Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.
Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich
Well, today we're taxing the rich...
Cinema lobbies should only play film scores and not regular music.
3/3. No matter what else is going on, the one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.
The greatest Belgian songwriter and performer ever!
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
"Mentally unstable President given huge powers by cowardly party threatens to blow up the world" is the headline you're looking for.
10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.
We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war.
This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.
Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:
The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
This. Also a lot of offended Belgians were telling me De Wever is staunchly pro-Ukrainian, he’s just worried about the legal consequences from confiscating the Ru frozen assets. That he’s now suggesting this soft-on-Ru approach shows he was simply hiding behind legal arguments all along.
To me, Belgium PM sounds like Europe admitting weakness. It would sound like weakness to Putin too. And there’s almost nothing worse than admitting weakness to Russia, unless you have a very good plan how to use it
Tho what else we can expect: just in December
www.euractiv.com/news/belgium...
Absolutely agree! On the Nature of Daylight has been my favourite piece of music since 20 years ago. Its repeated use in movies is ruining it! Richter had composed a cue for Hamnet, too bad Chloé Zao wanted it replaced with OTNOD
Lol, just heard from a German friend who is calling the backup in the Straight of Hormuz right now the "fossil fuel dunkelflaute."
Niche humor.
Imagine an Iranian bomb had slaughtered 165 Israeli school kids.
Imagine the response of the Western media and politicians.
And note the lack of outrage and disgust here.
Two headlines. When Iranian government reports casualties, it is a claim but, when Israel does the same, it is a fact.
Happy birthday Dan!
Updated:
Just rewatched Vertigo last night (more than 20 years after the first viewing) with my kids. Blown away by the beauty and absolute perfection of Herrmann’s score.
The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck.
Can’t stop thinking about it.
Ook miljardairs hebben het niet makkelijk.😂
Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline.
All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
He should be handcuffed & marched to the nearest federal courthouse every time he appears in public & sent to jail for the rest of his life for this unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crime.
From Jack White on Instagram: “officialjackwhite This post would basically get anyone, at any job fired immediately...except for arguably the most important position in the world. That's right, trump is a racist, a rapist, a felon, a grifter (currently ordering the US govt. to pay him 10 billion dollars simply because no one will stop him.) and a full on dementia sufferer, and yet he has the power to send in gestapo ICE soldiers to kill our citizens, and so much more dangerously, has the nuclear codes and the ability to end humanity at any moment based on an egotistical whim. How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power? The two party system, the electoral college, the responsibility that the internet has brought to humanity and its direct conflict with truth, and America's obsession with celebrity, are all to blame, but the fact that we aren't stopping it is...insanity. Arrest this man. Impeach this man. 25th amendment this man. Indict this man. Jail this man. This longtime friend of pedophile epstein, who appears 40 thousand times in the files. This demolisher of the White House, demolisher of the Constitution, demolisher of the Bill of Rights, this demolisher of America full stop. It's hard to believe the government does almost nothing about this lunacy and we just all have to sit back and watch as a people. And when he's finally gone? we had better put into place new laws and regulations that don't allow anyone to find dangerous loopholes based solely on the assumption that our President has some sort of dignity and decency. Abolish these loopholes, abolish the electoral college, and if we had any sense we would abolish the two party system (that George Washington advised us never to have) that got us here in the first place and has failed not only Americans, but everyone else in the world who is currently suffering from our policies and suffering from the whims of this sick, deranged man who I will state again, has his tiny, bruised fingers on the…
A seven nation asskicking by Jack White, bravo rockstar
