Story with more context and statement from Diageo's spokesperson here:

Amid deep cuts, Diageo shutters Aviation's posh Portland flagship

The struggling firm acquired the Ryan Reynolds-backed gin brand for $610 million in 2020

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Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · last mo.

NEW: Diageo has confirmed to Fingers that it has fully closed the Aviation Gin location in Portland, OR. This comes just ~1yr after the firm wound down production at the swanky, 32,000-square-foot facility, and ~4yrs after it opened. Diageo acquired Aviation for $610M in 2020. More TK.

Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Updated:

The President boasts of "no tax on tips", but this expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on overtime," but it is taxed, and the break expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on social security," but it is taxed, and his break expires in 2028. He also passed tax cuts for the rich. They're permanent.

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

What IS wrong with him? People are asking. Many people.

This guy talking about how corruption "shreds the fabric of our nation," gtfo

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

tapping the sign

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

An unknown number of powerful men (and some women) trafficked and abused a much larger number of vulnerable women and girls. Those victims urgently need justice

The Epstein files tell a story of justice denied

Prosecutors have moved far too slowly

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Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is where editorial writers can add context, but which the Post chose not to, like: *A majority GOP SCOTUS decided they could not block gerrymandering *Dems push anti-gerrymandering bills in Congress but can't get pass b/c GOP think they can benefit. Change the calculus, maybe they change.

What if Big Beer neither totally tanked craft beer like true believers feared, nor built it up like they promised? At @vinepair.com I wrote about how the country's biggest brewer is scooping money off the floor even as its lip-service about raising the segment's ceiling never really materialized.

Anheuser-Busch’s Craft Brands Are (Finally) Good Enough — and That’s Bad News for Independent Brewers

Last August, the tech journalist Charlie Warzel filed a column at The Atlantic exploring a dismal middle-road future shaped by generative artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT. “What if genera...

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Any subscriber quitting on Dave over this can't have been reading his stuff too closely...but you should! Beer has *always* been political. If you don't see that, it's probably because the politics was designed around your comfort. Dave just helps us make sense of that reality.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 6mo ago

"Stick to beer" has always been bullshit: www.fingers.email/p/stick-to-b...

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."

He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

NEW Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

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once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power

And it was Mitch McConnell who made it possible by letting Trump off the hook on impeachment, and Kevin McCarthy who proactively brought Trump back into the GOP fold. Let their shame never be forgotten.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

it's hard to remember now but five years ago people really thought the GOP was done with Trump and now election denial is a core plank in the party platform

By essentially redacting most photos but Epstein and Bill Clinton, the DOJ is further undermining any pretense that the agency is anything other than a Trump goon squad. And for what, bc this ploy is not going to pass muster with victims.

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

America is being run by mean girls and shitposters and trolls and the Comic Book Guys. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America, the Juvenile

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers.

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