🏭Kraftwerk Cyclonkessel, an abandoned coal powerplant somewhere in the Black Forest region of Germany. This plant once powered the nearby paper factory, before it closed down decades ago.

#Germany #History #Photography #Power #Industry #Factory #Rust

It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure, & in the midst of the biggest operation in his 37-year career.

…Since early Sept, #US Special Ops forces have struck at least 5 boats off the coast of #Venezuela that the #Trump admin claims were transporting drugs, killing 27 people. US officials have privately made it clear that the main goal is to drive Nicolás #Maduro, #Venezuela’s #authoritarian leader, from #power.

#military #USSouthCom #law #murder

🏭Kraftwerk Cyclonkessel, an abandoned coal powerplant somewhere in the Black Forest region of Germany. This plant once powered the nearby paper factory, before it closed down decades ago.

#Germany #History #Photography #Power #Industry #Factory #Rust

The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
-- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
-- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

from @pluralistic : "The fact that someone did something tells you nothing about whether they *chose* to do so – to understand whether someone was coerced or made a free choice, you have to consider the power relationships involved.

Conservatives hate this idea. They want to live in a neat world of "revealed preferences," where the fact that you're working in a job where you're regularly exposed to carcinogens, or that you've stayed with a spouse who beats the shit out of you, or that you're homeless, or that you're addicted to Oxy, is a matter of *choice*." - https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/

#power #politics #USPol #tech #surveillance

from @pluralistic : "The fact that someone did something tells you nothing about whether they *chose* to do so – to understand whether someone was coerced or made a free choice, you have to consider the power relationships involved.

Conservatives hate this idea. They want to live in a neat world of "revealed preferences," where the fact that you're working in a job where you're regularly exposed to carcinogens, or that you've stayed with a spouse who beats the shit out of you, or that you're homeless, or that you're addicted to Oxy, is a matter of *choice*." - https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/

#power #politics #USPol #tech #surveillance

#Hamas said Friday that it has accepted some elements of Trump’s *plan* to end the war in the #Gaza Strip, including giving up #power & releasing all remaining #hostages, but that others require futher consultations among #Palestinians.

The statement came hours after #Trump said that Hamas must agree to the deal by Sunday evening, threatening an even greater military onslaught nearly 2 years into the war sparked by the Oct. 7 attack into #Israel.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hamas-israel-gaza-war-mideast-bba524e6ac9cc9877e71fefc804cb602?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-03-Breaking+News

#Hamas said Friday that it has accepted some elements of Trump’s *plan* to end the war in the #Gaza Strip, including giving up #power & releasing all remaining #hostages, but that others require futher consultations among #Palestinians.

The statement came hours after #Trump said that Hamas must agree to the deal by Sunday evening, threatening an even greater military onslaught nearly 2 years into the war sparked by the Oct. 7 attack into #Israel.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hamas-israel-gaza-war-mideast-bba524e6ac9cc9877e71fefc804cb602?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-03-Breaking+News

The #shutdown is the first since Jan 2019, & the 4th of #Trump’s 2 terms. Admin ofcls this time, though, have signaled plans to use the closed agencies as a way to vastly reshape the #FederalGovernment & consolidate #power under the presidency.
#OMB dir #RussVought ordered agencies to consider #MassFirings rather than #furloughs.​ His instructions to agencies include guidance on rewriting #regulations surrounding federal #grants & challenging #Congress’s constitutional #power over spending.
#law

"New #GreenParty leader #ZackPolanski stressed that we need to:

<fundamentally change the relationship between #wealth and #power and the 99% in our society. And the first step to doing that is with a #WealthTax.> "

👏👏👏

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/17/zack-polanski-wealth-tax/

"New #GreenParty leader #ZackPolanski stressed that we need to:

<fundamentally change the relationship between #wealth and #power and the 99% in our society. And the first step to doing that is with a #WealthTax.> "

👏👏👏

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/17/zack-polanski-wealth-tax/

"China’s installed power capacity hit 3.67 TW by July, with solar at 1.11 TW, wind at 570 GW, and renewables providing nearly one-quarter of generation."

The press has to get better with its units. How does 1.68TW (+ xGW of hydro) get to be nearly 25% of 3.67TW rather than ~45%?

Answer Capacity Factors. I really wish people would standardise on TWh per year (or month or whatever) like Ember https://ember-energy.org do.

#renewables #power

In his last book before he was assassinated, MLK said white ameriKKKa would rather throw away democracy altogether and "embrace a native form of fascism" to preserve their power.

WE ARE LIVING THIS PREDICTED SCENARIO TODAY."

#politics #power #democracy#WhiteSupremacy #racism #misogyny #tyranny

In his last book before he was assassinated, MLK said white ameriKKKa would rather throw away democracy altogether and "embrace a native form of fascism" to preserve their power.

WE ARE LIVING THIS PREDICTED SCENARIO TODAY."

#politics #power #democracy#WhiteSupremacy #racism #misogyny #tyranny

Rising #power #bills are “something legislators have been hearing a lot about. It’s something we’ve been hearing a lot about. More people are speaking out at the public utility commission in the past year than I’ve ever seen before,” said Charlotte Shuff of the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, a consumer advocacy group. “There’s a massive outcry.”

#BigTech#DataCenters#PowerPlants #grid #electricity

More than a dozen states have begun taking steps as #DataCenters drive a rapid build-out of #PowerPlants & transmission lines.

That has meant pressuring the nation’s biggest #power #grid operator to clamp down on price increases, studying the effect of data centers on #electricity #bills or pushing #DataCenter owners to pay a larger share of local transmission costs.

California virtual power plant with Tesla Powerwalls in 100,000 homes generated 535 megawatts for 2 hours. https://www.semafor.com/article/08/07/2025/california-is-finding-a-way-around-trumps-renewables-crackdown#Power#Grid

California virtual power plant with Tesla Powerwalls in 100,000 homes generated 535 megawatts for 2 hours. https://www.semafor.com/article/08/07/2025/california-is-finding-a-way-around-trumps-renewables-crackdown#Power#Grid