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"The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote.
“And the new world struggles to be born.”
In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest,
may acquire decisive weight”.
In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional period, as the world of international relations established after the second world war crashed to a halt.
During such eras, Gramsci more f…

Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025, wat me opviel in de tekst is dat de Cloud-act wel wordt genoemd maar FISA en Executive Order 12333 helemaal niet?
https://www.nctv.nl/documenten/2025/11/26/cybersecuritybeeld-nederland-2025

Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025 | Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid
Het Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025 (CSBN 2025) biedt inzicht in de digitale dreiging, de belangen die daardoor kunnen worden aangetast, de digitale weerbaarheid en digitale risico’s. 

The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-sign

found an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf

Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” #AnimalRights

Animal testing petition - Protect the Wild
Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” The Government is quietly pushing through a change to the law that would dramatically restrict the public’s right to protest. A new Statutory Instrument, due to be considered by MPs this week, would amend the Public Order Act 2023 to…

The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…

House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.

Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney speech at Davos. It was a good one. This is how he ended it, but it is worth watching in full, including the Q&A afterward.
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.
The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.
That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA

I am supremely confident that some minister, who is totally not having a massage with a lobbyist or property developer, will always do what's right in order to protect the water supply for communities large and small. No need to be concerned that the sale of Stag & Doe tickets will somehow poison me or cause E.coli deaths. Absolutely trustworthy.
#Onpoli #CleanWaterAct
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill-56-clean-water-act/

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism. 
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

Schluss mit dem gefährlichen #Microsoft-#Daten-#Larifari.
Wir fordern die #Bundeskanzlei auf:
1. …

Schluss mit dem gefährlichen Microsoft-Daten-Larifari
Die Gefahr der totalen Microsoft-Abhängigkeit ist real. Unsere digitale Souveränität steht auf dem Spiel, und wir dürfen nicht warten, bis es zu spät ist. Die fast vollständige Abhängigkeit der Schweizer Bundesverwaltung von einem US-Konzern ist ein fundamentales Sicherheitsrisiko. Es geht um sensible Daten der Armee und aller Bundesbehörden – Informationen, die auf keinen Fall in fremde Hände gelangen dürfen. Die Probleme heissen CLOUD Act, FISA Section 702 und Executive Order 1233…

All of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases,
so be careful with differing stories about where things stand:
- TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet.
- Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).
https://

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

After the Online Safety Act’s onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer,
it didn’t take long for Brits to get around them.
Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding’s photo mode to bypass face scans.
But in the end, the simplest solution won out: --- VPNs.
Virtual private networks have proven remarkably effective at circumventing the UK’s age checks,
letting users spoof IP addresses from other countries so that the checks neve…

The VPN panic is only getting started
The UK government is facing calls to add age restrictions to VPNs in order to stop them being used to… get around age restrictions.