For the last 9 months, The Guardian analyzed projects from the biggest carbon offset provider in the world.
They found "94% of the credits had no benefit to the climate."
Some of the biggest corporations in the world are using these offsets to claim they are "carbon neutral."
All right.
We need to talk about how the GOP's embrace of authoritarianism and violence is largely a consequence of the wealthy and powerful destroying our political system and selling fascism as a consumer identity to a radicalized population.
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"It’s not hard to see why America ended up a rich nation of broke people—the ultra rich took all the gains, the middle class imploded, and the working class became a new poor. What else is going to happen when the CEO makes 400 times what everyone else is?"https://t.co/YBlNzCSXQn
That’s a drop of 46% in the federal budget deficit in one year under Joe Biden.
$1 TRILLION QUESTION: Who’s the last GOP president who came even close?
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said today that the first bill he'll advance in the House is to repeal a Biden initiative to hire new IRS agents to increase audits of wealthy taxpayers and corporations.
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People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators.
What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.
Appalling. As fossil fuels destroy our planet, @Chevron and @Exxonmobil are reporting $100 billion in profits in 2022 after receiving huge public subsidies.
Biden: a windfall profits tax on the industry is critical. England did it – the US can too. 👊❤️👇https://t.co/HQTVgp5vlP
BREAKING: NYT reports a Supreme Court "charity" took $190,000 in secret donations from @Chevron when the company had cases (including Ecuador) pending before the justices. Other corporations also donated.
Horrifying. Why are these conflicts allowed?⤵️
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Since the Supreme Court legalized bribing politicians, the GOP have changed our tax laws to transfer over $50 trillion out of the pockets and homes of the middle class and into the money bins of the top 1%.
How long will America continue to tolerate this?
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Capitalism’s greatest success has been convincing us that exploitation, inequality, grotesque overconsumption & the decimation of our life support systems is ‘normal’.
It isn’t.
And all our futures depend on us waking up to this truth.
If it were to ever come out that the Biden-Harris admin had a "friendly" reporter from a legacy media org to do their PR bidding, a relentless drumbeat of the collective media apparatus would have that journo resign within a couple days.
Maggie Haberman is a disgrace.