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lovebornee retweeted
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.
Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.
The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
“it is natural for a man, in encountering the destiny that belongs to him, to have an initial moment of recoil.” bataille
lovebornee retweeted
I honestly think folk interested in how to study and narrate the history of the miraculous would do better to read Talal Asad’s “Formations of the Secular,” Robert Orsi’s “Between Heaven and Earth,” and Michel de Certeau’s “The Possessions at Loudun.”
Scenes of Subjection is as good as everyone says it is. Hartman’s analysis of innocent amusements, like dance, song, and entertainment is piercing
lovebornee retweeted
The politics of me, me, me are so prevalent on the left it’s astounding. The most important political tasks are irrelevant to how they may or may not affect my own life and standard of living. Cultivating this narcissism is not worth whatever mediocre gains it begets.
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"When talking to D.S.A.-ers, I often had the sense that they sincerely believed in a class revolution that they were not in any immediate way working toward."
This one should make the rounds @benwallacewells
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lovebornee retweeted
American media constantly spouts the Islamophobic equivalent of “Jews have horns and drink blood from baby skulls” without generating any outrage cycles whatsoever
This is from an episode of Law & Order SVU 26 years ago where they casually claim that 75% of all murders in Gaza and the West Bank were honor killings. Just making up insane statistics about Palestinians and passing them off as facts on national television. Imagine how much of this bullshit Americans have been fed for decades.
Israel is America’s pogromist state with entire industries the globe over devoted to obfuscating that fact
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY