Cian Westmoreland

Antiwar USAF OE"F" vet. Experienced the banality of evil w/ my own hands w/ network effect. Remote killing prefaces lethal AI. Musk satellites facilitate both

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

In this anthology, is a well documented paper Lisa Ling & I wrote to illuminate the complex systems of systems guiding US #drone operations generally absent in media discourse, it's failings and it's future. We called it the Kill Cloud. It's free here. 👇https://t.co/wEWGSXAh6d

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If Trump had wanted to stop the Israeli attack on Iran, he could have easily. Israel depends on money from US workers, bombs from US stockpiles, and promises of US military protection.

Impossible to imagine Israel doing this without clear expectation of US military protection:

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

@morris_nra @21WIRE @PamelaDrew I care more about this country and its constitution than you do bud. Innocent people are getting caught up. That’s why we have due process. You don’t want a country that sends people to gulags without trial. People are upset about it, and it’s their right to protest it.

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don’t have to go through with it. tel:[phone]

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

@GrantHermes Grant, you gave me a day in the middle of the week to respond. I shared a resource that provides exactly what is stated. It’s not a “troublemaking” organization, but I expect any lever of accountability to be attacked by this administration.

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

@Pitsr4me68 Whats your point bud?
I’m not talking semantics. I’m saying if orders are illegal under the constitution it is the obligation of every officer and NCO to fight that order. It appears you are saying it’s their duty to obey everything despite illegality, that’s wrong.

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

@Pitsr4me68 Actually. If the order is illegal it’s obligatory to refuse it. A commanding officer orders soldiers to indiscriminately open fire with live ammo on a crowd of people; illegal. Doesn’t matter what the tippy top says. DJT is not a king, he’s also bound by the Constitution. 😉

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don’t have to go through with it. tel:[phone]

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

How about just getting rid of mandatory tips and make employers pay a fair wage. The service is the same wherever this is the case and employees aren’t beholden to the whims of customers for their daily wages. The American tip culture is out of control. Its neither good for customers or employees.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📣 The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying.

Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.

So, Signal took steps to protect you and everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's hunger for (Signal) data.

Read more about how we navigated, and why we need to ecosystem to a lot more 👇

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

If governments now dare whisper “sanctions”, it’s because pressure—from people devastated by 20 months of uncensored genocide—works.
But much remains pretense: sanction with one hand, arm & trade with the other.
People must not stop now.
Keep pressing.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Julian Assange's t-shirt at Cannes lists the names of 4,986 Palestinian children aged five and under, killed by Israeli forces since 2023.

[Photos by David Fisher]

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Germany has become so depraved in its support of Israel that it voted against reviewing the EU’s trade agreement with Israel due to the appalling situation in Gaza. Supporting another genocide will not absolve Germany of its responsibility for the Holocaust or for the genocides in Namibia & Armenia. It will only exacerbate German guilt in the most repulsive crimes committed against humanity

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Israeli plan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of its ongoing crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide: @HRW. https://t.co/fAeT0IYS7b

[IEET @IEET]

AI agents, when interacting in groups, can form shared social conventions without centralized coordination. Norms emerged organically, and even biases formed between agents, independent of individual behavior.
https://t.co/zfljbEYl5K

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

An actually decent idea

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

BREAKING: Today, I introduced the “American Privacy Restoration Act” to FULLY REPEAL the Patriot Act and strip rogue intelligence officers of their extraordinary mass surveillance powers.

Since the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9/11, intelligence agency officials have used their mass surveillance tools to settle personal scores, interfere in elections, and spy on untold numbers of innocent Americans.

This abuse must come to an end!

READ MORE: https://t.co/rCY5UUM5fk

[Barry Eisler @barryeisler]

Particularly interesting when you consider how often our rulers say of America's adversaries that "Force is the only language they understand.

Psychological projection is a powerful force in human affairs...

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

While the Flotilla which was attacked by drones is closest to Malta, the Maltese Gov has not responded yet. Cypress responded to the SOS & sent a vessel.

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

On this, the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, I want to thank all the people who have read my book on U.S. war crimes and Vietnamese civilian suffering, Kill Anything That Moves. It's not an easy read but I hope, all these years later, it's still a worthwhile one.

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

Here is my latest @theintercept on the fallout of the Vietnam War and its terrible -- and still increasing -- toll on civilians. https://t.co/A12yCPPI8A

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington

“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period… We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”
—Former Israeli ambassador Michael Herzog:

A sweeping Israeli Channel 13 investigation has exposed the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s 19-month war on Gaza. Nine top Biden officials acknowledged avoiding real pressure on Israel—even as the death toll surpassed 30,000. Israeli leaders openly bragged they dragged out the war, playing for time until Donald Trump’s return.

Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Ambassador Tom Nides, and others defended their unwavering support for Israel—even as they admitted enabling a campaign one U.S. aide described as “killing and destroying for the sake of killing and destroying.”

Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

[Cian Westmoreland @CianMW]

Funny how the Houthis weren’t really bothering anyone at this level until Israel started their murderous genocide of retribution on the Palestinians and the US unapologetically supported it. Maybe, just maybe, there are other ways to fix this than more bombs. MAYBE, the bombs are the problem

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

A circulating scene of an American drone being shot down by a Yemeni-made missile. This is the 21st drone...