Today I am wrecked by having learned that when Kafka was dying and unable to speak, he wrote little messages on strips of paper for his doctor and his friends who visited him. Here are three of them.

A U.S.-backed prosecutor in Ecuador texted at length with a colleague she had a close relationship using an app called Confide that auto-deletes all messages. But he recorded them with a second phone.

U.S.-Linked Prosecutor Is Behind Assault on Ecuador’s Left | Intercept Brasil intercept.com.br/2024/08/29/ecu…

Thanks Mathew Ingram !! I will say that one thing I’ve found is that we get way more readers publishing via email than ona website shared on Twitter. It’s been surprising to me but I do think newsletters are the next phase for journalism, with a mix of funding

UN Rapporteur on Palestine tells me: “I see a serious pattern parallel with what is happening in the Gaza Strip—patterns of torture, of destruction, of extrajudicial killings, of uprooting that are very similar to Gaza.” dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-inva… Full story at Drop Site

A decade ago at least, when I still wrote for +972 Magazine, we said that one day police would use West Bank occupation tactics on Jewish Israelis. Happening now.

“Some people only express their opinions as part of mob shaming, when it is safe to do so, and, in the bargain, think that they are displaying virtue. This is not virtue but vice, a mixture of bullying and cowardice” —Nassim Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

🗣️"No solamente los expertos forenses tuvieron acceso al celular de Ronny Aleaga Santos , sino que también pudieron ver cómo estaban entrando los mensajes de esta cuenta que supuestamente pertenece a la fiscal Diana Salazar", indica José Olivares Jose Olivares

Hard to watch. They talk about "morality" and justice in the case of any given Palestinian prisoner being raped at Sde Teiman and saying "That's a fraction of what the person deserves."

"On Monday, al-Saadi was among a group of journalists who came under attack by Israeli forces and bulldozers while they were covering the destruction of a roundabout and surrounding shops in downtown Jenin."

BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…

iPhone needs to track every time I get up from a comfortable seat to go do something for my toddler. Not because it’s exercise but because it would actually help me mentally if this aspect of my life was gameified

State Dept spox Matt Miller 3 days ago:"I think the United States has shown that we have a long memory when it comes to bringing to justice those responsible for the death of American citizens." Today Israeli forces shot US citizen Aysenur Eygi in the head in Beita & killed her

Breaking: Search still continues to find the bodies of 22 people who went missing in the bombing of tents yesterday. This is one bomb crater.

In From Yemen - Yemen’s Houthis claim they have shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was conducting “hostile espionage and combat operations in the airspace of Saada Governorate.” - Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman claimed this is the 9th drone of its kind to be downed

Jonathan Pollak is an eyewitness who was present at the demonstration. His testimony contradicts Biden’s “richocheted”: “It was a kill shot … this happened in the context of 17 people who were killed in demonstrations in Beita since 2021. You don’t hear about them because

kamala repeating the same tired lines on israel lmao WHO IS THIS FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a small thing compared to having your body ripped apart, but somehow this detail, of the 13 yo Jenin boy who had his Playstation stolen by IDF troops, is such a gut punch. In the Drop Site dispatch by Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي