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It's one thing for #MSNow to repeatedly attempt to rehabilitate #ChrisMatthews under new management (and they were about that business before they got spun off) but it's quite something else to see #MehdiHasan back on the network that gave him the boot over Palestine reporting earlier. It's how he founded #Zeto -- but here he is on #AllIn with #ChrisHayes by golly. Welcome back, Mehdi!!!!!
The Signatories Added That the Trump Administration's Statements 'Invoking Biblical Claims About Israel and the Region – Along With Rhetoric Suggesting a Prophetic or Religious Dimension to Geopolitical Conflicts – Risks Emboldening Similar Messaging…Ben Samuels (Haaretz)
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"Here’s the inconvenient truth that American politicians and pundits choose to ignore: The most influential religious zealots driving the current conflict with Iran are not in Tehran. They’re in Washington."
~ Mehdi Hasan
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Mehdi on the Republican religious nutjobs pining for Armageddon in the Middle East. Plus: the latest on the Iran school bombing and, for once, a disgraced Republican is shamed into quitting politics.Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)
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"When church and state overlap, brutality follows, and justice bends with the whip. ...
Religious extremism has taken Iran back to the seventh century, yet somehow, even as Trump tries to topple Iran’s brutal theocracy, his Christian Nationalists can’t see that their own agenda leads to the same place."
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Hegseth and MAGA could learn about theocracy from IranSabrina Haake (The Haake Take)
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"Lindsey Graham yesterday: this is a religious war. My name is Lindsey Graham. I love women. No, I just disagree. What he actually said was, quote, 'This is a religious war and we will determine the course of the Middle East for a thousand years.'"
~ Wajahat Ali
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The Trump Administration's Reeks, such as Lindsey Graham, are framing the stikes on Iran as part of a "religious war," Netanyahu is invoking Amalek, & Christian Zionists are welcoming the Rapture.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
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"And speaking of that, Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel, last week in an interview with Tucker Carlson revealed his white Christian nationalist extremism and said, You know, the Bible actually gives pretty much the entirety of the Middle East to Israel. If they want it, they could take it."
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"And what we found out is after the strikes were called on Saturday, there were over 200 people that number is rising, of commissioned troops saying that their commanders were referring to this war as a holy war, as a necessary war, as a war that will bring about the rapture in Armageddon."
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As Wajahat Ali goes on to say, the way in which a twisted kind of Christianity is being used by the Trump regime to justify its "holy" war against religion provides a compelling reason for us to talk honestly about the role religion plays in US public life. He notes that when he brings these topics up, people log into his site to say that religion is stupid, a fairy tale.
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But:
"You might think religion is stupid. I get it. I've heard everything. Trust me. Nothing fazes me. I have tough skin. But you might be done with religion. But for better and for worse, religion isn't done with America.
And even though you think religion is stupid and you have every right to, there are a lot of religious communities."
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"And ... we don't talk about it elegantly, even though it plays such an active role."
"If you cede the ground on religious language to the right wing — voila, Pete Hegseth. Voila, Mike Huckabee. Voila, Falwell. Voila, the moral majority. Voila, them going to religious communities and weaponizing the transfer BS to garner votes for the 2024 election."
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" I saw it happening a mile away. I saw it happening a mile away. It worked like gangbusters, especially with Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu communities, right? Religion, God, morality, ethics. And then you put in patriarchy and fear and propaganda and, you know, the homophobia. It works."
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"Take one thing away from this series: The complete failure of Americans to confront radicalized Christianity led us here.
This kind of radicalization and fanaticism should never again be allowed to happen. Every American must grasp what these people believe and confront it everywhere."
~ Andra Watkins
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How Christian Nationalists translate what they read in the Bible to what they see on the news (Recording at the end)Andra Watkins (For Such a Time as This)
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"Told to downplay their religion, neither Mamdani, a practicing Muslim, nor Talarico, a devout Presbyterian (and seminarian), obeyed such tired orthodoxy."
~ Michael Lange
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"It's not left vs. right. It’s top vs. bottom."Michael Lange (The Narrative Wars)
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They get FURIOUS when you quote the Bible to them. Just furious.
Ben Jennings' cartoon commentary on the Trump-Hegseth "holy" war.
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US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric to justify involvement in the war to troopsBen Jennings (the Guardian)
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Yesterday Hegseth told representatives from the Western hemisphere at the Americas Counter Cartel Conference the following:
"All the nations represented in this room are offsprings of Western civilization…. Christian nations under God."
