The debate over AI largely misses the ways in which the U.S. security state is already using AI tools — and plans to use even more — to engage in “offensive cyber operations” and mass surveillance. My article today in @RStatecraft 👇

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from the Defense Department. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database. wapo.st/4hqpweB

that JStreet's "cut off aid" line is coordinated w/ Netanyahu's messaging on how to salvage Israel's military reliance on the US is not my assertion––JStreets President wrote about it last April. He approvingly cites Netanyahu's endorsement of the strategy jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p…

Florence is 30 years old. It used to be an instant career killer to state plain facts about Israel in America. Ask me how I know.

New from Drop Site: Troy Jackson was kicked out of a Facebook group for his Maine Senate campaign volunteers after entering the group to respond to supporters who felt betrayed by his campaign’s direction. [1/4] 🧵

Mr. Netanyahu, you do not speak for New York’s Jewish community. Your government arrests hundreds of innocent yeshiva students each week, while we in New York practice our faith and live freely and safely. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a friend and ally to our community You are not.

the thing is, the families of the kids we killed at Minab *have* spoken out, and they're not saying what Masih claims they told her but...this is nothing new! she's built a career spinning anecdotes about how Iranians want to see a liberatory bombing of their own neighborhoods

Obviously the attack on this synagogue was horrible. But it should have triggered an honest conversation about how many synagogues across the U.S. have become the equivalent of radical Wahhabist madrasas which support terrorism abroad.

Nothing will make you more against AI than hearing what kind of world the people behind it are trying to create

You can also choose to say nothing at all when a settler-soldier enforcing an illegal military occupation is attacked by one of his subjects

@ggreenwald and @JohnKiriakou discuss how the State weaponizes fear on the #independentjournalismawards Whistleblower Panel.

RS is honored to highlight war correspondent @AzmatZahra's insights on US Precision Strike Missiles ™ used in Iran. "Sometimes weapons are given intentionally misleading names, things designed to give you certainty, clarity, or comfort when using them." responsiblestatecraft.org/pr…

It is misleading to say Iran simply wants to “return to the June MOU.” Tehran’s position is better understood as a demand that the MOU actually be implemented, and in a different sequence. The agreement was indeed relatively favorable to Iran: it called for an end to the regional war, explicitly mentioning Lebanon; access to frozen Iranian assets; an end to the U.S. naval blockade; ending threats; and recognized Iranian arrangements for restoring Hormuz traffic. But from Tehran’s perspective, the United States never delivered. Iranian assets remained frozen, the Israeli war on Lebanon continued, U.S. threats didn’t stop, and Washington pursued a separate southern shipping corridor and discouraged others from using the Iranian route. Iran’s subsequently return to attacking tankers using the U.S. route, which reflected Tehran’s conclusion that the post-MOU trajectory was moving in the wrong strategic direction. Iranian leaders concluded that continuing to de-escalate while hoping for U.S. compliance would leave Iran economically isolated, erode its leverage over Hormuz, and entrench a U.S. and Israeli perception that further pressure, and even more attacks, could be imposed at manageable cost. That is the crucial difference today. Iran is not offering a deal and easing pressure first in exchange for promises that Washington will eventually fulfill the MOU. It wants U.S. implementation upfront: release the assets, end the blockade and wider war, and recognize the Iran-Oman Hormuz arrangement. Only then is Iran saying that it will ease its own pressure and support normalizing traffic through the strait. Whether Washington accepts that sequencing is the central question. But describing Iran’s position simply as a “return to the MOU” obscures what the past several months have actually been about: who moves first, and whether Iran gives up its leverage before or after the United States delivers its obligations under the deal.

Israeli airstrikes happening now across the south of Lebanon. Remember that this is happening all day, every day.

This disgusting post reveals the fraud of “liberal” Zionism. The only “terrorist” here is Israel’s baby-killing army which continues to illegally occupy the West Bank. It’s long been established that occupied people have the right to resist occupation, including through “armed struggle” (UNGA). That Palestinian man had the right to defend himself against the Israeli terrorist Neria Leiter.

Iran’s rep deserves a bonus for not smacking the shit out of this lispy loser

Billionaires are supposed to have “fuck you” money. But you have the nosey, complaint-ridden energy of a Cuban abuelita. Endearing from them. Irritating when it comes from your bitchass. Enjoy your riches and shut the fuck up.

I still can’t get over Lindsey Graham bragging to the WSJ about how he sold a quick and easy middle east regime change war to the president by working with foreign intelligence and cable news pundits and talking to him as if he were a toddler

Iran offer is it will open strait of Hormuz and start talks on its nuclear program and lifting of US sanctions within 7 days of US accepting the offer. In the first 4 to 5 days the US is required to lift naval blockade, unfreeze some Iranian assets, ends Israel war in S Lebanon and reinstate US sanctions waiver on Iran oil exports. It represents a rapid acceleration of timetable originally laid out in Islamabad memorandum of understanding in June The strait would be opened on a route largely in Iranian waters that has already been agreed with Oman. Saudi has some objections to this. Not sure US will buy this. Abbas Araghchi waiting in New York over weekend for US response

Some more Israeli math: