The goons occupying Washington DC allegedly to reduce crime are committing crimes. www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...?

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬

Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.

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i included this in my syllabi this year

Experience working for a criminal enterprise is helpful for getting a job at another criminal enterprise.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

If you were wondering where your data went.

Officials call push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’ buff.ly/91yjePv

Pueblo leaders, New Mexico lawmakers speak out to protect Chaco Canyon - High Country News

Officials are calling the push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’

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Tech oligarchs have bought the top leadership of both major US political parties. Meanwhile, public opinion is solidly against the push for AI. This is still more evidence of how the US has the outward forms, but not the substance, of democracy. readsludge.com/2026/07/29/d...

Democrats' Fundraisers Are Also Running AI's Congressional Access Operation

Consultants paid by Rep. Haley Stevens and other Democratic Senate campaigns are also managing a nonprofit that gives Google, Meta, Palantir, and other AI companies direct access to the congressional ...

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We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

Solar+battery does not need a river.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last wk.

Paks nuclear reactor unit shut down as Danube reaches record-low water levels

Exactly. Plus, there are material, ecological, economic, political, and just plain space constraints on how much renewable energy + storage we can build. Now factor in electricity demand growth from electrifying transportation, home heating etc.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d ago

The major problem with this breezily depoliticised headspace is that it is specifically the speed, scale and geographic concentration of data centre demand growth that tends to make it specifically consume fossil fuels over renewable energy

oil and gas companies profit off of human suffering and environmental ruin and their executives should all be tried at the hague 🫶

Shell posts second-highest profits ever as traders cash in on Iran disruption

UK oil major says earnings have surged even as its gas production fell sharply because of Middle East war

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The truth hurts.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last wk.

"The US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington's voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The US government is engaged in a systematic program of misusing the legal system to intimidate and silence dissent. All these Justice Department operatives need to be disbarred and prosecuted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

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The rule of law is fundamentally broken. The world's richest people get away with just about anything. And the corrupt court system in the US enables the lawlessness.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Methane gas is toxic. And congratulations to the scientists who did the study for not being silenced by the fascist regime's defunding of science.

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · last wk.

"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."

Good, but insufficient. The government needs to pay compensation to all the people it has targeted with vindictive prosecution for the "crime" of dissent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader

David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles

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A favored industry (fossil power generation) supplying another favored industry (AI data centers) is being exempted from regulations that keep it from poisoning people. This is crony capitalist corruption in action. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to ​federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on ‌Monday.

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The media twisting words to sugarcoat the truth, again.

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · last wk.

That's not "sidestepping," it's regulatory capture. Come on, y'all.

Abuse of power by a corrupt local government, in aid of corporate interests.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

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This is foolish: People don't need natural gas. We need warm housing, hot water, and cooked food, all of which can be done better with electricity. Saying utilities have a constitutional right to sell natural gas is like saying Sherwin-Williams has a constitutional right to sell lead paint.

Seen in DC: "It is most ethical to bully National Guard occupying DC ❤️" #freedc freedcproject.org/guard #nationalguardoutnow

Liberals in politics, media, and academia are enabling fascism.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

Indoctrinating children to become techbro psychopaths.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Founders School in Manhattan promises to refund families its $150,000 annual tuition fee if their child has not made $1mn ‘in profit’ upon completion of the four-year high school course.”

If I had a rupee for every time I have been called anti-national (including by Hindutva Americans who couldn’t wait to give up their passports and are baffled I haven’t done so) I could probably retire lol. Great to see that charge finally losing all meaning.

L@galatfemme.bsky.social · 2w ago

some protest signs this week

When the racism is so weird it doesn’t so much offend as just confuse.

Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)@themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Unhinged interpretation of the Indian head nod just dropped

The US government routinely smears the people it murders.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.

Any property owner renting to the national guard troops is collaborating with a hostile occupation.

People in the world's most populous country are in open revolt against their fascist regime. This is immensely significant, and an example and inspiration for the rest of us. m.thewire.in/article/righ...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous - The Wire

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

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This is exactly why the US mainstream media is largely not credible and serious. They have for a long time had a subservient rather than adversarial (or even skeptical) relationship with power.

Kelsey Lahr@kelseylahr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Counterpoint: Serious journalists should ALWAYS have boycotted the White House Correspondents' Association dinner because you shouldn't ever be yuckin' it up with the people in power you're supposed to be reporting on.

With the U.S. suffering more than $200 billion in climate damages annually since 2016, some states are holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in these disasters. It’s time we demand lawmakers in Washington do the same. @basavsen.bsky.social

Naked Fossil Fuel Corruption - OtherWords

While states are trying to hold Big Oil accountable for climate disasters, some fossil fuel-funded lawmakers in Congress are trying to shield them.

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