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it's actually the religious aspect to them that i don't trust.
i can't bring myself to trust someone who believes the fate of their eternal soul requires believing in & adhering to books written by misogynist men about their scary, imaginary sky daddy. that doesn't exude "sound judgement" to me
excellent thread💙
more people need to become aware of this christian cult of dominionists, or as i call them, the #GDD Gilead Dreaming Dominionists. they are very powerful in our govt bc they influence the majority of people who can't see reality for what it is
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"Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper."
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PS: Here's hoping that publicity about this shakedown costs the publisher -- Walsh Medical Media -- more than $500.
Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…Avery Orrall (Retraction Watch)
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Scratch a liberal...
Wait, did she even get scratched? I don't think she even got scratched.
@Azuaron Nope, she red pilled herself. IMO she was always a grifter, her fellow GamerGate targets refuse to interact with her and looking at the timeline it looks more like she injected herself into that situation than having been an organic target of it.
She makes literally everything about herself, and is ultimately angry at anyone more successful. She hated on Jasmine Crockett despite her being a fellow Zionist, and celebrated her loss because her racism trumped her zionism.
@lerxst The past two plus years have marked a rapid change in her views. She's turned on much of the trans community carving out boundaries that basically are where her white, wealthy ass is but where most cannot afford to be, everyone else she views as fake trans.
Virulently Islamophobic and often racist and sexist as well.
People have been given new guidance about travelling to Australia and New Zealand in the wake of the Middle East conflict. Despite being many miles away fromEUROPE SAYS
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Sometimes at public meetings things go in a different direction than you expect...
When that includes racist behavior, it's important to speak up early & often
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That is a kind person
A NSW coroner who investigated the death in custody of a member of the Stolen Generations has criticised plans to delay health screenings for IndigenousEUROPE SAYS
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Haunted Chicken House | Halloween | Frights & Screams – Heflin, Alabamaadmin (The Haunted Chicken House)
Need clarification - a haunted chicken?
How does one know a haunted chicken? Their thousand yard stare? Ghost eggs?
In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, central digital television and radio broadcasting has stopped after a massive Russian drone attack on a television tower. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform (Укрінформ)
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A magistrate judge denied Law Dork's intervention in the Minnesota refugee case. We objected Wednesday.
I had to post the filing online so you could read it. Otherwise, you'd need to go to the actual courthouse in Minnesota to do so.
It shouldn't be like that for any of the filings in the case. lawdork.com/p/law-dork-objecti…
A magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request to provide online access to the docket in a significant refugee rights case in Minnesota. Law Dork's lawyers filed their objection on Tuesday.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
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and, once again, thank you, for being THERE.
We see you, and what you do.
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A quotation from George Orwell
By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled “good” or “bad.” But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)
More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/16966/
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By "nationalism" I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled "good" or "bad.Dave (WIST Quotations)
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We are infested by billionaire owned propaganda
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
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Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planetPhil Plait (Scientific American)
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STUPID. FUCKING. PLAN. ELON.
If anyone knows how to etch or tattoo these words directly onto his eyeballs, could you make it happen, please?
How realistic is his bluster?
A million satellites would require how many launches? How much material? How much precision hardware?
This, imho, is just another time the biggest bullshitter in the corporate space is bullshitting to drive hype and get access journos to mindlessly repeat what he makes come out of his mouth hole.
But AGI will fix it, and there will be abundance, and those future people not yet born will be mad at you for stopping him!!
… or some other bullshit reason like that
Raise your hands if you, too, are sick and tired of billionaires further enriching themselves with suspect technologies at the earth's (and humanity's) environmental and ecological expense.
Now put your hand down and write an email!!
Details here:
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archive link to OP's article (no paywall):
Someone needs to do a filk for Musk, “I am changing my name to Kessler”, based on Tom Paxton’s I am changing my name to Chrysler.
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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupI Am Changing My Name To "Chrysler" (Live / 1988) · Tom PaxtonPolitics℗ 1988 Rounder Records, a division of Conco...Tom Paxton - Topic (YouTube)
Kessler syndrome my old friend,
I've come to dance with you again
Too many satellites streaming
Over this ground where I'm dreaming
And collisions,
that make them multiply
Up in the sky
Creating Kessler syndrome
This is probably another textbook case of induced demand: even if this data-center-in-space fantasy were to work, it would not displace ground-based data centers. It would just supplement them.
