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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 · @BenjaminHCCarr
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Spent $1.9M in Washington as Weakened Safety Bill
In 6mo since , has activated its and spread money around Congress. As Norfolk went on spending spree, stalled in , due to a lack of sufficient support. Norfolk Southern spent $797,500 on lobbyists before the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee made its changes to the rail safety bill
theintercept.com/2023/08/18/no

#norfolksouthern #congress #rail #eastpalestine #derailment #railway #lobbyists #BiPartisan #railwaysafetyact #senate #gop #lobbying

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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Priorities of : " for , and natural are costing the equivalent of 7.1% of global ," the IMF said. "That's more than spend annually on (4.3% of global income) and about two thirds of what they spend on (10.9%)."

reuters.com/business/energy/to

#BiPartisan #CarbonBombs #subsidies #oil #coal #gas #grossdomesticproduct #governments #education #healthcare #acceleratingkeelingcurve

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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The New York Times - A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization


designing for corporate at the center of American , the , since the 60s, by managers from to , exporting from the Basin and .

nytimes.com/2023/07/29/world/m

#BiPartisan #desertificationspecies #failedstates #kleptocrats #foreignpolicy #middleeast #newworldorder #bushtheelder #regimechanger #dickcheney #indiancountry #coloradoriver #mississippi #recordofthepaper #judithmiller #keepitintheground

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 · @BenjaminHCCarr
895 followers · 2312 posts · Server hachyderm.io
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unveiling measure to ban ownership by , administration officials
Introduced by Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), would establish firmer stock trading bans and disclosure requirements for lawmakers, senior executive branch officials and their spouses and dependents. Congressional members who violate this ban would be required to pay at least 10 percent of the banned investments.
thehill.com/homenews/senate/41

#BiPartisan #senators #stock #lawmakers #senator #uspol

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
116 followers · 1507 posts · Server sfba.social

thenation.com/article/world/pe

: Congress spared military-related programs any cuts while freezing all other categories of discretionary spending at the fiscal year 2023 level (except support for veterans)… for the only government agency that’s failed to pass a single financial audit!

#BiPartisan #slushfund #Kleptocracy #foreverwars #peopleoverpentagon #pentagonisacarbonbomb

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Alan Kotok · @technewslit
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Infographic – U.S. Public Backs A.I. Regulation

A recent shows a solid majority of U.S. adults favors at least some government of artificial intelligence, including people who say they use A.I.

sciencebusiness.technewslit.co

#survey #BiPartisan #regulation #News #science #engineering #artificialintelligence #statistics #poll #Infographic

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Political IQ · @PoliticalIQ
159 followers · 1432 posts · Server newsie.social

#noreika #maryellennoreika #hunterbiden #trump #biden #trumpappointee #BiPartisan #taxes #gun #politicaliq #News #politics

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
101 followers · 1166 posts · Server sfba.social
CounterPunch.org - The Mainstream Media’s Unwillingness to Challenge U.S. Militarization

: Freezing the makes far more sense than freezing , and would allow for the budget as well as setting in a hardware out of control.
The simple fact is that mindless is being challenged by neither the nor .

counterpunch.org/2023/06/02/th



#BiPartisan #CarbonBombs #defensebudget #domesticspending #reevaluating #OperationsAndMaintenance #realisticpriorities #budget #militarization #congress #themedia #warsforoil #keepitintheground #humanrightsnow

Last updated 2 years ago
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🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥 · @JStatePost
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🥥 bill passes both House and Senate. Alisa Capone commenting at NationalZero.com says, "Cool... the next time the debt ceiling pops up I expect Trump's appearance to look like this".

#BiPartisan #debtceiling

Last updated 2 years ago
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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
100 followers · 1128 posts · Server sfba.social
Los Angeles Times - House approves bipartisan deal to suspend debt limit, reducing fear of U.S. default

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse latimes.com/politics/story/202 

approves their negotiated with to follow the endorsed budget and recognizes success of .

