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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.

Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.

Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.

"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.

Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

Peter Thiel laying awake at night thinking of every possible way we can advance AI just for the Pope to call it gay and then go watch the white sox game on like a 30 inch TV rules so hard

[xcx source @xcxsource]

The Boston Globe reviews Charli xcx’s Music, Fashion, Film Tour, calling it her “best work yet” and “one of the best tours of the year”:

“It’s a tough business being a pop star these days, […] But xcx’s Boston show checked off all the necessary boxes — existentialism, dizzying club-thumpers, charming sass, rawness — with the added hat trick of ensuring that the range never felt like zipping through a to-do list. […] the “Music, Fashion, Film” material was the real star here, and it’s no coincidence that those songs also offered xcx’s most solid vocal performances.”

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

So the NFL has told Azeez Al-Shaair they’ll remove him from the game if he wears a Palestinian child’s name, who was killed by Israeli airstrike, on his eyeblack. Psychotic. This harms no one by letting him do this. I think it’s absurd they were fining him, but those were the “rules” and he agreed to pay the fine. Removal from the game is INSANE. This shouldn’t stand!

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was told by an NFL official to remove the name of Wafaa Akila, an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, from his eye black during the Texans’ Week 2 game or he would not be allowed to continue playing, according to a league source.

According to Reuters, Wafaa Akila was killed earlier this month by an Israeli airstrike.

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[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

At what point do we acknowledge what’s happening here? Or do we just stand by like good Germans?

[Jeffrey Evan Gold @jeffgoldesq]

This Austin ICE shooting is pretty incredible. They smashed the DoorDash driver's car. They shot the driver in the back. They pull them out of the car. Tear open his shirt. Confirm he's been shot. Take him to the hospital. Remove him 4 hours later with the bullet still in him and bring him to detention center for questioning, refusing to tell his family where he is. Apparently he's still there with the bullet in him today, without pain meds, without seeing his family, without seeing counsel, and with ICE doing its own investigation into itself.

[DJ Bien-Aime | NASM CPT @Djbienaime]

#Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair speaking about the fine he received for wearing eye black with the name of a Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces along with 6 members of her family after their car came under fire in Gaza City in 2024.

“Probably most of you guys didn’t know who she was and that’s the point.”

[⎊ ♡ 𝑒𝒿 ♡ ⎊ @OhMyEmz]

the most powerful words an artist with balls have ever said

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

What if I told you that you could keep tabs on someone with dementia without tracking every single person's behavior for a month.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Pennsylvania is one of a number of states with policies that help with kids with catastrophic diseases get immediately on Medicaid — even if they’re outside of the income level for it — so that families don’t go bankrupt if their kid gets a disease like cancer . It’s fairly obvious why Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia would want to meet with him on cuts and it’s not because they wanted a free trip to DC as Fetterman texted his aid.

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

We are long, long, long overdue to reduce the amount of KYC we do as a society.

It doesn’t stop crime. It enables mass surveillance of the innocent by the tyrannical. And, perhaps most of all, it enriches hackers with troves of intimate personal data.

https://t.co/udoChrOMnZ

[Mike @hammerito]

New York: Mayor Mamdani fixed my roof and gave me a puppy!

Philly: Cherelle Parker won’t let you eat outdoors… or inside… also no food trucks… actually just go fuck yourself

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

👀🚨 AXON is accessing images of DRIVER'S LICENSES and IDENTITY DOCUMENTS through ACEIP without the consent of the individuals depicted, and using those photographs to train AI models
Government -issued identity documents containing:
• Full legal names
• Dates of birth
• Addresses
• Driver's license numbers
• Photographs (biometric identifiers)
• State of issuance
—-
Not only this 👀🚨

Axon's ACEIP program is a data harvesting operation that uses the monopoly power established through the Vievu acquisition to compel police departments into sharing citizen surveillance data for commercial AI development.🚨👀

1. Axon acquired Vievu in 2018, consolidating the (body camera market)

2. The FTC challenged this as anticompetitive

3. After the FTC case was dismissed, Axon used its dominant market position to implement ACEIP

4. ACEIP gives Axon access to Customer Content - including ALPR images, body camera footage, transcripts, and identity documents

5. Police departments cannot realistically refuse to participate in ACEIP because Axon is the dominant provider of body camera systems

6. Axon uses this data to train proprietary AI models
7. The AI models become Axon's exclusive commercial property
8. The citizens whose data feeds the models never consented
——

Axon's ACEIP portal confirms they access 🚨🚨👀

Detect Error Cases of ALPR and SOR" - active since February 2026. It says Axon accesses "ALPR data entries from customer database, which contains: (1) images captured by Fleet / Outpost camera, (2) ALPR read result and metrics, (3) user-correction, and (4) state level location of the reads."⬅️

"State level location of the reads" - 👀🚨

this means Axon is accessing the state-level geographic location of every ALPR read. Not just the time and date, but the state-level location. This means Axon knows which state each ALPR read came from.⬅️⬅️👀

Now connect this to the "Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) System Improvement" use case, active since October 2022: "License plate images captured by a users Fleet Camera and the associated ALPR Read Record such as date and time of the capture, and geographical location."
"Geographical location" - not just state-level, but precise geographical location.

So Axon has been accessing:👀🚨

1. License plate images
2. Date and time of capture
3. Geographical location of capture
4. ALPR read results and metrics
5. User corrections

From every participating police department since October 2022. That is nearly 4 years of continuous access to license plate images and location data from police departments across the country.

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@RepThomasMassie

[brent 🌹🗽 @BrentInQueens]

Unfortunately their pivot to doing quiet ethnic cleansing instead of having bozo agents murder people in the streets has worked and there has been basically zero coverage lately of any of this and all those whose lives are being ruined

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

This makes me want to not send emails. I have, at the bottom of my email rn, "Please do not send me any emails written by AI. Thank you." I might now add: "If you are getting unreliable, hallucinating AI to summarize my emails, let me know and I won't message you again."

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

🛑 Do not add the ChatGPT Messages “plugin” to Apple Messages.

And never use iMessage, SMS or RCS again. You’ll never know if the person you’re texting has been stupid and irresponsible enough to add this silent monitoring bot to your conversation.

Governments no longer need to pressure Apple for a backdoor. OpenAI just built one for them.

Every text you send them can end up on OpenAI’s servers, available to intelligence agencies and law enforcement through US legal process, and to other governments who can demand access through treaties and cross border agreements.

Facebook Messenger is now safer than iMessage. @OpenAI just killed end to end encryption for Apple.

Article in my drafts folder.

[Amazon Piss Jugs @JeremyWard33]

ICE hit him with a car. Months later they false arrested him and shot him. His arm is now purple and will likely need to be amputated. They're "treating" it with Vitamin D and BenGay

[TJ Morris @tjmorris_bear]

You didn’t hear it from me, but Axon (body cams, dash cams…) is replacing Flock; all the jurisdictions that are “voluntarily” de-Flocking are signing with Axon, and they’re hiding the cameras in existing light & power poles. Do with that info what you will…

https://t.co/qKV1uuEeyd

[Dan @MainLineBeer]

@charli_xcx Anthems