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The Atlantic – no paywall – The Razor-Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theory and Actual Conspiracy – “A conversation with Julie K. Brown, the investigative reporter who knows more than almost anyone else about Jeffrey Epstein…The Epstein saga hits on practically every theme of every major conspiracy theory, going back for centuries: It entails allegations of horrific …
The New Republic, no paywall – The Roberts court majority seems bound and determined to undermine the American constitutional order. “To cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that …
Via Just Security – Classified Information and State Secrets: Why the Senate Must Consider National Security Risks in Judicial Confirmations – “A vote to confirm a judicial nominee is a vote to grant that individual a lifetime security clearance and access to some of the country’s most closely held secrets. This week, the Senate Committee on …
Washington Post – no paywall: “President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash staffing. The Supreme Court has revived the administration’s efforts to lay off workers, allowing planned reductions in force to resume …
The Atlantic – no paywall: “Donald Trump helped create a monster. Now he’d like for everyone to ignore it. After years of sounding dog whistles and peddling outright conspiracism to work his supporters into a lather about global pedophile rings, Trump is telling those same people to move on. Earlier today, Trump posted on Truth …
Follow up to Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI model and Copyrighted books to train AI? Fair. Storing them? See also The Atlantic – no paywall – Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models? What Two Judicial Rulings Mean for the Future of Generative AI – “Should tech …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 12, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
Bellingcat: “Armed and masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors roughly tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles have borne witness to frequent and aggressive immigration raids that have seen people …
404 Media: “Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport, according to internal ICE material viewed by 404 Media. The database, which contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims …
American Prospect – Robert Kuttner: “Once again, the Supreme Court has issued an extreme ruling, this time upholding President Trump’s right to order mass firings of government employees, in plain violation of Congress’s authority. And once again, the Court relied on the so-called shadow docket, issuing an emergency procedure staying lower-court injunctions, allowing the justices …
WSJ: “Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for the use of their material, or both. Many asked nicely for artificial-intelligence bots to stop scraping. Now, they are working to block …
Ken Klippenstein – “Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims. Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document. Twenty years after Jeffrey Epstein was exposed for his child sex abuse enterprise, the Justice Department this week made a startling revelation. Rather than the “dozens” of victims previously alleged by the government …
