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[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

While covering the latest Israeli settler attack in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted my photojournalist @cyrilthps and detained my team.
But our 2-hour detention revealed a lot about the motives of these Israeli soldiers: acting in service of the settler movement.
W/ @AbeerSalmanCNN

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

$3,300,000,000 to Israel.

[French Response @FrenchResponse]

Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial.
Turning it into political theater is manipulation.
Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's America.

[War Monitor @WarMonitors]

So U.S. edges their strike all week, Iran relocated enriched Uranium before that, all is fine.

Iran edges their strike, gives warning to Qatar (U.S.) like a few hours before strikes, everyone is on alert and in safe areas.

Neither does actual damage, both cosplay as victors.

[Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs]

X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees. The orders include demands to block access in India to accounts belonging to international news organizations and prominent X users.

In most cases, the Indian government has not specified which posts from an account have violated India's local laws. For a significant number of accounts, we did not receive any evidence or justification to block the accounts.

To comply with the orders, we will withhold the specified accounts in India alone. We have begun that process. However, we disagree with the Indian government’s demands. Blocking entire accounts is not only unnecessary, it amounts to censorship of existing and future content, and is contrary to the fundamental right of free speech.

This is not an easy decision, however keeping the platform accessible in India is vital to Indians’ ability to access information.

We believe that making these executive orders public is essential for transparency – lack of disclosure discourages accountability and can contribute to arbitrary decision making. However, due to legal restrictions, we are unable to publish the executive orders at this time.

X is exploring all possible legal avenues available to the company. Unlike users located in India, X is restricted by Indian law in its ability to bring legal challenges against these executive orders. However, we encourage all users who are impacted by these blocking orders to seek appropriate relief from the courts.

Users may contact any of the below legal aid organizations:
iProbono India (https://t.co/HnfseKQ2Lb)
National Legal Services Authority (https://t.co/fYOZjp2MZA)
Karnataka Legal Services Authority (https://t.co/Plh3c9p9wP)
Supreme Court Legal Services (https://t.co/Sazj55Co08)

We have provided the affected users with notice of the actions in accordance with our policies. Affected users may also contact the Indian government at [email protected].

[rachel zegler (she/her/hers) @rachelzegler]

and always remember, free palestine.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

It has been more than two days that the supply of electricity to Gaza has been shut off. It must resume — essentials including food, electricity, and medical supplies should never be used as political tools.

Canada must work with our allies to stand up for international law to promote sustainable peace and security in the Middle East and to support full access to humanitarian aid for Palestinian families.

As this work continues, both parties must work towards the return of all hostages and the completion of the ceasefire agreement.

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

Kidnapping an activist and jailing him in the middle of the night is a brazen act of authoritarianism.

Punishing dissent by revoking legal status is a dangerous precedent to set.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Less than 80k behind the Apartheid Defense League 🚀

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

Congratulations to NO OTHER LAND, this year's Best Documentary Feature Film! #Oscars

[Matt Walton, M.Ed @Matt4VA]

There is an email address at the top... how about everyone email it saying 5 things that Trump did that harmed America last week...

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Dear DNC, if you don’t run political ads with Elon holding a chainsaw, combined with video of a chainsaw cutting Grandma’s social security benefits and healthcare, I’m going to file a suit against you for gross negligence.

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

I resigned from xAI tonight.
It makes me very sad, but was the right thing to do -- and here's why.

xAI told me I either had to delete the post quoted below, or face being fired.

After reviewing everything and thinking a lot, I've decided that I'm not going to delete the post -- which is very clearly a harmless personal opinion.

Why did they tell me to remove this opinion? Well, according to them, the reason is that I acknowledged that Grok 3... exists.

I wish I was joking. I'm not. That's the reason -- the fact that I wrote "Grok 3 (TBD)" is grounds for being fired.

But wait, hasn't Grok 3 been officially acknowledged by xAI? Yes. Yes it has.

I'll post below the official xAI blog post talking about Grok 3, along with many public Elon posts and video where it is repeatedly acknowledged.

To be clear, the post they wanted me to remove is 100% just my personal opinion. I do not know where Grok 3 will stack up against other SOTA models. Hopefully it does well, I don't know. That's why it says "opinion" and "to be determined."

It will probably be pretty good at some things and imperfect at others. I didn't think this was a particularly wild opinion.

Again, their official demand said that even writing "Grok 3 - TBD" is somehow "confidential information." This is absolutely absurd, since it's repeatedly been acknowledged by the company and its famous CEO.

