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We lost Graham Greene at 73. Oneida, Onyota’a:ka—People of the Standing Stone. For us, he was family. Everyone’s uncle. I wrote about the laughter, the mischief, and the truth he carried. 💔 Read here: Graham Greene was Everyone's Uncle open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
Someone made a deliberate choice to not make these searchable PDFs.
From the Israeli occupation bombing of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza
🚨BREAKING - Israel has started it's ground operation in Gaza City - ABC News
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
Also, this is what all traffic looked like at the time. Lotta commercial flights. If I’m any of the nations who had people on those flights, I’d demand to know how what kind of risk of getting hit they were exposed to.
" 2018. Ball Aerospace: Headquartered in Boulder, this company builds spacecraft, components, and instruments for civil, commercial, and national defense applications. Ball recently was bought by British weapon company BAE.
"manufactures advanced defense systems, including satellites, missile defense, and AI-driven autonomous systems. The company's presence in Jefferson County alone has a massive economic impact, with a $350 million satellite production facility underway as of
"Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, and Ball Aerospace. These companies are involved in producing key military and defense technologies, including: Lockheed Martin: Develops and
large military bases and federal research labs in Colorado received another $15.7 billion, for a total federal funding influx of $38 billion. Key Military and Defense Components: Major defense contractors with a significant presence in Colorado include Lockheed Martin,
reported that in 2022, the aerospace industry contributed $8.3 billion in economic impact to the state, with annual sales of $14.1 billion. Record-breaking 2024 Federal Contracts: Colorado-headquartered companies secured $22.8 billion in federal aerospace funding in 2024. Additionally,
"annually, and in 2024, it secured a record-breaking $22.8 billion in federal funding for Colorado-based companies. Here is a breakdown of the industry's size and components: Aerospace Industry Economic Impact: The Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade (OEDIT)
Colorado's sleepy sleepy Bennet and Hickenlooper with their AIPAC cash and Colorado's weapons producers "The total annual economic output of Colorado's aerospace industry is substantial. Recent reports show the industry's economic impact exceeding $8 billion
A Georgia judge held Democrats in contempt for blocking the appointment of two election deniers to a county election board. “The GOP is...demanding elected officials...face jail time for doing their jobs,” Fair Fight CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo said.
"karma" in translation is "action" and in some conceptions can be understood as : If I do this thing, it will be easier to do it again. This is what's happening with Hegseth. He killed, and killed some more, and it's getting easier for him.
China said "the bots will be leashed"
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Thank you Kyle and lordy we need more journalists doing this.
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
Hegseth is a murderer. Having limitless guns and bombs doesn't change a thing and doesn't make it "right." Venezuela is no threat except to BIG OIL that wants their reserves.
yes, excellent. for example, Joe Neguse (CO House -D) cruising all over creation out here because his district goes from I-70 to Wyoming and across the continental divide is ridiculous. Trying to support and rep 770,000 people is nonsense.
A new tenure track fiction job at Oberlin, deadline of 9/15/2025. jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16771
where Black people overthrew "white" French rule was scary for US enslaver class. They organized state militias to maintain the obscene racialized order.
no, that's the marketing. States maintained violent racialized hierarchies allowing "white" people rights and privileges that others not in that category could not have. Enslaved people would challenge these conditions in every conceivable way. The success of Toussaint Louverture in Haiti,
Very cool. Looking forward to the Polis Colorado train reaching 79MPH by 2038 - assuming it happens at all. We are not first in the world at anything except military spending and the number of incarcerated people. Thanks Eric for the share.
"Molan Labe"
Showing a little motor boat get annihilated by USmil as if the US was "being invaded" is so so sad.
RE "Declassified video showing the U.S. committing a war crime when it fired on a civilian vessel near Venezuela." This is war porn. There was no need for USmil to murder those people. We cannot let this be normal.
BREAKING: We secured a court order requiring the State Dept to preserve & account for Signal messages of senior national security officials, including Sec. Marco Rubio. This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
crush the vandals. people don't want racial and gender hierarchies that require violence and segregation.
you may also note the Polis did not cut k-12 or public safety (announced) and also did not cut judiciary any, nor cut dept of Corrections (state prison) EXCEPT for "Trans people health care" (justified by an alleged 'lack of need')
It’s not an accident he’s invading the cities where he’s the least popular
What food from your city would you throw at a federal officer?
“What you have accomplished here flies in the face of all the assumptions and stereotypes that have been heaped upon you,” Gov. Pritzker said. "To that I say: Don’t ever stop defying those expectations."
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
“The voices of survivors have been omitted from the conversation for far too long …This is the moment to stand united to ensure that those who’ve been exploited and abused are heard loud and clear.” www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Cash bail keeps hundreds of thousands of legally innocent people behind bars who could stay in their communities if they could pay for their freedom.
SEC using AI to find regulations to cut. Yes, it's white supremacy. "they are specifically targeting diversity-related rules and regulations that the administration considers unnecessary obstacles for businesses, including certain reporting requirements www.investing.com/news/general...
Despite a persistent belief that Gen Z isn’t politically active, young people are finding and creating ways to fight for a better future.
NEW: In a huge win for South Dakota voters, a federal judge strikes down a state law that sought to make it harder for citizens to put issues on the ballot. The judge ruled the law was unconstitutional and a violation of free speech. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
Say his name: Rasmi Salem, the 275th journalist killed by US-Israel. As the account of Hossam Shabat (who himself was killed long ago) reports, Rasmi “was martyred after being directly targeted by a reconnaissance missile fired by the Israeli occupation army on Abu Al-Amin Street in Sheikh Radwan”
"Maddox had been the victim of an “unprovoked attack” on the 2nd while “30 miles off North Vietnam,” clearly within international waters.
"Yellow journalism" where the corporate press marches us to war. (Also see "Kuwait babies" in 1991) cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcont... "Red PTBoats Fire at U.S. Destroyer on Vietnam Duty.” Upon reading the article, this intrigued reader would discover that The US Destroyer +
Now that US Navy is active off the coast of VZ (the 3rd largest oil reserve in the world is controlled by Venezuala) and Rubio is talking about how there's doings going on, remember the Maine. (and Gulf of Tonkin bullsht- see below) www.gilderlehrman.org/history-reso...
Over 1,000 Demonstrations Held Across the U.S. for Labor Day
Is sending up fighter jets to respond to a press conference by your dead best friend's sex trafficking victims considered weird or not weird these days. I've lost track.
if we're not yet to abolish prisons and remove the cause for imprisonment, 20 year max. idc idc idc
teach your kids: "SS St. Louis was a ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that was turned away by Cuba, the US, and Canada in 1939, forcing its return to Europe where a portion of its passengers later died in the Holocaust." And Ford was a Nazi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F...
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Colorado's Polis just couldn't keep the vandals happy enough by giving them open access to our databases to hunt down innocent immigrants, and defunding trans care in the dept of corrections (last week). They took the Space Command anyway.
Anchorage is a lovely town of immigrants and Native people and it's terrific to see the solidarity and the efforts. Keep up the good work!
Ever since the #AlaskaSummit, I have seen so much more grassroots activism around Alaska and I just wanna say thank you! We will went back our democracy and then we will make it better! #StandUPAlaska #ActionAlaska
A Mesa County sheriff’s deputy resigned today, almost three months after he was accused of violating Colorado law by sharing information with federal officials that led to a Utah college student’s immigration arrest
Dude from Alabama "We have Blue Origin here and Space X here". Get it? "We will build the Donald J Trump Space Command"
DJT, "Colorado went to all mail-in voting, so we can't trust their elections." (We trust our elections in Colorado.) "Huntsville will build the Golden Dome missile defense shield"
Trump announces "Rocket City" in Alabama as he moves work from Colorado to Alabama. "30,000 Alabama jobs" and "billions and billions of dollars"
The birth rate discourse makes me snark in Black Gen X… they criminalized Black parents (teen & single) back when we were growing up. Reagan literally made our reproduction a campaign issue! (Read Professor Dorothy E. Roberts’ work!) Many of us Black late 1970s babies had kids late or not at all… 🤷🏾♀️
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
Next activist/organizer drop in space is September 28. www.eventbrite.com/e/1648571434...
"comparison is the thief of happiness" has worked for me now and then
Abolish the Senate. Expand house to 1201 reps and digitize the participation. Remove congressional districts in states, all reps are elected by the whole state.
"ICC Auditorium" good one.
The Wall Street Journal confirms: Ukraine has deployed AI-powered drone swarms in combat. These drones can communicate, coordinate, and decide the timing of strikes without direct operator input. WSJ describes this as a new frontier in warfare
The currently roughly 680-690 immigration judges are hearing cases every day, but since there are 3.5 million cases in the backlog it would take years to go through all of them. As for what the 600 military lawyers are doing right now, who knows? Other jobs. And they have no training for this.
“There is a lot of uncertainty for the multilingual community in my school … Can I get my kid to school without being stopped by law enforcement? Is mom or dad going to be home when I get home?”
CALL FOR INPUT: Are you a student, parent, or teacher at @dcpublicschools.bsky.social? We're looking for people to chat with @51st.news about how the new ban on cell phones is going. Email christinasturdivantsani (at) 51st (dot) news if you want to share your thoughts!
This. Besides the cost, this is why I stopped going to the doctor. I got tired of being told it’s all in my head. The last doctor I saw yelled at me and that was over two years ago. I left and never returned.
Kat doing real work, as usual. Ideally politicians know history, and ideally they speak and talk about history. For proper policy, "how we got here" is a fundamental question.
Jobs that employ men for strength reasons are sunsetting as robot competence leaps forward. Men without (voluntary consensual) work is not a good situation for any culture. Not a Luddite and we we need EMPLOYMENT for PEOPLE. roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/07/18/n...
def not just you. beyond immigration and his lack of visible support for the targeted population, cutting minimum wage for tipped workers is just another example...
federal protections disappear, some states may protect, some not www.gjsentinel.com/news/western...
“amid a surge of arrests nationally and in Colorado, attorney Hans Meyer said. — The Durango Herald
Colorado whistle blower caught Polis cooperating with ICE re database sharing. ICE is patrolling Durango “Immigration attorney encourages Durango residents to push back against ICE with public policy. It’s up to local communities to push back against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Colorado loses jobs to Alabama as vandals decide to move Space Force command to Huntsville AL
“Today, as the government calls on tens of thousands of reservists to participate in the cruel reoccupation of Gaza City, I implore my fellow soldiers: Refuse to report. Thousands have already stopped showing up. . . . This is the time to speak. It is your duty.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
this is the jig controlling, reducing, tapering, the profit margins in arms sales is a must for the planet peace and rumors of peace destabilize this trade and so war war war
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
in defending medicaid mental health care since 2019 we have been in the paper dozens of times. reporters, editors, publishers like the drama and suffering but rarely if ever name ANTHEM and UNITED HEALTHCARE as drivers of inadequate networks
footman of authoritarianism, the Atlantic just embarrassing itself RFK is a lunatic vandal narcissist addict with poor judgement enabled by same. MAHA is pyramid scheme vitamin sales
"With my recent paycheck of $34 for my work as a peer facilitator, I purchased a sweatshirt, two 8-ounce bags of white rice, two bags of spicy refried beans and five ramen soups. But I’ll have to wait another two weeks to order sweatpants and hygiene products like toothpaste and shampoo."
there are six companies that own almost every TV radio print website streaming service etc that want to keep power and profit they act in their own interest, not ours for the elite, a divided populace is less able to oppose. so they push hierarchy (race, gender, class) and we argue
can we pleez
yes. without ACA mental plan premium support the doing-better-than-Medicaid population is going to see huge premium increases real soon. maybe good for D politically for that to happen but bad for the people
melville taking freedoms like shakespeare inspiring
Anastasiia Mozghova, a DressX spokesperson, told me in an email that the ads were managed by an “external partner.” Here's more of the company's statement:
the long history of denying Black children access to pools to learn how to swim comes to mind One of the founders of Cornell had a kid that drowned and thus all Big Red undergrads have to swim a length of the pool to graduate (disabled students excepted)
Chicago isn’t even in the top 50. Colima, Mexico is the “MURDER CAPITAL” of the world…
“genocide is not ok” is hardly a purity test
"One cannot live and work in the midst of such pain and misery without absorbing some of the trauma. Katrina still haunts me," David Rae Morris writes.
Anyway, back to Chicago’s huge decline in shootings. It’s inevitable that it will get 1/100th the coverage of the rise, and any coverage will put cops and DAs at the center, almost to the exclusion of all else. Which are common traits that I think have played a big part in Getting Us Here.
Welcome back from authoritarian August, Democrats in Congress. Do you know that you've been made irrelevant? Are you going to use the power you have to do something about it? From me... prospect.org/politics/202...
need electable-by-local-standards D candidates in every redistricted district and Freedom Rider types down there getting out the vote don’t give up on TX
“and here is our Countdown to Chicago and a look at the online gambling odds for ‘when’ and ‘how violent’, pull up a chair and grab some popcorn for the lynching of a city. souvenirs and t-shirts available”
It remains the case that the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and legitimize. Politics is not over. But "normalcy" very much is.
Congratulations to LDF client and newly re-elected Mayor of Newburn, AL Patrick Braxton! He reps the majority Black town where elections were suppressed for decades and he was shut out of office until our legal team challenged-a win for Mr. Braxton and for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
