#UnpackTheCourts

"Alito Made Up To $2.9 Million From Fossil Fuel Assets While Serving on Top Court"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/samuel-alito-ethics-conflicts-interest-fossil-fuel-oil-gast-investments-supreme-court-recusal/

#AI #DataCenters Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of #AirPollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse

Wut

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:haw3ukxfc5ppinj2rhd5gcoa/post/3mst46n5vdk2u

‘We All Should Be Very Worried’: John Brennan Panics Trump Will ‘Pull Out All Stops’ During Midterms #Mediaite https://twp.ai/4hulXh

Trump's alarming four words on seizing elections light up internet: 'Take him at his word' #RawStory https://twp.ai/E5FFvt

Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch
L: https://guessingheadlights.com/yall-failed-me-woman-pulled-over-at-gunpoint-twice-after-flock-camera-glitch/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261218
posted on 2026.08.11 at 13:02:59 (c=3, p=15)

One thing I lay out in this post is that Trump is ALREADY stoking stochastic terrorism against Davey Hearn (and laid the groundwork to go after the judge, Todd Edelman), in part to try to give the Parks employee who accused Hearn credibility.

emptywheel.net/2026/08/11/h...

Petition calls for U.S. ambassador to be removed from Canada
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/petition-calls-for-us-ambassador-to-be-removed-from-canada/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CTVNews

COOL apparently the American Astronomical Society journals (the Astrophysical Journal/Astronomical Journal/Planetary Science Journal) have refused to even review our article on satellite brightnesses (already posted on arxiv https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02757) because it's outside the scope of astronomy. Time to go rage-scream out in the hayfield, I guess.

#billionaires #billionaireclass #billionairelifestyle #democraticsocialism #accountability #NoBillionaires #nobillionairesshouldexist

JUST IMAGINE…👇

Imagine the imbecility it takes to think scientists, historians and journalists have all devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a 34-count convicted felon with decades of fraud, tells you the truth.

The cognitive dissonance in this country is truly astounding.

Enjoy. 😎✨

Good article really tightly focused on how Reflect Orbital is going to damage people's eyesight and actually has no plan for how to avoid that. I need to watch that instagram video again... which I apparently pasted the wrong link to above. Oops. Boy it's been a long morning already.

Anyway, fuck Reflect Orbital: https://www.theverge.com/science/976977/space-mirror-reflect-orbital-fcc-solar-eye-damage

The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did so inadvertently or never actually cast a ballot.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3mst52i4qyk27
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From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc
500+ char posts not resent
Unaffiliated w/ AltNPS
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump

@TCMuffin Greenland should collect all that kit and return it to the USA: then implement some customs control so nothing of the kind comes into the country again. Denmark, the EU and their neighbours need to stand in alignment and support with Greenland for this. And be prepared to up the ante to blocking/stopping all trade with the USA until they leave.

FOX GUEST: “If Mamdani put price controls on pharmaceuticals, bailed out farms, took stakes in companies, said energy companies make too much money — you’d all go apoplectic… You could argue TRUMP is the most powerful socialist in America.”

For a post I'm still working on, I did a list of all the things we know about how Davey Hearn was charged.

Almost none of this is making it into coverage of the case.

Expert reveals the top official likely to seize power from declining Trump

As President Donald Trump's declining health becomes more and more unavoidable, one top political analyst told The Daily Beast that there is one official most likely to seize power, and it is not one most might expect.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-decline-2677685214/

#drugoverdoses #alcohol #pharmaceuticals #pharmaceuticalindustry #culture #americanculture #warondrugs #legaldrugpushers #ceos

“If your employer pays you $10k, that’s taxable income. But if your employer pays $10k toward a company health insurance plan, it isn’t taxable. That’s a subsidy, running at more than $300 billion a year. Take that subsidy into account, along with the more than $100 billion per year spent subsidizing policies under the ACA, as well as the outlays on Medicare and Medicaid, and net effect is that the govt pays for more than 2/3 of Americans’ health insurance.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-healthcare-system-is-already

@HamonWry I can't tell how much of it is willful ignorance, or if they're just spouting nonsense because they're getting paid by anti-vax organizations (and/or billionaires). I bet these folks' families are vaccinated. It's a little like being paid by the energy companies to say "clean coal" and to denigrate green energy sources. I think it's all an act, but it is also harmful.

A family with five children all got measles, and one died. When asked if they wished they had gotten the kids vaccinated, they said they had no regrets. "But your child died." Their response: "They didn't all die."