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Mariana Courtney retweeted
This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.
Mariana Courtney retweeted
Given that the newsroom’s pre-layoff employment was 790 people, this reflects a purge of between 44 percent of the Post’s journalists at the low end and nearly HALF (47.5 percent) at the higher end.
Which is to say, the bloodbath was even bloodier than realized. End.
Mariana Courtney retweeted
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion
Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million
Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million
Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion
Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million
Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5
@JeffBezos
Mariana Courtney retweeted
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Mariana Courtney retweeted
The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.
Mariana Courtney retweeted
BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.
Please share this far and wide...
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.
"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."
"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."
"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”
Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.
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Found an oldie but goodie:
The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magaz…
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte killed a Yellowstone mountain lion after trackers with hounds chased it into a tree. He has supported many pro hunting laws that are now hurting rare species in Yellowstone.
Hounds chased a Yellowstone National Park mountain lion into a tree. Then Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte shot it. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Mariana Courtney retweeted
if we don’t move they can’t see us xitter.gq/buitengebieden_/status…
.@UnitedAirways flies with completely packed planes and allows people to wear their mask under their nose. In case you were thinking that it’s safe to travel because no one else is doing it. #COVID
Mariana Courtney retweeted
Is there anyone El Chapo and his gang didn't bribe in Mexico? Ex defense minister is the highest ranking Mexican official to be arrested in connection with drug-related corruption wsj.com/articles/former-mexi… via @WSJ
So Trump bought a property, failed to make it profitable, and conned his way to a massive tax break. Plus at one point he rented the place to Muammar Gaddafi for a glamping sejour.
I miss the good old days when that was enough to consider a man unfit to take on the role of POTUS.
Trump got a $21 million tax break for saving the forest outside his NY mansion. Now the deal is under investigation. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Ah, to remember there’s art and real talent in America.
I dreamed a dream they let me moderate the presidential debate. And you were there, @PattiLuPone… #IfDonaldGotFired 🎶
Mariana Courtney retweeted
Climbing at altitude taxes the human body. When life goes bad we have two “get out of jail” cards. O2 and Dex. May 1999 I participated in a rescue of a climber on the north ridge of Everest after the climber experienced an open bivouac. – at Bozeman, MT
In case we wanted to give Big Tech a little more of ourselves.
Amazon will now let you pay with your palm in its stores vox.com/recode/2020/9/29/214… via @voxdotcom
Mariana Courtney retweeted
Live Now; First emergency session of the Real Facebook Oversight Board. pscp.tv/w/ckNaJzFXTEVST0plYX…
Mariana Courtney retweeted
Trump’s TikTok deal “is the worst possible outcome” says @benthompson. stratechery.com/2020/the-tik…
