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Eco Knuckles

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anti-war, environmentalist, art, sustainability

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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 33m
Please let this be the election when she is put out to pasture.
huffpost.com
Susan Collins Faced An FBI Investigation Over Dark Money. It’s Still Flowing To Her Reelection Campaign.
The Maine Republican’s reelection campaign is backed by at least $7.4 million in dark-money contributions that resemble the shell donations that drew FBI scrutiny.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 20h
I paid my taxes. Will Bessent pay his?
commondreams.org
Dems Rebuke Trump's Ultra-Rich Treasury Chief Over $910,000 in Unpaid Medicare Taxes | Common Dreams
"Until he pays what he owes, Secretary Bessent is placing himself above the law," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good luck trying to appear to be the winner in that exchange Scmitthead.
huffpost.com
Schmitt Refuses To Admit He Made An Embarrassing Mistake At The Jack Smith Hearing
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pro oil and pro environment? Sounds like a contortionist.
nytimes.com
‘She’s One of Us’: Mary Peltola’s Bumpy Rise to Political Power
Ms. Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, has complicated politics: She is pro-gun, pro-oil and pro-gas — but also pro-environment and especially pro-fish.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is so stupid. Sure let’s double down on a dwindling resource that’s melting the polar icecaps while costing our auto industry billions of dollars in wasted investments.
huffpost.com
Trump Says He's Ended Biden's Electric Vehicles Mandate
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We know for sure that Mark Wayne Mullen couldn’t analyze his way out of a paper bag
commondreams.org
Trump's ICE Wasted Millions of Dollars on Deadly Immigrant Detention Drive: Audit | Common Dreams
"Remember when Donald Trump promised to get rid of ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’ in Washington?" said one senior Democratic senator. "Well, GAO continues to uncover incompetence and waste at the highest l...
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It would be pretty hard to make an honest documentary that made him out to be something other than a sociopath.
huffpost.com
Top Social Media Platforms Are Refusing To Run Ads For Documentary About Elon Musk
The MAGA friendly tech mogul predicted the film will be the “most convincingly terrible hit piece” on him.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I expected nothing more from him. He has no self awareness
huffpost.com
Trump Stunt With Xi Called ‘Most Un-American Thing’ A ‘President Has Ever Done’
The president’s White House tour for the Chinese leader sank into antics that a former aide condemned.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This means his genocide was thoroughly premeditated.
commondreams.org
New York Times Affirms Haaretz Report: Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct. 7 | Common Dreams
The New York Times affirmed Haaretz's reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by another world leader about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is damning for both Susan Collins and Trump. They’re not serving the American people.
huffpost.com
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got In The Way
Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” Eric Schiff, a former Navatek ...
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is super cool. It’s like Legos for builders. Totally biodegradable and well insulated.
builtoffsite.com.au
German city pilots modular timber TriqBriq blocks for sustainable housing delivery | Built Offsite
Tübingen, Germany, is trialling TriqBriq modular timber blocks in a hybrid wood-concrete public housing project. Made from locally sourced Black Forest timber, the dowel-jointed blocks offer a recycla...
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Where are the calls for removal? Trump is a threat to the U.S. He has no idea what he’s talking about with AI & he’s threatens sovereign nations with takeover & annihilation. His absorption w/ his vanity projects shows he doesn’t even want to be president. He wants to build monuments to himself.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Don’t invite John Curtis to your wedding, but do thank him for making Don Jr’s corruption more visible.
newrepublic.com
Republican Senator Breaks Ranks, Calls for Probe Into Trump Jr.
Senator John Curtis is demanding an investigation into Donald Trump Jr. after his wedding was paid for by a Russian oligarch.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If only there were a way to prevent measles !!
streetinsider.com
Pennsylvania measles cases near 800 as outbreak grows
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If only the TV news networks were this agitated about self-censorship!
huffpost.com
TV Networks To Skip White House Video Coverage In Solidarity With CNN
“There will be no replacement pool put in place,” the current TV pool chair said in an email announcing the decision.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Given his track record it’s pretty certain that Trump will get flattered and adopt a weak bargaining position due to his lack of intellect and preparation.
