Table 3: Examples of Helliburton Well Products that contain Diesel Fuels
@AdameMedia:
A demon returned to hell today.
Hopefully he receives the punishment in the afterlife that he escaped on earth.
Dick Cheney, The original Darth Vader dies by Ann Telnaes, Nov 04, 2025
I’ve been in the editorial cartooning profession for over 30 years so I covered both George W Bush administrations. I can safely say I drew more cartoons of his vice president than I did of GW.
Jeff Lazar:
I have every confidence that Cheney will get a seat at Hitler’s Stammtisch ( favorites table) next to the likes of Stalin, Pol Pot, Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, etc.
@fitterflittermouse.bsky.social:
Fuck Cheney. Fuck Bush senior. Fuck Bush junior. Fuck Halliburton. Fuck big oil. Fuck the military industrial complex.
2006: How Halliburton Technology is Wrecking the Rockies
@breakify.bsky.social:
When it comes to Dick Cheney, the only thing I’m sad about is that he wasn’t hanged for war crimes years ago. If you’re wondering why Trump has the ability to act with impunity, it’s because he knows he’ll never be held accountable for his actions. Dick Cheney was the test case.
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social:
Fuck dick Cheney and fuck his daughter too.
The democrats failed us all Allowing Cheney to walk free after his mass murder of Iraq citizens. He directly led us to Trump and the fascist police state
His grave is about to floating in piss.
trans.bsky.social:
Dick Cheney was responsible for the murders of 4.5 million people through his war crimes & warmongering imperialism.
It is a shame he didn’t die sooner.
Rot in piss, you genocidal monster. hell cannot burn hot enough for your lecherous scabby ass.
Source: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
@ready2vent.bsky.social:
I hear the word fracking and I’m instantly annoyed.
2010: Cheney off the hook, but Halliburton pays for alleged bribes, The former vice president isn’t part of any lawsuits anymore, but Halliburton is paying for acts when Cheney was their CEO
The way it always goes, let the worst criminal off, in frac’d to hell Canada too.
2013: Fracking giant Halliburton nixes North Carolina’s chemical disclosure rule
2013: Halliburton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Evidence In Connection With Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
2013: 1 injured when casing ruptures during fracturing at Corsicana gas well owned by Halliburton
2013: Halliburton’s Dirty Secrets Pumped Into WV?
2013: Halliburton Denied Texas Venue In $300M Fracking Secrets Suit
2014: Halliburton fined $1.8 million over illegal hydrochloric acid shipping and disposal
@ischeneydeadyet.bsky.social:
Dick Cheney ragequit when it was clear that Mamdani was going to win.
@walkerbragman.bsky.social:
A shame Dick Cheney died a free man, honestly.
@osullyville.bsky.social:
Dick Cheney, who told his one daughter to denounce his other daughter’s gay wedding in order to win office, has crossed the rainbow bridge to his Forever Home
@terry-tungsten.bsky.social:
Kissinger, too. America is not good at holding our war criminals accountable.Canada not good at it either, not only protects old white man criminals and letting white male rapists and frac’ers off again and again, it helps hide and protect Nazis here.
@kuppermann.xyz:
as a child, i was first exposed to the concept of evil through my awareness of dick cheney
@kemek.bsky.social:
At least he’s dead.Ya, but, endless more old white man Nazis in the world need to get to Hell yesterday, e.g. JD Vance, Adolf Orange, Mike Johnson, Bibi Netanyahu, Putin, Starmer, Mark Carne and his twin Steve Harper, etc etc etc.
@jessicastarling.bsky.social:
Anyway, happy Dick Cheney is dead day!!
@riotdad.bsky.social:
Good morning blue sky, dick Cheney died. It’s a shame. It was 84 years too late. Let this highlight the importance of access to birth control, legal, and available affordable abortions.
Well, you celebrate his well-deserved death today don’t forget to mourn the millions affected by his greed.
@yumenosix.bsky.social:
ngl I thought Dick Cheney was dead already. Why do these evil bastards get to live so longI contemplate that daily.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1.bsky.social Nov 4, 2025:
My eulogy to Dick Cheney as a biologist who’s been deeply involved for 15 yrs in efforts to ban fracking around the world: More than any other person Dick Cheney is responsible for the veil of secrecy and lies that surround fracking operations, and they are enshrined into law that he created. 1/
Before he was Bush’s VP, Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton, which patented fracking in the 1940s and became a leading manufacturers of fracking fluid ingredients, including some really nasty ones.
