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john brown’s buddy retweeted
HAPPENING NOW IN DC: The American Petroleum Institute is handing out free tacos on Capitol Hill because BAAJA locks in all of their oil and gas permits and pipelines.
Seriously.
It is imperative to stop paying to see Skydance films. It might just be all capeshit but you have a moral obligation to ensure this company fails.
Vazamentos dão conta que a demissão de James Gunn teria sido informada há alguns dias. O que eu acho que pode ter pesado nisso?
1 - Semana passada, James Gunn fez postagens celebrando a derrota dos republicanos nas eleições.
2 - O DCU enfurece pessoas ligadas a Trump há +
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john brown’s buddy retweeted
Real reasons by the fucking way
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One of the reasons Skydance replaced James Gunn and Peter Safran as the heads of DC Studios had to do with box office.
• ‘Supergirl’ was a massive bomb this year.
• ‘Superman’s $618M box office was not impressive to Skydance either, as the film lacked “pop culture impact” in their eyes.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
john brown’s buddy retweeted
"There are at least 17 active applications connected to data center campuses on public land, covering thousands of acres in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and other states... BAAJA’s permitting provisions could make those projects easier to advance and harder to stop, including limiting judges’ ability to halt construction due to environmental review."
Important! time.com/article/2026/11/10/…
john brown’s buddy retweeted
If true this is outrageous.
It seems that Andy Burnham’s latest version of ending 40 years of neoliberalism is handing Thames Water over to US hedge funds.
Labour have stopped even pretending to serve us or our communities anymore.
Labour stand for the hedge funds.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
john brown’s buddy retweeted
There’s compromise with people you have small disagreements with; and there’s compromise with the cruelest, most venal, most mendacious people imaginable. This is an example of the latter. We deserve a bill that scares the Heritage Foundation shitless.
john brown’s buddy retweeted
The Heritage Foundation supports #BAAJA because they laid out its blueprint in Project 2025👇
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john brown’s buddy retweeted
It’s really underdiscussed how much of American conservatism is based on the premise that only conservatives are allowed to wield power and that the will of the voters is something to be worked around if not outright ignored
john brown’s buddy retweeted
Marc Andreessen is one of the biggest Republican donors in America, and he has a major super PAC supporting AI development.
He is supporting #BAAJA.
People, this is a bad bill.
therevolvingdoorproject.org/…
If the Manhattan Institute is disappointed, these groups must be doing something right.
Major environmental groups' positions on BAAJA ahead of today's vote:
NRDC: Opposed
Sierra Club: Opposed
Earthjustice: Opposed
LCV: Opposed
Wilderness Society: Opposed
Defenders of Wildlife: Opposed
Friends of the Earth: Opposed
Disappointing but not surprising. BAAJA is a test of the influence of these groups within the Democratic coalition.
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john brown’s buddy retweeted
"Only 13% of voters said completing projects quickly should be a top priority when the government considers approving new energy projects, the lowest of any option, compared with 58% who named protecting public health and clean air and water as a top priority."
BAAJA polls badly
john brown’s buddy retweeted
The permitting bill is a data center accelerator and an oil and gas and utility giveaway. It’s a boon to the big tech barons that the country just rejected.
Listen to Al here on why it’s especially bad w a Trump
I have tremendous respect for the two Democratic Senators who have negotiated the permitting bill with two of their Republican colleagues — a bill that Congress is considering for passage during the lame duck session. I sincerely and respectfully urge the Democratic sponsors of the bill to reconsider their decision to move forward with this legislation. There’s no doubt that we need to reform the way that clean energy projects are reviewed and permitted. But as it currently stands, the bill would be an extremely serious mistake, in my opinion, and would do far more harm than good. Given how this Administration has run roughshod over the environmental laws and protections that are currently in place, now is not the time to give the Trump administration freer rein to double down on fossil fuels — which is what President Trump would surely do. And after last week’s historic election, we will have a new Congress in January that can strike a far better balance.
john brown’s buddy retweeted
If the case for BAAJA is “we have to pass it now, before a Congress with real Democratic power gets the chance to say no,” maybe that tells you something. A bill that can’t survive more scrutiny isn’t a good bill.
This bill misses the forest for the trees, literally. In the blind pursuit of “green” energy, it sacrifices forests, historic landscapes, and public lands to wave through any and all development.
john brown’s buddy retweeted
The vote to advance S.5653, the so-called Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, BAAJA for short, could happen Monday.
This bill is a massive giveaway to fossil fuel companies and Big Tech at the expense of communities, the climate, and people’s energy bills.
commondreams.org/news/democr…
He’s been waiting to do this ever since Dave Chapelle brought him onstage in 2022 and he humiliatingly bungled “I’m Rick James!!!”
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john brown’s buddy retweeted
Chewy fired one of their directors for being gay and only settled his lawsuit when it came out that the CEOs emails were going to have to be released.
This company is planning to do layoffs in Q4.
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Boomer forwards chain mail from the 2008 election
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It !
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
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john brown’s buddy retweeted
We just learned Idaho paid hunters $2,000 for every newborn wolf pup they killed. Meanwhile, Trump is working to weaken the Endangered Species Act, putting imperiled wildlife at even greater risk.
This is an abomination. There’s no undoing extinction.
bit.ly/4z9sYBg
john brown’s buddy retweeted
NEW: Chuck Schumer is preparing to lead the Senate with a network of former aides lobbying for private equity—including two former policy chiefs and his top health adviser. Their clients include Blackstone, Apollo, and the industry’s top trade group. readsludge.com/2026/11/06/th…
