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Donald Trump’s Save America PAC
— the vehicle he uses to pay legal bills
— is nearly $500,000 in the red,
while owing roughly $1.6 million to a roster of 12 different law firms.
Stiffing lawyers is a time-honored tradition in the Trump orbit.
He famously pulled the rug out from Rudy Giuliani after Rudy devoted his entire post-mayoral career,
law license, and remaining credibility to peddling the Big Lie.
Decades of vendors, contractors, and attorn…

Donald Trump’s Favorite PAC for Legal Bills Is in Debt — And Owes Many Law Firms Money
The Save America PAC is nearly $500,000 in the red, according to a new federal disclosure.

Religion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidental https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/02/16/religion-pouvoir-silence-mythe-bouddhiste-occidental

Religion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidental
Religion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidental 16 February 2026 Bouddhisme Tibétain DérivesSectaires En Occident, le bouddhisme tibétain bénéficie d’une image d’exception morale, perçu...

When the bombs fall on other people’s children #iran

When the bombs fall on other people’s children
If we cannot feel the death of an Iranian child with the same moral clarity as the death of a child in the United States, then something in us has been deformed.

Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion
"We share here an executive summary authored by Milena Hanenberg of the new policy brief ‘Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion’, published by Research & Degrowth International and written by Marula Tsakgari. The policy brief provides both a scathing indictment of the current organisation of the fashion industry and clearly defined policy proposals."

Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion
A policy brief by Research & Degrowth  We share here an executive summary authored by Milena Hanenberg of the new policy brief ‘Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion…

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/repeated-failures-expose-gaps-in-indonesias-nickel-waste-management/

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management
JAKARTA — In February 2026, videos circulating on social media showed a mass of mining waste rushing downslope like thick mud, engulfing excavators and bulldozers within seconds as operators scrambled to escape. That landslide of mining waste, or tailings as it’s known in the industry, occurred on Feb. 18 at a storage area in Morowali […]

Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God" (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthro…

Can AI be a ‘child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s meeting with Christian leaders.
Anthropic met with Christian leaders including from Catholic and Protestant churches to discuss its chatbot Claude’s moral development.

"The Holy See affirms its unwavering conviction that efforts to control, limit, reduce, and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons are not an unrealistic prospect, but a possibility and an urgent moral imperative." - Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to UN, Oct. 21, 2025.

Holy See: Eliminating nuclear weapons is an urgent moral imperative - Vatican News
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, urges the international community to work towards preventing the ...

The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

The corruption of the Trump Administration remains so massive
while also being so obvious
that people just don’t know what to do.
If Kushner was merely shaking someone down for $5,000 using his government role, there’d be an outcry.
But do it for $5,000,000,000 and mostly there’s 🤷‍♂️
#TrumpCorruptionWatch

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
President Trump’s son-in-law is trying to raise $5 billion or more from foreign governments and others for his private equity firm.