J. Gibson

Give this guy a medal

Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Advance Appeals Court Nomination After Democrats Walk Out

Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Advance Appeals Court Nomination After Democrats Walk Out www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

A Mother’s Day truth about the “Fertilization President” The White House’s avowed concern about the nation’s declining birth rate is a pretext for something else.

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Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much. Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one ...

NEW: Nike says most of the 1.1M people making its products earn 1.9X their local minimum wage. We obtained a payroll ledger for a Cambodian factory that supplied Nike for two years.

1% of the workforce earned that much.

Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...

A headline from Hell.

@nytimes.com
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Our cover this week.

Was a Venezuelan deported as a terrorist because of a tattoo celebrating his child? Venezuelan asylum-seeker Franco Caraballo is believed among the alleged gang members controversially deported to El Salvador last weekend by the Trump administration. WLRN has reviewed papers that sho...

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Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds New U.S. rules cracking down on illegal immigration will affect many Canadian snowbirds who travel south of the border, requiring them to register for the first time, says an immigration lawyer.

Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds

Just STOP travelling to the US

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Ukrainians Blindsided by Deal’s Breakdown and by Trump’s Actions Some said they felt the U.S. president was disrespectful and that they were proud of their leader for standing up to him.

Across Ukraine, many people were shocked and blindsided at how a deal between the U.S. and the country on critical minerals fell apart and how President Trump treated Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. They also said they wouldn’t stop fighting, even if the U.S. walked away.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

If you haven’t already, please consider following @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social — organizations I co-founded to help counter myths and disinformation about the economy and politics.

I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.

Standing with Ukraine…

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

Who needs nuclear secrets in government when the only real secrets in government are:

Who is doing things at DOGE?
What is DOGE doing?
And
How many laws is DOGE going to break?

Pretty dressage horse. Danish Warmblood Clifton. Finesse Dressage. Custom Saddlery

Cliffy! #dressagehorse #customsaddlery #finessedressage

Not too bad they were set low!

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

January 30, 2025

What a fraud

Army Helicopter in D.C. Plane Crash Might Have Been Flying Higher Than Approved The Army Black Hawk also might have been outside of its flight path when it collided with a commercial passenger jet at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night.

The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional jet appears to have been flying too high and outside its approved flight path at the time of the crash, according to four people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly.

Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.

NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.

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Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit. Shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at health insurance companies.

In Opinion

“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive.

Assad’s Fall Upends the Middle East’s Largest Drug Empire — The Wall Street Journal Captagon helped sustain the Syrian regime, and fueled war and addiction across the region

Syria funded their government AND Hezbollah by secretly manufacturing tons of speed.

Then they went to their neighbors and said, 'Let us back in the Arab League, and we will help you fight drug smugglers.'

Assad's regime was the drug company.

A dystopian nightmare but its real..

Free range dressage horse… #dressage #finessedressage

Sanford the Grand Prix Dressage pony at 18hh

Aussies in the barn

Holiday barn decor….#finessedressage #dressage

#dogs #australianshepherds