FYI

If only Justice treated banks, especially foreign banks managing public funds, the same way instead of coddling the banksters.

Amazon gets $137 million in New York State welfare.
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In violation of state open records laws, the secretive state Subsidy Board waived rules on hiring and defent pay, the Investigative Post in Buffalo reveals: investigativepost.org/2024/05/14/sta…

For those who fear that AI will take over - I don't - the closing paragraph below, from the Wellesley College alumnae magazine, will prove how duplicitous AI can be in tricking us into trusting it:

The ill-informed person below doesn't know that citizenship is rarely if ever a requirement in local elections like school boards and city councils or specialized districts like those providing water or mosquito abatement.
More bad information for Trump's 'poorly educated.'

Actor Mark Hamill is so much smarter, better mannered, and all around delightful than the sad sack Fox host Jesse Waters, whose low rent schtick is gratuitous negativity.

Revelation Missing From Trump Trial: He May Also Be a Forger open.substack.com/pub/russbaker/…

Trump translated: Ask not what I could do for our country, just listen to how unfairly I feel I'm being treated because that's what really matters to you.

No wonder there were rows of empty seats & people left early in Cape May County NJ, home to Nixon's last defender.

What that about the GOP favoring limited government?

Honoring racist traitors revived in Virginia's Shenandoah County,⁦The New York Times⁩ reports.

File under despicable.

How loyalty programs rig the economy in favor of big companies, news today from Kate Berry⁩ of ⁦American Banker⁩

Friends in Santa Cruz are trying to rapidly raise money for a little boy who needs heart surgery quickly. There's an eight year waiting list to get this done without GoFundMe Thiago won't make it anywhere near that long unless he gets the surgery soon.
gofundme.com/f/help-4-year-…

Why Trump must face another trial before Nov. 5, explained by First Amendment litigator Henry R. Kaufman at @dcreportmedia:
dcreport.org/2024/05/09/tru…

Today NPR took note of daughter Amy Boyle Johnston's revealing book, Unknown Serling.

It's a brief and serious examination of his career and enduring contribution to American culture, especially how his stories promote moral integrity and decency.
npr.org/2024/05/09/124…

Excellent description of the Donald J. Trump casting couch:

A rock solid conservative from Wyoming and a lifelong Republican, whose words we would be wise to heed:

The very important DCReport story by Max (is on Threads @maxtaves) you won't find anywhere else shows how GOP lawmakers spread gun violence beyond our borders.
That violence then comes back at us, Taves shows.

dcreport.org/2024/05/05/how…

Pulitzer for breaking news won by tiny nonprofit Lookout Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, my hometown.

It's not just a big news orgs that win, in this case for smart coverage of awful flooding in coastal resort town.

Congrats to founder Ken Doctor and team.

lookout.co/lookout-santa-…