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<p>Privatização, Terceirização e Morte</p><p><a href="https://gmgall.net/blog/privatizacao-terceirizacao-e-morte/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gmgall.net/blog/privatizacao-terceirizacao-e-morte/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gmgall.net/blog/privatizacao-t</span><span class="invisible">erceirizacao-e-morte/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/portugal/" rel="tag">#Portugal</a></p>

<p>&quot;Pirro, along with Pam Bondi, sought to crucify Mr. Dunn because he had the audacity to make their sacred uniformed enforcers look ridiculous</p><p>On Jan 6th, their feral disciples beat police officers w flagpoles, fire extinguishers &amp; bear spray. On <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> ’s first day in office he pardoned every one of them&quot; </p><p><a href="https://blueamp.substack.com/p/the-sandwich-rebellion-and-the-tin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blueamp.substack.com/p/the-sandwich-rebellion-and-the-tin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blueamp.substack.com/p/the-san</span><span class="invisible">dwich-rebellion-and-the-tin</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#alaska</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ice</a> <a href="/tags/dc/" rel="tag">#dc</a></p>

<p>Someone put this together... <a href="/tags/handsoff/" rel="tag">#HandsOff</a> <a href="/tags/protests/" rel="tag">#protests</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p>

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<p>Here&#x27;s what Nazi Musk, Nazi Trump and the rest of this sick Nazi white supremacist science hating sociopathic eugenicist concentration camp loving earth poisoning sadistic medical experimenting administration are desperate to keep you from reading.</p><p>PUBLIC PROTEST WORKS (the bigger the better)</p><p>Our job is to reach and engage the masses however we can and to throw sand in the gears at every opportunity. </p><p>Same as them, but truth telling.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German</span><span class="invisible">_resistance_to_Nazism</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a></p>

<p>Imagining / Queer / Anarchy is quite a philosophical and discursive book which discusses the importance of imagination and the mind to the act of living itself. What and how we live, in fact, are wholly dependent on what and how we think. This creates our world. This will be explored.</p><p>This book, consequently, is also about &quot;queer&quot;, what it is, what it means, what its consequences are. By means of a &quot;queer apocalypse&quot; set in &quot;the Wasteland&quot; (which is borrowed from the world of Mad Max and imagined as our own situation too) the question is asked how we should do what Max himself wanted to do: survive!</p><p>The final section of the book resolves this question by pointing to anarchy - a green, queer, erotic anarchy of love and magic. It is then seen that this book is actually all about transforming ourselves into the things we need to become in order to survive in this wasteland with all its cruelties and is a work of political imagination within itself.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/iqa_20250429" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/iqa_20250429"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/iqa_202504</span><span class="invisible">29</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/green/" rel="tag">#green</a> <a href="/tags/anarchy/" rel="tag">#anarchy</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a></p>

<p>Green Queer Erotic Love Magic is the sometimes poetic and sometimes discursive imagination of a green queer erotic love-based anarchy. It discusses the meanings of green, queer, erotic and love and argues for the imagination to create &quot;anarchy&quot;. </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/gqelm-c" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.org/details/gqelm-c</a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/green/" rel="tag">#green</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/erotic/" rel="tag">#erotic</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a> <a href="/tags/anarchy/" rel="tag">#anarchy</a> <a href="/tags/magic/" rel="tag">#magic</a> <a href="/tags/imagination/" rel="tag">#imagination</a> <a href="/tags/pagan/" rel="tag">#pagan</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>&quot;A Merry Life and A Short One&quot; is a compact collection of my essays about pirates and piracy as examples of anarchy. In the course of the book I discuss pirates of the Golden Age historically and politically and make a case for exactly why they are actual anarchist examples. This book would be perfect for those who want to read about pirates or who want to examine the meaning and consequences of anarchy.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/a-merry-life" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/a-merry-life"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/a-merry-li</span><span class="invisible">fe</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/anarchy/" rel="tag">#anarchy</a> <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a> <a href="/tags/rebellion/" rel="tag">#rebellion</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#resist</a> <a href="/tags/rebel/" rel="tag">#rebel</a></p>

