Prof. Bob Howarth

Thank god for @wyden.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @merkley.senate.gov, who rightly point out that BAAJA enables Trump to favor fossil fuel projects, even under the naive assumption that our President would follow the law as written. Thank you for your sanity, Senators!

The interlocutor close to President Zelensky, added that negotiating with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner is now “hopeless, they only think about business.” Dmitriev plans to invite representatives of the Alternative for Germany to an economic forum in Moscow in December.

This is the largest AI debt deal in history and so far, few commenters on the Anthropic S-1 have picked up on its significance. A huge expansion of the AI bubble, with a big part of the risky debt to be inherited by unsuspecting investors thanks to Wall Street's shady private credit business.

Anthropic's IPO filing yesterday revealed at least* $550bn in off-balance sheet debt, for a company with $16B in annual revenue. Paying its bills will require Anthropic to sustain implausible revenue growth given the pressures that are squeezing their--and the whole AI ecosystem's--margins. A 🧵

Amid the brouhaha over allegations of limits on intelligence sharing and the proved throttling of Ukraine's Starshield, a 3rd way Trump is aiding Putin hasn't had much press - the blocking of supplies of paid-for Patriot interceptors. This delay is costing Ukrainian lives.

Bernie Sanders In Duluth, MN. On Saturday.......

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Backfire.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying Demanded In Wisconsin open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

THIS 👇 HERE TOO........

The report alleges Donald Trump was an “active participant” in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. trib.al/r158uvt

Trump has acted to remove protections from marine areas stretching across more than 1 million square miles—a combined area four times the size of Texas—threatening iconic seascapes with industrial-scale fishing fleets.

This is literally right out of the Lord of the Rings

Let’s do this in America.

Things are falling apart pretty rapidly in small modular reactor world. They haven't even had their bubble yet and it's already bursting. Stocks plummeting, no reactors under construction, investigations for securities fraud. Great "renaissance" so far. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/10/25/p...

The money's real. 💸💸💸 "Founded only three years ago, FISN is still just a concept, as the prospectus itself underlines (p. 8): “The Gravity Reactor remains in conceptual and early engineering stages."

Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist Gabriel Zucman debunks their lies. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNg2Uea6uUs

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Bolsonaro loses. Strongman is out in Serbia. The GOP next. Vote like it may be your last chance to.

If you care about fighting climate change, salvaging the Amazon rainforest and maintaining its capacity to positively influence Earth's weather systems, it's difficult to overstate just how significant a bullet the planet just dodged.

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

Bravo, Lula!! Thank you, Brazil!

Big Oil used to pretend climate change wasn’t real – then they pretended they were part of the solution. 🧵

Universal healthcare would supercharge the economy because way more people would either start businesses or move to more productive jobs as they wouldn't be worried about losing healthcare. The US is prosperous *in spite* of lacking universal healthcare, not *because* of that lack.

We've reached the point where a billionaire can throttle battlefield communications during a war and explain it with a terms-of-service violation. Imagine telling soldiers defending their country that survival depends on the fine print. Welcome to warfare, brought to you by customer support.

Blanche is not the people's attorney general. He's Trump's fascist enforcer.

“You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.” - Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal

Last fact, #10. If we don’t address climate change, this only gets worse. Regions becoming uninsurable and unmortgageable is predicted. A “coastal property values crash” is predicted. Elsewhere, wildfire risk creates the same economic danger. Time for us all to wake up.

Fact #9. It’s a cascade, like dominoes. Climate risk wipes out insurance markets, which wipes out mortgages, which wipes out property values (unless you’ve got a zillionaire paying cash), which wipes out the economy — a “systemic risk.” Look it up. It’s not pretty.

Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market: Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵

So it's good that the CEO of Polar Train resigned in protest, but what next? Will the Federal Government confiscate this illegal Russian investment, and strip them of any control over the project? With Trump in power, fat chance. More signs of traitors in the Trump mob.

Lawrence O'Donnell Last Night....

Perfect 👇

"Mr. Trump has taken an expansive view of executive power in his second term. On the environmental front, he has unilaterally shredded regulations, withheld science funding appropriated by Congress."

This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.