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Privacy nerd, policy wonk, discourse analyst, civil liberties and art addict, closet hippie, fairy house architect. Am Israel Chai. 🇮🇱

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

So let me get this straight:

When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.

When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.

Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

“A mythomaniac is a clinical and literary term for an extreme pathological liar. It describes someone whose lies are grand, deeply embedded in their identity, and told with complete, unbenched confidence.”

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

German Chancellor Merz: Tomorrow is June 6th, D-Day, when the Americans once ended a war in Europe

Trump: “That was not a pleasant day for you."

Merz: “This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship” (2025)

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

So the flotilla activists were rightly and justly held by Israel, though for just half a day, then released and deported. And the world went into complete meltdown. Outrage went to delirious levels.

Now the same flotilla activists have been detained and imprisoned in Libya for the past 10 days, and that prison term has been extended significantly.

And the reaction from the world?

Total silence. Not a peep.

Weird huh? 🤔

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Donald Trump calls JB Pritzker a “dumb, stupid slob.”

Just a reminder that JB Pritzker just balanced the Illinois budget with a $0 deficit AND has signed relief for groceries and gas.

Trump is a 5th grade bully who apparently needs to look in the mirror.

[Great Canadian Moose @Great_Cdn_Moose]

LISTEN UP ONTARIO:
Something big is happening in Ontario, and almost no one is talking about it.
Premier Ford has quietly passed a law that opens the door to water privatization across Ontario - and he's hoping you won't notice.

The Water and Wastewater Public
Corporations Act lets the government seize your local water system and hand it over to a for-profit corporation without your consent.
History is clear: when for-profit corporations control our water systems, the results are disastrous:

Bigger bills!
Bad service!
Dirty water!

Water is a human right not a commodity. It's not too late to stop this.
& Tell Premier Ford our water is NOT for sale. Take action now!

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

One of JP Morgan's lobbyists to supersize the Island airport is Mark Lawson, formerly Ford's Deputy Chief of Staff

His lobbyist registration says Doug is one of his targets

After then he went to work for Therme. No doubt Doug never talked to Mark Lawson about that, either

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

The People’s House has stood for 226 years. America hits its 250th birthday next month. Instead of dignity or reflection, we get this sad, trashed-out mess right on the lawn.

One photo that screams what he’s done to this great nation.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“Trump has wrecked it. He has debased the People’s House with the aesthetic sensibilities of a pimp turned bankrupt casino operator and reality television performer, who confuses excess for greatness and spectacle for dignity. It’s appalling.”

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[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

When the BlackRock CEO says the quiet part out loud, it stops being a “conspiracy theory.”

How did this quote not break the internet?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

ICE agent Christian Castro shot a man through a closed door, then lied to criminalize the victim. On the other side of that door: a family, including a child.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY says: This is not law enforcement. This is state violence with a cover story.

Help fight illegal ICE activity. PAXIS gives you the tools: https://t.co/Txyhf9LSil

Sources confirm Castro was charged with second-degree assault and falsely reporting a crime.

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law.

My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over.

But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works.

When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up.

A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do.

We refuse to accept that this is the new normal.

This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The White House looks like a Six Flags that closed because it got hit by a hurricane

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 THIS IS WILD.

Rep. Menendez says he waited 15 HOURS outside an ICE facility trying to check on a detainee leading protests over conditions inside.

He says he told officials:

I’m not leaving until I know he’s okay.

Then after waiting overnight…

he finally gets inside.

And the first thing they tell him?

The man he came to see was gone.

Moved at 2 AM.

Read that again.

A member of Congress shows up for an oversight visit…

waits all night…

and the detainee he specifically came to check on gets transferred before he can see him.

Menendez says that detainee was helping organize a hunger strike because people inside wanted their stories heard.

Whatever your politics are…

when oversight shows up, the answer should be transparency.

Not a disappearing act at 2 in the morning.

Follow @AllenAnalysis to stay ahead of the curve.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

If your religion requires you to eat like this so that men don’t lose control and start raping you at a cafeteria, you have a serious cultural problem with your men.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

This is the huge wall Egypt built on the border with Gaza.

One of the most well-fortified walls, with seven layers of razor wire, walls, and fences, just to make sure that not a single Palestinian from Gaza enters Egypt.

I wonder why Egypt doesn't want the Palestinians?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.

A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.

Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.

US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.

Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.

The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.

This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.

Well done, Donald.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1