"I dreamed I was a perfect smile"
Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago? Boomers may know.
Old & a bit out of the way. Background in writing (tho never know what to write about myself), art world, book world, tv news & entertainment. American, Midwest, CA, NY. Much touristing abroad. Progressive, antiracist, antifacist, she/her
Trump Administration to Dismantle #Ocean #Monitoring System
10 yr old system was expected to continue for 25 yrs.
¡WTF! 🥜
Spokesman for National Science Foundation sd the decision to dismantle the network…“aligns with NSF’s wider strategy to have a nimbler approach to prioritizing support for evolving scientific priorities & emerging technologies as well as a deliberate approach to smart life cycle management w/in its portfolio of research infrastructure.” 🤪
Es ist natürlich widersinnig, den #Klimawandel durch Rückbau des Messgeräte zu bekämpfen. Darauf muss man erst mal kommen. Leider ruiniert das Trump-Regime damit nicht nur das eigene Land.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.60N6.hYFHv83kH_Ee&smid=nytcore-ios-share
russia launched a large-scale aerial attack against #Ukraine overnight on June 2, targeting various Ukrainian cities, including #Kyiv, with missile and drone fire.
Across the country, at least nine people have been killed and 89 others injured
https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-rock-kyiv-amid-intelligence-warnings-of-russian-mass-attack/
Why Are People Like That?
written by Bobby Charles
Performed by Muddy Waters, Pinetree Perkins, Paul Butterfield, Bob Magolin, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Fred Carter, Howard Johnson
1975 recording
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116675763082687486
“Yet New Jersey U.S. Sen Andy Kim, Rep. Rob Menendez, and other members of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation have conducted oversight visits and confirmed the complaints from detainees about inedible food, lack of medical care and poor sanitary conditions.”
GEO Group is profiting off of human misery.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116675741723975140
"The labor strike is critical because GEO Group's profits depend on the cheap labor of detainees to clean and cook for $1 a day. Last year a GEO executive announced during a shareholder call that they expected to make $60 million a year profit at Delaney Hall."
Financial News: A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance
"...concerns echo those of far larger institutions. In May, the heads of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the New York City Retirement Systems, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which collectively manage more than $1 trillion, sent a joint letter to Musk calling SpaceX’s governance “extreme.”
https://thenextweb.com/news/danish-pension-spacex-blacklist-governance-overvalued
Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg. Chief investment officer Anders Schelde called the company “grossly overvalued” and cited what he described as a “catastrophic governance structure” as the primary reason for the […]
More Backgound: Patrick Boyle | SpaceX Lost $37 Billion. Now It Wants Your Pension
For a great really deep dive that will leave you fuming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI
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Financial News: AFT’s Weingarten Demands ‘Extraordinary Scrutiny’ of SpaceX IPO to Protect Workers’ Retirements and Investor Rights
"Weingarten urges the SEC to reject any attempt to fast-track SpaceX’s listing until all concerns are addressed. She also calls on the SEC to collaborate with Nasdaq and S&P to reverse the “fast entry” rule, which lets companies like SpaceX join indexes just 15 days after going public, instead of waiting three months."
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten today called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to subject SpaceX’s upcoming initial public offering to “extraordinary scrutiny” to safeguard the retirement security of the AFT’s 1.8 million education, healthcare and public sector workers whose pensions and investments are deeply exposed to the public equities market.
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