Russia and Israel may think that wars can be justified, but the future may think differently. The soil will remember only what it receives.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king

https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-plow-turned-the-tables-how

Automation Ownership Is The Root of All Evil

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/60-minutes-press-freedom?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

If the rich and powerful won’t stand up to Trump, what hope can there be for the disenfranchised and powerless?

Journalists at 60 Minutes are telling us that Shari Redstone, the executive and heiress who is the controlling shareholder of Paramount, is doing real damage by appearing to intrude into her venerable show’s independence. She may get the merger she wants but only at great cost to the journalism of which she should be a stalwart steward.

“The problem, Greg, is where they get their information. I spent time in rural Pennsylvania the weekend before the election and in places like Cumberland and Lancaster. We didn’t see Republicans out in the streets, because they don’t really do field campaigns anymore. It’s all digital and electronic and through people’s phones, not through people’s front doors. It’s really hard to get face-to-face with people anymore. So Democrats got to get on these local radio shows. They have to create their own local radio shows. They have to get on these podcasts because they’re living in an informational vacuum or a silo, so they’re not hearing these messages anyway.”

“As we’ve seen on Bluesky today, Fox News and OANN are not even putting the market reports up there. They’re not even showing the Dow, the S&P, and the NASDAQ on their tickers because they know that their listeners and viewers cannot handle any negative news. They need to be constantly reinforced with nonstop pro-red, pro-Republican, pro-Trump, pro-MAGA news because they can’t handle the truth, as Jack Nicholson would say. We need to break through that and force them to listen to alternative messages, but that is a really, really difficult nut to crack.”

by Tom Schaller, co-author of the book White Rural Rage

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/02/undocumented-people-no-such-thing-as-illegal-immigrant?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-reservation-system-returns-20246425.php

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