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  1. The Escape From Politics

    Somewhere in the source code of a website the public was never meant to see, a secret society for the people who run the world kept a list of its members in plain text, sitting in the page where anyone who thought to look could read it. On the morning of Monday, June 15, somebody looked.[1] The group is called Dialog, an invitation-only network founded in 2006 by the investor Peter Thiel and the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, and for two decades it kept one promise to its members above all the others: that nothing said inside the room would ever be written down where the rest of us could find it.[1] That promise held until the society's own code broke it. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/19/the-

  2. Senate votes down effort to restrict Trump’s Iran war powers

    Washington — The Senate defeated a war powers resolution on Wednesday that aimed to block President Trump from…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #CoryBooker #Iran #UnitedStatesSenate
    newsbeep.com/441375/

  3. “Sir, this lacks decency,” said Sen #CoryBooker, a NJ Democrat, his voice raised & visibly agitated. “It lacks decorum. It shows that you do not want to simply hear from your colleagues. This is absolutely wrong!”

    Grassley ignored him & plowed on. In a voice vote, committee #Republicans voted to confirm #EmilBove, 44, to a lifetime appointment on the United States Court of Appeals for the #ThirdCircuit, which encompasses #Pennsylvania, #NewJersey & #Delaware.

    #law #corruption

  4. Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and barely mentioned Gaza. That’s no surprise

    #US politicians and the media are focused on our domestic crisis. But we cannot close our eyes to the outside world

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Judith Levine
    Tue 8 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT

    "...hours into his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, the #Democrat #CoryBooker uttered the word “Gaza”. He was not talking about the war. He stepped nowhere near the 50,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli armed forces since 8 October 2023, or the US’s military and political support of the genocide.

    Rather, #Booker was searching for a particularly ludicrous lie... “There are lies about USAID, ... like 5 million condoms going to Gaza or something outrageous,” he said. Considering the other outrageous things #Trump has said about #Gaza – such as his plan to “clean out” the strip to make room for luxury resorts – the remark felt trivializing."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #news #press @palestine
    #Israel #Palestine #politics