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@Bron1954@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social The resounding silence around why Netanyahu, Trump, & Kushner orchestrated the Gaza genocide is also worthy of public examination. The most corrupt industry on the planet is doing yet another ethnic cleansing. Re-routing pipelines & oil delivery for a product that must be phased out anyway. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/article-891721 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-says-iran-no-longer-has-uranium-enrichment-capacity-2026-03-19/ Manipulating stock markets for the personal & partisan gain of Republican oligarchs. Beach front resorts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Only long-term solution for Hormuz crisis is rerouting pipes' | The Jerusalem Post

"Long-term solutions include rerouting energy pipelines westward, across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, bypassing Iran's geographic choke point," Netanyahu told Newsmax.

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@pinhman@humanwords.party AI is not profitable. The companies lose money each time their product is used. The only people making money on this is the financial services sector trading stock & issuing huge loans on "possible, perhaps, maybe" future revenue AND the fossil fuel industry powering gas generators for data centers. The product is loathed and user acceptance doesn't match the hype. What sane business makes itself dependent on a supplier or vendor at high risk of going bankrupt? @cwebber@social.coop

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@leahmcelrath.bsky.social Would also like more reporting on the billionaires funding the AI bubble. Except for Nvidia's creative accounting, that copies Enron's circular finance fraud, everyone else is losing money. The fossil fuel industry adores laundering its money in stock market pump & dumps, but there is also a political agenda for this loss leader... ...thwarting the switch to cheaper renewable energy https://www.wired.com/story/us-data-centers-drive-gas-power-expansion/ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-compares-ai-warnings-to-past-climate-fears-he-wrongly-says-were-a-hoax/

WIRED

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social "I am fine with surveillance, I haven't done anything wrong" Second person "until someone changes the definition of 'wrong' ."

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@tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk @cstross@wandering.shop Trump can't stop. His system of massive public corruption depends on keeping the billionaires happy. Ron Lauder, Petr Aven, Kushner, & #PrinceBonesaw want control of arctic oil. Ron Lauder got Ukraine's lithium & is cutting off funding until he gets Greenland too. As the planet burns& the move to renewable energy accelerates, these idiots delude themselves that oil drilling is a path to permanent power. Instead, it is a path to perdition. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/08/06/billionaire-trump-pal-ron-lauder-spent-more-than-70-million-on-politics-now-hes-apparently-bowing-out/ 1/

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3/ The fossil fuel industry believes that if the global population was halved, a fossil fuel phase out becomes unnecessary It is why Musk's investors insisted on ending USAID https://www.desmog.com/2020/10/26/american-institute-economic-research-great-barrington-declaration-herd-immunity-covid-19/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/18/covid-herd-immunity-funding-bad-science-anti-lockdown https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/ https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/climate-science-denial-network-behind-great-barrington-declaration/ What MAGA voters ignore is how GOP billionaires view the poor & middle class as disposable. Just interchangeable cogs, easily replaced by AI They were utterly indifferent to the over 1.5 million Americans who died of covid

A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Behind the Controversial Great Barrington Declaration Calling for COVID-19 Herd Immunity

DeSmog

A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Behind the Controversial Great Barrington Declaration Calling for COVID-19 Herd Immunity

An open letter that emerged earlier this month opposing COVID-19 shutdowns and calling for a “herd immunity” approach to addressing the coronavirus — which already has claimed over 220,000 American lives — is one of the latest examples of how right-wing ideology and think tanks that have long cultivated climate science denial are now engaging in […]

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@anneapplebaum@journa.host This is what happens when 6 dynasties fund the purchase of a corrupt US Supreme Court & crooked Congress. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-map-north-america-us-territory/ Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein - building an international system of oligarchic rule & an economy that only serves The Moneyed. https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/ https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/ "White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper in January, “but we live in a ..." 1/

Europe pans ‘disturbing’ Trump map that shows all of North America as US territory

POLITICO

Europe pans ‘disturbing’ Trump map that shows all of North America as US territory

Iceland and Greenland as well as French, British, Spanish and Dutch territories were shown under the U.S. flag.

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@pinhman@humanwords.party @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world The fossil fuel industry pays for a lot of corrupt far right politicians around the globe. People tire of spending months indoors to escape climate change: wildfires, extreme heat events, torrential rains & flash floods, droughts, water shortages, electrical grid failures brownouts/ blackouts, etc. Even MAGA voters begin to clue how they've been conned.

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org Reminder that anti-trans fearmongering is a political malign influence campaign. Partisan bigots use it to manipulate elections & enrich billionaires. The lives of people upended as a cheap & cynical ploy by conservatives & foreign despots. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-the-gops-trans-panic-has-shades-of-putins-anti-lgbtq-playbook https://19thnews.org/2022/05/white-evangelical-voters-gop-anti-trans-bills/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-russia-putin-tenet-media-i-told-you-so/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/22/trump-republican-transgender-strategy-advertisements/ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-28/republican-party-adopts-russia-authoritarian-playbook https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/opinion/gop-anti-trans-advertising-harris.html https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/lindsey-graham-dead

Vanity Fair

How the GOP’s Trans Panic Has Shades of Putin’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Playbook

When it comes to trans rights, will Democrats be the willing handmaidens of the hard right?

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@theguardian_climate_crisis@halo.nu No. Our best bet is an energy transition to renewable energy like solar & wind ... ... and an accelerated fossil fuel phase out. Air conditioning helps the symptoms, but not the cause of climate change, fossil fuels.

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@bagder@mastodon.social Unpaid work is a big thing in too many industries https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/elon-musk-company-unpaid-liens-invs https://medium.com/@carmitage/elon-musk-keeps-refusing-to-pay-his-bills-in-california-that-is-felony-theft-by-false-pretenses-130ad6f46d84 https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2026/07/31/spacexai-liens-construction-colossus-darana.html https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210507-why-we-glorify-the-cult-of-burnout-and-overwork https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/china-tech-employees-push-back-against-long-hours-996-alibaba-huawei Unpaid content https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/449690-talk-show-host-david-pakman-analyzes-youtube-demonetization/ Unpaid content moderation https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/30/reddit-moderator-protest-communities-social-media Unpaid overtime https://medium.com/career-programming/why-swes-must-work-unpaid-overtime-4b4ce9571185 https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211013-how-working-unpaid-hours-became-part-of-the-job Unpaid invoices https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/nearly-half-of-creative-freelancers-regularly-work-unpaid-hours-report https://www.ibtimes.com.au/spacexai-570-million-claim-ihra-financial-turmoil-1873420 Unpaid marketing https://www.businessinsider.com/cision-faces-collective-action-lawsuit-alleging-unpaid-overtime-2021-5 Wage theft https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees

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@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca You would be unsurprised how often C. Difficile outbreaks are caused by healthcare professionals refusing to wash hands or wear gloves while going patient to patient. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/strategies-to-prevent-clostridioides-difficile-infections-in-acutecare-hospitals-2022-update/575A2A0C9E68BD8535D14B2E337FD0A4 The vulnerable die in such cases of indifference. https://www.sepsis.org/news/why-is-c-diff-so-dangerous-c-diff-awareness-month/ https://www.cdc.gov/c-diff/prevention/index.html

Strategies to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core

Strategies to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core

Strategies to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update - Volume 44 Issue 4

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The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains

