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Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice since it was launched in 2021. .. more

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Btw, this is also why Francesca Albanese is facing sanctions from Rubio - she exposed these same tech companies and their complicity with Israel's genocide.

She deserved more solidarity. It never stops with Israel.

This Admin has been a Big Tech coup from Day 1.

Now 5 Europeans who have regulated or monitored big tech for hate and disinformation are barred from the US.

Chilling stuff.

According to Rubio, the infraction is: "targeting American speakers and American companies.”

Reposted by Juanjo Medina

It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.

It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:

Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.

All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com

it's going to be fun!
This holiday season, join me & @naomiaklein.bsky.social for a different kind of family gathering: a coast-to-coast gathering of our extended democratic socialist family!

On Dec 29, we’ll come together to reflect, strategize, and grow our movement.

RSVP here: act.lewisforleader.ca/outreach-party

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This holiday season, join me & @naomiaklein.bsky.social for a different kind of family gathering: a coast-to-coast gathering of our extended democratic socialist family!

On Dec 29, we’ll come together to reflect, strategize, and grow our movement.

RSVP here: act.lewisforleader.ca/outreach-party
Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.

When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.

Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.

When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.

Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
Senator Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of office to New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during his public swearing-in ceremony at City Hall on January 1. trib.al/ylTzosO

Grateful to @elpais.com for translating my article on Surrealism Against Fascism into Spanish and illustrating it with the most magnificent works of art. elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...
Contra el fascismo, surrealismo: de las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial al genocidio de Gaza
¿Cuál debería ser la respuesta ante el avance de las ultraderechas? Hay mucho que aprender del antifascismo de los surrealistas, un movimiento artístico que supo reflejar los horrores de la guerra. De...
elpais.com
Waymo paused its robotaxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area after blackout chaos… www.cnbc.com/2025/12/21/w...
Waymo pauses robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos — Musk says Tesla car service unaffected
As power outages spread Saturday, videos shared on social media appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic in different parts of San Francisco.
www.cnbc.com
This is WILD.

Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!

We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org

notional technology being utility scale nuclear fusion under the leadership of, um, Don Jr.

The other notional tech is AGI itself. So they are piling fictions on top of fictions on top of fictions here.

Reposted by Thomas E. Murray

This is obviously more bad news re: the AI bubble and coming bailouts, stated or unstated. The more personally invested Trump is in the hype cycle, the more he will use public money to delay truth time. But for now he has a notional technology saving his failed media company. Good times!
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.

Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com

selling nothing and calling it something is the Trump business model. See the brand name and crypto, so this tracks!

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I was going to come here to say exactly this! The point isn't to have a functioning nuclear fusion generator. It's a vaporware scam.

The people who build the fossil gas power station and the people who dig up and sell the gas will get $$ in the ensuing years, while constantly promising fusion

emphasis on "pledge" because there is no way this project is actually going to be generating utility scale energy in the near-term - but that doesn't mean it can't collect contracts that juice stock price, right?

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Fusion power at scale is not yet a thing. "Taking it from research projects in labs around the world to commercial use has proved fiendishly difficult. A common joke in the industry is that, for decades, fusion has been just decades away."

"The two companies plan to begin construction on the world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant next year."

Very bizarre for a vanity social media corp to become the holding company of a "utility-scale" nuclear fusion operation!
Is it just another way to funnel backdoor bribes to the Trump family, like his Crypto company? As in: sure, build your AI data centre but pledge to buy energy from us? Theories?

"Trump Media shares jumped nearly 33 percent in early trading, drawing traction on Stocktwits, a social media hub for retail investors. The money-losing company’s stock has declined nearly 70 percent this year."

"The all-stock deal, announced on Thursday, is an ambitious bet on the power boom spurred by artificial intelligence (AI) data centres and adds to the Trump family’s growing roster of diverse ventures from cryptocurrency to real estate holdings and mobile services."
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.

Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.

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Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly.

Critics say that's a dangerous fiction.

Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one!

www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...
Exxon’s new greenwashing ploy
The oil giant claims it can eliminate more than 90 percent of emissions from gas-powered AI facilities. Critics say that’s nonsense.
www.exxonknews.org
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