👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Via Rep. Kenyatta:

MAJOR!! Dem James Malone FLIPS a state senate seat in #Pennsylvania!

This was a ruby red Trump +15 district in November.

After infiltrating #StandingRock, #TigerSwan pitched its ‘#counterinsurgency’ playbook to other oil companies

More than 50,000 pages of newly released documents detail how the security firm targeted #pipeline opponents and tried to profit off its #surveillance tactics.

by Alleen Brown & Naveena Sadasivam
Apr 13, 2023

"The Intercept and Grist contacted TigerSwan, #EnergyTransfer, the National Sheriffs’ Association, as well as Thompson, the group’s executive director. None of them responded to requests for comment.

"To TigerSwan, the emergence of #Indigenous-led social movements to keep oil and gas in the ground represented a business opportunity. Reese anticipated new demand from the #FossilFuel industry for strategies to undermine the network of #activists his company had so carefully gathered information on. In the records, TigerSwan expressed its ambitions to repurpose these detailed records to position themselves as experts in managing pipeline protests. The company created marketing materials pitching work to at least two other energy companies building controversial oil and gas infrastructure, the records show. TigerSwan, which was staffed heavily with former members of military special operations units, branded its tactics as a 'counterinsurgency approach,' drawing directly from its leaders’ experiences fighting the so-called War on Terror abroad.

"TigerSwan did not just work in #NorthDakota. Energy Transfer hired the company to provide security to its #RoverPipeline in #Ohio and #WestVirginia, the documents confirm. By spring 2017, TigerSwan was also assembling intelligence reports on opponents of Energy Transfer and #Sunoco’s #MarinerEast2 Pipeline in #Pennsylvania.

"The documents from the North Dakota security board paint a detailed picture of counterinsurgency-style strategies for defeating opponents of oil and gas development, a War-on-Terror security firm’s aspirations to replicate its deceptive tactics far beyond the Northern Great Plains, and the cozy relationship between businesses linked to the fossil fuel industry and one of the largest law enforcement trade associations in the U.S. The impetus for spying was not simply to keep people safe, but to drum up profits from energy clients and to allow fossil fuels to continue flowing, at the expense of the communities fighting for clean water and a healthy climate.

"'For them, it was an opportunity to help create a narrative against our tribe and our supporters,' said Wasté Win Young, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the one of the plaintiffs in a class action civil rights lawsuit against TigerSwan and local law enforcement. Young’s social media posts repeatedly showed up in the documents. 'We weren’t motivated by money or payoffs or anything like that. We just wanted to protect our homelands.'"

Full article:
https://grist.org/accountability/tigerswan-documents-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-surveillance/

#ClimateJustice #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #ACAB #StandingRockSioux #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #Activism #ClimateChange
#EnvironmentalJustice

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July 19, 1983: I felt terrific as I followed the Appalachian Trail along streets through the town. Duncannon was a small city with a downtown business district consisting of a few square blocks of mid- to early twentieth-century buildings like the Doyle Hotel quickly giving way to tree-lined residential streets.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #outdoors #nature #pennsylvania #mountains #forest #AppalachianTrail

"A pipeline operated by Sunoco LP leaked jet fuel for at least 16 months, contaminating residential water wells in Pennsylvania, and the conduit may be at risk for further incidents, according to a preliminary investigation by regulators.

Residents of Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania — about 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia..."

Sunoco Jet Fuel Leak in #Pennsylvania Lasted 16 Months, PHMSA Says

Paywall https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-13/sunoco-fuel-leak-in-pennsylvania-lasted-16-months-phmsa-says

https://archive.ph/JnAbR

An air ambulance, Learjet 55, crashed at approximately 6:30 PM local time on Friday, January 31, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

There were six people on board.

The aircraft took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport and was en route to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri.

