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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026
literally impeach him just for this
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026
If billionaires can spend unlimited money to buy elections, billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 28/07/2026
📣 Our new report finds that the Trump admin’s energy + AI “dominance” policies + hostility to renewables will make it even harder for working families to afford their energy bills. Thanks to Trump, the wholesale price of fossil gas could DOUBLE over the next decade, outpacing inflation every year.
Line graph comparing projected nominal average Henry Hub natural gas prices from EIA and Rystad Energy against a 2% inflation baseline from 2025 to 2040.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Here's a crazy idea: maybe we shouldn't consider data centers "the future" if that future is being designed by about 10 people with demonstrably hideous ideas and no imagination? Maybe we start by demanding that they meet OUR standards?
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Data centers make sense only if we do them right | Op-ED
With our people-friendly government and a proud tradition of renewable energy, Seattle is well-placed to show that siting data centers can be done differently.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Don't shop at REI during this year's annual sale and help @reiunion.bsky.social send a message to management: union busting is disgusting. Learn more about how you can support workers at ourrei.com
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a thread of small behavioral changes that have changed my life, feel free to chime in with yours:
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California Federation of Labor Unions @californialabor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
CALL TO ACTION! Delete the Starbucks app on your phone to disrupt Starbucks business as usual and stop buying from *standalone* Starbucks stores until baristas win a fair contract. No Contract, No Coffee, No App. #DeleteTheApp Take the pledge at bit.ly/DeleteTheApp today!
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 04/03/2026
One day, Kristi Noem won’t have Trump to hide behind. She will be held accountable for the terror she and her employees have unleashed on the American people.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 03/03/2026
Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders, and investors get rich. Read our deep dive: oilchange.org/blogs/trumps...
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Trump’s War on Iran: As People Are Killed, Big Oil’s Windfall Will Deepen Our Energy Affordability Crisis - Oil Change International
Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders, and investors get rich.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This song rules. Take the time to give yourself the gift of listening
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/01/2026
Very Online Democrats and Leftists: Bovino down. Noem on the ropes. Go for Stepher Miller: AFGE:
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/01/2026
"Working people see what’s happening in Minneapolis and still come together with purpose and courage even as ICE continues to tear families apart… We’ve been counted out, stepped over, and still we show up.” - @seiupres.bsky.social April Verrett #NoKings Learn more: seiu.co/4qg58iQ
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) @apen4ej.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Read our full op-ed out today in @calmatters.org - then urge @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov's regulators to stop oil companies from rewriting refinery safety rules. Communities and refinery workers deserve commonsense, strong protections. calmatters.org/commentary/2...
calmatters.org
Opinion | California shouldn't let oil companies rewrite refinery safety rules
Regulators will hold a hearing Jan. 15 at the OSHA Standards Board in Sacramento on changes that will weaken safety standards for refineries.
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) @apen4ej.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“We represent communities living next to refineries and the workers who operate them. Together, we are sounding the alarm - California must not allow oil billionaires and their lobbyists to rewrite refinery safety rules.”-@apen4ej.bsky.social & #USWLocal5 Read more: calmatters.org/commentary/2...
calmatters.org
Opinion | California shouldn't let oil companies rewrite refinery safety rules
Regulators will hold a hearing Jan. 15 at the OSHA Standards Board in Sacramento on changes that will weaken safety standards for refineries.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Just crazy watching an American city fully under attack
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
He really is doing all of it.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Insured losses from wildfire, storms and floods hit record high globally www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Insured Losses From Wildfires, Storms and Floods Hit Record High
Never before has the insurance industry faced such big losses tied to floods, severe thunderstorms and wildfires, according to a fresh study that links rising temperatures to increasingly dangerous we...
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Today the Trump administration suspended leases for 5 offshore wind farms in federal waters that would generate electricity to some 2.5 million homes. I wrote about the high cost of Trump's fossil fuel industry-induced opposition to to wind for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Greenpeace USA @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"SpaceX and two other companies…" Guess who one of those other companies is? Energy Transfer, a.k.a. the Big Oil company that has a $660+ million verdict against Greenpeace entities 😒 The oligarchy is attacking free speech, the right to protest, and now union rights. It's #TimeToResist
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
In Sacramento yesterday morning a US citizen is tackled by ICE agents as his horrified wife screams.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We must stop ourselves from referring to what Trump et al are doing as “immigration policy.” Immigration is movement of people into a country for purposes of residency. Raids, abductions, travel bans, concentration camp construction isn’t “immigration policy.” They’re crimes against humanity.
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) @apen4ej.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
What’s happening: In the last year, two refineries in CA have announced plans to close – and Big Oil is taking the opportunity to shakedown taxpayers and maximize profits on their way out, making Californians foot the bill for their pollution ❌❌ stoptheoilshakedown.org
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) @apen4ej.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Yesterday, @politico.com ran an article about this week’s @calenergy.bsky.social meeting claiming that climate and environmental justice groups are lining up behind a plan that would “pump the brakes” on the transition away from fossil fuels. It’s time to set the story straight ⬇️⬇️
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 03/07/2025
In March, a jury in North Dakota on a 'SLAPP' lawsuits taken by the pipeline company Energy Transfer found Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the USA liable for over $660 million Yesterday, Greenpeace had its first hearing in Dutch court to use the EU's new anti-SLAPP law to fight back
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Greenpeace International begins groundbreaking Anti-SLAPP case to protect freedom of speech - Greenpeace International
In a first, landmark test case of the EU's new legislation to protect freedom of expression and stop abusive lawsuits, Greenpeace International challenges the US oil pipeline company, Energy Transfer,...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 03/07/2025
On 10 July, it will be 40 years since the French secret service bombed the Rainbow Warrior, killing photographer Fernando Pereira The powerful still seek to repress protest and silence critics They have more weapons than bullets and bombs – defunding NGOs and tying them up in spurious legal fights
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Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe
This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put ...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 30/06/2025
The IBEW thinks the One Big Horrible Bill sucks too. “Make no mistake, this bill will cost hundreds of thousands of good-paying construction jobs, billions of work hours, and hundreds of billions in lost wages and economic benefits to America’s middle class."
IBEW International President Kenneth W. Cooper issued the following statement on Senate Republicans’ draft reconciliation bill released Sunday night:

