more from a non-paywalled article: newrepublic.com/post/214111/...

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.

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Remember: The job losses this week were ALL women. So Hassett is basically arguing the only good jobs are men's jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

TAPPER: You said this was 'strongest job market in your lifetime.' By what metric? HASSETT: If you look at overall economy, things are booming T: 2 million jobs were created in the last 18 months of Biden's term. Are you really arguing your numbers are better? H: We'll have to follow up by email

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Vivek Ramaswamy claims he “never once” said he was pro-data center expansion. We have the receipts.

That's a mimic

(°○°)@rarecryptid.bsky.social · yesterday

Food has always looked like this, to those of us Who are Aware. Sorry to those who are just now Waking Up.

Nutree Club, a vegan brand, is posting anti-LGBTQ+ responses to this beautiful post of the Pride Parade in Galway, which, given the overlap of the LGBTQ+ community and the vegan community, is a fascinating approach to how to advertise your company. www.instagram.com/reel/DbyXPXu... #vegan #vegans

The Latin Quarter • Galway on Instagram: "Another fantastic day for Pride 2026!"

417 likes, 9 comments - latinquartergalway on August 8, 2026: "Another fantastic day for Pride 2026!".

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huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 4d ago

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

before the bans, the requirements for trans women to participate in women's sports leagues was typically about 2 years being on estrogen and anti-androgens. if this transphobic dipshit is committed to the bit, let her do it, she'll become dysphoric after a few months & face transphobia within a year

Sarah Spain ✨@sarahspain.com · 2d ago

Fuck these fucking fucks

And in both cases their worldview was they like fascism. So that resulted in antifascist slogans like Black Lives Matter, Defund The Police & others being interpreted disingenuously or treated as confusing and fascist slogans like MAGA being interpreted favorably or patriotically.

Adding Star Trek IV The Voyage Home to this, with II WOK and III SFS being required viewing alongside.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · yesterday

Ok, in honor of The Odyssey, give me your top 3 films about trying to get home (NOT including The Odyssey) Here’s mine: 3. Avatar Fire & Ash (2025) 2. The Martian (2015) 1. The Fugitive (1993)

Climate change is accelerating beyond all but the most dire predictions but also so many stories about ecology restoration also feature systems bouncing back faster and more thoroughly than scientists anticipated, people can fix (the worst of) this but we need to overthrow the capitalist economy

Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.

I have found that every slogan is bad if people don’t have the political will to understand it. Black Lives Matter had the average honkey & honkey enthusiast acting like they’d never heard words before.

Citizen G@mattweldon.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s just a badly worded slogan. It’s only three words but you just had to spend four paragraphs explaining what it means.

Great! Can we call then weird now, or are we still worried we might hurt DC neocon fee fees?

Kamala Harris@kamalaharris.com · 2d ago

The Democratic Party needs to get comfortable with a certain kind of ruthlessness.

Evacuation orders declared for more than 20,000 people www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fast-moving wildfire forces all of Summerland, B.C., to evacuate | CBC

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He doesn't assume only the center-left has agency, because he also attributes agency to the far left. But he's a big believer in "look what you made me do" right-wing populism. They don't have agency, they're merely a factor of the left going too far, and thus bear no responsibility. 7/x

Chad Riding@chadcanplan.bsky.social · yesterday

Does Douthat assume that only the center-left has any agency?

Just causally referencing Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt, as if it's unremarkable conventional wisdom, the typical basis of a political worldview. And very positive about right-wing populism. And (elsewhere, not in this column) pines for an American Orban. But, you know, not sure where he stands. 9/x

McCarthyite experience either means he was asked to respect a trans woman's pronouns or an attractive woman at a social event felt comfortable and safe enough to tell him to fuck off.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

Ross Douthat is a victim. As a well-paid regular columnist at the country's premier newspaper, with anything he wants to say widely distributed, he was repressed. Silenced. And did you know America had civic and educational collapse around 2015? Where, exactly? Uh... don't ask, he's rolling. 8/x

FWIW: much of the time when a group announces "plans to spend $15m" on a buzzy topic, what they actually mean is that they're going to tap into the buzzy topic to try to raise $15m that they do not currently have. this is not a plan, it's a fundraising pitch to panicking donors

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

Elon Musk says he's going to have a robot workforce on the moon soon. "Third Way" centrist Democrats say they're going to spend $15 million to fight the specter of socialism. Sure, sure. Assholes say a lot of things.

