A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Trump called Iran's leaders "animals."
Just like how, on Oct. 9, 2023, Israel's Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting "human animals" in Gaza — and was later cited by the Hague for that statement. The ICJ quoted it directly in its preliminary genocide ruling.
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To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd.
“Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky,” the pope said, “After the tragic experiences of the twentieth century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!”
DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.
what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism
Murray announced a series of major changes to the storied newsroom: It’ll end sports coverage “in its current form,” close its book section, suspend its Post Reports podcast and shrink its international footprint. Murray said the Post will retain several of the sports reporters to join features and cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon.”
this feels like a coded way to say "we're orienting more toward sports betting"
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough.
Representative Delia C. Ramirez says the real problem is DHS itself: “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights.”
@sharonzhang.bsky.social reports on why calls to dismantle the whole department are growing.
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
"ICE agents have been kidnapping hard working people — mothers, fathers, and children — and now murdered a registered nurse, one of the most trusted professions in the country.
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Abolish ICE now."
National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union in the US, has called for the abolition of ICE in response to Alex Pretti's killing
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A screenshot of Truthout's homepage, with headlines on the State Department's push against pro-Palestine students, starvation in Gaza, many headlines about ICE and resistance to it, and billionaire and corporate gains under Trump.
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We fixed it, thanks for pointing out!
“We will continue to kill you until you allow us to take away your voting rights”
ICE is out here murdering people in cold blood and we can’t get democrats to even SAY “abolish ICE”, much less take any of the actions it would require to do so — investigations, impeachment, prosecutions, even whipping votes.
Democrats needed to be abandoned years ago.
Just completely unmasked evil at this point
Included in Jared Kushner's hellish slide deck pitching Gaza as a real estate investment in Davos today was a plan to build data centers across the Strip. Because their hatred for life wasn't already abundantly clear
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Not at all!
Ah yep, good catch! Thanks for pointing that out!
Trump admin ignoring the glaring hole in their self defense lie, which is that the car speeds up after she's shot, likely because she went unconscious and her foot got heavy.
It's common sense that killing the driver of a moving car would not make the car stop moving.
Cropped Kyle rittenhouse tweet that reads: “I stepped out of the public eye back in January — I needed peace, a fresh start, somewhere far from the constant noise and chaos. That decision changed my life... I met & married my best friend, and found more peace and purpose than I ever thought possible. Then came the unthinkable - the brutal assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk. Watching his life cut short for standing up publicly for what he believed was right shook me to my core.”
“Watching his life cut short for standing up publicly for what he believed” huh…wonder who else has had that done to them that in relationship to kyle rittenhouse
ty Dan 🥰🥰
A pink cake single tier cake with cherry compote on top. A homemade sign says “happy ret-tie-heart-ment”
A cross section of the cake. It is two layers with a chocolate sponge and cherry compote in the middle.
i made this cherry chocolate cake (for a retired cardiac PA) :)
Very rarely, I have the privilege of reading an article that changes the way I think, fundamentally alters the fabric of reality that unrolls before me. This article is one of them. nymag.com/intelligence...
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I am standing behind a counter with a black long sleeve dress on. In front of me are a lot of different toppings in different bowls: green onion, cilantro, tea eggs, pork and impossible meat, fried shallots, youtiao (Chinese fried dough), fried tofu, peanuts, seaweed, sesame oil, chili oil, and chili garlic sauce
congee topping bar!!
Me sitting on the couch with a white t shirt that has a little deer with a 3D bow on it. It’s cute. And my dog, a German shorthaired pointer, who is staring into the middle distance
happy holiday y’all 🤎