So, we'd destroy the sky AND pollute the atmosphere, dry up aquifers and burn up the planet just so CEOs could fire everyone and replace them with slop generating machines and incels could finally have girlfriends.
I sent in a comment to the FCC as a private citizen and an amateur astrophotographer. And it reminded me to go out and shoot a lot of photos of the night sky in the next year to build up a more extensive archive... while I still can.
#DOJ posts some missing #EpsteinFiles related to accusations about #Trump
The Justice Department has published additional #Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
#law #criminal #rape #ChildSexCrimes #pedohilia #SexTrafficking #RapistInChief #CoverUp
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They include 16 new pages that cover 3 additional #FBI interview summaries with a woman who accused #Trump of #SexualAbuse decades ago when she was a #minor. Also included are 2 pages of an intake form documenting the initial call to the FBI from a friend who relayed the claims.
NPR's investigation previously found 53 pages that appeared to be missing from the public database.
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Now that these documents are published, there are still 37 pages of records missing from the public database, including notes from the interviews, a law enforcement report & license records.
The #DOJ has repeatedly told NPR that any documents withheld were "privileged, are duplicates or relate to an ongoing federal investigation."
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Last week, after NPR's initial story, the #DOJ said it was determining if records had been mistakenly tagged as duplicates & if any were found, "the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law."
The interview documents are part of >1,000 new pages published to the #EpsteinFiles public database Thursday that also include what appears to be the complete case file from the investigation into Jeffrey #Epstein & #GhislaineMaxwell initiated in 2006.
The new documents go into more detail about the allegations made against both #Trump & #Epstein when the woman was between 13 to 15 years old.
An #FBI email summarizing the claims & a #DOJ PowerPoint slide deck note the woman claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, ‼️Epstein introduced her to Trump, "who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head & kicked her out."‼️
#EpsteinFiles #law #rape
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‼️🚨 In the newly-published documents, the woman's described how #Trump allegedly put her head "down to his penis" and she "bit the s*** out of it." She alleged that Trump struck her and said something to the effect of "get this little b**** the hell out of here."🚨‼️
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Report: US investigators say the US military probably carried out the double-tap strike that killed 165, mostly young girls, at an Iranian elementary school.
A "double-tap strike" kills one group, then waits for medics & other civilians to arrive in order to kill them as well.
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#USWarCrimes #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #IranSchoolAttack #news .
New York Times investigation also suggests United States was probably behind air strike that killed at least 165 in MinabAlex MacDonald (Middle East Eye)
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Yes, and repeatedly used on Gazan civilians.
@k_leyton_cooper
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):.
US military investigators have told Reuters they consider it “likely” that US forces struck the all-girls elementary school in Iraq, using “precision-guided” munitions.
The devastating attack claimed the lives of 165 people, mostly girls aged between seven and twelve. This makes it one of the deadliest incidents since US–Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury.”
@k_leyton_cooper
Speaking to CBC News, a military researcher from the Tortono-based conflict monitoring group, Factnameh, alleged that the attack was intended to be a:
precise targeting of a military facility for the IRGC […] According to satellite images, the impacts show a pattern consistent with precision-guided munitions … There shouldn’t be any mistakes.
@AlexaFontanilla2024 @k_leyton_cooper
This would have us believe that the intel was bad, wrong info on a building that was ten years old.
Israeli intelligence doesn’t do “bad intel”.
[gallows laugh]
"Double tap" is terrorism against paramedics, fire crews, medics passing by.
First responders and medical workers in the USA might want to remember who is killing their colleagues in Iran.
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Given Hiroshima...
A variation on "double tap," which ordinarily refers to two rounds fired in quick succession to assure a kill. The combined force causes more damage than two rounds fired separately.
As used here, it's similar to when a sniper wounds a target, hoping to lure into his sights other troops and medics, so that he can shoot them, too. Except that it's scaled up many times. It sounds very IDF.
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"Peado-Regime Strikes Girl's School"
Are we getting who the Bad Guys are yet? ffs....🤷♂️ 😡
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There's no need. There are squillions of little Petes all the way down the murderous chain.
Sorry, the US dropped into the moral abyss in ww2. Remember Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
Over the next decades to date, millions of people killed in war crimes just to steal resources & maintain hegemony.
Worse, I think. He's an overt crusader against islam. They, he says, are subhuman.
