CLASS WAR Not Civil War #CeaseFireNOW‼️

[CLASS WAR Not Civil War #CeaseFireNOW‼️ @ClassWar100]

🧵THREAD: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a tax scam for billionaires—and it will hurt everyday Americans. Here’s why trickle-down economics is a lie, and what we should be doing instead:
#TaxTheRich #EconomicJustice @SenMikeLee @SenLummis @SenRickScott @SenEricSchmitt ⬇️

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi the size of New Jersey. Here is what feeds it.

- Synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, sprayed on the corn belt every year
- The soil cannot hold it all, so the excess washes down to the Gulf
- It feeds algae blooms that strip the water of oxygen
- Almost nothing survives. It hit a record 8,776 square miles in 2017.
- Over 40% of that corn is grown to become ethanol, a fuel additive

Cattle get a documentary made about their burps. The corn monoculture quietly suffocates an area the size of a small state every summer, and keeps its halo.

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Ocean

I thought I must be dreaming when I heard this WONDERFUL news:

The National Science Foundation has reversed its decision to dismantle the OOI—the vitally important ocean monitoring network—after outcry from scientists and lawmakers.

And it doesn't stop there: the NSF said they're developing plans to redeploy the Endurance Array off the coasts of Oregon and Washington, which they have just removed.

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Huge win!! In partnership with Senator Lisa Murkowski, we protected the Ocean Observatories Initiative—critical sensors that are essential for managing our fisheries, forecasting weather, and understanding climate change.
https://t.co/3qnd9oUeXS

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Lobbying for immunity from child-harm lawsuits is admitting that you’re knowingly harming children, and are looking for ways to continue doing it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: United Auto Workers today passed a resolution at its convention, 321-287, to divest from Israeli bonds.

With nearly 400,000 members, UAW becomes the largest US union to officially divest from Israel.

The vote received support from a range of sectors, including a large number of Michigan auto delegates, in addition to legal services and higher education.

The original call for divestment came from a wildcat strike of 2,000 mainly Arab American workers at Chrysler’s Dodge Main in 1973. Amid the genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian labor groups and UAW locals renewed and intensified their campaign.

Speakers motivated for the resolution by citing the union’s legacy of divesting from South African apartheid in 1978.

[American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties]

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is not a done deal!

It's not even a good idea.

A media researcher and NYU visiting professor explains:

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Land bordering Yosemite, Sequoia, and Pinnacles National Parks — now cleared for oil rigs and fracking. YES fracking!

Two hundred thousand people said NO. The federal government did it anyway.

Over 1 million acres of California public land just got opened up - land that touches ancient sequoia groves older than the country itself and sits right in Yosemite’s backyard.

Patagonia's CEO came out swinging, accusing the administration of putting oil profits over the planet's health and saying public land was never meant to be sold off to drilling companies.

And the man who'll make the final call? He was recently confirmed to run BLM after his own state party called him "an outright enemy of public lands."

Who's going to tell a tree older than the country that its time is up?

#DemsUnited

[Truthout @truthout]

The billionaire donors supporting Susan Collins have a net worth of $888 billion, or nearly nine times Maine’s entire economic output in 2025. None are Maine residents. https://t.co/DaXa9XOL5g

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Texas Observer @TexasObserver]

From May to August last year, Corpus Christi's Bitcoin mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons of water, according to utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s information request.

The city is refusing to share the latest data. https://t.co/L98ATA5Hg8

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

They will soon be gone forever
Humans cannot even leave space for such a majestic species

[Alaa From Gaza @alaafromgaza92]

Last Thursday, as a former @UNRWA employee myself, I received an email from UNRWA's Commissioner-General ad interim, Christian Saunders @CFSaundersUN, informing staff that he had decided to terminate the employment of 70 UNRWA employees in Gaza with immediate effect. He stressed that the decision was neither a disciplinary measure nor a validation of the allegations made by Israel, noting that UNRWA had repeatedly requested evidence from the Israeli authorities and had received none. Instead, he said the dismissals were intended to mitigate what the Agency considered growing security risks to its staff, beneficiaries, premises, and operations.

There is something deeply unjust about dismissing 70 people while admitting that no evidence was ever provided against them. Allegations are not proof. When accusations alone are enough to end careers and devastate families, due process ceases to be a principle and becomes a privilege.

PS: @UNRWA terminated my contract, along with those of 621 of my colleagues, simply because we escaped the genocide in Gaza and didn't want our children to be killed in front of our eyes. Many of my colleagues were injured and left on medical evacuations. Others accompanied family members who were seriously wounded. We were all terminated in January 2026 after spending an entire year on forced exceptional leave, despite the fact that many of us continued working online throughout that period.

