In other words more than 1 out of 10 Israeli Jews do not live in territory that is recognized by the international community to be Israeli land. An equivalent number would be, say, 34,000,000 Americans in Venezuela.
"… the engineering elite must participate in 'the articulation of a national project,’ wrote #Palantir co-founder Alex Karp.
That is to say: Men like Karp should decide what this country is."
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Palantir’s latest weekend of technofascist posting is more of the same: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Palantir’s latest weekend of technofascist posting is more of the same: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
'Rogan isn’t the only prominent figure pushing psychedelics': @hurwitz.bsky.social on how America's most popular podcaster got Trump into Ibogaine @motherjones.com
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Sadly, not Missouri, but a hopeful good read about some other states.
For the first time ever, the Angola Prison Rodeo—where incarcerated men have been trampled by bulls since 1965— left the former slave plantation turned biggest U.S. prison and entered the heart of New Orleans, the city most tied to its legacy. So
So I went.
STORY: capitalbnews.org/angola-priso...
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this piece about Maine's recent moratorium on massive data centers, and the prospect of other moratoria, by @hurwitz.bsky.social for Mother Jones
NEW: Maine’s legislature passed the nation’s first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium, freezing construction approvals for data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts of power for the next year and a half.
New from me: Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi put a dollar amount on information journalists are privy to. I asked a bunch of news outlets how they're handling the rise of prediction markets, where users gamble on the news.
Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/91415...
So on instagram now Meta is translating “speaking into camera” vertical video content in various languages into English, and that includes changing mouth movements to more closely fit the English enunciation. It’s so damn creepy
Fascinating interview!
"The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran"
That cash comes from all of us locked into reliance on dirty fossil fuels despite none of us asking for it
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Breaking: Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman who was dragged from her car and detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, is filing a tort claim acainst the agency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
On January 13, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor’s appointment when ICE agents smashed the glass out of her car windows, pulled her out of her car, and hauled her down the street by her arms and legs.
Now, Rahman plans to ensure her ordeal comes at a cost to the agency that harmed her.
Researchers at the nonprofit Climate Central say that if you’re feeling snifflier than normal this spring, you aren’t alone—and climate change and pollution might be behind your personal postnasal drip.
It’s extremely difficult to sue ICE agents for civil rights violations — but you can send them a bill. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From Jessica Gingold of the MacArthur Justice Center: “If the agency gets enough [FTCA claims] and understands that treating people inhumanely, ignoring disability, targeting people for their race is costly, that can lead to changes in how they function.”
Breaking: Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman who was dragged from her car and detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, is filing a tort claim acainst the agency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It is official, 39 out of 47 Democratic senators have voted to block weapons to Israel, specifically $300 million in armed bulldozers
*Forty* senators voted against US weapons for Israel tonight.
~1/2 the chamber & the overwhelming majority of Democrats + allies. No such vote had ever occurred in Congress before November 2024.
A sea-change that will resonate in Tel Aviv, dramatically boost calls for a Dem overhaul + reckoning.
Staunchly pro-Israel Democrats repeatedly argued their colleagues should not hold votes on military aid for Tel Aviv, arguing that would unhelpfully “split the caucus.”
Now those supporting unconditional weaponry (notably Schumer) are the clear minority — a new unified position is arguably found.
Two sources tell me AIPAC recently became involved, pushing Democratic senators to back US bulldozers for Israel, which could be used in Lebanon & the occupied West Bank
The vote on the bulldozers is the one that advocates for overhauling US-Isr relations hope will gather the most support from sens
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