<p>Imagining / Queer / Anarchy is a serious discussion of what and how we think determining the world we live in. From this base it develops into discussions of queer and anarchist subjects to become a major work of political imagination and possibility itself. Read it if you want to know what queer anarchy could look like and to understand how transforming ourselves is vital to (political) survival.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/iqa_20250429" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/iqa_20250429"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/iqa_202504</span><span class="invisible">29</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/green/" rel="tag">#green</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/anarchy/" rel="tag">#anarchy</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/imagination/" rel="tag">#imagination</a></p>

<p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/sit-abc-news-sit-good-dog?r=j0lyx&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/sit-abc-news-sit-good-dog?r=j0lyx&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/</span><span class="invisible">p/sit-abc-news-sit-good-dog?r=j0lyx&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a><br>NEW SUBSTACK (Check it out/Subscribe!): A moment that defines our time. From Trump’s aggressive lying to the lack of pushback/weakness from Terry Moran &amp; ABC’s corporate entanglements.</p><p>Also: David Shuster video (Hilarious!). NYT Pitchbot (Hilarious!). <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a></p>

<p>NEW: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office</p><p>--<br>A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fort-worth-mercy-culture-church-campaign-university" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fort-worth-mercy-culture-church-campaign-university"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/for</span><span class="invisible">t-worth-mercy-culture-church-campaign-university</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#texas</a> <a href="/tags/irs/" rel="tag">#IRS</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p>

<p>I feel really bad for the 75m Americans that voted for Harris, that you got stuck with a President that continuously gets compared intellectually and emotionally to an unruly toddler</p><p>There&#x27;s been a huge wave of Canadian patriotism lately, but we&#x27;re here for those 75m of you (not the 77m who voted for trump, or the 90m who just didn&#x27;t vote)</p><p>So when we say &quot;Buy Canadian&quot; and &quot;F America&quot;, we don&#x27;t mean you 75m. We still love you. But we&#x27;re still pissed</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/cdnpoli/" rel="tag">#CdnPoli</a></p>

<p>Whether the tariffs happen or not, the damage is done. The national response seems to be to strengthen internal trade and reliance, as well as trade with other countries. There is no way to stop an anti-US sentiment in this country after this.</p><p>We will, of course, still buy from the US, but we will put more focus on buying from other countries and selling to other countries. </p><p>The consequences of this breach of trust and betrayal will last a long time</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/cdnpoli/" rel="tag">#CdnPoli</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#Tariffs</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a> Republicans &amp; Their Billionaires Are WHY <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#America</a> Isn&#x27;t The Greatest Nation--Not Even Close </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/maga-republicans-and-their-billionaires?r=j0lyx&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/maga-republicans-and-their-billionaires?r=j0lyx&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/</span><span class="invisible">p/maga-republicans-and-their-billionaires?r=j0lyx&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#musk</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/influencergate/" rel="tag">#InfluencerGate</a>:</p><p>oh look the russian agents trying to influence the election are using <a href="/tags/cryptocurrency/" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> (this is my not-shocked-at-all face)</p><p>also popular YouTube influencers Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, <a href="/tags/laurenchen/" rel="tag">#LaurenChen</a>, and one of Benny Johnson/Dave Rubin &quot;unknowingly&quot; agreed to work for Russia for large sums of money ($100,000 per youtube video or a few million/year): <a href="https://x.com/ariehkovler/status/1831413692409487766" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="x.com/ariehkovler/status/1831413692409487766"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/ariehkovler/status/18314</span><span class="invisible">13692409487766</span></a></p><p>in particular the russian agents seem to have moved money through <a href="/tags/lithuania/" rel="tag">#Lithuania</a> and used <a href="/tags/bitpay/" rel="tag">#BitPay</a> to buy domains. i wrote a bunch about the Lithuanian central bank&#x27;s attempts to shut down Russian money last year; it&#x27;s here (an US company Crypto[.]com is involved): <a href="https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cryptocom-or-crypto-dot-con" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cryptocom-or-crypto-dot-con"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cry</span><span class="invisible">ptocom-or-crypto-dot-con</span></a></p><p>DOJ affidavit: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/dop</span><span class="invisible">pelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf</span></a></p><p>taking bets on whether Virtual Currency Exchange 1 (&quot;VCE-1&quot;) is <a href="/tags/binance/" rel="tag">#Binance</a> or <a href="/tags/cryptocom/" rel="tag">#CryptoCom</a></p><p><a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/election2024/" rel="tag">#election2024</a> <a href="/tags/2024election/" rel="tag">#2024election</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="/tags/putin/" rel="tag">#Putin</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/vladímirputin/" rel="tag">#VladímirPutin</a> <a href="/tags/timpool/" rel="tag">#TimPool</a> <a href="/tags/bennyjohnson/" rel="tag">#BennyJohnson</a> <a href="/tags/laurensouthern/" rel="tag">#LaurenSouthern</a> <a href="/tags/daverubin/" rel="tag">#DaveRubin</a> <a href="/tags/changenow/" rel="tag">#ChangeNow</a> <a href="/tags/tenetmedia/" rel="tag">#TenetMedia</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a></p>

