Last Mile
@artifex24.bsky.social
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💙 PNW...🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 age: 76. pub’d 3 poetry bks. The last: https://www.rootstockpublishing.com/rootstock-books/p/lifting-stones “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to”.
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propublica.org
“They obviously have Chinese investors,” major SpaceX investor Iqbaljit Kahlon said in newly unsealed testimony, adding that some are “directly on the cap table,” referring to the company’s capitalization table, which lists its shareholders.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
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thebulwark.com
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
thebulwark.com
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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newrepublic.com
President Trump called Portland a war zone last week, and now state Republicans are trying to deliver one—by sharing a photo of “South American riot police” in 2008 from Getty Images. trib.al/TXz1zYw
Republicans Caught Using Fake Image to Lie for Trump About Portland
The Oregon Republican Party used images of riots in South America.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
aricohn.com
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
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bradleywhitford.bsky.social
Okay, I understand that my monthly ANTIFA donation is no longer a tax write-off, but I can keep the tote bag, right?
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motherjones.com
The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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propublica.org
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.
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democracydocket.com
A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate:

❌ 27 blue congressional districts
❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats
❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats

And the effects could ripple for over a generation.
GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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freedom.press
It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.
The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting
If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed
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propublica.org
“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”

(Published May)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...
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newyorker.com
“Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want—like a LAWYER when you’re eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.” In New Yorker Humor, job postings for ICE.
ICE Job Postings
ICE wants YOU to put your LEFT foot in then put your LEFT foot out then DO the hokeypokey and TURN IN your brother-in-law whom YOU didn’t realize THIS would AFFECT.
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neuroarborescent.bsky.social
I love this frog. The dude inside was sprayed but is ok.
This is what we are- joy in the face of destruction. We are love in the face of hatred. They will NOT take our joie de vivre. They will not get our silence or our compliance. However they can be invited to our rave if they stop being dicks.
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wired.com
US president Donald Trump appeared confused by a question over the possible suspension of habeas corpus, during an “antifa roundtable” event at the White House attended by conservative influencers.
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gtconway.bsky.social
she does make a lot of people moan though
sykescharlie.bsky.social
Rick Wilson compares her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage to a fake orgasm — Unfortunately, this makes her performance seem far more entertaining than it actually was; and is unfair to orgasms.
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Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage
If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.
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lincolnproject.us
Trump is much weaker than he looks. He's always been a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure. Now he’s a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure desperately trying to distract from all that by attacking US cities with our military and sending his Justice Dept after political opponents.