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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

Take Barre Seid: the 94 year old billionaire made his fortune manufacturing electronics, and then donated $1.6b to fund "attack philanthropy" in order to undermine belief in climate change and prevent any action from being taken to avert it: www.propublica.org/article/barr...

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How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes

Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education syst...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

Seid is one of the main reasons we're experiencing the super El Nino. He's not just in the top 0.1% of wealth-horders, he's also in the top 0.1% of people we can blame for the *twelve foot sea-level rise* that is currently wiping Long Beach off the map: ktla.com/news/local-n...

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Home on verge of collapse as high tide hits Long Beach Peninsula

A second day of damaging waves from former Hurricane Rachel crumbled large sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk Friday morning and left one home on the verge of collapsing into the powerf…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

Henry Ford didn't believe in the planet's axial tilt. Elon Musk doesn't believe in geometry. Barre Seid doesn't believe in climate change. But Barre Seid *does* believe something: Barre Seid believes in *rats*.

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