New: I obtained docs from the IRS about a $1.8 million Palantir contract that began early last year. They provide new details on a custom tool Palantir built for the IRS, the “Selection and Analytic Platform," and the wildly bloated ecosystem it's supposed to simplify:
www.wired.com/story/docume...
Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems.
Under a Homeland Security program, police departments around the US are signing up to assist in immigration enforcement. The cops of Carroll, New Hampshire, are going all in—and they’re likely not alone.
Under a Homeland Security program, police departments around the US are signing up to assist in immigration enforcement. The cops of Carroll, New Hampshire, are going all in—and they’re likely not…
WIRED
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NEW: Trump's attacks on the 20206 midterms are well underway, from 2020 election deniers in positions of power to FBI raids. @davidgilbert.bsky.social gets into the nitty gritty: www.wired.com/story/this-i...
Climate change will melt Antarctica’s ice, causing land to rebound and revealing previously inaccessible deposits of valuable mineral resources.
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WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.
“About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of Americans in surrounding communities, the internal watchdog at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found.”
apnews.com/article/epa-...
Federal watchdog may not probe suspicious trading linked to Trump policy shifts. "...Robert Reich noted trades in crude oil contracts... [and] some $1.5 billion in S&P futures contracts, made... 15 minutes before Trump issued his [Iran strike delay] statement." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“Removing these public comment processes has real implications for the speed of policy change and then by extension, the actual substance of policy that’s emerging from governments on both sides of the Atlantic.”
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As human-caused climate change continues to drive up global average temperatures, scientists say this winter’s Arctic sea ice is at a record low for the 2nd consecutive year, continuing a concerning long-term trend. 🧵⬇️
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About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of Americans.
🇬🇪This March, Georgian Dream completes its transition to a legal dictatorship.
Not a coup. Not a crackdown. A methodical dismantling of every check on power, done in plain sight while the West watches and does "nothing".
Georgia has not backslid.
It has crossed a threshold.
1/19
www.rollingstone.com
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is supposed to oversee prediction markets, where traders are cashing in on Donald Trump's Iran announcements.
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979.
