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In Texas, air pollution and water pollution are rampant.

Musk can do whatever he wants:
www.reuters.com/investigates...

Oracle, builder of the Project 2025 database, also moved HQ to Texas.
Lawless.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social 1h Tesla's Fremont facility has accumulated more warnings for air pollution violations in the past five years than any company in California...besides Chevron www.wsj.com/business/aut.. Musk Says He Wants to Save the Planet. Tesla's Factories Are Making It Dirtier. Former employees cite an antiregulatory mindset for environmental problems at gi... www.wsj.com

No, Musk was polluting then too.
#2, behind Chevron

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

👉 Les Wexner - Epstein AND Mike Jeffries
Two different sex trafficking rings (2024) bsky.app/profile/chri...

🤷🏼

A veteran who served in Afghanistan was asked where he got the money to cover the higher cost of gas for his car. From the grocery budget, he said:

Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.

ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT: We were proud to have gasoline prices below $2 a gallon earlier this year

HEINRICH: What are they right now?

WRIGHT: Just over $4

HEINRICH: What is diesel?

WRIGHT: Diesel is over $5

HEINRICH: It's closer to $6 in my state

WRIGHT: It's over $8 in California

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

2 staff and 3 students borrowed my aranet4 because they were curious about CO2 levels in their life. The aranet4 is a really good device for #CleanAir outreach

It should come as no surprise that this administration is just saying, "Fuck you" to veterans. This is really good reporting on the effects of DOGE cuts in Massachusetts.

Pete Hegseth, when he was an Army National Guard major, was one of 12 Guard members removed from duty at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021 following vetting by the FBI and military officials.

Those were all the credentials he needed for Trump to appoint him Defense Secretary.

BREAKING: 86% of all people support the release of the Epstein files, per WaPo poll.

#SupportIndependentJournalists

"We used a portable #dehumidifier as a readily available &affordable tool to collect #airborne virus in the condensate..." 1/

" ... This study presents a simple, elegant approach using compact #dehumidifiers deployed in selected locations of a hospital ward to rapidly provide information about the prevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 " /4
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Influenza

NatCon’s 2024 Brussels conference in was co-sponsored by MCC & Danube (both Hungary based), the European Conservative (registered in Hungary), & Nazione Futura (founded by an MCC alum). NatCon is the Thiel-linked recurring conference that elevated both JD Vance & Christian Nationalism in the US. 1/

His message is essentially: “You should have sucked it up. It’s your fault we lost.”

In the absence of substance, this is all Dems like Booker can muster.

People have been begging the Democrats for a decade to give them something to vote FOR rather than just against.

This has been the response.

THE SOUND OF CHILDREN SCREAMING HAS BEEN REMOVED Texas, where no one is listening

🎯 Bexar county police died from Covid, not gunfire.
Over 300 outside the classroom did nothing.
They tried to blame a teacher.

Never. F'ing never.

Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde

Never let them forget it.

Me too.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Maybe it's just me but I don't think Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be the ones to decide if Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be prosecuted.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

This is your reminder that it's been ten months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog, and there hasn't been even a hint of justice for her family, friends or colleagues.

Social media post: U.S. Department of energy @ENERGY Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing. chimpvsdog The energy is stored, you absolute fucking morons.

Note of interest: It also doesn't have to go through the Strait of Hormuz in any way, shape or form.