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Trump cannot stand this one word — but he can't do anything to stop it The most remarkable realization about Donald J. Trump’s rise to becoming America’s elected dictator is that it all came out of his MOUTH. Understanding that politics has become a performative exercise...

Trump cannot stand this one word — but he can't do anything to stop it

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump... #nader #ralphnader #rawstory #impeach #plutocracy #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #autocracy

Council Update: Austerity or Not? - Sam Austin Council’s budget deliberations are well underway at City Hall. February is the busiest time of the year for Councillors as budget meetings fill up several additional days each week. So far, Council ha...

samaustin.ca/council-upda.... Councillor Austin provides detailed assessment of HRM Council's upcoming austerity kick and its true impacts. #hrm #halifax #austerity @samaustind5.bsky.social

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... @timothysnyder.bsky.social #smaug #hobbit #tolkien #greed #resist

DOJ busted for removing Epstein files accusing Trump of child rape The Department of Justice reportedly scrubbed numerous files relating to Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump from its website.After Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the release of...

DOJ busted for removing Epstein files accusing Trump of child rape

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Here's the real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, Atlanta For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday's FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the ...

Here's the real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, Atlanta

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This conservative lie made Trump possible and will hasten our downfall For decades, Americans were told that “conservative values” stood for restraint, responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. The rise of Donald Trump forces an unavoidable question: were those va...

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig... @hartmannreport.com @rawstory.com #thomhartmann #hartmannreport #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #idiocracy

Thousand of bulldozers on the way to flatten over 5 million acres of forest in West Papua and this is just one ship
Such is the rush that even the Indonesia army has been brought in to speed up the deforestation
A shameful day for Indonesia and the world

I called in artillery in Vietnam — I can tell you Trump and his henchmen are full of it Idaho’s U.S. Sen. Jim Risch proclaimed in a Dec. 11 meeting of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the “attacks in the Caribbean are absolutely, totally and 100 percent legal under U.S. l...

I called in artillery in Vietnam — I can tell you Trump and his henchmen are full of it

www.rawstory.com/trump-venezu... #internationallaw #customaryinternationallaw #humanrights

Trump Administration Is Dismantling A World-Class Climate, Weather Research Center The news about the Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research comes after threats over the continued imprisonment of Tina Peters.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... #ncra #kakistocracy Each day, each week, this Administration proves that it can engage in more and more vile acts of sabotage to the public health and welfare. #goodtrouble #resist #climatechange #climateemergency

Again, there needs to be thorough review of this decision to determine its full scope. However, from brief review, it does seem that much of this rate increase will occur. (2/2) #halifax #halifaxwater #uarb #novascotia #regulatoryappealboard #rateincrease

Here it is: the UARB's decision on Halifax Water's requested rate increase. It reads densely. Although I have not yet fully consumed it, it seems to allow the first 15.8% rate increase in January, but reduce the second rate increase in April to 7% (as opposed to 17.1%). #halifaxwater #uarb (1/2)

100 years of average January-October temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article) We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.

The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It is a dangerous mechanism for economic growth, and is capable of extreme abuse absent any willingness by governments to strictly regulate its use.

The Trump Trade is Unraveling Tells from the crypto crash

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-... #krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social #cryptocrash #kleptocracy As usual, another insight piece from the pen of Mr. Krugman. His analysis readily reflects the underlying reality of cryptocurrency: (1/2)

The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.

The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.

The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou... #opt-out #optout #ai #gmail @huffpost.com #huffpost

Trump's dramatic U-turn 'accidentally revealed' secret plan to block Epstein files: report President Donald Trump called on House Republicans Sunday to vote in favor of releasing files on Jeffrey Epstein, but according to journalist Adam Cochran, he may have also “accidentally revealed” a p...

This .... www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst... @rawstory.com #epstein #releasethefiles #kakistocracy

crooksandliars.com/2025/11/fox-... Trumpcare? I revert back to the explanation provided 16-years ago by then-Congressman Grayson (D-FL) regarding the GOP health care plan:
@crooksandliars.bsky.social #healthcare #gopplan #kakistocracy

"I think when we take the past and understand it, then it gives us a guide to the present," filmmaker Ken Burns tells John Avlon. "What is it that we share in common? Where are the places where we can come together? One of the places that we share is this history."

Tech billionaire flips with big bet on Trump — and the pay off is alarming For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial syst...

Tech billionaire flips with big bet on Trump — and the pay off is alarming www.rawstory.com/tech-billion... #paytoplay #plutocracy #kleptocracy #kakistocracy @rawstory #gildedage #robberbarrons

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #kleptocracy #plutocracy #kakistocracy

Super Rich? In Prison? Lobbyists Want to Help Score You a Trump Pardon. NOTUS has identified a new crop of wealthy lawbreakers who are paying K Street professionals top dollar to woo the president.

Rank corruption: www.notus.org/money/donald... #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #pardons #bribery

John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history

www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j... #johnroberts #supremecourt #scotus #cjroberts @salon.com #lisagraves Lisa Graves nails it -- Chief Justice Roberts' leadership has undermined the foundations of the Court and those of U.S. democracy.

Trump conspiracy theory blown to pieces by his own data-sharing deal This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the Trump administration’s push to harness...

Trump conspiracy theory blown to pieces by his own data-sharing deal

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How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

Interesting story about Miquelon... a beautiful spot threatened by a changing climate: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage: epic grifter

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

Another reason to boycott Amazon merchandising and services (as if we needed even more): www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #boycottamazon #guardian #theguardian @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com

If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist and jokes like a fascist, it's likely a… For the last few weeks, Republican Party leadership has been carrying out a campaign to, essentially, classify the word “fascist” as hate speech against right-wingers. But while some Republicans shy a...

If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist and jokes like a fascist, it's likely a…

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The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.