From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Journalists face new restrictions while inside the Pentagon complex in Arlington, Virginia, under a policy announced May 23 by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including needing escorts to enter areas that they used to access freely:
"Lawmakers want to crack down on college students' pro-Palestinian protests so badly that they literally passed a prohibition on talking," Jimena Pinzon and FPF's Caitlin Vogus write in the Houston Chronicle.
If Paramount settles with Trump, it would be "extremely damaging" to the company and CBS News, Caitlin Vogus tells France 24.
"How can viewers trust that CBS will go forward reporting the news independently, free of favor or fear?"
Watch the interview:
@sarahtaber I was told this is the gig with the "truck driving around with cheap meat" company. i.e. they sell it as "here's this REALLY CHEAP MEAT! LOOK HOW QUALITY IT IS" but it's not USDA rated, low grade stuff. They rely on the truck being movable so that once you have purchased that meat you'll never be able to track down the driver who sold it to you. (though someone here I think worked for that company and said he loved it, so not going to name names LOL)
BF's really not unique. They're doing what every other family with land & ambition is doing right now.
They just happen to have billionaire money as well. So they've got an advantage when it comes to building a platform.
This also helps explain why places like BF lean so hard on Nice Mommy branding.
If you're gonna build a multimillion dollar business on overcharging people for mediocre product, you need an air-tight reputation management strategy.
"Awww I'm just a hardworking mommy" is about as good as it gets.
I wanted to say "it's the same meat you'd get at the grocery store" but then I realized that's probably not even true.
It's quite likely that BF's role in the greater northern Utah meat ecosystem is "selling the meat that the grocery stores won't take, to suckers on the internet."
So the meat being sold here is nothing special. Ignore the branding. Look for any actual certified marks of quality, organic, humane conditions, etc.
There aren't any.
That strongly suggests BF is just buying & re-selling bog-standard, conventional grade meat.
There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot | The Guardian
#PurpleMoor-Grass is a bugger to traverse when #Hiking.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass
#UK #Nature #Ecology #Ecosystems #MoliniaCaerulea #Ecology #InvasiveSpecies
I haven't had time to see any new movies this year. Probably for the best. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/6/6/2326305/-Cartoon-Summer-stinkers
The scientists warning the world about ocean #acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/the-scientists-warning-the-world-about-ocean-acidification-evil-twin-of-the-climate-crisis "until the buildup of CO2 is addressed, the consequences for marine life will be devastating"
“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #GazaFreedomFlotilla
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
(I typically don't like quoting the same author or thinker back to back, but some of the media coverage of the fascist invasion of LA and the surrounding area by Trump's Gestapo and the National Guard made this a particularly important moment to share this quote in particular.)
It's official! Me, @Beowulf, @famfo and @Thelie will carry out a Forgejo Contribution Workshop during GPN23 in Karlsruhe.
📆 Friday, June 20th 2025
📍 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
🎫 Gulaschprogrammiernacht '23 (https://gulas.ch)
🕐 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
Happy to answer any questions. :)
Israeli defence minister threatens to use ‘all necessary measures’ to stop #Gaza-bound aid ship - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/israel-katz-threatens-to-use-all-necessary-measures-to-stop-gaza-bound-aid-ship does that include one of #israel's 13 nuclear bombs?
@GuerillaOntologist Indiana passed a bill that the state funded schools have to have a minimum number of graduates in a three year average to keep the curriculum open. This is mostly targeted at liberal arts degrees, but the list from Purdue University shows it's hitting the Ag school pretty hard as well. Who needs soil science to farm anyway?
#DumbAllOver
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa