"An injury to one, is an injury to all."
Jamie Garcia, murdered by ICE.
"My uncle Jaime was just a hard-working, innocent farmer. He was chased by ICE agents, and we were told he fell 30ft.
They took one of our family members. We need justice."
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Listening to the July 3 episode of Behind the News. One question Im left with is given how private equity purchases of businesses are leveraged with outside loans - why is any entity loaning these deals money given how badly they perform? Maybe I will have to read Meagan Greenwell's book
For Linux users who want to remove DRMs from ebooks they've legally purchased, so as to read them on the ebook reader they've also legally purchased for their intended purpose: I've updated my setup to replace using #AdobeDigitalEditions through wine with the simple and marvelous libgourou library.
Details here:
With thanks to @mart1oeil who told me years ago this should be possible 🙂
How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
#MustRead #book #BookReview #NonFiction #Privatized #outsourcing #ProfitsOverPeople #Britain https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-state-for-sale-how-britain-privatised-itself-into-failure/
ICE officers smash a US citizen and disabled veteran's car window, pull him out and disappear him into a Trump concentration camp under orders from Steven Miller to round up thousands daily. George Retes' family cannot find him despite calling police.
With new round of Trump Tariff huffs its worth looking at a nice overview like this one from EPI.
It occurs to me that one way to counter this annoying tariff tactic is for multiple nations to coordinate retaliatory measures if any tariffs go over some trigger value say 15% for any member of the coalition.
I see this as unlikely, but with multiple individual nations getting their negotiation in good faith being repeatedly thrown back into chaos it increases in odds.
https://www.epi.org/publication/tariffs-everything-you-need-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
During his presidential campaign, President Trump pledged to impose universal tariffs of 10–60% on all U.S. imports—a whopping $4.2 trillion in goods and services purchased from abroad in 2024. This was always a real possibility. The International Economic Emergency Powers Act gives the president broad authority to do so. In early February the Trump administration seemed…
Our #storySeedLibrary has just been updated with 12 more #solarpunk panels from none other than #CommandoJugendstil !
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