Emily Satterwhite

In Montgomery County, Virginia, Seasoned Mountain Valley Pipeline Fighters Prepare for Another Battle “Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for the Preserve Our Water Heritage, Rights Coalition, says she said to herself when she learned that Mountain Valley Pipeline was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, Virginia, as part of a project to send even more gas through the massive 42-inch pipeline.

“Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for @powhr.org, says she said to herself when she learned that #MVP was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, VA. https://appvoices.org/2025/10/29/seasoned-mvp-fighters-prepare-for-another-battle/

They are soulless

If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...

Unions’ “clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products.”

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Virginia is No. 4 in student loan debt • Virginia Mercury Debt-burdened Virginians in limbo with new payment plans, government shutdown

Virginia ranks #4 in the U.S. for total student loan debt — with Virginians holding nearly $45 billion in federal student loans against an average of $40,000+ per borrower. 📚

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Labor leader: It’s time to repeal so-called ‘right-to-work’ in Virginia “Right-to-work” isn’t about freedom or choice. It’s a corporate scam dressed up in red, white and blue.

"And it’s worked exactly how the politicians and business lobbies wanted it to. It’s driven down wages, busted unions and kept Virginia at the bottom when it comes to worker protections."

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

Northern Virginia is ground zero for data center buildout.

Look up Friends of Coal and "coal culture" for one of the clearest examples of this.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Huge Palestinian solidarity protest in Italy with a National Strike & 2m taking part. That’s 3.4% of the population.

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

“Disasters pull back the curtain on inequity,” Labowitz said. “It’s a vicious combination of things that make it so much harder for people without a lot of money to get what they need from FEMA.”

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Possibly the most useless man alive.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

hell yeah:

"A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”"

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That's Chris van "I actually flew to CECOT and demanded the release of my constituent when it wasn't clear if I'd ever be coming back from El Salvador myself you fucking chump" Hollen to you, Hakeem. Maybe just stick to your book tours if you don't have anything to contribute.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

In plain terms:
- The Guardian originally included paraphrased comments from someone who said they knew the suspect in high school. They claimed, citing an unnamed high school friend, that suspect Tyler Robinson was the lone “leftist” in a family of “very hard” Republicans.

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

Imagine choosing to model scenarios that implicitly assume a) terraforming-scale carbon capture and permanent sequestration is technically, politically and economically feasible, while e.g. b) shifting from car-dependent sprawl to denser cities with good public and active transit is impossible.

CCI president calls out Big Oil’s plastics “fraud” on CNBC | Center for Climate Integrity Investigations from CCI and others have shown that Big Oil and the plastics industry are still pushing false solutions to the plastics waste crisis after decades of recycling deception.

Big Oil is fueling the global plastics waste crisis — and relies on the fraud of plastic recycling to keep doing business as usual.

“I don’t think anyone was quite aware of the level of fraud the industry was perpetrating on the public,” explained CCI's Richard Wiles.

Check out the full story: 👇

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

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