Why hate wolves?

Everyday anti-fascist; everyday fighting for a better world; everyday hoping to stop the destruction of this beautiful planet. She/her.

[Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie]

Hunters are prohibited from using trail cameras in AZ and NV, while states including AK, CO, ID, KS, MT, NH, NM, and UT prohibit or limit trail cameras with wireless transmission capabilities.

But all these states use Flock cameras to track you...

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth forces the editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes to resign and replaces him with a loyal minion for breaking the story of sailors throwing themselves off the USS Abraham Lincoln!

The publisher of Stars and Stripes is walking away after more than 30 years at the storied military newspaper as Pete Hegseth's Pentagon moves to exert more control over a publication generations of American service members have trusted for independent news.

Max Lederer, who has served as publisher for nearly two decades, announced his retirement after the Pentagon installed an active-duty Navy public affairs officer as his deputy without even consulting him.

Lederer made clear this was no ordinary retirement. “It has become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization,” he wrote to staff.

That “direction” has been increasingly obvious since Hegseth took over the Pentagon. His Defense Department has derided Stars and Stripes as “woke,” announced plans to overhaul the publication, and fired its independent ombudsman (who is now suing the Pentagon and alleges she was retaliated against for criticizing its attempts to control the paper's editorial content).

Now active-duty Capt. William Urban has been placed directly in the newspaper's senior leadership, which members of the Stars and Stripes advisory board say threatens the separation that has allowed the government-funded newspaper to report independently on the Pentagon for decades.

“How does someone with zero experience in a global news organization walk into a senior-level role at Stars and Stripes?” asked advisory board member and newspaper editor Bill Church. “We should all worry about the future of Stripes.”

Three Democratic senators are worried enough that they've demanded Hegseth explain Urban's role and whether he will have any influence over editorial operations.

And here's why this matters right now: Stars and Stripes has continued doing exactly the kind of journalism an independent military newspaper is supposed to do.
It has reported critically on the mental health crisis and risk of self-harm among sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, even as Hegseth has attacked reporting about conditions aboard the carrier as misrepresenting what's happening.

There are plenty of traditions that survive long after their usefulness has disappeared, but the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes isn't one of them. Through it, the three million people who serve in and work for the Defense Department have a trusted source of news that isn't controlled by the same people who command them.

Hegseth has shown little interest in leading the Pentagon through the institutional restraints, professional expertise and hard-won consensus that traditionally govern an organization of nearly three million people.

He wants to impose his will on it, and an independent newspaper capable of telling those people things their boss doesn't want them to hear plainly doesn't fit that model.

Some traditions are there for a reason. This is one worth fighting for.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Delta's CEO said AI will boost profits by 50% by setting a different ticket price for every passenger in real time. The airline uses an AI system called Fetcherr that generates a unique price for each shopping request. Delta told Congress last year it was not using personal data for individualized pricing. Its investor presentation described building toward offers for "you, the individual." Airlines are exempt from FTC pricing oversight.

My Take
This is what AI does for a company like Delta. It doesn't make your flight better or your bag show up faster. It watches how you shop and figures out the most you'll pay before you close the tab. Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft charging 42% different prices for the same ride at the same time, and the House Oversight Committee found one case where two people got quoted $76 and $24 for the same trip. Delta is building the airline version of that, and every carrier will follow because the economics are too good to pass up.

Walmart told us this week that families are choosing between gas and groceries at $4 a gallon. Delta's answer to those same families is an algorithm that squeezes them for every dollar they have left. Airlines are exempt from FTC pricing rules, state laws are preempted by federal deregulation, and the CEO told Congress one thing while telling investors another. When people ask me where the trillions going into AI actually end up, I think Delta just gave us one of the most honest answers we've gotten.

