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Day 33 cont 🗳️🗣️

“The #truth is, in what became an impressive field of advocates, #Albo did more to secure my freedom than any other politician or public figure, even more than the late Pope, whose support was both moving and significant.
Against all expectations for an #Australian politician, once elected, he kept his word.

#Albanese lobbied former US president #JoeBiden at several meetings, pushing for Assange’s release.

Albo hasn’t just stood up to the #US to end the #PoliticalImprisonment of an #Australian – he’s also intervened for other Australians detained in difficult circumstances, including in #China. This government has proven itself unusually capable of rescuing #Australians caught up in #sensitive political situations.

Does this mean Albo will put Australian interests first and skillfully navigate tensions between the US, #EU, and China? I can’t say for sure. But I do know this: He can. Albo did right by me ... You don’t need to be a #bully to have a #backbone.”

#AusPol / #JulianAssange / #veritas <theguardian.com/australia-news>

the Guardian · Federal election 2025 live updates: Anthony Albanese, Petter Dutton on final campaign day before Australia goes to polls – latest newsLatest poll shows Albanese on track for minority government. Follow today’s news live

« Staffers from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master #database to speed-up #immigration enforcement and #deportations by combining #sensitive data from across the federal government. The goal is to create a massive repository of data pulled from various agencies, according to sources familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to talk about it. The administration has previously sought to centralize information from a number of agencies, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration and Health and Human Services. »

edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/pol

CNN · DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources sayBy Priscilla Alvarez
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Day 23 🚫🙈🙉🙊

“Blocking the #GamblingAdReforms is the fourth known example of Albanese’s willingness to #overrule senior ministers such as #EnvironmentMinister Tanya Plibersek, #AttorneyGeneral Mark Dreyfus and assistant minister Andrew Leigh when they were tackling #controversial and #sensitive #policies.

The #PrimeMinister can always use the authority of his position to make the final call on all matters of policy. This masthead has already revealed that #Albanese has come over the top of Plibersek on #EnvironmentalProtection laws, Dreyfus on mandatory jail terms for hate crimes and antisemitism, and Leigh on sex and gender census questions.”

I’m going to be re-elected. 🙈🙉🙊

#AusPol / #Labor / #PM / #Leadership <archive.md/PfMXe> / <smh.com.au/politics/federal/al>

#Automakers are collecting #sensitive #data, and selling it w/out your permission – Extensive data collection & #privacy #violations also routinely occurs when we use #cars and #trucks [regardless of manufacturer], much if not all of it likely without our knowledge or #consent. This article will inform you about how, where, when and by whom your data is collected, and the many ways in which is it used, including sale by #databrokers #CFPB is now closed - they fought this llrx.com/2025/01/automakers-ar

www.llrx.comAutomakers are collecting sensitive data and selling it without your permission – LLRX

→ Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit says
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

“[The] complaint alleges that the ex-Googlers who started #Character Technologies only left the giant company to train a #model that #Google considered too #dangerous to put out under its own name. The plan all along, the lawsuits allege, was to extract #sensitive #data from #minors and evolve the model so that Google could reacquire it and use it to power #Gemini.”

Ars Technica · Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit saysBy Ashley Belanger
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In a court of #law, defendants are entitled to a presumption of innocence. In… #PublicOpinion, Bob #Menendez enjoys no such indulgence.

The #Democrat from #NewJersey was #indicted…—along w/his wife, Nadine, & 3 others—on 3 counts of #corruption. #Federal prosecutors say the grp accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of #bribes to assist the Egyptian govt. Among other allegations, they say he gave #sensitive #US-govt info to #Egypt & tried to shield 2 of the defendants from prosecution.

#MollyMichael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from #Trump that were written on the back of notecards, & she later recognized those notecards as #sensitive #WhiteHouse materials -- w/visible #classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls w/ #foreign leaders or other #international-related matters.

abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-

ABC NewsTrump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified: SourcesBy Katherine Faulders