Angela Davis is the most famous prison abolitionist of the last fifty years.

She built her name on one rule: no one should be caged for their beliefs.

Then political prisoners in communist regimes wrote to her. 🧵

She made political imprisonment her life's work. She wrote "Are Prisons Obsolete?" She co-founded Critical Resistance in 1997. She edited "If They Come in the Morning" in 1971.

She is the person who put the phrase "prison abolition" into serious American political conversation.

In 1970 she was a UCLA philosophy professor and a member of the Communist Party USA.

In August, guns registered in her name were used in a California courthouse raid in which four people died, including the presiding judge. She fled and landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

To understand the controversy over who should be polled to reflect Jewish American opinion, you have to understand how sociologists define the Jewish community. First, there are “core“ Jews, 4-5 Million, who are involved in Judaism in some way, 1/

Even if they are not religiously observant. Then there are peripheral Jews, 2-3 million, people of at least partial Jewish ancestry who don’t participate in Judaism at all and typically say that Judaism is not their religion, but have not adopted another religion. 2/

This group is actually quite varied, includes people who never have and never will have any ties to the Jewish community and also people who are just at stage of life where they are alienated from Judaism by the community, but may very well return it some other point of their life. 3/

At narcissist is someone who lives an alternate reality within their own mind.

They have an intense and vivid imagination where they create a different version of themselves.

The truth about narcissism:

Narcissists typically had a very difficult, chaotic, smothering, or emotionally neglectful childhood where they had to create an imaginary world that made living feel safe.

Anything that conflicts with the reality in their own mind becomes a threat.

Anyone who points out flaws within themselves ultimately will become an enemy.

With so much major Supreme Court and legal news dominating the headlines recently, you might have missed an important filing from late June. We joined CDT and OTI to file an amicus brief in CCIA v. Paxton before the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. internetsociety.org/blog/2026/07/s…

The case challenges Texas HB 2420, which requires broad age verification and parental consent for almost all mobile app downloads. The law forces users to upload government IDs or credit cards just to access everyday digital services.

Mandatory identity checks create massive privacy and security risks. Recently, a Texas data breach exposed 3 million driver's licenses and passports. Broad identity mandates weaken trust while doing little to improve online safety for youth. techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/ano…

APOE ε4 associates with increased risk of severe COVID-19, cerebral microhaemorrhages and post-COVID mental fatigue: a Finnish biobank, autopsy and clinical study
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34949230/ x.com/CovidSolidarit…

2024 Jun 7
SARS-CoV-2 Viroporin E Induces Ca2+ Release and Neuron Cell Death in Primary Cultures of Rat Hippocampal Cells Aged In Vitro
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

2022 Jun 16
SARS-CoV-2 infection of human brain microvascular endothelial cells leads to inflammatory activation through NF-κB non-canonical pathway and mitochondrial remodeling
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC92…

Russian men dying young is not new. They've been dying from drinking, neglect, broken health system. Male life expectancy only crawled back to 66 by 2019.

Then Putin marched the survivors to the front (🧵1/7)

Putin's war has killed hundreds of thousands and wounded more than a million on both sides. The dead from the Russian side are overwhelmingly young men, in a country whose population is already shrinking and ageing. [2/7]

Hundreds of thousands more Russians fled abroad to avoid mobilization, again mostly young working-age men. Killed at the front or gone abroad, they no longer add to Russia's economy or its birth rate. [3/7]

Murdered at Dunblane Primary School
🧵 1 of 17 (Not just ONE total)
Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale (age 5)

FYI @RestoreBritain @RupertLowe10
HT @Number10cat

Murdered
2 of 17 : Emma Elizabeth Crozier (age 5)

Murdered
3 of 17: Melissa Helen Currie (age 5)

Zaluzhnyi: Do not assume Russia has lost the war.

Russia has not achieved its original political objectives. But it still fights, occupies substantial Ukrainian territory, and shows no intention of accepting terms that would mean defeat, — for Telegraph. 1/

Zaluzhnyi: Ukraine cannot yet claim outright victory either.

Kyiv has stopped Russia’s main goals and damaged its economy and military. But Ukraine still depends heavily on Western money, weapons, technology, and air defense. 2/

Zaluzhnyi: This is no longer a war of swift manoeuvres. It is a war of attrition.

Tactical gains now come at enormous cost. Positions can be taken, but holding them, reinforcing them, and evacuating the wounded is harder under constant drone surveillance. 3/

A Russian ex-convict spent a decade in Ukraine under a fake identity, built weapons for the front, and married three women who never knew his real name.

Now Interpol wants him, and Ukraine may hand him over. His real name is Ruslan Puptaev, Babel. 1/

Born 1987 in Kyrgyzstan, raised in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region. Convicted twice — theft at 16, assault at 19.

Russian courts gave him 9 years. 2/

In prison he converted to Islam. Chechen and Dagestani inmates told him about Russian war crimes in their countries.

That’s when he decided to leave Russia. 3/

Why billionaires keep their names off every assets they own

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All-New Swarms Cloud Updates 👾☁️

Over the past few days, we've shipped major upgrades to Swarms Cloud, including an all-new token usage dashboard, new model pages, and much more.

These updates make it easier for developers and enterprises to monitor usage, discover new models, deploy agents, and scale multi-agent workflows through a unified platform.

Learn more ⬇️🧵

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Token Usage Observability 🪙🔬

The Token Usage dashboard provides enterprises with complete visibility into token consumption across agents, workflows, and API usage.

Highlights:
- Usage Tracking: Monitor tokens, requests, and AI spending across your organization.

- Agent Analytics: Analyze usage by agent and workflow to optimize resources.

- Flexible Filtering: Filter data by time, API key, agent, or workflow.

- Cost Visibility: Track AI infrastructure costs and spending patterns in real time.

Link: cloud.swarms.world/token-usage

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All-New Model Pages 🤖

The Swarms Cloud Model Pages have been redesigned to make discovering and deploying models easier than ever.

With support for 1,500+ models from leading providers including @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @GeminiApp, @OpenRouter, and more, developers can quickly find the right model and start building.

Key Features:
- Model Discovery: Browse models by provider, category, and capabilities.

- Instant Code Examples: Every model includes ready-to-run examples for Python, TypeScript, cURL, and more.

- Single Agent & Multi-Agent Support: Deploy any model as an individual agent or orchestrate it inside a multi-agent team.

- Playground Integration: Test models instantly before deploying them into your applications.

Link: cloud.swarms.world/models

⚡️ A new OSCE report reveals Russia is running a systematic campaign to militarize and indoctrinate Ukrainian children.

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