Are you forgetting the US coup that brutally crushed democracy in Iran in 1953 & installed the dictatorship of the Shah?
Are you forgetting the same coups on democratic govts to install dictatorships throughout Latin America, South-East Asia, Middle East, etc?
All to steal resources.
Imperialist, unnecessary, failed wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc?
Millions of people killed for nothing but resource access?
Now add Venezuela, Iran. Next Cuba
What good "Christian Crusaders" #Trump has in his regime.
I'm not ready to be raptured yet. Besides, I'm the wrong religion.
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@geonz We don't need no stinkin' middle!
Yours,
Capitalism
Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I think after a celebrity dies, esp a local one, they should stop their local celebrity endorsement tv commercials. It's just freaky, esp local furniture stores, car lots, etc.
I guess if you spend 80% of your ad budget snagging a former sports star, has-been politician, or one-hit wonder recording artist, it's an internal struggle to throw those ads away.
I will tell you this, though, the last thing on my mind when I go to buy a new mattress is if a baseball or football player from the 1970s, 1980s, or 90s is paid to sing its praises. lol.
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US and Venezuela agree to resume diplomatic ties after Maduro capture
The US said the two sides would make joint efforts to promote stability after the US seized Maduro and his wife.
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We want to first clarify that Proton did not provide any information to the FBI, the information was obtained from the Swiss justice department via MLAT. Proton only provides the limited information that we have when issued with a legally binding order from Swiss authorities, which can only happen after all Swiss legal checks are passed. This is an important distinction because Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law
I don't use Proton products at all (not for any idealist reasons), but I don't really think this can be much of a condemnation of the company. I don't know what else you can expect them to do in this case.
edit: That said, the real takeaway is that if you want to remain anonymous to a service that can be compelled to hand over data about you (read: more or less any service you might want to use), you should not pay with a credit card linked to your actual name, you should not access it from your home IP address, and you should not use it in any way that links it to your real self.
Proton is security focused, but even they are bound by the laws of the country they operate in. Use TOR, use E2EE, pay with cryptocurrency, maintain hermetic separation between your anonymous and public selves, etc.
@taylor Really surprised that 404 would give it such a hyped headline if that's all it's about.
I don't think even proton's vpn service claims that they can't be compelled to give over the payment details and account information of your VPN account.
This isn't information they've claimed they will or can secure against being compelled like this.
i've had Proton for over a year now and like them. Anyone who is disappointed about this shouldn't be surprised. They have to obey Swiss law after all.
If you want a privacy-focused email provider, there aren't a lot of choices and Proton is still one of the best.
@serebit what got him was paying for his “anonymous” account with his Platinum Visa like a normie buying socks on Amazon.
Proton handed over the payment identifier, Swiss authorities passed it to the FBI, and suddenly your anonymity has a name on it.
if you’re not paying with Monero or cash, you don’t have an anonymous email. you have encrypted email with a billing address. those are very different things.
@k3ym0 @serebit
This really should be front and centre of the discussion. They complied with a valid Swiss court order, as stated on their ToS.
The account holders opsec is the issue if they required full anonymity (possible? Another discussion).
This whole thing is the same as the statement "Your VPN provider won't go to jail for your $5".
If they were served with an administrative warrant from an out of jurisdiction LEA and complied, then WAY more to be upset over.
@chroma0 @k3ym0 @serebit the disconnect here is that people think proton is offering something it has never claimed to offer. They will obey all warrants issued to them under Swiss law. They will hand over all personal data they have on you. They have never said otherwise. It is incumbent on the user to give them a minimum of personal info.
Proton sells an email service with messages they can't decrypt. They do not sell anonymity.
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@lucas
Additionally, privacy and encryption != free from consequences of illegal activity.
Proton is also zero-knowledge with email and drive, meaning contents is encrypted behind anyone’s purview without the password.
Swiss law requires a retention period of 10 years for financial data. I would have to imagine some of this information might fall under that umbrella.
when officials come after you and your a business your going to comply. From what I heard it wasn’t email data or their inbox it was credit card information.
Most people are with services like proton to ensure their data isn’t for sale to just anyone.
But hey if you love Google knowing everything about you or Ads Galore on Yahoo , you do you !
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This headline is incredibly biased. Did Proton help the FBI? Or did they hand over data to the Swiss government that the Swiss government ordered them to, and then the Swiss helped the FBI unmask an anonymous protester?
