Political news and stuff I want to share. 8-12-2026

The corruption is endless and staggering, with new examples every day. I continue to post all of it, day after day, and hope at some point enough voters care about it to make a difference against Republicans who refuse to do any oversight. pic.twitter.com/n0sW3BWWdD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 11, 2026

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— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 11, 2026

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. https://t.co/uosyDUTWN4
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 11, 2026

Trump might send ballot-snatchers into these 13 states.

Each refused to hand over their voter rolls AND each is a battleground that could decide Congress.

They should be ready to stop him. pic.twitter.com/xZPF1XpYk4
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) August 11, 2026

There is zero reason to not take Trump at his word that he and his team are planning sonething alarming to disrupt the midterms and beyond. https://t.co/WzNKfAmkDZ
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) August 11, 2026

Donald Trump wants to take over American elections.

Senate Democrats are prepared to combat his unprecedented, illegal efforts at every turn.

Your vote belongs to you. We will ensure it stays that way. https://t.co/jpTqYpudEZ
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 11, 2026

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/824689839760982016

Context: the fake national emergency idea surfaced in March 2025 from Heather Honey.

Then, Honey worked with the Election Integrity Network – an organization started by people who tried to overturn Trump's 2020 loss.

Now, Honey works in a Department of Homeland Security role. https://t.co/aU8TBOmbum pic.twitter.com/UUVUQZsGON
— Max Flugrath🗳️ (@MaxFlugrath) August 11, 2026

Congressman Randy Fine: “The Democratic Party’s gonna take away your dog, and the Republican Party will fight to allow you to keep it.”

We live in the dumbest timeline pic.twitter.com/iFvEfRrQbk
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 7, 2026

GOP may be stuck with Rep. Max Miller in Ohio https://t.co/KhpjJMkBEk
— Axios (@axios) August 9, 2026

Lindell will not concede. Claims there are anomalies in the numbers that his teams will be looking into overnight. @KSTP pic.twitter.com/mo3CXecVxg
— Kirsten Swanson (@KirstenKSTP) August 12, 2026

Many people say Venezuela rigged the election against Mike Lindell because they don’t like his pillows. Never seen anything like it. https://t.co/qPVqmwLr2w
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 12, 2026

Congratulations to Peggy Flanagan for winning the Democratic Senate primary in Minnesota.

Peggy was outspent 7 to 1 by billionaire super PACs and she WON.

The American people are sick and tired of establishment politics and policies.

They want REAL change.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 12, 2026

David Ellison Threatens to Pull Paramount Out of California Starting Oct. 1 if States Refuse to Negotiate Settlement in Antitrust Suit https://t.co/N8bTxtYGWd
— Variety (@Variety) August 11, 2026

A frankly insane story about how a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up equipment in Greenland to make exploratory borehole, *despite* being denied permission by the Greenlandic government. So much for sovereignty, I guess. https://t.co/L6vrd4qpV5
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) August 8, 2026

Dear Greenland, dear Denmark,
Don’t even think about allowing this. If you give them an inch they’ll take 100 miles. Kick them out now or accept that you just opened the floodgates.
Like Putin, you can’t negotiate with Trump. Showing weakness will just guarantee the next outrage. https://t.co/mzt4ooInVs
— Jessica Berlin (@berlin_bridge) August 8, 2026

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/824719801134055424/president-trump-signs-executive-order-regarding

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/824695448814141440

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/824692860108652544/aorish-said-yeah-this-kind-of-gripe-is-from-the

https://www.tumblr.com/truth-has-a-liberal-bias/824679277813514240

Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

I posted the Rachel Maddow video of this. Greenland has a law against any oil drilling or even attempting to find oil in their area. According to what Maddow said the company just doesn’t care being willing to lie and then saying they had permission from tRump. tRump doesn’t run Greenland. But you see the goal is to rape the place of all resources and these companies don’t respect local law or people. And of course tRump is making profit off it. But because of fear of tRump and what he may do in a fit of rage they seem ready to let the country break the laws. Hugs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

Jameson Land, a remote part of Greenland where the US company Greenland Energy has landed drilling equipment.

Trump’s Truth Social post.

Illustration: truthsocial.com/realDonaldTrump

Young arctic foxes in the tundra in Jameson Land.

Photograph: Biosphoto/Alamy

An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.

As the US president renews his threats to claim the vast Arctic territory, materials to prepare for drilling were brought ashore in recent days on Greenland’s eastern coast.

That has prompted Greenland’s government to issue a “strong warning” that no approval had been granted to land the kit. “All future logistical matters must be advised and approved by the mineral resources authority – before they are carried out,” the government said in a statement.

Two days later, Trump made his latest menacing post on Truth Social, showing himself looming over a Greenlandic village.

Trump’s Truth Social post. Illustration: truthsocial.com/realDonaldTrump

Executives of Greenland Energy, a Texas company set up last year, have claimed that $1tn of crude may lie beneath the Jameson Land region. They announced plans to spend $60m drilling two wells to find out.

Although Greenland stopped issuing new oil licences in 2021 on environmental grounds, a UK company called 80 Mile had secured exploration rights in Jameson Land. Greenland Energy’s corporate filings say it will take a majority stake in the project in exchange for funding the exploration, though it still needs government permission to proceed.

Licensed to drill? How a Trump-linked Texas oil company is elbowing its way into Greenland

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Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will “capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters”.

It has also appointed as a director a US navy veteran who is working on Golden Dome, the missile defence plan for which Trump says controlling Greenland is “vital”.

