ninetek (he/him)

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This has never been and never will be a struggle between Jews and Palestinians. Casting it in that light is unequivocally anti-semitic.

Our people are siblings-- long-enduring nations born in the same fertile valleys of the Levant. You can hear it in our languages, see it in our faces and our foods. No Palestinian is my enemy and that doesn't diminish my Jewishness or make me an enemy of my own people.

"As scholars & practitioners of int’l law, conflict studies, & #genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip” #FreePalestine
https://www.commondreams.org/news/legal-scholars-israel-genocide
800+ Legal Scholars Say Israel May Be Perpetrating 'Crime of Genocide' in Gaza

"The ongoing and imminent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip are being conducted with potentially genocidal intent."

Common Dreams
New from 404 Media: bombshell government report finds ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service all illegally used smartphone location data harvested from ordinary apps. They've been using for years with no official oversight. One CBP official spied on coworkers https://www.404media.co/ice-cbp-secret-service-all-broke-law-with-smartphone-location-data/
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data

A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.

404 Media

The report really is extraordinary. For years, me and a few other journalists have investigated the US government's purchase of location data. It turns out agencies were breaking the law basically the entire time. ICE has been told to stop and has refused.

CBP, ICE, Secret Service all had a legal obligation to get approved privacy impact assessments before buying the tech. All failed. CBP had interim policies. ICE and Secret Service didn't have any.

"The report makes it clear that DHS agencies have been playing it fast and loose with their acquisition of Americans’ location data," EFF says. Says Congress needs to pass law forcing warrants (proposed law in response to my reporting is pushing for that).

https://www.404media.co/ice-cbp-secret-service-all-broke-law-with-smartphone-location-data/

ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data

A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.

404 Media

New from 404 Media: we finally got the dash cam footage of the two LAPD cops who ignored a robbery in progress to play Pokemon Go. Shows they sped through residential areas, drove wrong way down one way street to chase Pokemon

"Got him!" one shouts

https://www.404media.co/video-reveals-crucial-details-of-lapd-ignoring-robbery-to-catch-togetic-in-pokemon-go/

Video Reveals Crucial Details of LAPD Ignoring Robbery to Catch Togetic in Pokémon Go

'The guys are going to be so jealous': Video reveals cops ignored robbery, blew a stop sign, sped over speed bumps on residential streets, and pulled an illegal u-turn, but were able to capture two very powerful Pokémon.

404 Media

When I say that being this morally bankrupt makes you look like your enemies:

Hezbollah supporters infamously posted videos of themselves eating food while Hezbollah was besieging Syrian cities. Here you got Israelis doing the same to Gazans.

https://www.okdoomer.io/the-lie-thats-destroying-childrens-lives/ "They publish headlines about "the toll of pandemic restrictions" but not the toll of the actual pandemic. For years now, the media have platformed and indulged outrageous, mythical claims. They've said policies that actually protected children from Covid somehow hurt them. They have no evidence except for the damage itself...

The damage caused by Covid." #COVID

The Lie That's Destroying Children's Lives

Research tells us that Covid itself continues to do more harm than lockdowns ever did.

OK Doomer
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing when he eggs on his rabid base that this “political hack judge” in New York is “unhinged” and “must be stopped.” He hides behind the First Amendment, but he’s a mob boss, and he knows from experience that there are dangerous elements in his MAGA base. People will take things into their own hands when he demands, “WE NEED JUSTICE IN OUR COUNTRY!” Trump must be kept from issuing threats to witnesses and court officials ahead of his trials.

NEW: Prosecutors across New York City are reviewing dozens of criminal convictions after the NYPD informed them in July of an eight-year-old incident in which three detectives were involved in a fingerprint misidentification at a Brooklyn crime scene.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/8/31/23854293/prosecutors-review-cases-nypd-detectives-fingerprint-mistake

Prosecutors Review Dozens of Cases After NYPD Informed Them — Eight Years Later — of a Detective’s Fingerprint Mistake

The incident led to the transfer of the detective, the retraining of two others, and changes in police procedure.

The City

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