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24.04.2026 17:19
GeoWire (@GeoWire@mastodon.social)

🟠 UPDATE

Global Fuel Price Spikes Following Iran War Escalation

Iran is using the Strait of Hormuz as leverage to delay negotiations, counting on global dependence on Persian Gulf energy exports while the US signals a desire to negotiate.

📰 https://www.dw.com/en/how-iran-is-wielding-the-strait-of-hormuz-as-leverage/a-76925896?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

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24.04.2026 17:16
GeoWire (@GeoWire@mastodon.social)

🟠 UPDATE

Justice Dept. Drops Investigation into Federal Reserve and Jerome Powell

TD Securities strategists predict the dollar may show little reaction if the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates steady and reiterates a message of patience regarding future moves.

📰 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/sterling-could-outperform-euro-slightly-after-boe-ecb-decisions/ar-AA21AmxA?ocid=BingNewsVerp

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24.04.2026 17:12
SteveHendersonFineArt (@SteveHendersonFineArt@mastodon.social)

At one time, a lot of people lived on little farms, and every day their feet walked on earth as they went about and did chores that were purposeful and had meaning.

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24.04.2026 17:12
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Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources

https://lemmy.ml/post/46373192

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24.04.2026 17:08
remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)

"When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement.

For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.

Now, a massive police training complex and an expanding web of surveillance rise in its place, and it makes him feel watched, not protected.

The network, he said, “certainly feels like an invasion of privacy.”

The 41-year-old’s unease about the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as “Cop City,” is at the center of a much larger experiment.

Built atop 85 acres of one of Atlanta’s last urban forests, the training center is now wired into what has become the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S., part of more than 60,000 public and private cameras linked to law enforcement across the metro area."

https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/

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24.04.2026 17:07
BrownSquirrel (@BrownSquirrel@mastodon.social)

Heardle USA No. 1s #1141

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24.04.2026 17:06
remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)

"A crucial resource is being choked off from the world amid the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran — and it’s not oil. It’s helium.

The rare, nonrenewable gas is a key ingredient for more than just party balloons. It’s needed for lifesaving medical procedures, groundbreaking research, and the current tech boom underpinning much of the US economy. The gas was also vital in the recent Artemis II mission that sent four astronauts around the moon and back.

But the war in Iran has cut off a significant portion of global helium resources, leading to a 50 percent price increase and warnings of a debilitating supply shortage. And although the United States and Iran are working to open key shipping routes in the region, the arrangement is far from certain, and the monthlong closure that has already transpired will still lead to supply shocks.

The crisis could have been avoided — if the United States had kept its Federal Helium Reserve, a national stockpile that accounted for nearly 40 percent of the world’s supply in 2013 and helped stabilize supply and prices.

For nearly thirty years, scientists, medical experts, and researchers urged lawmakers to preserve the national stockpile. Lawmakers instead spent that time selling it off bit by bit.

The privatization effort started in 1996 with the backing of President Bill Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), and the archconservative group that would go on to write Project 2025.

As the plan moved forward over the subsequent decades, federal agencies and congressional analysts failed to accurately forecast future helium demand, repeatedly promising that the private sector could meet industry needs — despite four global helium shortages that limited lifesaving procedures and forced universities to lay off researchers between 2006 and 2023."

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-war-us-helium-crisis

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24.04.2026 17:05
remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency's efforts to disrupt fentanyl traffickers, according to a letter sent last week by the agency's acting director, Todd Lyons.

Lyons' letter, which was reviewed by NPR, said ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is using various tools as part of its mission to disrupt and dismantle foreign terrorist organizations, "particularly those involved in the trafficking of fentanyl."

Lyons wrote that "in response to the unprecedented lethality of fentanyl and the exploitation of digital platforms by transnational criminal organizations," he approved HSI's "use of cutting-edge technological tools that address the specific challenges posed by the Foreign Terrorist Organizations' thriving exploitation of encrypted communication platforms."

His letter, dated April 1, was a belated response to an October inquiry from three Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressing concern about the agency's potential use of the spyware Graphite, which was created by an Israeli company, Paragon Solutions."

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/07/nx-s1-5776799/ice-spyware-privacy

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