Fracking became commercially viable in 1996 thanks to Texas gas driller George Mitchell who figured out how to blow up bedrock cheaply by using drinking water + chemicals + sand + pressure and combining it with horizontal drilling. I wrote about Mitchell’s legacy here: www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/9/…
Part 1 of a two-part series by Sandra Steingraber, SEHN senior scientist and writer in residence In September 2025, I traveled to West Texas to join Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto of Oilfie…
Reports of groundwater contamination followed quickly and in 1997, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ordered the EPA to regulate fracking under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Among other things, that law prohibits the injection of hazardous materials directly into, or next to, underground drinking water supplies. Seems reasonable. And it requires certain disclosures of what those materials are.
So in response to the court ruling, the EPA started studying the problem to figure out some regulations for the newish technology called fracking.
But before they finished Cheney became VP and convened an energy task force that pushed Congress to exempt fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act.
In 2004 the EPA wrapped up its work, concluding that the risks of fracking to the nation’s drinking water were… trivial! No further study needed! All kinds of whistle blower things happened, revealing deleted passages from earlier drafts showing fracking DID threaten drinking water and health.
The findings of 2004 EPA study have since been rebuked by literally hundreds of scientific papers.
But didn’t matter because in 2005 Cheney got the Energy Policy Act passed and with it the so-called Halliburton Loophole which exempts fracking from the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act and…
…various right-to-know provisions that all other industries are required to follow. Hence, fracking became the only industry in America that can 1) shove toxic shit straight through a drinking water aquifer and 2) not tell us anything about it.
For more on Dick Cheney’s role in masterminding all this: earthworks.org/issues/inade…
The Halliburton Loophole – Earthworks
The oil and gas industry is the only industry in America that is allowed by EPA to inject known hazardous materials — unchecked — directly into or adjacent to underground drinking water supplies.
Dick Cheney’s legacy is literally written into the shattered bedrock beneath our feet and the shattered climate system over our heads. 200+ studies now document the harm of fracking to drinking water and 100+ studies show harm to human health, including cancer in kids and shortened lifespans.
@goatcheesepizza.bsky.social:
In other words, Cheney remains one the world’s most notorious murderers. Got it
@emilylhauser.bsky.social
“Cheney, more than any other person, brought us today’s political reality…. [T]he American conservative project, the old dream of making the world into a place awful enough to justify American conservatism, never had a better champion. He was a shamelessly self-dealing con man, for one thing
Dick Cheney departs the world he made:
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…
“The nature of Cheney’s con—aided by its contrast against Donald Rumsfeld’s burlesque vamping, John Ashcroft’s spiral-eyed eschatological lunacy, and the president’s plain brainlessness—was a thin performance of steely, flinty-eyed competence laid over arrogance, ignorance, and ineptitude.
“He wrecked everything he touched, & was wrong in all of his predictions & analyses, & as a result completely discredited America’s respectable establishment…. [H]e played white America’s (& mainstream media’s) Islamophobia & bloodlust like arcade joysticks, to rearguard each next extension
of authoritarianism & paint the administration’s critics as traitors. His vileness & cynicism were corrosive, & have by now more or less fully eaten through every surface & institution exposed to them. What do you do with a life like his, at its end? Shiver at the thought of it, mostly.”
Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism. We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author…God won’t help us, it’s up to us most humans are too greedy and despicable, and most of the rest of our species are too poor and starving to be able to do much.
Cheney was the worst of us and the world would have been better if he had never lived. This compulsion to launder the war crimes, the selling of the state to private interests, the authoritarian groundwork he built, is a confession by moderates of their own complicity and guilt.
You don’t get Trump without Bush or Reagan or the relentless antidemocratic assault of traditional Republicans. That Cheney and other Never Trumpers could be held up as examples when they are guilty of midwifing this fascist moment is an indictment of this country and a warning signal.
The embrace of Bush and Cheney by the Democrats was a canary in the coal mine moment and it should never be forgotten. To see this mass murderer eulogized and see the historical record twisted is an insult and a signal that a vast sea change is necessary if we are to have a better future.