#USA #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #PlaneCrash

Engadget: Axios partners with OpenAI, forgetting the scorpion stung the frog. “Axios is expanding its local newsletter presence from 30 to 34 cities. The catch? OpenAI is funding it. In its continued pretense of benefiting newsrooms, OpenAI has partnered with Axios in a three-year deal to cover Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Kansas City, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; and Huntsville, Alabama. What […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/31/engadget-axios-partners-with-openai-forgetting-the-scorpion-stung-the-frog/

Zoe Hughes, an #Exeter City council member for #Pennsylvania, has resigned from the #LabourParty over their banning of gender affirming treatment of under 18s.

Good for them, nice to see a politician with some principles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89e1g71ppo

#CassReview #UKPol

Karen at it again.

#pennsylvania #allentown #blackmastodon https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/12/15/sand-ni-er-and-racist-comments-bandied-about-allentown-pennsylvania-city-hall-prompt-black-official-to-sue-for-discrimination-while-city-council-initiates-broader-investigation-i/

#Altoona, Pa., police arrest suspect in killing of #UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson https://scdailygazette.com/2024/12/09/altoona-pa-police-arrest-suspect-in-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson/ #USPol #Pennsylvania

A search is underway for Elizabeth Pollard, a grandmother who fell into a sinkhole while looking for her missing cat, Pepper, in Pennsylvania. Rescuers are working tirelessly, using cameras and excavators, as they hope to locate her. 🐾 Let's keep her family in our thoughts! #MissingPerson #Sinkhole #Pennsylvania #Hope 🙏💖 Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g-s1-36724/search-pennsylvania-woman-sinkhole

You know, I do love how #Liberals & #Democrats justified a lot of things in the #Election like; the #Genocide in #Palestine / #Gaza, shutting down a #Workers right to strike, and even welcoming #Republicans in their party where literal #Fascists like #GeorgeWBush & #DickCheney were worse than #DonaldTrump & the #RepublicanParty endorse them.

This poll from #Pennsylvania show cases why the #DemocraticParty lost so many of their base to #Vote for them and why they deserved to lose.

#VoteBlue

Hoax bomb threats, many of which appeared to originate from Russian email domains, were directed on Tuesday at polling locations in five battleground states - #Georgia, #Michigan, #Arizona, #Wisconsin and #Pennsylvania - as Election Day voting was underway, the #FBI said.

"None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far," the FBI said in a statement, adding that election integrity was among the bureau's highest priorities.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fake-bomb-threats-linked-russia-briefly-close-georgia-polling-locations-2024-11-05/

#Ukraine #Russia #US #MAGA

we have a group of Republican operatives here attempting to push the narrative that these #LehighUniversity students are not registered to vote, even tho many of them have been standing in line for 6 hours

#AllEyesOnLehigh #Bethlehem #Pennsylvania #ElectionInterference #SomethingSmells

Via Ryan Reilly:

PHILADELPHIA — It’s Election Day in America’s birthplace. The polls are open.

Here’s the thing. We’re very likely to — yet again! — see a flood of propaganda meant to convince folks that Bad Things Happen In Philadelphia, or in some other majority nonwhite city in a swing state. #Pennsylvania

Via Kyle Griffin:

A #Trump field director was fired — just days ago — for being a white nationalist.

Luke Meyer was Trump's regional field director for western #Pennsylvania.

Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto Barbarossa and a co-host of Richard Spencer's podcast. Spencer organized the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/04/white-nationalist-trump-campaign-00187282

The Pittsburgh Union Progress, which has been quietly striking for over two years now, has endorsed a presidential candidate: https://www.unionprogress.com/2024/11/03/bezos-is-chickenst-but-were-not-heres-our-presidential-endorsement/
#pittsburgh #union #news #journalism #washingtonpost #harris #KamalaHarris #voteblue #harriswalz #pennsylvania #jeffbezos #election2024 #election

#DJT enthralled #GOP #voters attending Sunday's rally in #LITITZ #Pennsylvania with rants about why he should've never left #WhiteHouse and how he'd prefer if #fakenews #media staffers assigned to cover the #TrumpRally were targeted for being shot at.

https://wapo.st/4fn0udS #GiftLink #SharedLink #PaywallLift #WaPo