Source: Seattle Times
“Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ Web & App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they’ve been with their mobile phones. Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and transparent when it processed personal data in its Location Accuracy feature in the Android mobile operating system. Ireland is the lead regulator for Google in the 27-nation EU because the U.S. tech giant’s European headquarters is based in Dublin.” (09/21/26)
https://archive.is/MQa5F
Source: The Dispatch
“The Peacemaker of Utah | Interview: Spencer Cox.” (09/21/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/the-peacemaker-of-utah-interview-spencer-cox/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Harrison Berger
“The risks presented by superintelligent and uncontrollable artificial intellifence are real, but the security appartatus is already colloborating closely with these firms.” (09/21/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-artificial-intelligence/
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (09/21/26)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2606
Source: Fox News
“Conservatives are pushing back after Rep. Ilhan Omar. D-Minn., introduced legislation that would redirect over $100 billion in funds previously allocated to immigration enforcement and ‘invest it into communities across the country that have been impacted by the Department of Homeland Security’s heinous operations’. Omar explained in a press release Thursday that her Make ICE Pay Act is a response to ‘Operation Metro Surge’ in Minnesota and that it would send nearly $140 billion of ICE and Border Patrol funding from Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act toward ‘local recovery efforts’ from immigration enforcement that has taken place across the country. Omar says the funding will be used by local jurisdictions to provide economic relief and distribute money through the states to nonprofits, small businesses and other impacted entities to support schools, healthcare and psychological services, increased local-government expenses, investigations and memorialization efforts.” (09/21/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omars-new-legislation-targeting-ice-sparks-outrage-internet-sees-whats-un-american
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Former Trump staffer Michael Caputo endured a decade of lawfare that he says forced him out of his home and gave him cancer from all the stress. But just when he thought the Russiagate nightmare was over, he was slapped in the face this month with a lawsuit cooked up by a former DOJ lawyer from the ‘national security’ unit that hounded him and other Trump associates over alleged foreign agent violations without laying a single charge. It’s a simple $100,000 contract dispute case, but Jack Korba, formerly a prosecutor in the small national security section of the District of Columbia US Attorney’s Office and now in private practice in Washington, DC, has filed a complaint packed with gratuitous smears of Caputo that rehash elements of the DOJ’s failed Russiagate probe.” (09/20/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/20/opinion/miranda-devine-dems-bring-russiagate-back-from-the-dead-to-haunt-the-midterms-and-former-trump-staffer-michael-caputo/
Source: Politico
“Mike Waltz’s next moves.” (09/21/26)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL4963477111.mp3
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“On January 22, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld stepped behind the podium at the Foreign Press Center in Washington and, with one answer to a Dutch public television reporter, redrew the map of Europe. The reporter wanted to know why so many Europeans trusted Saddam Hussein more than then-President George W. Bush. The defense secretary fired back with words the Pentagon transcript preserved in full: ‘Now, you’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members.’ … Esteemed diplomat George Kennan saw where this road led.” (09/21/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/donald-rumsfelds-new-europe-is-waiting-for-its-second-act
Source: Common Dreams
by John Perry
“After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) and was asked about US policy towards Cuba and Nicaragua, and what he would do ‘to finally bring those dictatorships to an end’. Accusing left-wing governments of ‘destroying’ their countries and bringing ‘misery’ to their citizens, and in some cases of posing a security threat to the United States, Rubio said that the problem can now be addressed ‘in partnership with other presidents and other leaders in this region that feel the same way’. Back in July, after media claims that Nicaragua’s Sandinista government plans to abolish elections completely, Rubio said that Nicaragua was ‘thwarting the basic tenets of our democratic hemisphere.'” (09/21/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/marco-rubio-s-intentions-in-nicaragua
Source: Yahoo! News
“Florida has reported its first dengue fever death of 2026 as the mosquito-borne disease spreads across parts of the United States, with nearly 2,000 cases recorded nationwide this year. The death comes amid one of Florida’s most significant dengue outbreaks in recent years and as health officials monitor rising case numbers in several U.S. jurisdictions. … Florida’s 332 reported cases are the highest among U.S. states. State health officials have also reported more than 150 locally acquired infections this year, meaning residents were infected within Florida rather than during travel abroad.” (09/21/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/map-shows-dengue-fever-cases-101458080.html