As we wait today to see whether a leftist can defeat the Right and establishment Democrats, Cheney’s overdue passing is an opportunity to see how just far we have slid into fascism and how easily moderates can launder mass death and antidemocratic projects.
Never forget this. Remember it always.
@jysexton.bsky.social:
Trump is a symptom of a larger disease and things will get worse if we keep believing he is an aberration rather than the evolution of a long, tireless antidemocratic project.
Amnesia in this will only deliver us to worse things. Let Cheney’s poisonous legacy be a monument to what we cannot brook.
@ttgozerian.bsky.social:
I’ve always thought the most consequential SCOTUS decision in my lifetime is Bush v. Gore.I agree, SCOTUS is a Nazi court, and has been for decades
@a1goldheart.bsky.social:
He was a classic confederate-loving western conservative, a toxic neoliberalist at its finest.
@redsnoopy69:
Prior to Dick Cheney’s 2003 war in Iraq, there was ≈1.5 million Christians living in Iraq.
Today that number is ≈250,000…
@haesoook:
I can’t even be glad Dick Cheney is dead because the fact that he was allowed to live so long while being the most evil man of his generation is an indictment on our whole society
@fromsouthchicago.bsky.social:
We are still suffering under the many lies he told, not to mention the horrors of his policies. We continue to live under the dark shadow of those policies he forced down the throats of weak politicians.
@alycemiller.bsky.social:
Just about to post the same: Quit trying to rehabilitate Dick Cheney, the architect of Iraq War amplification and the force that pushed for the bloated executive branch and its power.
Dick Cheney was a little fascist monster.
@plasmasword.blacksky.app:
something genuinely evil about the kind of world where dick cheney never faces real accountability for decades of warcrimes and horror & where assholes perpetuate ai blackface while real world starvation of civilians – warcrime by current ICC standards – becomes some kind of chess move
cheney & post 9/11 torture regime tactics made all this current shit possible, starving people, disappearing people off the street and to a a camp. there’s a type of flattening that happens where that horror is normalized, just seen as background noise to american suburbia
@spooksmalloy.bsky.social:
Kinda sad that Dick Cheney didn’t live long enough to see New York elect a Muslim mayor but on the plus side he’s dead
‘Well Dick, I thought we’d start with “quail hunting” where I shoot you in the face for every Iraqi person you had killed.’
@derfbackderf.bsky.social:
In honor of Dick Cheney.
The infamous quail incident. While quail hunting with GOP bigshots, Cheney accidentally shot lawyer 78-year-old lawyer Harry Whittington in the face.
Cheney never apologized, public or privately.
I thought up this cartoon in a flash of inspiration & burst out laughing.
@krud.bsky.social:
Sad to hear about the passing of Dick Cheney.
I wish he could have lived to see a Muslim socialist defeat a Trump endorsed sex pest and become mayor of New York City and then died.
@trans.bsky.social 10/5/2024:
Dick Cheney should be locked up in The Hague for the war crimes he committed & the many innocent civilians he murdered.
Cheney & the rest of Dubya’s administration are responsible for Trump. They are “polite” fascists who normalized torture & surveillance.
He is scum. Anathema to democracy.
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies, As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history by Spencer Ackerman, Nov 4, 2025, The Nation
The week before Dick Cheney died, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, one of the bureaucratic venues through which the most powerful vice president in U.S. history disfigured the country, informed Congress that it would have no say over Donald Trump’s rapidly coalescing military aggression against an oil-rich country.
While self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted over social media about treating the Caribbean fishermen that he insists without evidence are drug smugglers “exactly like al-Qaeda,” Office of Legal Counsel chief T. Elliot Gaiser told a group of legislators that the administration would not be bothering with congressional authorization for an escalating set of strikes carried out as part of a massive U.S. naval buildup. In Gaiser’s sophistry, because the fishermen are unarmed, U.S. personnel are in no danger, so there is no war that fits the terms of the 1973 War Powers Resolution; it thus follows, in this backward-spooling reasoning, that there are simply no authorities that Congress—the body authorized by the Constitution to declare war—can exercise. Our national legislature, controlled by Republicans loyal to Trump and backfilled with Democrats who seek not the end of the U.S. bloodshed but its constitutionally proper congressional authorization, now faces complete irrelevance as the president pursues a policy of regime change in Venezuela and perhaps a wider campaign of regional destabilization emanating from it.
