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  @mcnado@mstdn.social The people who bought Trump a coup attempt & an election "win", twice, are gearing up to do it again. They're obviously ecstatic with what Trump’s done so far. Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen $91 million Elon Musk $85 M Jeff Yass $84 M Miriam Adelson $68 M Uihlein $51 M Greg Brockman $50 M Paul Singer $35 M Winklevoss $27 M Diane Hendricks $26 M The cryptocurrency fraudsters are especially keen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive...

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  @gleick@mas.to It would be nice if the press also named the oil oligarchs who fund climate denial & who corrupt the courts & politicians. https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/ https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/ https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/ The ICC is under attack...

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  @jaykuo@universeodon.com The corrupt US Supreme Court is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Network & the it adores public corruption. https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/21/the-supreme-court-is-so-corrupt https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/27/supreme-court-bribes-gratuities-snyder-kavanaugh https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/1/us-supreme-court-hands-weal...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social There is a reason why TV shows & movies about resistance to oligarchic or fascist domination get canceled or get limited release in the USA now. Altered Carbon. Sisu. Not allowed to trash talk the 1% running far right movements. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-anti-fascist-films/brazil-1985/ The movie Brazil was shelved for ages for its message. https://48hills.org/2026/05/hey-elon-sf-has-lots-more-tech-olilgarchs-you-can-go-ahead-and-sue/ https:...

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  @jodmentum@apobangpo.space A life well lived is when you leave this earth having made it a tiny bit better. Your MIL sounds like she did far more than "just a little". May we all be as blessed by such people in our lives as you have been. Thank you for sharing her life with us and all my condolences.

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  @randahl@mastodon.social @BillMcGuire@mastodon.social We continue to underestimate how far the oil industry is willing to go to keep its hegemony. Putin is losing his oil refineries & pipelines and billionaires don't tolerate failure in their proxies. Ukraine's military strategy is superb.

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  @Sheril@mastodon.social https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations When Koch Network buys a Supreme Court, Congress, and a presidency, these are the consequences. A dying democracy & a frying planet. https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html 1.3 billion deaths is what the fossil fuel industry bought. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/16...

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  @jacqui76@mastodon.ie It would be wonderful if Banksy "named names". The names of the people who bought anti-protest legislation & a court system siding with them. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/10/britain-protest-laws-tories-climate-labour https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/29/rishi-sunak-boasts-that-oil-funded-think-tank-helped-us-draft-crackdown-on-climate-protests/ https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/liberty-anti-protest-laws-court-of-appeal-2025/ htt...

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  @tante@tldr.nettime.org Sisyphean tasks don't mean keep going until you're exhausted, demotivated, & depressed. https://democracyproject.org/posts/sisyphean-democracy https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/03/finding-joy-happiness-in-absurd-boredom-stress/673248/ https://vocal.media/writers/life-as-a-sisyphean-struggle-finding-meaning-in-the-futility https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-gops-sisyphean-punishment-for-supporting-trump/ It means self-care, taking...

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  @ErikUden@mastodon.de When will the world tire of American labor practices and its exploitive forms of offshoring? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/15/nyregion/amazon-mechanical-turk.html https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192/ https://stanforddaily.com/2020/06/21/complexity-theory-amazons-mechanical-turk-is-a-disaster-for-crowdworkers/ https://ssir.org/articles/entry/ai-workers-mechanical-turk Does every empire have to build itself o...

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  @QasimRashid@mastodon.social The richest people on the planet are spending millions to keep Trump & his corrupt regime in power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html Foreign despots are spending even more. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-300-millon/32032247.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-trump-meeting-syri...

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  @rbreich@masto.ai https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5727198-musk-political-fray-big-2026-midterm-donations/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html https://www.ft.com/content/88177d81-0217-4d44-9b37-03a834b3d1c1 https://archive.is/mztpf Let's name names again... #FFFO Fund a Fascist, & Find Out 1. Elon Musk $291,482,587 2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200 3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900 4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936 5. Ken Griffin $108,...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social Eventually Putin will get a "fall from a window" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/putin-s-war-in-ukraine-is-also-hitting-russians-harder-at-home https://kyivindependent.com/putin-would-starve-russians-before-ending-war-browder-says/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davedeptula/2026/02/18/putins-war-story-and-the-price-of-believing-him/ Eventually Orban will lose office https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/business/hungary-russia-oil-orban-intl h...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social The GOP are funded by billionaires rebuilding the worst parts of the 19th century. Contagious disease. Contaminated air & water. War. Slavery. Disenfranchisement. Homelessness. Famine. The consequences to women are deliberate.

