NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Why last night matters: Anduril claims it needs to urgently manufacture the "arsenal of democracy" in rural Ohio for war with China. But locals complain that their own democratic processes are trampled over. Trustees were supposed to publicly debate last night but didn't - just rubber stamped

Just in: all three township trustees voted in favor of redistricting the rural parcels for Anduril's weapons plant amid shouts of "shame!" from locals. Majority of speakers were against the rezoning (16 to 5 by my count but livestream briefly froze). And one of those five was an Anduril exec :)

Opponents now speaking, and there appears to be a lot - first one speaking about signs of Indigenous burial sites and artifacts in the area he says were insufficiently searched for

Local mayor just spoke and said he’s in favor of Anduril but wants rezoning paused due to the reports of Indigenous heritage sites and artifacts on the property that need to be documented and preserved

Livestream of decisive zoning meeting for Anduril's autonomous weapons plant in Ohio here -- I'm told many opponents will be present www.instagram.com/noap.ohio/li...

This important zoning meeting for venture capital-backed defense tech company Anduril's mega-factory for autonomous weapons is tonight: www.madisonpickaway.org/pdf/Zoning-C... Here's what local opponents will be telling their township trustees: www.instagram.com/p/DSZfu9gAGu...

We keep having the same discussion every 20 years. Someone overpromises what can be done to stop nuclear weapons from destroying homeland. Experts warn that it will cause a double arms race: on offensive and defensive weapons while threatening the stability of deterrence. Much money is wasted.

If you’d like coverage of the arms industry and endless war to not be funded by Boeing, that’s the newsroom we’re building at @inkstickmedia.com. We’re in Newsmatch season for nonprofit outlets and any donation you make to us is doubled: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...

It’s noteworthy that Boeing has funds to sponsor a media outlet but not for upping wages for its unionized St Louis workforce (despite the much bemoaned “skilled workforce shortages” reported in industry-funded outlets) inkstick.substack.com/p/during-st-... @hurwitz.bsky.social @inkstickmedia.com

Another day, another defense publication funded by the arms industry

Katie Millard has been doing unique and important reporting on Anduril’s planned mega-factory for autonomous weapons in Ohio. Here’s what’s at stake at a zoning vote this Thursday - developer possibly razing over Indigenous heritage sites: www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Child Taim Alkhwaja was among nine people killed after severe winter storms, worsened by Israel’s imposed deprivation, caused children to freeze to death and homes to collapse on sleeping families in Gaza. Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

Another day, another defense publication funded by the arms industry

For anyone else following Anduril in Ohio: a local activist group ("No Ohio Anduril Plant") put out this nice little video about the recent zoning meeting and allegations that their citizen referendum rights have been quashed as opposition to the plant has grown: www.instagram.com/p/DR961EEEV1g/

Thanks as always to @krclradio.bsky.social's Radioactive in Salt Lake City for having me on last night to chat Northrop Grumman and state and local subsidies (aka, economic develop "incentives") to defense contractors: krcl.org/blog/inkstic...

What the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, and their allies in Utah have said about our @inkstickmedia.com reporting: it puts weapons systems at risk of attack and could "completely frustrate and end" corporate tax breaks in Utah. inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...

The House is about to vote on authorizing $901 billion in military spending, on top of the $156 billion included in the Big Beautiful Bill. 70% of global military spending already comes from the US and its major allies. www.stephensemler.com/p/congress-s...

A little gem I found in a batch of environmental records I got from Ohio re: the mega-weapons plant that Anduril is constructing there to, the company says, defend the US in a "great power conflict" with China. What might delay the weapon factory's construction? ... a bald eagle's nest!

Read this — the new defense bill directs Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and Tulsi Gabbard to determine what weapons Israel is lacking due to other nations embargoing it. Then, it directs the US to fill those gaps — by doing things like working around legal "barriers" to send Israel even more weapons:

The world’s top 100 defense companies earned a record $679 billion in 2024, the highest level ever recorded since SIPRI began tracking in 2002. www.reuters.com/graphics/BUS...

A little gem I found in a batch of environmental records I got from Ohio re: the mega-weapons plant that Anduril is constructing there to, the company says, defend the US in a "great power conflict" with China. What might delay the weapon factory's construction? ... a bald eagle's nest!

