Michigan utility aided sabotage of Covid lockdown policies, documents reveal

The "revelatory" emails illuminate how DTE "deploys dark money in Michigan", said Karlee Weinmann, research and communications manager with the utility industry watchdog Energy and Policy Institute. The group detailed the emails in a new report... 

The donations show DTE "has power and wields influence over parts of people's lives that they don't want DTE to have influence over", said Eli Day, communications director for the We the People Action Fund, which has been involved in utility affordability campaigns.  

Donations like this are made through dark money channels because companies know their political donations would generate blowback, Day added. 

"Ordinary people who are outraged can have a real impact and change their lives for the better, and DTE is terrified of that," he said…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/michigan-covid-lockdown-dte-energy

 

‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe

On the ground, the acts are carried out by people who are recruited online and often paid in cryptocurrency. Some know exactly what they are doing and why, others do not realise they are ultimately working for Moscow. The professional intelligence officers who direct the operations never need to leave Russian territory. 

This account of Russia's sabotage offensive is based on thousands of pages of court documents from Britain and Poland, interviews with current and former security and intelligence officials in several European countries and the US, and discussions with people who knew some of the perpetrators...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/these-people-are-disposable-how-russia-is-using-online-recruits-for-a-campaign-of-sabotage-in-europe

 

Sixty-mile drag mark found near damaged Baltic Sea cable, says Finland

Electricity cable link to Estonia was damaged on Christmas Day in suspected Russian act of sabotage…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/30/finnish-investigators-into-suspected-sabotage-find-100km-trail-on-baltic-sea-bed

 

Exposing Republican sabotage of government

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_orkmvfFw

Trump admits he ruined border deal to hurt Democrats

Former President Trump during a Tuesday Fox News town hall essentially admitted to killing the border deal in order to hurt Democrats.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-admits-he-ruined-border-deal-to-hurt-democrats-204614213852

Explainer: what is Volt Typhoon and why is it the ‘defining threat of our generation’?

FBI director has publicly identified the risk posed by a Chinese cyber operation that is believed to have compromised thousands of internet-connected devices…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/13/volt-typhoon-what-is-it-how-does-it-work-chinese-cyber-operation-china-hackers-explainer

Another electrical substation damaged by gunfire in North Carolina - ABC News

An electrical substation in North Carolina has been damaged by gunfire, marking the third incident where a substation was damaged since November...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/electrical-substation-damaged-gunfire-north-carolina/story

PSE substations among six attacked in Pacific Northwest in November | The Seattle Times

At least six attacks at electricity substations in Washington and Oregon, including two at Puget Sound Energy substations, have been reported to the FBI in recent weeks...
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/pse-substations-among-five-attacked-in-pacific-northwest-in-november/

Joe Manchin is 'intentionally sabotaging the president's agenda': Bernie Sanders - ABC News

Manchin is "intentionally sabotaging the president's agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. Nothing new about this," Sanders, I-Vt., told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz. "And the problem was that we continue to talk to Manchin like he was serious. He was not."…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-manchin-is-intentionally-sabotaging-the-presidents-agenda-bernie-sanders/ar-AAZES4C

School Vaccine Clinic Shut Down by Right-Wing Sabotage Campaign

A viral video shared by "Libs of TikTok" was part of a bid to spread fear about kids supposedly getting the vaccine under false pretenses...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/school-vaccine-clinic-shut-down-by-right-wing-sabotage-campaign

Criticism of Democrats’ negotiations misses a bigger issue: Republicans’ absence from governing - The Washington Post - Opinion

This is not a "both sides" situation. Republicans and Democrats are not equally to blame, though the GOP would like you to believe otherwise. You don't have to support everything the Democrats are trying to accomplish to recognize that one party is at least trying to govern — and that the other seeks only to sabotage…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/criticism-democrats-negotiations-misses-bigger-issue-republicans-absence-governing/

Trump tries to sabotage the Biden infrastructure deal - POLITICO

… Though he has increasingly sought to undermine negotiations, Trump's efforts to derail any infrastructure package have, so far, mostly been met with a shrug on Capitol Hill...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/28/infrastructure-deal-trump-5012873

Opinion | The real reason Republicans want to sabotage the investigation into Jan. 6 - The Washington Post

…As with so many of our current political controversies, Republicans see their greatest political advantage in increasing distrust, stoking anger, and exacerbating division...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/26/real-reason-republicans-want-sabotage-investigation-into-jan-6/

Last-Minute GOP Push to End Emergency Lending Programs Condemned as Effort to 'Sabotage the Economy,' Undermine Biden | Common Dreams News

"Senate Republicans are threatening to blow up an agreement to provide basic relief to Americans now if they can't cripple the ability of Biden administration and the Fed to offer more help next year."....

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/18/last-minute-gop-push-end-emergency-lending-programs-condemned-effort-sabotage

Opinion | Trump fights to keep a job he shows no interest in performing - The Washington Post

... Trump could not be doing more damage if he were consciously attempting to sabotage the U.S. government...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/16/trump-fights-keep-job-he-shows-no-interest-performing/

Opinion | The G.O.P. Plot to Sabotage 2021 - The New York Times

Republicans are already acting as if there’s no next year. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/opinion/trump-biden.html

DeJoy’s Illegal Dismantling of the USPS (Opening Arguments podcast OA415)

We’re finally getting the deep-dive we’ve always wanted on the *drum roll* Unites States Postal Service! Questions answered by our esteemed Andrew include: Who is DeJoy? How is he even there? Why is the Post Service losing so much money? What’s with the sorting machines and boxes disappearing? All those answers and more!
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa415-dejoys-illegal-dismantling-of-the-usps/

Democrats fear Republican sabotage in key Senate race - POLITICO

A mysterious super PAC with GOP ties is attempting to boost little-known Erica Smith over DSCC-endorsed Cal Cunningham in the North Carolina primary.....
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/17/north-carolina-democrats-fear-republican-sabotage-senate-race-115345

Russia is winning the electronic warfare fight against Ukraine — and the United States

U.S. ground forces have become incredibly dependent on electronic communications without taking adequate steps to protect them from sabotage.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/russia-winning-electronic-warfare-fight-against-ukraine-united-states-ncna1091101

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire - POLITICO

Old but noteworthy...
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446