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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"States of Exception: Criminal Armed Groups and the Evolution of South American Policing" by John P. Sullivan and Pablo Baisotti looks at the challenge of policing criminal armed groups (CAGs) in South America www.amazon.com/States-Excep...
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"States of Exception: Criminal Armed Groups and the Evolution of South American Policing" by John P. Sullivan and Pablo Baisotti looks at the challenge of policing criminal armed groups (CAGs) in South America www.amazon.com/States-Excep...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
Breaking News: Britain said five men who had been arrested over a possible terror plot on a UK air base, which is used by the U.S. in its war against Iran, would be released on bail. Follow live updates.
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Police Investigate Possible Terror Plot at U.K. Air Base Used by U.S.: Live Updates
The suspects remain under investigation with “stringent conditions,” a British official said. The base, R.A.F. Fairford, is used by the United States in its war against Iran.
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UN Report on US Strikes in Iran concludes US committed war crimes www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pars...
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Parsing the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s Report on U.S. Strikes in Iran
The UN Fact-Finding Commission concludes that the United States has committed war crimes. It could have said more to make a convincing case.
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Second AI Election: Testing the Safeguards Before November at www.justsecurity.org/154924/ai-di...
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The Second AI Election: Testing the Safeguards Before November
Tests of six popular AI models show how easily their election safeguards can be bypassed, and what companies, lawmakers, and civil society should be before November.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10/09/2026
The warning by the United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was the joint hottest month ever recorded
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World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This Philosopher Thinks It’s Time We Call Out Evil in Our World www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Book Review: ‘Call It Evil,’ by Susan Neiman
In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #55: Car Bombing against the Comandancia (Police Headquarters) in Ojocaliente, Zacatecas,” (with Robert J. Bunker), Small Wars Journal, 7 September 2026. smallwarsjournal.com/2026/09/07/m...
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Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #55: Car Bombing against the Comandancia (Police Headquarters) in Ojocaliente, Zacatecas
A car bomb (coche bomba, carro bomba) was detonated outside the Comandancia (municipal police headquarters) in Ojocaliente, Zacatecas, MX on Sunday, 30 August 2026. Mexican security officials, includi...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/09/2026
The far-right party Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, fell short of an outright majority in crucial elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, according to final results posted on Monday. But it could still take power there if it wins the support of a minor populist party. nyti.ms/4gSOqmC
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to Mamdooh Abdelmottlep, PhD, SJD on the publication of his edited collection "Terrorism and Criminal Justice System" containing my chapter, "The Troubles: Intelligence, Cross-Border Cooperation, and Legal Systems" with Daniel Weisz Argomedo... sentiapublishing.com/terrorism-an...
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Terrorism and the Criminal Justice System (Mamdooh Abdelmottlep) - Online Textbook
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/08/2026
Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the first time, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.
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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 06/08/2026
Hazardous smoke spread across both the United States and Canada.
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Climate change created conditions for Canada fires, scientists say, as Trump blames mismanagement
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/08/2026
AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
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AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attempts
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/08/2026
Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production
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Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production
After Ukraine failed to shoot down a single ballistic missile fired by Russia on Wednesday, the president urged allies to increase supplies of Patriot interceptors Nato is working to get Ukraine the air defences it “urgently needs”, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an attack on Wednesday, and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was seeking to significantly boost missile ⁠production ahead of winter. Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on winter resilience, the Ukrainian president did not rule out the idea that stalling missile supplies from western allies were “aimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more willing to compromise” in peace talks with Russia. Continue reading...
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This paper “analyzes whether allies decisively pulled the U.S. towards war & concludes that they did. The Iran War is a case of allied entanglement: allies, specifically Israel & Saudi Arabia, are a but-for cause of U.S. military action against Iran.” Uncontroversial! www.stimson.org/2026/assumpt...
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Assumption Testing: The Iran War Is a Case of Alliance Entanglement • Stimson Center
Evaluating whether the Iran War is a case of alliance entanglement by the United States’ Middle East allies.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/08/2026
In China, an unsecured police dashboard provided a rare look into how foreigners are tracked using vast amounts of private data.
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How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I just don't believe that AI will be a winner-take-all technology. Open-weight model and the vagaries of deployment will be the determinate factors in who wins most from this disruption. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/u...
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America’s Cosmic Bet on AI
The winner takes it all. What happens if the United States loses?
