"European governments are pushing back against Big Tech's grip on public infrastructure. Denmark announced earlier this year that its Ministry of Digital Affairs was switching from Microsoft to LibreOffice. In more recent news, Switzerland's data protection authorities declared international cloud services unsuitable for handling personal data. One German state has been leading this charge for quite some time. Schleswig-Holstein started its open source journey early, becoming something of a vanguard in Europe's move away from proprietary software."

It's FOSS

Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

"Of all people, it is center-right parties in Brussels that are supporting plans for the mass screening of private messages. The proposal cuts deep into civil liberties. The consequences for chats between teenagers and their own parents are particularly drastic."

Patrick Breyer

Digital House Arrest – How the EU Wants to Disempower Families

Of all people, it is center-right parties in Brussels that are supporting plans for the mass screening of private messages. The proposal cuts deep ...

Antiwar.com Turns 30, NDAA Will Give Trump $1 Trillion Military Budget, IDF Spying on US, and More

"For more than six decades, the official story of John F. Kennedy’s murder has been defined as much by what the government buried as by what it reluctantly disclosed. Yet among the thousands of newly declassified records, one thread stands out for the extraordinary lengths taken to obscure it: the quiet, complicated overlap between CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton’s secret Israeli channels and the agency’s surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald in the years before the assassination."

21st Century Wire

The Silence Around Israel’s Role in the JFK Documents: What’s Being Protected? - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | Why Washington went quiet on the latest JFK disclosures.

Paul McCartney performs one of George Harrison's masterpieces "All Things Must Pass". Enjoy. #musicstr

IDF Chief Says Gaza's 'Yellow Line' Is a 'New Border,' US Bombs Somalia 7 More Times, and More

Vaccination a delusion? Alfred Russel Wallace came to that conclusion in 1898. Have doubts? You can read all about it here 👇

Internet Archive

Vaccination a delusion : its penal enforcement a crime, proved by the official evidence in the reports of the Royal Commission / by Alfred Russel Wallace : Wallace, Alfred Russel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Note: Re-bound in original paper wrapper

or watch that video from Dr. John Campbell, who tells us about it 👇

Exposing the war on the press and the targeting of journalists "In a world where truth-telling can often mean life or death, this documentary shines a light on journalists who paid the ultimate price for their work. From war zones to political cover-ups, their courageous reporting exposed critical truths, but also made them targets. Through intimate interviews with their families, friends, and colleagues, the film provides a heartfelt tribute to their legacies while uncovering the dangerous realities of journalism today."

⚠️ Satire Alert ⚠️ "Four European countries have been forced to make way for an Asian country in the Eurovision Song Contest. The four countries in question are the worst countries in Europe - the ones that are morally opposed to genocide. The Asian country in question just happens to be the whitest (and therefore best) country in Asia." https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/four-european-countries-forced-to

Highly interesting talk about chess and the disturbing history of those obsessed with the game. Worth watching or listening imo. #chess #chessstr

"The military situation in Ukraine is deteriorating rapidly...The pace of the Russian advance in eastern Ukraine has increased significantly in recent weeks, with the Russians now advancing up to 5 km a day and capturing even larger settlements at a speed that has not been seen before."

Forum Geopolitica

For Europe, nothing learned will be expensive

In a dynamically changing environment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be forced to take a position on the Trump administration's ...

"Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from Venezuela to a watery grave has a millenarian zeal. But psychological coarseness and imperfection have not prevented questions being asked about why he, allegedly, ordered to strike a vessel twice in order to ensure the death of all aboard it."

“Kill Everybody”

War Crimes and Pete Hegseth’s Lust for Blood

US Blows Up Another Boat in Latin America, Israeli-Backed Gang Leader Killed in Gaza, and More

Elton John battles to keep it together as Rowan Atkinson jokes about his adopted name. Have some fun. 😁

Israel Bombs Tent Camp in Southern Gaza, Senators Reintroduce Venezuela War Powers, and More

The global chip war is reshaping world power and America may have already lost. This video breaks down how the semiconductor system was originally built as an instrument of U.S. state power, how Washington weaponized interdependence through sanctions and export controls, and how China turned those pressures into a long-term strategy for technological sovereignty.

Evergreen, which keeps being deleted on X. Now exclusively available on #nostr . It's one for the history books. Remember.

Hegseth Says He Wasn't in the Room for 2nd Boat Strike, IDF Kills Photojournalist in Gaza, and More

"In the case of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, transgressions have become the lingua franca of the parties, though Israel remains, by far, the perpetrator par excellence. The latter’s departures from the agreement have been so vicious as to prompt the observation that they are pursuing a mutilated reading of the agreement, essentially a “reducefire”. The deaths of 347 Palestinians in Gaza since 10 October, including 136 children, do not point to cooling restraint."

A Ceasefire in Name Only

Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

#freepalestine

"According to recent revelations from the French investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaîné, part of this charitable enthusiasm may have been quietly diverted. Funds intended to bring comfort to hospitalized children may instead have helped finance e-Enfance, an association whose main task is to flag illegal online content to authorities and digital platforms — a mission far removed from the core purpose of Pièces Jaunes."

21st Century Wire

France’s ‘First Lady’ Under Fire: Brigitte Macron Linked to €2M Donation Diversion - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | Brigitte Macron faces a new French firestorm as new allegations shake her 'Yellow Coins' charity.