The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter....
I always enjoy stories about (usually) using the same exploits or access that was used to implant malware, in order to disable it. Germany has done several high-profile botnet takedowns using this same tactic.
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras.
Supporters of Israel are going to be in for a very rude awakening as the older politicians and voters decline.
Israel and its supporters still, as one Haaretz writer said just the other day, don’t understand the damage that has been self-inflicted on Israel by this campaign.
See: the people in this very thread dismissing the poll.
A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or...
I think that there’s still a lot of conflation happening here.
I am anti-Zionist, insomuch as current-day Zionist adherents almost universally support Israel as having religious justification, which, given that Israel conducts colonialism, apartheid, and murder, means that they are tying their own religious beliefs to the aforementioned settlement, apartheid, and murder.
Nothing in Jewish scripture says that this state at this time will be the end-times land for the Jewish people. I would have no issue with Zionists who just believe that they have to actively work towards a Jewish state rather than expecting it to simply come into being, but tying that belief to a specific state as a movement opens it up to criticism based on that relationship.
If I meet a Zionist who says, “yeah, this is not a religiously-ordained state by any means we can tell. The actual land for Jews spoken of in scripture could happen 10,000 years from now. We don’t know.”, I’d have no problem with that viewpoint.
I’m anti-Israel (i.e. the specific, currently-extant state) for being a settler-colonial project that actively enshrines apartheid in its laws, and dehumanizes and subjugates and murders people. I’m also anti-Evangelical Christianity, in part because it also as a movement/ group of beliefs, supports Israel.
But any solution at this point will have to involve safety for everyone not just one side or the other.
The problem I have with this is that it frames the situation as though it’s 2 sides struggling against each other, when in reality it’s one side being oppressed by the other.
In order for them to be in a state of peace and mutual safety, Israel has to give up control that it currently has. It has to remove the violent programs it currently operates (like settlements and “trimming the grass”). It has to LOSE something (control, ground, capacity for violence) in order to reach a neutral state. And by neutral state, I don’t mean “equal power with the Palestinians”, I mean a state of not actively making Palestinians unsafe.
But most people making your argument are not open to admitting this; it is almost always based on the assumption that making the current state static would equate to mutual safety, which is false.
We have a country where the wealth class and political class work hand-in-hand to degrade social systems, impede community-organizing and mutual aid, destroy education, embrace fascism over democracy, and remove opportunities for advancement from everyone but their own children…
…and people wonder why we have a society that is so sick that children are lashing out with self-destructive violence?
And of course that violence and social degradation is then used as justification to further erode rights and autonomy.
This is the logical outcome of a certain party both pushing an identity of male-dominance based on toxicly masculine characteristics, and who also cozies up to White Supremacist orgs like the Proud Boys.
The GOP is and has always been a fertile recruiting ground for white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, and the “manosphere” has accelerated the spread of their core rhetoric (which includes Holocaust denialism) geometrically.
I generally like Beau, but recently I think he’s been hyping up his actual expertise beyond truthfulness, and his assessments of Biden’s intentions in Gaza has been dead wrong.
He clearly doesn’t want to call a spade a spade and admit that Biden is not actually playing 4D chess to save Gaza, he’s just paying lip service to not killing civilians while greenlighting Israel to do whatever it wants.
Biden could have ended this ‘war’ after a week of he’d actually used his leverage.
Reporting by Chicago public radio station WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has identified nine current and at least 18 former members of the Chicago Police Department on past internal rosters of the Oath Keepers obtained by OCCRP. The investigation identified another 12...
Conservatives use the lie of ever-increasing crime as a bogeyman to scare suburbanites into voting for their “tough-on-crime” (read ‘anti-poor + anti-minority’) policies. That homicide rates went up during the pandemic has been falsely used to demonize Biden, immigrants, and anyone else that Fox News dislikes.
We need people to actually have and care about data like this so they can resist misinformation and propaganda.
