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Gas prices are up 24.6% from a year ago and still significantly higher than they were before the Iran War. Meanwhile, the world's 8 biggest oil companies have made a $93B profit windfall in just the last three months. Big Oil is raking it in as the world burns — and we're paying for it.

America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.

Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

Here we f*cking go... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

These canceled offshore wind projects are also canceling thousands of jobs and potentially lucrative careers insideclimatenews.org/news/0908202...

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I used to be a Social Security trustee. The real reason the program is in trouble has nothing to do with the postwar baby boom or increasing life expectancy. It's because of widening inequality. Watch.

In USA, lawfare is necessary to defend people's rights, but harmful when used to strip rights away. Thank God for people in Congress and the judicial system working hard to defend rights "of the people, by the people, for the people." Corporations are not people, they are profit-making machines.

China is producing 89% of the world’s solar panels, 70% of the world’s wind turbines, 83% of the world’s batteries, and 75% of the world’s electric vehicles. And they're not involved in constant wars. Coincidence?

Some say the settlement between the IRS and Trump is corrupt, and withholding the Epstein files is corrupt. How many members of the MAGA movement and followers of Q agree that a very severe case of government corruption is in control and it must be ended? How many Trump lovers falling out of love

BREAKING: Todd Blanche has released what he calls a rescission of the slush fund (left). The last lawsuit he mentions is mine (Gill v DOJ). This doesn't change the fact that the "settlement" setting up the fund is still in effect. On the right, Blanche is LEAVING IN PLACE Trump's tax immunity.

Transitioning global shipping to hydrogen fuel could prevent more than 129,000 premature deaths annually due to improved air quality. globalenergyprize.org/en/2026/08/0...

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Just be grateful for Donarrhea's astonishing incompetence.

The #RighttoRepair Directive encourages sustainable consumption by making it easier to repair products instead of replacing them. Today, it becomes applicable helping #consumers save money, reduce #waste, extend the lifecycle of products, reduce CO2 emissions commission.europa.eu/law/law-topi...

Before #DonaldTrump war! - In 2025, 1.89 mio new battery-only electric passenger cars were registered in the EU (1.46 mio), a strong rebound of 29.7%. Registrations of new diesel passenger cars fell by 22.0% (1.07 mio), and petrol cars by 18.4% (2.98 mio) ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web... #ActOnClimate

“And there it is…”.

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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Goodnight from Scotland, catch you in the morning beautiful souls 😁

Good morning from Scotland, wishing you a spectacular Saturday 😁

Goodnight from my little corner of Scotland, catch you in the morning beautiful souls 😁

I said that I wouldn’t get too excited about Talarico’s polling leads until he started to regularly hit 50%. Let’s see if he can follow this up with a few more.

I’m Nabil, a displaced Palestinian software engineer & father of 3. A severe spinal tumor threatens me with permanent paralysis. I urgently need surgery to walk again. #MutualAid 🇵🇸 (UK medical records attached) Every repost is a lifeline. chuffed.org/project/urgent-nabil-medical

Stop the corruption! Ban it. Prosecute insider trading by Congress. Isn't insider trading already against the law? How do they get away with it?

Trump wants to remove the Constitional right to due process from some classes of immigrants. He prefers brutality and physical dominance enforced by masked men. Total costs are not being shared with the public. What is the real cost of doing things "the hard way"?

This is an excellent teaching point! Science at its best is a major benefit to humanity, or at least for those who are taught to think and evaluate the studies, discerning facts from fiction. Please help all your MAGA relatives and friends join the 21st Century for the sake of future generations!

Stormzy is possibly the best comeback ever! He's coming back to visit on Saturday as a 1 year old and I for one can't sleep with excitement. Fun will be had!!!

The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.

Is the GOP deliberately frivolously suing everything or they just don't know what else to do with all of Koch's money?

It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.

Mark Kelly: "He's stuck. He doesn't know what to do. This is a guy who in his last term said he knows more than the admirals and generals. His high school military education certainly did not prepare him to be the commander in chief."

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

A federal judge on Monday halted a large logging project in Montana over concerns the U.S. Forest Service hadn’t used to best available science in determining the project’s impact on grizzly bear habitat.

Another buy a pardon deal... disgusting!

I’d love to believe voting them out was possible.

As someone from outside the USA it appears a crumbling mess run by criminals with a gangster boss. The rule of law has been broken and hate, greed and division is the ruling ethos. So many who live there are not safe from tyranny.

Trump destroyed the two greatest U.S. assets: stability and credibility. What does the world think? How can one trust a country that, depending on who gets elected, ignores all the agreements it helped create and plunges the world into chaos?

It’s what dictators do. Even “wanna-be-never-was” versions.

Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.

Thus far Dem primary voters have been impressively wise in selecting their 2026 nominees. With a few exceptions, they’ve chosen further left candidates in safe blue races - giving their ideas a seat at the table - and more traditional candidates in tougher races. Let’s keep that wisdom going.