A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

A do good feel good story for a Thursday. The kind of story we really need right now. The kind of story that can spread joy.

And maybe a few coats along the way. 💜

Brother if reading the Epstein files and seeing the world’s richest white men OPENLY PLAN how to kill off the poor and non-white of the world doesn’t convince you to:

- get vaccinated
- wear a mask
- take care of your fellow man and neighbor
- look out for children

You’re lost.

This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.

A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website.

www.404media.co/this-tool-se...

Child care funding freeze could worsen shortage in Illinois, providers say - Capitol City Now Illinois already has too few providers and many rely on funding from federal programs.

The Trump administration froze $1 billion in funding that helps Illinois working families afford quality childcare and helps caregivers like Pamela keep her doors open.

Childcare isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline. I’m going to keep fighting to restore these critical resources.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups

Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.

We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

There are a couple of hundred photos of Trump partying with Diddy nobody mentions.

If Kristi Noem’s disaster preparedness plan has to be paused when there’s a disaster, it’s not a plan.

It’s a disaster.

Fire Kristi Noem. Save FEMA.

Our Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution.

John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

They ARE responsible for the entire Trump nightmare they turned loose on America.

Including killing our elections.

LET THAT SINK IN!

Here's footage from a 2015 video deposition of Maxwell (the same year she wrote the draft letter) in which she claimed she knew nothing about Epstein's crimes.

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The russia-backed Trump regime in the United States announce it will "resume high-level military dialogue" with armed formations of the russian terrorist state.

The russian terrorist state has been waging a war of aggression in Europe since it invaded Ukraine in 2014.

Not totally possible, this has been the plan from the beginning. They've been doing it transparently out in the open. Like everything else, it's being done so clumsily, so incompetently, that it's turned into a circus. But it will still work.

She ain’t playin’

🔥🔥🔥🔥

What does it mean?

In setback for Trump, Congress in spending law rejects call to axe Education Department | Alaska Beacon President Donald Trump’s attempts to dramatically slash funding for the U.S. Department of Education hit a major roadblock this week in the form of bipartisan approval of a spending law that gives the...

In setback for Trump, Congress in spending law rejects call to axe Education Department, writes Shauneen Miranda for our D.C. bureau @statesnewsroom.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/05/r...

Only a Green-Lib Dem alliance can stop the genuine threat of fascism we currently face in the UK.

Not words I expected to write, ever. But here we are.

Trump mocks the idea of praying during a meal at the National Prayer Breakfast:

“Mike Johnson is a very religious person... He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, ‘Sir, may we pray?’ I say, ‘Excuse me?’ You know, we’re having lunch.”

Host: Fears of a new nuclear arms race now that the last nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia has expired. Trump does not seem concerned.

Finland is indispensable to European security.

Together with President Stubb, Prime Minister Orpo, and Foreign Minister Valtonen, we discussed key geopolitical challenges, from Russia’s war against Ukraine to Arctic security, transatlantic relations, China and the situation in the Middle East (1/2)

Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says With the recent narrative centering on a no-hire, no-fire labor market, the data suggests that the layoff part of the equation could be stepping up.

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/l...

the man in this video is Rep. Jonathan Jackson of Illinois

Today marks the end of New START. With no limits on the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, we face a new era of unpredictability and risk. Silence and secrecy replace stability. Time to worry? Definitely time to act. Text SIGN POOWLA to 50409. Do it NOW!

WARNOCK: Trump said 'we're going to have a manufacturing boom.' Yes or no, have we had one?

BESSENT: There's the beginnings of a manufacturing boom. We have intentions -- factory groundbreakings


WARNOCK: Do you know how many manufacturing jobs have been lost since 'liberation day'? 72,000

Warnock to Bessent: "Manufacturers shed workers in each of the eight months after President Trump unveiled his tariffs on 'liberation day.' I would submit it's a strange liberation and a curious freedom that leaves you unemployed."

The Golden Age of Prosperity and Affordability. bsky.app/profile/fact...

Jobs report for January is a disaster.