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 drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

#KnowYourRights: Workers in Public

Amidst the recent ICE raid on immigrant vendors, we're actively creating & updating our Know Your Rights materials to keep our communities safe. Please share widely!

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As reported by CNBC. Lesson to democratic mayors: if you want to keep ICE out of your city, get billionaires to call POTUS on your behalf.

From the politics community on Reddit: Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried Explore this post and more from the politics community

“When you look at the aggregate measures of consumer health, it all looks pretty healthy until you get to delinquencies. You have a tale of two consumers,” says Kayvan Darouian at Deutsche Bank. “The subprime borrower is clearly under stress.”

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The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Stay safe, stay united. Let's show them what America really is! 🇺🇸 #NoKings

I don’t know who to credit for this but it’s my new fav.

The logical result of fiscal policies that support trickle down economics. Those at the top of the economic ladder have money to spend, while everyone else is left rubbing pennies together to pay their bills.

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

The snowflakes are afraid of words... www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Looking for smurfs. This one was promising, but no luck.

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio.

More than 100 buildings with terminated leases, but the federal agencies never actually vacated, are now racking up significant fees.
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Fact-checkers working hard to keep up…

Respect for the Capital Gazette Five.

@verizon-wireless.bsky.social why is there no cell phone service on the MARTA in downtown Atlanta?

This regime is determined to make all our friends and allies turn away from us.

We’ve tried to step back and let things cool down, but the propaganda machine is running in overdrive. Over the past few days we’ve watched a flood of activity: endless posts, bot networks, new websites popping up, and more.

Inflation heats up — where it's hitting your wallet Inflation heated up last month as tariff-driven price increases began to materialize in earnest. Here's where it might hit your wallet.

From coffee to beef, and from housing to cars and airfare, tariff-fueled inflation is tenacious.
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Found on Reddit:
Well to be fair the Cracker Barrel rebrand thing is the worst thing Joe Biden has ever done.

Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds.

Seems like a slippery slope towards socialism.

Read this. The whole thing. Sit with it.

Imagine building a nuclear power plant every 8 hours. That’s the scale of China’s solar power installation, according to this @marketplace.org interview with @billmckibben.bsky.social.

Remember, there are 49 other GOP senators who made the same choice. They have no shame.

To be clear, this is a true pictorial representation of the Trump agenda.

And it is *extremely* toxic with voters. NOONE can justify this.

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION.

$793 BILLION.

It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.

Just wild.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Specifically what kind of mochi are we talking about here? Please say butter mochi…

This is the right approach. Protest everywhere except Washington, DC.

How immigration raids in California reverberate across the labor market Undocumented workers form a key part of the economy in a number of industries.

"People are afraid to go to work. Entire sectors of the economy will slow, and there will be workforce crises."

Undocumented workers form a key part of the economy in a number of industries. As immigration raids continue across the country, it's going to considerably impact the labor market.

🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names