The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains

Few are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity

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2/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists https://www.newsweek.com/jess-edwards-teen-child-marriage-opposed-republican-ripe-fertile-age-1897512 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/epstein-wanted-to-impregnate-20-women-at-once-to-create-super-race-using-his-dna/amp_articleshow/128065631.cms Tim Mellon funds RFK Jr. "Herd Immunity" nonsense is eugenicist. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-megadonor-timothy-mellon-raises-eyebrows-with-secret-gift-to-rfk-jrs-anti-vax-empire/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-mellon-family-dynasty-is-bankrolling-donald-trump/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-republican-donor-super-pac Several Silicon Valley tycoons, like Andrew Conru, are involved in "scientific racism" & longevity studies that hide eugenicist "research" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/revealed-international-race-science-network-secretly-funded-by-us-tech-boss https://www.ft.com/content/21bbd771-0fcd-4348-9647-52c86623c82c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Diversity_Foundation

Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists

The billionaire financier and convicted sex offender famously mixed with presidents, models and film stars. But he also indulged his unorthodox beliefs by cultivating top scientists

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2/ " ...world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” Miller’s words surely appealed to the business leaders who are delighted to see the tools of American government and diplomacy being redeployed, not to build a world that’s safe for democracy, or even safe for Americans, but to create a world that’s profitable for them."

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@browngraham243@mstdn.ca @blogdiva@mastodon.social Every fascist war is funded by the theft of other's wealth. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/31/bank-of-england-and-nazis-stolen-gold https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-first-cause-of-stability-of-our-currency-is-the-concentration-camp-central-banker-solidarity-on-the-road-to-hitlers-czechoslovakian-gold/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/documents-reveal-bank-of-england-sold-stolen-gold-for-nazis-8738805.html The financial sector has money laundered that looting & pillaging for decades. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html It's one reason why the young cannot afford a home. Banks helped launder billions of foreign stolen cash via the residential housing markets of the G7. https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/real-estate-news/united-states/washington-dc-real-estate-news/2026-aml-rules-in-real-estate-blocktitle-financial-crimes-enforcement-network-impact-on-real-estate-michael-gerity-fincen-residential-real-estate-rule-14689.php https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/12/undocumented-workers-home-prices-00183126 https://globalnews.ca/news/4658157/fentanyl-vancouver-real-estate-billion-money-laundering-police-study/

How Bank of England 'helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs'

How Bank of England 'helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs'

Official account of what many believe was British central bank's most shameful episode revealed more than 70 years after event

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@evacide@hachyderm.io The existence of Flock & its related technologies really point to the level of paranoia evident in their thinking. Monetizing anxieties built up by the likes of Fox News. Years of race-baiting bullsh*t about "crime rates in Democrat cities" morphed into fascist ICE raids & constant state surveillance. The former Yugoslavia dissolved into murderous civil war with that type of "hate thy neighbor" malign influence. They are now stuck as a weaker set of states. Easy pickings for Putin.

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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk For an industry setting itself up for lucrative government contracts in cyberwarfare, corporate domestic espionage skirmishes, & automated drone warfare, narratives of plausible deniability serve as criti-hype style advertising of their capabilities. https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/anthropics-mythos-cybersecurity-breakthrough-or-just-criti-hype https://pluralistic.net/tag/criti-hype/ https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ai-that-hacked-its-way-out-and-the-hype-that-followed-it

Fierce Network

Is Anthropic's Mythos a cybersecurity breakthrough, or just 'criti-hype'?

Anthropic says Mythos is too dangerous for general release — the AI model can find vulnerabilities in | Anthropic claims its Mythos AI model is too dangerous to release widely — but analysts say telcos should focus on security fundamentals, not the hype.

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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Witkoff is launching his son into the upper echelons of international public corruption, just as Lauder launched his son in law Warsh https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/witkoff-son-qatar-gaza.html https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkukver2ll https://jambroadcasting.com/steve-witkoff-earned-nearly-107m-from-trump-affiliated-crypto-venture-disclosures-show/ Nepotism & cronyism - a hallmark of authoritarianism https://therealdeal.com/miami/2026/07/21/witkoff-monroe-capital-nab-303-million-loan-for-miami-resi/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Witkoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Witkoff Every soon-to-be-displaced regime sets up the money to fund ratlines well in advance. https://allthatsinteresting.com/ratlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)

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@Walrus@toot.wales @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk The dynasties behind Project 2025 are eugenicists & white supremacists. They believe that if the global population drops by half that they can retain their wealth forever. They fund antivaxxers like RFK Jr for a reason, eugenics They fund Nazis like Musk for a reason, eugenics. They fund Trump for a reason; eugenics. They fund the AI bubble for a reason; eugenics (financial crashes trigger excess mortality events like wars & suicide rates) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/zohran-mamdani-wage-theft-motoclick-delivery-app/ https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/ The Moneyed adore the concept of unpaid work & wage theft. https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-elon-texas-workers/ https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/lawsuit-says-musks-tesla-hires-visa-holders-instead-americans-so-it-can-pay-less-2025-09-12/ Koch is infamous for calling in ICE on payday https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/koch-foods-inks-deal-to-settle-chicken-worker-wage-fixing-case https://meatingplace.com/federal-wage-lawsuit-against-koch-foods-dismissed/ Bill Koch & his underwear washing preferences https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/bohemian-grove-billionaire-underwear-20775851.php

Zohran Mamdani Takes on the Gig Economy’s Wage Thieves

The Nation

Zohran Mamdani Takes on the Gig Economy’s Wage Thieves

New York City is suing a delivery app for stealing workers’ pay—signaling that under Mamdani, gig companies can no longer break the law with impunity.

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social https://www.salon.com/2024/07/31/most-extreme-ever-project-2025-contributors-have-a-history-of/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/press-releases/new-report-from-the-sentencing-project-reveals-the-hidden-eugenics-history-behind-americas-harsh-sentencing-laws/ https://conversationalist.org/2025/04/17/united-states-america-eugenics-politics-policy-race-science-disablism-transphobia-racism-xenophobia-trump-immigration/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-wants-to-make-eugenics-great-again-lets-not/ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/23/from-fringe-to-federal-the-rise-of-eugenicist-thinking-in-us-policy Russia also has a long history of destroying rebellious ethnic minorities through forced migrations & pogroms. It's a weapon of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union https://henryjacksonsociety.org/2025/11/13/how-russia-uses-migration-as-a-weapon/ Imperialist land grabs & asset confiscations is how The Moneyed reward their cronies for their support. https://allisraelnews.com/only-long-term-solution-for-hormuz-crisis-is-a-pipeline-through-israel-says-pm-netanyahu-but-turkey-and-syria-compete-for-strategic-route https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-weaponizing-syrian-refugees-geopolitical-goals/27562604.html https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/01/russia-veto-denies-millions-of-syrian-civilians-essential-aid-amid-humanitarian-disaster-in-idlib/

Salon.com

"Most extreme white supremacists ever": Project 2025 contributors have a history of racism - Salon.com

An analysis from USA Today found that at least five of the manifesto’s contributors have made racist comments

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2/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/in-1981-a-task-force-intimidated-voters-at-the-polls-will-republicans-revert-to-their-old-tactics https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ice-national-guard-election-polls-b3043601.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/02/vote-safe-project-launched-deploy-poll-watchers-counter-federal-agents/ Mass shooter announcements. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-urges-gun-owners-to-vote-in-2024-as-he-receives-nra-endorsement The Moneyed want an end to democracy. https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/ The dynasties behind Project 2025 are willing to do far worse at the midterm elections. https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/28/american-oligarchy-geopolitics-dictators-democracy-jared-kushner-trump/ https://thedispatch.com/article/constitution-republic-oligarchy-populism-imperialism/ https://www.pbs.org/video/how-oligarchs-dominate-american-democracy-and-always-have-qfxhfs/ https://www.ft.com/content/2472ef5a-798d-4e7b-b4be-020855cf387e https://archive.is/AOKHo https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2026/07/08/the-political-reality-of-oligarchy-has-never-been-more-visible/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/elon-musk-trillionaire-spacex-ipo-oligarchy-democracy/ Mail in voting is critical.

