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Megafires used to be rare, but now it seems like there’s a new one every day. Even worse, they are showing up and burning down places we never thought possible. So what’s really going on? Is climate change to blame? Watch this to find out more. #ThisIsClimateChange

YouTube video by Zeteo Mark Ruffalo Says ‘Boycott, Divest, Sanction, and Prosecute’ Israel

Watch the full length conversation between me and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for @zeteo.com, now on YouTube. Thank you for having me, Mehdi!

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This is not just a story of the past — it's the story of how we arrived at this moment.

Official poster for All That’s Left Of You, coming to theaters on January 9th

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I’m joining @aclu_nationwide and over 400 fellow artists to condemn the federal government’s retaliation against Jimmy Kimmel, along with artists, journalists, individuals, and companies for exercising their right to free speech.

Add your name here:
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BIG: @usprogressives.bsky.social voted to endorse @ramirez.house.gov Block the Bombs Act. The 97-member Progressive Caucus is the first caucus in Congress to endorse a bill to stop sending Israel weapons being used to destroy Gaza. Encourage your representative to cosponsor at blockthebombs.org

@governor.ny.gov I joined water quality & legal experts to urge you to listen to the science & follow our laws. Don't cave to Trump & approve the NESE fracked gas pipeline in NY & don't direct NYS DPS to rubber stamp it! Stand up for New Yorkers, our water & health! Pls don't be a pipeline patsy!

When the state turns a blind eye, The cameras are still watching

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Genius Troll move.

😕 🇺🇸 if this worked we’d be the safest place on earth. Maybe it’s time to try other stuff? Like addressing the root causes, poverty, inequality etc?

Or is that too crazy?

I’m worried they can.

Defend Elder Bill Jones & Protect the Upper Walbran

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European journalists targeted with Paragon Solutions spyware, say researchers Citizen Lab says it found ‘digital fingerprints’ of military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted using against activists

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11/ What can you do? Go call your member of Congress. Ask them to get briefed. Ask for oversight.

And on a personal level? Apple's Lockdown Mode & Android Advanced Protection both offer some serious security benefits but neither is a silver bullet..

10/ After 14 years of working on this topic, I tell you this with confidence:

Highly invasive mercenary spyware is a power abuse machine.

It's incompatible with Americans constitutional rights and freedoms.

And our legal system and civil society is not prepared for the next chapter.

9/ Fast forwards to last weekend and the US government abruptly reopened the door for the spyware company:

"This contract is for a fully configured proprietary solution including license, hardware, warranty, maintenance, and training. This modification is to lift the stop work order."

8/ The Italian scandal didn't finish cleanly.

While the Italian authorities admitted to targeting activists, they didn't take responsibility for hacking the journalists.

Meaning that some of the most troubling Paragon victims are still seeking answers.

Italy and Israeli Paragon part ways after spyware affair Italy and Israeli spyware maker Paragon said they have ended contracts following allegations that the Italian government used the company's technology to hack the phones of critics, according to a parliamentary report on Monday and the company.

7/ Cases kept coming & after initial denials.. Italy had a major national scandal about surveillance overreach & spyware abuses.

Ultimately the dust & a parliamentary intelligence oversight committee investigation led #Paragon & Italy parting ways...

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

6/ Almost immediately after the WhatsApp notifications, we started learning about the targets.

They weren't the supposed serious criminals...

They were Journalists... human rights defenders...groups working on sea rescue of migrants.. etc

By@skirchy.bsky.social
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5/ Then in early 2025 #Paragon's rosy image met reality.

#WhatsApp caught the company hacking people across their networks & notified targets.

We worked with several & did a forensic analysis of their devices.

Cases started coming out fast...

By @raphae.li
www.reuters.com/technology/c...

4/ Not everything was rosy though.

The White House had been on a major push to rein in spyware proliferation and somehow the ICE contract seemed to have slipped under their radar.

So the contract got suspended, pending a review with the 2023 Spyware executive order..

www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...

3/ Last year Paragon was flying high. They'd gotten a bunch of coverage as stealthy & they managed to get their foot in the door with a contract with ICE.

Then they got. acquired by a US company.

Like so many spyware companies their goal: break in to the US market.

And then?

2/ Paragon framed themselves as the abuse-free anti-NSO.

Then they had a very NSO-like spyware abuse scandal.

We @citizenlab.ca caught their spyware on the phones of...journalists & human rights activists.

Our investigations: citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...

citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...

This is a privacy disaster unraveling here in the USA.

Let’s get #PFAS out of our food @rachaelray. Let’s work together to protect our families.

This Week in Democracy – Week 30: DC Gets Troops While Putin Gets a Red Carpet Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in Donald Trump's second term.

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Good stuff here from @passantino.bsky.social and @status.news

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If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.

“Cooper wrote “Guten morgen” to a user on X last August, along with a picture of himself holding a coffee mug. It might take a moment to realize the user is a self-identified Nazi, and the mug Cooper holds is sold on a website” that features pro-Nazi merch.
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It’s not just Trump. Rubio is taking phone calls from Loomer. We are fucked as a country.