I believe we are dealing with is a Schrödinger's McConnell situation

US capitalism is a form of war where profit takes the place of land. T. Roosevelt and W.H. Taft understood the wrong of powerful monopolies. Together they filed more than 100 antitrust suits. Standard Oil was dissolved into 34 independent companies.

Same in Australia. Biggest government in-home care provider was sold to financial institution Australian Unity. Australian Unity keeps buying up small providers. Overriding motive? Profit. Surveys show care costs have risen & services have suffered. They ditched disability services - unprofitable

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

21st century robber barons.

For a change of pace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im0x...

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It’s true, Seattle. I want to ban rental junk fees & improve affordability for renters. My proposal will be heard in committee tomorrow. Join me at 12:45 at City Hall as we outline our legislation to create a fair, predictable, & equitable rental market. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It's more insidious than this. A lot of these institutions have been built over decades with public funding. All of it is in the crosshairs of private companies. We've heard many tech billionaires say they want to make knowledge & intelligence a product they can put a price tag on.

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Wondering why the weather forecast isn’t so accurate anymore? One word: politics. And it putting us all in more danger. Thanks to @gizmodo’s Ellyn Lapoint for the reporting!

Debunking Fox "News", once again: www.youtube.com/shorts/fbS_W...

Support for Israel has continued to crater among Democrats. A poll, released Tuesday, finds that 58 percent of Democrats say the U.S. is too supportive of Israel. This is a double digit increase from January 2024,

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge declined to pause a ruling that blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Storm the Capitol, plead guilty, get divorced over it, then whine that dates go south when you bring it up. John, this isn’t a sob story…it’s just consequences. No sympathy here. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AXWGVzDknQWK...

Orange Turd in Oval Office violates the Constitution and multiple laws every day. His private military aka ICE kills innocent people with zero consequences. If it walks like a duck and talks like a dictator it can only be one thing

Palantir’s role in this is enough to make it a hard no. Any benefits and/or knowledge to be gained are outweighed by the their potential misuse or even just mishandling of the data.

yes the logic applied in the Slaughter ruling is the same logic applied in the proposed rule that puts the president in full charge of all grants and federal programs. We can't have a functioning government in the 21st century following that logic

The Slaughter ruling has essentially destroyed the modern liberal democratic state. It’s basically all corrupt awards and deals now for any federally managed program, right? We simply must redesign the court and constitution.

The OMB rule that puts the president in charge of federal funding—to award contracts and grants and take them away—would make decisions like giving Palantir data much harder to create rational processes for. Instead those decisions would be personalist, accountable to a king-like pres.

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One thing this article underscores is the importance of federal contracting, grants, and subcontracting. Who do we want to have access to data—federal systems only? Private companies? What rules and enforcement should they follow? And the OMB proposed grant rule looms over all of this. 1/

The other dog was communicating to him to head that direction and it was just a wonderful display of teamwork and trust. 🥹

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Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

DOJ sent letters to top election officials in multiple states Tuesday warning they could face criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting, escalating the administration’s pressure against state election officials. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The one where the Acting AG takes a joyride in an airplane with the NASA Administrator. File under: can’t make this stuff up. youtube.com/shorts/A7giH...

Trump called FIFA, got a red card reversed for the first time in 60 years, for a sport he admits he doesn’t understand and a player his own movement wants deported. Then the US lost 4-1 anyway. The Trump curse is undefeated. youtu.be/KkXQBSJt7bQ?...

"He took an oath to support the Constitution. Speaking out against a President, and ENTIRE party, that ignore the Constitution is what I call support. Any military member opposed to his action should be ashamed!" •► www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

If you had to prove citizenship today in order to vote, would you have one of these? 📌US passport: $165 📌Certified birth certificate: $10 to $35 (varies by state/county) 📌Naturalization or citizenship certificate: $555 (replacement fee)  REAL ID doesn’t prove citizenship. #SAVEActIsPayToVote

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social, If It Works for Subs, Why Not EVs? Ottawa got it right with the German submarine deal. Now it needs to make solid industrial policy execution the rule rather than the exception. markhamhislop.substack.com/p/hey-mark-i...

Oh, I don't think those are "mistakes". It's the fascists dream to have a tool that enables them to decide whose vote counts. This is like 75% of their agenda. The other 25% is to deport all non-white immigrants.

The administration’s efforts have also led to hundreds of legitimate voters being wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens. www.propublica.org/article/save...

The escalation comes a year after the Trump administration launched a push to find and prosecute noncitizens on state voter rolls. That effort hasn’t validated Trump's longstanding claims of rampant noncitizen voting. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Maine and Minnesota are among the states that confirmed receiving the letter. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in a statement that the state already runs free and fair elections and she didn't need "another letter from the DOJ trying to tell us how to do our job."

The letters, which have been sent to more than a dozen states, including some where Republicans oversee elections, say the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is authorized to take criminal action against election officials who fail to maintain clean voter rolls.

NEW The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute election officials across the country for failing to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls, an escalation of the Trump administration's attempts to prosecute election fraud, according to letters I obtained with Andy Mannix @propublica.org 🧵

Dolphins don't just follow ships, they surf them. Bow riding uses the hull's hydrodynamic pressure to glide forward with zero effort, like catching a wave.

Nothing against Taylor Swift or Travis Kelce but it's hard not to notice how a celebrity wedding becomes the biggest story in America while people are struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over their heads. That says a lot about what gets attention and what doesn't.

BREAKING: Nurses at Mitch McConnell's hospital bedside say they've yelled into his ears, "There's a Black president trying to fill a Supreme Court vacancy!" and he didn't stir at all.

Apparently hell has frozen over. I’m reposting Glenn Beck now.

🧐 Piers Morgan calls Netanyahu's cabinet psychotic right-wing headbangers who are completely destroying global support.

Just spoke to Mitch McConnell. For a seance, it was pretty dull.

Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming For Online Speech Last week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade…... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/07/four-years-after-dobbs-anti-abortion-lawmakers-keep-coming-for-online-speech/

Remember Emil Bove, Trump’s henchman at DOJ? He’s now a federal judge. And he’s making news … for the screensaver photo on his phone. youtube.com/shorts/wGtOd...

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) demands for the identities and personal information of thousands of people who helped run the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, calling the request “unreasonable.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...