I keep seeing this post pop up in my feed with permutations of "WHY PROTON DO THIS!?" -- Because they were legally ordered to.
We're doing a disservice to ourselves for not recognizing the bounds of the privacy that Proton, or Tuta, or any other "private" email service provides, and looking at this moment as a failure by the provider - when really it's the failure of a user to recognize the technical & legal bounds of of their comms services to keep them anonymous.
The lesson here, i think, is about opsec, and knowing the bounds of the tools we're employing for whatever our goals are.
@r3dr3clus3 If you don't have the data, you can be ordered to give it up by whomever, and you can't. Proton mail claims privacy, but it in fact saves enough data to identify a single individual.
The headline is not biased. Proton claims things they actually can't uphold. This is not the fault of the customer. Stop blaming the victim.
FFS remember to link to your sources.
This would be the 404 Media article in question: 404media.co/proton-mail-helped…
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped.
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A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
I've not seen such responses for a long time.
For your next posts you could criticise Microsoft, Musk & Linus Torvalds.
We could make a new "popularity index" this way.
love that all the replies are circlejerking defending proton like their product doesn’t kind of suck to use, cost too much and not actually have many real security benefits.
Not to mention the weird swiss technolibertarianism of their CEO.
This is very misleading. Proton never claimed you would be anonymous. They do not collect user data, the maximum they can have (if I'm not mistaken) is your IP, backup email and credit card, if you paid with one. The rest is end-to-end encrypted.
In this case, the account was a premium one that was paid with a credit card. You have ways of getting the subscription more privately, and this was a case of bad OpSec.
Please don't spread FUD.
There is no anonymity on the nets. Even for very versed in nuances of surveilance hackers. 25 years ago we could use mixmasters and other aonymization techniques. And all privacy seeking users could have been deanonymized by a simple cepstral analysis of text produced. Some cypherpunks who knew tried to counter this using with their wanna-be-anon persona unusual capitalization, peculiar typos, and were sprinkling their posts with mannerisms and other distractive goodies perl allowed. It was not much helpful, ok, it usually could give a day or two of leg, because sample posts needed to be manually marked for topical analysis, but it was not possible to hide from determined adversary. No LLMs, just a few tools built for linguists.
Today so many netfarers want 'absolute anonymity' yet demand from us techies that it all must support stickers and must run on Android/iOS device that is costantly beaming not only their whreabouts, but also their food, flowers, body parts. And this fancy new furniture.
I've been telling people for literal years that Proton is just a big tech provider, they have deactivated accounts and removed users simply for doing things they don't like, most recently they deactivated the account of some Phrack security researchers for annoying Proton by using the email for security disclosures
Also people should read their transparency logs, they regularly give out user data before valid court orders are even approved lol
Ukraine to help U.S. fight Iran’s Shahed drones in the Middle East, Zelensky says — Meduza meduza.io/en/news/2026/03/05/u…Ukraine to help U.S. fight Iran’s Shahed drones in the Middle East, Zelensky says — Meduza
The United States has asked Ukraine for help fending off Iranian Shahed drones in the Middle East, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.Meduza
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Afroman heads to court this month after deputies sued him for turning their unfounded raid on his home into viral music videos that exposed their faces and actions when he used his security camera footage of the raid.
The trial begins March 16 in Adams County, #Ohio, where the legal battle between the rapper and law enforcement has become a test case for free speech rights in the digital age.
Afroman’s argument is straightforward: he documented what happened to him and turned his story into art. #Law #FreeSpeech #Music
The music video: youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3…
The article: allhiphop.com/news/afroman-bat…
Afroman faces trial after deputies sued him for making viral music videos using security footage from their raid on his home.Mike Winslow (AllHipHop)
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I'm with Afroman on this. It's free speech. We'll see how corrupt the courts are by how it's handled.
@Jason844 In the third post in the thread, I posted the title song to the album called 'Lemon Pound Cake's that made the sheriff sad.
FWIW, the sheriff lost his election and did get replaced. He had been sheriff for a long time. Afroman brought to light how corrupt his dept was. The new one isn't too much better but is better than the old sheriff.
"Seven law enforcement officers claimed they suffered humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, and loss of reputation after seeing themselves in the videos."
I fail to see the downside...
(to clarify, if you suffer "humiliation, ridicule, mental distress and loss of reputation" for a video that shows you doing your job, either you SUCK at your job, or your job is not something any decent person would be doing.)
