Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the month Austin police will no longer be able to use the surveillance network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city….
— Read on www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/victory-austin-organizers-cancel-citys-flock-alpr-contract
Machine Learning MAGA: Rise of the Christian Cyborg – Truthdig
There are signs that the transhumanism of Elon Musk is merging with the traditionalism of Steve Bannon.
— Read on www.truthdig.com/articles/machine-learning-maga-rise-of-the-christian-cyborg/
Recent FBI activity in the Seattle Area – Puget Sound Prisoner Support
If you are a participant in the radical left in any capacity, it is important that the people you live with understand that the police and the FBI should not be allowed into the home. You do not need to talk to federal agents, and they cannot gain entrance to your home without a warrant.
-If you find yourself in a situation where they have gained access to you, or your home, work, school, do not talk to them. Even small talk, which feels unimportant, is possibly giving them information they do not need to have. Ask for a card and walk away, do not engage.
-We do not know why this information was not made public by the person targeted or when it was disclosed to SUPER, but we know that people often move from panic and not malice in these types of situations. We implore everyone on the left, individuals and formal organizations alike, to have a set of protocols in place to communicate internally and publicly about visits or attention from federal agents. We are all safer when we don’t keep this info from each other.
Federal repression is not new and the generational historic memory of FBI activity in the PNW leans heavily towards the majority of their tactics being based in intimidation. They want the left in the region to be scared, to pull away from each other, to accuse each other, to not support those targeted–we cannot let any of those things happen.
— Read on pugetsoundprisonersupport.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/05/recent-fbi-activity-in-the-seattle-area/
Israel sets food traps across Gaza – Good Shepherd Collective
Over the last week Israel bypassed the UN and seized sole control of aid deliveries to Gaza. The new scheme funnels the besieged population toward four fenced distribution points in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip, guarded by drones, Israeli forces, and 300 heavily armed U.S. contractors from the hastily formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
— Read on goodshepherdcollective.org/posts/2025/06/04/israel-sets-food-traps-across-gaza
Marketing Authoritarianism
Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess.
— Read on jewishcurrents.org/marketing-authoritarianism-trump-bukele-disappearance-videos
It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel
Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US
— Read on www.ft.com/content/8a82a52f-c02b-452b-b7df-ba3bcf94c1e0
Fundraiser by Megan B : Urgent aid for HIND RAJABBS MOM & BROTHER AYADD
Her name is WISSAM RAJABB.
She is known by millions of hearts all over the world as the mother of HIND RAJABB.— Read on www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid-for-hind-rajabbs-mom-and-brother-ayadd
Letters
On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.
— Read on www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/letters
Mike Davis: The Road to City of Quartz and Beyond | Labor | Duke University Press
This essay explores the historiographic ideas and political experiences that influenced the work of Mike Davis, the prolific Marxist historian who died in 2022.
— Read on read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article/22/2/76/399901/Mike-Davis-The-Road-to-City-of-Quartz-and-Beyond
ICE agents pretend to be utility workers, Tucsonans claim
An undocumented man from Honduras, who has lived on Tucson’s south side for more than a decade, narrowly avoided being picked up by immigration agents who initially claimed to be utility workers, according to neighbors who witnessed the apparent immigration operation.
While watering flowers in her front yard Wednesday morning, Christine Cariño was approached by two men claiming to be from Tucson Electric Power, she said. One said they were looking for a neighbor of hers.
“He said, ‘We’re trying to find somebody that wanted a free estimate,’” said Cariño, 37, a mother of three and long-time resident of the close-knit neighborhood, near South Sixth Avenue and Ajo Way.
— Read on tucson.com/news/local/border/article_e949f7c5-d339-4546-804c-cbb3c970af38.html