Mastodawn

Last week trump's Department of Energy ordered Sable Petroleum to restart offshore oil production off the central coast of California. Its pipelines run through state land, including a park still recovering from a 2015 oil spill. The Texas company defied an existing California injunction, and resumed production over the weekend. Today a judge upheld the injunction. County of Santa Barbara will press criminal charges against Sable.
#departmentofenergy
#oil
#california
https://www.noozhawk.com/sable-restarts-oil-production-transport-in-santa-barbara-county-after-federal-order/

Sable Restarts Oil Production, Transport in Santa Barbara County After Federal Order

Sable Offshore Corp. announced Monday that it restarted production on Platform Harmony and transporting oil to refineries in response to President Donald

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Sister Lucy Fur 10h ago

Dan Gillmor 1d ago

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist.

Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence. https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/

F-Droid says Google's Android developer verification plan is an 'existential' threat to alternative app stores

F-Droid fights Google's Android developer verification plan that could kill alternative app stores used by millions. Here's what developers need to know.

The New Stack

Sister Lucy Fur 10h ago

Corey S Powell 18h ago

Astronomers have discovered 11 more moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 285--by far the most of any planet in the solar system.

The true number may be unknowable, if you count every ring particle as its own little moon.

https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26F14.html #space #science #nature #math

Sister Lucy Fur 10h ago

McNadoMD 13h ago

Pakistan bombed a hospital in Kabul, and it appears has killed hundreds.

STOP BOMBING HOSPITALS YOU FUCKING FUCKS

Sister Lucy Fur 10h ago

"Future historians working with corrupted data may be forgiven for thinking Trump’s incineration of American prestige and power was intentional."
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/it-ends-with-us/

[Comment: pretty sure it WAS intentional and how quaint; Jeb thinks there will be “future historians.” Haha! That said, he’s fucking spot-on. See, e.g., https://www.rawstory.com/trump-russia-2676253353/ ]

It Ends With Us - Truthdig

Future historians working with corrupted data may be forgiven for thinking Trump’s incineration of American prestige and power was intentional.

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Sister Lucy Fur 10h ago

HeavenlyPossum 13h ago

The Iranian state fields two separate militaries.

The first is its regular army, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, or Artesh. It does regular military stuff: territorial protection, power projection, etc.

The second is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC. Its mandate is the protection of the “Islamic Revolution” of 1979 and the resulting Islamic republic. It is, in short, the ideologically-oriented component of the Iranian armed forces.

This arrangement is pretty typical in autocratic regimes as a mechanism of ensuring the regular armed forces are kept in check as a potential coup threat. Hitler built the ideological SS in parallel to the regular Wehrmacht; Saddam Hussein built the Republican Guard in parallel to the Iraqi army. Trump has taken initial steps to do something similar with ICE.

Sister Lucy Fur 10h ago

David Ho 14h ago

The US National Academies of Sciences refused to remove a climate change chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, despite pressure from Republican attorneys general.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/