In 1981 a ‘task force’ intimidated voters at the polls. Will Republicans revert to their old tactics?

Donald Trump has threatened to send in poll watchers to monitor voting on 3 November, but is the party capable of such a threat?

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@ArthurZork@mstdn.party @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social We are continuing to ignore how badly oligarchs want to end democracy everywhere. Last election, there were innumerable efforts to derail in person voting. Missing charging cables. https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-election-problems-power-cords-missing-technical-issues-and-more-voter-1204708 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/midterms-2018-voters-face-malfunctioning-machines-long-lines-polls-across-n932156 Bomb threats. https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/30/politics/trump-midterms-election-fraud https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/preparation-kept-bomb-threats-disrupting-2024-elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_violence_in_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election Armed vigilante "poll watchers". https://theconversation.com/armed-poll-watchers-new-jerseys-cautionary-tale-ahead-of-the-2020-presidential-election-141328 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/poll-watchers-election-armed-vigilantes/ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/inside-the-republican-national-committees-poll-watching-army https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voters-should-not-be-intimidated 1/

newsweek.com

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@Ghouul@social.vivaldi.net @ajroach42@retro.social There's a growing body of philosophy that says it is a human right to be able to access art & beauty & to express creativity in turn. AI violates that human right by inserting itself as an unwanted intermediary. Filtering. Censoring. Controlling. Chokepointing. Obstructing. Draining. Extracting. Metering. Monitoring. Monetizing. The Right to the City Henri Lefebvre On beauty & being just Elaine Scarry Daisy Dixon "Depraved"

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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy The people responsible for frying the planet & sabotaging democracy have names. They should be known for the ecocide they've conducted. Anonymity isn't their due for their crimes against humanity. https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/117018216856394344 https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fossil-fuel-industry-donors-see-major-returns-trumps-policies https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/06/24/trump-donors-oil-companies-funding-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-jeffery-hildebrand-hilcorp-oil-regulations Public corruption & campaign finance https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/31/disclosures-corporate-donations-trump-freedom250-01020551 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/14/trump-drain-the-swap-billionaires

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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social The oligarchs who bought themselves a corrupt Supreme Court; Congress, & presidency to get climate denial. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations https://blog.ucs.org/julie-mcnamara/the-trump-epas-endangerment-finding-repeal-wrong-on-statute-deceptive-on-science-reckless-on-impacts/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zdd7yl4vo https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/14/trump-obama-climate-rule-takeaways https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-liquefied-natural-gas https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072026/justice-department-environmental-enforcement-has-collapsed/ https://thebulletin.org/2026/07/trump-spending-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-to-keep-coal-alive-and-kill-clean-energy/ Bradley, Koch, Coors, Seid, Scaife Mellon, Uihlein https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/ The top energy oligarchs in the world https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116987822003256674

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Fossil Fuel Industry Donors See Major Returns in Trump’s Policies

The Trump administration’s embrace of the oil and gas industry’s agenda provides another example of how wealthy special interests shape policies.

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Cornyn & Tillis are shills for billionaire oligarchs. They are shielding their megadonors, along with Trump Corruption Inc. The Moneyed have watched how the Epstein Files revealed covert influence & backdoor connections between the wealthy. They don't want the same to result from an audit on Trump & his innumerable scams. https://prospect.org/2026/08/04/republican-senators-pretend-to-constrain-trump/ Harold Hamm, Paul Singer, Schwarzman https://ncnewsline.com/2019/08/23/gop-megadonors-fill-tillis-campaign-coffers/ Murdoch, Perot, Harlan Crow https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/15/texas-us-senate-gop-primary-donors-john-cornyn-ken-paxton/

The American Prospect

Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump - The American Prospect

John Cornyn caves and agrees to vote for Todd Blanche as AG, while Susan Collins orchestrates a loophole-ridden deal on OMB rules politicizing federal grants.

