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The Iran war is driving up energy prices. These companies are profiting. Fighting in the Middle East has meant higher bills for consumers and windfalls for oil and gas companies.

The Iran war is driving up energy prices. These companies are profiting.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

Conditions at ICE's largest detention facility — revealed in data from more than a hundred 911 calls, interviews and court filings — offer a disturbing portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress.

Hooooooo boy

America is about to find out what it means to build domestic policy around an extremely volatile set of energy sources.

Meanwhile our biggest geopolitical rival shows the benefits of insulating an energy system from price shocks and exporting clean technologies.

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Gregory Bovino is now under criminal investigation Video shows the Border Patrol's former "commander-at-large" throwing a gas canister at protesters and observers in Minneapolis in January.

Gregory Bovino Is Now Under Criminal Investigation

Video shows the Border Patrol’s former “commander-at-large” throwing a gas canister at protesters and observers in Minneapolis in January.

www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

#Minneapolis #Politics #CBP #ICE

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

This is not good.

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

“The new war in Iran is very unpopular… worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular.

With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014.”

— pollster @gelliottmorris.com

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Kristi Noem all but killed FEMA. Will her departure save it? The embattled Homeland Security secretary froze spending and slashed staff. It may well have been illegal.

Kristi Noem all but killed FEMA. Will her departure save it?

Gregory Bovino is now under criminal investigation Video shows the Border Patrol's former "commander-at-large" throwing a gas canister at protesters and observers in Minneapolis in January.

Gregory Bovino Is Now Under Criminal Investigation

Video shows the Border Patrol’s former “commander-at-large” throwing a gas canister at protesters and observers in Minneapolis in January.

www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

#Minneapolis #Politics #CBP #ICE

okay this prompt might start a fight but:

what is THEE sci-fi/fantasy/horror/romantasy book from the past year or two that makes you feel like, "oh my GOD you haven't read this yet?? you absolutely must read this immediately"?? like what's your pick for essential contemporary sffh reading

Drug cartels, well-known for their Marxian tendencies.

A regional network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds As climate change intensifies wildfires and other extreme weather events, demand for native seeds is surging.

A regional network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds

Arizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush. Though tech companies are secretive about their water usage, Arizona’s 150-plus data centers and chip factories use a tiny fraction of the state’s supply.

Arizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush.

NYC Mayor Mamdani apologizes for excluding Black Americans in previous ‘city built by immigrants’ comments The New York City mayor said, “We have to tell the full story,” which includes the contributions of Black New

If you're touting the Mamdani coalition today, please learn from what Mamdani did after he lost the Black vote in the NYC primary.

He didn't blame Black voters or discount them. He courted the Black vote, showed up, *apologized when he messed up.*

That's a way forward.
www.aol.com/articles/nyc...

Trump refused to give Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine to destroy Shahed drone factories on the territory of the russian terrorist state.

Now, the russian terrorists are shipping Shahed drones to Iran. Trump has to shoot down $25,000 drones with $4 million Patriot missiles.

Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin. The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.

NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States

50% support
39% oppose

Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6

23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

The Colorado River is nearing collapse. It’s Trump’s problem now. The Interior Department must force seven bickering states to agree on drastic water cuts — after the driest winter in decades.

The Colorado River is nearing collapse. It’s Trump’s problem now.

The polycrisis is nigh 👇

Sometimes fiction tells truths that facts cannot. It was true of Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and it's true of Larwence Wright's t heartfelt novel of the days leading up to the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. THE HUMAN SCALE is suspenseful, hard to put down, even harder to forget.

Electric Bills are Bonkers. What Can We Do About It? Rising electricity rates across the country are adding pressure to families and businesses already dealing with inflation in other aspects of their lives. Most Americans get their power from a utility...

Most Americans get their power from a utility that needs to turn a profit for investors — and people are fed up with rising electricity rates. But switching to public power is an uphill battle. What are other strategies for making electricity more affordable?

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Atlanta ranks worst in eviction rates with more total evictions than New York City The new report found there were multiple complexes that averaged an eviction a day.

In the past year, metro Atlanta saw more evictions than all of New York City—despite having *one-quarter* the renters.

Multiple Atlanta apartment complexes averaged an eviction a day.

"The numbers are mind-blowing," said Grace Hartley of Princeton's Eviction Lab.

The numbers are remarkably clear on this one: the shift to the Greens was almost entirely Labour voters, with Reform grabbing all of the Tories' support.

Those "Asian communities" used to vote Labour until Starmer directed the party to demonize them.

The fuck were these idiots expecting, really?

Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors

Following up some of my morning thoughts: "Labour’s basic electoral problem comes from the fact that left-leaning voters are indeed choosing to vote against rather than for parties. The problem is that progressives aren’t just voting against Reform. They are now actively voting against Labour."

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats.

To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect

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