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International media conglomerate Axel Springer, which owns multiple major news outlets,
announced on Friday that it is awarding its 2026 Axel Springer Award to far right billionaire Peter Thiel,
recognizing the Palantir co-founder for his “societal impact” and entrepreneurial feats
as his company seeks to build out a mass surveillance network across the U.S.
The Axel Springer Award, the company says,
“pays tribute to a person who has created new markets, reshape…

Politico Owner Axel Springer Gives Prize to Far Right Billionaire Peter Thiel
The award ceremony is slated to include remarks from Bari Weiss.

Rallytime : The Commanders season is far from over https://www.commanders.com/video/rallytime-the-commanders-season-is-far-from-over

Trump cites national security as Supreme Court weighs challenge to the White House ballroom project
The Supreme Court is weighing Trump’s claim that his new White House ballroom is urgently needed to protect him, his staff and guests from attacks by drones, terrorists and snipers.
On Friday, with a lower-court order about to go into effect halting construction on the controversial project,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts decided that the court needed more time.
He is…

Trump cites national security as Supreme Court weighs challenge to ballroom
The Trump administration says the massive new White House ballroom is urgently needed for national security, to protect the president, his staff and guests from attacks.

Sunday cleaning mostly done.
Morning meditation, following Mipham, analyzing the impermanence, suffering, and lack of self in whatever bubbles up from a still mind.
Morning cleaning: the angle of the equinoctal sun has shown clearly how much dog fur is embedded in the carpet. The effort I pour into using the vacuum cleaner and the carpet sweeper, this way and that, seeking to uproot the attached fur, observing how it clumps...perhaps this is what Mipham meant?
As ever, the …

At the end of the month and early October, I’ll be present at three major Open Source conferences:
- X Developer Conference (XDC 2026) in Toronto
- Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC 2026) in Prague
- (Embedded) Open Source Summit Europe (E-OSS-E/ELC-E 2026) in Prague
Over the 3 conferences, I’ll speak about how we should modernise the Linux display panel support for three different audiences: Graphics Developers, Linux Maintainers and finally Linux Developers from the indus…

2 snaps from roughly the same spot in a stream. (britain) spring and summer.
a) 27th March 2026
b) 18th August 2026
#nature #climate

For Donald Trump, it’s always personal.
And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.
First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,”
the president wrote on his Truth Socialplatform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.”
Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarte…

Trump’s authoritarian mindset can’t handle dissent from his appointees
Defiance from the supreme court and the Federal Reserve chair in one week ... how ever will the US president cope?

Across the South, from the Mississippi Delta to Georgia’s suburbs,
Black Democratic candidates are imploring Black voters to rise up and secure the representation this November that they were expected to be denied with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
The hill is high, and Republicans remain supremely confident,
but Democrats are trying to contest races typically seen as too far out of reach.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor, remains in a tossup con…

Stung by Voting Rights Decision, Many Black Southerners Plan for November
Black Democratic candidates for governor, the Senate and the House are hoping that attacks on Black representation will motivate more voters.

Many commentators have criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling
in Trump v. Slaughter
for dismantling protections that had historically insulated independent agencies from direct presidential control.
The decision allows the president to remove principal officers in almost any federal agency at will.
As critics had feared, within 10 days, Trump relied on the decision to remove the three remaining members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission,

Key Trump Deportation Strategies: Removing, Replacing, and Pressuring Immigration Judges
New data show mass firings, loyalist replacements, and pressure are turning U.S. immigration courts into a deportation enforcement arm.

Crimea has been a bridgehead for Russia since it seized the territory from Ukraine in 2014.
But the peninsula is now looking vulnerable.
Ukraine has stepped up its drone campaign, targeting strategic infrastructure including electrical substations, bridges, oil depots and airfields.
Drones are also severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect Crimea to Russia.
Isolating the peninsula completely would give Ukraine a strong hand in any future negotiations…