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@Nonilex@masto.ai White supremacist billionaires can always count on the "The Cruelty is the Point" bigoted voting bloc. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/jeffrey-epstein-emails-elites https://meidasnews.com/news/on-election-night-trump-hosted-a-maga-billionaire-accused-of-pressuring-workers-to-perform-sex-acts Republican voters ignore the fact that fascists often "will do it with you, then do it to you" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/11/elon-musk-campaigns-trump-00183351 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-18/trump-s-chaos-turns-davos-into-survival-of-the-richest https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-populist-platform-gives-way-billionaires-agenda-rcna194639 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/billionaires-politics-money-influence/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/billionaire-curb-power-movement

Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan

Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan

Epstein paints Trump as someone he knew intimately. But the documents also reveal how many powerful men confided in him

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@bagder@mastodon.social A corporation really has to work hard over the years to alienate this broadly & destroy its own reputation. Amazon. Meta. Apple. Google. Microsoft. The company they keep is revealing...these folks fund malign influence campaigns, not "economic mobility" with their fake charities. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/ https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/ https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7 https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sergey-brin-gg-soto-trump-california-billionaire-tax.html

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@akareilly@hachyderm.io https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-is-the-us-government-meddling-in-the-nathan-cofnas-affair/ Bigotry & hate mongering hiding behind "free speech"

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Why is the US government meddling in the Nathan Cofnas affair?

What began as a newsletter about a Cambridge professor has since morphed into an international scandal, with the US ambassador now weighing in. On Friday, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White posted a statement on X condemning Ghent University for suspending Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas had accused Jason Arday of plagiarising parts of his PhD thesis, [...]Read More...

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social The value of a life depends on how pretty it is?

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2/ Todd Blanche is the nominee because he'll do favors for the Trump donors frying the planet. https://san.com/media-miss/trump-admin-ends-probe-of-senators-coal-companies-accused-of-violating-clean-water-act/ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-officials-halt-criminal-probe-jim-justice-coal-empire-1804280 https://newrepublic.com/article/213037/wrongful-death-suit-big-oil https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-trump-admin-is-trying-to-stop-state-climate-lawsuits-it-isnt-working/ https://www.citizen.org/news/craven-and-inadequate-deal-blanche-must-not-be-our-new-attorney-general/ https://justiceconnection.substack.com/p/sometimes-they-do-mean-what-they https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/06/17/trump-climate-regulations https://www.lcv.org/media-center/this-week-in-climate-action-july-30-2026/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/trump-memos-domestic-fossil-fuels-defense https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/oil-industry-documents-disinformation.html https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-todd-blanche-nomination

Trump admin ends probe of senator's coal companies accused of violating Clean Water Act

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Trump admin ends probe of senator's coal companies accused of violating Clean Water Act

Trump administration officials ended a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice.

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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social The fossil fuel industry, the most corrupt on the planet, still wants indemnity from lawsuits for obstructing climate action and to evade charges from the ICC for ecocide. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/big-oil-is-getting-sued-for-heat-deaths-its-fighting-back-with-an-army-of-immunity-laws/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/republicans-big-oil-climate-lawsuits https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-trump-admin-is-trying-to-stop-state-climate-lawsuits-it-isnt-working/ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062026/climate-lawsuits-surge-after-trump-regulatory-rollbacks/ https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/07/15/wa-tribes-environmental-groups-sue-over-endangered-species-act-rule-change/ https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2026/07/08/new-zealand-moves-to-ban-climate-change-litigation-will-the-us-follow/ https://climateintegrity.org/news/view/first-wrongful-death-climate-case-against-big-oil-wins-major-rulings-moves-toward-trial https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-02-23/supreme-court-climate-change-lawsuits-brought-by-cities-counties https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/business/oil-liability-shield-laws-climate-lawsuits.html https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/ecocide-international-crime-environmental-law/ https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2026/07/icc-trump-push-dismantle

Big Oil is getting sued for heat deaths. It's fighting back with an army of immunity laws.

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Big Oil is getting sued for heat deaths. It's fighting back with an army of immunity laws.

