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Connor Gibson

@grassrootbeer.bsky.social
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Contract opposition researcher specialized in climate denial, fossil fuel lobbying, PR, front groups, and the Kochtopus. Blogs at Grassrootbeer Investigations: grassrootbeer.substack.com/p/grassr…

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Officially to the right of Rahm Emanuel on Israel.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Exxon + Koch took turns leading the American Tort Reform Association, part of a strategy to immunize themselves from #climate lawsuits. (Also #opioids, #pesticides, #insurance, #socialmedia, car manufacturers, tobacco...any negligent industry facing legal accountability) Now Exxon has a guy at DOJ
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The authors compliment Koch for grant agreement disclosure. Considering the ugly history, this is lol-able. #Koch was forced into (limited) disclosure after its corrupt influence on faculty hiring & curriculum was exposed: www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/u... publicintegrity.org/politics/koc...
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
AEI donor disclosure fail: Soros gives "slightly more than half of the foundation money to Bard College" ... AEI's data also shows Charles Koch's foundations giving 64% of GMU's funding. AEI gets many millions of dollars from Koch, where authors of this @insidehighered.com op-ed work.
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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The “cease fire” continues. #genocide
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Theeere it is
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Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island
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Travis Nichols @travisjnichols.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hey guys working in law enforcement, know who else have guides for identifying patches and other insignia? You do! For identifying gang members! Ergo... Sorry, smaller words... This means you too are gang members. You're in a gang. You are the bad guys. Allllll of you.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Rachael Ray's Poison Pans!
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
So when are the people, orgs and foundations targeted here filing defamation suits for being falsely accused of supporting "terrorism"? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...
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Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is how Fox News attempts to Goebbels the Trump/Epstein news: crime & racist headlines up top, then Clinton/Epstein waaaaay below the fold. And then, a tiny podcast link at the very very bottom, obscured by the much larger "We Don't Deserve Trump." Exactly. Nobody deserves a pedo president.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Campaign group Everyone Hates Elon have installed a spoof tribute to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump on a bench at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland. It comes after US lawmakers published an Epstein 'birthday book' with an alleged note from Trump.
The bench plaque, which adapts a real quote from Trump describing Epstein as a ‘terrific guy’ in 2002 and alludes to rumours around the President’s health, reads: “In loving memory of Jeffrey Epstein - a terrific guy. See you very, very soon. From Donald.”
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The numbers in that story are pretty outdated, here are the latest. www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/22/k...
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Koch Fleet of Organizations Invests More Than Ever in Expanding Its Influence - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Charles Koch’s fleet of organizations spent a combined net total of $833 million in 2023 to influence public policy, elections, and certain charitable causes — marking its highest spending total to da...
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This country’s fascist dictator needs to dethroned immediately. His sycophants and enablers need to be put in prison with him. ICE must be destroyed and its gestapo agents unmasked and jailed. Israel’s genocide must cease. Violence is the only language these sociopaths speak - a major concern.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Did you know I make music? UNIVERSE COMPLETE is on Bandcamp & all streaming platforms! linktr.ee/UniverseComp... It's a gritty #desertrock album written, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by Chas Storrow + me. Teaser vid shows the "studio" we recorded in. #music #rock #taos #denver
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
If you don’t hear echoes of how top Nazis spoke to Hitler, you’re not paying attention.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
What Republicans are doing in response to the anti-ICE protests is EXACTLY what the Dakota Access pipeline company did in response to the 2016 protests at Standing Rock Those protests saw FBI infiltration & a $660 million judgment against Greenpeace Super important to be informed on these tactics
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Lessons for protesters from Standing Rock
The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
*checks notes* Charles Koch's groups gave $1.6 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom from 2020 - 2023. ADF is egregiously hateful. Mr. Mild Midwestern Manners is comfy with white christian supremacy. @yessfun.com & @emorwee.bsky.social have moar here
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RIP Sly Stone, who facilitated the creation of beautiful music for everyday people.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show Jason Koebler Sep 28, 2023 www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery…
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Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant si...
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hmmm Fantastice Negrito for Primus Gojira for Korn Run the Jewels for Wu Tang Beats Antique for Thievery Corporation (last night)
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Along with abandoning DEI initiatives, Walmart has been quietly scaling back its promises to reduce its massive impact on plastic pollution and climate change—two crises that disproportionately harm Black and Brown communities. New from me:
heated.world
Another reason to boycott Walmart
The nation's largest retailer isn't just backtracking on diversity. It's also backtracking on cleaning up its messes.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thank you @courtacctability.bsky.social for interviewing me about my latest #Koch money investigation for @exposedbycmd.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9bT... Article here: www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/22/k...
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Oligarchs DOUBLE DOWN as Trump 2.0 IMPLODES
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
@grassrootbeer.bsky.social on the hundreds of millions that Charles Koch funnels between his own organizations—not even including the money he spends on others: "In 2023, they exchanged $715 million amongst themselves." Check out our full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9bT...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/06/2025
European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936
two people carrying signs

HELP ME 
KEEP MY HUSBAND HERE
 HE IS A REFUGEE FACING DEATH IN
GERMANY 
 HE'S TOO YOUNG TO
DIE
 I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE A WIDOW please SIGN PETITIONS



