Symbolism of tigers (quotes)

"There was a strong preoccupation with tigers, spirits, and bhuts, or ghosts. ‘That was the first time I had heard a tiger actually referred to by its name,’ Kovalski was to say. ‘In India people always called it ‘the big cat,’ ‘the great wild beast,’ ‘the great feline,’ but never ‘the tiger,’ for fear of attracting the attention of its spirit and thereby making it appear. It was a taboo that had been brought originally from the countryside where tigers still devoured more than three hundred people a year in Bengal alone. The threat of them haunted many a child. What mother in the City of Joy had not said to her offspring at some time or other, ‘If you’re not good, I’ll call the big cat.’"
— Dominique Lapierre. City of Joy. Translated from the French by Kathryn Spink. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985. p. 330.

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"The jaguar symbolizes the shaman’s journey to the underworld. According to Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan, hunting/stalking is a symbolic description of the psychological attitude needed for obtaining information from the natural (unconscious). ... In archetypal psychological terms, you could say that the jaguar symbolizes the consciousness that stalks in the darkness of the underworld, searching for knowledge and seeking to fulfill one’s personal myth. According to Burr Cartwright Brundage, the same Mayan word, balam, is used for jaguar and sorcerer."
— Gloria E. Alzaldúa. Light in the Dark / Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality. ed. Analouise Keating. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. Chapter 3.

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"What is a tigre mojano?"
Mene looked around the circle, and then said, 'Well, given my last story, you're not going to believe a word I say, but it's the tiger that is also human, the one that has the soul of the Indian witch.'
He said he had learned of the tiger from his grandmother. 'The shaman is in the body of the tiger and will protect the forest at all cost. That is how you know it is a tigre mojano: it will attack humans without direct provocation. And if you look closely, it has the testicles of a man.'
Adilma smacked him on the leg for that one, saying, 'Who do you think we are, sailors in a bar?' Then she turned to me and added to the story. She said she had heard of an herb the Putumayo Indians take to turn into tigers: it is yagé, also called tigre huasca. For protection, they wear a tiger's tooth from one that came into the village and was captured and killed. They believe it connects them with the forest.
— Diane Thiel ('88, '90 MFA). "The Lady and the Tiger." Excerpted from The White Horse: A Colombian Journey. Printed in Alumni POV, Brown Alumni Magazine. July/August 2004.

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"In Upper Burma, among the Taman tribe of the Upper Chindwin river, if a man wishes to turn himself into a tiger he urinates on the ground, strips himself, and rolls on the place which he has wetted."
— Nudity in India in Custom and Ritual. W. Crooke, C.I.E., Hon. D.Sc. Oxon. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol XLIX, July-December, 1919. Published by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 50, Great Russell Street, London, W.C 1. p. 249. Footnoted to Journ. Roy. Anthrop. Inst., xli, 306.

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Why a rare image of one of Malaysia’s last tigers is giving conservationists hope, Rebecca Cairns, CNN, January 16, 2024

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As the "bear is never just a bear"...

"Native American cultures have long acknowledged the powerful symbolism of the bear, recognizing its wisdom, courage, power, and strength, as well as its unpredictability. Some cultures also see the bear as a healing maternal spirit with powerful medicine, a peaceful solitary mother figure who is, nevertheless, capable of great savagery and aggression when provoked or threatened. The bear is never just a bear. It is always something greater and more wild, more sublime and powerful than humans can perhaps ever fully understand."
— Steven Church. One With the Tiger: Sublime and Violent Encounters Between Humans and Animals. Soft Skull Press, 2016. p. 34.

...so is the tiger never just a tiger.

And if you let human/nature boundaries remain malleable, you may find that humans and animals can turn into each other.

“The Yoruba word for forest is igbo, and the name for the special area is etile, so together the reserve is igbo etile. Inside of the igbo etile no animals can be hunted. They are safe there.
There is another type of huge forest reserve called eluju gbogbofo. This large area is farther from town, and people are not allowed to enter there — not to hunt or do anything at all. The only uses of the eluju gbogbofo are magical. Human beings can go there to turn into animals, and animals can turn into human beings. In these untouched places, metamorphosis and evolution are possible. In the natural state of the earth, the boundaries between humans and the rest of nature are malleable. There, the boundaries between the human world and the spirit world are not fixed. Long ago, there were certain people living in the tops of the trees in the forest, and the missionaries tried to make them come down. They wanted the boundaries between humans and nature to be fixed. But once boundaries are fixed, there becomes division.”
— Awise Agbaye Wande Abimbola, special advisor to the president of Nigeria on cultural affairs and traditional matters. Interviewed by Leah Penniman. Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations With Black Environmentalists. Amistad, 2023. Chapter: "It Is Time for a New Covenant."

