“Brownsville cannot keep selling us out to these toxic polluters.”

Our top story: Residents are resisting this town's plans to make liquefied natural gas a key part of its future. But big donors are determined to silence their voices. https://www.texasobserver.org/brownsville-laguna-madre-special-interests-influence-records/

#Texas #energy #Politics #USpol #OilAndGas #GulfCoast

The Gas Peddle: Records Reveal How LNG Industry Shaped Brownsville Officials' Support

Special interests spent years influencing city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about a fossil fuel build-out.

The Texas Observer
Republicans have already gerrymandered North Carolina so much that Democrats can no longer mathematically win, and they keep getting away with it thanks to rigged courts. Now they're trying to do the same thing nationally and are getting away with it there too. They're going to get their civil war. #USPol
FBI Raids Office Of Dem Politician Instrumental In Redrawing Virginia Voter Maps… With Fox News In Tow

Maybe this isn’t just another vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration. But we’re going to need a lot more evidence to the contrary to abandon this conjecture: The FBI searche…

Techdirt

Trump's DOJ is looking into it 😉

#USpol #IranWar #oil #trading #markets

"Ex-NATO chief Rasmussen warns of ‘disintegration’ of alliance, calls for new European defense bloc" by @politico -Anders Fogh Rasmussen (formerly Prime Minister of Denmark 2001-2009, NATO Secretary General 2009-2014) recommends a new European defense bloc to replace NATO due to uncertain USA commitment. His proposal would include Ukraine, plunging Europe into #UkraineWar. He is not a current official - depends if countries take up the idea. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/anders-fogh-rasmussen-interview-nato-00911431 #NATO #USpol #EU #politics
Ex-NATO chief Rasmussen warns of ‘disintegration’ of alliance, calls for new European defense bloc

As head of NATO and prime minister of Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen has always advocated close ties with the U.S. Now he is calling for a radical rethink — and a new European defense alliance, of which Ukraine should also be a member.

Politico

#Pollution:🚨Shaffer, asset mgr at Scrubgrass Rec Co: asked for: exemption covering a PA power plt *burns coal waste. Sig portion of: elect it gens used to mine BTC.

A Citgo Petro Corp ATTY:🚨exemptions for petro refineries in IL/LA/TX *hit with Clean Air Act violations. Agency: previously concl: rule➡️provide critical #health protections to 100s of 1000s of ppl...

Wagner Sterigenics VP:🚨exemption for emitting the carcinogenic gas...
-ALL APPROVED

#Corruption #EPA #USPol
https://www.propublica.org/article/clean-air-act-exemptions-trump-emails

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

ProPublica
An Epic Collapse for Britain’s Labour Party

Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?

The American Prospect