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Industry documents obtained by ProPublica reveal how NW Natural, Oregon’s largest natural gas company, pursued an approach that ended up perpetuating its core fossil fuel business while the company painted a picture of going green. By @mckenziefunk.com (Published Sept. 2024)

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New Orleanian here… friendly reminder that: • Senator John Kennedy is an Oxford-educated Foghorn Leghorn fraud. • Governor Jeff Landry is a moronic bigot. • They both do EVERYTHING in their powers on a daily basis to break New Orleans. Thanks for all the love everyone has sent. Be good 💔

submitted 180 days ago • 63 comments

My dear friend, a Palestinian man, runs the Center for Racial Justice at a local HBCU here in New Orleans (I sit on his board) and he is so beloved and has fostered so much love and community. He loves those kids. Keep that fucking Islamaphobic bullshit outta here. We are not that way here.

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“The last Black man to drink on this network got fired” - Roy Wood Jr on #CNNNYE

submitted 180 days ago • 185 comments

So, a dude with an ISIS flag is immediately considered to be a member of ISIS, but when Elon Musk adopts multiple right-wing white nationalist symbols overnight for his name/avatar, there is media handwringing and bothsidesing over what these symbols mean.

submitted 180 days ago • 64 comments

we here at Semafor are excited to bring you our latest feature: a big stupid pile of stupid assholes going blah blah blah blurrrr

submitted 181 days ago • 24 comments

you are not "rocking a bucket hat. no one "rocks" a bucket hat. you are "smooth jazzing" the bucket hat at best

submitted 183 days ago • 38 comments

The weirdest part of any Christmas song is when Paul McCartney goes ‘The choir of children sing their song, they practised ALL YEAR long’ and then it turns out it’s just them saying ‘ding dong’ a few times

submitted 187 days ago • 228 comments

A fascinating aspect of the text of this lawsuit is that we get a really inside baseball look at how PR firms paid by powerful men work with media to shape popular narratives. Methinks we are really starting to pull back the curtain on there Hollywood blender.

submitted 191 days ago • 2 comments

Wear. A. Mask.

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @RandPaul — maybe not a great idea to install a guy as speaker who can’t get security clearances in part because of his ties to a murderous dictator who openly wants America’s economy to crash and the country to fall apart? 🤷🏻 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 193 days ago • 653 comments

They want to keep homosexuality and all things ~queer illegal bc it makes easy blackmail. And this govt has been run on blackmail schemes from the beginning

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From addiction treatment to toy robot ambulances, here's how state and local governments used billions in opioid settlement funds in 2022 and 2023. Explore this database to find our how officials are using the payouts where you live.

submitted 196 days ago • 69 comments

Posted on X two days ago by defense contractor Palantir, the video below is interesting in the context of the recent widespread reports and recordings of drone sightings (the ones that aren’t easily dismissed as planes or identifiable celestial bodies):

submitted 195 days ago • 9 comments

gofund.me/04c935aa

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I know there are a lot of fundraisers around right now, but Nicole Jackson is a treasure to the birding world - an excellent educator and all around good person - and she could use some help. I had the pleasure of meeting her last year in Columbus. Help her here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

This needs to be EVERYWHERE - LOUD AND CLEAR!! #ChuckandJim #ThePoor

submitted 196 days ago • 186 comments

There are NO credible studies showing that vaccines cause Autism. None.

submitted 196 days ago • 421 comments

💙 this 🦋

submitted 197 days ago • 106 comments

why aren’t there ever any conspiracies that trick people into giving toys to disadvantaged kids or hot meals and black socks to their houseless neighbors

submitted 196 days ago • 14 comments

Sad but true.

submitted 197 days ago • 920 comments

UPDATE: “Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying to the FBI about fake criminal allegations against President Biden and Hunter… Smirnov told the FBI the Bidens each accepted $5 million from Ukrainian energy company Burisma, but knew it was false…” www.cbsnews.com/news/alexand...

submitted 196 days ago • 20 comments

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

submitted 197 days ago • 690 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

submitted 196 days ago • 990 comments

Ummmmm

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