The tiger population in a large forest in Thailand has tripled between 2007 and 2023, a conservation success. There had been an estimated 41 tigers; now there are 143.

"President Donald Trump posted video Tuesday [Oct 13, 2026] of the moments before a man was fatally mauled by a tiger after he jumped into its enclosure at a U.K. wildlife park.

“Don’t ever mess with nature!” Trump posted on his Truth Social page. Attached to his caption was a video of the moment William Chapman was attacked by a tiger after he entered its enclosure on Saturday. Chapman later died from his injuries.

In a callous followup post, Trump posted a video compilation of other attacks from tigers and lions."

Trump, 80, Posts Video Of Man Fatally Mauled By Tiger: 'Don't Ever Mess With Nature!' by Sebastian Murdock, Oct 13, 2026

Katie Zacharia is Trump's new press secretary

"...today, Reuters reported that Kalshi is investigating suspicious trades having to do with Trump’s selection of Katie Zacharia as the new White House press secretary."

Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 9, 2026

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"Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic Party and Hollywood of sexually trafficking children and eating people.
— Judd Legum, New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist, Popular Information, Oct 11, 2026

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"Trump’s choice of Katie Zacharia on Friday to become the new White House press secretary illustrates that the administration is fully committed to pushing its dominance through disinformation. As Judd Legum explained yesterday in Popular Information, Zacharia is a conspiracy theorist who pushed the “Pizzagate” conspiracy, the lie popular in 2016 that leading Democrats and Hollywood figures were sexually trafficking children and engaging in cannibalism in an organization run out of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant.

As Legum notes, Zacharia was relatively obscure before Trump tapped her. Her major qualification is that she posts a lot on Trump’s social media site and has worked as a senior communications advisor for the site."

— Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 12, 2026

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"When President Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity and appointed her as his new press secretary, he called her “an attorney.”

This is also how Zacharia, repeatedly and publicly, describes herself.

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A lawyer, by definition, is “an individual who is authorized to practice law.” Merely holding a J.D. degree, as Zacharia does, does not authorize her to practice law. To become a lawyer, she would need to be admitted to a bar, which in most cases involves passing a bar exam."

— Judd Legum, Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she? There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any. Popular Information, Oct 13, 2026

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Katie Zacharia makes Karoline Leavitt seem like Winston Churchill

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM

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‘She Can Barely Read’: New Trump Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Faceplants in First Briefing “She needs to get much better, fast, otherwise she’ll break Scaramucci’s record,” said one unnamed White House official. Brad Reed, Common Dreams, Oct 13, 2026

Trump's ban on journalists covering the White House

Sarah Kendzior writes (Gutting the Fourth Estate: The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. Sep 23, 2026):

Trump’s first term has been memory-holed. His dirty deeds are treated as discrete acts instead of as a continuum of crime with recurring players. His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain.

The public domain was purchased and destroyed by oligarchs: purchased to be destroyed. The Thiel example I gave in 2016 was a preview. Musk bought and transmogrified Twitter. Google replaced its search engine with AI. Other outlets, unable to profit off paywalls, sold themselves to plutocrats who erased their archives.

This week, Trump banned CNN, MSNow, and Politico from the White House. The outlets that long acted as Trump’s friend... Trump has long attacked media who support him, creating a mirage of dissent to cloak the reality of compliance. ... This corrupt synergy is one reason Americans stopped watching.

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The real attack is not on these outlets, but on the First Amendment itself.

In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media much as he seeks to destroy the US itself.

Trump has been honest about his goals, stating in 2014 that he sought to destroy the US and then employing the playbook of Project 2025 to do it."

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“Access journalism” is not about the journalist having access to the regime, but the regime having longtime access to the journalist. It is a common prerequisite in mafia states.

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...the ban is wrong on principle, even when the banned lack principles — and because the goal is to supplant everyone with hallucinating robots.

A failed journalist is a human being. One can critique their coverage and parse their propaganda. The goal of a technofascist regime is to replace reporting with sycophancy and silence. The only guaranteed way to do that is to eliminate people.

Banning reporters is wrong. It doesn’t matter which reporters. I don’t care who you are. Let me repeat: I don’t care who you are. No one does anymore. Hallowed halls turned hollow as media institutions were gutted of the bravery that made them real. There is little to admire. But there is something to protect: the potential for change.

