Did he donate to Trump’s ballroom like Altria (Philip Morris) did?

Liked aged cheese, this never gets old.

It’s not funny but hoping they were teleported to a Waffle House, at worst.

Seriously, they better be okay. 🫶🏼

The Point Live: Business and gas companies have their say on gas tax proposals. Representatives from the Business Council, Shell and ConocoPhillips are among those fronting the gas tax senate inquiry today, while the health minister lays out proposed changes to the NDIS.

Shell Oil suggested they were putting $1m into the Aus Energy Producers advert campaign because its adverts need to meet "Advertising Standards" "unlike those from The Australia Institute"

So @jack-thrower.bsky.social & I decided to fact check their advert

live.thepoint.com.au

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

We could just ... not let them do this.

Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

Maybe you taught her well …if so, hell to the yeah.

Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane Trump supporter and Navy Secretary John Phelan, an ARTnews Top 200 collector, rode on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane before his first indictment.

Why does everyone in the administration have ties to the E-man?

It was yuck, even if it was just in the House Intel Committee under Trump the First. They were the tag-team obstructionists.

My list of taxpayer grievances gets longer every day under Trump. At least my taxpayer grievances under Dems helps more than one pocket.

Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.

So uhhhh Reuters quietly shitcanned its climate team right around the same time WaPo did. Except maybe even more cowardly because they kept it under wraps. Not a great look given the abundance of oil money they take in between sponsored content and events.

drilled.media/news/drilled...

Maybe Devin and Eli$e $tefanik can re-couple since they’re both soon freeeeeeee

Liquidating an "Empire": China's Strategy to Capitalise on US Hegemonic Strain | by Wu Xinbo "Whilst avoiding systemic conflict with the US, how can we employ an effective and precise negotiating strategy to harvest the strategic resources that the US is selling for the smallest cost?"

A Chinese strategy paper by Wu Xinbo argues that America under Trump is an empire in a state of profound rot and decline, and this presents distinct opportunities to China. Beijing's objective should not be to attack or provoke America,

Let's TALK climate Loud, clear. No more hushing.

I think it’s good politics to speak loudly and clearly about the climate crisis. Time to end the climate hushing

billmckibben.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

This is how cities can very quickly lose the great reputation, and competitive positioning, that other cities would kill for. Montreal built that reputation and positioning over years of smart leadership. It can disappear shockingly fast.

Elections really do matter. #Montreal

It’s not his property.

Still thinking about why ice hockey (men’s only…)was the *only* sporting Olympic hill Trump wanted to die on.

Could it be that the sport breathes white supremacy at the core?

What’s lost since Philly’s amazing 1970 Earth Week | Will Bunch Newsletter 50th anniversary of an iconic Philly moment, plus a great new podcast, memories of 1970, and more

Happy Earth Day -- America and the world needs it now even more now than in 1970 (when rivers caught fire and Pittsburgh was dark at lunchtime)

A few years back, I wrote about how Philly was so fired up in 1970 they had an Earth Week! (gift link) share.inquirer.com/YieoEH

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

hey hey RFK, how many of us will you kill today?

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Texas republicans illegally gerrymandered their maps and never once asked voters how they feel about it.

California and Virginia let voters decide.

That’s the difference. They started this fight and Democrats are going to fucking finish it.

Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

Understanding the federal government’s indictment of a civil rights icon, the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

Fun fact: the first gerrymander in U.S. history occurred in Virginia when Patrick Henry tried to draw James Madison out of his congressional district

Reagan got stuff passed because it was a big Oprah-party legislative push where everybody got somethin to vote for so it passed.

Then reality TV came along. Now it’s every sucker for themself and screw the losers. (Dems still playing sitcom)

Would explain a lot, but, still…

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters

these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

Yes. US science needs a Marshall Plan to rebuild in future. We will not fix science by just waiting and hoping the pendulum swings back.

One key:
Supreme Court reform is an absolute requirement. This SCOTUS will not allow the science agencies to do their jobs; it will inject politics.

Appropriations are the closest thing to the will of the electorate there is, however problematic. Failure to exercise the appropriations is a tremendous breach. Any “post trump” order should include current NSF leadership in prison.