Trump claims Iran war will end ‘when I want it to’ as costs reportedly balloon to $47 billion

Trump claims Iran war will end ‘when I want it to’ as costs reportedly balloon to $47 billion

CNBC reports: U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his claim that the Iran war will end “whenever I want it to,” but insists that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Speaking at a rally in Lubbock, Texas, Trump said “Somebody asked me before, ‘When will the war in Iran end?’ I said, ‘Whenever I want it to end.’” Trump said it “would be very quick, but we have to have an end properly,” with a “total statement” that Iran would…

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ICE is running one of the largest anti-left surveillance operations in U.S. history

ICE is running one of the largest anti-left surveillance operations in U.S. history

Wired reports: Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. The high-profile Minnesota 15 prosecution makes clear that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), flush with federal funds and newly hired personnel, is now President Donald Trump’s primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday…

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Brazilian judge orders investigation into JD Vance donor network

Brazilian judge orders investigation into JD Vance donor network

The Washington Post reports: A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Tuesday ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday’s election. Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino directed the Brazilian federal police to investigate the “nature” of the contacts between the Rockbridge Network, which was founded in 2019, and any Brazilian companies or political operatives to aid or finance Bolsonaro’s run….

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There’s not enough money in the world to pay for the AI boom

There’s not enough money in the world to pay for the AI boom

The Washington Post reports: The biggest bet in the history of the United States keeps getting bigger and we’re all hanging on for the ride. Technology companies recently launched a record scramble for cash to pay for data centers, computer chips and technology and equipment to power artificial intelligence. This boom is so expensive that even Silicon Valley giants are bleeding cash and companies are now racing one another to collect or borrow other people’s money for the estimated $10…

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We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere

We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere

V (formerly Eve Ensler) writes: For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot. The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy. Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the…

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‘Israel is always going to be at war’

‘Israel is always going to be at war’

Tamara Davison writes: In Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s more liberal hubs, Ben Friedhaim sits with his young daughter in HaKnesset Square as waves gently lap onto the nearby beach just days before the election. Even during Shabbat, the boardwalk here is full of families basking in the sunshine, electric scooters whizzing past, and bars blasting American hits. Ice cream melts down his daughter’s hand as he tells me about his family’s recent return to the country. He came to…

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A neglected particle from the dawn of time might explain why everything in the universe exists

A neglected particle from the dawn of time might explain why everything in the universe exists

Live Science reports: A neglected “ghost particle” may have dominated the universe right after the Big Bang ‪—‬ changing how the cosmos expanded in its first moments and reshaping the conditions under which matter won out over antimatter, a new study suggests. In other words, it may explain why anything exists at all. The particle, a hypothetical “right-handed” neutrino, briefly could have held more energy than everything else in the infant universe combined, which would have sped up cosmic expansion…

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How Silicon Valley is stealing our future

How Silicon Valley is stealing our future

Linda Kinstler writes: These days, the leading tech companies are not primarily fighting one another for market share or talent or computing power. The bigger battle is over who can claim to know the future. In August, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, published a manifesto titled “The Future Is for Everyone,” in which he argued that artificial intelligence will bring about “an abundance of personal agency” and other riches — but only if Meta is in charge. “If our beliefs…

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New analysis sees ‘rapidly increasing’ odds the AI bubble is about to burst

New analysis sees ‘rapidly increasing’ odds the AI bubble is about to burst

Futurism reports: Whether you use AI in your personal life or not, there is no longer any escaping the grasp of the industry’s tendrils. There are multiple trillions of dollars now resting on AI’s success, much of it bound up in speculative debt. As everybody knows, debt is only an issue if you can’t pay it off — and as top AI labs fail to bring in enough revenue to cover skyrocketing costs, alarms are blaring that the entire global…

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A leaderless revolution has swept Serbia. The world should be watching

A leaderless revolution has swept Serbia. The world should be watching

Aleksandar Matković writes: More than a decade ago, the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told an interviewer in Belgrade that Serbia was “a country where the future happens first”. The phrase circulated widely on Serbian social media in the weeks before Sunday’s election, but in a way that could not have seemed possible 10 years ago. Who would then have imagined that Serbia today could be at the forefront of global democratic change? The images from Belgrade on Sunday night –…

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Most Americans prioritize respecting different values over sharing values

Most Americans prioritize respecting different values over sharing values

Gallup reports: Nearly eight in 10 U.S. adults (79%) say it is more important for people to respect different values, while 19% say it is more important for people to share the same values. Majorities of all major demographic and partisan groups think that respecting differing values should be prioritized, though this view is slightly stronger among Democrats (84%) and independents (81%) than Republicans (72%). This preference for respecting different values is consistent with Americans’ expectations of public leaders. In…

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A 28-year-old DOGE operative, Jeremy Lewin, gutted USAID. HR had no record of him working there

A 28-year-old DOGE operative, Jeremy Lewin, gutted USAID. HR had no record of him working there

Wired reports: On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, former investment banker, and affiliate of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. At the time, Lewin’s appointment drew criticism because of his lack of experience in government, diplomacy, or foreign assistance. But for career staff inside the agency, the issues surrounding Lewin’s new role were much more alarming…

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Yet another defeated Bolsonaro flees from Brazil to the United States

Yet another defeated Bolsonaro flees from Brazil to the United States

Mother Jones reports: In December 2022, two days before the end of his tenure and after losing his reelection bid, Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro flew to the United States. Skipping the traditional transfer of power ceremony at President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, Bolsonaro settled in Florida and eventually enjoyed a retiree’s lifestyle at the home of an MMA fighter in Kissimmee. Meanwhile, his supporters back home emulated the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, ransacking federal…

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Smithsonian scientists create most detailed simulation yet of the early universe

Smithsonian scientists create most detailed simulation yet of the early universe

Smithsonian: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe’s earliest chapters in extraordinary detail. To help astronomers understand what they are seeing, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have developed “Lumina,” one of the largest and most detailed simulations ever created of the early universe. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the new model recreates how ordinary matter, dark matter and radiation interacted during the universe’s…

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