“Vantor … is a prime contractor to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, holding a follow-on award worth $70 million under the agency’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program, which serves more than 400,000 U.S. government users.” dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
The cruelty is the point. bsky.app/profile/rwkl...
“… this is dangerous legislation that not only will have the effect of violating First Amendment rights, I think it’s designed to violate First Amendment rights.” www.stltoday.com/news/local/c... by @aishas.bsky.social
St. Louis woman.
The Trump administration is preparing to deport nearly two dozen people to the Central African Republic on Thursday, a deeply impoverished country so dangerous that the State Department states on its website, “do not travel for any reason.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
“What we are witnessing is deliberate, state-led annexation, in complete violation of international law unfolding before the eyes of the entire world.” apnews.com/article/isra... #palestine
“The barrage and whiplash of White House claims of imminent deals and then threats … have kept Trump squarely where he wants to be — dominating the news cycle — but they have also increasingly eroded trust in his declarations ….” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The Israeli military has deployed white phosphorus, an incendiary substance that can be extremely harmful, over populated areas in Lebanon in its battle against Hezbollah, according to experts, aid groups and visual evidence collected by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...
“The fascism-coddling tech titans have wildly overstated what AI can actually do, dangerously overspent on sentience that isn’t coming, … over-estimated public interest, and ultimately ‘undercharged’ customers for services most people don’t actually want to pay for.” karlbode.com/would-you-ju...
“One official would later describe it as a ‘surreal’ experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.” (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as they try to justify ye...
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Experiences from my adolescence — being bullied for my religious faith and bonding with those with faith in the First Amendment — imprinted on my value system.
A cycle of threat, detente and deadlock repeats itself wearisomely as the president’s war in Iran drags on
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The Trump administration is preparing to deport nearly two dozen people to the Central African Republic on Thursday, a deeply impoverished country so dangerous that the State Department states on its website, “do not travel for any reason.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