Are they mad that my clearly-labeled opinion didn't guess that the still-unreleased Grok 3 will be higher? Maybe. Probably. Again, maybe it is at the top, I genuinely don't know. That's why it says "to be determined."

The specific feature of Grok I spent the majority of my time working on with a really hard-working team is very cool and I hope it works extremely well for everyone. I won't say what it is because that would be **actual** confidential information. (Maybe after it comes out.)

I still hope Elon and xAI win. Yet......

It's very disappointing to me that a company and leaders who supposedly champion free speech and openness would try to fire a low-level employee over a clearly-labeled opinion that contains absolutely nothing controversial, but here we are.

The entire situation has been very strange. I thought about just deleting the damn thing.... But you know, once you start caving and giving up holding mild personal opinions, the slope becomes very slippery.

I'll keep my speech and dignity and get another job, or build one. Catch ya on the flip side.

[Annmarie Hordern @annmarie]

“I wish he would just compete by building a better product,” Sam Altman says of @elonmusk in an interview with @TomMackenzieTV.

“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy... I don't think he's, like, a happy person.”

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

That AIPAC purchased the seats of about 90% or more of our current congress. JFK famously wanted them registered as a foreign agent right before he was shot and thus they changed their name and never registered. Why are we letting a foreign lobby buy off our congress?

That Israel was obviously the state sponsor of Jefrey Epstein, whose handler was Ehud Barak, ex head of Israeli military intelligence, his funding was Les Wexner one of the worlds richest Zionist 'philanthropists' and he was accused by ex Mossad assets of being Mossad. Not to mention the Maxwell connection. (They had blackmail on Clinton, and many, many more.) He who holds the blackmail holds the leash- just ask J. Edgar Hoover.

That Israel is the only nation who has a defacto sanctioned, yet actually secret and unsanctioned nuclear program. A program that they stole from the United States- look into the Apollo affair, NUMEC, the Dimona nuclear facility.

That jews, muslims, and christians lived side by side in peace in Palestine before the Rothschilds purchased the country from Britain during WW1 (see the Balfour declaration) and began their colonial program.

That the groups that founded Israel, Lehi, Irgun, and Hagannah, were declared terrorist organizations by Israel itself because their tactics were so deplorable (bombing British and Palestinian civilians) yet these three 'paramilitary' groups rebranded to form the IDF and their leadership became the leadership of Israel for the following thirty plus years.

That Israel is a foreign nation halfway across the world that has no business receiving my tax dollars. Why are we sending them billions of dollars of our tax money while our country burns, is overrun by illegal immigration, etc?

We are told Israel is our 'greatest ally' so why would they have had a massive spy network targeting US government agencies leading up to sep 11, 2001 - see the Israeli art students DEA report for copious evidence of Israeli surveillance all across the continental US. This is an official government report that cites hundreds of incidents of observed Israeli surveillance teams documented by US government agents all across the continental US.

And we still have received 0 answers why there were numerous fake Israeli moving companies positioned all across the eastern seaboard leading into September 11, 2001 and we have multiple eye witness reports, as well as hard photographic evidence that they knew the attacks were coming at least a day before they did and that they were positioned at a vantage point to photograph the attack up to a half hour before the first plane hit.

Never got any answers- but you can read the official FBI reports about the incident. I've broken them down live on X before.

That's just a small list of some of the best documented reasons why I, as an American, dont want Israel receiving any of my tax dollars.

And I didn't even mention my obvious objections to the collective punishment, mass surveillance, forced starvation, bombing of refugee camps, brutal murdering of women and children that's been going on in Gaza and the West Bank for years, decades- which you can watch in graphic detail right here on X.

And that's not to mention that somehow we let congress pass laws outlawing 'antisemitic' speech, despite our own first amendment. And we have anti-boycott legislation in multiple states, despite the fact that it's perfectly legal to boycott American companies... just not Israeli ones.

Every content creator knows the fastest way to get demonetized, banned, and slandered is to be critical of Israel. I figured you would have realized this too after what they did to you and tried to do to X last year.

[Sarah @DDGSarah]

I think elon and friends are trying to shift attention away from the H1B debate to anti-Muslim rhetoric.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Grandmother, 80, 'fell to her knees' after IDF shot her six times during raid, says son

Full story 🔗

https://t.co/LcfMaDOqre

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit. https://t.co/wjDRN1ExX4

[Micheál Martin @MichealMartinTD]

Today the Government gave approval for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice case against Israel under the Genocide Convention.