A. R. Moxon writes (Thank You For Your Support: Sep 26, 2026):

Most of our legacy media services—print, web, video, cable, what have you—have been bought up by billionaires, and most of the billionaires are becoming more and more open about putting their old thumbs on the old scales, so to speak, to promote their billionaire agenda. Jeff Bezos has the Washington Post. Larry Ellison now owns TikTok. Elon Musk has Twitter. Somebody or other has Newsweek, somebody else or other has TIME. Maybe they're the same somebody. They've hired opinion writers and talking heads who exist only to launder the most retrograde opinions and abject moral complacency into common currency. You've got spectacle of degradation such as centrist-posing right wing troll Bari Weiss running CBS as a far-right conspiracy mill, spiking stories critical of the current fascist regime, and hiring the likes of longtime consent manufacturer Ross "Don't" Douthat as a featured correspondent on the once-respected journalism magazine show 60 Minutes. The billionaire idea doesn't seem so much to get people to believe in the lies their mouthpieces pass into common currency (though they'd be well pleased if people did believe them and a lot of people do) so much as to convince people there's no such thing as truth, or that it's no longer worth the work of trying to figure out the difference.

Plus, Moxon continues:

They've got these machines, the billionaires, word-guessing machines that have sucked up the sum total of human creativity and now are able to output simulacrums of human creativity that are good enough to fool less discerning sensibilities, able to convince people that they too can be creative without engaging in the work of creativity and the craft of creation that makes creativity worthwhile in the first place; to fool people who want to be fooled, that the outputs of the guessing machines are the results of their own work rather than just a flat-soda counterfeit of what others have done.

These days authors are losing big contracts for suspicions of using AI. Are they using AI? Who can say? Maybe so. Some authors surely are. But corporations use AI for anything and everything, and it's not a scandal when they do it. It's almost as if the plagiarism isn't making machines that issue outputs based on everyone else's work, but when anyone else writes something that seems to be aping the style of the plagiarism machine. Isn't that interesting?

Also this performance: 'You Cannot Be Asking Me That!': Trump’s AG Goes Nuclear On Live TV Over Press Ban: Todd Blanche claimed Trump never “denied access” to the outlets during the heated exchange. Jazmin Tolliver, HuffPost, Sep 27, 2026

Now this:

...Paramount and Warner Bros. overcame the key hurdle to closing their deal, when California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 Democratic state attorneys general dropped their opposition... It isn’t quite done, the judge hasn’t agreed to approve the consent decree, and there are amicus briefs and a well-received letter from Senator Cory Booker that the judge will hear arguments about. But it’s hard to imagine this one being paused for legal reasons.

It’s easy to see this merger fight as a catastrophic loss, which it is. It will combine two of the five major movie studios, CNN and CBS, and major streaming platforms under the control of a highly politically connected owner of Oracle and TikTok. Iconic TV writer Mike Schur basically said it’s game over for Hollywood, and the American news media will likely become more corrupt, feckless, and aligned with capital.

But the merger challenge is also more than that, and it has implications beyond the castle walls of media, as important as those are. This fight was a battle between coalitions, and in some ways, it is a prelude to more of that fight in this election cycle and beyond.

David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, wasn’t alone in his empire-building ambitions. It takes a village to centralize media. Wall Street was fully on board, as was the defense bar. In August, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that the state challenge to the Paramount-Warner merger has the potential to “deeply damage our capital markets, our dynamic system.” Donald Trump pushed the deal, but so did Democrat Ari Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel. So did Tom Cruise. So did the Director’s Guild and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. So did California Governor Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Karen Bass, incoming Governor Xavier Becerra, and much of the state legislature.

The other group were populists on the left, the anti-monopoly world, artists, the Writer’s Guild of America East and West, and the public itself.

Monopoly Round-Up: Paramount-WB Isn't Just a Loss, It's a Prelude The unorthodox development isn’t that politicians caved; it’s that people noticed it. Plus, bond yields go nuts, and Trump and Xi meet to hash out China-U.S. relations. Matt Stoller and Lee Hepner. BIG by Matt Stoller, Sept 28, 2026

Trump keeps demonstrating that his press ban has nothing to do with the administration’s stated "national security" pretext. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) September 28, 2026 at 12:24 PM

‘Brazen Attempt to Try to Intimidate Journalists’: Trump DOJ Launches Antitrust Probe Into News Networks: “The investigation is nonsense,” said one press freedom advocate. “Trump may view the presidency as a business venture, but news outlets’ standing up for their constitutional rights has nothing to do with antitrust law.” Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Oct 11, 2026

'Democrats who cosplay as substantive' (from BIG by Matt Stoller)

A year ago, I wrote Being Trans & Drawing the Line, about (among other things) the desire to live in a political "simulacrum".