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

And Raytheon (Pratt & Whitney) may be just the first company in a future industrial park for defense contractors in Asheville. See the recent references to Department of Defense business "outreach" in county records about a proposed training center: inkstick.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Big story here - North Carolina gov't divesting from Israeli bonds. But as we reported, the state continues to give grants to a major weapons manufacturer, Raytheon, that produces the engine used in a jet the Israeli military flies over Gaza: inkstickmedia.com/special-trea... @inkstickmedia.com

who among us has not committed timecard fraud at the *checks notes* nuclear weapons facility

Big story here - North Carolina gov't divesting from Israeli bonds. But as we reported, the state continues to give grants to a major weapons manufacturer, Raytheon, that produces the engine used in a jet the Israeli military flies over Gaza: inkstickmedia.com/special-trea... @inkstickmedia.com

@tkbarnes.bsky.social reports: “Raytheon was allowed to claim about half a million dollars in tax refunds for jobs it did not create due to a loophole in its economic development contract with Buncombe County.”

Essential work by @tkbarnes.bsky.social

“The executions have been driven by politics. DeSantis reactivated Florida’s death chamber in 2023 — just a few months before announcing his run for president.” Barbaric. I read the story hoping to hear about the mother meeting her son, and was devastated to read the update at the end.

“The executions have been driven by politics. DeSantis reactivated Florida’s death chamber in 2023 — just a few months before announcing his run for president.” Barbaric. I read the story hoping to hear about the mother meeting her son, and was devastated to read the update at the end.

RTX underperformed on job creation projections at a new North Carolina plant but was allowed to claim about half a million dollars worth of local taxpayer subsidies anyway due to a loophole in its economic development contract, public records obtained by Inkstick reveal. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social

-More than half of the pending $1 trillion military budget will go to contracts -Over a quarter of the contracts will go to just four firms -One in ten federal dollars those firms get will go to their shareholders My latest for @juddlegum.bsky.social’s @popular.info popular.info/p/how-trumps...

I got hundreds of pages of records about a controversial deal to offer millions in state + local subsidies to Raytheon (Pratt & Whitney) for a new plant in Asheville, NC. The company produces the engine for the F-35, which Israel has used during the Gaza genocide inkstickmedia.com/special-trea...

Records show that Raytheon was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants in North Carolina. inkstickmedia.com/special-trea...

Really terrific reporting here from @hurwitz.bsky.social @inkstickmedia.com that dives into the breakup of the US's largest LGBTQ rights group/ centrist Dem funder and Northrop Grumman, the world's largest weapons manufacturer and a supplier to the Israeli military.

A picket line in St. Louis becomes a window into America’s shrinking defense jobs — and the growing debate over who they serve. inkstickmedia.com/will-st-loui...

"There are people that make cupcakes for a living at a local bakery that have, like, a sign up that says ‘no to genocide.' How can you call yourself the Human Rights Campaign and say nothing?" inkstickmedia.com/largest-lgbt...

Terrific reporting @mjgault.bsky.social!

Very remarkable news from the town of Lockheed Martin's second-largest aircraft plant: a progressive challenger, Sam Foster, to a four-term Republican mayor in Marietta, Ga came within just 87 votes of ousting him in last week's election: atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/11/05/a...

Terrific Salt Lake Tribune article about Utahns calling on the Mormon church to re-affirm its Cold War-era nuclear weapons opposition and to divest from Northrop Grumman. Noteworthy that the Tribune asked church leadership to comment on its holding stock in NG: www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Update: the Atlanta city council president promoted in these attack ad mailers apparently funded by pro-Israel donors won her election last night, but somewhat narrowly

@stephensemler.bsky.social on what those billions of stock buybacks add up to -- US taxpayer money to Lockheed and RTX and Northrop Grumman shareholders: bsky.app/profile/step...

“The billions of dollars they send back shareholders each year means that there is less money to go toward paying, hiring or retaining their employees… annual turnover in the defense and aerospace industry hit 13% in 2023, compared to an average U.S. rate of 3.8%.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

My polling place was packed, 25+ ppl in line for these local elections at 945am. I was ballot 487 cast at that site at 10am. The poll worker told me, “this district votes!” But said this was still really busy.