(27 Apr) Ohio food banks are serving more people than ever, budget would maintain funding at 2019 levels
Workers handing out food at Faith Fellowship’s food pantry. (Photo by Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journ...
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(22 Apr) Ohio House budget would eliminate independent campaign finance oversight
Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, testifying in the Ohio House. (Photo by Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Jou...
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Alles muß man selber machen......
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How can we be better consumers? Author Vince Beiser says it starts with rethinking your automobile - YouTube
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Comic Crusaders Special - Deathblade Team
In this episode of the Comic Crusaders Special, host Al Mega reconnects with comic book creator Edward Brown and his creative team to delve deeper into their upcoming Kickstarter project, "Deathblade: The Awakening." This gripping narrative follows Ambrose,...
https://comiccrusaders.com/podcast/comic-crusaders-special-deathblade-team/
#Brian Cochran #comic books #comics #crowdfunding #deathblade #EA Brown #Indie #Kickstarter #livestream #podcast #vidcast
From 14 Feb: Ohio food banks warn over less funding in governor’s budget proposal - Eggs in a grocery store. (Stock photo from Getty Images.)Have you seen the price of eggs? The cost o... https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/14/ohio-food-banks-warn-over-less-funding-in-governors-budget-proposal/ #allison-russo #brian-stewart #farm-bill #food-assistance #food-banks #food-pantries #matt-huffman #mike-dewine #ohio-association-of-foodbanks #politics-&-gov #snap #snap-cuts #u.s.-farm-bill
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Nivea feat. Brandon Casey & Brian:
Don't Mess With My Man
Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings
#Brian #Driscoll, the acting FBI director and head of the bureau's Newark field office,
pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/senior-fbi-official-forcefully-resisted-trump-administration-firings-rcna190301
Trump confirmed Friday he stripped security protections from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, the latest in a pattern of retaliation against political adversaries.
Why it matters:
All of Trump's targets have received death threats during a time of heightened political violence.
The former NIAID director lost his protection late Thursday night.
Fauci has repeatedly been forthright about death threats against himself and his family. He's now hired his own security detail, per the New York Times.
"You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government," Trump said on Fox News on Friday, when asked about Fauci.
Between the lines: Former President Biden issued a preemptive pardon for Fauci on his last day in office, granting him broad immunity before Trump's term began.
Fauci faced repeated political attacks from Trump and other Republicans over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump's former national security adviser has faced death threats from Iran after being a fierce critic of the regime. In 2022 an Iranian national was charged in connection with a plot to assassinate Bolton.
"This is a matter that people should take seriously," Bolton told CNN's Jake Tapper.
Context: Bolton was vocal in his criticism of Trump after working with him during his first term and ahead of his new administration.
"It's certainly a downer for expressing your opposition to Donald Trump," Bolton said on CNN.
Trump's former secretary of state, like Bolton, faced threats from Iran, multiple outlets reported.
Pompeo has criticized Trump on fiscal and foreign policy and was not invited to join his second administration. However, Pompeo spent Trump's first week in office celebrating his win, Cabinet confirmations, and early executive orders.
Zoom in: Pompeo's top aide #Brian #Hook also lost his security, per the reports.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/trump-fauci-bolton-pompeo-security-tracker
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/
#actuallyAutistic
autism what is it? A mindmap of theories and resources of these theories out there.
#cognition #autism #brian #ven #psychiatry
TRAILER: RE-ANIMATAOR 40th Anniversary
DIRECTOR STUART GORDON’S INSTANT CULT CLASSIC HORROR COMEDY BLOODFEST:
RE-ANIMATOR
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IGNITE FILMS & EAGLE ROCK PICTURES DROPPED THEIR RE-ANIMATAED 40th...
https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/comic-book-previews/trailer-re-animataor-40th-anniversary/
#re-animator #horror #brian yuzna #herbert west #40th anniv.
I’m sure there are people who are saying that the murder of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson is a sad thing. Sad or not, what he with a click of a mouse did to many sick people every day, was done to him in a more up-close and personal manner. That being the case, I hope Hell is hot enough for you Thompson! Rest in Hell greedy Bastard!!! I’ll bet you split Hell more wide open than ever thought possible when you were ended. Now you’re the one delayed, denied and not exactly defended. How does it feel Bitch! CEOs are the real criminals, thugs and murderers!!!
@HannahHowe I’m Veronica and so is my wife! #brian
#Brian #Evans and #George #Zoley, the two top executives at Geo Group, the 
private prison company,
made contributions directly to Trump’s campaign,
to his super PAC and to other political groups that support him,
and have said they 
expect Mr. Trump’s re-election to drive up demand for empty beds
at detention centers the company runs for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Mr. Zoley has already profited handsomely from Mr. Trump’s re-election.
This summer, as the election was approaching, he spent over $3 million to buy up large chunks of the company’s own stock,
or a total of 250,000 shares, federal filings show.
The average price he paid for that stock:
$12.28.
As of Friday, that stock was trading at $26.60,
as Geo Group saw the largest surge in its stock price since 2016,
after Mr. Trump was elected to his first term.
The bounce this month alone would generate a $3.6 million profit for Mr. Zoley, if sold at the new price.
The executives told Wall Street analysts during a recent earnings call that 
Trump’s election could help Geo Group fill as many as 18,000 empty beds at its facilities,
which would generate as much as $400 million in annual business.
“This is to us an unprecedented opportunity to assist the federal government and the incoming Trump administration toward achieving a much more aggressive immigration policy,” Mr. Evans told the Wall Street analysts.
#immigrant #detention #deportation #privateprisons
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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