Connor Gibson
@grassrootbeer.bsky.social
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Contract opposition researcher specialized in climate denial, fossil fuel lobbying, PR, front groups, and the Kochtopus. Blogs at Grassrootbeer Investigations: https://grassrootbeer.substack.com/p/grassrootbeer-investigations
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grassrootbeer.bsky.social
Did you know I make music? UNIVERSE COMPLETE is on Bandcamp & all streaming platforms!
linktr.ee/UniverseComp...

It's a gritty #desertrock album written, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by Chas Storrow + me.

Teaser vid shows the "studio" we recorded in.
#music #rock #taos #denver
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
So when are the people, orgs and foundations targeted here filing defamation suits for being falsely accused of supporting "terrorism"?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...
Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents
www.nytimes.com
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
This is how Fox News attempts to Goebbels the Trump/Epstein news: crime & racist headlines up top, then Clinton/Epstein waaaaay below the fold.

And then, a tiny podcast link at the very very bottom, obscured by the much larger "We Don't Deserve Trump."

Exactly. Nobody deserves a pedo president.
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josiah.writes.news
Campaign group Everyone Hates Elon have installed a spoof tribute to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump on a bench at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland.

It comes after US lawmakers published an Epstein 'birthday book' with an alleged note from Trump.
The bench plaque, which adapts a real quote from Trump describing Epstein as a ‘terrific guy’ in 2002 and alludes to rumours around the President’s health, reads: “In loving memory of Jeffrey Epstein - a terrific guy. See you very, very soon. From Donald.”
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
This country’s fascist dictator needs to dethroned immediately.

His sycophants and enablers need to be put in prison with him.

ICE must be destroyed and its gestapo agents unmasked and jailed.

Israel’s genocide must cease.

Violence is the only language these sociopaths speak - a major concern.
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
Did you know I make music? UNIVERSE COMPLETE is on Bandcamp & all streaming platforms!
linktr.ee/UniverseComp...

It's a gritty #desertrock album written, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by Chas Storrow + me.

Teaser vid shows the "studio" we recorded in.
#music #rock #taos #denver
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
If you don’t hear echoes of how top Nazis spoke to Hitler, you’re not paying attention.
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emorwee.bsky.social
What Republicans are doing in response to the anti-ICE protests is EXACTLY what the Dakota Access pipeline company did in response to the 2016 protests at Standing Rock

Those protests saw FBI infiltration & a $660 million judgment against Greenpeace

Super important to be informed on these tactics
Lessons for protesters from Standing Rock
The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.
heated.world
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
*checks notes* Charles Koch's groups gave $1.6 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom from 2020 - 2023.

ADF is egregiously hateful. Mr. Mild Midwestern Manners is comfy with white christian supremacy.

@yessfun.com & @emorwee.bsky.social have moar here
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
RIP Sly Stone, who facilitated the creation of beautiful music for everyday people.
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
Hmmm

Fantastice Negrito for Primus

Gojira for Korn

Run the Jewels for Wu Tang

Beats Antique for Thievery Corporation (last night)
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emorwee.bsky.social
Along with abandoning DEI initiatives, Walmart has been quietly scaling back its promises to reduce its massive impact on plastic pollution and climate change—two crises that disproportionately harm Black and Brown communities.

New from me:
Another reason to boycott Walmart
The nation's largest retailer isn't just backtracking on diversity. It's also backtracking on cleaning up its messes.
heated.world
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courtacctability.bsky.social
@grassrootbeer.bsky.social on the hundreds of millions that Charles Koch funnels between his own organizations—not even including the money he spends on others: "In 2023, they exchanged $715 million amongst themselves."

Check out our full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9bT...
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sardonicus.eu
European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936
two people carrying signs

HELP ME 
KEEP MY HUSBAND HERE
 HE IS A REFUGEE FACING DEATH IN
GERMANY 
 HE'S TOO YOUNG TO
DIE
 I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE A WIDOW please SIGN PETITIONS



SHOOT ME 
I AM A REFUGEE I DONT WANT TO BE TORTURED TO DEATH BY HITLER I'LL BE DEPORTED to GERMANY! UNLESS YOU STOP IT NOW 
please SIGN PETITIONS
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
@tesla-takedown.bsky.social relevant:

Musk/DOGE is basically doing what the Koch bros attempted for decades: abolish most federal agencies, reduce the government to a "night watchman" to protect the property of the rich.

newrepublic.com/article/1548...

www.emporiagazette.com/opinion/edit...
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
Meanwhile, Chase Koch is dancing on stage with Aloe Blacc on Good Morning America and taking photos with Killer Mike, earning favorable press.

The Koch nonprofits that predominantly focus on real charity (no overlap with their policy/politics) is 4.5% of their total spending.

4.5 / 100 is charity.
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
What were they spending on?

*Millions to ideological university hubs, feeding into Koch's policy & political work.

*Attacks on labor unions

*Support for climate denier politicians

*Anti-abortion hate groups like the ADF

*Funneling public money from public schools to private charters
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
#Koch nonprofit money becomes for-profit revenue:

Koch's "Stand Together Communications" was paid $345M in contracts by Koch nonprofits since 2018.

$107M of that was paid in 2023.

Most of these entities share the same office building in Arlington, VA.
grassrootbeer.bsky.social
"net" = the total after accounting for $715 million Koch orgs spent between themselves.

So the gross spending total exceeded $1.5 billion in 2023. This is the figure you get if you simply total the expenses disclosed on IRS and FEC records.

Screenshot here with some of the nerdy data: