A vast network of Israeli spy tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code for the IDF to enforce Israeli apartheid, is being sold to police forces and security services across the west who use it to intercept communications and hack phones 🧵

More than half a million people in #Gaza are trapped in famine. Briefing journalists on Friday at UN headquarters in Geneva, Tom Fletcher said it was a famine that could have been prevented 'if we had been allowed.'

The US government just took a 10% stake in Intel to bail out its AI and chip business. A significant chunk of that business is based in Israel where they've been laying off thousands. Intel's head of AI is ex-IDF intelligence officer Karin Eibschitz-Segal. A bail out for Israel?

I see that Ghislaine Maxwell says that Jeffrey Epstein's pal Donald Trump always behaved as a "gentleman." Perhaps. But I'd note that in my experience prisoners always say nice things about those who have the capacity to grant the clemency.

Meet Nova, the Harris hawk! She works with Atlantic Falconry Services to patrol the Halifax waterfront and keep pesky seagulls at bay. #Halifax #HalifaxWaterfront

On the latest episode of #NewYorkerRadio, Wired’s Katie Drummond tells Evan Osnos that if tech moguls learned anything from Elon Musk’s tenure in the White House, “it’s that this is open season.” Listen to the full episode here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jjJQDi

As harmless as that may sound, the move has incensed members of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, who have taken to social media in their droves to hammer out howls of complaint. ca.news.yahoo.com/cracker-barrel…

At the Geneva summit on #plastic #pollution, hopes for a binding global treaty collapsed. Why? India joined oil-rich nations to resist any cap on plastic production. The result: deadlock, delays, and no treaty. Read on: indiaspend.com/pollution/why-…

Primary among them is the report's acknowledgement that this situation is "entirely man-made", with aid organisations today accusing Israel of the "systematic obstruction" of food entering the Gaza Strip. Emir Nader bbc.com/news/articles/…

Trump Gets His Revenge on John Bolton. Who’s Next? “It is too early to know what the F.B.I. will claim to find in all of those boxes but not too early to surmise that the search for incriminating documents was not the real goal of Friday’s search.” nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opi…

“India’s stance on plastics has aligned with those of oil-extracting countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Russia that will be hit the hardest if there are curbs in plastic production (plastic is after all made from crude oil).” ht: Amitav Ghosh

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy. nytimes.com/2025/08/22/cli… via @NYTimes

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable. The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration. nytimes.com/2025/08/21/art… via ⁦The New York Times⁩

“Here’s another way to put this: In 2023 there were about 700,000 “missing Americans”—those who died in 2023 but would be alive if they had lived somewhere else.” ht: Amitav Ghosh slate.com/technology/202…

What do the people want? Pictures of dramatic NYC sunsets. When do they want them? Now!

Last week, the Trump administration sent Mr. Bunch a letter saying that eight of its museums had a 120-day deadline to replace whatever the administration considers “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”

“It’s trying to prop up clunky, polluting coal plants while doing all it can to halt the fastest-growing energy sources of the future — solar and wind power.”

'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Once a firebrand who called for Israel’s elimination, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been silent since the Israel-Iran war. What explains the former president’s retreat? Kourosh Ziabari reports for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/wher…