“Koch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects ‘wasteful spending’. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.”
91-year-old Lelia Doolan has completed her 220km protest walk from Shannon Airport to Leinster House to protest against the use of Shannon Airport as a stopover for US military flights.
The death toll from the USAID cuts is already in the hundreds of thousands
Musk, Trump, and the Supreme Court have already killed over half a million children
You may not know this but the Washington Post Editorial Board surely does
WaPo Editorial: US cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.
The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"
Read our latest investigation into how a First Division soccer player took down a $1-billion gas infrastructure deal, and the unlikely bid to raise the deal from the dead:
Gas infrastructure is spewing methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as airstrikes intensify and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
One of the things that Aims McGuinness emphasized in his @dissentmag.bsky.social history of the sewer socialists in Milwaukee is that while people commonly think of them as focused on solving local problems, but they were also internationalists dissentmagazine.org/article/more...
A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump.
Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game.
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Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.
A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
What a novel idea! Don't drill oil wells right next to where people live and around their drinking water supplies.
"would force an energy company to leave hydrocarbons in the ground 'if necessary to protect public health, safety, welfare, the environment, or wildlife resources.'
The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official. https://to.pbs.org/4r9Xt6E
This grassroots work has been ongoing, and has always directly called out the colonialism that has killed thousands of people.
It is one of the most important energy justice fights of our time. Read the history behind Bad Bunny's symbolic halftime show: earthjustice.org/feature/puer...
Growth spurt of data centres could threaten SA’s electricity and water supply www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.
Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
We wanted to know how Latino voters felt about Bad Bunny's criticism of ICE. So we talked to three white centrist podcasters at a Le Pain Quotidien in Dupont Ciricle.
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Nike says an average worker at the foreign factories that make its goods earns almost twice the local minimum wage.
Workers in the company’s second-largest hub, Indonesia, say local wages remain chronically low.
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Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
i don't think, actually, that it is good that wealthy people will get cleaner, healthier, all-electric kitchens while the poorest people will get more gas, higher bills, and earlier deaths.
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Another BIG story that’s only not a huge headlines because of…EVERYTHING ELSE.
And Trump gets a gold FIFA statue and a peace award as a thank you.
Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024
UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M.
HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
