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From an Israeli intel official in NAZA:
“I hack into the phone of a 12 year old girl. If a girl calls her mom, ‘Mummy,’ she says, ‘when are you returning home? Daddy just came back.’ That’s a message that would alert the system bc it contains the words ‘return’ and ‘daddy.’”
This builds on @yuval_abraham’s previous reporting on the (incomprehensibly evil) “Where’s Daddy” program the IDF built to learn when fathers were at home with their children so they could kill then all at once (along with anyone else killed in the building during the attack).
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A fascinating interview with Rezaee from @DropSiteNews. He lays out Iran's position and strategy in clear language.
-The goal is not to survive to the end of Trump's term, but to restore deference by inflicting costs.
-Iran remains open to a deal based on the MOU from June, which was incorrectly implemented.
-Iran is ready for war and will retaliate--civilian infrastructure could be a target (though Rezaee is a bit more conditional here than in other recent interviews).
⚡️ EXCLUSIVE: Iran could expand its targets to include data centers, AI facilities and communications cables if the U.S. resumes attacks, Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s top security official, told Drop Site News.
Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and personal representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, spoke to Drop Site in an exclusive written interview.
“If the question is whether Iran still has the ability to continue missile and drone operations, the answer is yes,” Rezaei said.
“The United States has valuable assets in the region. In the event of war, cables, data centers and artificial intelligence facilities could also come within range. If the conflict begins again, we will have a broader plan.”
🔗 A short summary of the report is linked below. Read the full report from Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim and Peiman Salehi linked in the replies.
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PollVault/Emerson poll | 10/12-10/14
US House 2026 | Montana’s 1st congressional district
(Trump +11 | 2024)
🟦Sam Forstag 50%
🟥Aaron Flint 46%
Will Lawrence up by 8 and El-Sayed up 11 in this GOP-held district suggests a new kind of Democratic Party can compete on Republican terrain
The timing of this, just ahead of elections in Israel and the US, is not ideal
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
Trende has Will Lawrence up by 8 points over Tom Barrett in MI07 in his new poll
He also has populist Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti beating incumbent Republican incumbent Bresnahan in PA08.
Also has Dems winning Hinson’s open seat in Iowa.
TX35: A seat Republicans drew for themselves mid cycle to win — yet they’re losing to Jonny Garcia.
MT01: Dem Sam Forstag is up in his poll.
In Western North Carolina, he has the Dem up by 13 points (!) over the replacement for Chuck Edwards. Republican has only raised $300k. Dem farmer Jamie Ager is gonna flip this.
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Our demand for @hakeemjeffries is super clear.
If the Iran war is illegal and needs to be ended, block the funding to it.
Voting on war powers resolutions is not enough — no more money —be it supplamental or NDAA.
Chanting “Stop the war on Iran,” around 100 peace activists and veterans rallied outside Hakeem Jeffries’ Downtown Brooklyn office, demanding action to end the conflict. brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-p…
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Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.
The field is opening up so much that Democrats are spending in Mississippi and the NRCC Chair is fighting for his life in North Carolina and the head of CAP is still litigating the Michigan primary. With 12 days until the general election, this is a generational run of obsession.
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TEXAS POLITICS: TX-23 GOP candidate Brandon Herrera says unadopted kittens should be sent to Chinese restaurants.
The AK-Guy's latest controversy comes as a new poll shows him in a statistical tie w/ Democrat Katy Padilla Stout.
Yeah that’s what happened
Imagine flying into L.A. from xyz country, and then taking a bus up the interstate to one of the strawberry fields along the coast, and then picking strawberries to "show solidarity" with the Guatemalans picking strawberries, and then being told by the sheriff or cops you had to go back to your luxury hotel in Santa Monica because you don't have a work permit.
This is not a close case. @benshapiro and @JDVance should apologize and think deeply about the choice they made today.
What is the game plan here? You don't deny that this maggot was charged with the r ape of a 10 year old... you don't deny that he fled the state when he was out on bond... what is it you're hoping to learn from these court records? They aren't going to contain discovery files. What is it you're hoping to see?
Pro-tip: when the defendant is the kind of guy who abandons his 18 year old pregnant wife in a Mexican jail while she fights for her life... and he then goes on to marry 8 other women in less than 20 years... when he flees town a couple weeks after making bail on charges he r aped his stepdaughter and never looks back... it's a pretty safe bet that he's a total shitbag and the victim is telling the truth.
Civil Rights activists obviously were highly strategic about their use of the media. They knew that bigoted southern sheriffs and their violent militias wouldn’t be able to resist violently attacking them, and that decent people would then recoil at the images and demand changes.
You can’t be serious.
