*Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction, a place where everyone drives everywhere, a place where the queer and the gender-fluid are told from birth that they simply do not exist, a place where citizenship is defined along narrow ethnic lines and everyone else
*ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.* This is the operation of a system intended to preserve freedom of the press. Under ordinary circumstances, a media outlet would hesitate to fire someone for invalid reasons knowing that it would probably face such a penalty. But a
The persecutor's agents are using an improperly issued subpoena to try to identify the person who published the identity of agents of the secret police, who were marauding near Los Angeles.
*Citizen Lab says it found, [in journalists' snoop-phones,] "digital fingerprints" of military-grade spyware [from Paragon Solutions] that Italy has admitted using against activists*
