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Twitter CEO Elon Musk bowed to a strongman over the weekend. The social media platform announced on Friday night that in “response to legal process,” it had “taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey” ahead of the country’s presidential election on Sunday. It wasn’t clear exactly which accounts were limited, but reports indicated that some were critics of autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, including Kurdish businessman Muhammed Yakut and investigative journalist Cevheri Güven... Читать дальше...

“The only thing that is fixed or that could be fixed is the idea that you stay silent when everything is happening around us.… Our task is to not stay silent.”

A person wielding a baseball bat attacked two staffers at a Virginia Democratic representative’s office on Monday, after they couldn’t find the congressman himself, the latest in a trend of violence that seems to be targeting liberal political figures.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that launches the greatest attack on academic freedom yet.

Senator Kyrsten Sinema has a history of making questionable choices for personal gain. And now she seems to be strategically planning campaign fundraisers to justify bougie travel and accommodation expenses for personal competitions.

With how drastically extreme the conservative movement has become, it is sometimes easy to forget how radical the Republican Party truly is, and what kinds of vicious ideologies it is welcoming. Talking Points Memo has revealed the extent this has come to: Far-right Republican Representative Paul Gosar’s office has been infiltrated, or perhaps in his eyes enhanced by, a neo-Nazi.

The Republicans’ trumped-up investigation into Joe Biden has gone from bad to worse, as a top informant has apparently gone MIA.

It began underground. In October 2019, high school students led protests in the city of Santiago, spurred by an increase in public transit fares. They began to jump the turnstiles, and soon more and more people joined them. Chile’s carabineros used tear gas to expel people from the subway stations. Soon, the city—and the country—were in revolt. Millions protested peacefully, and sometimes the atmosphere was joyful. Musicians played and crowds sang the anthem of the Popular Unity government that had been removed in a coup d’état in 1973... Читать дальше...

Congressional Republicans say they’re resisting an increase to the debt ceiling because government spending is out of control. “Before we borrow another dime,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said last month, “we owe it to our children to save money everywhere.” But McCarthy’s claim that all his party wants to do is bring down government spending isn’t entirely true.

The scandal that forced Abe Fortas’s resignation from the Supreme Court in 1969 revolved around $20,000 he had accepted from the family foundation of an indicted financier (he returned the money). That $20,000 would be around $167,000 today.

As governments across the world mull how to regulate the artificial intelligence technology that is rapidly changing the cultural and political landscape, policymakers in Washington are still trying to decide what path to take—and acknowledging that they still have much to learn.

Go searching through headlines about the recent expiration of Title 42—a pandemic-era restriction on U.S. entry enacted by Trump, then extended by Biden—and you’ll find some curiously familiar language. Besides customary warnings of “chaos at the border” are those about an “influx” of migrants, or an “unmanageable stream,” as Politico put it. “What we are expecting is indeed a surge,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in south Texas last week. As Victor Treviño, mayor of Laredo... Читать дальше...