Don from RealSurf
@mrrealsurf.bsky.social
Politics tragic (USA & Australia), writer by trade, photographer of sorts, surfer, rider of bikes (both e and purely human-powered). Dweller in Sydney, born in California.
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
"The offset tap is being turned on deliberately to keep fossil fuel production going in this country," - CEO of the Wilderness Society, Dr Kirsty Howey. #ClimateIntegrity
Did you know that Woodside's Browse gas project – starting in the early 2030s at the soonest – will likely get to pretend that it has always existed under Australia's climate pollution laws in order to avoid laws specifically put in place to hold that project to a higher standard? Now you do!
Rowan Hanley, Ocean Campaigner and Activist at Surfrider Foundation Australia, told the #ClimateIntegrity Summit about how the PEP11 project was cancelled due to community pressure on politicians. "We need to threaten their very survival with our advocacy".
No thrones. No crowns. No kings. Just millions of us with ballots, voices, and absolutely no interest in being ruled. Find your No Kings event, vote early, and remind every politician who they work for: us. October 17, we show up. social.demcast.com/s/OhlKC2Is
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Also no technology above simple hand tools.
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2w agoBut at 4.5C organised tribes of 15-50 humans in small patches in the polar or exceptionally lucky regions (assuming fauna and flora have somehow adapted and taken hold in the new chaotic climate) would find life on our planet very hard. Any human population would be tiny.
Named by Senator Massie as probable co-conspirators in the Epstein Files: Jes Staley, Leon Black, Les Wexner, David Copperfield, Lapo Elkann, Tom Pritzker, Glenn Dubin, Frédéric Fekkai, Edoardo Teodorani, Jean-Luc Brunel, Daniel Siad, Ramsey Elkholy, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and Lesley Groff.
If you still support Trump and his administration, we don’t have political differences — we have moral ones. Because racism, hatred, and incitement are not opinions. They are a character test. And you are failing it.
Remember that at this very moment Greg Abbott is trying to protect the mass deportation agents currently terrorizing Texans and community members all over this country.
Congressman Greg Casar@repcasar.bsky.social · last mo.ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
Luckily, this year we will give half a billion dollars to a company that has booked $10b in profit. I can't think of anything else that we could have done with that money.
BHP banks surging profits while receiving over half a billion dollars in diesel rebates — Climate Integrity
Mining giant BHP has reported an after-tax profit of US$9.83 billion – a 9% increase on the previous year – while at the same time pocketing around $548 million in rebates under the Fuel Tax Credit (F...
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I still believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it. It's worth fighting for. Rep. Nixon ran a strong campaign. I will be standing by her side in the fight against Ashley Moody. I hope you'll join me.
"Treasurer Jim Chalmers confirmed that it will be asking for the funds to be returned. 'As much as we’d love to fund women’s shelters and other domestic violence services, in the current environment we need to be fiscally disciplined,' he said."
The Shovel@theshovel.bsky.social · last mo.The Government last week approved $2.5 billion in taxpayer funds to bail out the mining giant’s aluminium smelter near Newcastle. When the Government this week received an application from a women’s shelter for $2,500 in assistance, there was a mix-up. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/17/w...
We could eliminate $7 billion in medical debt with the $70 million they spent to beat me in the primary. Those same corporations and special interests are trying to buy the seat for Mike Rogers now. In November we teach them once and for all: Michigan is not for sale.
If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning.
The corporate media will demand a Democrat disavow words of a supporter a thousand times more than they will demand a Republican be accountable for the actions of their president
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.WELKER: Do you disavow those comments that America deserve 9/11? EL-SAYED: Of course. Of course it was a dumb statement. I think Hasan himself would say it was a dumb statement. I want to be held accountable for what I say and do.
This is team player shit, beat the bad guys shit. I love it. No fucking around with it, just let's go.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 2mo agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
The “Why would a woman I’ve made worry that I will hurt her if she displeases me cook to placate me?” question is only asked by the least self-aware domestic abusers.
"Beginning in the late 1980s, the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other’s closest friend, The Times found." MAGA will never believe this unless and until someone releases the videos, and maybe not even then. 🧵⤵️
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe conspiracy she’s referring to here is a Slack chat among scientists in 2020 where they went, “it could be a lab leak, let’s look into it!”
Americans being protected from the horror of universal healthcare.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2mo agoMissed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
