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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Koch-Funded Group Authored GOP Letter Demanding Medicaid Cuts <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/koch-funded-group-authored-house-gop-letter-demanding-medicaid-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/koch-funded-group-authored-house-gop-letter-demanding-medicaid-cuts</a> Hard-liner Medicaid letter tied to GOP think tank <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/02/congress/chip-roy-medicaid-letter-paragon-health-00324249" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/02/congress/chip-roy-medicaid-letter-paragon-health-00324249</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Koch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CharlesKoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CharlesKoch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KochIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KochIndustries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libertarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meritocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiunion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christofascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgenocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unionize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unionize</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticSocialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WealthTax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solidarity</a> 🏳️‍⚧️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870</a>

BellingenNSWExtreme heat - harm from fossil fuels Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?"Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds""Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades." >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateBreakdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GHG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GHG</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/liability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AttributionSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AttributionSci</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heatwaves</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a>

Climate crisis | The GuardianCost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Greenhousegasemissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenhousegasemissions</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Australianews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australianews</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climatecrisis</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RioTinto</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Woodside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Woodside</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Santos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Santos</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BHP</a>

Why We Went Extinct"Oh, and I'll throw in an dead planet for free, but you'll have to wait for a bit".<a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossilfuelprofits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuelprofits</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/globalwarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globalwarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatecrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigoil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DealOfTheYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DealOfTheYear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clue</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesDespite us being over three months into Trump 2.0, I still periodically still find it breathtaking how much unhinged cartoon villain bullshit they can cram into any given exercise of power. This story for example touches on the way the Klepto Kaiser is using the Department of Justice as his personal legal team to further the objectives of his donors, Trump's attempts to seize power for the presidency from other government bodies, and Downmarket Mussolini's fake "national emergency" scheme to do blatantly illegal shit because Pam Bondi thinks it walks. This week the Department of Justice filed complaints or lawsuits against four states, New York, Vermont, Hawaii, and Michigan, to stop them from enforcing their own state climate laws and mechanisms to hold the fossil fuel companies killing us all, financially accountable for their crimes against humanity.<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-phony-energy-emergency" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-phony-energy-emergency</a>Trump's 'Phony Energy Emergency' Used by DOJ to Target State Climate Laws"On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed complaints against New York and Vermont over their climate superfund laws, which empower states to seek financial compensation from fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate mitigation. The burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of human-caused global heating.Separately, the DOJ also sued Hawaii and Michigan "to prevent each state from suing fossil fuel companies in state court to seek damages for alleged climate change harms."As the article mentions, Bondi's maneuvers here stem from Trump's April 8th sweeping executive order in which the president claims the authority to erase any law at any level of government that might impede the fossil fuel companies that put Trump into power; because he also declared a fake national energy emergency. Like most of Der Leader's executive orders, the dictate is vague and broad enough to essentially empower Trump to bulldoze anyone or anything he doesn't agree with, which is pretty much all climate or fossil fuel extraction legislation or regulations. The order is also almost certainly illegal; whatever that actually means in a burgeoning fascist dictatorship where the regime is openly ignoring a number of court orders as we speak.It's hard to really drill down here and find the greater problem with all of this because virtually everything about this executive order is itself an existential crisis. The planet is literally on fire, climate crisis is real, and billions of (mostly poor) people's lives hang in the balance; the last thing anyone needs is for Trump to empower extractivist mass murder companies to rip more fossil fuels we shouldn't even be burning out of the ground because they're greedy, and Trump wants to pretend he can drive gas prices down and create an American economic utopia by drilling more oil as the world turns to ash. Secondly, to our great shame Trump was elected President of the United States, but he was not made King of the realm and he does not have the power to override the authority of every State government in America on a whim; nor should any president have that authority, as winger fascist "states rights" debate bros have been reminding us all for six decades. If Trump wants to dismantle state climate laws and regulations, his Big Oil donors are going to have to take it through the courts just like everyone else; and yet here's Trump trying to bully their way across the finish line on the cusp of being sued by Hawaii, with one signature. In my mind however the most shameful and egregious part of all this is the way Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice to fight the legal battles of extractivist corporations and donors who helped him become president. Not only does it make clear the reality that Trump perceives the Justice Department as the president's own private cadre of lawyers who exist to prosecute his grievances and manipulate the law to further his fascist objectives, but it's also a pretty clear example of quid pro quo and bribery. The message here is if you donate enough money to Trump, you get Trump's lawyers to work for you and those lawyers happen to be the literal Department of Justice; and there's not a lotta wiggle room to argue otherwise, quite frankly. Obviously none of this is how either the Justice Department or presidential power is supposed to work, but as usual the Klepto Kaiser and his bootlicking Attorney General, Pam Bondi, don't seem to care. <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PamBondi</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoJ</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hawaii</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Michigan</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vermont</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYork</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateSuperfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateSuperfund</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOil</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Extractivism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Bribery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bribery</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ExxonMobil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExxonMobil</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chevron</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BP</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shell</a>