I've also been thinking about Democrats who give up on basic rights for trans people, pretending to see us as human and then suddenly changing their minds. The following seems to me to shed light on that.

Today, Matt Stoller says, "it’s an older generation of Democrats who cosplay as substantive." He is explaining something about the big media merger in the news right now:

The second level is about the Democrats, which is a political party few people really understand. The most important thing to get about the older generation of Democrats is they are fundamentally uninterested in the real world. They have a form of politics, but it is unrelated to governing. It is about validating each other as savvy and polite, while deferring to objective experts. That’s why they love ‘independent’ agencies and asking for studies and vague regulations.

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When California Attorney General Rob Bonta took a stand against this merger, it was stark, a real position on an important question of market and media structure. He was playing in the big leagues, where Wall Street plays. When he reversed himself completely on this merger, he met widespread disbelief from virtually everyone, from opponents of the deal to supporters of it. And that’s not because he caved, but because he had talked so tough and then flipped without any explanation. There were many people musing about whether he had been blackmailed, or bribed, and whether this move was the biggest betrayal anyone had ever seen.

But I don’t think any of those are why he flipped. I think he flipped because he assumed no one would care. And that’s because all of the insiders around him likely told him serious people would let this merger through, and any controversy would blow over in a few days. The entire state Democratic establishment was pressing him to let the merger through, and he doesn’t notice anyone but them.

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Most Democrats do this kind of reversal, and have for many decades.

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Most neoliberal Democrats are like actors playing doctors on TV. Asking a neoliberal Democrat to do something about corporate power or economics is like asking a TV doctor to do surgery. It’s not just that they won’t do it, they are baffled anyone would even consider that their job. A different analogy is the film Galaxy Quest, a sci fi adventure about a group of actors from a Star Trek style show. They are pulled into a battle among aliens, one faction of whom thinks the show is a documentary of a real civilization and has built their society around the fictional series. At a certain point, the lead has to tell the aliens who have worshiped him that he is in fact just an actor.

What Bonta did here is just that.

In other words, it wasn’t the betrayal that was unique, it was that everyone noticed it.

— Monopoly Round-Up: Paramount-WB Isn't Just a Loss, It's a Prelude: The unorthodox development isn’t that politicians caved; it’s that people noticed it. Plus, bond yields go nuts, and Trump and Xi meet to hash out China-U.S. relations. BIG by Matt Stoller, Sept 28, 2026

U.S. Senator Susan Collins took a $150,000 campaign contribution in exchange for $32 million in govt contracts

On September 22, ProPublica published a story about US Sen. Susan Collins: "The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way," by William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden and Kirsten Berg.

In 2019, Scott Reed was head of the Collins super PAC and had to raise some significant funds, so (as one does, I guess!) he met with three executives from Hawaiian defense contractor Navatek. Because Navatek was a government contractor, any donation from them would constitute an illegal bribe.

"A year earlier, Collins had helped their company land a multimillion-dollar Navy research contract in Maine," ProPublica reports. "Now, seated at a coffee shop not far from the U.S. Capitol, Reed asked them for a $500,000 donation."

"After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."

As summed up by Common Dreams, Collins "was at the center of a 'sprawling pay-to-play operation' under which the chief executive of a Hawaii-based defense contractor [Navatek] allegedly funneled campaign cash to lawmakers in exchange for lucrative federal contracts."

Heather Cox Richardson also wrote about this: September 23, 2026

AI going rogue

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— ⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen (@eileen.actor) September 24, 2026 at 12:37 PM

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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— Caræsten 🇵🇸 (@cara.city) September 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM

If a human did what ChatGPT did, they'd be convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, which can carry a life sentence. It's unconscionable that Canada's legislators are letting OpenAI get away with helping to plan murders. At the very least, it shouldn't be allowed to continue to operate in Canada.

