Probably the biggest change to the Pentagon budget was adding a second Virginia-class sub dropped from the Navy's ship plan. HASC authorized $1B for the second sub.

Looking at the tables, HASC was able to do it by eliminating over $1B for the delayed Constellation-class frigate.

Feeling extremely targeted... Bubbie's Plant Food Lab is a 5 min walk from my new office & they have a vegan Nashville hot chickn sandwich🥲 take all my money pls

Why even have human rights policies if these companies won’t act on them? In short, because of the cover the U.S. government provides Israel which in turn shields defense companies and their shareholders from criticism, writes Nick Cleveland-Stout

responsiblestatecraft.org/wall-street-we…

NEW Trip the Beltway Fantastic! My friends Dan Grazier & Julia Gledhill Stimson Center on how major US arms contractors took advantage of COVID and Ukraine to get goodies they always wanted but none of it makes YOU any safer. Surprise!
Listen now: youtube.com/watch?v=rXfVRr…

One of the more depressing days since this all began

'Order must prevail'

Same squad, new digs

this is all to…keep investing in israel?

Why I'm resigning from The Intercept
kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resig…

this video is insane. protester literally telling people to disperse so they can avoid arrest, tries to speak to police about the safest way to do so, and the cops then escalate and drag him out for arrest.

Premature Palestinian baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator apnews.com/article/gaza-i…

I have nothing to say this just makes me cry

There have now been Palestine solidarity & anti-war student actions on at least 75 U.S. college campuses in the past week

THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT, DIVESTMENT IS A REASONABLE AND JUST DEMAND - BUT ALSO THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA SEE YOU!!! THEY RECOGNIZE THE SOLIDARITY!!! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE NAYSAYERS, AND THOSE WHO SEEK TO CENTER ATTENTION ON THE FEELINGS OF ZIONIST COUNTERPROTESTORS!!!

The American university Gaza solidarity encampments have now gone global:

I think we can now retire the conversation about the “correct” way to protest because no form of protest is ever going to be appropriate for those in power. The goalposts move, time and time again.

200 days of this in Gaza and some of you want to pretend like the problem is students protesting in America.

NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza

Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

LD(AI): Palantir posted its largest ever Q1 federal lobbying spend: $2M, up from $740,000 a year ago.

Palantir's LDA spending nearly doubled to $5.1M in 2023 after it started to beef up its AI and defense appropriations lobbying last summer. lda.senate.gov/filings/public…