"a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods"
At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungarian-candidate
-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets
GAME CHANGER: Montana just found the "exit ramp" to kill Citizens United. They aren't waiting for the Supreme Court—they’re going around them. 74% of voters are on board and corporate lawyers are PANICKING. This is how we win. 🏔️💸 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/army-secretary-tells-hegseth-no-montana
⚠️Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva made an unplanned Oversight Committee visit to an #ICE detention center in Mesa, AZ. She describes horrific conditions.
🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”
Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.
ICE shot another person. Based on their track record, there is no reason to blindly believe and echo their claim that their victim was related to gangs.
They have routinely lied so, sadly, we need to routinely question their version of accounts.
I finally get a chance to watch the #NASA#ArtemisII on youtube and who do I have to hear blathering at the astronauts?! DJT... back to mute... but I'm sure he said something like: "despite all the DEI, that kegsbreath couldn't stop, you managed to be successful..."
We know the names of nine women (thanks to the work of investigative journalists at ProPublica, The New Yorker and others) who have died after doctors denied them life-saving care (cont.)