Boreas the North Wind

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” - Herman Melville

Earlier: politico.com/news/2025/05/0…

F*CK YES

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. propublica.org/article/blue-c…

NEW: Chicago keeps having to exonerate people after wrongly convicting and incarcerating them. But when they then try to get a court certificate attesting to their exoneration, to help them with housing & jobs, prosecutors have been fighting them. boltsmag.org/chicago-cook-c…

Microsoft even disabled the ICC Chief prosecutor Karim Khan and his team's email accounts on behalf of Israel. Francesca Albanese was cut off from all her bank accounts; unable to open new ones or use/ get credit cards. When you confront them, they will come at you for everything, from every angle— to discredit and silence you. They control the banking systems through which money flows globally, whether through financial institutions or intermediaries like Stripe. When the US sanctioned Albanese last year, it wasn't just her money that was frozen— her hotel bookings were cancelled, her health insurance refused to reimburse her, she couldn't even use most apps. Even the Christmas gifts her 13-year-old daughter received were sanctioned. And she was reprimanded only after she began focusing her attention on the powerful American corporations complicit in funding and enabling the genocide in Gaza. She wrote letters to 48 companies, universities and financial institutions notifying them that they were complicit in and profiting from a genocide— the Trump Administration instantly moved to punish her. They have infiltrated and can manipulate every facet of your existence in ways beyond your wildest imagination. They will try to exploit every component of your life in order to make it work against you. Remain cognizant of this in every aspect of what you think is your *private* life. They don't just control the weapons that kill, but the algorithms on your phone that can be used to dictate your life as well.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT. Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth. This is even WORSE than Benghazi.

They do things like this because they consider white men and women as the standard for their governing rules, that is the very definition of institutional racism.

I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same. I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.

We’ve officially reached the part of the timeline where war crimes are pitched like product features.

In an aside, Mahmoud Khalil mentions yet more jaw-dropping, inhumane, disgraceful actions from Columbia University. Claire Shipman and colleagues, how do you sleep at night?

They passed the same bill without changes to reopen DHS that the Senate passed and sent to the House 35 days ago

A holistic, coordinated, and multi level effort to wreck US science. Ask why and who benefits from it.

No federally mandated paid parental leave, daycare $2k/month for a newborn, can of milk $60, groceries up 20%, can’t afford a home (space) , and can’t go to college. oh and can’t go to the doctor if unemployed. and you fake ass confused.

Your Farm Bill literally lets pesticide corporations dump cancer-causing chemicals into our air, water, and food…

AM I TO UNDERSTAND....THAT *FEDERAL* AGENTS ....HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING AN *INSTAGRAM* *PICTURE* OF *SEASHELLS* FOR *NINE* TO *ELEVEN* GODDAMNED MONTHS?!?

A Perry Mason moment here between AOC and Lee Zeldin. After Lee Zeldin denies meeting with Bayer to discuss litigation the company was facing, AOC presents visitor logs and emails from Zeldin’s senior advisor stating that Zeldin would be meeting with the Bayer CEO to discuss “legal/judicial issues.” “In this internal email, it says that Bayer was specifically seeking and discussing Supreme Court action, it would want an update on EPA’s regulatory review, and that, interestingly, Bayer will provide a small thanks for updating the glyphosate webpage from the EPA and work on MAHA.”

New: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. propub.li/4tbaEoo

Fahrenheit 451 was a prophecy

Roundup often gets a bad rap since it, you know, causes cancer and other terminal illnesses. But don’t forget it played a huge role in collapsing the bee population, which may lead to the most deaths in the long run.

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