Cheney, 84, picked an appropriate time to die. His decades-long struggle to consolidate the unparalleled might of U.S. warmaking within the White House has succeeded. “In Cheney’s view,” wrote his biographer Barton Gellman, “the president’s authority was close to absolute within his rightful sphere.” Cheney defined that sphere expansively and fought for his definitions aggressively.
When Patrick Leahy accused the former Halliburton CEO of rigging gigantic no-bid contracts for the company in Iraq, Cheney responded, “Fuck yourself.” He later called the exchange “the best thing I ever did.”
The successor presidencies of Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden decried the power grabs Cheney pursued but mostly pocketed his gains for their own purposes. (In his case for unrestricted bombing in the Caribbean and Pacific, Gaiser cited Obama’s own marginalization of Congress to bomb Libya in 2011.) Trump now walks a red carpet of lawlessness, plutocracy and bloodshed woven by Cheney. An uncharismatic Nixon functionary—someone who might never have risen to power had Texas Senator John Tower not drunk himself out of a Pentagon appointment that instead went to Cheney—decisively shaped the destruction of constitutional governance in twenty-first-century America.
No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney. Any discussion of his works must begin with the 2021 assessment of Brown University’s Costs of War Project that found, conservatively, that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields. Co-Director Neda Crawford called that assessment “a vast undercount,” since it doesn’t take into account the downstream casualties caused by the epidemiological effects of destroying the infrastructure of the countries Cheney helped bomb, invade, and occupy. Cheney shares the blame for what is surely the deaths of more than a million people with many others, especially George W. Bush, the president he served. But while Bush was the self-styled “decider,” Cheney was the most crucial architect the War on Terror had, shaping the decisions Bush made.
Cheney understood the catastrophe of 9/11 as an opportunity to accomplish and cement long-standing objectives. In the early days after the fall of the Soviet Union, Cheney’s Pentagon commissioned a study on the future course of American power from Paul Wolfowitz, an adviser who would later enjoy great influence in the Bush administration. The draft document prioritized the active prevention of a peer competitor to US power from emerging. The objective of US grand strategy would be to preserve military, economic and geopolitical preeminence indefinitely. As he would when he became vice president, Cheney relied on a corps of neoconservative intellectuals he cultivated to supply the pertinent rationales. For Cheney, the virtues of dominance were self-evident. After 9/11, they drove him to favor invading not only Afghanistan, but the unconnected country of Iraq, whose regime was an outlier in the world America bestrode. A document contained in an energy task force Cheney convened before 9/11, and that he went to extraordinary lengths to keep secret, detailed “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.“
When Cheney infamously contended after 9/11 that the United States would have to “spend time in the shadows,” he was not only talking about intelligence work. Cheney accomplished his own agenda as a surrogate chief executive in the bureaucratic shadows. He operated through what former White House attorney Brad Berenson termed a “triumvirate” of lawyers, most notably his legal counsel David Addington, and also White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Gonzales’ deputy, Tim Flanigan. They extended their influence into the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel through Cheney-aligned attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
In the months after 9/11, these Cheneyite lawyers, wielding their boss’ influence, created in the shadows an architecture of repression. Addington wrote a draft directive permitting the National Security Agency, in defiance of the Constitution and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to establish a warrantless digital dragnet of phone and internet metadata generated by the communications of practically every American. Flanigan, aided by Yoo, wrote the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force that made the world into a battlefield at the direction of the president. They further permitted, encouraged, and protected the CIA in launching a regimen of torture-as-geopolitical-revenge, masquerading as intelligence gathering, as well as a network of secret prisons to detain the agency’s alleged-terrorist captives indefinitely. They declared that battlefield captives could be held as “unlawful enemy combatants,” deserving none of the protections of the Geneva Convention, and corralled them, without charge, into the military base at Guantánamo Bay until an end of hostilities that might never arrive. With the exception of CIA torture and much of the wholesale domestic acquisition of Americans’ metadata, these authorities and practices, in one form or another, persist to this day.
