Japan Times: Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk

""OXNARD, California... In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone," she said in an interview. "If 70% of your workforce doesn't show up, 70% of your crop doesn't get picked and can go bad in one day. Most Americans don't want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.""

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Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk

In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, farmers and field supervisors have said that ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up.

^{Tim Reid (The Japan Times)}

for the millionth time, White America is just racist, no Russian interference required.

And also, both major US political parties deserve the criticism. Both parties have advanced capitalist minority rule, white supremacy, and imperialism against (among others) the Vietnamese, Palestinian, and Chilean peoples.

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The cost of this bill, described in terms of how many dollars per second or dollar coins would need to be spent or thrown to equal the amount of money being added to the federal government’s negative balance.

I want to point out that Niagara of money ends up in the hands of 2000 families in the United States. They are going to line their pockets while the rest of us are being pushed off an economic cliff. Hundreds of thousands of Americans won’t survive

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Let's talk about Trump's trillions in debt....

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#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #ngo / #jvp / #protest

„We continue to come together as a political community to take action to end the genocide for as long as it takes. (…)

Join us as we take collective action to demand an #armsembargo on Israel, an immediate end to the genocide, a lasting #ceasefire and an end to Israeli #siege, #apartheid, #occupation, and #oppression of Palestinians.“

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Now into the second year of genocide in Gaza, we are overwhelmed with sorrow and outrage. There are no words to describe the devastating pain of the past year in which the Israeli military has killed over 48000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more t…

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Oliver North being invited to Fox News as a “military analyst” talking about how Iran shouldn't have missiles and is a threat to peace in the middle east, as if it wasn't him who sold missiles to Iran in order to create untraceable funds through which to support the Contras in Nicaragua when congress cut funding (which was high treason).

You're a threat to peace everywhere.

Israeli settlers attack Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
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They're out of control!

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel
@palestine

Israeli settlers attack Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers targeted Israeli soldiers in an occupied West Bank riot.

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Israel bombs Gaza aid sites, cafe and school, killing 95 Palestinians | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
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And still the west (largely) does nothing.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

Israel bombs Gaza aid sites, cafe and school, killing 95 Palestinians

Victims include at least 39 people who were killed in an Israeli strike on a seaside cafe in Gaza City.

^{Al Jazeera}

Yet another act of state sponsored murder

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Israeli forces kill 16-year-old Palestinian boy in central Ramallah

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Well it made me laugh…

Penge in southeast London has become a graffiti hotspot — but a fast-food franchise owner threatened legal action over one man’s mischievous design

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#Comment #McDonalds #Humour

Hi, Rod!

Fuck off, Rod!

Go and parade your declining mental acuity somewhere else! We don't need it or, as it turns out, you here.

6 Policies That Could Be Affected by Supreme Court's Decision On Nationwide Injunctions

The Supreme Court on June 27 handed down a decision restricting federal judges’ ability to impose nationwide injunctions against executive policies, a ruling that was immediately hailed by President Donald Trump as a win for his administration.

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🇺🇸💰🇮🇱 While Americans argue over rent hikes, groceries, and student loans, Israel has extracted $124 M per day from the U.S. Treasury for an entire year, much of it hidden behind opaque appropriations and congressional loopholes.

According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington has shouldered 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. That includes $17.9 B in direct aid, $4.86 B in Pentagon regional ops, $20.3 B in deferred arms deals, and billions more in shipping losses, stockpile transfers, and corporate handouts.

Since 1948 the United States has pumped $317 B into Israel, including $251.2 B in military aid since 1959; that torrent began with the first Pentagon loan in 1959, switched to grants in 1974, became 100% grants in 1985, and now flows automatically as a $3.8 B lump-sum every Oct 1 plus a $500 M missile-defense kicker under the 2019-2028 MOU, money on which Israel pockets the interest because Washington lets it sit in a Fed account. Even so, FY-2024 set a new single-year record: $17.9 B, dwarfing the 1973 and 1978 surges and landing entirely on U.S. taxpayers.

That FY-2024 fire-hose breaks down as $6.8 B Foreign Military Financing, $4.5 B for Iron Dome and David’s Sling reloads, $1.2 B for the Iron Beam laser, $1 B to crank out more 155 mm shells in U.S. factories, and $4.4 B to refill Pentagon stockpiles stripped for Israeli use, again, $17.9 B in 11 months. The administration also slid at least 100 separate weapons deals under congressional reporting thresholds to keep the true cost opaque.

On 8-13-2024 Washington promised another $20.3 B: 50 F-15EX fighters priced at $18.8 B for delivery in 2029, 32 000 120 mm tank rounds at $774 M, $583 M in tactical vehicles, 30 AMRAAMs at $102 M, and 50 000 mortar bombs at $61 M, all deferred to future U.S. budgets via Israel’s “cash-flow” privilege.

Meanwhile the money flows back to the usual corporate feeders. 60 % of the $14 B April supplemental, $8.4 B, went straight to U.S. arms firms. Boeing’s defense arm booked $8 B in Q4-2023 orders, 36 % of its annual revenue. The Financial Times projects $52 B in free cash flow for the top-15 defense contractors in 2026, $26 B pocketed by the U.S. “big five,” cash they historically plow into buybacks and dividends. Israel still may divert 25 % of each yearly grant, $950 M this cycle, to its own industry before that carve-out expires in 2028.

Add it up and the past 12 months have drained $17.9 B in direct aid, $20.3 B in new contractual obligations, $4.86 B (and climbing) in Pentagon regional costs, and $2.1 B in trade losses, a $45.16 B extraction. That works out to $124 M every day, $1.5 M every hour, funneled from American households to a foreign military and a handful of weapons conglomerates that treat the U.S. Treasury like an open vein.

Head of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), Shaher Saad, welcomes a powerful joint statement from more than 52 Arab & international trade union federations, calling for an immediate end to Israel’s assault on #Gaza.

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Updates: Israeli attack on cafe in Gaza kills 30 Palestinians

These were the updates for Monday, June 30, 2025.

^{Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)}

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When then US Senate passes the budget bill which defunds Medicaid, raises energy costs to protect a dying and toxic fossil fuel industry by crippling renewables, and give a huge handout to the domestic criminal cartel known as "Department of Homeland Security", it will result in more carnage than if a foreign adversary aerially bombed the whole country for a couple years.

But the oligarchs who own our politicians have their interests protected, which is the point of all of this.

So, the question on everyone's mind is "Why isn't anyone stopping him?" And unfortunately, the answer to that question is "Because fundamentally the Constitution is not designed to stop someone like him".

The Constitution is designed to handle the occasional weak, ineffectual, or even ignorant President. But the founders never in their wildest dreams imagined they would need to protect against widespread, coordinated attacks by multiple partisan bad faith actors abusing the power given to them by the document to dismantle the Republic the document is supposed to safeguard.

So let's call this what it is. Not a Presidency. Not a regime. A coup.

The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is home to tens of thousands of caribou, migratory birds, and fish. The Trump administration’s new plan could open 82% of this fragile landscape to oil and gas development. Public comment ends on Tuesday.

An ecologist explains the consequences: buff.ly/kz1lGmQ