Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.

Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data breach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Top UK barrister: Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/16/top-uk-barrister-israel-is-carrying-out-destruction-of-humanity-in-gaza

"Michael Mansfield, an eminent human rights lawyer, talks to Al Jazeera about a war crimes case he and others recently filed and why legal efforts still matter despite a breakdown of the rule of law."

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

Fact Sheet: #LGBTQ Community in #Iran Faces Deadly Violence and Severe Rights Abuses

Among the abuses faced by the LGBTQ community in Iran:

August 24, 2021

- Iran is one of only six countries that impose the death penalty for same-sex relations.

- The death penalty can and has been applied to juvenile LGBTQ individuals.

- Flogging and imprisonment are also imposed for many same-sex acts and cross-dressing.

- Activists are convicted of national security crimes for peaceful LGBTQ advocacy.

- Honor killings by LGBTQ family members are encouraged by lenient laws.

- 77% of LGBTQ people surveyed in Iran reported experiencing violence in homes and communities.

- LGBTQ children are unprotected from violence and frequently expelled from homes and schools.

- Any LGBTQ-related online content posted or shared is punishable by prison and flogging."

Source:
https://iranhumanrights.org/2021/08/fact-sheet-lgbtq-community-in-iran-faces-deadly-violence-and-severe-rights-abuses/

#HumanRights #Fascism #Theocracy

Our friend the Gulf Coast Toad lives in coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico from the state of Veracruz in Mexico to the state of Mississippi in the United States! They are a very common and adaptable species and are often found in people's gardens! (photo by Susan Aide)

https://www.europesays.com/1998275/ European pharma companies issue demands to stay in EU ahead of expected US tariffs #BigPharmaCompanies #europe #EuropeanCommission #LesEchos #PharmaceuticalCompanies #PharmaceuticalInnovations #U.S. #UrsulaVonDerLeyen

#infosec people, THIS is big and you need it in front of management RIGHT NOW.

MITRE has informed the CVE board members that effective TONIGHT, funding to run CVE and CWE is effectively gone. The US federal government contracts MITRE to run these programs including both management, operations, and infrastructure.

This not only could but almost certainly will result in disruptions to CVE and CWE including a halt of all operations if new contracts/funding are not secured.

@JugglingWithEggs

48% of Americans could not even name a single concentration camp

https://www.claimscon.org/country-survey/

With the increase in more polarising political views, including the concerning rise in the far-right, Reform appears to be gaining traction in Lancashire | Lydia Pearson

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/the-rise-of-reform-uk-in-lancashire-why-im-concerned/?feed_id=1142&_unique_id=67fdfcca619c8
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/the-rise-of-reform-uk-in-lancashire-why-im-concerned/?feed_id=1142&_unique_id=67fdfcca619c8

Trump v Harvard is a fight over fascism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04/15/trump-v-harvard-is-a-fight-over-fascism/ Trump is demanding control of US universities. Fascists always want that. Harvard has said it will not comply. This is a fight over fascism that Harvard has to win.

BBC News

Have you read this?

'Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack

Trump is delusional.

At least five more Palestinians on Tuesday morning were killed as a result of the Israeli strikes targeting displaced people's tents in areas across the war-devastated Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa, three of the civilians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike on a tent for the displaced in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-strikes-kill-5-more-palestinians-in-targeting-civilians-tents-in-gaza/3538398

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine

@GreenSkyOverMe ... worse still. We squander immense amounts of computing power achieving little or no more than we could have achieved 30 years ago.

Now we're fetishising AI because it can make this drudgery a little less, all at the cost of massive amounts more energy, computing power and natural resources, for a marginal gain in real terms.

I'm stating a sincere feeling that It would be better for our sanity, economy and planet if we stopped and simplified.

https://www.europesays.com/uk/21343/ Tuesday briefing: How Donald Trump has left Ukrainian civilians in greater danger than ever | Ukraine #EU #Europe #Ukraine

🔴 🤡 - Trump sagte gerade - einen 9:0 Beschluss des SCOTUS für die Rückführung eines fälschlich in ein berüchtigtes Megagefängnis in El Salvador abgeschobenen Mannes mit unbefristetem Aufenthaltsrecht in den USA, ohne Vorstrafen, einer Frau und drei Kindern mit US-Staatsbürgerschaft - ignorierend - , dass „einheimische Kriminelle als nächstes“ in diese Gefängnisse gebracht werden sollen.

➡️ Abrego Garcia: 0 Verurteilungen
➡️ Trump: 34 Verurteilungen wegen Kapitalverbrechen

Finde den Fehler.

"Calling this a constitutional crisis undersells the catastrophic implications of the emergency. This administration is rapidly constructing a legal framework that would allow it to abruptly disappear anyone, including natural-born U.S. citizens, to a foreign prison forever, for any reason it chooses, or no reason at all."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-defying-supreme-court-el-salvador-bukele.html

Can’t quite get me head around #Hungary banning #Pride and not only staying an EU member, but getting no sanctions for it https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/hungary-poised-to-adopt-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-lgbtq-gatherings

Gordon Brown says Britain can only “build back better” by “working ever more closely with the EU” and calls for a global "economic coalition of the willing... to coordinate economic policies across continents if we are to safeguard jobs and living standards.” ~AA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gordon Brown calls for ‘econom...

Measles update report, CDC.

"As of April 10, 2025, a total of 712 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 25 jurisdictions: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington."

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/

#Measles
#MeaslesOutbreak
#MeaslesEpidemic
#Measles2025