<p>This is bad news, obviously, but let’s not pretend things weren’t already terrible. Led by the Biden administration, the US became the world’s <a href="/tags/1/" rel="tag">#1</a> producer of fossil fuels.</p><p>That’s what you get when short-sighted capitalists take complete ownership of the political system and the government — under both parties. </p><p>Now it will just get worse.</p><p> ➡️ <a href="https://grist.org/politics/trump-climate-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="grist.org/politics/trump-climate-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/politics/trump-clima</span><span class="invisible">te-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#Capitalism</a></p>
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<p>I’ve been seeing too much of demarcative politics on Fedi recently, and it’s made me feel anxious… so I’m taking refuge with blobcats! With blobcats, there is no stress, there is no struggle, there is no worry; there is only <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato:" title=":gutkato:">.</p><p>Let’s all unite our <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato:" title=":gutkato:"> against <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato_kolereta.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato_kolereta:" title=":gutkato_kolereta:"> to save the <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato:" title=":gutkato:"> from <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato_morta.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato_morta:" title=":gutkato_morta:"> and have more <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato:" title=":gutkato:"> in the <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato:" title=":gutkato:">! Now is the time to <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/jam.xwx.moe/gutkato.png" class="emoji" alt=":gutkato:" title=":gutkato:">!</p><p><a href="/tags/lang_en/" rel="tag">#lang_en</a> <a href="/tags/blobcat/" rel="tag">#blobcat</a> <a href="/tags/blobcats/" rel="tag">#blobcats</a> <a href="/tags/life/" rel="tag">#life</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
<p>The Labour Party has presided over a rise in political prisoners in the UK (what else would you call people imprisoned for protesting about environmental issues or the situation in Gaza?).</p><p>When we wonder whether the Labour Party is the bulwark against the right that it still wants to present itself as, we might wonder how this differs from what a ReformUK Ltd Govt. might do?</p><p>And if you defend Labour as the better of two evils, then we really are lost!</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/law/2026/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners</span></a></p>
<p>REVEALED by Correspondent <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stevanzetti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevanzetti</span></a></span>: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/ice-pros</span><span class="invisible">ecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/extremism/" rel="tag">#extremism</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
<p>Harry Enten: "What a change from last summer on mid-decade <a href="/tags/redistricting/" rel="tag">#redistricting</a>! Trump and the Republicans started the fight in 2025, but at this point, it looks like the Democrats will finish it. Democrats are more likely to gain from mid-decade redistricting than the Republicans, thanks to California, Utah, and potentially Virginia, New York, and Maryland." <br>copy: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://channel.org/@renewedresistance" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>renewedresistance</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/winning/" rel="tag">#winning</a> <a href="/tags/goodnews/" rel="tag">#GoodNews</a></p>
<p>Ben Jennings (Guardian) on the Tangerine Tyrants' (so-called) Board of Peace.</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>The Book of Negroes is more than a ledger—it is a story pressed into parchment, a testament to the brutal arithmetic of freedom. It begins in the final days of the American Revolution, a conflict that promised liberty but delivered it unevenly.<br>1/17<br><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p><p>Image: Rose Fortune came to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War, about June 1784. She earned a living as a "trucker," carrying baggage with a wheelbarrow. </p><p>NOVA SCOTIA ARCHIVES</p>
<p>"First They Came" by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1946)</p><p>First they came for the Communists<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Communist</p><p>Then they came for the Socialists<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Socialist</p><p>Then they came for the trade unionists<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a trade unionist</p><p>Then they came for the Jews<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Jew</p><p>Then they came for me<br>And there was no one left<br>To speak out for me</p><p><a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
<p>It's that time of year again: Submissions for the 2025 MOLLY National Journalism Prize for Investigative Journalism are now open! </p><p>Submit your entry and/or help us spread the word! 🤠 Deadline for entries is Friday, April 11. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/the-molly-awards-submissions/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/the-molly-awards-submissions/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/molly-aw</span><span class="invisible">ards/the-molly-awards-submissions/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/events/" rel="tag">#events</a></p>
<p>stand up for SCIENCE on 7 March 2025</p><p><a href="/tags/rally2025/" rel="tag">#Rally2025</a> <a href="/tags/sciencerally/" rel="tag">#ScienceRally</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/inequity/" rel="tag">#inequity</a> <a href="/tags/governmentfailure/" rel="tag">#governmentfailure</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/socialism/" rel="tag">#socialism</a></p>
<p>Time to update my <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> with an addendum to what's in the profile. I try not to discuss <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> in terms of us vs. them partisan politics. But in light of recent events, I will be boosting news concerned human rights (including but not limited to health care and trans rights), normalization of bigotry, destruction of the environment, and dismantling of protections related to the above topics and others.</p><p>Oftentimes these boosts will not be tagged. If they're not your cup of tea</p><p>1/2</p>
<p>I wish we’d stop calling these abominations “War crimes.” It’s a legal determination that accepts and normalizes war as justifiable while numbing us to the concept. </p><p>Crimes against humanity is more to the point.</p><p>Murder is even more so. <br> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a></p>
