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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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  @DrALJONES@mastodon.social Incompetents at the wheel happens when public corruption & self-enriching ideological bigotry matters more to The Moneyed than efficacy. Or democracy, free markets, human rights, & the environment. The fossil fuel industry is the most corrupt on the planet. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations https://www.americanprogress.org/article/these-fossil-fuel-industry-tactics-are-fueling-democratic-backsliding/ https://www.nytimes.com...

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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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  @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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  @skyglowberlin@fediscience.org When it came to Syrian refugees... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/shocking-image-of-drowned-syrian-boy-shows-tragic-plight-of-refugees https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/13/509650251/study-what-was-the-impact-of-the-iconic-photo-of-the-syrian-boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi https://globalnews.ca/news/2356575/4-year-old-syrian-girl-found-washed-up-on-turkish-coast-latest-in-dozens-of-child-deaths/

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  @AG100pct@infosec.exchange Trump does have one skill. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html https://qz.com/2136404/as-russian-oil-turns-toxic-saudi-arabia-could-see-a-windfall He is very good at making payoffs to benefit his billionaire supporters. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/big-oil-huge-war-windfall-consumers Using public funds to reward donors is legalized bribery & public corruption, thanks to Koch Network, a C...

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  @kralcttam@mastodon.social If the globe minimizes fossil fuel use, it also reduces the power of the petrostate despots & oil oligarchs that are attacking democracy & frying the planet. No more theocracy from Tim Dunn, Farris & Dan Wilks No more white supremacy from Koch Network. No more war on Ukraine by Putin. No more corrupt techno-fascist broligarchs. No more misogynistic wingnuts like Vance, Musk & Thiel. No more OPEC extortion.

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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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  @tzimmer_history https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4 The tech industry is fueled by fossil fuel investments. The authoritarianism also comes f...

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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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  @GossiTheDog @wdormann When Microsoft formed a fake charity with Charles Koch (worst oil oligarch on the planet after Putin & #PrinceBonesaw ) to force AI adoption by the so-called "lower orders"; what did we think would happen? Koch Network does nothing but covert ops that further fossil fuel fascism & corporate oligarchy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobilit...

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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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  @david_chisnall The verbosity has another goal as well. It uses more fossil fuel energy to generate. That's why the most corrupt industry on the planet is hyping up AI and LLM's -- to price gouge & waste energy. https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/ https://blog.ucs.org/julie-mcnamara/electricity-bills-are-high-trump-administration-policies-are-set-to-make-them-soar/ It's why the industry bought a felon a presidency, to retai...

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  2/ 1. It's money laundering for petrostate despots & other oligarchs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub Similar to how Russia looted its national treasury & used Trump & Deutsche Bank to launder it via real estate. Citizens go homeless in overpriced housing markets, so billionaire private equity can launder their loot in residential real estate. Zuckerberg blew $77 billion on the Metaverse to laun...