Heretical_i"Plastic production has increased 230-fold since the 1950s, and production is projected to triple by 2060. More than half the total plastic ever made has been produced since 2002.Much of that growth is being driven by <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> companies.“They’re very deliberately redirecting their investment away from the production of gasoline into the production of plastics and petrochemicals,”...What Are the <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> Impacts of <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plastic</a>?<a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/what-are-the-health-impacts-of-plastic.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/what-are-the-health-impacts-of-plastic.html</a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microplastics</a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biology</a>

Bennolius 😷⚡Good morning <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a>! It's <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> day - let's vote for getting more <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#renewables</a> online, more <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/electrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electrification</a>, and less <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> being dug up, so we can reduce our oversized contribution to <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a><a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/AusVotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusVotes</a>

Cedric Knight 🌍💙9 days left! <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/ChrisPackham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisPackham</a>'s petition to ban <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> advertising and sponsorship currently has 75,000 signatures. At 100,000 it gets a debate in the UK Parliament.<a href="https://govpetition.uk/700024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://govpetition.uk/700024</a>Please forward to all your UK media and friends to help it over the line.Merely considering it reduces the social licence of polluting corporations!<a href="https://mas.to/@miv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@miv</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@bobjmsn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bobjmsn</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/@algorithm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@algorithm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@hamishcampbell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hamishcampbell</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@jim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jim</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@GOGREENECOWARRIORSS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GOGREENECOWARRIORSS</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GeofCox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/@EarthOrgUK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EarthOrgUK</a> <a href="https://social.coop/@Veggies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Veggies</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpol</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a>

NSW.BiodiversityDry conditions draw emus to the suburbs"Wildlife groups say the emus are seeking water due to drought conditions and urge the community to be mindful of the animals' welfare. WIRES had also been saddened to hear reports of children throwing rocks at the wandering emus and urged parents to discourage it." >> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/drought-draws-emus-to-broken-hill-wildlife-groups-urge-caution/105237790" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/drought-draws-emus-to-broken-hill-wildlife-groups-urge-caution/105237790</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/emus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emus</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/BrokenHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrokenHill</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#children</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#parenting</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drought</a>

Khurram Wadee ✅<a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banks</a> put £75bn into firms building <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a>-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds | <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> | The Guardian<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/uk-banks-put-75bn-into-firms-building-climate-wrecking-carbon-bombs-study-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/uk-banks-put-75bn-into-firms-building-climate-wrecking-carbon-bombs-study-finds</a><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenhouseGases</a>

Paul MorrisLabour's Tom Hayes getting monstered on Bluesky for this post, over Labour looking the same as the Tories and Reform after their retreat on LGBTQ+ existence.But again, I'll instead say on 'net zero', the term and idea is simply a sop to fossil capital to allow them to continue to profit from extraction, until the theory in some year in the future, magically carbon dioxide will be fully offset.And by that time, it will be too late for it to do anything anyway, so they'll have got away with the destruction scot-free.But what's great for politicians and others pushing this over eliminating fossil capital immediately, is they don't have to worry about it either, as they'll be long gone from the scene by that year too.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetZero</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>

Independent Media Australia.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeterDutton</a> has been getting advice from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> Industry <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auspol</a>

Climate Camp ScotlandCLIMATE CAMP SCOTLAND 2025DISMANTLE FOSSIL FASCISM22-29 JULY, SCOTTISH CENTRAL BELTSIGN UP NOW: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/commit-to-camp-22nd-29th-july-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://actionnetwork.org/forms/commit-to-camp-22nd-29th-july-2025</a>Climate breakdown is here. Wildfires, floods and heatwaves are destroying communities and lives across the globe. We are witnessing the climate crisis before our very eyes.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a>

Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏"Under the 1970 Clean Air Act, California can receive waivers to enact clean air standards tougher than those set by the federal government because historically it has had the most polluted air in the nation. Federal law also allows other states to adopt California’s standards as their own, under certain circumstances….California has received hundreds of waivers over the years, and none had been presented to Congress for a vote — until now.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/climate/house-votes-to-repeal-californias-clean-truck-policies.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/climate/house-votes-to-repeal-californias-clean-truck-policies.html</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StatesRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StatesRights</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a>

