Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

“Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, invited around 650 of his contacts to join a secret, private group chat. And now it has leaked.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

Just got a call from the library where I donated 7 boxes of my dad’s books and they asked if I knew that I had included a copy of Why We Can’t Wait inscribed to my grandfather by MLK in 1966.

I had not!

addendum:

*required* viewing for all Americans

for everyone in the world

made by the US Army War Department at the end of WWII, imagining a discussion between an American who almost gets seduced by a fascist street preacher, and a Hungarian immigrant who tells him this is how Hitler started, in detail

at the greatest moment of historical clarity, an inspired piece of propaganda about how #fascism rises

"Don't be a sucker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

@Npars01 @avirr @kimberlyadams
In related news: I read an article recently that discussed how a consortium of oil industry related businesses, including GM, conspired to destroy city transportation infrastructure (trams and trolleys) in favor of buses.

If that was your article Nicole, forgive me. Getting old. Lol

@avirr @kimberlyadams

It's not the first time the fossil fuel industry "invested" in an EV company with the intention of shutting it down.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

The Saudis and #KochNetwork are determined to keep their captive consumers hooked on gas-powered vehicles. At all cost.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/climate/trump-electric-vehicles.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/saudi-arabia-fund-dumped-nearly-all-of-its-tesla-shares-in-the-fourth-quarter-filing-shows.html

https://www.wired.com/story/saudi-arabia-investment-elon-musk-tesla/

If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:

You need to vote *defensively*.

Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.

Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.

The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.

Plotting to undermine an American election with the aid of one or more foreign governments - as the Republican Party is doing - isn't "a campaign strategy", it's flat out TREASON.

Just sayin'.

@TruthSandwich

Sure enough, Jake is a pro-Trump account. There's an awful lot of mental gymnastics going on in his TL. He identifies as an American Jew, and he's here supporting an antisemitic Christian nationalist party. Ostensibly because he's pro-Palestinian. Even though the party he's supporting hates Palestinians with genocidally murderous fury, is trying to ban Palestinians from the US, and supports vaporizing millions of Palestinians in their homeland.

@dangillmor Always a good time to remind people NOT TO TALK TO COPS

IF YOU ARE BEING QUESTIONED, ASK IF YOU CAN LEAVE

IF YOU ARE BEING HELD IN CUSTODY, SHUT THE FUCK UP

SAY YOU ARE INVOKING YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT AND DEMAND TO SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY

Then continue to SHUT THE FUCK UP

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

Steve Bannon Issues Warning to Donald Trump's Enemies—'We Want You to Fear'
https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-warning-donald-trump-enemies-fear-1903830
#uspol

"A Romanian citizen was detained by prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on charges of treason. He allegedly monitored military sites in #Romania and then sent the information to the Russian Embassy in #Bucharest

#News #Ukraine #Russia #NATO

https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-spying-russia-may-2024

👍🏻 Via Kyle Griffin:

Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sen. Richard Blumenthal have intro’d legislation to enforce the Constitution's explicit language banning foreign #emoluments by prohibiting the President, VP, Cabinet officials and Members of Congress from accepting payments from foreign governments without first obtaining the consent of Congress. 

Officials would be prohibited from accepting foreign payments without Congressional approval during the entire time in office and for two years after leaving.

Texas doctor who said nine-year-olds can safely give birth appointed to maternal mortality committee | Texas | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/texas-anti-abortion-activist

They... they let it read The Onion 🤣

A lot of people who spent the last 10 years telling us that respect for the flag was the most important thing in the world suddenly don’t want us to care about who flies what flags how, I notice.

GOP held countless hearings to dissect every aspect of Hunter Biden's life—an unelected person with zero power—because they could.

Meanwhile Alito has the literal power to undermine the Constitution—& is out here proclaiming Viva Insurrection—and Dems can't be bothered to even wag a finger.😐

Just beyond infuriating.

Via Eric Columbus:

This is ugly stuff. Judge Juan Merchan comes from Colombia. He moved to the U.S. as a kid.

Remarkably, Judge Aileen Cannon was also born in Colombia — but I doubt Trump knows that.

#Trump: The judge hates Donald Trump. Take a look at him. Take a look at where he comes from

it's called "the Microsoft Recall" and it's the raunchy new spyware craze sweeping the nation

Imagine what an anti-abortion red state or a fascist Trump administration (or some other future evil administration) would do with features like #Microsoft's "recording everything you do on your PC" and the #Google and Microsoft plans to listen in on your private phone calls.

I don't give a damn if these firms claim the data is stored on the devices. Devices can be confiscated, stolen, or courts can order pretty much anything done with that data.

These firms are selling us all down the river with this stuff.

Trump’s team claimed that their tax law would boost household income by $4,000.

Well, the numbers are in.

New research shows that workers who earned less than $114,000 saw “no change in earnings.”

Meanwhile, top executive salaries increased sharply.

It was always a scam.