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Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal The Trump administration is poised to receive roughly $10 billion in payments from investors involved in the recently completed transaction to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations, delivering an unusual financial windfall tied to the government’s role in keeping the popular social-media platform active in the United States. ByteDance is the Chinese parent of TikTok. John G Mabanglo/EPA/Shutterstock The payments are part of the arrangement under which a consortium of admin-aligned investors took control of TikTok’s American business from its...

"It's Either Us Or Them': Far-Left French Mayor Calls For Insurrection If Conservatives Win Presidential Election Via Remix News, If the National Rally (RN) candidate wins in the French presidential election next spring, far-left mayor Bally Bagayoko of multi-cultural Saint-Denis has said it will be invalid, calling for a “popular insurrection” if this were to occur. One social commentator on X, Alain Weber, posted frankly about the reality France is facing: “Contrary to what the Democrats of this country thought, the danger will not come from Jean-Luc Mélenchon but from Bally Bagayoko, who is...

The Technate Was Always Coming Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, And what you can do about it (besides complaining). Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread, unanimously opposed and viscerally aghast since James Damore’s infamous “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”. The usual suspects lost their shit. Engadget called it “the ramblings of a comic book villain.” TechCrunch clutched its pearls at the bits about “regressive” cultures...