Hedgie🤗

[Bob 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 Living in occupied Scotland @asimov200]

I think Caitlin speaks for most of us.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

🚨 REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO STEAL THE MIDTERMS 🚨

The Attorney General’s from the States of...
- Alabama
- Florida
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Texas
... filed a Notice of Appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

These 12 States are attempting to OVERTURN Judge Indira Talwani's ruling that PREVENTED the U.S. Post Office from having rulemaking power over mail-in/absentee ballots, and limiting transmission of such ballots to individuals on state-provided participation lists.

THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO STEAL MIDTERMS.

👇👇👇👇

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Government officials tasked with protecting Americans from wildfires should should not be using those resources for their own personal ends.

But Michael Boren, Forest Service Undersec., allegedly did just that.

Did we mention he's also a billionaire?
https://t.co/mv3gaiOOTY

[Covie @covie_93]

The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are out here on day 578 blaming Joe Biden.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

59 years of predatory occupation.
1,049 days of genocide.
7 governments.
One statement.
Zero sanctions.

And it even misses the international law obligation: per the ICJ 2024 Advisory Opinion, it's the occupation itself -not just the E1 plans- that must end.

So: Cut trade now.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

And to be clear, this is just 185 potential noncitizens who are *registered* to vote, not 185 potential noncitizens who *voted.*

Once again we see the Trump admin’s wild claims about noncitizen voting evaporating at the slightest scrutiny.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Not only did Walmart receive a $2.9B tariff refund after passing that cost onto customers…

But taxpayers pay billions each year subsidizing the wages of their workers — an estimated 468k on Medicaid and 11k on SNAP — because Walmart pays so little.

There’s your “welfare queen”

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

27 THOUSAND CASES
Trump/Kennedy took a bribe to sell the country bad food.
Where's the emergency hearing?

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Data from the Pentagon shows that more than 750 US troops have been wounded during operations against Iran. 580 are Army, 86 Navy, 64 Air Force and 19 Marines. Do you know how many injuries could have been avoided if we didn’t go to war with Iran? All of them.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

The Israel Lobby's new list of demands just dropped:

🔺$40B from US taxpayers over the next 10 years (as a base)

🔺US establish a "permanent" military presence and CENTCOM operational HQ in Israel

🔺Formally include Israel in the Golden Dome

🔺Merge our defense-industrial base

🔺A "limited" US-Israel Mutual Defense Treaty (to "honor" the "memory" of Lindsey Graham)

🔺A new NATO where the US organizes/arms Arab states in defense of Israel ("Membership in such a security structure should be conditioned on Arab members normalizing relations with Israel...")

What does America get? The bill.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

REMINDER: The single biggest driver of our national debt for the last 25 YEARS have been Republican-led tax cuts.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The Trump admin is opening a new front in its campaign to remake higher education to please conservatives: threatening the American Bar Association's power to accredit law schools.
https://t.co/zr77iSj5wJ

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Jewish Israeli society is the most sadistically evil society in the world.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Ben Gvir is a terrorist.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

When federal agents seized my phones at Dulles Airport, they flagrantly violated several 4th circuit rulings which explicitly forbid advanced forensic searches of devices without a warrant or individualized suspicion.

Was the order to seize my devices delivered under pressure from unregistered Israel and Ukraine lobbyist Laura Loomer, who boasted about calling Trump cabinet officials to demand I be jailed for my reporting from Iran, and effectively took credit for the confiscation of my devices?

We're filing this lawsuit to answer that question, and to prevent the unconstitutional weaponization of federal law enforcement against journalists whose reporting complicates their malign, Israeli-directed agenda.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The next time you see a pundit, think tank nerd, operative or politician trying to help their paymasters gaslight you into thinking Dems are divided over Medicare For All, hand them this new CBS/YouGov poll showing that literally 90 PERCENT of actual Dems want Medicare For All.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Parts of Indiana have been without power for 9–10 days due to storms.

Tens of thousands are currently in the dark (peak was over 300,000).

Puerto Rico has been rationing water for 13+ days due to severe drought.

Trump has not said a word about either crisis.

Not a tweet. A “Truth.” Nothing