While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended.
Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Palantir. Tyson. General Mills. Wendy's. Beyond Meat. Aramark. Now Chipotle. The same company that built targeting systems for the Pentagon and data infrastructure for ICE is now embedded in the American food supply chain. Before you dismiss that — understand what's actually happening.
This isn't about cameras in your burrito. It's about what Palantir's Foundry platform actually does. It doesn't just track inventory. It integrates everything — ingredient sourcing, employee health records, pest incidents, purchasing patterns, distribution logistics — into a single unified data architecture. One platform. One company. Holding it all.
Aramark serves 2 billion meals a year. Inside federal prisons. Inside military installations. Palantir now has supply chain visibility into both. That's the same company that holds DOD targeting contracts and built the data infrastructure ICE used for deportation logistics. Those are not two separate businesses. That's one data infrastructure company with a foot in the surveillance state and a foot in the food supply simultaneously — and nobody voted on any of it.
The food supply is the perfect Trojan horse. Nobody protests a company helping prevent E. coli outbreaks. But the data architecture doesn't care what it was built for. It only cares what it can hold. And what it can hold now is a real-time map of American food consumption and distribution at national scale — who gets fed, where, and when — layered on top of existing military and law enforcement contracts.
The prison angle is the one nobody's talking about. Aramark feeds federal prisons and military installations. Palantir already holds DOD and federal law enforcement contracts. Those are now the same platform. The same company with visibility into what gets fed to incarcerated Americans and active duty military also helps decide targeting logistics abroad. That's not theorizing. That's the logical consequence of verified contracts.
And nobody asked you. Nobody asked anyone.
Under The Reconstitution, no AI system and no data infrastructure operating on American citizens. No corporate data monopoly quietly embeds itself into the food supply, the prison system, or the military.
That's not what we have now. What we have now is Palantir — and they're already at your table.
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“Do You Support Israel’s Right to Exist?” Mehdi Hasan FIRES BACK
Mehdi Hasan: I've been debating hardcore Zionists, Israeli supporters of Israel, for years. And the conversation always comes back to one talking point:
“Do you, or do you not support Israel’s right to exist?”
If you don't, you're an extremist, you're an anti-Semite, you want to wipe Israel and millions of Israeli Jews off the map.
But you don't have to concede on this point. It's a bullshit argument.
Number one: Right to exist where?
Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define its borders.
So if you want me to recognize Israel's right to exist, does that extend into Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem all considered illegally occupied territory under international law?
So, right to exist where?
Number two: What is this right to exist? Where does it come from?
States don't have a right to exist. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries.
The USSR broke up into Russia and 14 other states. Yugoslavia broke up. Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
What happened to their “right to exist”?
People have rights, not states.
And number three: If there is a right to exist, does Palestine have a right to exist?
Israel exists. It's a country with sovereignty, it's on the map.
The idea that in a world where Israel is genociding the Palestinians in Gaza, ethnically cleansing them in the West Bank, and blocking their legal right to return the idea that Israel's right to exist is the one we should be concerned about, and not Palestine's, is both ridiculous and, let's be honest, racist.
Just read a headline that said Italy’s parmigiano reggiano industry as at risk because they can’t keep the cheese warehouses cool enough due to rising temperatures and it’s just like on top of everything else yOU MEAN TO TELL ME IM GOING TO LOSE THE SIMPLE JOY OF PARMESEAN CHEESE JUST BECAUSE YALL WOULDNT STOP MAKING THOSE UGLY ASS AI FLYERS
🧵 CNN or CIA? Top 5 Journalists With Close Ties to CIA
Fourth estate or national security state? It is often difficult to know which one you are listening to when turning on cable news. In this series, MintPress highlights five senior media figures you might not know have extremely close links to the CIA.
🇺🇸 Voici la carte du vote des sénateurs pour fusionner l'armée israélienne et l'armée US...
Et maintenant vient la question qui fâche : Qui dirige réellement les USA ?
King Arthur Baking is America’s oldest flour company and has never sold to private equity.
Founded in 1790 in Boston, the family sold it to workers in 1996, and by 2004 the company was fully employee owned.
King Arthur became a founding B Corp in 2007 and later a Vermont Benefit Corporation, locking employee ownership into its legal charter.
Compare that to Ardent Mills, the Cargill, ConAgra, and CHS venture that mills roughly a third of all US flour.
Shop and support employee owned.
Une médecin que j’apprécie bcp a rappelé ceci : 70 % des personnes souffrant de douleurs chroniques sont des femmes, pourtant près de 80 % des études ont été menées sur des HOMMES et des RONGEURS mâles.
This is the same Kamala Harris who:
1. Refused to meet with Arab
and Muslim leaders in Dearborn
2. Had a Muslim Democrat (and former congressional candidate) kicked out of a speech before she went on stage (no, he wasn't protesting)
3. Had 2 hijab-weating Muslim women banned from a campaign appearance (again, not protesting)
4. Refused to allow a Muslim/Arab Democrat (who endorsed her) to speak on the convention stage
5. Silenced people in the crowd who called her out on her complicity with genocide
So good luck with all of this.
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
Apple is a $4.35 trillion corporation. It made $112 billion in profits last year & paid its CEO, who's already worth $2.9 billion, $74 million in compensation. In the past 3 years, it's spending $310 billion on stock buybacks.
Don't cite inflation. Cite the damn corporate greed.