The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.

Valuable reporting here. I think the key thing is the use of Venezuela to accustom American armed forces to lawless murder. The goal then is to get them to do the same thing inside the US.
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Rick Scott was CEO of a company forced to settle what the DOJ called “the largest healthcare fraud case in history.”
Is that the expertise that’s driving your “plan.”
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How to Strike and Win: A Labor Notes Guide After a long absence, the strike seems to be making a comeback in the U.S. The teacher strike wave of 2018-19 caught everyone off guard—but showed that workers’ most powerful tool can still win. As we...

from the resources section:

labornotes.org/strikes

"...this moment in history calls for an organized, powerful labor movement acting in solidarity to push back and fight forward for economic and racial justice.

We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work."

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Traveling to the real America, doing a racism, running up a massive tab, and then skipping town is not just a Young Republican thing

Wow that’s crazy release the files

Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on.

In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on.

So it is particularly shocking that the share of car loan borrowers missing payments has soared to levels last seen during the financial crisis.

Asylum-seekers now held for days – in a downtown San Diego basement Migrants held in makeshift conditions in basement offices say they slept in the cold, used the restroom without privacy and went without medical attention.

"ICE declined to answer questions about the basement detentions in response to inquiries from Times of San Diego.

Instead, in an email, an official suggested the agency be given the ID number for any migrant who had spoken with a reporter."

Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

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CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say Exclusive: sources say the agency is providing real-time intelligence collected by satellites and signal intercepts

"Several sources say CIA officials have been trying to play a more central role in the foreign policy objectives of the Trump administration in the hemisphere."

We’re at the point where Daniel Biss, an actual Israeli, is anti Israel

#1083 and #1084: Nazis Are Beyond Awkward, Do Not Engage. Behind a cut for Nazis and the extremely triggering Nazi stuff they say and do.

On “youthful” and “joking” Nazi bullshit since apparently we’re still Doing This captainawkward.com/2018/02/26/1...

Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it

Pelosi primary challenger @saikatforcongress raises NSPM-7 on CNN just now:

"NSPM-7, which says any anti-American or anti-capitalist or anti-Christian speech is extremist speech. We have a task force of 4,000 agents...being put on prosecuting those people who are saying anti-capitalist things"

he only knows how to tear things down

Anyone who doesn’t see the value of these protests is really missing the bigger picture

The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

If the legacy media's coverage of #NoKings disappointed, get you a pro-democracy publication that covered protests from DC to Florida to Texas to Portland, and capped off the day with a 2-hour live event

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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

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Seen in #Portland on Saturday. They do the best #Trolling!

#NoKings2.0 #Portland #Protest

This is the No Kings era — Trump just happens to be living in it. Join us tomorrow to discuss what’s next: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

Riker tooting on that boner

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

the image of a backhoe slamming through the walls of the white house is one of those things that's going to stick around, i think. enterprising partisans with a decent camera would probably do well to camp out lol

Your typical No Kings attendee in D.C., according to data The data gives an insight into who is joining the protest movement and which issues motivate them.

The typical attendee at the D.C. protest was an educated white woman in her 40s who heard about the event either through friends or via Instagram, according to preliminary data collected by American University researchers who track protest movements.

#Pinks
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Column | ICE detainees face greater risk from extreme heat than most prisoners A Washington Post analysis found that ICE detention centers experience an average of 29 days of dangerous heat per year.

People in ICE detention face extreme heat risks in conditions with poor ventilation — this will only worsen as the Trump administration works to nearly double its detention capacity.

The hottest 10% of ICE facilities see an average of 93 days of dangerous heat per year. This is unconscionable.

Formula is expensive, but it saves lives.

Reach out if you need help paying for formula.

Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions Currency gains sparked by estimated $400mn of US purchases melt away ahead of election for president Javier Milei

so that was money well spent then, hey? america firrrrst!

"The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases this month, in a sign that the Trump administration’s financial support is failing to halt the currency’s slide..."

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The House calendar has been completely blank the month of October because of Mike Johnson btw

Ah I see Trump has turned on the random number generator again