nytimes.com
Opinion | America Is Blundering Toward War With China
The U.S. has long misunderstood Beijing, and Trump’s mixed signals aren’t helping.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fortunately we live in such a perfected world that retro fast food packaging issues are all that the leader of the world’s richest country can find to occupy his time
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If Hegseth wanted vocational training, he could have attended a different school. He’s just lubricating his reactionary ideas with commonplace prejudices.
huffpost.com
Pete Hegseth's Rant About Ivy League Universities Undercut By 1 Key Fact
The defense secretary may want to take a look at his own resumé.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is there a judge that can see the subterfuge for what it is?!
nytimes.com
Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It should be plain as day to anyone with eyes that Trump is mentally ill and has no business leading any institution
nytimes.com
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Noteworthy” is one word for it. “Unacceptable” is another.
huffpost.com
Trump’s Latest Trade Threat Would Throw America Into A Massive Recession
Cutting off countries that export more to us than they import would mean ending trade with 95 countries and territories: China, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel — even Burundi.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This all feels like it’s drawn up in advance. Did Trump use AI to invent a day by day schedule of autocratic takeover actions?
nytimes.com
Live Updates: CNN and MS NOW Reporters Denied White House Access After Trump Announces Ban
President Trump announced a ban on Friday on the outlets, whose coverage he deems unfair. The move will likely be challenged in court.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rauch & Wehner write as if it’s time to tally the results, but it isn’t. It’ll take decades to assess what the administration’s radical wrecking has “accomplished” with its subversion of higher education, neutral civil service & courts, and rational energy policies. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot
It is now apparent that many Americans — probably enough Americans — are determined to live within the truth rather than the lie.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let that sink in. CNN banned from the Whitehouse press pool. A network that never met a war it didn’t love, that has helped to sell as much Coke, McDonads, & as many Chevy F-150s as any. In short a *very* Capitalist corporate network can’t lick enough boot to satisfy this deranged asshat.
nytimes.com
Live Updates: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico From the White House
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Dave Morningstar @davemorningstar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.reuters.com/investigatio... How Trump’s War On EVs Derailed America’s Auto-Factory Revival ... By Kalea Hall, Nora Eckert, Chris Kirkham @ Reuters.
reuters.com
How Trump’s war on EVs derailed America’s auto-factory revival
Since Trump returned to office, an array of automotive, environmental, trade and immigration policies has undermined auto-factory projects and employment across America’s heartland.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can you detect the painter who, as Anne Richards said, was born on third base but thinks he hit a triple?
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes this is in fact worse than the manned-Russian bot-farms that helped to grease the skids that brought Trump into the Oval Office.
nytimes.com
Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Demolition of the Kennedy Center is analogous to “I’ll take my ball and go home if I can’t get everyone to obey my rules”. Trump is stuck in arrested development at about about 6 years old.
npr.org
Judge says Trump can't demolish Kennedy Center. And, lawsuits target voter intimidation
A federal judge ruled yesterday that President Trump cannot tear down the Kennedy Center without a 30-day notice. And, recent lawsuits seek to keep armed federal officers away from polling sites.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nobody protects women like Trump, right? Especially if they’re not African-Americas and defiant.
huffpost.com
8 Months Pregnant, Congresswoman Faces Up To 17 Years In Prison Over ICE Visit
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There I found Trump’s personal papers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why don’t we instead gut Secret Service protection for pedophiles and their allies?
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For those of you whose French is rusty, I believe the ”Hon.” refers to the adjective “honteux” which means shameful and disgraceful. #ToddBlanche
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to reevaluate climate change, yes?!
nbcnews.com
Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years
The numbers behind the melting ice are both mind-bogglingly huge and deceptively small.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Destroying fossil fuel energy infrastructure is actually a good thing. Replace it with renewable energy infrastructure www.freep.com/story/news/l...
freep.com
Gasoline close to $5 a gallon in Michigan, diesel hits new record high
Diesel hit a new high in Michigan of $6.54 a gallon and gasoline edges up – in some places – to nearly $5 a gallon.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need a broad tent in opposition to fascism - but could we also think about updating the fossil fuel dependency of the U.S. shipping fleet?
huffpost.com
Marjorie Taylor Greene Makes Dramatic Video To Declare It’s ‘Trump’s Fault’
The Trump soldier-turned-enemy got pumped up in her takedown of the president.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t recall any Russians volunteering hundreds of thousands of dollars for my wedding. What could Don Jr possibly offer in return?!
