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Too Far Left™.

[k. @sccizer]

“One day, when it s safe, when there s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The most urgent lesson from my book and my several years of studying propaganda is this: it's imperative that you get every well-meaning person you care about in your life to stop consuming mainstream news. There is a relentless war to shape people's brains so that they are okay with a world of enormous but preventable suffering and resigned to a world with nowhere near as much flourishing as human beings deserve.

[Eclipse Futurist @VoidFuturist]

"In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case."

Now that's just evil.

[VPol @VocalPolitics1]

Informed Lebanese sources have told VPol that, several months ago, Lebanese authorities imposed a ban on the import of fiber-optic cables, coinciding with the increasingly effective use of fiber-optic FPV drones by the resistance against invading IOF forces in Lebanon.

￭ The drones have successfully damaged and destroyed dozens of Israeli military vehicles, including Merkava tanks, while leaving hundreds of IOF casualties amid the ongoing ground invasion.

[Ahmad Farhad @AhmadFarhadReal]

اج ہمیں معلوم ہوا کہ پاکستان کے وہ مظلوم اورمحکوم عوام جنہیں دہشتبگرد کہہ کر مارا جاتارہا وہ دہشت گرد نہیں تھے۔مذاکرات برابری کی بنیاد پر اور ہماری شراٸط پوری کرنے کے بعد ہوں گے۔عمر نزیر کشمیری

[Retro Coast @RetroCoast]

So Israel shot down a US AH-64 Apache helicopter

On the anniversary of the USS Liberty attack

And the US is dragged back into war with Iran

And nobody notices this?

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

Germany is headed towards a perfect storm IMO as it has:

1) a special law that makes it a crime to insult politicians

2) AfD leading the polls & will eventually get into government

3) many convinced that it is their duty & right to insult & disrespect AfD

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

عاجل: محكمة الاحتلال العليا تقرر تأجيل البت في اعتقال الطبيب الفلسطيني حسام أبو صفية لعدة ساعات.

أبو صفية يقبع في عزل انفرادي في سجن نفحة ويعاني من التعذيب الشديد.

أمضى نحو 530 يومًا في الاعتقال منذ 27 ديسمبر 2024.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UN says violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is rising sharply, with at least 44 Palestinians killed since the start of the year. A new UN report says settler attacks on Palestinian villages have risen by 130% since 2023.

Al Jazeera’s Joel Evans reports.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

The OLDEST CHRISTIAN village in the world is burning.

Taybeh, Palestine.

The last 100% Christian Palestinian village, where Christ resurrected Lazarus, build the Church of St. Michael.

[asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil]

Beirut airport in 1968: when there was no Hizbullah and no Islamic republic in Iran:

[Jaketropolis @jaketropolis]

In 1917, Vladimir Lenin learned of revolution in Russia. He immediately left Lake Geneva and traveled to St. Petersburg by sealed train. This map traces his route.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Leonardo is a $17 billion defense contractor. It built a system called SignalTrace that clips sensors onto the license plate readers already mounted on street poles, overpasses, and police cars across the US. Every time you drive past one, the sensor grabs the Bluetooth and WiFi signals from every device in your car, ties them to your plate, and logs the time and location. Your phone, your AirPods, your kid's tablet. All of it goes into the same file. A friend rides with you once and their devices are linked to your plate.
Leonardo has sold this to police departments since at least 2023. There is no federal law covering it, no opt-out, and no warrant requirement.

My Take
None of the pieces here are new. Your phone has always broadcast a signal. The license plate cameras were already there. Leonardo just connected them and found a buyer. Nobody had to break a law or build anything from scratch. They assembled a surveillance system from parts already in place and sold it before anyone noticed.

Most people found out this week from a 404 Media investigation. Leonardo received the patent in 2024. By the time you hear about something like this, the deals are done and the sensors are on the poles. That's how it works now.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/serZi0IGnT

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If you read one article today, it should be former CIA analyst Paul Pillar’s alarm bell of how the Senate wants to force the US to share sensitive intel with Israel at the expense of the US itself.

“In intelligence, Israel is more of an adversary than an ally. Being an adversary in intelligence means indulging in the hostile act of espionage. Israel has a long record of conducting that type of hostile act against the United States.”

https://t.co/KpdR33YrTw

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

“This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party,” Trita Parsi told CNN.

https://t.co/a4xm4UoEPW

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

Iranian monarchists in the diaspora are in a furor because Toomaj Salehi—a rapper inside Iran who’s been numerously detained for vociferously criticizing Iran’s ruling apparatus—put out a video openly opposing economic sanctions and war as a means of regime change in Iran.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨NOW: Rep. Thomas Massie just stood on the House floor and named what every politician in DC has spent 58 years pretending did not happen

The USS Liberty. June 8, 1967.

34 dead American sailors. 174 wounded. Over 70% casualty rate on a virtually unarmed US ship.

25 minutes of Israeli jets, Israeli rockets, Israeli 30mm cannon fire, and ISRAELI NAPALM ON THE BRIDGE. Then Israeli torpedoes. Then Israel machine-gunned the lifeboats.

MASSIE: "They were intent on leaving no survivor."

Then the part nobody wants you to think about: the Saratoga and the America launched planes to help. The planes were RECALLED. The crew sat there bleeding for 17 hours.

Dean Rusk. Richard Helms. Admiral Moaner. The chief counsel of the Court of Inquiry himself. None of them believed the "mistaken identity" story.

And now you understand exactly why the entire DC machine and Israel lobby has spent the last year trying to primary this man out of existence.

You are not allowed to say the quiet part. He said it anyway.

Honor the crew. https://t.co/XuDLeFF4gJ.

[Alessandro 🇧🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸 @aledornell]

On the 1974 Bangladesh famine

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that hosting US military bases while the US is using them to illegally attack your neighbours makes you less secure not more. Security and peace in West Asia requires permanently removing the bases.

[Myroslav Oleshko @oleshkomyroslav]

Зневажаю ці державу. Зневажаю цю владу. Зневажаю цих недобитків ТЦК у формі ЗСУ.
Зневажаю цей режим партії війни Зеленського-Стерненко-Притули.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This is one of the most heart-wrenching videos I have ever seen. It shows the immediate aftermath of an Israeli soldier shooting a 7-month old Palesinian baby in the head, stealing his life.

It shows that the car with the Palestinian family had stopped. Yet the Israelis shot.

The father is holding his infant son in his arms as he bleeds to death from the shot to his head. It tears you apart.

This is the daily life of Palestinians under Israel's US-supported occupation.

You never know when you will be shot in the head. It can happen any time, for any reason.

And the world approves.