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In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.
Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.
This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels
You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
More federal immigration officers are making their way to U.S. airports after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy them to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country. Federal officers are a routine presence at international airports. But what’s unusual in the current moment is their visibility at TSA security checkpoints. Some fear the move to deploy federal immigration agents will only escalate tensions. Some unions representing aviation workers stressed that ICE officers don’t have the same training and expertise as TSA workers — and the presence of federal immigration officers could also put some travelers on edge.
Mycket bra artikel om läget för #Liberalerna.
Det går inte att försöka laga förtroendet som havererat i och med den katastrofala processen som föranledde landsmötet bara genom att (teknikstrul till trots) vara duktiga på mötesformalia.
Att det tv-sända omvalet av #Kappvändarsson blev allt annat än en home-run måste svida rejält.
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