Hey comrades. So I have started keeping a private journal to track and articulate my disjointed thoughts about the organising and groups I'm involved with. It's a directory of encrypted text files (currently just using vimcrypt but I could easily switch to something else) on a LUKS drive.

Obviously, it would be quite bad—both for my safety and the integrity of the groups the notes may concern—for the notes to get breached right now. However, I do think it would be valuable for revolutionaries in the future to be able to read the thoughts of someone who was involved in struggles potentially long past—it'd become a part of history, and perhaps could be used to help future communists improve upon the organising of the past.

I would want these notes to only be released after my death, so that there is no risk of incriminating me, and also only after they become irrelevant in the sense of the groups/events they concern are long past. The typical way to do this is a dead man's switch where you keep pressing some button every e.g. week, and if it doesn't get pressed for a week, your server publishes your secret documents.

The first problem with that setup is that relies on either the data being unencrypted, or I store the decryption keys on the server being used to store the encrypted data, which seems to defeat the purpose of the data being encrypted imo. I guess I could store the decryption keys separately and that also be subject to a dead man's switch but I'm just wary about the security implications of storing it at all, given the fact that I would have to use someone else's servers if I want it to be released a long time after my death rather than e.g. a week afterwards, when my own VPS may still be running.

The second problem is that digital dead man's switches assume that the individual in question isn't going to go to prison lol. It's almost certain I'll go to prison again at some point before I die (have already been locked up a few times in my short life), and it would be quite bad to have a bunch of potentially incriminating secret notes be released when I go to prison! I'm a lot more likely to be imprisoned alive than I am to die. I've thought of some ways to get around this—I could let a trusted person know about the switch and have them press it for me if I go to prison. Or, upon triggering the dead man's switch, instead of publishing things, it privately sends things to a trusted person, and that person is instructed to publish it if I'm dead and to discard it if I'm not. The prior problem about encryption still stands though.

As previously hinted at, I would want a significant delay between my death and the publishing of my notes, to minimise the risk to any groups or comrades implicated by the notes. So I think I would also have to store this on some big company or, maybe, a big non-profit organisation, that is reliable and unlikely to go down in X years, where X is however long I want to wait before things get released. So that brings further concerns about security if I have to entrust anything with a big tech company (and why would they host content by a dead person? They'd probably want to delete it to reclaim storage space; not like I'm paying them any money if I'm dead).

Given the first and third problems especially, I'm starting to think this isn't possible to do?

It's not the end of the world if I can't figure out a way to publish my notes. I don't mean to overblow my own importance in the struggle—I don't think these notes will be decisive or anything. But I think it would be nice to make them available—it would be nice if they could contribute something to the world, I guess, instead of just being me trying to sort my own thoughts about things I'm doing or experiencing. But obviously protecting the movement and my comrades comes first, and if I can't set something up that doesn't put them at risk, I won't bother.

Would appreciate people's thoughts. And perhaps if we figure something out, this might inspire other people to do similarly.

Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.

The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.

Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”

House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions

Small tranche of documents includes meeting itineraries, flight manifest and redacted financial transactions

^{Alex Woodward (The Independent)}

But Rosenzweig — considered to be among the rising prosecutors in the office — wasn’t fired because he had been associated with the criminal investigations of Trump by the Justice Department’s special counsel during the prior Biden administration. That was why two other respected federal prosecutors in the Miami office were abruptly terminated this year.

Rather, Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami. When he was working for the prominent law firm Kobre & Kim in Washington during Trump’s first term, Rosenzweig posted criticisms of the president starting in 2017 — posts that were recently brought to the attention of the Justice Department.

An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.

The comment on X by state representative John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a reaction to a short clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US representative Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, entitled “The Resistance Lab.” In the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for street protests against the Trump administration.

“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried, convicted and hanged … it will continue,” he posted.

Nothing in either the clip or the longer video actually suggests Jayapal is advocating for the overthrow of the US government. The video carries explicit calls for non-violent protest and discussed with alarm a rise in political violence in the US.

Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman

John Gillette on X called for ‘people like’ Pramila Jayapal to be ‘hanged’ in response to her video on anti-Trump protests

^{George Chidi (The Guardian)}

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/world/asia/china-united-nations-trump.html

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The protests against Netanyahu came as Israel is causing a famine in Gaza with its near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, which has killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Israel has launched a full invasion of Gaza, and its right-wing government has explicitly said that it plans on expelling all Palestinians who are still living in the exclave. The Israel Defense Forces’ assault has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Israel has become increasingly isolated on the international stage in recent weeks, as the governments of France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia have all formally recognized Palestine as an independent state.

Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech

"I don't recall seeing such a large walkout for quite some time at UNGA," said one observer. "Israel has chosen to be a pariah and is increasingly treated as such by the international community."

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36712284

Israeli bombardments continue throughout the Gaza Strip, with at least 47 Palestinians killed on Friday. Medical infrastructure is breaking down in Gaza City, with the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City being described as catastrophic. The U.S. is reportedly backing a plan to install former British PM Tony Blair as the head of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blames the West for the war in Ukraine and its continued escalation in his speech at the UN. The Department of Justice indicts former FBI Director James Comey. Trump signs a memorandum directing increased measures against “domestic terrorism,” with a particular focus on the “Antifa” threat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to attend an urgent, unscheduled meeting next week in Quantico, Virginia. Israel’s heavy airstrikes in Yemen kill at least nine and wound scores. Italian dockworkers block a ship carrying oil destined for Israel. The Indian government attempts to quash protests in the northern province of Ladakh.

Peter Link

2025-09-26 16:48:27

Trump wants Tony Blair for Gaza transition; Netanyahu says Israel must “finish the job in Gaza”; Comey indicted

Israeli bombardments continue throughout the Gaza Strip, with at least 47 Palestinians killed on Friday. Medical infrastructure is breaking down in Gaza City, with the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City being described as catastrophic. The U.S. is reportedly backing a plan to install former British PM Tony Blair as the head of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blames the West for the war in Ukraine and its continued escalation in his speech at the UN. The Department of Justice indicts former FBI Director James Comey. Trump signs a memorandum directing increased measures against “domestic terrorism,” with a particular focus on the “Antifa” threat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to attend an urgent, unscheduled meeting next week in Quantico, Virginia. Israel’s heavy airstrikes in Yemen kill at least nine and wound scores. Italian dockworkers block a ship carrying oil destined for Israel. The Indian government attempts to quash protests in the northern province of Ladakh.

Trump wants Tony Blair for Gaza transition; Netanyahu says Israel must “finish the job in Gaza”; Comey indicted

Drop Site Daily: September 26, 2025

^{Drop Site News}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36712284

Israeli bombardments continue throughout the Gaza Strip, with at least 47 Palestinians killed on Friday. Medical infrastructure is breaking down in Gaza City, with the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City being described as catastrophic. The U.S. is reportedly backing a plan to install former British PM Tony Blair as the head of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blames the West for the war in Ukraine and its continued escalation in his speech at the UN. The Department of Justice indicts former FBI Director James Comey. Trump signs a memorandum directing increased measures against “domestic terrorism,” with a particular focus on the “Antifa” threat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to attend an urgent, unscheduled meeting next week in Quantico, Virginia. Israel’s heavy airstrikes in Yemen kill at least nine and wound scores. Italian dockworkers block a ship carrying oil destined for Israel. The Indian government attempts to quash protests in the northern province of Ladakh.

Peter Link

2025-09-26 16:48:27

Trump wants Tony Blair for Gaza transition; Netanyahu says Israel must “finish the job in Gaza”; Comey indicted

Israeli bombardments continue throughout the Gaza Strip, with at least 47 Palestinians killed on Friday. Medical infrastructure is breaking down in Gaza City, with the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City being described as catastrophic. The U.S. is reportedly backing a plan to install former British PM Tony Blair as the head of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blames the West for the war in Ukraine and its continued escalation in his speech at the UN. The Department of Justice indicts former FBI Director James Comey. Trump signs a memorandum directing increased measures against “domestic terrorism,” with a particular focus on the “Antifa” threat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to attend an urgent, unscheduled meeting next week in Quantico, Virginia. Israel’s heavy airstrikes in Yemen kill at least nine and wound scores. Italian dockworkers block a ship carrying oil destined for Israel. The Indian government attempts to quash protests in the northern province of Ladakh.

Trump wants Tony Blair for Gaza transition; Netanyahu says Israel must “finish the job in Gaza”; Comey indicted

Drop Site Daily: September 26, 2025

^{Drop Site News}

Netanyahu's UN speech was nothing more than “misleading rhetori aimed at justifying war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people

Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…

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Netanyahu's UN speech contained at least eight blatant lies

^{Alaa Shamali (The Canary)}

A new study published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism provides evidence that antisemitic attitudes, rather than anti-Israel sentiment alone, are linked to support for political violence in the United States. The findings suggest that while criticism of Israel can motivate legal activism, it is antisemitic prejudice that tends to predict a willingness to support illegal or violent political actions and general aggression.

The research was led by Sophia Moskalenko of Georgia State University, along with co-authors Tomislav Pavlović and Mia Bloom. The team aimed to address a gap in the literature by empirically distinguishing between attitudes toward Jews and attitudes toward Israel, especially in how they relate to political radicalization and violence.

Antisemitism—but not criticism of Israel—associated with support for political violence

Research in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism finds that while anti-Israel sentiment may motivate legal protest, it is antisemitism that tends to predict support for violent or illegal political actions, offering insight into distinct psychological pat…

^{Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)}

Meta is introducing a subscription service in the U.K., allowing Facebook and Instagram users to pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience.

https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-and-instagram-ad-free-subscription-arrives-in-the-uk/

Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses

Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects

: Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses

^{Carly Page (The Register)}

DJI loses its lawsuit against the US government.

Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…

Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules

A district court “cannot conclude” that DJI is “indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist Party,” but found the DoD can call it a Chinese military company.

^{Sean Hollister (The Verge)}

But records obtained by ProPublica show how one locality found a way to get FEMA aid more quickly: It asked one of Noem’s political donors for help.

The records show that Noem quickly expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida, after she was contacted by a major financial supporter last month. The pier is a tourist attraction in the wealthy Gulf Coast enclave and was badly damaged by Hurricane Ian in 2022.

Frustrated city officials had been laboring for months, without success, to get disaster assistance. But just two weeks after the donor stepped in, they were celebrating their sudden change of fortune. “We are now at warp speed with FEMA,” one city official wrote in an email. A FEMA representative wrote: “Per leadership instruction, pushing project immediately.”

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked FEMA Funds for Naples After Donor Intervened

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

^ProPublica

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/germany-s-industry-crisis-deepens-as-bosch-cuts-13-000-workers

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protections for federal employees.

Director William K. Marshall III told the agency’s nearly 35,000 employees that the union, the Council of Prison Locals, had become “an obstacle to progress instead of a partner in it.” The contract, he said, “too often slowed or prevented” changes meant to improve safety and morale.

“The whole purpose of ending this contract is to make your lives better,” Marshall wrote in a message posted to the agency’s website. He said the agency will “move forward with solutions that work, without roadblocks, without excuses, and with one goal: to make the Bureau a place where people are proud to serve.”

The union’s president, Brandy Moore-White, said ending the collective bargaining agreement, which was supposed to run through May 2029, will jeopardize the safety and livelihoods of workers who endure dangerous conditions to keep inmates, staff and communities safe.

https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-contract-labor-trump-e88fda8ce31a99f81ff88e52220054d1

Critics are warning the change would make life more difficult for LGBT people.

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Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption

^{Rob Cameron (BBC News)}

Operation prompts outrage as Israeli PM criticises western countries for recognising Palestine as a state and pledges to continue war

Archived version: archive.is/newest/theguardian.…

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Israeli loudspeakers broadcast Netanyahu’s speech to UN into Gaza

^{Jason Burke (The Guardian)}

An ICE agent violently threw an asylum seeker to the ground in front of her kids at a NYC immigration court. ​"Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too," she said. "I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me."

ICE Agent Filmed Throwing Asylum Seeker to Ground at NYC Court in 'Egregious Act of Excessive Force'

"Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too," said Monica Moreta-Galarza. "I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me."

^{stephen-prager (Common Dreams)}

Relations between Kyiv and Budapest get worse and worse … and worse.

Archived version: archive.is/20250926162935/poli…

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Spy drones flew into Ukraine from Hungary, Zelenskyy says

^{Veronika Melkozerova (POLITICO)}

The incident mirrors an attack on Aug. 24, when the rescue ship Ocean Viking came under fire from a Libyan patrol boat.

Archived version: archive.is/20250926155106/poli…

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Libyan militia fires on Sea-Watch migrant rescue ship, escalating EU tensions

The incident mirrors an attack on Aug. 24, when the rescue ship Ocean Viking came under fire from a Libyan patrol boat.

^{Elena Giordano (POLITICO)}

The rule requiring private fleets to buy increasing percentages of zero-emission trucks never officially took effect.

Sorry about the sourcing. No other coverage yet

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/california-trump-electric-truck-rule-00581778

A premium smartphone running de-Googled /e/OS, complete with hardware kill switches.

A Flagship Smartphone With Kill Switches? Meet the Murena-Powered HIROH Phone

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Criminals calling themselves Radiant say they will post additional private data online unless they are paid

Kido nursery hackers threaten to publish more children’s profiles

^{Rachel Hall (The Guardian)}

It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.

Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun

^{Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)}

Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises

As millions face climate relocation, the nation’s first attempt sparks warnings and regret

^{Terry L. Jones/Floodlight (Floodlight)}

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/china-solar-electric-vehicles-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.cFFs.0Sc0THJMwrvU