https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-downsides-of-deterrence

#lawenforcement wants people to feel not just watched, but actively intimidated. Some…have used militarized equipment to frighten and intimidate people exercising their rights, a tactic the profession calls a “show of force.” …they chill dissent and darken and degrade people’s experience of exercising their rights — The LAPD, for example, constantly flies loud, militaristic police helicopters over the city — especially lower-income, less white parts of the city —

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-corporatization

What are the implications of having police data flowing through the hands of a for-profit private company that isn’t subject to the checks and balances that apply to government agencies?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79215

(is even boot-licking Lukashenko now abandoning Putin?)

RELAY STATIONS GO DARK — degrading Russia’s ability to control long-range #strikedrones…stations had extended communications between drone operators and drones like the Shahed…Last week President Volodymyr Zelensky gave Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko an ultimatum to remove the relay stations, saying that Ukraine would remove them if Belarus did not do so voluntarily.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/warming-induced-ecosystem-emissions

“Four decades ago, the scientific community was saying we think there are going to be these surprises in the Earth system as the planet warms,” says Benjamin Poulter, the lead scientist at Spark Climate Solutions, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that aims to identify climate “blind spots,” include them in policy frameworks, and assess the best way to deal with them. “Now, we’re starting to see these feedbacks become the reality.”

https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20260628_140000_Fareed_Zakaria_GPS/start/180/end/540

"…#liberalism was once the most radical force in politics. it attacked inherited #privilege, #monopoly power, #censorship, #aristocracy, clerical authority and closed guilds. It was not the ideology of the establishment, it was the battering ram against the establishment. today, liberalism has become identified with power. great universities, foundations, #media organizations, #corporations, bureaucracies of all kinds…"

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-samuel-alito-e956f6a00f05f1d5f21cf824909a6bf7

Sotomayor: majority’s opinion would allow the Trump administration to block people from applying for asylum at the border, which would result in more deaths. The decision “regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.”

court's public information office:

"Justice Alito was notified in advance by Justice Sotomayor's chambers that she would be reading a dissent from the bench. It was a misunderstanding on Justice Alito's part."