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![The International Criminal Court building in The Hague, the Netherlands, on January 16, 2019 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/062/047/505/893/525/original/caf8683657ec0edc.png "The International Criminal Court building in The Hague, the Netherlands, on January 16, 2019 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]")
Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries
"An analysis of the nine top players in the U.S. fossil fuel-derived hydrocarbon industries (oil/gas, plastics, and agrichemicals) shows tight linkages across the three different sectors, with news media, other petrochemical industry players, and politicians also frequently tagged, according to a study published January 15, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Alaina Kinol from Northeastern University, United States, and colleagues...Our study suggests that climate obstruction in different industries is more coordinated than is generally recognized...these different companies in different sectors are using the same strategic messaging to promote a distorted image of their environmental responsibility.” >>
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070135
"The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this paper, we examine the ways the fossil fuel energy, plastics, and agrichemicals industries interact on social media using Twitter (renamed X as of 2023) data analysis, and we explore the implications of these interactions for policy...."
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Kinol A, Si Y, Kinol J, Stephens JC (2025) Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries. PLOS Clim 4(1): e0000370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000370
#Fossilfuel #extraction #climate #obstruction #denial #delay #energy #plastics #pertrochemicals #agrichemochals #Hydrocarbon Industries #harm #pollution #SocialMedia #PublicDiscourse #ExtremeHeat #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #responsibility
The pardons came ahead of Friday's annual anti-#abortion protest March for Life in Washington.
Anti-abortion advocates had been pushing for #Trump to #pardon the anti-abortion protesters charged with violating the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is intended to protect #AbortionClinics from #obstruction & #threats & was adopted amid a rise in #violence against #AbortionProviders.
In response, the #DOJ asked the #11thCircuit US Court of Appeals in Atl on Tues AM to overturn #AileenCannon’s order.
Acc/to the request, the #SpecialCounsel turned over the report on Tues PM to Garland, who decides what portions of the report should be released publicly.
Prosecutors say the report is 2 volumes. One outlines the mishandling of #ClassifiedDocuments & #obstruction case, & the other details the findings in the DC #ElectionInterference case against #Trump.
“This limited disclosure will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership apprised of a significant matter within the Department while safeguarding defendants’ interests,” the filing from federal prosecutors says.
Those assurances arrived a day after *Judge* #AileenCannon, a federal judge in Florida, barred the release of the #SpecialCounsel’s entire report for at least 3 days.
But prosecutors said AG #MerrickGarland does intend to release a portion of #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s report outlining his investigation into #Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the #2020election & will allow members of #Congress to review the portions withheld on the #ClassifiedDocuments investigation.
#DOJ says it won’t yet release #Trump #ClassifiedDocuments retention #obstruction report
#Justice said it would not publicly release #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s findings on Trump’s mishandling of classified documents until the ongoing litigation against his co-defendants concludes….
#MerrickGarland #AileenCannon #ElectionInterference #Unfit #criminal #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/08/doj-trump-special-counsel-release/
Trump’s 1st Choice for Attorney General
Investigation concludes #Gaetz made payments totalling tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex & drugs over at least 20 separate occasions
The committee found substantial evidence Representative Gaetz violated House Rules & other standards of conduct prohibiting:
- #Prostitution
- Statutory #rape
- Illicit #drugs use
- Impermissible gifts
- Special favors or privileges
- #Obstruction of Congress
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/23/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-report-release
One more example demonstrating that legal ≠ moral or ethical.
Legal is simply the worst you can do before society agrees you can be penalized.
This #Obstruction is not #ClimateAction
Retraites: les macronistes se mettent (encore) en travers de la démocratie parlementaire
Les députés de l’ex-majorité préparent une #obstruction massive pour empêcher le vote sur la proposition de loi d’#abrogation de la #RéformeDesRetraites déposée par les Insoumis. Un énième coup de force qui s’inscrit dans une série de rendez-vous empêchés depuis deux ans.
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #uno / #ocha / #humanitarianaid / #obstruction
„Israeli authorities rejected 43 per cent of humanitarian requests and impeded another 16 per cent, according to the latest snapshot from the UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA.
Here are some highlights from the report: “
As part of the #election-related investigation, #Trump was indicted by a #federal #GrandJury in August 2023 on four #criminal counts, including #conspiracy to #defraud the #UnitedStates; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; #obstruction of & attempting to obstruct an official proceeding; & conspiracy against #rights.
Judge #Chutkan has set a briefing schedule to determine whether to make any part of the pleadings filed by #Trump & #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith public, as she determines what charges/evidence are barred by #SCOTUS ruling of #immunity.
"Allowing a brief from the Government is not 'contrary to law procedure, & custom,' as Defendant claims...it is simply how litigation works," read #Chutkan’s order in part.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25173574/chutkangrant.pdf
Judge Tanya #Chutkan will allow #SpecialCouncil #JackSmith to file a 180 page brief laying out all the evidence against Trump in support of the lawsuit against Trump for interfering in the 2020 election.
#law #criminal #conspiracy #obstruction #Jan6 #Insurrection #StochasticTerrorism #ElectionInterference #FakeElectors #Extremism #DomesticTerrorism #MAGA #NationalSecurity #TrumpIsAThreatToNationalSecurity #TrumpIsAnInsurrectionist
https://www.newsweek.com/judge-chutkan-hands-jack-smith-win-case-against-donald-trump-1958815
Judge Mark S. Norris, who will make the final sentencing judgment, is also overseeing the trials of the remaining 3 officers: Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley & Justin Smith. They are charged w/ use of #ExcessiveForce, conspiracy to commit #WitnessTampering , #obstruction of #justice & deliberate #indifference to #TyreNichols’s #medical condition.
“Met Police are now ACTIVELY obstructing this week’s pro-Palestine national march”
by The Canary
“Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), coalition partners, MPs, Peers, and trade union leaders have expressed serious concern at a Met Police threat to place severe restrictions on the march for Palestine on Saturday 7 September”
New Trump indictment salvages Trump election obstruction case after Supreme Court immunity ruling
Special counsel #Jack #Smith filed an updated indictment Tuesday against Donald Trump in a bid to #salvage and #strengthen the historic #election #obstruction #case,
following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad #immunity to presidents for official acts and sharply criticized the prosecutor’s approach.
The #superseding #indictment comes as a critical window was closing for Smith. -- In about 10 days, a Justice Department policy known as “the 60-day rule” will take effect -- forestalling any new filing of charges against the former president.
In a written notice to the court, Smith said that the indictment was 
filed “by a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case” and that it “reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions.”
Trump faces the same four charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Smith said he will not seek to have Trump arraigned again on the new version of the indictment and still expects to make a joint proposal with the former president’s defense lawyers this week about how to schedule new pretrial hearings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/27/trump-dc-indictment-new-charges-jan-6/
#AileenCannon ruled last month that #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith was unlawfully appointed because he was not confirmed for his position by the #Senate, tossing the 40-count #indictment against #Trump for allegedly keeping #ClassifiedDocuments & materials after leaving the WH & #obstruction of govt efforts to retrieve them. Smith & his team are finalizing their #appeal of that decision to the US Court of Appeals for the #11thCircuit, which is due Tues.
#law #NationalSecurity #criminal #legal