SHOOT ME 
I AM A REFUGEE I DONT WANT TO BE TORTURED TO DEATH BY HITLER I'LL BE DEPORTED to GERMANY! UNLESS YOU STOP IT NOW 
please SIGN PETITIONS
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I don't have a number for you but these are important references on that matter: First Trump term: theintercept.com/2018/02/25/k... And now again: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... + lobbying for a tax loophole Koch has exploited, relevant to my article: popular.info/p/charles-ko...
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Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted From the Trump Administration
The billionaire Koch brothers are using their influence to quietly reshape the country.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@tesla-takedown.bsky.social relevant: Musk/DOGE is basically doing what the Koch bros attempted for decades: abolish most federal agencies, reduce the government to a "night watchman" to protect the property of the rich. newrepublic.com/article/1548... www.emporiagazette.com/opinion/edit...
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
All the gory details are here. Thanks for reading! www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/22/k... #Koch #Politics #data #music #philanthropy #darkmoney #election #labor #unions #education #highered #climate #environment #billionaires #energy #florida #michigan #ohio #louisiana #westvirginia #indiana
exposedbycmd.org
Koch Fleet of Organizations Invests More Than Ever in Expanding Its Influence - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Charles Koch’s fleet of organizations spent a combined net total of $833 million in 2023 to influence public policy, elections, and certain charitable causes — marking its highest spending total to da...
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Meanwhile, Chase Koch is dancing on stage with Aloe Blacc on Good Morning America and taking photos with Killer Mike, earning favorable press. The Koch nonprofits that predominantly focus on real charity (no overlap with their policy/politics) is 4.5% of their total spending. 4.5 / 100 is charity.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What were they spending on? *Millions to ideological university hubs, feeding into Koch's policy & political work. *Attacks on labor unions *Support for climate denier politicians *Anti-abortion hate groups like the ADF *Funneling public money from public schools to private charters
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#Koch nonprofit money becomes for-profit revenue: Koch's "Stand Together Communications" was paid $345M in contracts by Koch nonprofits since 2018. $107M of that was paid in 2023. Most of these entities share the same office building in Arlington, VA.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"net" = the total after accounting for $715 million Koch orgs spent between themselves. So the gross spending total exceeded $1.5 billion in 2023. This is the figure you get if you simply total the expenses disclosed on IRS and FEC records. Screenshot here with some of the nerdy data:
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Charles Koch's fleet of organizations spent over $833 million (net) in 2023, yet another record, in an election off-year. 🧵 Read it @exposedbycmd.bsky.social: www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/22/k...
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Koch Fleet of Organizations Invests More Than Ever in Expanding Its Influence - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Charles Koch’s fleet of organizations spent a combined net total of $833 million in 2023 to influence public policy, elections, and certain charitable causes — marking its highest spending total to da...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
He's basically saying they're considering declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution if the courts continue to rule against them. This guy is seriously the worst of them all.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Thanks @andrawatkins.bsky.social for having me on for this conversation about the dishonest "debanking" crusade: open.substack.com/pub/andrawat... with @shaynaolesiuk.bsky.social, who detailed how the trend overshadows actual problems of discrimination in banking. #debanking #climate #uspolitics
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill" "In India, government officials have sped through approvals of Starlink with the understanding that doing so could help them cement trade deals w/the administration"
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I wish he’d stop working with the anti-union people though. FIRE was set up by the Bradley Foundation, heavily funded by Koch, etc. www.thefader.com/2023/12/08/r...
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Report: Koch family partners with pop stars to “launder” legacy
Stand Together Music uses partnerships with artists like Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly, and The Chainsmokers to whitewash the Koch family’s reputation.
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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Breaking Today in London: Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire loses extradition fight to US story by me @desmog.com
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Breaking: Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire Loses Extradition Fight In London Court
LONDON, UK — An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. law enforcement for allegedly orchestrating an illegal “hacking-for-hire” operation on behalf of oil and gas major ExxonMobil can be extradi...
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
40% of ICE/CBP detainees have their belongings destroyed or (often) stolen by agents. Allegations of mental/physical torture, and sexual abuse of women, girls, and others targeted on the basis of gender have been rampant since ICE's inception in 2003. DHS's continued existence is untenable.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"The distance between the convoy and the soldiers was between 20 and 30 meters, meaning that the entire force could clearly see, even through night vision equipment, that the people were not armed militants but medical personnel." 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Killing of Gaza aid workers: IDF troops fired indiscriminately for over three minutes
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Insurance Fairness Project @insurancefairness.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hi! Today, we’re launching the Insurance Fairness Project, a new effort to explore solutions for America’s ongoing home insurance crisis. Insurers and politicians are leaving homeowners in the lurch, even as climate disasters hit harder and more frequently than ever.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of...
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I shouldn’t be surprised that the plainly conflicted and biased jurors of North Dakota sided with Energy Transfer and the wormtongues of Gibson Dunn over Greenpeace and 1st Amendment protest rights…but it’s still disgusting to see. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This case is about silencing dissent. It continues long-standing erasure of Native American rights, sidelining the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe—true leaders of the DAPL protest movement—while targeting anyone who dares challenge corporate billionaires & fossil fuels www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
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Big Oil’s Revenge: the Lawsuit That Could Crush Climate Activism | Common Dreams
Energy Transfer’s case against Greenpeace could redefine First Amendment rights for everyone in the U.S. It must be exposed for the grave threat it is.
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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The "justice" system at work here against my former employer @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social. Many have reported on the problematic jury selection, likely to sympathize with the polluter Energy Transfer. northdakotamonitor.com/2025/03/05/n... #WeWillNotBeSilenced #ImWithGreenpeace Stop #BigOilBullies
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