huffpost.com
Democrats Probe Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia-Funded Wedding
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump knows so much about military matters. It’s why his war in an Iran is going so well.
scrippsnews.com
Diesel prices set a new record as Trump calls on Ukraine to stop targeting Russian oil
On Monday, President Trump blamed surging fuel prices on the war in Ukraine, saying Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil refineries are contributing to a fuel shortage.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The All-Knowing Messiah has spoken. Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails, only a ‘high IQ’ president He also alleged the existence of a “sick conspiracy” against AI and data centers, at a time when Americans are increasingly concerned about the technology.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apparently the pre-nup wasn’t specific enough about international travel.
huffpost.com
Trump Jokes About Melania's Reason For Skipping Irish Visit: 'She Sends Her Regards'
President Donald Trump made several quips about the first lady’s reasons for skipping the visit.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Although ignorance is not really a good excuse these asshats are pickled in unhinged propaganda so it’s not impossible that they’re just repeating bullshit that they heard on FoxNews.
commondreams.org
Exploiting Tragedy to Promote War, Hegseth Falsely Claims That Iran 'Cheered on 9/11' | Common Dreams
"What haunts me," said one anti-war activist, "is how little accountability there has been for those who lied us into war—and how those same lies are now recycled to justify the attack on Iran."
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Maybe they should look at some books with reproductions of Warhol’s work before delivering those cashiers checks. That picture is obviously fake to anyone who knows a little about his work.
wsj.com
A New Lawsuit Alleges an International Andy Warhol Forgery Scheme
A family is suing over half a dozen people and companies, accusing them of being part of an elaborate and far-reaching scheme to sell fraudulent artwork
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They’re proposing to move deck chairs around on the Titanic. It won’t amount to anything meaningful because everyone wants to “win” and the current understanding of how to do “guardrails” is inadequate
huffpost.com
Congress Is Starting To Argue About A Potential AI Apocalypse
A trio of influential senators is working on a bill addressing the potential “catastrophic risk” of artificial intelligence.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oops. Looks like the cat is out of the bag. What’s next?
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
AI In Weapons : Houthis using AI for missiles? Anthropic says Yemen weapons cell using Claude | - The Times of India
International News: Anthropic has identified a Yemen-based weapons engineering cell that used its Claude artificial intelligence model to develop guidance software for mi.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NYTimes says Collins has been “critical” of the president. Isn’t it funny how her convictions fade away when they tell her they need her vote?
nytimes.com
While Trump Goes Big in Dallas, Collins Goes Small in Maine to Save Her Seat
Senator Susan Collins, the only Republican seeking re-election in a state President Trump lost, steered clear of his convention as she distances herself from him and his record.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ve heard enough about gas prices but not enough about alternatives. Maybe if the Trump bandits hadn’t doubled down so hard on fossil fuels it’d feel like there’s light at the end of the vehicular tunnel.
huffpost.com
In Keynote Convention Speech, JD Vance Glosses Over Trump Administration's Record
The vice president embraced crowd chants of his name as speculation builds over who will lead the party after Trump.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man can never be elected again. He’s cut from the same cruel, narcissistic cloth as his ringmaster.
huffpost.com
Vance Makes Crude Jab In Attack On Talarico
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My fellow frogs in the pot, it’s time to reverse the CO2 increases.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump wouldn’t know fiscally responsibility if it kicked him in the diaper.
colbyhall.com
WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION: Trump’s $5K Giveaway Just Blew Up the GOP’s Socialist Attack
Republicans spent months calling Democrats socialists. Then the president proposed the biggest cash payment in history.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is this meant to offset the $5000 he has cost every adult through his dumb tariff policies?
bbc.com
Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.
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Eco Knuckles @noisefactor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The moral stain is not only on Musk, it’s on the MAGA voters who empowered him. The lives lost due to USAid cuts are on them, too. It’s a kind of racist genocide.
deadline.com
'Musk' Review: World's Richest Man Thrashed In Alex Gibney Documentary
'Musk' review: The world's richest man is thrashed in a damning documentary directed by Alex Gibney, premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
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