Here’s a hint - anyone who thinks a baseless investigation is an effective threat probably has a lot of things they’re hiding

Yeah, it does imply that, which is why they compared the top 3 oil companies to the top 3 environmental groups.

Together, Shell, Exxon, and Chevron spent $2.1 million on “social issue” ads on Facebook and Instagram between late July and late October 2026. In the same period, three of the top climate and environmental groups – the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, and Greenpeace – spent just over $846,000, less than half the amount spent by oil companies.

But also, it doesnt matter because they could have focused on Shell alone who outspent all three Climate groups combined

Solar generated 2,807 TWh of electricity worldwide in 2025, 8.8% of the total.

(Source)

Its taken us decades to get to this point and solar can easily do 5x that much generation without even thinking the word battery, and close to 10x with just daily battery backup.

Surely it’ll plateau any second now…

Look, I’m tired of Jefferies smug “I tweeted about it, what more do you want” face, but I do want to call out a bit of a hypocrisy I’m seeing here on Lemmy.

Theres a bunch of folks clamoring about how they want Democrats to focus on trying to fix things and not just waste time on impeachment, but then Jefferies says that’s what he’s gonna do and everyone is back to WHAT ABOUT IMPEACHMENT.

Personally I’m a fan of the walk and chew approach of doing both, but seeing a lot of people bickering about what Democrats should do for the next two years as if nothing they do will be sufficient.

For me, for now, I’m just glad we slowed the bleeding.

I received it as a text:

A message from California Secretary of State on behalf of County Registrar. Your ballot for the November 3, 2026, General Election was received and will be counted. Thank you for voting!

You should be able to check your current status following the info here:

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status

California always has delays in Getting everything through the system, a side effect of having reasonable election laws that let you mail in ballots up to election say, a huge population, and a thorough counting process. Be patient but follow up.

Reminder that gay marriage failed in California back in '08.

People will come around, but it takes time to overcome ignorance at this scale.

For now, it’s on all of us to do what we can to support the community and highlight how these injustices impact real people - hate thrives on ignorance.

I don’t think the damage done by the current US administration is limited to the borders of any single country, but society at large.

As long as Trump retains veto power and the ability to issue executive orders, all Democrats can do is slow the bleeding, unless Republicans grow a spine.

Even the most useless Democratic agenda is less harmful to our society than the burning and pillaging of our communities and social liberties carried out by Republicans over the last two years.

Sure thing! But then what are we gonna do about Vivek?