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“It’s like seeing the eye of Sauron hanging over your city.”From Francesca D'Annunzio in our magazine: A massive #surveillance tower looming over Juárez is just part of a AI-powered network that extends far beyond the Texas-Mexico border. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihuahua-border-ai-surveillance-centinela/ #AI #tech #border #immigration #police #HumanRights #privacy #politics #USpol #Texas #Mexico

Two hundred Neighbourhood Health Centres across England could transform NHS practice.... but, perhaps unsurprisingly the Health Dept. is exploring private investment to build & run them.Seemingly Labour have learnt nothing from the part previous Private Finance Initiative projects have played in the ongoing budgetary crisis.Ironically (?) this is exactly the sort of social investment one might have hoped Rachel Reeves new fiscal rules would have encompassed?#politics #health #NHS h/t FT

Worse:#politics #uspol

@MikeImBack “Provincial officials in Saskatchewan say parts of a former school that was serving as a compound for the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada” and her followers have been declared unfit for human habitation, and the residents have been ordered out.”Chef’s kiss.

The U.S. Starts Buying (Chicken) Eggs From Russia.And Treasury issues a waiver for some diamonds."Little by little, Trump is rolling back sanctions meant to choke off Kremlin revenue, and the U.S. is quietly opening the door to Russian blood money."But India is not allowed to buy oil from Russia? Or is that just an excuse to extract something of value from India?https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/the-us-starts-buying-eggs-from-russiahttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/us-turns-to-russia-for-chicken-eggs-for-the-first-time-in-32-years-despite-sanctions-to-cripple-its-economy/articleshow/123726523.cms?from=mdr#Politics1/n

U.S. Open orders broadcasters to censor reactions to trump, who will be in attendance for the Men's Final on Sunday afternoon, where he will certainly get boo'd and jeered.They cannot handle the Truth. So they suppress it.https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-donald-trump-mens-final-attendance-visit-appearance-censorship-tv-booing-protest-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz#Politics #USOpen1/n

There is a long tradition of breaking specific laws to show that the Rule of Law (in its normative sense) is being compromised by non-sensical laws - such civil disobedience has a well-established pedigree.As arrests of those breaking the proscription of Palestine Action, by holding placards silently, exceeds a thousand, I think we can safely say Labour is now confronting mass civil disobedience; if they know their history they'll know they are likely on the wrong side of this!#politics

#GreenPeace drove an electric truck around in London carrying a message while MET police were arresting Palestine Action and anti-genocide supporters in #London today. #UKpol #WarCrime #PalestineAction #Journalism #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #Terrorism #Politics #Europe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Trump is Killing America's Image!A growing number of companies, including many of the country's most quintessentially American brands, have warned that growing anti-Americanism as a result of Trump's tariffs could end up destroying their success overseas.#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol https://www.newsweek.com/us-bands-warn-anti-american-sentiment-hurting-sales-2125050

You may be shocked to learn that providing people housing is a great way to fight issues surrounding the unhoused. In Denver, the number of encampments of more than 20 people dropped 98% thanks largely* to the new initiative."They have a door that they can lock. They have air conditioner in the summer, heaters in the winter. They have a place where they can receive their mail," Chandler said. "Really, an opportunity to start rebuilding their lives."#Housing #Politicshttps://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/all-in-mile-high-initiative-reduced-large-homeless-encampments-by-98-third-party-evaluation-shows

@europesays Tell me you've never cared about geopolitics before being elected without actually telling me.

@AkaSci Is this the country that has the Department of War?

LA Times:People can’t get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trumphttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-05/covid-vaccines-are-harder-to-get-under-trump-and-people-are-angry-about-it#politics #vaccines #covid

Well, well, well.... Nigel Farage uses a personal services firm in a common if often criticised 'tax planning' approach to (legally) reduce his tax bill.Once again Farage is showing that despite his man of the people approach he's a lot more like the establishment figures he criticises... but, while this features in the Guardian, my guess is unlike Angela Rayner's, Farage's tax affairs will garner little interest or traction in the Right media.#politics #tax https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

Republican Representative Thomas Massie: “Let me give you the name of one the billionaires, John Paulson. He is a major donor to the republican party, a major donor to the speaker of the house, a major donor to the president’s campaign and he is in Epstein’s black book. That is indicative of the types of people who may be implicated or embarrassed by a complete release of these files.”https://www.instagram.com/jesscraven101/reel/DOLuGQSEWsD/#USpol #Politics #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Hey Florida, what the fuck is wrong with you?Like seriously, what the fuck???Jesus fucking Christ you’re an active threat to the world at this point and should be isolated entirely from the rest of the world if this keeps up.https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/03/health/florida-vaccine-mandates#Florida #USPol #Politics

#ICYMI: Nearly 1.5M Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as #immigration agents in the streets of their communities. These agreements currently cover around 30 #Texas law enforcement agencies. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-task-force-galveston-beaumont-tyler/ #politics #USpol #ICE #Trump #police #fascism #news #border

Heather Humphreys is running - https://www.thejournal.ie/heather-humphreys-fine-gael-presidential-election-confirmation-6793828-Sep2025/ (Archive) Jim Gavin is also running - https://www.thejournal.ie/fianna-fail-presidential-candidate-2025-6811528-Sep2025/ - (Archive)