Cheney did all of this because his deepest conviction was that the presidency was an elected monarchy. Misconstruing an argument of Alexander Hamilton’s from Federalist 70, Cheney pursued what became known as the Unitary Executive Theory. It was predicated on the idea of an unencumbered presidency empowered to control every aspect of the executive branch, regardless of any affected office or agency’s intended independence from political decisions. Cheney had understood the post-Watergate reforms from Nixon’s criminal presidency as a congressional usurpation, and he intended to roll them all back. Excluding Congress from wresting any transparency from his secret Energy Task Force was, to Cheney, part of the point. After 9/11, Yoo contended that during wartime – a circumstance conceivably permanent in a War on Terror – presidential authority is all but plenary. He likes his argument a lot less now that Trump uses it to murder fishermen in the Caribbean, but, like his Bush administration colleagues, takes no responsibility for authoring the authoritarian usurpations of power that he now bemoans.
Under Cheney, the consolidation of power within the presidency turned out to also be a consolidation of power within the vice presidency. Many understood Cheney, particularly after 9/11, to be effectively a co-president, dominating the unprepared and incurious Bush. Cheney was never one content to let events unfold on their own terms. As chairman of Bush’s vice-presidential search committee, he nominated himself, and pushed Bush to litigate the disputed 2000 election until five right-wing Supreme Court justices put them in office.
To create the public conditions for invading Iraq, Cheney strong-armed the CIA into delivering baseless analytical assessments usefully inflating the danger from Saddam Hussein, who turned out to be helpless. In his public remarks, Cheney outdid even the manipulated CIA product, lying profligately about invented connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda. After Cheney got the war he wanted, he continued to lie that the bloody insurgency it provoked was on its “last throes” years before it reached its nadir.
That was the other legacy of Dick Cheney: fiasco. The wars he wanted did not showcase American power. They put on display American weakness, avarice, futility and manic resource extraction. The economic agenda of unrestrained capital accumulation that Cheney championed led to the 2008 financial disaster that nearly wiped out the global economy. The pain and bitterness emerging from both conditions would be exploited by Trump, who empowered the nativist political currents galvanized by the War on Terror but, during Cheney’s time, did not enjoy respectability. They also enabled Trump to dismiss the respectable architects of the War on Terror, like Cheney, as sybaritic, incompetent elites, even as Trump builds upon their legacy of violence and deceit. For all his claims to foresight, Cheney never expected to be displaced by what he empowered. He surely did not expect to die on a day when New Yorkers are poised to elect a Muslim socialist mayor in a repudiation of his legacy.
Trump and Cheney were more characterologically alike than either man would prefer to admit. While Trump is charismatic and Cheney was anything but, they both ruled through fear, cruelty and domination. Not even Trump has gotten his own friend to apologize after shooting him in the face. The impunity Trump enjoys is another aftereffect of Obama’s decision to forgo accountability for the War on Terror and its many institutional crimes. (All it earned the Democrats was an endorsement from Cheney of Kamala Harris that she seemed not to understand was grotesque and self-discrediting.) As Trump prepares an assault on a South American field of resource extraction and deploys federal forces to terrorize American cities, Cheney can eternally look up from his well-earned spot in the afterlife at the fruits of his labor.
Spencer Ackerman, a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award–winning reporter, is the author of Reign of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump.
@redsnoopy69:
Hopefully, Saint Peter takes Dick Cheney on a quail hunt…
@f4rb.myatproto.social:
DING DONG!
Dick Cheney hats erwischt
@KamalaHarris:
I am saddened to learn of the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney was a devoted public servant, from the halls of Congress to many positions of leadership in multiple presidential administrations. His passing marks the loss of a figure who, with a strong sense of dedication, gave so much of his life to the country he loved. …
@AlanRMacLeod:
Now is a good time to remember that Dick Cheney’s post 9/11 wars killed (conservatively) 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million more, according to a study by Brown University.
@SChiocconi:
And Tony Blair lied and lied until he managed to drag Britain into the Iraq bit.
@3A_Advocate:
And people wonder where all these refugees invading other countries are coming from.
@Ireland14x:
He needed to keep Halliburton in (massive) profit!!
@TheGreeneBJ:
You can mass murder, steal an election, do 9/11, murder even more people, destroy the constitution and place the entire country under mass surveillance and the New York Times will still pat you on the back when you die.
What a world
NYT obituary for Cheney is a crazy piece of propaganda – not a single criticism of his murderous policies, full acceptance of his alleged desire to defend the Constitution.
They also claim that he wanted to expand democracy around the world.
People don’t even know the half of how awful he was
