On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.

Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.

We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

@vinguptaofficial explains why Tylenol is safe for pregnant women to take, despite new guidance from the White House that claims it's linked to autism without clear evidence.

Yet another thing that will completely destroy the actual existing model of 🇺🇸 higher education. The lack of loud, urgent collective action by university leaders to educate the public & generate pushback on all of these awful policies continues to be glaring.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Turkey had a vibrant political satire culture going back to Ottoman times, and one that survived the 1980 military coup and the generally awful 1990s. Official censorship and private-media self-censorship under Erdoğan destroyed much of it. Mockery of officials on TV is unimaginable today.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

A conversation in the hotel elevator between an elderly couple and me:

-Are you with the tour?

+No; the political scientists are gathering.

-I hope you guys make good decisions.

+We study other people's bad decisions.

this is obviously a very big deal for justice & accountability in brazil. it is also a victory for the kind of rule of law & democracy jurisprudence the inter-american court/commission on human rights have been promoting for at least the last half-century.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Looking over the Epstein book messages, I'm struck by how comfortable everyone was with compiling something like this, contributing to it, and receiving it. Something most people with common sense would avoid like the plague.

But the super-rich and powerful know how insulated they are.

CDT’s @isabelalinzer.bsky.social explores when political speech by influencers becomes something more — raising urgent questions about transparency, regulation, & information integrity. A must-read for anyone tracking the evolving implications of speech ^ election integrity. cdt.org/insights/thi...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

The 2024 election cycle saw artificial intelligence deployed by political campaigns for the very first time. Candidates largely avoided major mishaps, but the tech was used with little guidance or restraint.

The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

An American's Guide to the EU AI Act papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... With @aselbst.bsky.social

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

Here's our breakdown of Trump's AI action plan, from slashing regulations to warring on DEI & easing data center buildouts www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-tr... via @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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