Keystone XL pipeline action alert

[milehighsalute]

so what do you think will happen now? will trump use executive order to open it back up?

[educatedindian]

He'll try, just like he did last time. Expect him also to dump waste, including nuclear, on rezzes. To try to strip mine any rez he can. To try to strip away the monuments and parks Biden protected like Bear Ears. To try and take or threaten other places with indigenous like Greenland, including Pacific islands. and cheer anti indigenous racists worldwide. There's no limit to what he'll try. Don't be surprised if he calls for reparations...for whites.

[milehighsalute]

permanent damage in a matter of hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yc3c1p-krM

[Mirror]

I guess this is the American Shit Show thread for the next few years

And and and the plumber hasn’t called back

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/rfk-jr-hearing-black-people-immune-systems


There may be some Radom federal workers just mashing in the mosh pit of social media for the coming months

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/07/deadline-for-trumps-federal-buyout-offer-extended-by-court-as-over-65000-staff-agree-to-leave-heres-what-to-know/

[milehighsalute]

He'll try, just like he did last time. Expect him also to dump waste, including nuclear, on rezzes. To try to strip mine any rez he can. To try to strip away the monuments and parks Biden protected like Bear Ears. To try and take or threaten other places with indigenous like Greenland, including Pacific islands. and cheer anti indigenous racists worldwide. There's no limit to what he'll try. Don't be surprised if he calls for reparations...for whites.

he already started

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/01/11/protesters-condemn-utah-public-lands-lawsuits/

crazy....i didnt know until i was searching last week......but did you know that the NRA had a protest too over the gun ban at bears ears? that was a multi-tribe agreement that was placed what the hell did the NRA have to do with anything?

[Sparks]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/climate/greenpeace-lawsuit-first-amendment/index.html

A big trial in a small North Dakota courtroom is testing the First Amendment in the era of Trump
By Laura Paddison, CNN — 5 minute read — Updated 11:49 AM EDT, Tue March 18, 2025

A high stakes $300 million lawsuit brought by a giant pipeline company against the environmental group Greenpeace is drawing to a conclusion in a small courthouse in North Dakota.

After three weeks of hearings, the case is now in the hands of the jury. What’s decided could bankrupt Greenpeace’s US operations and deal a devastating blow to free speech and protest, experts say.

The lawsuit, brought by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, revolves around protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation nearly a decade ago.

Energy Transfer accuses Greenpeace of masterminding the protests, spreading misinformation and causing the company financial loss through damaged property and lost revenues. It’s seeking at least $300 million and potentially more than double that in punitive damages.

Greenpeace says it played only a minor role in what were Indigenous-led protests and that the lawsuit is an attempt to suppress free speech and dissent. “This is a test on our First Amendment rights during a very, very dangerous time in this country’s history,” said Deepa Padmanabha, senior legal advisor for Greenpeace USA.

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has ushered in a wide rollback of climate and environmental policies, an emboldening of fossil fuel companies and a crackdown on free speech.

Some legal experts say the case has the hallmarks of a so-called SLAPP action, a strategic lawsuit against public participation with the intent to shut down critics or trap them in expensive litigation. Dozens of US states have anti-SLAPP laws, but North Dakota does not.

The consequences of a Greenpeace loss are huge, said James Wheaton, the founder and senior counsel for the First Amendment Project, a public interest law firm. The effect could be “to establish that anybody who assists in putting on a protest is going to be held responsible for what everybody else does at that protest,” he told CNN.

The protests against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline started in 2016. The Standing Rock Sioux fiercely opposed the pipeline, saying it would endanger the Missouri River, their water source, and damage sacred tribal grounds. Many thousands of people, including representatives of more than 100 tribes and dozens of non-profits, joined in the months-long protest.

Their efforts to halt construction were ultimately unsuccessful, however, and the pipeline started operating in June 2017. It now carries around 750,000 barrels of crude oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois.

Energy Transfer’s legal battle against Greenpeace has been going on for nearly eight years, driven by its CEO, the billionaire Kelcy Warren, a key Trump donor who once said at an oil industry event that pipeline protestors needed to be “removed from the gene pool.”

My boldings in the quoted part of the text. Many interesting links in there.