As lawsuits near trial, oil companies race to win immunity in statehouses and Congress.

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@ZLabe@fediscience.org The public deserves to know the names of the oil oligarchs that are responsible for climate denial. https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/06/24/trump-donors-oil-companies-funding-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship/ https://newrepublic.com/article/188467/trumps-musk-oligarchy-corruption https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/04/01/musk-trump-tech-oil-oligarchs/ https://www.ft.com/content/4e67a3a6-04b9-4337-8e80-4b43570d573f https://archive.is/7BXCO https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-exempts-big-oil-donors-from-tariffs https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/04/venture-global-shares https://oilchange.org/blogs/deal-or-no-deal-trumps-war-on-iran-is-making-billionaires-more-billions/ https://marker.medium.com/how-russian-oligarchs-stow-away-their-money-in-the-us-and-uk-f486124a07b8

Revealed: the Trump donors and oil interests funding ARC

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Revealed: the Trump donors and oil interests funding ARC

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@Nonilex@masto.ai An even scarier part is how billionaires plan to use this technology to get military government contracts, and not just for the US. The militarization of space is being flogged to Saudi Arabia, and others. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/us/politics/trump-nuclear-energy-agenda-saudi-deal.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj03r59z73po https://www.wsj.com/opinion/elon-musks-starship-heavy-could-revolutionize-warfare-04930487 https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/23/maga_inc Private corporations selling automated ICBM technology to anyone. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/saudi-arabia-trump-nuclear-deal/688064/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/xai-humain-saudi-musk-spacex.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/12/musk-spacex-ipo-military-policy/

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Cyberwarfare used to occur with discrete silence & covert implementations. Weird: Missing those days when terrorists, regime-change intelligence services, and domestic espionage weren't so loud.

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/apple-googlestates-app-stores-lawsuits-01105892 https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled When the fossil fuel industry orders up a fascist movement, this is the result. The most corrupt industry on the planet owns & operates Big Tech as proxies. International ubiquitous surveillance is the goal. Nazis always demand to see your papers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=678zIu4RJF8

Bombshell report: Trump’s fossil fuel corruption is killing us.

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Oligarchs are willing to pay any amount of money to ensure a GOP win. That onslaught inevitably buys a lot of public corruption. https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2026/10/04/trumps-ai-billionaire-lunch-dates-have-so-far-spent-145-million-on-political-candidates/ https://www.ft.com/content/2285c111-b103-4b04-96c7-fe26a3c04c3e https://archive.is/qr75C https://www.wired.com/story/against-tech-oligarchy-book-excerpt-trump-billionaries/ AI won a reprieve on regulatory oversight in exchange for financing Trump's election meddling. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/10/08/can-tom-tiffany-survive-ties-to-toxic-donald-trump/ Then there's Trump's grift https://www.ft.com/content/f9213bec-28ca-4930-bae8-1379abc851f7 https://archive.is/AdZUB https://www.ft.com/content/352a15ac-53c4-46eb-b75e-957f0388dc79 https://archive.is/ncByl

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@FinchHaven@hachyderm.io @Nonilex@masto.ai The vast public corruption of a fossil fuel funded fascist movement. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia https://newrepublic.com/post/211510/jim-justice-coal-family-trump-doj-investigation Trump wants Todd Blanche in place for a number of reasons in addition to tax evasion & the slush fund. It's yet another favor to the GOP's Big Oil donors. The most corrupt industry on the planet wants to thwart the ICC efforts at ecocide legislation & stop all climate change lawsuits. Todd Blanche is their choice for AG too. https://www.eenews.net/articles/not-an-ally-enviros-blanch-at-trumps-ag-pick/ 1/

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

ProPublica

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Congratulations!!!

