"Unsurprisingly, it’s easier to bounce back from allegations if you have a lot of money. Every venture capitalist or investor we identified either kept his job or found a new one." Via @ekp.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

NEW UNRULY SUBJECTS! How can we defeat authoritarianism? I talked with Mikyung Ryu of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions about South Korea’s fight against martial law, the role of labor, and what movements in the U.S. can learn from it. tinyurl.com/7rfaefd9 youtube.com/shorts/OUU7s...

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

excellent piece

Correct! It’s techfascist favourite, Palantir. We’ve found a revolving door of UK officials who’ve gone from the highest levels of government into Peter Thiel’s firm. Transparency experts describe it as an ‘acute risk’ for corruption www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-r...

'For years, the [Dutch] Marechaussee secretly deployed [and maybe still uses] software from ... #Palantir to analyze passenger data from incoming flights. Minister David van Weel was aware of the contract but did not disclose it to the House of Representatives ...' bsky.app/profile/ftm.... (Dutch)

'"Cries of delight" as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time' www.theguardian.com/environment/... #NatureEmergency

'A panel of global experts has been launched to provide scientific input for countries that want to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and manage the growing risks of high oil prices, geopolitical conflict and extreme weather damage.' www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateEmergency

"counterproductive" 🤡 'The UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, recently accused the UK, US and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalising activists.' www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateEmergency #necropolitics

Trump’s proposed budget guts the National Park Service’s budget by 25 percent, amounting to a staggering $736 million cut. Why is he so determined to ruin our national parks, once described as “America’s best idea”? Follow the money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7IJaB5NDc

'Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions' www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 'Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency' #ClimateEmergency #AI #datacentres #EnergyHogs #cronyism

New York City and New York State pension funds have over $2 billion of Tesla stock. Musk is financial infrastructure, this is the less visible but arguably most important feature of Muskism.

'Only the common species survive in our poisoned country.' www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid... #NatureEmergency #Netherlands #necropolitics #IndustrialAgriculture #FactoryFarms #pesticides #cars #neoliberalism #insensitivity #overconsumption

The horror... Musk is a pest to the wonders of the world. bsky.app/profile/quin...

The CDC is on the Brink, the editorial in this week's @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Both political parties and all of corporate media are awash in AI money and that's why they're not pushing for regulation or even really discussing the more disturbing elements of AI or its economic effects. If you want someone to stand up against this poison you need to change our paradigm.

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space, a stark warning that a fossil fuelled war and the fossil fuel dependency crisis driven by the US and Israel’s war on Iran are scarring this planet and hurting millions of people. cnn.it/4mQnmHl

Hungary, Iran, and Trump’s politics of kleptocracy. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social share.google/WLYyQ4lOlHp9...

'Wildfires in Florida after dry winter and spring lead to drought across US' www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap... #ClimateEmergency #drought #wildfires #NatureEmergency

'Elon Musk’s AI chatbot "extremely validating" of delusional inputs and often went further, "elaborating new material", study finds' www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #AI #Grok #dangers #risks #hallucinations

'How frustration at Cop stalemates inspires first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels' www.theguardian.com/environment/... '"Coalition of the willing" gathers in Colombia to try to bypass petrostate blockages' #ClimateEmergency

'Three disasters in three years: Brazil’s deadly floods show women are "the first to die" when extreme weather hits' www.theguardian.com/global-devel... The climate crisis is ... displacing millions and disproportionately affecting women' #ClimateEmergency #PublicSafety

'... Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet?' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 'Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet' #AI #Claude #Mythos #CyberSecurity #BigTech

'Ban fur farming or risk a new pandemic' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 'Banning an industry that is brutal to animals could be one of the most consequential public-health measures in decades' #FurFarming #minks #AnimalAbuse #pandemics #virusses #necropolitics #greed #CapitalismKills #MinkCoat

'Largest-ever ban on toxic chemicals in EU hit by "extremely frustrating" delays' www.theguardian.com/environment/... 'Green groups say European Commission is "chief roadblock" ... as report finds poor progress four years on' #EU #EuropeanCommision #neoliberalism #cronyism #deregulation

Re-reading Cara Daggett’s 2018 article “Petro-masculinity,” and I’m newly struck by her point that any democracy that arose with the fossil-energy system has historically been dependent on authoritarianism. Going to sit with that one for a while.

Political corruption is the crisis creating every other problem. To build a functioning one-person-one-vote system where oligarchs don’t pull the strings, we need to make anti-corruption the central focus of our politics. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeO41h4fHb4

'Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in "alarming" bills' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 'Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate' #Trump #GOP #OilIndustry #cronyism #LegalizedCriminality

'The big guzzlers? Tech giants and industrial agriculture. Our planet is being systematically dried up by their greed. And governments are not acting.' www.greenpeace.org/nl/eerlijke-... (Dutch) #WaterSecurity #AI #IndustrialAgriculture #soja #meat

Neuer Podcast im "Tagebuch des Neoaristokratismus": Elon Musk und Faschismus Aus Anlass des Buches "Muskismus" von Slobodian und Tarnoff erörtere ich die Frage, ob der Begriff "muskistischer Faschismus" Sinn macht. andreaskemper.org/2026/04/23/e...

The worlds billionaires are buying up the buildings so people can pay the (maximum) rent www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

'World food systems "pushed to the brink" by extreme heat, UN warns' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 'Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise' #ClimateEmergency #heatwaves #FoodSecurity

World foods systems risk entering a death spiral 🥩Producing too much meat and dairy 🌿Growing animal feed and grazing animals instead of growing food for people 🛢️Feed production relying on fossil fuel fertilisers All accelerate the climate crisis and destroy the nature that our farming relies on

'EU rethinks opposition to Arctic oil and gas drilling' www.ft.com/content/aa0c... 'U-turn by Brussels would be bitterly contested by environmental groups' #ClimateEmergency #EU #neoliberalism #necropolitics #GrowthAddiction #cronyism #CapitalismKills

'Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Trump #GOP #necropolitics #resistance

'One ship, three deaths ... on a Chinese fishing vessel' www.theguardian.com/environment/... 'Damning testimony from the crew of one longline tuna-fishing boat has lifted the lid on the treatment of workers in the fleets supplying fish to the UK and EU' #FishingIndustry #LabourAbuse

'"Pacific ashtray": Australian billionaire’s plan to ship and burn waste in Fiji condemned by villagers' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... #PublicHealth #waste #dumps #billionaires #FilthyRich

'Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ClimateEmergency #AMOC #collapse #CapturedMedia #billionaires

'Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought' www.theguardian.com/environment/... #NatureEmergency

Climate protest is being criminalized by both MAGA and liberal Democrats. That’s why this moment is so dangerous.

Gift link to our article about Musk's efforts at creating a vertically integrated ideological stack from low earth orbit and back. Space is the place! (where there are no humans) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals. He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining. And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels. He’s a danger to our planet and our health.

'... after infection via the skin or lungs, ... [pesticides] can reach the brain without passing through the liver and thus be much more toxic than expected.' www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid... (Dutch, paywall?) #NatureEmergency #pesticides #unknowns #birds #neoliberalism #deregulation

wild stuff.

Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in. All of this is absurd.

Palantir must be destroyed. My interview with @cydhayes.bsky.social of the @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reading-pala...

As we’ve come to expect the unacceptable, from the purveyor of misinformation and fabrication