Aurash

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Mayor Mamdani is going directly to residents private homes to ensure the landlords properties are safe and up to code for the tenants.

Mamdani is running laps around every politician in the country at any and all levels of government.

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Norman Finkelstein is asked if he believes there is "very rampant anti-Semitism in the US" by an interviewer who claims he himself has experienced it. Here is his response:

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

Good piece by Nicolas Kristof in the NYT today

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Never forget how Israel murdered Palestinian First Responders on a literal live stream.

Repost this. Please I beg you.

[Collins🦋 @collinstimbela_]

Make the Microsoft CEO search for an email on Outlook live on camera

[Jhay @jhayusb]

on my 7th bathroom break at work

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

I'm currently monitoring every situation on the planet . Prettty bad

[Poya Pakzad @Pakzadesque]

As an Iranian, I would love to celebrate the death of that piece of shit. But I feel I debase myself by cheering an execution carried out by a vulgar genocide state, then circulated for applause across the smug timelines of European racists. Sorry. But fuck all of it.

[Dow @mark_dow]

Timeline:

2014: Trump says Obama will invade Iran because he's not a good enough negotiator to get a deal with them

2015: Obama, with the backing of the EU, China, Russia and others, gets a deal with them

2018: Trump cancels deal bc it was Obama's and says he can negotiate a better one.

2018-2020: Trump can't negotiate one. Arms control experts and Trump officials start to grumble that scrapping Obama's deal was probably a bad idea.

2025: Trump still can't negotiate a new deal

2025: Israel launches an attack on Iran. Drags Trump in. Trump claims Iran's nuclear capacity was wiped out

2025-2026: Trump still can't negotiate a deal

2026: Trump launches a regime change war on Iran, at Israel's goading

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Amazon’s tax bill fell 87% last year thanks to Trump and the GOP’s big bill.

At the same time the multi-trillion dollar company has fired 30,000 Workers.

And their profits have gone up 43.5% — reaching $89.5 billion.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from January 6 allegedly yelling 'kill them!' at police officers. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned by President Trump

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.

The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.

Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.

This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.

They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

[Aurash @aurashroessler]

Would buy a car again just for CarPlay ultra

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Apple's new CarPlay 'Ultra' is here...if you have an Aston Martin

Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis are also working on adding the system to vehicles

[Brian Gaar @briangaar]

Oh you backed into your parking spot, I didn’t realize I was dealing with a secret agent on a classified mission

[Aurash @aurashroessler]

mission take down zuck commencing

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Meta's FTC trial dropping some serious juice:

• Zuck offered to pay $450 million to settle the case in March

• FTC rejected the deal, wanting $30 billion and told Zuck it wouldn't settle for less than $18 billion

• Zuck appeared to think his new ties with Trump would help his case

• Meta tried to up the offer to ~$1 billion in recent weeks, but Trump had given the FTC his blessing to take the case to trial

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

You're laughing? 60% of Coachella attendees put their tickets on BNPL and you're laughing?