The funny thing is that "Western" UNRWA employees were not terminated, even though many of them are also outside Gaza. They continue to receive salaries that are at least 15 times higher than ours, not to mention the benefits that come with them. An agency established to care for Palestinian refugees ended up firing Palestinian refugees like myself while retaining and generously paying international staff.

It's a joke. Except it's not funny, because it's real. @UNWatch

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

GLYPHOSATE UPDATE: Lawmakers are demanding answers from the US Forest Service after our investigation into their use of the chemical in forests around the country.

"The Forest Service is regulated by Congress," Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) told us. "And shouldn't be doing any of these things behind our back."

You can find all our reporting on the developments—including our bombshell investigation into the Monsanto paper the US government is still relying on—head to our investigations on https://t.co/MQyaBkIMgb.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

One document is all it took to put uranium drills on the Continental Divide Trail.

Not a vote. Not a public hearing. Not an environmental review. One filing.

Because under a law signed by Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 — written to strip-mine the West during the Gold Rush — any company can stake a claim on federal public land, and the burden falls on the government to prove harm. The company just shows up.

Gamma Resources Ltd. showed up in February. Out of Vancouver.

$29 million in debt.

Zero revenue from operations.

Their own auditors have flagged them as a "going concern" — which in financial terms means: we're not sure this company will survive.

They've changed their name twice in just over a year.

And now they have a legal pathway to drill 12 uranium boreholes — up to 500 feet deep — into New Mexico’s Carson National Forest. Directly on the Continental Divide Trail.

In the Chama Basin — the headwaters of the Rio Grande’s largest New Mexico tributary, a watershed that supplies drinking water to over half of New Mexico’s population. More than one million people.

Twenty-three tribes and pueblos. Acequia farmers who have drawn clean water from this basin for over 400 years. Families on shallow wells with no alternative water source.

They've already identified nearly 3 million pounds of "yellowcake" uranium in the ground. They want to start mining by April 2027. They put it in writing, in their own investor pitch: New Mexico’s land is “low-hanging fruit”.

This isn't a loophole. This is the door that was never closed.

The General Mining Act of 1872 still governs hardrock mineral rights — including uranium — on 350 million acres of American public land.

Under it, foreign companies can freely prospect on land held in trust for every American, extract minerals worth billions, pay zero royalties to the government, and aren't even required to disclose how much they take or what it's worth.

It has never been fundamentally reformed. Not once in 154 years.

The 1872 Mining Act itself requires no reclamation bond. Zero.

No legal requirement to guarantee cleanup. No financial assurance that the land will ever be restored. Nothing.

The current administration's "Energy Dominance" orders made it worse — declaring uranium a national priority and signaling to the industry that federal land was open for business. Gamma Resources did the math and liked what they saw.

New Mexico's entire congressional delegation has demanded a full environmental review and is drafting legislation to withdraw the Chama watershed from all mineral development.

The Continental Divide Trail Coalition has raised the alarm. The Forest Service still hasn't decided if this even requires a full review.

A 154-year-old law. A foreign company with no revenue. A watershed tended for centuries by people who were here long before any of this was possible.

How is a law written for the
Gold Rush
in 1872 —

still deciding the fate of our
Public Lands
in 2026?

#DemsUnited

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

What timeline are we on man.

There’s a $60 million UFC cage on the White House lawn for the president’s 80th birthday. 125,000 guests. 494 port-a-potties. He compared it to the Eiffel Tower and said maybe they’ll never take it down.

The world’s first trillionaire was minted yesterday. SpaceX IPO. One person now holds more wealth than the GDP of most countries.

The government is negotiating to own a piece of OpenAI. The CEO walked into the White House and pitched it himself. They’re calling it a Public Wealth Fund.

That same government killed OpenAI’s biggest competitor’s models on a Friday night. The reason? A verbal jailbreak claim from an unnamed company. The same jailbreak works on OpenAI’s models. Nobody touched them.

The competitor got blacklisted by the Pentagon four months ago. Their crime? Refusing to let the military use their AI for mass surveillance of American citizens. A judge called it retaliation. The Pentagon did it anyway.

Both AI companies filed to go public in the same two-week window. Both targeting trillion-dollar valuations. One has a government equity deal in progress. The other can’t keep its products online.

The engineers who built the banned models can’t use them anymore. Because of their passports.

And an AI company that spent thousands of hours cooperating with government safety testing got punished harder than any company that didn’t bother.

UFC on the White House lawn. A trillionaire. Government-owned AI. Export controls based on phone calls. Cage fights and trillion-dollar IPOs in the same news cycle.

Watch the film titled Idiocracy. That’s the timeline we’re on.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

two local headlines on the same day

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.