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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Russian student media co-founder Armen Aramyan sentenced to 10 years in absentia on wartime censorship and “justifying terrorism” charges The @doxajournal.bsky.social editor's case centered on a tweet mapping Russia's crimes in Bucha and an op-ed urging resistance.

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🇬🇧 A network of Telegram channels with Russian links is encouraging UK residents to commit violent attacks on mosques and Muslims and offering cryptocurrency in return, campaigners have warned. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe... #russia #britain

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Today was the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. While somehow it became “fashionable” to forget, diminish & dismiss the suffering & sacrifices of the Ukrainian people, as a Russian-American and as a human being, I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Excited to welcome everyone at #RightsCon2025 in Taipei this coming week! Check out some of my sessions held online and in person

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A federal judge ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his earlier order that they lift a freeze of nearly all foreign aid, though he stopped short of holding them in contempt of court reut.rs/3EHlT47

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📢 Official Announcement 📢 We are honored to have Hsiao Bi-khim, Vice President of Taiwan, share welcoming remarks at the #RightsCon2025 opening ceremony! Join us in celebrating our first summit in East Asia. 🔗 Register and add this session to your calendar: https://buff.ly/41nflk3

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I believe that one of the biggest reasons why the world is such a mess right now is because we have collectively normalized the dehumanization of people we see as enemies. Stopping the dehumanization cycle and recognizing our shared humanity is the only way forward.

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By refusing to drop the criminal corruption case against Eric Adams, the conservative prosecutor Danielle Sassoon provided the first dramatic check against the Trump Administration’s rampage through the federal government.

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After Donald Trump’s Wednesday call with Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin instructed state-run and pro-government media to emphasize the Russian president’s leadership, downplay Trump’s role, and mention the U.S. president less often.

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Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that specialized in understanding Big Tech’s entrance into financial products www.theverge.com/policy/61293...

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We @OCCRP are suing to stop the illegal freeze of funding from USAID, which supports independent investigative journalism in some of the world's most corrupt and repressive places. www.citizen.org/news/nonprof...

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Paragon spyware used to target citizens across Europe, says Italian government

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⚡️ Zelenskyy says Tucker Carlson needs to understand more deeply what’s happening in Ukraine to stop working for Putin and “stop licking his ass.”

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BREAKING: We're suing President Trump over his attempt to shut down asylum. No president has the authority to override the protections Congress has granted to people seeking safety at the border.

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Hey cybersecurity folks! As a direct or indirect consequence of the US (and others) cutting foreign aid, there are many who have done cybersecurity for NGOs and at-risk groups who are or will be looking for a job. They often have broad experience, from research to incident response to education 1/2

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When your adversaries celebrate your ill-informed decisions, you’re probably doing something wrong

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As if Russia’s exiled human rights community needed something else to worry about, there’s also the Maria Chashchilova saga. Here’s a summary of recent revelations by iStories. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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"This is not just a question of some bad apples– these types of abuses are a feature of the commercial #spyware industry." @natynettle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The WhatsApp #Paragon story just gets worse! The first known victim of this spyware is an Italian news editor who published a major exposé last year about members of Meloni’s far-right party’s youth wing engaging in “fascist chants, Nazi salutes, and antisemitic rants.”

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WhatsApp has sent a cease-and-desist letter to #Paragon following the spyware attack on the messaging platforms’ users. We need more actions like these by tech platforms to protect their users’ privacy and security. More from @raphae.li @reuters.com about this.

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NEW: WhatsApp notifies civil society victims that they were targeted with #Paragon spyware. This highlights the fundamental problem with the commercial spyware industry being unable to police itself. We need regulation and accountability now! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Eastern Europe rights groups were urging Americans to vote & take the threat of authoritarianism seriously. Now unfortunately they are not available because they are busy surviving till next month due to US funding stop order.

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Human rights orgs & independent media that risk their lives defending human rights & democracy are currently in a “survival mode” due to Trump’s Stop Order. Some may not survive. Funders who are not affected by this - now is your time to step forward & offer emergency assistance.

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UPDATE: The date of the WhatsApp v NSO trial on damages has been pushed to April 28, 2025 due to California wildfires.

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"Spanish citizens, media, and policymakers should be carefully scrutinizing these biz in terms of whether their ops are consistent w/ national and EU laws and whether the Spanish govt may be involved in abusing their surveillance tools, esp given Spain’s history w/ Pegasus." @natynettle.bsky.social

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👉 "I think it’s one of the greatest things that’s happened in the sphere of this kind of forensic investigations & hunting of sophisticated spyware." @natynettle.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/w...

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Kremlin-backed channels ignore international media reports of Azerbaijan Airlines flight likely being shot down by Russian air defenses Rossiya-1, Perviy Kanal, and NTV were silent on Azerbaijani officials' claims that Flight 8432 was downed by Russia.

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Look to El Salvador for a glimpse of how these tech bro-fantasias can end up. Just please, try to look a bit further than the regime’s propaganda

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The court just handed WhatsApp a major win in the case against NSO Group ⚖️ 🎉 NSO was found liable under federal #CFAA & state law for #Pegasus hacking through WhatsApp's servers. As a lawyer working on surveillance, let me break down the ruling 🧵 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Officials in the 🇺🇸United States and 🇮🇱Israel have denied reports their countries had signed off on the sale of Israeli spyware maker Paragon to Florida-based AE Industrial Partners. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

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Spoke to @lorenzofb.bsky.social from @techcrunch.com about the importance of protecting Apple’s security infrastructure and the game changing features like Threat Notifications + Lockdown Mode. These features keep civil society alert and protected against sophisticated spyware attacks.

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Josh Shapiro: "In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint ... I have no tolerance, nor should anyone, for one man using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he thinks his opinion matters most ... he is no hero."

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NEW: A Russian programmer, who has lived in Ukraine for years, says the FSB planted spyware on his Android phone after he was detained and forced to provide the phone's passcode. Russian NGO First Department and Citizen Lab confirmed presence of a malicious app. techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/r...

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When I talk about #spyware, I am often asked - but what about #Russia? #Monokle is an example of spyware made by Russian defense contractor, sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Dept - Special Technology Center. This spyware is not 0-click, but is still quite invasive & dangerous.

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