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  @Gustodon@mas.to https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5639951 https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-big-oil-1-billion This graph explains why the fossil fuel industry is funding fascist movements globally. https://msmagazine.com/2026/02/20/heritage-foundation-women/ https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/ https://www.axios.com/2026/...

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  @batkaren@mastodon.online Who do these repellent men think they're fooling?

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  @jonny@neuromatch.social It's absolutely amazing how the fossil fuel industry is hoping to achieve an international state surveillance system, by weaponizing corporate greed & human laziness. This bubble will be as legendary as the Tulip Mania and the South Sea bubble that remade the world order. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival...

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  @fsinn@mas.to @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social As the news cycle is manipulated to capture our attention, Trump’s public corruption continues unabated behind the scenes. Enriching Republican donors through crooked real estate deals is just a part of it https://www.nj.com/sports/2026/03/plan-to-relocate-madison-square-garden-gains-attention-as-trump-signals-support.html https://www.dmagazine.com/business-economy/2025/04/the-new-billionaires-meet-the-dfw-leaders-among-the-worlds-richest-people...

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  @streetartutopia@mastodon.online Here's a list of billionaires deserving a "Fund a Fascist, & Find Out" moment. #FFFO https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html If the globe can sanction Russian oligarchs, what's stopping sanctions on Trump's kleptocrats too? 1. Elon Musk $291,482,587 2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200 3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900 4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936 5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284 6. Jeff Yass $101,12...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social Ann Telnaes is a masterful cartoonist. Pam Bondi re-enacts Brett Kavanaugh's combative "I like Beer" performance and adds an unsubtle "I provide cover for child rapists".

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  @nemo@mas.to Fund a fascist movement & find out... https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/ https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

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  @t_var_s@phpc.social @knowmadd@mastodon.world @hook@toot.si Don't forget, we don't know when there's a "human in the loop". There may or may not be some low wage workers involved in the answer. Some like Google has enormous investments from Saudi Arabia. Oracle is "training" 50,000 Saudi Arabians in AI. https://gulfbusiness.com/oracle-targets-training-50000-saudis-in-ai-latest-tech/ Or is it Lebanese? https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1487826/shehadi...

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  @simonbs #TranslatedFromTheRepublican "Our stolen car was used by a car thief to steal more cars. "

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  @Geri Yet another reason to switch to solar & wind... ... freedom from fossil fuel funded fascist billionaires like Trump's donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html https://www.businessinsider.com/koch-funded-group-backing-nonpartisan-campaign-before-america-250-2025-12

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  @Remittancegirl https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress Remember the 3.5% rule. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/what-is-the-3-5-percent-protest-rule https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule https://ni...

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  @briankrebs This explains why Koch is promoting Ai to the gullible in an alliance with Microsoft. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/ To manipulate elections https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html Getting people accustomed to giving up their jobs to slave owners using detention center labor is going to be a tough sell....

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  @MagentaRocks @molly0xfff The wealthy think that if they pay "compensation" that the crime wasn't real.

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  @dougiec3 @YakyuNightOwl @Nonilex Mike Johnson colludes with all fossil fuel billionaires. https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/climate/mike-johnson-climate-policies.html https://readsludge.com/2025/04/18/fossil-fuel-and-finance-donors-pour-millions-into-house-gop-war-chest/ https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4275210-mike-johnson-speaker-gop-pro-oil-climate-skeptical-record/ https://www.sierraclub.org/si...

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  @bms48 @ramsey @iaruffell @ammdias This link says "server inaccessible:

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  @johannab And the fossil fuel industry still spends millions corrupting Courts, Congress, and Agencies and lobbying to be granted immunity for ecocide.