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“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
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“The Whole Government is DOGE Now”: The Coup's Second Wave Begins
A lawless vanguard infiltrated the U.S. government; now they are being institutionalized and will work with Project 2025's own democracy destroyers

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

The Indian government says it has not issued any directive to withhold the Reuters X account in the country (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/go…

Government says no order to withhold Reuters handle on X in India
India has denied ordering the blocking of Reuters’ X account, saying no such directive was issued. As per notification on the X account, it was withheld “in response to a legal demand,” sparking criticism from journalists and free speech advocates. An official spokesperson said that the government is working with X to resolve the issue amid growing censorship concerns.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite - The Washington Post #USA #Trump

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

Trump says Elon Musk "went CRAZY" and that canceling his government contracts is "the easiest way to save money", as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-…

Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies
Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founded The Boring Company, xAI and Neuralink. He also owns the social media platform X.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Texas GOP governor sues to remove Democratic leader amid election map fight
Governor Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of legal challenges and intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) threatened to go to court within days to remove Democrats from office”

Donald Trump claimed Republicans are “entitled” to redraw Texas’s maps to give themselves five more safe U.S. House seats.
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Texas GOP governor sues to remove Democratic leader amid election map fight
Gov. Greg Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.