@cdarwin

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/27/trump-iran-strategy-taco

https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/psaki-trump-can-t-taco-out-of-iran-2493974595972

https://www.france24.com/en/economy/20260327-financial-analysts-move-to-counter-trump-middle-east-war-uncertainty-with-taco-index

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/the-taco-trade-fails-trumps-iran-extension-fails-to-boost-markets.html

"Trump’s Armageddon-Taco shuffle"
https://archive.is/rSgZU

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republicans combine #TACO with market manipulation.

Back-channel bidding wars over which vested interest gets to profit from US foreign policy.

It's usually the fossil fuel industry that wins the bidding regarding oil profiteering. "

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets

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@cdarwin

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Fossil fuel axis alliance of Koch Network, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE, continue efforts to consolidate control of global oil supply."

Attacks on the sovereignty of Canada & Greenland
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/eight-charts-show-rupture-with-canada-under-trump-s-tariffs

https://fortune.com/2026/03/15/oil-prices-iran-war-strait-hormuz-gatekeeper-trump-navy-escort-tankers-marines/

Looting Venezuela
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/venezuela-gold-burgum-trump-rodriguez-maduro.html

https://www.vox.com/politics/479821/trumps-slush-fund-venezuela-oil-gaza-board-of-peace-tariffs

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/repsol-is-owed-54-billion-by-venezuela-report-shows-2026-02-19/

https://oilprice.com/Company-News/Repsol-Plans-to-Triple-Venezuela-Output-After-Securing-US-Approval.html

Bombing Nigeria
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/nigeria_strikes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/nigeria-why-did-trump-order-us-strikes-bomb-attack-isis-christians

@tsyum @cwebber

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/stephen-miller-public-schools-immigration-plyler/

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/make-aristocracy-great-again-lost-roots-of-techno-feudalism/

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Billionaires seek to recreate illiterate peasantry"

Roger Freeman & Reagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A._Freeman_(economist)

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

https://medium.com/armedwithreason/the-student-debt-crisis-and-republican-fear-politics-a6c6c4acc9c1

https://archives.boulderweekly.com/opinion/the-student-debt-mess-grew-out-of-reagans-war-on-intellectual-curiosity/

Koch Network vs public education
https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/deb-howes-gop-plan-is-to-decimate-public-education-not-improve-it/article_bc657940-4658-4043-9ac5-ac706c424bd9.html

Koch Network & AI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

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@pedrobizbikedu @thetnholler.bsky.social

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-rose-tennessee-hollar-israel-west-bank_n_69c41e68e4b018d43a5a08f9

https://www.rawstory.com/tennessee-2676619853/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republicans fantasize about violence to women constantly. That attitude is spreading elsewhere."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/25/republicans-against-womens-rights

https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/30/war-on-women-trump-cuts-sexual-violence-prevention-gop-targets-teen-repro-rights-nebraska-abortion-funeral-bill/

https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-republicans-defund-law-enforcement-and-give-violent-criminals-free-pass

https://www.ms.now/opinion/abortion-death-penalty-homicide-tennessee-vermont-hank-poitras

https://abcnews.com/Politics/house-republicans-nras-urging-vote-violence-women-act/story?id=62198856

https://nationalpartnership.org/20-ways-the-trump-administration-has-already-harmed-women-and-families/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/headline-republicans-react-trump-comments-objectifying-women

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/republicans-abortion-trump-women-2024

https://www.jezebel.com/republicans-shocked-gop-women-dont-just-do-whatever-the-1680971329/

@SteveRudolfi

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Google takes #PrinceBonesaw money and converts a search engine into "bait & switch" AI Slopware.

Plans for fossil fuel fascist state surveillance platforms proceed."

The fossil fuel industry is going to keep its captive consumers one way or another, no matter what.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligencer-trump-mbs-meeting-brings-ai-money-2025-11-20/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-874567

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/google-backs-saudi-ai-fund-as-trump-mbs-tout-new-investments

@CNN @politics-CNN

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Nazi thug hired to replace ICE Barbie"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ice-cowboy-markwayne-mullin-confirmed-to-replace-ice-barbie-kristi-noem-at-dhs/

@CNN @world-news-CNN

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Trump will start WW3 to distract from the Epstein Files"

@CNN @world-news-CNN

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Trump rewards his billionaire donors & supporters financially, especially #PrinceBonesaw "

@CNN @health-and-wellness-CNN

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Farm workers face high exposure to toxic pesticides including forever chemicals"

@CNN @world-news-CNN

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"ICE thugs terrorize travelers in effort to cope with another Republican government shutdown & shakedown"