys-headlines-reinforcements-coming-pickens-a-trade-tar…

That would explain why he got a pass for so long.
Jeffrey Epstein Was CIA. The Communications Network at Zorro Ranch Proves It.
https://alisav.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-was-cia-the-communications

O&C – ownership and control – *that’s* the lens by which we should be evaluating data and technology.
Who owns and controls data and technology?
If we want a fair, just world with human rights, freedom, and democracy, the answer to that question must be twofold:
1. Data about and technology for the commons must be owned and controlled by the commons.
2. Data about and technology for people must be owned and controlled by individuals.
That’s it.
Notice …

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

Just arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine
and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory,
or Ukraine would take action itself.

'A week will be enough' — Zelensky issues ultimatum to Lukashenko over drone-guidance equipment
President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory, or Ukraine would take action itself.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.