Great piece! Voters don't just need to be “contacted” through a sophisticated digital machinery that has identified them as a likely voter. They need to be cultivated, engaged, and moved. They need to feel invested in and listened to.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

“…the latest crop of progressive candidates are campaigning like organizers. In doing so, they’re revealing weaknesses in the Democratic machine that have existed since Barack Obama ran for president—the first time.” - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

LOVELY NEWS: An American renewable developer that wanted to pivot to fossil-fuelled data centres has cancelled those plans and is sticking with renewables. The pressure works folks. Keep it up, turn up the volume, spread the word, etc www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/clea...

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

This has been ICE’s playbook. They threatened the Ithaca sheriff with criminal charges in early 2025 and of course nothing came of it because it was legally flimsy at best, we reported at the time: boltsmag.org/new-york-she...

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 3d ago

Federal officials have threatened Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt that failure to provide immigration agents access to inmates eligible for deportation could result in criminal charges.

Yet another important and thoroughly reported story from Mackenzie Shuman on the continuing legacy of toxic waste dumping in Western New York: buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

Niagara Falls mother wants answers after toxic discovery near Love Canal

Jocelyn and Dan McKiernan started a family in what they hoped would be their forever home: a three-story house in Niagara Falls. But material unearthed when the family hired contractors to prepare th...

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🧵🧵 After 16 months on the sidelines, far-right billionaire Tim Dunn is getting involved in the Texas race for US Senate. Dunn's entry comes as Ken Paxton, whose political life he once bankrolled, trails in some polls and is getting killed in spending by James Talarico.

Ken Paxton’s Far-Right Billionaire Backer Has Returned

Tim Dunn, once among Paxton’s biggest donors, seemed to pull back from financially supporting the candidate in 2025. A recent campaign-finance report shows he’s finally getting involved in the Senate ...

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Huh, this is an interesting development. I dislike corporate greens, but I fully support them going after pro-coal lunatics. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

How solar donors helped take down a Trump-backed Republican

A pro-renewable energy political action committee was behind Rep. Andy Ogles' primary loss Thursday.

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“Wounds from rodent and insect bites, he said, “get inflamed and contaminated easily” because of shortages of clean water and hygiene products.” www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

‘They have been feeding on bodies under the rubble’: Rodents are latest scourge to hit Gaza

Palestinians struggling to survive in the devastated Strip, where sewage flows between tents, rubbish piles up, and clean water is in short supply

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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d ago

““These big rodents have been feeding on bodies under the rubble and their numbers have multiplied,””

The fact trans people are dying because medical professionals are more bothered about where they can lie down in bed than treating them is a stain this country should never be allowed to forget.

sja@sam-ja.bsky.social · 3d ago

i'd recommend people read the response from an LGBTQ+ cancer charity to last year's EHRC proposed guidance - been thinking a lot about this particular section ever since i first read it (full response here outpatients.org.uk/2025/06/26/e...)

Climate pals, what are your favorite examples of actions that simultaneously reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to climate changes that we can no longer avoid? Joint Adaptation and Mitigation (JAM), if you will.

None of what she is saying should be remotely controversial. Drivers are "emboldened" to the point that they regularly endanger and kill people!

FleaingDogFella@fleaingdogfella.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sounds like another troublemaker from same the mold as that darn @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social. And that's good sound to my ears. I just hope she has her own high quality branch manager.