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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

In Oklahoma, oil companies inject tens of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into the ground each year — enough to fill the Empire State Building 300+ times — frequently at pressures above the legal limit.

Regulators have failed to stop them.

With @readfrontier.bsky.social

YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin "Will You Uphold Your Oath to the Constitution?"

17 General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I'm a former CIA officer – if I saw this in a foreign military, we would call that a purge.

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KUDOS to Loyola University New Orleans!

New Yorkers if this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

In September, The Steady State called for a congressional inquiry into Loomer’s alarming extralegal influence over U.S. intelligence purges.

steadystate1.substack.com/p/steady-sta...

That says a lot.

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Trump’s threat to withhold federal support unless voters choose his preferred candidate is coercive abuse of power. Federal funds aren’t a campaign bargaining chip, and democracy isn’t supposed to work this way.

And dancing to Beyoncé, no less….

Adelita Grijalva was elected to serve the people of Arizona’s 7th district in SEPTEMBER. It is now NOVEMBER and Speaker Johnson STILL refuses to swear her in. It’s completely undemocratic.

RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES!

PROTECT THE CHILDREN!

JUSTICE FOR THE SURVIVORS!!!!

EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN..........

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

Blue States Are Taking A Page Out Of Trump's Playbook With Alerts About SNAP Benefits

Well done 👏🏼

FWIW, social democracies like Norway, Sweden etc have big businesses. They have billionaires.

They also have universal healthcare, quality free education & child care, and programs to curb poverty and food insecurity.

How?

Their billionaires pay taxes and don’t control the government.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

Excellent! Confront those Repubs for all their lying and vacationing on our taxpayers $$$$.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

This May Be the Most Consequential Moment in US History Since the Civil War | Common Dreams Why Democrats must defend working people in the United States and not cave to Trump's authoritarianism and cruel attacks on healthcare and food assistance.

This May Be the Most Consequential Moment in US History Since the Civil War www.commondreams.org/opinion/bern...

ICE and CBP Surveillance Tech FOIA In recent years and into the current Trump administration, both the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S.

Click the link below to learn more about the lawsuit. ccrjustice.org/home/what-we...

Last week, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Trump administration with our partners at @justfutureslaw.bsky.social demanding information on ICE and CBP’s use of Israeli surveillance tools against US citizens. Staff attorney Samah Sisay shares more in the video below.

Important from @mjtoma.bsky.social

There comes a time when silence is betrayal. MLK

Sign of the day…

An oligarch's greed can never be satisfied.

Trump just pardoned a guy who was laundering money for drug dealers (cartels?). It goes against everything he's told us about blowing up boats. The guy also laundered money for sex traffickers. Republicans keep trying to hide their support for sex traffickers. But want ICE to terrorize citizens.

Trump CANNOT do whatever he wants with the military in the cities of America or in the waters of the Caribbean

@democracydefendersfund.org has been at the forefront of fighting back & so have AGs, Judges & more

I'll join in the 7pm ET hour @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social to explain how to stop him

What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court Tariffs Case If the Court blesses the president’s use of emergency powers to evade Congress, the consequences would be profound.

If the Supreme Court lets Trump’s tariffs stand, he and future presidents could claim nonexistent emergencies to act unilaterally on any number of issues, from climate policy to technology regulation. bit.ly/43OZTxQ

Exactly. The employers get a free ride on breaking the law.