Environmental activists demand reactivation of Biden’s ‘Solar for All’ program. "...if the legal fights push a restart past December 31, 2027, it ‘could permanently deny approximately 410,000 households almost $500 per year in [electric] bill savings.’" www.commondreams.org/news/solar-f...

Reviving Solar for All Could Save US Families Over $450 Million in the First Year | Common Dreams

The Environmental Protection Network urges Trump's EPA to restart Solar for All after court rulings against the termination of the program's grants, highlighting how the revival could help 1 million h...

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oh wow they are REALLY scared of the new House Dems coming in who are already talking about abolishing ICE this is a transparently craven attempt to look like they’re doing something so they won’t be forced to do something

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 18h ago

It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.

Regular people are coalescing around Van Hollen for Majority Leader because they understand that Schumer cannot lead at this time. He won't push to end the Filibuster and that is CRITICAL for any sort of actual progress. He's also an Islamophobe of longstanding. He needs to step down.

Amtrak is pushing through a new policy to allow passengers to bring guns on board all trains, set to be implemented in January 2027, before the new Congress is sworn in www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Amtrak workers’ union denounces plan to let passengers bring guns on trains: ‘Sheer lunacy’

New policy would permit passengers to take firearms to their seats in lockboxes on 1,500 trains a day across the US

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While there were lots of great wins -- VA restoring voting rights to people with felony convictions -- there were also worrying changes to the criminal system that will increase mass incarceration and make it easier for ICE to deport people.

Lots of wins to celebrate but this is a really important one: SpaceX lost its bid to toss an NAACP lawsuit over one of its ultra-filthy and polluting fossil-fuelled data centres (this facility is powering half of Claude responses, btw) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/31/x...

SpaceX loses bid to toss NAACP lawsuit over Memphis data center air pollution

The Colossus data centers and a power plant that SpaceXAI is also building in Southaven, Mississippi, have faced community backlash for years.

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world historical vindication for the sophisticated epistemological method of going outside

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

2024-2026 will be remembered as one of the stupidest national hysterias of all time a supposedly generational "vibe shift" completely disintegrated upon contact with Actual Republican Governance

Marco Rubio oversaw the “deals” and payoffs and pressure to get tens of thousands of people expelled to countries they’ve never been to, including thousands of Cubans living in Miami. He is at least as responsible as Stephen Miller — maybe moreso — for the ongoing third-country removal disaster.

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 21h ago

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly preparing to resign from Donald Trump’s cabinet to launch a bid for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

I don't love this framing. Science isn’t something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why the child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

‘Revenge of the nerds’: US midterms deliver a win for science – and a rebuke of Maha

The wins for Democrats come after years of cuts and upheaval to US health and science infrastructure

theguardian.com

“The lawsuit is likely the first to claim that Google ‘hastily integrated’ A.I. features into company apps used on K-12 Chromebooks, Google-powered laptops provided to millions of children by U.S. school districts, while failing to notify their parents of the potential risks.”

Parents Sue Google Over A.I. Safety Risks on School Chromebooks

A student made plans to end her life after chatting with Google’s artificial intelligence, a new lawsuit claims, amid mounting concerns about online harms to children.

nytimes.com

ProPublica has been tracking the detention of U.S. citizens. So far, we’ve tallied 519 cases and counting:

More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Cengiz Yar@cengizyar.com · 20h ago

Erik Zepeda, a 20-year-old US citizen with disabilities that affect his physical reflexes and verbal communication, was walking to school "the same way I do every day” when ICE agents tackled him, pinned him to the ground, and detained him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"No one was coming to save us, and there was little money to fund efforts to save ourselves. But to quote the Black Voters Matter Fund, 'We got us.'" I love being Black. Would not change it for all the money in the world. www.thecut.com/article/2026...

The ‘Blue Wave’ Is Really a Black Tsunami

We owe Black voters and organizers an enormous debt for the results of the midterms.

thecut.com

It sure seems like the AI tech bubble was predicated on a belief, both in the industry and in the market, that realizing it was dependent on permanent authoritarian rule.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h ago

"Now, the power shift in Washington, as well as the election of several governors who have promised data-center restrictions, exposed the stock market’s fragility. The yearslong bull market left the major U.S. benchmark indexes top-heavy and tech-dependent."

Much has been written about prop 40 but I haven't seen a single post about how 42% of California voters said they wanted the Moms for Liberty endorsed woman whose goal was to DEFUND PUBLIC EDUCATION to be the next Superintendent of Public Education.

This doesn't make Newsom any more electable. It doesn't erase his record on harming trans kids and the unhoused or platforming Nazis. He should still not be anyone's presidential candidate. But it is the right thing to do and I'm glad he's doing it.

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 16h ago

This is massive for California, and other governors with clemency powers should absolutely do the same thing. The carceral system should not be allowed to use taxpayer dollars to put people to death. It's the cruelest and only irreversible punishment.

Another big election result: For years, Missouri legislators have undone or undermined policies passed by their voters in statewide initiatives -- on everything from abortion rights to Medicaid expansion. Now: voters are taking power back. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social / @propublica.org

Missouri Voters Just Made It Much Harder for Lawmakers to Overturn Citizen-Led Initiatives

For years, Missouri Republicans worked to undo or restrict voter-approved laws and amendments. In passing Amendment 6, voters have not only protected the ballot initiative process but also dramaticall...

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My serious answer (because my joke answer is already up) is that it is high time to fund the arts as generously as possible, and bring back WPA-style programs.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

What's your most ridiculous, newly emboldened political demand? (Absurd answers only.)

good lord, Van Hollen would be leaps and bounds better than Schumer thehill.com/homenews/sen...

El-Sayed says he’d back Van Hollen as majority leader over Schumer

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic senator, reupped his calls Thursday morning for Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to become Senate majority leader over current Minority Leader Chuck…

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I want 1000 articles focused on people in the Rio Grande, the trans people elected to office, the Black people in the South who have been organizing for the past 2 decades, the young people in NYC who decided to overthrow the corrupt Cuomo etc al, the young people across the world fighting back, etc

Indivisible is pushing for the Senate to end the Filibuster in January.

It doesn't escape my notice that the massive Democratic breakthrough in the South (including Mississippi!) happened after Republicans engaged in a two year effort to take Jim Crow governance national.

this is not an exaggeration. in addition to the wanton murder by private citizens and state officers, jim crow mississippi also maintained a secret police. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississ...

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission - Wikipedia

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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 20h ago

If it sounds like I'm stuck on Mississippi in particular, it's because pre-civil rights Mississippi is maybe the closest any modern American state got to being a full-blown totalitarian terror regime. And now the party of multiracial liberal democracy can now credibly compete there statewide.

We worked damn hard for this result. This comes from years of work setting the stage and spreading the transit gospel. I need people outside of Pierce to understand how BIG of a win this is. Incredible gratitude to the campaign team and to the people of Pierce County for investing in transit.

Transportation Choices Coalition@transpochoices.bsky.social · 2d ago

In Pierce County, in particular, this result was far from guaranteed. Prop 1 funds the first local transit investment since 2002. Measures that went to the ballot in 2011 and 2012 failed—the second by just 700 votes. As a result, Pierce Transit has had to cut service in recent years.

In early 2025, my dad warned me abt a secret Dem plot to “steal the presidency” by impeaching Trump & Vance in 2027. Then Minnesota happened & he started doing anti-ICE organizing at his church. The experience of this repressive regime & its consistently horrible policies brought us to this point.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h ago

i find it troubling the extent to which the progressive commentariat has settled on "this was an economy election." "this was about inflation." yes, people express extreme anger about the economy. but they are voting like trump just re-started the great depression. this should strike you as odd!

man i think he has it

Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹@jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 24h ago

Colom is now ahead by 1,138 votes. Outstanding provisional and mail-in ballots are from Colom strongholds and must be certified by Nov. 10. 🫣🤞🏾🙏🏾 wapo.st/4yX2KS4

Someone should immediately resource Justin Pearson to go around the country talking about data centers and connecting with local anti-data center organizers.

More than 100 campaign groups will join together in 15 countries this week to call for a halt to major #AI projects (Guardian)

Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres

More than 100 campaign groups will join together in 15 countries this week to call for a halt to major AI projects

theguardian.com

Opposition to data centers has been called “the most bipartisan issue since beer.” On Tuesday it was a salient issue in US midterm elections that flipped control of Congress and statehouses from Maine to Ohio to Texas and beyond. Jenna Ruddock of Free Press on what comes next.

Data Centers Were on the Ballot Across the US, and They Lost. What Comes Next?

Tuesday’s set the stage for a new Congress, and reshaped state legislatures and regulatory agencies across the country, writes Jenna Ruddock.

techpolicy.press

what i can't get over, looking at louisiana and mississippi and even alabama, is that the votes are *there*. it is absolutely possible with long term investment to make them competitive states