Good news: Airport security is about to get way faster now that the EU can pre-read your (formerly) private chats! 🥳 "Chat Control" just passed on the 6th attempt. After being rejected 5 times, it was sneaked through a snap vote right in the middle of the summer holidays. Brilliant. #Democry# This makes it legal to scan your private messages and photos on WhatsApp, Messenger, and email. All in the name of "safety," of course. Pure government overreach. Personally, I can’t wait for Ursula von der Leyen to scroll through my group chats. Time to crank the spicy memes up to 120%—or just move the wildest groups to IRL meetups behind closed doors. 🤫

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers clashed Wednesday evening over foreign policy, immigration and healthcare in their second and final debate in the race for U.S. Senate in Michigan. Read more 🔗:

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers clashed over foreign policy, immigration and healthcare in their second and final debate in the race for U.S. Senate in Michigan

Democrats wanted formal rule-making on how digital commodity exchanges must hold customer funds. The Clarity Act requires it. Democrats voted against protecting customer funds with real custody rules.

Democratic lawmakers warned the chief executives of the largest US technology firms that their platforms were failing to crack down on disinformation spread by Russia and other actors on their platforms ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections