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This is the way. The best path to changing American policy is to put pressure on the big companies, not on the government or the citizenry. That's a sad state of affairs, but it is the state of affairs.
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is the way. The best path to changing American policy is to put pressure on the big companies, not on the government or the citizenry. That's a sad state of affairs, but it is the state of affairs.
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The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition [via @grist.org]
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition
Cobalt, lithium, and other minerals are being stockpiled at the expense of climate action, a new report warns.
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition [via @grist.org]
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has concluded "regular forces" means the military, and has therefore ruled that Trump does NOT have authority to deploy the National Guard under §12406. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has concluded "regular forces" means the military, and has therefore ruled that Trump does NOT have authority to deploy the National Guard under §12406. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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I am fresh out of sighs. Donald's taken them all.
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I am fresh out of sighs. Donald's taken them all.
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I’m assuming that there will be no killing in Trump’s “Patriot Games,” but I guess we’ll have to wait until fall to see.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I’m assuming that there will be no killing in Trump’s “Patriot Games,” but I guess we’ll have to wait until fall to see.
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In a residential neighborhood in Kenner, Louisiana, two vehicles full of Border Patrol agents speed down the street. They might spend hours waiting to detain an immigrant—only to be thwarted by a united neighborhood effort.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In a residential neighborhood in Kenner, Louisiana, two vehicles full of Border Patrol agents speed down the street. They might spend hours waiting to detain an immigrant—only to be thwarted by a united neighborhood effort.
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I was not expecting a guilty verdict. I hope Judge Dugan is successful on appeal. I’m concerned about this emboldening this lawless administration.
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I was not expecting a guilty verdict. I hope Judge Dugan is successful on appeal. I’m concerned about this emboldening this lawless administration.
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Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man
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Important.
NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Important.
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Meanwhile. Right before his address.
Another strike.
Still not authorized by Congress.
Still not supported by most Americans.
Still happening.
Another strike.
Still not authorized by Congress.
Still not supported by most Americans.
Still happening.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Meanwhile. Right before his address.
Another strike.
Still not authorized by Congress.
Still not supported by most Americans.
Still happening.
Another strike.
Still not authorized by Congress.
Still not supported by most Americans.
Still happening.
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Politicians wringing their hands over why teachers are leaving the profession. The truth is, we'd get more people staying in teaching if our various Governments understood that the real purpose of education is *not* to build a compliant workforce, but a society of well-rounded individuals...
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Politicians wringing their hands over why teachers are leaving the profession. The truth is, we'd get more people staying in teaching if our various Governments understood that the real purpose of education is *not* to build a compliant workforce, but a society of well-rounded individuals...
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Cholera deaths are nightmarish & pathetically easy to prevent - clean water & antibiotics. The US has condemned people to horrible, gory deaths while saving taxpayers next to nothing, or nothing at all.
This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug.
We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Cholera deaths are nightmarish & pathetically easy to prevent - clean water & antibiotics. The US has condemned people to horrible, gory deaths while saving taxpayers next to nothing, or nothing at all.
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The replacement of a glovebox window at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility last month led to two workers’ skin being contaminated and another’s nasal smear testing positive for plutonium. sfnm.co/49eQZwL
Workers contaminated at Los Alamos National Laboratory as glovebox window removed
The incident occurred Nov. 19 during the change of a glovebox window, according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
sfnm.co
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The replacement of a glovebox window at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility last month led to two workers’ skin being contaminated and another’s nasal smear testing positive for plutonium. sfnm.co/49eQZwL
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Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
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This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
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In 1965 the CIA tried to install a plutonium powered listening device on a mountain top to spy on China.
The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered.
A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered.
A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
In 1965 the CIA tried to install a plutonium powered listening device on a mountain top to spy on China.
The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered.
A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered.
A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump is also threatening the Pope.
The POPE.
The POPE.
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Trump is also threatening the Pope.
The POPE.
The POPE.
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This isn't tone-deaf. It's morally deaf, dumb & blind.
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This isn't tone-deaf. It's morally deaf, dumb & blind.
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"Think about that: a federal contractor potentially earning a 62% profit margin on a supposedly in-house function, inside a federal health plan that legally prohibits this form of profit."
Just leaving this here to read. Mindblowing.
It's time for Medicare for All.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Just leaving this here to read. Mindblowing.
It's time for Medicare for All.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Anthem’s 62% Profit Margin in Federal Employees Health Benefits Contract
The OIG found that Anthem paid its own corporate sibling as if it were an outside vendor. The maneuver transformed a cost-based function into a source of "unlimited profit."
substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Think about that: a federal contractor potentially earning a 62% profit margin on a supposedly in-house function, inside a federal health plan that legally prohibits this form of profit."
Just leaving this here to read. Mindblowing.
It's time for Medicare for All.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Just leaving this here to read. Mindblowing.
It's time for Medicare for All.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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WOAH
Proposed requirement: applicants provide personal data including social media history for the past five years, email addresses from the past 10 years, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
Proposed requirement: applicants provide personal data including social media history for the past five years, email addresses from the past 10 years, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
WOAH
Proposed requirement: applicants provide personal data including social media history for the past five years, email addresses from the past 10 years, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
Proposed requirement: applicants provide personal data including social media history for the past five years, email addresses from the past 10 years, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
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CNBC confirms story, first reported by the FT, that President Trump and Treas secty Bessent will hold interviews with prospective fed chair candidates beginning tomorrow with former Fed Gov Kevin Warsh.
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
CNBC confirms story, first reported by the FT, that President Trump and Treas secty Bessent will hold interviews with prospective fed chair candidates beginning tomorrow with former Fed Gov Kevin Warsh.
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The reason we don’t sell H200, and other advanced chips to China is that they have dual-use (military and civilian) capability.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The reason we don’t sell H200, and other advanced chips to China is that they have dual-use (military and civilian) capability.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.