#house #createpoverty #crisis #whitehouse #senate #warforoil #media #BiPartisan #compromise

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Political IQ · @PoliticalIQ
141 followers · 1292 posts · Server newsie.social

#problemsolving #problemsolvers #gottheimer #fitzpatrick #fiscallyresponsible #debtceilingagreement #debt #debtceilingdeal #biden #mccarthy #BiPartisan #politicaliq #News #politics

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
95 followers · 1008 posts · Server sfba.social

's golden handshake invested in : As jeopardizes the American West’s tenuous supplies, the Utah project — which already received federal approval — is audacious. It aims to run full of from Northeast Utah’s Uinta Basin along the banks of the as it winds through treacherous canyons prone to and mudslides.

levernews.com/biden-admin-boos

#Kleptocracy #BiPartisan #CarbonBombs #climatechange #water #permitting #trains #petroleum #coloradoriver #rockslides

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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subsidies: Rather than focusing on local programs that could provide new, sources of and improved , Newsom is choosing to advocate for review of projects that could negatively impact local and like the Delta Conveyance Project (Delta Tunnel) and Sites Reservoir.- Brandon Dawson.

is THE .

sierraclub.org/california/sier

#BiPartisan #Sprawl #sustainable #cleanwater #localresilience #streamlining #communities #ecosystems #deregulation #republicantalkingpoint

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 · @BenjaminHCCarr
750 followers · 1625 posts · Server hachyderm.io
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LasVegas-to-California bullet gets backing
A group of ten bipartisan lawmakers from and have asked the Biden administration to quickly provide federal funding for a private company to construct a high-speed line between and the area
apnews.com/article/bullet-trai

#train #BiPartisan #Nevada #california #rail #lasvegas #losangeles

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
89 followers · 856 posts · Server sfba.social

politico.com/news/2023/05/01/a

: Alaska , a $40 billion project proposed for the state’s south coast, would be the second major proposal in the state to have stalled under the Trump administration!!! only to be under President Joe Biden.

#BiPartisan #CarbonBombs #LNG #fossilfuel #resuscitated

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
68 followers · 592 posts · Server sfba.social

: Biden boldly going where the and have gone before- buying asthma, cancer and heart disease for communities.

ecowatch.com/gulf-of-mexico-oi

#Kleptocracy #indictediinsurector #gwbush #disposable #BiPartisan #carbonbomb

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 · @BenjaminHCCarr
693 followers · 1073 posts · Server hachyderm.io
CNBC - Apple, Amazon, Google will likely get a reprieve from GOP-controlled House on antitrust legislation

Tech giants , and are likely to get a reprieve from -controlled House's efforts to rein in some of the companies' most controversial and allegedly anti-competitive business practices -- even though the legislation has typically enjoyed broad support
cnbc.com/2023/03/15/apple-amaz

#google #amazon #Apple #gop #BiPartisan #antitrust #monoploy

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D's lack of faith in humanity · @denniskoch
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I wonder how many of the rich you have to eat before the rest are like, "Yeah fuck that, what do I have to do so you won't eat me too?"

Eating the rich should be a bipartisan issue - you can't tell me that among the 7000 people laid off by Salesforce that some of those people didn't vote red.

The OH rail disaster - caused by corporate greed - impacts red and blue voters, a bipartisan issue.

#EatTheRich #BiPartisan

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
52 followers · 396 posts · Server sfba.social

:
The outcome- we are now the major supplier of to Europe at 3-19x higher prices while Europe contemplates a war.

The process- Our navy plans to blow up the pipeline five months before the start of the war.

The problem- Bush Cheney consider Europe’s ability to depend on reliable Russian unacceptable.

The complex of industrial military cooperation.

open.substack.com/pub/seymourh

#BiPartisan #war4oil #gas #nuclear #ukraine #climatecrisis

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
52 followers · 382 posts · Server sfba.social

Amping toward annihilation: a is brewing, on a arms ladder, of more destructive weapons from the , both sides funded by , on the most and rapacious continent of the last half millennium. newsclick.in/Can-Europe-Surviv

#Kleptocracy #nuclearwar #BiPartisan #militaryindustrialcomplex #fossilfuel #violent #racist

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