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@Nonilex@masto.ai There is still a lack of news coverage about why billionaires suppport RFK Jr. Notorious eugenicism; Tim Mellon follows in his family's footsteps. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/economy/mellon-kennedy-childrens-health-defense.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/leokamin/2024/07/14/here-are-robert-f-kennedy-jrs-richest-donors/ https://archive.is/cwzOk https://www.desmog.com/covideniers-anti-science-covid-19-denial-overlaps-climate-denial/ https://www.desmog.com/2021/11/16/four-major-climate-denial-scare-tactics-twitter/ https://www.jezebel.com/the-eugenicist-doctor-and-the-vast-fortune-behind-trump-1827322435 Every fascist movement targets the disabled. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/rfk-jr-disability-special-education-hhs-kennedy-autism/ https://www.apha.org/publications/public-health-newswire/public-health-newswire/articles/rfk-first-year-in-leadership-has-endangered-public-health https://www.rmoutlook.com/politics/rfk-jr-pledged-more-transparency-heres-what-the-public-doesnt-know-anymore-11871190

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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Putin's war on Ukraine & Trump's war on Iran is convincing the globe to end its oil addiction, &quickly The oil industry is so vehemently opposed to an energy transition that they are preparing for world war with their Silicon Valley collaborators, quislings, & opportunists https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/11/trump-saudi-arabia-iran-houthis.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/10/11/saudi-arabia-vows-retaliation-against-houthis-after-riyadh-airport-strike/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/10/10/ai-safety-openai-tech-week/494a67ce-c47e-11f1-8170-681419af1cc9_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/us/politics/trump-yemen-houthis-red-sea-iran.html https://www.reuters.com/world/us-saudi-arabia-have-discussed-riyadhs-potential-purchase-f-35-jets-2025-05-13/ https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/5/13/us-and-saudi-arabia-agree-to-142bn-weapons-sale-during-trump-visit https://www.npr.org/2026/10/10/nx-s1-5997512/saudi-arabia-riyadh-airport-bombing-attack

CNBC

Trump says he is 'going to look at' joining Saudi Arabia in the fight against Iran-backed Houthis after deadly airport strike

U.S. military involvement in the fight against the Houthis would stretch resources in the Middle East already committed to fighting Iran, analysts said.

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The Moneyed & the fossil fuel industry funds far right fascist movements around the globe for several reasons...

To thwart an utterly necessary fossil fuel phase out
Oligarchs like Putin, Trump, & #PrinceBonesaw want to control spheres of influence using oil supply as leverage
The Moneyed hate taxation, especially international treaties to address tax evasion & money laundering
Creating captive consumer markets for US tech & fossil fuel
The wealthy want to end democracy

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@stux@mstdn.social Tonight's MSNOW broadcasts by Chris Hayes & Rachel Maddow were wonderful. Maddow talked about how mnemonics aid memory. HOMES for the list of great lakes is now SHAME, then she lists the absolutely shameful conduct of the Trump regime. People who helped the USA deported in chains to central Africa. Hegseth getting rich off public office. Bessent inviting sanctioned Russian officials to the G20 while hypocritcally helping Iran https://www.axios.com/2026/08/31/bessent-russia-g20-europe https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/31/bessent-welcomes-russia-back-to-g20-as-europe-pushes-back-01058296

Axios

Bessent met with Russian counterpart at G20

The appearance of Russia's finance minister exposed a sharp divide between the U.S. and its European allies.

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Harlin Crow and Clarence Thomas are going to be furious! Lol

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@randahl@mastodon.social @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io Kim Jong-Un and cronies are obtaining yachts & Armani suits somehow. Go after those sources. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/world/asia/kim-jong-un-suit-north-korea.html https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-party-yacht-spotted-north-korea-suffers-famine-2021-7 https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-kim-jong-un-resort-coronavirus-1504165 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11502563/kim-jong-un-yacht-wonsan/ https://www.insidehook.com/culture/kim-jong-un-parties-massive-private-island-called-north-koreas-ibiza https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/kim-jong-un-could-be-sheltering-from-covid-19-pandemic-say-us-and-seoul

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