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Yes, absolutely: “if you suffer "humiliation, ridicule, mental distress and loss of reputation" for a video that shows you doing your job, either you SUCK at your job, or your job is not something any decent person would be doing”. 😐
What were they thinking of? Drawing attention to themselves, & their extremely poor behaviour, so unprofessional - for goodness sake: at least one of them - caught on camera - was a thief! Try to wrap your head around that!! A law enforcement officer stole money from the man! On camera!! 🤬😤😐
#LEOBehavingBadly #unprofessional #racists #Afroman
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Wow! That is amazing. That Afroman managed to recover most of the money stolen from him by LEOs. The value of getting your own eyes (surveillance) on so-called ‘law enforcement’!
Jeez… outrageous!! His own money… stolen by LEOs while the cameras watched… (his own cameras). 😤
@minmi It's been going on since 2023. His countersuit got thrown out and it is finally going to trial.
aclu.org/cases/cooley-v-forema…
After a musician used footage of officers searching his home in music videos criticizing that search and the officers more broadly, they sued him for damages and asked the court to order him to stop speaking about them.Anika Venkatesh (American Civil Liberties Union)
2/ video: Afroman spoke with local news this week about the case
fox19.com/2026/03/05/afroman-s…
The ACLU is representing Afroman.
aclu.org/cases/cooley-v-forema…
After a musician used footage of officers searching his home in music videos criticizing that search and the officers more broadly, they sued him for damages and asked the court to order him to stop speaking about them.Anika Venkatesh (American Civil Liberties Union)
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3/ The entire album #Afroman released is called "Lemon Pound Cake" #LemonPoundCake
The title song:
youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecR…
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@Pineywoozle if you didn't see the post in the thread, Lemon Pound Cake is the album title for the whole release of songs and title song of the album...lol
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3/ The entire album #Afroman released is called "Lemon Pound Cake" #LemonPoundCakeThe title song:
youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecR…Afroman - Lemon Pound Cake (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
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@Pineywoozle I didn't know if you saw the follow-up in the thread or not, or just replying to the first one because it was in your timeline.
Glad you got to see the Lemon Pound Cake, on its own, song. lol.
I'm understanding why the Adams County Walmart, our Walmart, made Lemon Pound Cake a regular, prominent item in their bakery section a couple years ago. There must have been demand for it and their computer told them to keep stocking it.
This is why we donate to the #ACLU because they represent the most vulnerable of us when our civil rights laws are the weakest.
The ACLU might be what saves us from total collapse into brutal fascism.
Where am I going to find the best lawyers when I need help? The #ACLU
The life the ACLU saves might soon be my own.
#ACLU is union strong 💪
@rjohnsonmn Lemon Pound Cake is the title to the album about it. lol The entire album is hilarious.
oldfriends.live/@paul/11618067…
3/ The entire album #Afroman released is called "Lemon Pound Cake" #LemonPoundCakeThe title song:
youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecR…Afroman - Lemon Pound Cake (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE AFROMAN CONTENT!Pre-Order the new EP "Famous Player" now - https://album.link/p8jsrp7tcxq3xInstagram - https://instagram.com/ogafromanTwit...ogafroman (YouTube)
Reminds me of the #GeorgeMichael video (“Outside”) where he satirized his arrest for lewd behavior. [
from Wikipedia:
In 1999, [arresting officer Marcelo Rodríguez] brought a US$10 million court case in California against Michael. The court dismissed the case, but an appellate court reinstated it on 3 December 2002. The court then ruled that Rodríguez, as a public official, could not legally recover damages for emotional distress.
Trump fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, he is replacing her with the Senator from Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin, Republicans have been trying to ...Jimmy Kimmel Live (YouTube)
He owns the footage and they have no right to privacy while trespassing.
If you're afraid of being seen being the bad guy, the fix is to not be the bad guy.
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She must be prosecuted.
She must be punished.Justice must be served.
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The move comes just days into the regional conflict, as disruptions to crude shipments from the Persian Gulf raise concerns about energy shortages across Asia.
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China has reportedly told its largest oil refiners to suspend diesel and gasoline exports as the Middle East conflict disrupts crude supply and tightens global energy markets.Unusual Whales
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I looked at it and thought "cockle shell" too, but didn't know if that was right...
I found a small jar with pretty shells and rocks in it, saved from many years ago. I will put them out in my little library tomorrow, such treasures never last out there.
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