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Nathan P. Jones @natejudejones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Anti AI Violence: What is the next Homeland Security threat in the age of AI? My Security Studies colleague Russell Lundberg posits an answer in this provocative new Homeland Security Today piece. It looks at previous historical transformations for lessons. www.hstoday.us/subject-matt...
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Violence Against AI Has Started, and It is Following a Familiar Pattern - HSToday
In April, a 20-year-old from Spring, Texas, firebombed the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and was arrested outside the company's headquarters carrying kerosene and a manifesto warning of humanity's ext...
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Nathan P. Jones @natejudejones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hobbesian, Lockean or Kantian? These are your analytical lenses for the future of US-China relations presented by Derek Levine author KeyPoint Press. With implications for wars large and small! Great for any international relations or foreign policy course! www.amazon.com/Chinas-Path-...
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China's Path to Dominance: Preparing for Confrontation with the United States
China's Path to Dominance: Preparing for Confrontation with the United States [Levine, Derek] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. China's Path to Dominance: Preparing for Confrontation with the United States
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Haiti has something in common with Mali, Somalia, and Yemen: decades of international intervention, mountains of activity reports, and outcomes that never matched the paperwork. warontherocks.com/beyond-the-o...
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Beyond the Output Trap: Haiti and the Future of International Stabilization
Five years after the assassinations in Haiti of Monferrier Dorval, Diego Charles, and Antoinette Duclaire, justice remains elusive. Four years after the
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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 01/08/2026
The coastal wildfire forced hundreds to evacuate, as Highway 1 along a popular stretch of the Sonoma Coast closed and heavy smoke continued to shroud the region.
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Crews make gains on Woodside Fire, but heat, wind and heavy timber to make for 'a long haul'
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/08/2026
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
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Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month Donald Trump is now offering early access to his Truth Social posts in a move that has been seen as corruption benefitting a sitting president. Trump Media and Technology Group officially rolled out its new subscription-based data service on Saturday, giving paying customers faster, real-time access to Truth Social posts from Trump and other high-profile accounts. Continue reading...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/08/2026
Powerful winds are expected to raise the risk of fire to critical levels across the northwestern U.S. on Saturday. Forecasters with the National Weather Service have issued their most urgent alert for parts of Washington and Oregon, where dozens of large fires are already burning.
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Wildfire Weather Poses ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ in Pacific Northwest
Forecasters in Washington and Oregon are using their strongest language this weekend to signal a worst-case wildfire threat and get people’s attention.
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InSight Crime @insightcrime.org · 30/07/2026
🎙️Tren de Aragua grew powerful in Lima through the profits from extorting sex workers. And it left a trail of blood of those who refused to pay. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of The InSight Crime Podcast, now available on your favorite podcast platform.  bit.ly/45Cl7iZ
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InSight Crime @insightcrime.org · 30/07/2026
🇨🇷 | Costa Rica has captured Alejandro Arias Monge, alias “Diablo,” a fugitive also wanted by the US for drug trafficking, who had been on the run for 10 years.
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Costa Rica's Devil: Bloody Drug Feud Catches Authorities Off Guard
An unusually drawn-out feud between two rival gangs in northern Costa Rica has left over 150 people dead in five years, with authorities making a renewed push to end the violence.
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Nathan P. Jones @natejudejones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Check out my interview with Times and Sunday Times on Mexican Cartels. Its a good explainer video www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvf9...
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Why Mexico’s War on Cartels Is Impossible to Win
YouTube video by Times Originals
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Nathan P. Jones @natejudejones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Very proud of our KeyPoint Press, its existing titles and its forthcoming! So honored to work with the best in the business Daniel Weisz, John P. Sullivan and Robert Bunker. keypointpress.com/books
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 29/07/2026
A man showed up at a Jewish school armed with a hammer, then assaulted an 8-year-old boy when security tried to escort him out of the building, police sources said.
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Hammer-wielding man assaults 8-year-old boy at Jewish school in New York
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/07/2026
The FBI has ADMITTED it has the Epstein Files redaction TRAINING VIDEOS that an anonymous FBI source told me about last year. TODD BLANCHE was required to release these under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. TODD BLANCHE is unfit to serve as Attorney General. VOTE NO. @judiciarydems.senate.gov
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "Even if democracy eventually prevails inside the United States, America’s old friends will wonder whether Trumpism permanently reshaped Washington’s relationship with the rest of the world," Chrystia Freeland, a former Canadian deputy prime minister, writes.
