I am keeping watch!

Happy Pride Month, Jeffrey! (No photo of me in circle but a shout out anyway♡)

Koch Fleet of Organizations Invests More Than Ever in Expanding Its Influence - EXPOSEDbyCMD Charles Koch’s fleet of organizations spent a combined net total of $833 million in 2023 to influence public policy, elections, and certain charitable causes — marking its highest spending total to da...

Fuck

www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/22/k...

We are led by anti-vaxxers and they’re going to try to kill the mRNA platform.

Make no mistake. That’s where this is all heading.

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Listening to NPR on SNAP cuts is infuriating.

Pretending this is a legitimate policy discussion is so inaccurate @npr.org coverage qualifies as misinformation.

Matsko v. Tesla, Inc., 3:22-cv-05240 - CourtListener.com Docket for Matsko v. Tesla, Inc., 3:22-cv-05240 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

New filing: "Matsko v. Tesla (exaggerated autopilot claims)"
Doc #140: Exhibits

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#CL65347117

Gabor Maté: History Didn’t Start On October 7 YouTube video by Katie Halper

"And don't let anybody tell you that if you speak the truth you're either a self-hating Jew, or if you're not a Jew then you're an antisemite. It's just the worst slander there is." -Gabor Maté:

"History Didn’t Start On October 7"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhZp...

RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

"The vote shatters the myth that the Democratic Party is an opponent of the Trump administration, demonstrating that it is instead its enabler and collaborator."

The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship Given the opportunity to cut off funding for the government, the Democrats instead ensured that Trump's administration remained fully operational.

"On March 23, 1933, just seven weeks after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag passed what came to be known as the Enabling Act, granting him the power to rule by decree."

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest is a Test: How Far Can the US-Israeli War on Free Speech Go? YouTube video by BreakThrough News

Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest is a Test: How Far Can the US-Israeli War on Free Speech Go?

Columbia University signed its own death warrant when it indulged the notion that student protests about a foreign government's actions were actually disguised attacks on other students based on their identity.

A university's goal must always be to protect the academic freedom of its constituents, so that they can be entrusted to undertake their academic work without fear of undue influence by powerful economic or political actors.

A must read thread:

For anyone in the PDX this Thursday, be there.

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)

Read. 👇👇👇
Blistering.

Thursday Night Massacre A Scandal That’s Not Going Away Soon

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Thomas Jefferson Disagrees with John Roberts About Presidential Immunity Thomas Jefferson played no direct role in authoring the federal Constitution. He...

Thomas Jefferson Disagrees with John Roberts About Presidential Immunity talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoma...

Procurement Forecast - United States Department of State Public Law 100-656, the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988, amended the Small Business Act to place new emphasis on acquisition planning. The law requires agencies to compile and make...

Oh, they just announced a $400m dollar buy for armored Teslas, in case anyone was still confused with how things are going.

www.state.gov/procurement-...

Hah!

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

After the War, the Environmental Devastation in Gaza Runs Deep The war in Gaza has taken a heavy toll on the environment, with water supplies contaminated, raw sewage pouring into the Mediterranean, once-fertile soils ruined, and the land stripped of trees. Exper...

Low Point Of Humanity: #Gaza can’t rebuild without addressing the environmental devastation which makes America and Israel guilty of ecocide.

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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

“Fifteen North American Jewish organizations announced on Monday that they will be pivoting their social media content away from X, citing the platform's harmful discourse & promotion of ‘hate, antisemitism, and societal division.’” 1/28/25 www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began | Robert Reich The corporate takeover of American politics was rapid and ruthless.In 1976, I watched as thousands of corporate lobbyists descended on Washington. Fast forwa...

The corporate takeover of American politics was rapid and ruthless.

In the 1970s, I watched as thousands of corporate lobbyists descended on Washington. Fast forward to today, and lobbying has become a $3.7 billion dollar industry.

It all began with the Powell Memo.

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.

But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.

Do I have this right?