You mean they lied?

January 6, 2025January 4, 2025 ~ susie

Industry documents obtained by ProPublica reveal how NW Natural, Oregon’s largest natural gas company, pursued an approach that ended up perpetuating its core fossil fuel business while the company painted a picture of going green.By @mckenziefunk.com(Published Sept. 2024)
— ProPublica (@propublica.org) 2025-01-04T21:00:01.830Z

They. Don’t.Work.

January 6, 2025January 4, 2025 ~ susie

www.sfgate.com/tech/article…
— George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T18:58:54.134Z

Huh

January 6, 2025January 4, 2025 ~ susie

You mean the toxic stuff that was pouring out of my CPAP machine for so long?

thehill.com/policy/energ…
— Susie Madrak Ω (@susiemadrak.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T20:41:57.049Z

Hah!

January 3, 2025January 2, 2025 ~ susie

"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) 2025-01-02T20:01:03.529Z

I never doubted it for a minute

January 3, 2025January 2, 2025 ~ susie

NEW: Disney, Comcast, and other advertisers are returning to X after a year-long boycott.It’s not just because they want to reach users.They want to buy influence with Trump’s shadow president Elon Musk. youtu.be/l9_I4UYMl8s
— More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social) 2025-01-02T16:16:00.043Z

Mustn’t touch the tax breaks

December 27, 2024December 26, 2024 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

DOGE's supposed goal is to identify $2 trillion in savings and reduce the size of government by slashing federal waste and redundancy.

There’s a far richer target that nobody, certainly not the DOGE boys, has been talking about: wasteful tax breaks. https://t.co/ADctg6s3Zi
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 26, 2024

Fucked up

December 23, 2024December 22, 2024 ~ susie

Alabama has made $250M since 2000 from garnishing prisoner's wages.Prisoners who the prison system claim are too dangerous for parole, but are fine to be unsupervised providing cheap labor for corporations. The for profit prison system is unethical & abusive.
— Miranda (@doomscroling.bsky.social) 2024-12-21T15:58:31.276Z

‘It’s not broken, it’s rigged’

December 23, 2024December 22, 2024 ~ susie

Oh.

December 17, 2024December 16, 2024 ~ susie

Elon Musk to not receive highest-level government security clearance – reports
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2024-12-16T19:20:35Z

Yeah, that happened

December 13, 2024December 12, 2024 ~ susie

UnitedHealth CEO sent employees a memo yesterday (leaked to me) listing "messages of support," the first of which says UHC "works within a broken system to help as many people as they can." Not exactly a ringing endorsement! pic.twitter.com/BIfimhwVV4
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 12, 2024