Peter K Colket

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago.

It also received $22M in federal aid.

While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans (Gift Article) The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president’s claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an “inv...

Trump-appointed Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 the DOJ from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants.

The ruling, limited to Southern Texas, found the president’s claims about a Venezuelan gang didn’t amount to an “invasion.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts.

President Trump says he can bring a Marylander home to his family—but won't. Sounds like he has contempt for the law and the court. "Where law ends, tyranny begins."

We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?

Warnings of language as a weapon of manipulation, obfuscation and oppression run through George Orwell’s work. It is a reason you could be excused for hearing real-life echoes of scenes from “1984” emanating from Washington, Matthew Purdy writes.

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

Naval Academy to follow Trump orders to end diversity in admissions & books. Their library contains 900 books that may run afoul of defense sec’ order- including “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Einstein on Race and Racism,” & a Jackie Robinson bio.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Europe Confronts Reality That Vance’s Hostility Is More Than Just a Show The vice president has taken an aggressive stance, sparking fears for the trans-Atlantic alliance.

After JD Vance expressed disdain for Europe in a private text chat about the Yemen attack, officials are coming to terms with a vocal vice president whose antipathy for Europe appears to run deep.

Ohio higher ed overhaul to ban diversity efforts and regulate classroom discussion heads to governor • Ohio Capital Journal A controversial bill to overhaul Ohio higher education, ban diversity and inclusion efforts, prohibit faculty from striking, and regulate classroom discussion is heading to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for…

A bill to overhaul Ohio higher education, ban diversity and inclusion efforts, prohibit faculty strikes, and regulate classroom discussion is heading to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for his signature. DeWine has previously said he will sign it into law

Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held Noem’s trip to the prison comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”

Homeland Security Sec. Noem has visited the El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the U.S.

Activists say the is prison rife with human rights abuses.

Masked agents whisk away Tufts student from sidewalk, video shows The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves through the academic community.

The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves through the academic community as thousands turned out on Wednesday, demanding her release.

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

Pete Hegseth is not up to the task of keeping Georgia safe.

He must resign.

U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.

Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in Major Restructuring of Health Department The changes would reshape the nation’s health agencies and close regional offices.

I am no conspiracy theorist, but it really feels like they are trying to destroy our country from within. Health care, public schools, universities, research, law firms, federal workers, the environment are all getting the axe. What was it again that it made America great?

NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR.

This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

This is where we are today, voters:

Senior trump cabinet members involved in “Signal Chat-gate” can lie to Congress UNDER OATH, with impunity, because they know…..
1) Trump’s got their backs.
2) The DOJ will NEVER prosecute them.

Is THIS what you voted for? I know I didn’t.

We're disappearing college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.

@Television news organizations may believe that avoiding a term like Gulf of Mexico is a fairly harmless concession. But … cute linguistic gymnastics amount to a surrender. Words are the front lines of truth, and once they’re ceded, it becomes far easier for strongmen like Trump to shape reality.”

Great News For Us, Bad News For Musk and Trump Onward!

AOC brought the fire: “What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense ... when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt … min wage should cover the min cost to live … homes are not slot machines for Wall Street to extort working families out of every last dollar that they have.”

They're making this Left vs. Right so you don't focus on the fact that it's really rich vs. poor. Don't let them fool you.

Dems, you are the only people standing between us and the autocracy.

STAND THE FUCK UP and be vocal,like @aoc.bsky.social

Senator Schumer has served our nation well, but it's time for a new generation of leadership in the U.S. Senate. He is up for re-election in 2028.

REPOST if you would support AOC for the U.S. Senate in 2028!

FYI: "Community Care" = "Privatization"

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YouTube video by JoJoFromJerz This is not what winning looks like.

They’re busy gaslighting us with proganda and lies, because the actual shit they’re doing is really, really bad for America.
youtu.be/LFYiXYAwxzk?...

One can only hope