Today In Labor History April 3, 1917: After the U.S. declared war, sailors, escorted by police, destroyed the IWW building in Kansas City. The action inspired similar attacks in Detroit, Duluth and other towns that had a large IWW presence.
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Past efforts by the U.S. government to punish opposing views often targeted immigrants,
according to Beverly Gage, a Yale historian and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover.
In 1919 and 1920, the Justice Department arrested and deported suspected anarchists and communists in what were known as the #Palmer #Raids, after then-Attorney General Mitchell Palmer.
Historians call the period
the “First Red Scare.”
The "Immigration and Nationality Act" that Rubio cited to justify detaining Khalil was passed in 1952 amid Cold War fears of communist subterfuge,
a period often called
the “Second Red Scare.”
“The targeting of specific people and specific institutions can very rapidly have an oppressive effect,” Gage said.
“They make other people want to put their heads down, shut up and hope that they escape.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/15/trump-columbia-antisemitism-protests/
The Washington Post · Trump says pressure on Columbia is only the beginning for college campuses
Cheap, smart, deadly. The tech industry pitches a new way to wage war.
Anduril Industries hopes it can transform the U.S. military under the new Trump administration.
It imagines the nation defended by fleets of deadly aerial and undersea drones that can tirelessly patrol the world with minimal need for human intervention, poised to strike if ordered to. Anduril has deep ties to President Donald Trump’s tech funders and advisers.
It is the most prominent among a raft of defense upstarts aiming to challenge established defense contractors by recasting U.S. military technology around nimble drones and software,
instead of giant ships and expensive aircraft.
“It’s about making much-lower-cost, easy-to-produce and mass-manufacture weapons that we can resupply in a time of war,”
said #Brian #Schimpf, chief executive and co-founder of the eight-year-old company.
That approach is winning support inside the Pentagon as it grapples with a major challenge to U.S. power just inherited by Trump.
It is starkly illustrated by a military operation that took place one night this past April, after Iran fired more than 300 missiles and self-destructing drones at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.
“We are paying millions to shoot down something that costs thousands,”
Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said last month at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.
“We’re on the wrong end of that.”
That asymmetry contributes to another headache for the Defense Department.
War in the Middle East, Russia’s continuing assault on Ukraine, and China’s escalating rhetoric about controlling Taiwan have stretched U.S. weapons stocks and defense industry supply chains,
as the Pentagon supplies allies like Israel in addition to U.S. forces.
If the United States went to war with China, it would run out of long-range precision missiles in less than a week,
according to a 2023 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.
Anduril is headquartered in the former Los Angeles Times printing press a 30-minute drive from the site of the drone demonstration.
Out front sat an open-topped military humvee owned by #Palmer #Luckey,
the most high-profile of the company’s five co-founders.
He previously sold virtual reality start-up Oculus VR to Facebook at the age of 21 for $2 billion
and was for years one of the few prominent Trump supporters among tech elites
-- until Elon Musk and others embraced the former president in 2024.
Anduril, christened for a sword in “The Lord of the Rings” whose Elvish name means “Flame of the West,”
cultivates a culture starkly different from established defense contractors based in Beltway office parks.
The designs of the company’s sensor towers and cruise missiles evoke military hardware seen in Japanese sci-fi anime shows.
In November, the company launched a merch store featuring Hawaiian shirts modeled by Luckey
and keepsakes from exploded prototypes.
The start-up, which has received more than $4 billion in funding,
started out selling surveillance towers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
It now has a lineup of eight aerial and aquatic surveillance and attack drones,
with customers including the Pentagon and some U.S. allies.
Its #Lattice software, used in the drone demonstration, provides a way to link up and control different robots, sensors and other military equipment,
-- a kind of operating system for war.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/anduril-startup-weapons-drones-ai/
The Washington Post · Cheap, smart, deadly. The tech industry pitches a new way to wage war.
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14
Here's my painting of the Palmer Water Tower from back in January, with Matanuska Peak in the background. It's one of my favorite paintings this year.
For more information about the painting, check out the link below:
https://artbymattias.com/work/palmer-water-tower/
The original painting as well as art prints are available for purchase for those that would like a view of Palmer in their home.
Ars Technica · OpenAI and Anduril team up to build AI-powered drone defense systems
Rant_ifa Und den Drecksack haben sie wieder zum OB gewählt.
Glückwunsch, #Tübingen!
#Palmer
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/boris-palmer-will-inklusion-reduzieren-um-geld-zu-sparen-100.html
SWR AktuellZu teuer: Boris Palmer will weniger Inklusion und mehr Sonderschulen und erntet dafür KritikTübingens Oberbürgermeister findet die derzeitigen Inklusionsbemühungen an Schulen zu teuer. Er fordert, dass es wieder mehr Sonderschulen gibt. Dadurch will er Geld sparen.
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Attendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers
or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities.
But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder #Palmer #Luckey and the venture capitalist #Marc #Andreessen, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology
and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.
There were tech up-and-comers, too:
Donald Trump #Jr. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital.
And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary,
Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation.
Ms. #Wiles also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.
“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer #Omeed #Malik, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.
Rockbridge began with more humility.
Back in 2019, Mr. #Vance, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named #Chris #Buskirk began informally hosting a series of small dinners
that would eventually become called Rockbridge.
The group drew early support from the venture capitalist #Peter #Thiel and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.
Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla.,
or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking.
Speakers included people like #Tucker #Carlson; the Thiel protégé #Blake #Masters; the casino mogul #Steve #Wynn; the investor #David #Sacks; and #Woody #Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.
Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind.
Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.
#Palmer - Die Kräfte, zu denen er wohl auch den nun zurückgetretenen Bundesvorstand der #Grünen Jugend zählt, hätten versucht, aus den Grünen eine linke Partei zu machen „– die sie historisch nicht waren und für die es gar keinen Bedarf gibt“.
Es ist spannend, wie sich die alten Männer und Frauen melden, und alle froh sind, dass sich die Grünen nicht ändern wollen und das alles zu Links ist.
Berliner Zeitung · Boris Palmer über Grüne Jugend: Nun endet die „feindliche Übernahme“ der ParteiDer geschasste Ex-Grüne Boris Palmer zeigt sich hocherfreut über den Rückzug des Vorstands der Grünen Jugend. Dieser sei eine Befreiung von „ideologischem Ballast“.
Today In Labor History April 3, 1917: After the U.S. declared war, sailors, escorted by police, destroyed the IWW building in Kansas City. The action inspired similar attacks in Detroit, Duluth and other towns that had a large IWW presence.
#Palmer hat mit 32 zum OB für Stuttgart kandidiert, sportlich
stuttgart2004.borispalmer.deBoris Palmer - der neue OB für Stuttgart
Wie geil: #Palmer kommt aus seiner Besserungs-Auszeit zurück und das Erste, was er macht, ist Luisa Neubauer in einem öffentlichen Brief vorzuwerfen, ins Totalitäre abzudriften. Der Mann ist doch unrettbar durch.
DER SPIEGELNach Angriff von Tübinger OB: Klimaaktivistin Neubauer wirft Palmer vor, ihre Rede nicht verstanden zu haben
Da verstehe noch eineR die Welt - #Boris #Palmer hat natürlich recht, wenn er schreibt, dass menschlicher Fortschritt in der Vergangenheit auf #fossiler #Energienutzung beruhte. Aber wir sehen jetzt (eigentlich schon seit > 30 Jahren), dass dieses Handeln alle Grenzen überschreiten lässt (#PlanetaryBoundaries nach Rockström et al.) - wie macht es da Sinn, #Luisa #Neubauer anzugreifen anstatt die Nutznießer und Lobbyisten der Fossilindustrie - am Ende ist die #Physik des #Klimawandels totalitär.
Die #AfD liegt bei 20 % und Boris #Palmer warnt in Springers Hetzblatt #WELT öffentlich vor der Totalitarismus-Gefahr durch Fridays For Future.
Ich warne hingegen vor dem Besuch von #Waldorfschulen und Lebendhirnspenden.
#FFF
Boris Palmer - kaum aus der “Auszeit” zurück - produziert schon wieder die nächste Schlagzeile:
Warum sich ein durchaus erfolgreicher OB aus der schwäbischen Provinz an Klimaaktivistinnen, farbigen Fußballspielern oder Werbekampagnen der Deutschen Bahn abarbeitet bleibt mir unverständlich…
gea.deTübingens OB Palmer kritisiert Klimaaktivistin Neubauer in Brief - Kreis Tübingen - Reutlinger General-Anzeiger - gea.deNachrichten-Übersicht für den Kreis Tübingen beim Reutlinger General-Anzeiger. Nachrichtenartikel, Bildergalerien, Videos. Bei uns lesen Sie was in der Region Tübingen los ist. Jetzt hier klicken und mehr erfahren!
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#Antisemitismus ist eben KEINE alleinige Sache von eindeutigen #Nazis. Das zeigt beispielhaft der Fall von Boris #Palmer: Die Gleichsetzung eigener Erfahrungen mit der systematischen Judenverfolgung im Nationalsozialismus ist weit verbreitet. Auch vorgeblich bürgerliche #AfD-Politiker verbreiten antisemitische Verschwörungserzählungen wie die vom „#großenAustausch“. Der #rechtsterror|istische Attentäter von #Halle machte sich diese neben antisemitischen Vernichtungsfantasien auch zu eigen.
Über den jüngsten Skandal um Boris #Palmer ist viel geschrieben worden, aber bemerkenswerter ist eigentlich, was diesmal alles nicht geschrieben wurde, meint Matthias Dell:
https://uebermedien.de/84448/die-gute-nachricht-kaum-jemand-will-das-n-wort-noch-verteidigen/
ÜbermedienDie gute Nachricht: Kaum jemand will das N-Wort noch verteidigen (oder aussprechen) | ÜbermedienVerteidigungstexte und Debattenversuche spielen keine große Rolle mehr. Und die meisten Medien schreiben wie selbstverständlich vom "N-Wort".
#Rassismus ist kein Fehltritt! -
Die Causa "Boris #Palmer" offenbart nicht nur die rassistische Einstellung des Tübinger OBs, sondern auch den tief sitzenden Rassismus in unserer Gesellschaft - #Tacheles, meine Kolumne auf #WDR-#Cosmo
Einen durch und durch seriösen Kommentar zum #Palmer-Rücktritt findet ihr hier 
https://taz.de/Ruecktritt-von-Boris-Palmer/!5931398/
Mal eben die Ereignisse vom Wochenende nachgeholt.
#Palmer tut also der Judensternvergleich leid, dass er mit dem N-Wort um sich warf aber eher nicht so...
Also doch wertlos die ganze Entschuldigung.
Können wir den #Palmer jetzt bitte medial endlich als das behandeln, was er ist: parteiloser Lokalpolitiker und Bürgermeister einer 90.000 EW-Stadt mit fragwürdigen Ansichten und einem Problem, seinen eigenen #Rassismus zu reflektieren… ohne bundespolitische Relevanz.