New from Matt Stoller: An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021

This is what ADL is applauding.

Increasingly, it's not just the far-right voicing blatant antisemitism, but the right-center. Folks are gonna start to notice and ask 'How'd this happen?' The answer has a lot to do with framing 'Free Palestine' as more dangerous than proclamations of 'The Jews killed Jesus.'

Horrific heat wave all across Asia. Lethal conditions caused by oil, gas and coal. We have to choose: we can continue building new fossil fuel projects and watch as millions suffer and die. Or we can stop, actually begin a just transition, and build a safer world.

Most people aren't paying attention but we are waging a massive war on ocean life, killing off entire habitats & species at a dizzying pace. The scale of the damage we're doing to the other life on this planet is honestly too much to fit in your heart.
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1. FTC's investigation into the Exxon-Pioneer deal revealed an elaborate campaign by Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield to collude with OPEC officials and inflate oil prices.

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This'll get me into some trouble here, but I wrote in Common Dreams that it's actually not in the left's interests to relentlessly tear down one of our most effective leaders, so can we please start pushing back against those who insist on attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
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Increasingly feeling like we all care more about Biden beating Trump than Biden does. Such a profoundly shitty feeling.

Incontrovertible proof that when fossil fuel companies say we need to expand oil/gas production to lower energy costs, they're full of shit. When prices go up it's cause Big Oil colluded to price gouge. They don't want lower costs for consumers, they want higher profits for CEOs.

My super talented sister has a beautiful new book out! Come for the lovely art, stay for the deep dive into seashell biology and history. It’d make a great Mother’s Day gift for the beach-loving moms in your life, check it out wherever books are sold!

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.Aaron Regunberg: 'This left-wing AOC derangement syndrome has a lot to say both about the brand of politics that AOC’s haters represent and the role she occupies within our political system.' commondreams.org/opinion/aoc-bi… #UnitedStates

Breaking Down AOC Derangement Syndrome commondreams.org/opinion/aoc-bi…

“Social movements can—and, indeed, must—shift the horizon of what’s possible. But you can’t accomplish that by retreating to your in-group lefty clubhouse, talking only to your small circle of current believers, and waiting for the world to magically change.”

I love this piece by my friend Aaron Regunberg. We have a duty to fight to real change -- and to win it. We can't do that by only talking to ourselves and our own in-groups.

The future is only an inclusive and fair place if we're all involved in the messy work to co-create.

You know who's great? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! Let's maybe not relentlessly attack her for working to win over persuadable people, engage in coalition politics, and make once-radical propositions seem reasonable - the exact things we need to do to win real change. commondreams.org/opinion/aoc-bi…

The ftc just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices.

But I was told greedflation was unpossible.

You know who's great? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! Let's maybe not relentlessly attack her for working to win over persuadable people, engage in coalition politics, and make once-radical propositions seem reasonable - the exact things we need to do to win real change. commondreams.org/opinion/aoc-bi…

We held Big Tobacco accountable.

It's time to hold Big Oil accountable.

Hell, we'll take it a step further: It's time to investigate Big Oil for homicide!

Former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield would often publicly signal to American producers that they should hold back pumping more oil and gas in order to keep prices high.

But the FTC alleges he also conducted a private campaign directly with OPEC officials. 2/4