Yeah, as soon as there’s dramatic climate action, representative just government, and universal healthcare + pre-K!

“Beginning on the date that is two years after the date of22 the enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may be23 used with respect to immigration detention and24 monitoring programs, including any contract with any entity that owns or operates a program or facil-1 ity that provides services related to detention or2 monitoring.”

What are we doing for TWO YEARS? We don’t need to slowly melt ice, we need to crush it now.

Al-Masarir’s iPhones had been hacked in 2018 after he clicked on links in three text messages seemingly sent from news outlets as special membership offers.

I wonder if opening unknown links in an Incognito session would have helped, or if he would’ve had to avoid opening them entirely.

Wikipedia says it’s “designed to be covertly and remotely installed on mobile phones running iOS and Android,” and has some detailed descriptions including:

“Google’s Project Zero documented another exploit, dubbed FORCEDENTRY, in December 2021. According to Google’s researchers, Pegasus sent an iMessage to its targets that contained what appeared to be GIF images, but which in fact contained a JBIG2 image. A vulnerability in the Xpdf implementation of JBIG2, re-used in Apple’s iOS phone operating software, allowed Pegasus to construct an emulated computer architecture inside the JBIG2 stream which was then used to implement the zero-click attack. Apple fixed the vulnerability in iOS 14.8 in September 2021 as CVE-2021-30860.”

Pegasus is a powerful and controversial hacking tool made by Israeli company NSO Group. NSO Group insists it only sells its spyware to governments to help track terrorists and criminals.

But Citizen Lab has discovered it on phones belonging to politicians, journalists and dissidents - including al-Masarir.

Promises from Israel?!

The total damages awarded are £3,025,662.83 but it’s not clear if Saudi Arabia will pay.

The BBC contacted the Saudi embassy in London but has not had a reply.

I wish him well.

The husband told MPR News that after his wife was taken into custody, he called his attorney, and soon after, he got a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he said he has known for years.

“I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the man said, adding that he urged the chief to have his officers just be more visible during the federal enforcement actions. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law abiding.”

The husband says he talked to the chief for a while and “we had a good conversation.”

“He asked me, ‘what was your wife’s name’? I told him my wife’s name. He said, ‘was she picked up in a bronco?’ And I said, ‘I’m not sure, but it was an SUV, dark colored. I’d have to look at my video.’ He goes, ‘I think I got her. I’ll call you back’.”

The husband said a few minutes later, the chief called again, “and said, I got her or I’m bringing her home.”

Seems like personal connections were maybe key, here.

I was with you until “until.” Abolish ICE.

Though that may be the most incremental progress Bernie expects to be possible.

Thanks, good article pointing out where gradual but substantial shifts have been happening. Let’s keep the pressure on, get more bold leaders elected, build community power.

Worth a read, a lot of horrifying and heartbreaking details. Thanks for the archive link, original site had a sign-up modal blocking the article.

Minnesota Reformer has had a lot of good coverage; and from this article Unidos MN is doing brave training/aid. Donated to both.

Gates too? I thought he had some redeeming qualities. Maybe I just didn’t look past the surface PR.

Like, would it change MAGAts minds? Or would more bystanders be 2Aers?

That’s horrible.

Also, why would anyone visit the US at this point?

Crispng adds:

Court documents show Ruth was previously charged with stalking, trespassing, and prowling at night, but had no felony convictions.

Thanks. Sounds to me like a person who reasonable gun control laws would have prevented from gun ownership.

Aljazeera has a scant few additional details:

Police said the officers were there to serve a warrant. At a news conference, Christopher Paris, the state police commissioner, explained that they were following up on an investigation that began the day before, but he shared few other details. “The general heading of that investigation, I would say,

From the original article:

“This kind of violence is not OK. We need to do better as a society,” Shapiro said.

Seems like quite a juxtaposition there. I wonder what the “disturbance” was, and what de-escalation approaches were attempted.

Bummer, I had a pretty high opinion of RPI up until now. I would say ‘wait and see what results get published,’ but we saw how that worked out with the elections, and I can’t imagine anyone would take that money without knowing the result they’re expected to deliver.

Ballotopedia is not so ad encrusted and has this breakdown:

Wu has said she would prioritize reducing dependence on cars. Wu has highlighted her record on public transportation, including working with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to eliminate slow zones, as well as increasing ridership with fare-free bus lines, installing speed humps, and using technology to reduce congestion.[9] Kraft has said he wouldn’t prioritize reducing dependence on cars and instead would focus on fixing roads and sidewalks, as well as temporarily pause bike lane construction to conduct an audit on the efficiency of proposed bike lanes.[18]