Break rank. God help me, it feels like this could maybe work. @ginafortexas.bsky.social
Gina Hinojosa: Data Centers are Taking Over Texas
YouTube video by Gina Hinojosa
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Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 3w agoMy pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
Forbes@forbes.com · 3w agoTaylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
This is a cool visualization of how trees cool us down and asphalt heats us up. www.ctinsider.com/projects/202...
An over 20-degree temperature gap shows the cooling power of Connecticut’s trees
Maps show how trees cool neighborhoods while roads and buildings create hotter urban areas across the state.
ctinsider.com
One of the many things that I think is rotting civic society into irrelevance these days is the constant willingness of public figures to assert that they believe things that should have revolutionary implications while clearly acting like they don't.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3w agoRogan: Most people think Epstein was Mossad. Vance: "Ya. Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel…He clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest level of Israeli intelligence."
"Hegseth says he’s planning on a high-testosterone US army, supplementing soldiers with low T. Made me think of this bit I did." Full shows and tickets at https://alicefraser.com
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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Sounds like the intro setup to some dystopian novel.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago“A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.”
Spotted on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Chicago: protesters on the pedestrian bridge hold letters that spell out the words: “Make corruption illegal again.”
Zines are now a federal crime in the United States. They are setting precedent to go after anyone they want for writing or reading anything they don't like.
Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 6mo agoDaniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn’t even at the protest — his wife was — but prosecutors are pressuring him into giving up his permanent resident status because he allegedly moved a box of zines the day after. Now that he’s going to trial, he’s looking at decades behind bars and deportation.
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
1/ Let's look at the Dialog member list. Thiel's invitation-only private society. There is a $4.75B nuclear influence network in it. A former Enron exec and a former fashion model co-founded it. Ridiculous, but true.
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo agoHere are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
Trump came to the brink of unleashing horrific destruction on Iran's civilian infrastructure simply because he was tired of being briefed on how we were losing every day, & once he was denied that he checked out even more. It is the most pathetic performance of any world leader in memory
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
easternherald.com
America waits for its 250th Anniversary to begin with a symbolic end to the Imperial Presidency and a restoration of both the rule of law and democracy.
the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3mo agoSecond (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:
In this administration? An arrest for insider trading really means his crime was not being well connected enough to the Trump crime family.
Kate Knibbs@knibbs.bsky.social · 3mo agoFirst insider trading arrest in the US for prediction markets & the govt says one of the Polymarket whales who made over $400k on the maduro raid... was a special forces guy who worked on the Maduro raid 🤯 www.wired.com/story/us-spe...
I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoStill feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
Tom Waits x Massive Attack just released a brand new single
Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Ryan Haas@ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
The dismantling of USAID will go down in history as the turning point where our country's influence in the world contracted sharply. Decades of building up networks of goodwill, influence, soft power, all of it just thrown away.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here: