@ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz interviewed more than a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, conducts business. They also obtained closely guarded documents that have not been previously disclosed.
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A Palestinian man in shock after his brother was murdered this morning by the Israeli occupation in the Shiekh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Working-class Kentucky residents are being forced to leave their mobile home park within 90 days because a Fortune 50 company wants to build a data center next door.
They don't know where they'll go.
Video: Lex18News
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐳𝐜𝐚 𝐚 𝐥@𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧@𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥
Un programador egipcio ha creado una web dedicada a cada vida palestina que ha sido asesinada
-En cada punto, está la identidad de las personas asesinadas por el sionismo
bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-n...
The very obvious evil shit being done directly in our faces is part of my frustration with people committed to conspiracy theories.
Friends — This is starting to feel a lot like the Vietnam War. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memories-of-vietnam
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The reason why we are the way we are, with Christian nationalism, the manosphere... is because white boys got beat
Israeli Society Is More Brainwashed Than North Korea - Abby Martin
"They know the kids are starving. They agree with it."
Leigh Hanson alleges city leaders hobnobbed too closely with lobbyists, wasted city money on travel, and ignored her concerns.
An estimated 72,000 lawfully present immigrants in California will be impacted, including at least 5,000 in Alameda County alone.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
More War in Latin America Feared as Farmers Describe Torture From US-Ecuadorian ‘Operation Total Extermination’
A human rights group denounced “bombings, burning of homes, arbitrary detentions, torture, and threats against the civilian population."
“I followed the rules and trusted the process, and I just want to return to my family and rebuild my life.”
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Sacramento mother who was detained at her green card interview and deported to Mexico within 24 hours.
Freedom Flotilla with 14 tons of aid 🫶
In 1988, the US Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian passenger plane, killing 290 people including 66 children.
No one was held accountable.
That impunity didn’t end. It set a precedent.
@premthakker.bsky.social breaks down the attack you’ve probably never heard about
Historian Alfred McCoy says Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz carries echoes of the Suez Crisis of 1956, when Egypt blocked the canal. He says that crisis marked the end of the British empire, and Trump's "ill-advised" war could similarly mark the end of U.S. hegemony.
In New Mexico, judges began throwing out military trespass charges against border crossers as soon as they were filed for lack of probable cause.
Prosecutors used an unusual legal tactic to resurrect the counts in more than 1,600 of these cases.
With @texastribune.org
The Espionage Act has been used to criminalize whistleblowers and journalists for years.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s landmark reform bill, the Daniel Ellsberg Act, aims to stop exactly that.
Watch @laurenleharper.bsky.social and learn how you can take action: freedom.press/ellsberg-act
If this is happening at just one of the concentration camps, what’s happening at the others? Donald Trump has already mentioned ICE being at the polls so as these places will only get more full the conditions will continue to worsen
Credits: @berenice_dolls IG
The national debt just hit a record $39 trillion.
Rich Americans used to finance the government by paying taxes.
Now, they finance the government by lending it money and collecting interest payments — profiting as the rest of us pay them back.
It's a big switcheroo you need to understand.
The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike.
Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes.
ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.
Yesterday, Trump said that he’d do whatever is necessary to ease the oil crisis. He also assured America that the crisis “will be over soon.” I'm calling bullshit. Here's why he's trapped in Iran.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/playing-it-strait
ProPublica published several of those letters on Feb. 9.
The letters set off a storm of outrage in Washington and across the country. They were raised in congressional hearings and pasted on posters in anti-ICE demonstrations:
When we exempt the exemplary, we invoke a circle of silence around them. This is a poison. The toxicity spreads towards impunity. It carries the potential to undermine every movement, every organization, and every institution. #cesarchavez #doloreshuerta #matriarchynow
Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her
Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement.
You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...
Labor activist Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez.
Huerta said that she kept the secret for the last sixty years because she was worried that the abuse would hurt the movement she spent her entire life fighting for.
Rename everything named after Cesar Chavez for Dolores Huerta.