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new phone, houthis?
Hi my babies!!!! I had an amazing day yesterday because I got my inboxes (all THREE OF THEM) down to ZERO for the first time in over a year. I cannot explain to you how good this feels.
Abby and I have also been using this photo app that’s like tinder but for clearing out your photos (it’s called swipewipe) and since I’ve been doing SYSCA for six years without staying on top of my camera roll, let me tell you, it was FUCKED. I had 47,000 photos to go through, and I currently have 20k left (and have deleted 11k and freed up 70gb of space on my phone.)
All of this to say, I'm in a very cleansing mindset and am making a promise to myself to STAY ON TOP OF THIS SHIT (emails and camera roll) from now on.
Lol, what a boring update, but I know u like knowing the mundane bits of my life heheh.
Love you!
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me (not me, The Atlantic) Its War Plans
The Atlantic got potentially the BEST SCOOP OF ALL TIME when its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg was ADDED TO A GROUP CHAT ABOUT UPCOMING STRIKES IN YEMEN.
Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up. Basically Goldberg received a connection request on the encrypted app Signal from a user identified as Michael Waltz - and even though he was uncertain as to whether it was truly from the president's adviser, he accepted the request.
The group was called the "Houthi PC small group" and had about two dozen people in it, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Waltz.
Here are some of the texts he saw:
Honestly, it’s a fucking insane story and you should go and read the whole thing here.
And obviously, there are memes.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
Here’s what The Guardian said about it:
“A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked his house.
According to five Jewish American activists who witnessed the attack, Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the the film that documented the destruction of villages in the West Bank, was surrounded and attacked by a group of about 15 armed settlers in Susya in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.”
This is his from one of his co-directors, Yuval Abraham:
“They started throwing stones at Palestinians and smashed a water tank near Hamdan’s house,” said Joseph, an activist with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. He didn’t want to share his full name for security reasons.
Witnesses said soldiers showed up along with settlers dressed in military uniforms. The settlers chased Hamdan back to his house and handed him over to the military.
Activists filmed the assault. When they got inside the house, they saw blood on the floor. A family member said Hamdan had been hit in the head.
The director of the activist group and another man, identified only as Nasser, were arrested and taken to a police station. No one knows why.
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Does anyone else feel like we’re in a Nineteen Eighty-Four / Idiocracy crossover fic?
maybe it’s just me but link isn’t working for “read the whole thing here” 😅
but anyways absolutely insane that I double check I’m texting the right people more than the leaders of our country with war plans!!