everyone give a big round of applause to lindsey graham, he's really going above and beyond to be able to say "i've spoken with mitch mcconnell, and he's doing well."
⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.
“82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984” by Joe Kloc is the single most incandescent/nauseating/devastating poem I have read. Just utterly brutal.
https://t.co/Nsq0BAH8BH
In the past, when @TrackAIPAC has shared reports of Israel’s systemic targeting of journalists, we’ve asked our audience to donate to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Not anymore.
The world owes the journalists of Gaza a debt we can never repay. This from CPJ is barbaric and I hope they rot with shame over it.
This has been a rough month for the free internet in America:
* Court losses in the Fifth and Sixth Circuits over age-verification laws
* A renewed push in Congress to restrict internet access
* Internet companies retreating from the fight, e.g., Meta on KOSA
* Growing public support for regulating the internet and AI
Much of this energy is ostensibly aimed at protecting kids. But the net effect will be to restrict and chill internet access for adults, too.
If lawmakers get their way, the internet could soon become a veritable fortress, where everyone has to verify their identity multiple times before accessing lawful content: first through their operating system, then when downloading apps, and then again when using those apps.
That would have profound consequences for privacy and free speech. I don’t think people appreciate how dramatically this could change their online experience, or the risks it poses to their civil liberties.
The internet’s early defenders — EFF, the Cypherpunks, and many others — fought to keep this medium from becoming a permissioned space controlled by governments and gatekeepers. Thirty years later, that fight is back with a vengeance.
Such a blot on this World Cup. FIFA lets the US do their thing
Iran manager Amir Ghalenoei- "We spent so much time in the air commuting, they didn't even give us time to recover. After the game today, they said to us you have to leave immediately. It's very important for us to have time for recovery, but we've been told to return to our camp in Tijuana and we are really troubled by that. I think perhaps our team is the most repressed team in the whole World Cup."
https://t.co/pG9CmkBYmw
Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.
History's first trillionaire.
Israel just kidnapped a 20yr old Palestinian student, taking her hostage. She won’t be called a hostage & she won’t be reported on in the US bc she’s Palestinian.
Had Palestinian forces took an Israeli civilian hostage — would be front page news in every mainstream media outlet.
FIFA's president can invent a farcical peace prize to flatter the ego of the president of the United States and spend months pandering to his political project, but Haiti's national team can't acknowledge their national struggle for independence because it's too "political"