BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

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‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’

"The Bundists dreamed of deliverance without exodus; the liberation of the Jews in concert with the liberation of their neighbors." Bravo, Molly Crabapple. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?

In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY | Kirkus Reviews Brilliant evocation of the anti-Zionist Jewish Bund, a beacon of hope for a renewed left.

“A superb blend of personal and social history, alive with radical spirit... Brilliant evocation of the anti-Zionist Jewish Bund, a beacon of hope for a renewed left.” Read my STARRED review in Kirkus www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Zhou Yansheng (b.1942), Spring is here

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power. FUCK TRUMP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Iran Is Not an Existential Threat Iran poses no significant danger to Israel, let alone the US.

The Islamic Republic has long menaced its own people. But it has never posed an existential threat to Israel, let alone the US jewishcurrents.org/iran-is-not-...

Secretary Kennedy on X: "I will always tell the American people the truth. Pesticides and herbicides are toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms. When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans at risk. Chemical manufacturers have paid tens" / X I will always tell the American people the truth. Pesticides and herbicides are toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms. When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans at risk. Chemical manufacturers have paid tens

"I will always tell the American people the truth... we put Americans at risk" x.com/SecKennedy/s...

Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits

In 2018, as a plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr. Kennedy helped win a landmark $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, in a case contending the company knew the weedkiller caused cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

i love this!

this is how we do it: "It's now got so bad that the British Medical Association (BMA) – a union representing more than 200,000 UK doctors – has told its members that they should not use the Palantir products that the NHS has forced onto their practices." pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/p...

Body cams are a trick to get you to stop talking about bigger changes to reduce the power of government bureaucracies and corporate grifts that spy on you and repress social movements for a better world. Send this video and article linked in the thread to a liberal you know: bsky.app/profile/equa...

David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...

"Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: that, for generations, those hopes have been built on a gross distortion of history, on a set of lies and illusions." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

seems like a lotta dicks here x.com/teslaownersS...

Samedi matin.

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

“This is just the beginning of solidarity. We are going to fight together until there is nothing left in this world to win.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We're not lost, I'm just taking the scenic route.

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#MountainMonday

At What Cost? | Marilynne Robinson New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.

"This is not a reason to oppose it, since it would be an improvement on the present state of things. But “affordability” achieved by these means is a superficial solution to a much deeper problem." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

this is laughable

this is absurd

it's absurd to believe we're granting chomsky an exemption if we choose to think he most definitely did not excuse epstein

actually what chomsky is quoted as saying is: “I’ve met [all] sorts of people, including major war criminals. I don’t regret having met any of them.”

can i just say that grok tried to convince me this was jerome powell in the box 😜 merry xmas everybody!

this was a great episode!

my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds

what an anti democratic dick

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

"if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense." jfc this old story again?! 🤨 www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

it never ends 🤨

Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.

25 years of official but false cover for glyphosate and Roundup. Criminal and tragic.
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