Craig O'Connor
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Craig O'Connor
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Powerful winds are ripping through the Arctic, breaking up critical sea ice that once acted as a shield against disturbance from wind and waves.

Scientists warn the loss of sea ice is speeding up the region’s ecological collapse and could disrupt weather patterns far beyond the Arctic.
Stronger arctic cyclones speed up polar melting, impacting global weather
Powerful winds are ripping through the Arctic, breaking up critical sea ice that once acted as a shield against disturbance from wind and waves. Scientists warn the loss of sea ice is speeding up the...
news.mongabay.com
"The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap."
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
www.theguardian.com
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This is very true. If/when The Felon croaks, evil Criminal Johnson & the rest of the crew will continue the destruction. They're a disease that must be 100% eradicated.
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If you're too stupid to know that Merrick Garland had no power to "rig" the 2020 election when you were in power the first time, you're too stupid to sit in the White House the second time.
"The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday."
As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity
Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.
apnews.com
“Coal, oil and gas interests in the U.S. received more than $16 billion in subsidies in 2023.”
Subsidizing Fossil Fuels, but Not Clean Energy
www.nytimes.com
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
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Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues:
Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public
The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.
bit.ly
This is also largely about safeguarding Exxon and Chevron oil claims in Venezuela and Guyana, with goal to change government of Venezuela to privatize more of the oil reserves. This needs to be talked about more. It is part of war on renewable energy as well as plain imperialism.
This is also largely about safeguarding Exxon and Chevron oil claims in Venezuela and Guyana, with goal to change government of Venezuela to privatize more of the oil reserves. This needs to be talked about more. It is part of war on renewable energy as well as plain imperialism.
This article is on to something I've been thinking about: build an alternative to the federal government through cooperation of liberal states. Health care, environment, etc. Withhold some federal taxes, since these states pay much more than they rec eve back from feds.
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
It’s like the Proud Boys were hired by the feds…
“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
He wants to use military to control the public. If that is not fascism, I don’t know what is.
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
We need publicly funded universal guaranteed health insurance now. The non-system of patchwork programs to prop up the horrible private insurance scam is not good enough. Rep. Amo: do you support a universal public health insurance system like they have in Germany, for example?
What a hateful, frightening man-child.
JD Vance invoking "blood libel" is dangerous and wrong. He is using a term with a specific, horrific history tied to centuries of antisemitic violence.

Weaponizing it for political attacks undermines the fight against actual antisemitism.
Here’s JD Vance accusing Democrats of “blood libel” against ICE agents.

Historically, blood libel referred to the false claim that Jews murdered Christians to use their blood in rituals.

Dangerous language on every level.
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)