Larry Swets, Greenland Energy’s chair and a big shareholder, appears to enjoy access to Trump’s circle. He has said the oil project is “not related to American annexation”.

After a company representative falsely claimed at a Jameson Land community meeting in June that it had permission to land drilling equipment, Swets said: “Our enthusiasm for the project led us to communicate in a way that created confusion.”

But the next month, local people in the sparsely populated region noticed a tug pulling a barge shorewards and unloading a dozen containers. “The goal was to get the equipment onshore at Nunap Qeqqa [Jameson Land] in connection with planned oil exploration drilling,” the Greenland government’s statement said.

The Danish investigative outlet Danwatch quoted the head of the shipping company as confirming the delivery was for Greenland Energy.

Young arctic foxes in the tundra in Jameson Land. Photograph: Biosphoto/Alamy

Greenland Energy has declined to respond to questions from the Guardian. A letter it sent to shareholders on Thursday said: “Recent high-level meetings between project leadership and Greenlandic regulatory and oversight authorities have been constructive, and we continue to be encouraged by the progress being made toward the remaining approvals required for drilling.” It said that after those discussions, just one well would be drilled to begin with.

As a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, decisions about Greenland’s natural resources rest with its local elected leaders, who now face a delicate decision. They could grant permission for oil drilling, even though the planned wells appear to fall within a conservation area protected by the Ramsar convention on wetlands. Or they could refuse and, some worry, give Trump a pretext to advance his imperialist agenda.

The Greenland government’s statement said it “would not be proportionate” to demand the equipment be removed. An application for permission remained under processing, it added.

A Greenland Energy representative has said a vessel carrying its 300 shipping containers of drilling equipment is to set sail from Canada on 12 September. Sinking the wells would begin in October.

Jeff Landry, the hard-right Louisiana governor serving as Trump’s Greenland envoy, has said Greenland could be pumping oil next year.

Maddow: ‘Is this how we invade Greenland?!’

Let’s talk about Trump’s Venezuela dreams collapsing….

GOP budget bill poised to crush renewable energy in the US

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/gop-budget-bill-poised-to-crush-renewable-energy-in-the-us/

Say goodbye to clean-energy tax credits, hello to new oil wells.

Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News – Jul 1, 2025 9:34 AM

Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come.

In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a group of Republican senators over the weekend added provisions to the US federal budget bill that, as currently written, would end clean energy tax credits at the personal level and at utility scale and increase taxes on foreign-made parts for solar power equipment.

Ending federal subsidies for most renewable energy projects, including residential heat pumps, for example, would affect thousands of projects that are already in planning or development and jeopardize future investments in manufacturing renewable energy equipment.

Friday, June 27, hours before the Senate released the latest draft of the reconciliation bill just after midnight, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright claimed on the Department of Energy website that wind and solar are unreliable and that federal subsidies have made energy more expensive, although he did not cite any official reports or peer-reviewed studies to support that claim.

On the Department of Energy website, Wright wrote, “wind and solar brings us the worst of two worlds: less reliable energy delivery and higher electric bills …If sources are truly economically viable, let’s allow them to stand on their own,” he wrote, ignoring that the fossil fuel industry gets annual subsidies of about $20 billion annually, according to estimates by Oil Change International, a nonprofit watchdog group.

But hundreds of studies show that renewable energy is much less expensive and, in a well-planned grid, can make energy supplies more secure.

“The proposed GOP tax on wind and solar is a danger to the United States,” Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford University renewable energy researcher who has authored numerous studies on wind and solar power, wrote via email.

The new tax provisions “lock in death and illness to up to 100,000 Americans every year due to fossil-fuel and bioenergy-fuel air pollution that wind and solar help to eliminate,” he said.

An early evaluation shows the administration’s planned energy policies would result in the drilling of 50,000 new oil wells every year for the next few years, he said, adding that it “ensures the continuation of land devastation… the poisoning of soil and groundwater due to fossil fuels and the continuation of gas blowouts and fires.”

There is nothing beneficial about the tax, he said, “only guaranteed misery.”

An analysis by the Rhodium Group, and energy policy research institute, projected that the Republican regime’s proposed energy policies would result in about 4 billion tons more greenhouse gas emissions than a continuation of current policies—enough to raise the average global temperature by .0072° Fahrenheit.

The overall budget bill was also panned in a June 28 statement by the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, Sean McGarvey.

McGarvey called it “a massive insult to the working men and women of North America’s Building Trades Unions and all construction workers.”

He said that, as written, the budget “stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country,” potentially costing as many jobs as shutting down 1,000 Keystone X pipeline projects, threatening an estimated 1.75 million construction jobs and over 3 billion work hours, which translates to $148 billion in lost annual wages and benefits.

“These are staggering and unfathomable job loss numbers, and the bill throws yet another lifeline and competitive advantage to China in the race for global energy dominance,” he said.

Research in recent years shows how right-wing populist and nationalist ideologies have used anti-renewable energy arguments to win voters, in defiance of environmental logic and scientific fact, in part by using social media to spread misleading and false information about wind, solar and other emissions-free electricity sources.

The same forces now seem to be at work in the US, said Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Bristol who studies how people respond to misinformation and propaganda, and why people reject well-established scientific facts, such as those regarding climate change.

“This is a bonus for fossil fuels at the expense of future generations and the future of the American economy,” he said. “Other countries will continue working towards renewable-energy economies, especially China. That competitive advantage will eventually pay out to the detriment of American businesses. You can’t negotiate with the laws of physics.”