<p>NEW SUBSTACK: Go Read The Rest Don&#x27;t Forget To SUBSCRIBE: <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/end-stage-democracy-has-a-mascot" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/end-stage-democracy-has-a-mascot"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/end-stage-dem</span><span class="invisible">ocracy-has-a-mascot</span></a> </p><p>&quot;And now, we’ve arrived at the logical conclusion of all this—Eric <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, the barking embodiment of dumb-son nepotism. A laughable lout with inherited intellectual necrosis and the empathy of a Terminator wrapped in designer smugness.</p><p>In Eric we have the heir to a <a href="/tags/political/" rel="tag">#political</a> dynasty so corrupt it saddens Tammany Hall, b/c they’re not here to stand and clap. A guy whose gums allow you to shelter-in-place during EF4 tornadoes. Whose existence makes it so when you say the “the dumb Trump son,” you’re somehow not talking about Don Jr.&quot; </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#washington</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</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, &quot;GlomarResponder,&quot; 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>The March/April 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine is coming soon for our members, featuring some of our best reporting, a sneak preview of Lise Olsen&#x27;s new book, Justin Miller&#x27;s vital political analysis, and more.</p><p>Become a member: <a href="https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.fundjournalism.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/join/</span></a> </p><p>(📸 Cover photo by Shelby Tauber) </p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#CriminalJustice</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/txlege/" rel="tag">#TXlege</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#MentalHealth</a></p>

<p>Aug 4</p><p>4 min</p><p>Epstein Nation</p><p>It&#x27;s just a cozy community helping each other out. Billionaires repurpose the federal government to finance a new economy’s for human trafficking and crypto financial fraud and by its major client.</p><p>The two are intimately related through crypt o financial transfers</p><p>Epstein Nation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5D_QaDiqbo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5D_QaDiqbo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5D_Qa</span><span class="invisible">Diqbo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a></p>

<p>In our magazine, from Candice Bernd: Texas is the national epicenter of <a href="/tags/bitcoin/" rel="tag">#Bitcoin</a> mining, with only about 24 total mines operating outside the state’s borders. Approximately 40 mines are operating in the state, together consuming about 3,200 MWs, enough to power 800,000 homes. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/the-crypto-racket/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/the-crypto-racket/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/the-cryp</span><span class="invisible">to-racket/</span></a> </p><p>Copublished with our friends at The Nation.</p><p><a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/oilandgas/" rel="tag">#OilAndGas</a> <a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>

<p>The good angel on my shoulder hates to see this and feels for these people.</p><p>The bad, pissed off vindictive devil on the other shoulder is LMAO and screaming You did this to yourselves SUCKERS!</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a></p>

<p>My sentiments exactly. Graham Platner&#x27;s past comments reek of misogyny and entitlement. Someone responded to one of my earlier comments with, &quot;Don&#x27;t you believe in redemption?&quot; In general, yes. In this case? He&#x27;s got more work to do. <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/maine/" rel="tag">#Maine</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/senate/" rel="tag">#Senate</a> <a href="/tags/progressive/" rel="tag">#Progressive</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2025/11/19/why-is-graham-platner-getting-a-free-pass-opinion/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pressherald.com/2025/11/19/why-is-graham-platner-getting-a-free-pass-opinion/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pressherald.com/2025/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/why-is-graham-platner-getting-a-free-pass-opinion/</span></a></p>