Nicole Newnham
@nicolenewnham.bsky.social
documentary filmmaker ("Crip Camp" "The Disappearance of Shere Hite") - history, travel, cinema, fika.
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
Whether it is Meta AI glasses used to harass & covertly film women, Apple AirTags used to track women, Meta algorithms that push sexist ads, Grok AI tools that nudify women's images, tech companies create harassment by design instead of privacy by design. www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
irishtimes.com
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. 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.
newrepublic.com
President Trump's Justice Department can't erase disabled people's right to live integrated lives in our communities, rather than being warehoused in institutions. Federal law and decades of Supreme Court precedent protect this right.
People with disabilities fear service cuts as Trump's DOJ questions legal protections
The Department of Justice in June issued a legal opinion saying states aren't required to provide services that help people with disabilities remain in their homes.
cbsnews.com
Face it. The Court is captured by right-wing billionaire interests, just the way railroad barons used to capture the railroad rate commissions, or mining barons the mine safety commissions. Look up “regulatory capture” or “agency capture.” thehill.com/opinion/judi...
Just admit it: The Supreme Court is political
Let’s face it, the Supreme Court has dug itself into a hole, and it just keeps digging.
thehill.com
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
About 100 courses in women's, gender and sexuality studies are slated to be removed from the core curriculum at the University of Houston, as colleges around the state try to appease the right-wing culture war. It will never be enough to stop the next attack.
University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
texasobserver.org
The biggest cost Trump is imposing on us is the cost of doing nothing about three worsening crises that threaten the very survival of America and the world: climate change, AI, and widening inequality.
The Biggest Cost of Trump
It goes far beyond guns vs. butter
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
every day he finds new ways to degrade the united states
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3w agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3w agoBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Corporate America is quietly encouraging both Trump’s war and Trump’s tariffs. Why?
Trump's huge hidden upward redistribution
The truth about Trump's war, Trump's tariffs, and Trumponomics
robertreich.substack.com
The poor room looks like it has some sort of golden scabies. Gross to contemplate that this once dignified building is a ruin at one end and this Liberace nightmare rummage sale at the other.
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 3w agoDeputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized
I find it literally insane that people don’t respond to the experience living in this smoke by demanding a transition away from fossil fuels.
ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot. They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot. And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot. Don’t believe their story for a second.
He's hated in his own country & around the world. Yet he has the power to start wars, rebuild the White House & surroundings, destroy long-standing commitments at home & abroad, & satisfy even outrageous whims. This absorbing article asks *how*. #ProudBlue robertreich.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
Seriously, Where Does Trump's Power Come From?
Not from where you may think
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DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last mo.ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.
"I think for women in the culture the pendulum will come back again, and there'll be another renaissance to push back against the oppression of the cranky old rich white guys. I hope I am alive to see that next revolution." Nancy Wilson (of Heart)
What would the Founding Fathers think about Trump? The Declaration of Independence gives us an idea. Watch.
If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
“Fleeing gang violence and what has become a civil war, thousands of Haitians have helped reverse decades of decline in Springfield.They filled factory jobs, opened businesses, started churches, and helped stabilize the city’s population after years of shrinkage.” www.thebulwark.com/p/after-supr...
After SCOTUS Ruling, Haitians Prepare for Disaster
Springfield, Ohio meets MAGA cruelty with humanitarian dignity.
thebulwark.com
I have a whole chapter in my book about Olmsted and how it gave way to a massive shift from people with disabilities living in institutions to being at home. Grateful @crampell.bsky.social wrote this one. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The Americans Trump Would Rather Not See
There are some uncomfortably eugenicist vibes in Trump’s latest disability policy, which authorizes states to institutionalize more Americans.
thebulwark.com
75-80% of Haitians with Temp Protective Status in the U.S. are in the labor force. If you have family in elder care, you already know this. The woman in pic is a certified nursing asst. Along w their cruelty to Haitians, Trump’s policies will sack our economy + hurt social services to US citizens.
