April Anson

Dakota Access Pipeline Company Is Top Fossil Fuel Donor to Trump’s War Chest Energy Transfer is battling a federal pipeline safety agency after being fined $2.5 million for a deadly accident.

The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline were the fossil fuel industry’s top contributors to a super PAC supporting President Donald Trump during the first half of 2025, making a combined $25 million in contributions to that PAC alone.

Also worth noting:

They’re killing the media industry *first*.

Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible.

This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.

AI isn't magic. AI is land, real estate, and energy.

Organizing the Already Mobilized - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

"Part of the work is remembering that alliances that we take for granted now were not a given before they were made."

- @lydiajean.bsky.social
(in a great piece that also features Ruth Wilson Gilmore, @craiggilmore.bsky.social & Judah Schept)
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inquest.org/organizing-t...

ecofash.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

This reads a bit like an obituary for American science. Or a murder story from the crime beat.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

BP makes biggest find in 25 years as it refocuses on fossil fuels The announcement comes as the UK-based energy giant refocuses its business on fossil fuels.

BP death cult does its thing.
Jam today at the cost of future generations lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Native languages need radio, which is at risk of being lost - High Country News As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.

The growth of Indigenous language through radio is at risk, along with the rest of public media, but cultural reclamation at large will persevere.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

The media should write another piece about Mamdani

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

You’re not “too intense”.

You just live in a world that rewards numbness.

You’re not “too sensitive”.

You just feel - in a culture built on suppression.

You’re not “too rigid”.

You just have boundaries that others never had to fight for.

With its 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Trump's DHS is Leaning Sharply into 'Blood and Soil' Ideology Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass deportatio...

AND RD all-stars @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and @tlecaque.bsky.social are back at it

how DHS is telling us they're "blood and soil"-curious

religiondispatches.org/with-its-hom...

"We need a Fox News of the left." "We need a Joe Rogan of the Left." "We need a Stephen Miller of the Left."

No you don't. It doesn't make much sense. What is needed is buttressing labor unions and truth-seeking institutions like universities, research institutes, and a strong liberal media.

Hegemonic masculinity *is* always in crisis, because it's a set of divisive assertions at odds with lived reality, constantly challenged by the shifting frontiers of real knowledge, committed to trying to make people be things they aren't, and forced to continually make up new excuses for itself.

Let that sink in. What DOGE burned through in six months, through sheer stupidity, carelessness, and cruelty, could have funded the NEH for more than a century. This was never an attempt to save money, it was a mugging.

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave | Climate crisis | The Guardian Scientists record longest streak of temperatures higher than 30C in region in records going back to 1961

"A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hey fellow alumni, it only takes a minute:

president@cornell.edu
(607) 255-5201

More attention here please.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

“…for two weeks, three reporters knocked on more than 200 doors in four boroughs and interviewed more than 100 people. In some buildings, the majority of the people we spoke with said their signatures had been forged.” gothamist.com/news/forged-...

Palantir gets $10 billion contract from U.S. Army The software company’s enterprise contract over the next decade cements its central role in warfighting for years to come.

"The U.S. Army issued Palantir a contract Thursday worth up to $10 billion over the course of the next decade. The new contract, the largest ever awarded to the software and data analysis company, cements Palantir’s role as a major processor of data for the military." wapo.st/41gmXEy

" Two months after the comment appeared, Greg Johnson, the founder of Counter-Currents, posted an interview in which he argued for a white America and aligned himself with the “judeo-critical” wing of the far right on the “Jewish Question.” “Wow, really great,” Juggernaut Nihilism wrote in response. Nine days later, Johnson shared a new interview. It was a podcast with Darryl Cooper. "

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.

This Holocaust denier has the most popular history newsletter on Substack -- truly scary (not not surprising!) stuff: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Organizing Against Authoritarianism Toolkit Table of Contents Introduction: Fighting Authoritarianism ………………………………….……………………….……………………………… 3 Part I: Understanding the Threats Facing Our Communities ……………………………………………………….. 5 Know your rights a...

Our new toolkit "Organizing Against Authoritarianism"! I am so proud of this living, breathing guide, led by @freepress.bsky.social's @rlivier.bsky.social for communities to understand their constitutional rights, to organize on & offline, w/ trusted resources: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NYT: “N.Y.C. Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say”

The Onion: “'No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”

anything to avoid gun control,

Is there a single college or university that has said - “nah, no “AI” right now. Let them prove themselves before we invest millions.”