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RT @Subversivite: This Friday, 12 June, 4 young activists who broke into an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol - and were convicted of crim…

Hard to think of a greater honor than to be considered The Economist‘s intellectual enemy #1. My work is “intellectual ballast” for the largest number of Americans since 1975 wanting government to “improve the standard of living” of the poor, cut their costs, raise their incomes and stop AI from wrecking society, they say. Dream of an endorsement. Thank you @TheEconomist!

Florida paid a portable toilet company called Doodie Calls more than $92 million over six months to haul wastewater out of the Everglades. The state projected it would pay Doodie Calls $480 million over two years. For comparison, building a sewage treatment plant for a city of 10,000 people costs about $5 million. That is one vendor. At one facility. Built in eight days on an Everglades airstrip using hurricane disaster funds because Ron DeSantis declared immigration a state of emergency in 2023 to access a $5 billion fund set aside for floods and hurricanes. The facility costs between $1.2 million and $3 million per day to operate. A conservative estimate puts the annual per-capita cost at $500,000 per detainee. Florida spends $30,000 a year to house a convicted criminal in a state prison. The math on Alligator Alcatraz is not tougher than a prison. It is more than sixteen times more expensive. Three quarters of the men held there have never been convicted of a crime. They are awaiting civil immigration proceedings. They are being held in kennels - cages with steel mesh sides, 16 bunks, three toilets, brightly lit 24 hours a day. Amnesty International documented what it called deliberate neglect designed to dehumanize, including credible allegations of men held in stress positions in direct sunlight without food or water for hours at a time. Governor Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison. The Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska. The Louisiana Lockup at Angola. The naming contest is ongoing. The cruelty is the point. The cost is someone else's problem. Florida's emergency fund has dwindled to $200 million. The facility cannot run to the end of the year. The men in the cages are still there.

Bolivia's general strike against neoliberalism: Workers in the Santa Cruz region have forced police & paramilitary forces to retreat after more than 4 hours of resistance on the highway in San Julián. The barricade blocking the road remains in place for now.

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I understand many are here because someone they care about or want to follow still has blogs only here. But it's become inhumane. Elon Musk saw the propaganda opportunity. And is so insecure, he was willing to lose billions of $$ just to inflate his tweets' numbers. 1/2

The Trump family is openly doing everything that Republicans spent four years falsely accusing the Biden’s of and on a scale that no one ever conceived or thought possible. The silence from Republicans is deafing as the Trump’s use the presidency as a pin-less ATM.

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

Sometimes I forget how "normies" see the world. There are people out there that believe "consumers just decided to switch to streaming and give up physical media". Youtube lost money for a decade before it made a profit. Spotify lost money for 17 years. None of this is accidental or organic. People didn't "choose" these systems. They outright rejected them for literally decades while these systems operated at a loss that made competition with them impossible, funded by people who wanted to change the world into what we have now. A system where you own nothing, consume whatever is offered on-demand and nothing else, and you have no privacy or anonymity. Netflix killed Blockbuster with by-mail PHYSICAL MEDIA at a loss. The entire time they were eating Blockbuster's business they were losing money. After Blockbuster died, Netflix phased out physical media and I remember the severe backlash, but the choice was streaming or nothing. Still many (maybe most) people just cobbled together private collections from bargain bins and garage sales. Netflix continued to lose money....10 BILLION dollars of loses in the 2010s even after Blockbuster went out of business. Understand the truth, that a cabal of global institutional investors funded companies that nobody wanted for literally decades at a cost of untold billions of dollars....until there was NOTHING ELSE LEFT for you to use.

Because of your voice on Delaney Hall, the Trump admin just released 18 yr old high school senior whose story I told. They released the pregnant women held inside. These releases show ICE isn’t targeting the violent criminals. ICE is feeling the pressure. Keep raising your voice.

“At the end of negotiations, these guys come up and say, ‘I’ve got a new respect for the union. I didn’t know this stuff was going on behind the scenes. I can see who’s trying to hold me down now—it’s not the union, it’s the company,’” Mikesell said. 2/2

One of many eye-popping exchanges between Scott Pelley and Nick Bilton in this morning’s meeting:

🗣️ Senior Fellow of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme of the Institute for Ethics in AI, Ambassador Audrey Tang (@audreyt) will deliver an upcoming lecture on Friday, May 22, from 4.30pm to 5.30pm, hosted by the Oxford Global Society (@global_oxford) for Education and Research, exploring the relationship between software freedom, democracy and civic responsibility across generations. The lecture, Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care Across Generations, will examine how open technologies and participatory digital infrastructures can help build more resilient, inclusive and democratic societies. 🔗 Learn more about the event: ox.ogeer.org/event/good-enou…

RT @TAIRAMASAAKI: We have gained many insights from Taiwan's policies. On behalf of the Liberal Democratic Party, I would like to express m…

I probably shouldn't muddy the water by mentioning it's not that hard to make rum from bags of cane sugar and/or molasses.

“As a mother, it is my duty to search for my son — a duty that I cannot relinquish.” For 36 years, Ponmani searched for her 18year old son who was taken away by the Sri Lankan army from Eastern University,Vantharumoolai Batticaloa in 1990 and never seen again. Despite intimidation, surveillance, and being forced to accept a death certificate, she never stopped believing he would return. Yesterday, Ponmani passed away without knowing the fate of her son. #JusticeForTheDisappeared #Disappereadtamils

My beloved friend, journalist par excellence David Jeyaraj @dbsjeyaraj passed away today in Canada. May he rest in peace🙏God speed, David, I will miss you so much. Thinking of your beloved wife & family in this time of grief. Your media colleagues will miss you too. What a loss.

SRI LANKA’S SHAME. Where are the women’s rights organisations? Where are the child protection groups? Where is the outrage? Where are the voices demanding justice for this child? ‼️

Can anyone explain to me why Israel and only Israel is able to order people from another country to evacuate their home? Anyone? Israel has issued an evacuation order for Tyre, Lebanon, displacing 200,000 more people. Tyre is an ancient Phoenician city with Roman ruins and a hippodrome.