Tootfinder

No Kings showed what we can do in the streets.

Now we have to win at the ballot box.
There's an incredible slate of candidates running to take this fight to Washington:
Wala Blegay (MD-05) — A labor rights attorney and County Councilmember taking on the establishment — and leading the charge to reject dark money with the People’s Pledge.
Audrey Denney (CA-01) — A rural advocate organizing in deep-red territory to flip a seat held by Republicans for 50 years and fig…

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-talks-blackstone-…

Google in Talks With Blackstone, KKR to Distribute AI Models
Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google’s AI models, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The discussions follow the establishment of two separate companies set up by Anthropic and OpenAI and several PE firms that will employ technical consultants to integrate AI into the PE firms’ portfolio

RE: #IranWar

new tiki bar downtown looks popular

A new wave of health influencers aligned with the Make America Healthy Again Movement
are championing nicotine as a ‘natural’ health hack,
saying the medical establishment has unfairly demonized the compound.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/well/nicotine-heal…

Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a ‘Natural’ Health Hack
The influencers, many of them aligned with the Make America Healthy Again Movement, say the medical establishment has unfairly demonized the compound.

"Conservation Groups Push for Fossil-Free Forest Zones at COP30"
#COP30 #Environment
https://h…

Conservation Groups Push for Fossil-Free Forest Zones at COP30 | Happy Eco News
More than 70 organizations at COP 30 called for the establishment of fossil-free forest zones to protect tropical forests and Indigenous territories from oil and gas development.

The reactionary establishment of Minneapolis is pushing for their own #CopCity (with a euphemism for the name of course; i won't use it but it is more of a #CopSpa to be fair).

"More fundamentally, we must ask why so much of official Britain, and especially its security establishment, keeps clinging for dear life to the United States, behaving for all the world like someone stuck in an abusive personal relationship"
#Trump
#WarCrimes

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 28. April 1958 testete #Großbritannien im Rahmen der Operation #Grapple seine stärkste #Atomwaffe "Grapple Y" vor der Weihnachtsinsel. Die Testreihe etabl…

So I look through my pile of 8" floppies for @… thinking I'll have a few random ones to send him, and I find a motherload of Perq floppies!
#retrocomputing

It is not an exaggeration to say that the changes that will result will probably represent the greatest withdrawal of voting power from Black Americans since the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow.
It is difficult to say how many seats Democrats will lose in the coming Republican redistricting bonanza that the court’s decision will allow.
A New York Times analysis found that the ruling would endanger about a dozen Democratic-leaning seats across the America…

I’m gong to boycott the local establishment that abbreviates “mozzarella” as “motz” because the correct abbreviation is “mozz” which also reminds me of the early days of Mozilla on Mac OS. I love cheese.

RFK Jr.'s battle with the public health establishment has turned to trench warfare (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/rfk-health-secretary-maha-vaccines-food-00776630
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p31#a260215p31

You have to remember that what we think of as mere tooting, the establishment considers jiving with the code jockeys in cyberspace

from my link log —
High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-…

High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet—but it won't reform itself
The establishment is waking up to the dangers of "rentier capitalism" but more than cosmetic change is required

A profile of Vanity Fair's top editor, Mark Guiducci, who is reviving the outlet's "New Establishment" list and is meticulously editing VF Oscar Party details (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ece8b616-de84-4a6f-9135-a89ba0c2b85f

Billionaire Republican candidate says he's taking on the establishment.

Two excellent presentations by students in our Environmental and Conservation Sciences graduate program; Minnesota River water quality, and eDNA of pollinators!

"A Yalie’s forgotten campaign gave us Black History Month."
Read this new story from the Yale Daily News about YDS graduate William Stuart Nelson 1924 B.D. and his pivotal role in the establishment of #BlackHistoryMonth.

The Duality of Man
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Milwaukee & Madison DSA have endorsed Hong for Governor of Wisconsin.
“Working people have seen that the system doesn’t work for them. Time and again, the establishment has failed us so as not to upset their billionaire donors. As ICE threatens to terrorize our communities and kidnap our neighbors, Francesca Hong stands committed to fight back as the only candidate calling for their abolition.”

Nicholas Enrich's new memoir,
"Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID",
is named after one of Elon Musk’s social media posts from that period,
when the South African billionaire wrote,
“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”
Since its establishment in 1961,
USAID has saved the lives of tens of millions around the world by treating and preventing serious health issue…

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die
A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to these cuts, and nearly a million, mostly…

A new poll conducted by Bowling Green State University (BGSU) found that GOP frontrunner Vivek Ramaswamy is in a dead heat with presumptive Democratic nominee Amy Acton in the Ohio gubernatorial race.
The survey of 1,000 registered voters in the Buckeye State found that 48 percent of respondents backed Ramaswamy
— who has endorsements from Trump, Vance and GOP establishment figures
— while 47 percent backed Acton.
Five percent of respondents said they will back anoth…

The conflation of Jews and Israel is dangerous antisemitism.
And yet it’s harder to fight back as the mainstream Jewish establishment insists that Zionism is nearly as integral to Jewish identity as circumcision.
Increasingly, though, many Jews are searching for another point of view:
Feelings about Israel are wobbling within the community
— and disapproval is rising among the young;
pro-Palestinian Jewish groups are growing, and more and more Jews view “Zionis…

Book Review: ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country,’ by Molly Crabapple
In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.