Joel Reinstein 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪

wait sorry but does it really say "BOFA SECURITIES?"

not a very free market nowadays

there is an unbelievable amount of baiting and switching going on, not just in AI and warfare, but AI and unemployment, AI and governence, everything.

would like to see some marxist analyses of AI from people better versed than I am, they might illuminate why capital is so fanatically sinking resources into what superficially appears to be an unwise investment

Screencap of an essay reads: "For on this premise it is clear that the more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself – his inner world – becomes, the less belongs to him as his own. It is the same in religion. The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object. Hence, the greater this activity, the more the worker lacks objects. Whatever the product of his labor is, he is not. Therefore, the greater this product, the less is he himself. The alienation of the worker in his product means not only that his labor becomes an object, an external existence, but that it exists outside him, independently, as something alien to him, and that it becomes a power on its own confronting him. It means that the life which he has conferred on the object confronts him as something hostile and alien."

Thinking about the old man and AI

Rival visions for their rotten common interests, whose disagreements are real but also sometimes synergistic as one enables the other

Yeah another case of maga appearing incompetent to a technocratic perspective, when their actions make a lot more sense from the standpoint of power and white supremacy

Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.

Planet Labs says it wants to prevent “adversarial actors” from using its data for “Battle Damage Assessment” purposes; in other words, the company doesn’t want to help Iran’s military know where it succeeded and where it failed.

Lebanon says 486 killed since Israeli attacks began <article data-history-node-id="435253" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-says-486-killed-israeli-attacks-began" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-says-486-killed-israeli-attacks-began" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanon says 486 killed since Israeli attacks began</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 486 people have been killed and 1,313 wounded since Israeli attacks began on 2 March.</p> <p>Al Jazeera reported that an Israeli drone targeted a car in the southern town of Burj Rahal, while another strike hit the town of Srifa.</p> <p>Israeli air attacks also struck several other areas in southern Lebanon, including Arab Salim, Barghaz and Majdal Selm, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.</p> <p>Meanwhile, projectiles were launched from southern Lebanon towards Israel</p> </div> </div> </article>

Lebanon says 486 killed since Israeli attacks began - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-says-486-killed-israeli-attacks-began

Yes even before it's about money, it's about power!

Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

Like "how can you idiots fail to vote for the party which has shown in word and deed that it is unwilling and unable to take on the fascist threat" us a question that answers itself

Whether commanders used Claude or not, and whatever results Claude produced if they did, is less important than the fact that the US is deliberately attacking civilian targets. If these AI tools weren't available, they'd still do it, with a different excuse.

The question I get more than any other as a trial lawyer is "how can they do that? Isn't that illegal?"

How can the cop lie under oath? How can the landlord evict me for my religion or race? How can my job fire me for being queer? Isn't that illegal?

My family lives under bombs & will choke on toxic air for the rest of their lives if they even get the privilege of remaining in their home land. I’m sorry, but yes, this war wouldn’t be fought without Israel. The elected Israeli leader lobbied for this war. It’s popular in Israel. Not in the U.S.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Maryland lawmakers to make unannounced oversight visit to Baltimore ICE facility A group of Maryland lawmakers is planning to make an unannounced visit to an ICE facility in Baltimore to conduct oversight of conditions and press for answers on several issues.

NEWS: This morning, Maryland lawmakers, including Sens. Chris @vanhollen.senate.gov and Angela @alsobrooks.senate.gov made an unannounced visit to an ICE holding facility in Baltimore. They are scheduled to talk about what they saw soon here: www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

WOW. Rep. Glenn @ivey.house.gov: I just got back from Selma for the Bloody Sunday anniversary. We toured old slave quarters, they looked like what we just saw upstairs [in ICE holding facility]. In fact, they might've been a little bit better than what we saw upstairs."

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BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump plan set to take effect Monday that would rapidly dismiss many/most? immigration appeals. Judge Randy Moss (Obama/DC) says DOJ has to complete notice-and-comment before such a change. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

#JUST_IN | American forces target civilian homes in Baghdad, Iraq following a protest at the area, Iraqi channels report

and this is what's behind the lies about the freedom slogan "from the river to the sea"

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

this is beginning to look like genocide

It's just so nasty, it feels like the only purpose of it is damage control to mislead people who don't have that type of bullshit detector yet

An ADSBx map showing C104 flying from Florida to Watertown SD late last night.

Ugh. The brand-new Coast Guard jet Kristi Noem was using before she got fired flew down to Florida late Friday -- presumably for the "Shield of the Americas" announcement -- and then returned to Watertown, SD, late Saturday. So she's still using it!!

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?