Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Stories about Kushner, Witkoff and inside trading relating to the Iran War have been abounding for months now.
This is devastating
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d agoBREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
Make this happen for Virginia! @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits or electricians.
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‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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It’s time for folks in ‘blue’ states to reevaluate paying federal taxes.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 4d agoafter he got big mad about canadian wildfire smoke he decided to just domesticate it
@governor.ca.gov Why would you be pushing the CA AG to drop the paramount/warner merger lawsuit that 11 other AGs thought was so strong they also joined? For your billionaire buddies? Certainly not to save California/entertainment industry jobs.
my feelings on this are pretty straightforward: if you have a problem with poor people having greater access to less expensive food then you’re a fucking psycho.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.Weird how much discourse around the Mamdani grocery stores ignores the existence of the Green Cart intiative (launched under Bloomberg) that provides subsidized fruit and vegetable stands across the city under the exact same logic as the grocery stores
Executives at leading oil and gas companies have sold almost $400 million in stocks since the Iran war began.
Fossil Fuel Executives Cash In (Gift Article)
Insiders at leading oil and gas companies have made millions from stocks since the Iran war began.
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When you’re the rogue state that’s what you do. It’s all so disgraceful.
daniel sieradski@self.agency · last wk.the u.s. is bullying other countries into withdrawing from the i.c.c.
1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.
Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.What could up to 2k illegally deployed troop apartments cost, Michael? $148,000? Each?
This really is a perfect measure of the putrefaction of corporate media in the US, now heavily under the control of the tech bros.
You want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity.
Jon Passantino@passantino.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter insisting the correspondents' dinner was worth reviving, the WHCA handed Trump a nationally televised platform to smear the very journalists it exists to represent, effectively turn the stage into a Trump rally. It was a disgrace. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/the-white-...
Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Pete Hegseth continues to hide behind the bravery and sacrifice of our troops to deflect from his own incompetence & lack of leadership. Rather than do his job he’s fighting woke, making workout videos, and releasing statements from his hair and makeup studio while blaming Biden.