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<p>“This is the administration trying to ramp up agreements with local law enforcement agencies to be a force multiplier for mass deportation.” </p><p>New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Police are signing 'task force' agreements with <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> in order to ramp up the displacement of the undocumented. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/local-state-police-ice-287g-task-force/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/local-state-police-ice-287g-task-force/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/local-st</span><span class="invisible">ate-police-ice-287g-task-force/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#CriminalJustice</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a></p>
<p>I don't think it matters whether Trump’s imperialist ambitions are distractions from his domestic destruction. </p><p>It's more than damning and damaging enough that he says these things whether he's serious or not. <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
<p>Marx's "Capital" Explained in 8 minutes</p><p><a href="/tags/socialism/" rel="tag">#socialism</a> <a href="/tags/communism/" rel="tag">#communism</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/marxism/" rel="tag">#marxism</a> <a href="/tags/anticapitalism/" rel="tag">#anticapitalism</a> <a href="/tags/revolution/" rel="tag">#revolution</a> <a href="/tags/classwar/" rel="tag">#classwar</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/kQscKTYaue8" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/kQscKTYaue8</a></p>
<p>Fuck ICE <a href="/tags/abolishice/" rel="tag">#AbolishICE</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#UsPol</a></p>
<p>RS:<br>‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter</p><p>“Whatever people's views on Trump's broader politics, these are the words of a man who is having some sort of serious mental breakdown,” wrote Dan Hodges, a British columnist and political commentator...</p><p>“This is plainly deranged,” wrote British writer and former lawmaker Daniel Hannan in a social media post... "The Nixon, Clinton and, indeed, Trump impeachments were triggered by less.”<br><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674907657/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.rawstory.com/trump-2674907657/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.rawstory.com/trump-2674907</span><span class="invisible">657/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-dp</span><span class="invisible">s-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/</span></a> </p><p>This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. </p><p><a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/gregabbott/" rel="tag">#GregAbbott</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
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<p>New for The Barbed Wire's Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏: Meet Waco's <a href="/tags/transgender/" rel="tag">#transgender</a> BBQ pitmaster, who's going viral for his outspoken, <a href="/tags/antifascist/" rel="tag">#antifascist</a> TikTok videos. </p><p>Kaleb told us he lost his job at Terry Black's after being doxed after Charlie Kirk's death, but that hasn't stopped his big smoked meat dreams ... <a href="https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/barbecue-saved-his-life-waco-antifascist-trans-pitmaster/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/barbecue-saved-his-life-waco-antifascist-trans-pitmaster/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/b</span><span class="invisible">arbecue-saved-his-life-waco-antifascist-trans-pitmaster/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/lgbtqia/" rel="tag">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/antifa/" rel="tag">#antifa</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/tiktok/" rel="tag">#TikTok</a></p>
<p>“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away”</p><p>—Prof Alan Riach on the fiction of John Galt (1779–1839), born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 2 May – a 🎂🧵</p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/15683482.john-galts-stories-of-19th-century-scots-life-still-resonate-today/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenational.scot/news/15683482.john-galts-stories-of-19th-century-scots-life-still-resonate-today/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenational.scot/news/1568</span><span class="invisible">3482.john-galts-stories-of-19th-century-scots-life-still-resonate-today/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/politicalfiction/" rel="tag">#politicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/enlightenment/" rel="tag">#enlightenment</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/johngalt/" rel="tag">#JohnGalt</a></p>
<p>Announcing our MOLLYs special guest: Skye Perryman, President & CEO of Democracy Forward and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people.</p><p>Join us in <a href="/tags/austin/" rel="tag">#Austin</a> for a powerful night supporting independent journalism.<br>🎟️ Get your tickets now: <a href="https://texasobserver.org/MOLLY" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>texasobserver.org/MOLLY</a></p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/events/" rel="tag">#events</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
<p>100% this. It is a concentration camp. This administration has opened a concentration camp. Just like Nazi Germany did. And they plan on opening more concentration camps. </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/republicansdontcare/" rel="tag">#republicansdontcare</a> <a href="/tags/republicansdidthis/" rel="tag">#republicansdidthis</a></p><p><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/immigration-alligator-alcatraz-concentration-camp-rcna216874" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/immigration-alligator-alcatraz-concentration-camp-rcna216874"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-op</span><span class="invisible">inion/immigration-alligator-alcatraz-concentration-camp-rcna216874</span></a></p>
<p>If you enjoy my posts here on Mastodon, or find them interesting (or both), then you might also want to check out my longer form 'citizen journalism' <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NWBylines" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NWBylines</span></a></span> </p><p>The articles I have written over the last couple of years, often extending themes of my posts, can all be found here:</p><p><a href="https://northwestbylines.co.uk/author/chrismay/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="northwestbylines.co.uk/author/chrismay/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">northwestbylines.co.uk/author/</span><span class="invisible">chrismay/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/citizenjournalism/" rel="tag">#CitizenJournalism</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a></p>
