The tongan royal family never faced real consequences for the embezzlement…

https://archive.ph/20260225073357/https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/02/19/dont-go-after-the-rich-to-fix-broken-budgets

Apparently poor people starving while rich people have 2 yachts is less morally wrong than 👻Taxing the Rich👻

Does this mean I need a new one or can I request it be unblocked?

cheers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43329654

This should come as no surprise to anyone, with Facebook, Instagram and YouTube being no better.

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.

I’ve noticed that all of the channels I follow have mysteriously not posted in two weeks when usually I get a dozen videos per week in my peertube subscription thing.

wondering if this is a coincidence or something is up with the server?

The authorities apparently got tired of asking and just went in themselves.

Canada-based Windscribe, a VPN provider, just said that one of its European servers has been allegedly seized by Dutch authorities without a warrant. According to the company’s post on X, law enforcement said that they will return it to the service provider after they “fully analyze it.” It’s unclear why law enforcement impounded just a single rack from Windscribe’s cabinet, but the VPN provider said that it only uses RAM disk servers, meaning anyone who would look through the installed SSDs would only find a stock Ubuntu install on it, so the servers shouldn't hold any trackable data.

In a late Friday FCC filing, the company mentions deploying a staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ranging from 500 kilometers to 2,000km.

Thought some of the narrative was a bit Capitalist brained but the video is still well worth a watch IMO.

Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported. With phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, two sources, including one inside Iran, told CBS News on Tuesday that at least 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed.

[…] based on reports from medical officials across the country, believed the toll was at least 12,000, and possibly as high as 20,000.

Sorry its substack eww but this guy is pretty trusted he was the main guy behind ABC’s Fivethirtyeight (political data analysis) before they shut it down in budget cuts and he lost his job.

Margraten, Netherlands — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have filled the guestbook with objections

The PMC estimates that new infections are generating 224,000 to 890,000 Long COVID cases per week. Even under conditions of lowered acute fatality risk compared to the first two years of the pandemic, the PMC estimates 220 to 360 excess deaths per day from new infections and 1,300 to 2,200 excess deaths per week from new infections. These are deaths “in excess” of expected baselines, and are frequently not recorded as “COVID deaths” in routine tallies.

[cue you already can joke because of epstein files)

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