WenAnd in case anyone is not aware, Blair is a shill for the petrochemical industry.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/30/blairs-net-zero-intervention-invites-scrutiny-of-his-institute-donors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/30/blairs-net-zero-intervention-invites-scrutiny-of-his-institute-donors</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ManOnTheMake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ManOnTheMake</a>

WenForced? Maybe one of his sponsors put the boot in?<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/downing-street-forces-tony-blair-to-row-back-from-net-zero-strategy-criticism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/downing-street-forces-tony-blair-to-row-back-from-net-zero-strategy-criticism</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetZero</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resilience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/pratt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pratt</a>

Trina CoreyWells Fargo is working with Musk and Trump to privatize the USPS. It is also financing fossil fuel companies. You can use the editable letter below to send your thoughts to Wells Fargo leadership.<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-wells-fargo-we-wont-let-you-backslide-into-climate-chaos-and-corporate-authoritarianism?source=direct_link&" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-wells-fargo-we-wont-let-you-backslide-into-climate-chaos-and-corporate-authoritarianism?source=direct_link&</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPS</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wellsfargo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellsfargo</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesOne of the most frustrating things about explaining the origins of climate catastrophe in a free market fundamentalist society is getting people to understand that when I say "capitalism is causing climate crisis and will kill billions of people if we don't end it," I'm speaking quite literally. The evidence that capitalism itself, not just fossil fuels (although to be fair, capitalism and the wealth of the ruling class already depends on fossil fuels far more than you've been told) is the driving factor is all around us, it's just rarely reported in focus and with the level of concern it deserves in corporate media; which for both professional and class reasons, are pretty married to capitalism and free market fundamentalist ideology. Take for example this recent Dartmouth University study demonstrating that just 111 large corporations are responsible for 28 trillion (with a t) dollars worth of climate damage to our shared biosphere.<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/worlds-top-111-corporations-have-caused-28t-in-climate-damages-study-finds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/worlds-top-111-corporations-have-caused-28t-in-climate-damages-study-finds/</a>"In a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature last week, Dartmouth University researchers find that the global economy would be $28 trillion richer if extreme heat caused by climate emissions from the top 111 carbon majors had never happened. This is nearly the equivalent value of a year’s worth of all goods and services created in the U.S., as The Associated Press points out.Ten top fossil fuel companies, including entities like Chevron, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco, are responsible for half of those losses, the study finds.The study authors say that their goal is to provide a scientific linkage between individual companies and financial losses due to their emissions, in hopes of bolstering efforts to hold polluters accountable for the climate crisis amid a growing wave of climate lawsuits and as more states and lawmakers pursue “polluter pays” laws."Look, I don't want to give people trying to do something useful to help achieve climate justice a hard time; this study is extremely revealing, even if it does adopt a capitalist framework to describe what is quite frankly mass fucking murder in slow motion. In my experience studies like this have a rather large blind spot towards the human cost of conducting capitalism on a boiling planet where everything, including our governments, is owned by billionaire nazis, so it's likely that these folks are actually underestimating the climate costs of "doing business" for the top corporations they studied. The larger point here however is that as a society we have already amassed oodles of definitive proof that capitalists are burning the planet and threatening billions of lives for profit, and that evidence is typically only worth a paragraph-long notice in our corporate media publications. Rich people are killing us, billions of us, they're just doing it slowly; that's not a metaphor, and I am being dead serious with you when I say that either capitalism goes, or a planet that can support 8 billion people does. Clearly the free market fundamentalists who run our society on behalf of an obscenely wealthy billionaire ruling class aren't coming to the rescue because the rich people who own them have already made their choice. They're going to slaughter billions of people to keep doing capitalism; the question then becomes - do we as a species intend to let them?<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corporations</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Extractivism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anticapitalism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EcoSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EcoSocialism</a>

DragofixOil companies have downplayed extent of spills in Gulf of Mexico, investigation finds <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/oil-companies-have-downplayed-extent-of-spills-in-gulf-of-mexico-investigation-finds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/oil-companies-have-downplayed-extent-of-spills-in-gulf-of-mexico-investigation-finds/</a><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GulfOfMexico</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/fossilfuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuel</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oil</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/OilSpill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilSpill</a>

WenBlair - so wrong about so many things, even if he did get some right. Now in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. But Starmer backs him so that is OK.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-risks-sending-absolutely-wrong-message-says-climate-expert" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-risks-sending-absolutely-wrong-message-says-climate-expert</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/30/labour-tories-local-elections-2025-pmqs-tony-blair-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-live-news-updates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/30/labour-tories-local-elections-2025-pmqs-tony-blair-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-live-news-updates</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetZero</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>

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