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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
LOL. Outside of certain delulu precincts on the Westside of Los Angeles, the constituency for a Pahlavi restoration in Iran is approximately similar to the constituency for a Romanov restoration in Russia. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Regime change? Inside Reza Pahlavi’s faltering bid to lead Iran
As the U.S. and Israel went to war on Iran this year, a transformative moment seemed to have arrived for Reza Pahlavi, son of the autocratic shah who was overthrown in 1979.
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Podcast: Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict www.linkedin.com/posts/urban-...
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Urban Operations: War, Crime and Conflict | KeyPoint Press
https://lnkd.in/gFVCiC_T Check out our new podcast going over some of the main themes in the book Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict. Buy your copy today: https://a.co/d/0bQQ2qhy
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InSight Crime @insightcrime.org · 28/07/2026
🇨🇷 | Costa Rican authorities have captured Alejandro Arias Monge, alias “Diablo,” one of the country’s most wanted fugitives, on drug trafficking charges. The US had a $500,000 reward for information leading to his capture.
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Costa Rica's Devil: Bloody Drug Feud Catches Authorities Off Guard
An unusually drawn-out feud between two rival gangs in northern Costa Rica has left over 150 people dead in five years, with authorities making a renewed push to end the violence.
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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 28/07/2026
The number of days of extreme fire risk per year have grown sharply.
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‘No matter what you do, you can’t put it out’: Spanish firefighters describe record blaze
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/07/2026
Three years after Maui wildfires many still struggle with ‘biological, emotional and social consequences’, study says
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Past fires suggest effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Berlin Pride Event Attacker Killed in Police Shootout, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/w...
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Berlin Pride Event Attacker Killed in Police Shootout, Officials Say
The confrontation with the suspect in what has been described as a likely act of Islamist terrorism occurred as a large-scale manhunt was underway, the authorities said.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/07/2026
A man drove a van into a crowd at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day parade late Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring several others.
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Attack on Berlin pride parade leaves 1 dead, 16 injured
The suspected attacker is considered “to be part of Berlin’s Islamist scene,” according to police.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is one of the most frightening articles I’ve ever read, including chilling phrases like there is “little doubt that the real world signal has left the envelope of model internal variability.” www.economist.com/science-and-...
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The rate at which Earth is absorbing energy is alarming scientists
Reflections on a warming planet
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Car Plows Into Crowd at Berlin Pride Event in Suspected Terror Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/w...
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Car Plows Into People Near a Pride Event in Berlin, Killing at Least One
The police said a hunt for suspects was underway after the episode, which also injured at least 16 people, some seriously.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“We cannot mock users for anthropomorphizing products that were designed to take advantage of this exact impulse. Anthropomorphism may be our default position, but this should not stop us from reaching for a multiplicity of nonintuitive possibilities & realities.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/asim...
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The Other Asimov | Los Angeles Review of Books
Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics have influenced AI’s development, but to what end?
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...
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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Governments Should Govern AI, Not Own It by Gabriela Ramos, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/aYhS8Xz
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Governments Should Govern AI, Not Own It
Gabriela Ramos & Emilija Stojmenova Duh warn that the technology calls for independent oversight, not politicians doubling as corporate investors.
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Nathan P. Jones @natejudejones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Check out this amazing IRONCLAD podcast with John Sullivan the master of #criminalinsurgency theory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrx-...
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Nathan P. Jones @natejudejones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Check out what my Sam Houston State University student did to help law enforcement fight crime! www.shsu.edu/news/2026-ne...
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SHSU Student Develops Software Tool for Law Enforcement Analysts to Combat Dark Networks
Braell Dotson, a computer science student at Sam Houston State University’s College of Science and Engineering Technology (SHSU-COSET), developed a new centralization plugin for Gephi, an open-source ...
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"What made this [mass-shooting] unusual is not that American boys from the sunny suburbs are turning into Hitler-worshipping mass murderers; that’s more or less expected. The strange thing is that this one was called Vasquez." www.damagemag.com/p/everyone-l...
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Everyone Loves Hitler
What’s the deal with non-white neo-Nazis?
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InSight Crime @insightcrime.org · 22/07/2026
🇲🇽 | Ismael Zambada, alias “El Mayo,” was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States, marking the end of an era for Mexican drug traffickers. Learn more about the history and criminal activities of this kingpin in our profile: bit.ly/3SQnclI
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zftwarning.bsky.social @zftwarning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Next Mythos Moments www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Next Mythos Moments
Future AI risks will be harder to address ad hoc.
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