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— Mary Gillis (@marygillis.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 1:50 PM

If a zoo animal started "going rogue" and "escaping the sandbox" they would shoot it immediately

— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) September 25, 2026 at 7:56 AM

Karl Bode has an article...

sci-fi AI doomsday scenarios also provide media cover for historic levels of corruption and the aggressive disintegration of public interest regulators

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— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) September 24, 2026 at 2:20 PM

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 11:59 AM

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 12:07 PM

Uhhh, why is anyone listening to this Nate Soares guy on AI?? “I think global warming is going to be fine. I think either we’re going to kill ourselves with the AI or we’re going to be able to invent the tech to just pull the carbon right out of the atmosphere. It’s going to be fine.” Boneheaded!!

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— Rachel Gilmore (@rachelgilmore.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Sorry but if your AI criticism doesn't include analysis of how the hyperscale data centre push is actually seeing the biggest billionaires actively worsen the climate crisis and push for more deregulation of and investment in the fossil fuel industry to power those data centres, you're a dummy

— Rachel Gilmore (@rachelgilmore.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 2:11 PM

Anyway, everyone should pre-order @parismarx.com's new book hyperscale because he's actually doing REAL tech criticism grounded in meticulous research into the actual, on-the-ground impacts of AI that isn't clickbait bullshit like this guy

— Rachel Gilmore (@rachelgilmore.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 2:13 PM

Oh, techbros' AI hype reflects "displaced anxiety about our … climate situation": gosh, whatever could David mean by that? (*scrolls through timeline*) …

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— Greg Greene (he/him/his) (@greene.haus) September 24, 2026 at 2:21 PM

… ah, I see. "I think global warming is going to be fine [because] we're either going to kill ourselves with the AI or … in invent the tech to just pull the carbon right out of the atmosphere": not even subtle, that's _explicit_ displacement of climate anxiety. These folks are weird!

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— Greg Greene (he/him/his) (@greene.haus) September 24, 2026 at 2:22 PM

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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— Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 11:04 AM

These people are absolutely 100% disconnected from the material reality that their tech-obsessed lifestyle is destroying the ecosystem we depend on for food. Food doesn't grow in the ground for them, it appears on their plate. Capitalism is a brain disease and a death cult

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— Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 (@hilaryagro.com) September 24, 2026 at 11:40 AM

the future tech bros are dreaming of

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— Smooth Dunk (@smoothdunk2.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 8:07 AM

A new report tracks the series of donations AI executives made before Trump scrapped a major regulation. trib.al/DgqPjNx

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— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) September 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM

"They're warning that these machines might eradicate all of humanity, and while that claim seems just as questionable and self-interested as every other billionaire claim, billionaires sure do seem to be fantasizing about the eradication, so we might at least note the statement of intent."
A. R. Moxon, Thank You For Your Support, The Reframe, Sep 26, 2026

Religious scholars impressed by AI (2026)

The Case for a Human-Centered, Runaway AI, by Ahmed Bouzid, The Humanist, 1 October 2026

They invoke the need for sensitivity & memory, but they promote antisemitism & Islamophobia

In which, if you don't agree with someone, they'll challenge your identity:

"...there is the creeping sensation among observers that, as the philosopher Susan Neiman told reporter Peter Kuras, German memory culture has “gone haywire” in the last several years. Kuras’s eye-popping report, which went online last week, takes Germany’s expansive system of antisemitism commissioners as its case study in memory gone awry, presenting a portrait of a government bureaucracy peopled largely by non-Jews with scant expertise, for whom 'antisemitism' has become the vehicle for state-sanctioned Zionism and Islamophobia. To be frank, this story is bonkers. During the editing process, I was continually shocked by the sheer chutzpah of these figures, who frequently tell Jews who disagree with their political orientation that perhaps they aren’t Jews at all, or that they’re not being sensitive enough to the German position vis-à-vis the Holocaust. This has coincided with a draconian crackdown on Palestinian speech in Germany; protests of Israeli oppression have been barred for several years in a row—with input from antisemitism commissioners, as Kuras’s reporting reveals. As we wrote in our Spring issue responsa, there is something uniquely mind-bending about how Holocaust memory is now being harnessed by the historical perpetrator for counterintuitive ends."
— Jewish Currents email, "Now Online: Two Pieces on Holocaust Memory in Europe," Aug 9, 2023

Meanwhile, Instagram is allowing antisemitism.

Meanwhile, the organization Middle East Forum maintains a database that, when viewed by HuffPost in 2025, "contained entries for over 5,500 individuals and 10,600 organizations. MEF did not say how many entries it now contains but pointed to its millions of data points pulled from public records. Entries appeared to track people in 45 countries, but most (over 4,700) were based in the U.S." Rowaida Abdelaziz reported on this; she found herself in the database. (HuffPost)