Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.

972's important follow-up to its exposé from earlier this month underscores the point I was trying to make below about what the real value of these systems may be 972mag.com/israel-gaza-la…

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Been thinking about this in the past week, and as we lead into the May 4 anniversary of the Kent State killings

Florida is charging formerly incarcerated people $50 a day even if they’re no longer in prison. The “pay to stay” fee is based on the length of the original sentence, so even when they're released they must keep paying for a prison bed they’re not using. abcactionnews.com/news/local-new…

Military spending around the world rose almost 7% to a record $2.4tn last year, the steepest annual increase in 15 years on.ft.com/3JvTE7J

Volkswagen workers just made history!

#StandUpUAW

Thank you so much PBS NewsHour amna and your incredible team for bringing WOMEN MONEY POWER to life and for shining a spotlight on the women upon whose shoulders we stand pbs.org/newshour/show/…

BREAKING from ProPublica:

Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes

propublica.org/article/israel…

by Brett Murphy

Those numbers are pretty amazing, and it remains insane that something like 2 million people are in prison in the US

Important but troubling Amnesty International report on the detainee crisis in NE #Syria -- charging the #SDF with 'systematic torture,' 'arbitrary detention' & complicity in 'mass death' due to 'inhumane conditions.'

The U.S. gov't is found complicit.

amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

New from 404 Media: a spy site is scraping Discord, archiving users’ messages/activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. We tested it out, it works. Discord investigating 404media.co/a-spy-site-is-…

If you’re looking for some weekend reading, and missed it from earlier this week, read my profile of John Garnaut. Far from a household name, Garnaut contributed to a global shift on China policy and is now a China whisperer for hedge funds:

thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/the…

This story is so much better than I could have imagined. Two people with unneutered dogs they bring as service animals to the same Gold’s Gym

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…

New Interview: I talked to the journalist Yuval Abraham about his investigations into AI-backed targeting systems being used in Gaza, how Israel’s command structure makes decisions, & the controversy surrounding him being accused of antisemitism in Berlin. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/i…