They continue to be ineffective in most large cities basically.
wtf? Do you actually live in a “large city”? I do. In fact, I live in SF, the supposed heart of all this, and police are out doing their usual stuff, same as always. What exactly do you think they are not doing right now?
An obscure part of the Clean Air Act grants regulators an opening to “forgive” air pollution from wildfires, meaning that it doesn’t count against air-quality goals. After wildfires flourished across North America this year, more U.S. states east of the Mississippi may use this exceptional events rule to subtract smoke...
We are going to all die of climate disasters, or cancer caused by airborne particulates and microplastics, while corporations and governments point at graphs of ‘massaged’ metrics that say we are all totally fine and gonna beat climate change.
“We only hit 35% of the annual total carbon emissions for complete climate disaster!**”
**Carbon emissions for B2B products and services not included. Carbon emissions for legitimate government purposes not included. Carbon emissions from non-business sources not included.
They are floating balls that are covered in loops of razorwire, which hangs down underneath the bouy. They’re clearly designed to snare people who try to swim under them, which could result in drowning, bleeding to death, or even dying of hypothermia if trapped there for too long. The Rio Grande is not warm at night.
Just this week, police departments in Salem, New Hampshire; Gresham, Oregon; and Luverne, Alabama announced the purchase of drones. More than 1,500 departments across the country now use them, “mostly for search and rescue as well as to document crime scenes and chase suspects,” according to a February report in the MIT...
Ah yes, get some federal charges thrown on top of your shoplifting misdemeanor for both operating an illegal radio jamming device in violation of FTC regulations AND interfering with the operation of an aircraft! Genius!
US disabled Chinese hacking network targeting critical infrastructure ( www.reuters.com )
The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter....
This Idaho plan to get rid of domestic terrorism doesn’t involve fighting it ( www.msnbc.com )
21 Bodycam Videos Caught the NYPD Wrongly Arresting Black Kids on Halloween. Why Can’t the Public See the Footage? ( www.propublica.org )
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras.
More than one-third of Americans believe Israel is committing genocide, poll shows ( www.theguardian.com )
Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists ( www.theguardian.com )
A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or...
ADL is including pro-Palestine protests in count of "antisemitic" incidents ( forward.com )
Live updates: Shooting at Perry High School in Iowa ( www.cnn.com )
Donald Trump is blocked from appearing on presidential primary ballot by Colorado Supreme Court ( coloradosun.com )
Senate aide out of job after purported sex tape apparently filmed in Senate hearing room | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
A Texas judge ruled that a pregnant woman who sued the state seeking an abortion can legally terminate her pregnancy ( www.cnn.com )
One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth ( www.economist.com )
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Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100 ( www.nytimes.com )
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ( abcnews.go.com )
Chicago Police Officers Appeared on Membership List of Extremist Oath Keepers Group ( www.occrp.org )
Reporting by Chicago public radio station WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has identified nine current and at least 18 former members of the Chicago Police Department on past internal rosters of the Oath Keepers obtained by OCCRP. The investigation identified another 12...
Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice? ( www.latimes.com )
As U.S. wildfires pollute the skies, a loophole is obscuring the impact. Can it be fixed? ( www.muckrock.com )
An obscure part of the Clean Air Act grants regulators an opening to “forgive” air pollution from wildfires, meaning that it doesn’t count against air-quality goals. After wildfires flourished across North America this year, more U.S. states east of the Mississippi may use this exceptional events rule to subtract smoke...
Dead person found in Texas’ anti-migrant buoys that Mexico and Justice Dept. want removed ( www.dallasnews.com )
When You Call 911, These Police Departments Send a Drone ( www.themarshallproject.org )
Just this week, police departments in Salem, New Hampshire; Gresham, Oregon; and Luverne, Alabama announced the purchase of drones. More than 1,500 departments across the country now use them, “mostly for search and rescue as well as to document crime scenes and chase suspects,” according to a February report in the MIT...