Aka, the sound of human brains buffering.

One of the side effects of concentration of wealth and investment is that it become very much harder to get support for projects that might challenge the concentration of wealth and investment.

It's vitally important to have an environment where new ideas can emerge to challenge the 'big guys'.

“It’s weird.”
“It seems messy.”

That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logisitics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base.

In which Vance calls @propublica.org -- recipient of the Pulitzer for Public Service two years running -- a "left wing blog" and then admits on national TV that he hasn't read the very story he's dismissing.

Here's the story, btw:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Wikipedia article on fascism now includes Trumpism. That tracks.

The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process. In an era of creeping authoritarianism this could hasten the Intelligence Community’s use as a tool of political espionage. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ICE is lying about gang affiliations and drugs to storm apartment buildings and sell people off to foreign prison camps and white people are clutching pearls but will still tell you how Ronald Reagan was the greatest President.

Let’s celebrate that frogs have just lost all legitimacy as a symbol for the far right

#OTD in 1958, Atlanta’s oldest Jewish temple was bombed because Rabbi Jacob Rothschild spoke out for racial justice.

Fifty sticks of dynamite didn’t silence him — or the movement for equality. #TheMarchContinues #StopHate

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It’s #SerotoninSunday!
📋Planned Parenthood is fighting back against MO's feral demand for PATIENT RECORDS. They’re suing to stop it cuz NO ONE remembers checking a box that said “I’m totally chill with a bunch of cop-brained, anti-abortion lawmakers having my private medical records.” bit.ly/3Wvhqal

How did tech industry leaders go from heaping praise on Barack Obama to going all in on Donald Trump?

A Silicon Valley chronicler explains the increasingly radical politics of Elon Musk, David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg 👇

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Speaking with Fox Business Friday morning, Rep. Buddy Carter said that (instead of working to end the government shutdown) he and his colleagues were going to file a resolution “today” to honor the president with the Nobel Prize. trib.al/Kh8Xqij

OPINION: Trump Is Destroying America, the Brand | The United States’ standing in the world and its global influence are waning, argues Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan.

Guys Jared Leto is extremely wealthy from his music career, has been acting since he was a teenager, executive produces many of the films he stars in and literally has his own "cult." Stop being surprised that he keeps being cast despite not being a draw, it's not actually a huge mystery.

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

Everyone who told you to support John Fetterman in that primary, is now telling you to support an ex-Blackwater mercenary with no voting record in the Maine primary.

When are you going to catch on?

They didn’t send ICE after gangs.
They didn’t send soldiers to find missing kids.
They didn’t touch anyone on the Epstein list.
Instead, they went after housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, teachers, journalists, single moms — and kids asleep in their beds.

The CDC’s Poxvirus & Rabies Branch—key to monitoring the only disease ever eradicated, #smallpox was reportedly RIF’d in the recent “Friday Massacre.”

Two labs in the world retain live variola virus (U.S. & Russia) and raises serious questions for global health security and oversight.

The impending pandemic will be much more deadly than Covid.

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home.

So much for “America First.”

I would like a Weird Al Yankovich song titled “Wood” where he goes into every type of lumber & which is best for a specific project.