“This budget reconciliation bill is a direct attack on working families, shoveling tax breaks to the rich while turning its back on the people who power this country. 

“The IBEW strongly opposes any proposal that guts infrastructure investment, especially plans like this one that sacrifice existing economic development while providing no clear benefit to working Americans. At a time when we should be investing in energy independence at home, this bill forces our economy to rely on foreign adversaries while dramatically increasing energy bills for every household and draining local communities of the jobs they rely on. 

“Make no mistake, this bill will cost hundreds of thousands of good-paying construction jobs, billions of work hours, and hundreds of billions in lost wages and economic benefits to America’s middle class. 

“IBEW members and every average American will pay the price as congressional Republicans abandon critical investments in American infrastructure and the energy independence they have been tripping over themselves to take credit for the last few years.

“That so many of these investments are in the rural areas and small towns left behind for generations is even more troubling.

“America’s working families deserve more.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

Iowa: Sen. Ernst
Maine: Sen. Collins
Missouri: Sen. Hawley
North Carolina: Sen. Tillis
Ohio: Sen. Husted
Utah: Sen. Curtis
West Virginia: Sen. Capito
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...
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Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 30/06/2025
"cost savings" is DC speak for "dead grandmas"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation." www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
If you live in Louisiana Congressional District 04 You need to know that Mike Johnson is aware of this 👇 And still has plans to push the OBBB through anyway You need to know that Mike Johnson isn't serving your best interests
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I am not a lawyer but I cannot think of a single definition of "free market" that would accurately describe the production and distribution of fossil fuels in the United States
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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Happening Now: Mahmoud Khalil's bail hearing in his New Jersey habeas corpus case. Khalil is currently detained for inconsistencies on his residency application. A judge ruled that he can't be detained for his potential foreign policy impact. Following live for @courthousenews.bsky.social
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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Judge Farbiarz: "Petitioner is not a flight risk." He's also "not a danger to the community." "Period, full stop." He says it's "highly unusual" for the government to continue detaining Khalil, particulaly given the "thick record" in his favor that the gov't hasn't objected to.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 19/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: 8 out of 10 surveyed around the world think that polluters - not the people - should pay for climate damages. That’s an OVERWHELMING majority saying - it’s time to make polluters pay. Sign the Polluters Pay Pact today 👇 act-int.greenpeace.org/polluters-pa...
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Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Now with Israel's attack on Iran, the airports are shut down, and our three remaining 'Madleen' team members, Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Marco van Rennes may face an extra month, illegally detained in Israeli prison. Contact their government and demand they protect their citizens.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The workers who feed us are not criminals. Most have been here for decades. We need to protect the workers who are already here from being hunted down in the fields.  If President Trump is in charge, these raids against farms will stop immediately.
Imposed over an image of farm workers being hunted down in the fields, a screenshot of Trump saying:
"Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Note the point @padilla.senate.gov was making when he was assaulted by Noem's team: That she keeps cycling thru six cases as her justification for the gulag.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 12/06/2025
There's no word to describe physically assaulting a US Senator for attending a press conference and asking a question other than authoritarianism.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NEW 🌶️🌶️🌶️ POLL: We worked with Impact Research to investigate suspected vulnerabilities in Trump’s immigration agenda. We found a clear strategic opportunity and imperative for Dem leaders to go on offense on immigration, with coverage in Politico and on our podcast. 🧵here.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/06/2025
California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) is manhandled by several federal agents at a press converence in Los Angeles where DHS influencer/secretary Kristi Noem was spreading lies about migrants.
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 10/06/2025
A judge set David Huerta free today after ICE attacked, injured, and unjustly detained him for standing up for immigrant workers. But this fight isn’t over. Thousands are still detained. We won’t stop until ALL our people are free. #FreeDavidEndRaids seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | STATEMENT: SEIU President April Verrett on David Huerta’s Release from Federal Custody
David Huerta was arrested while standing up for immigrants’ rights. Today, a judge set him free after federal authorities attacked, injured, and unjustly detained him since Friday.
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 09/06/2025
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 08/06/2025
Military style ICE raids in our communities. David Huerta was beaten and dragged away. Because he saw them and stood up for justice. Because he’s not afraid. Neither are we. On MONDAY let's #FreeDavidHuerta, #FreeThemAll 11:00 AM @ Grand Park in Downtown LA (200 N Grand Ave)
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