i’m old enough to remember when folks in Memphis managed to take their own arial photos of Colossus to show that xAI had 35 methane gas turbines operating on-site, not just the 15 that were permitted. now court documents put that figure at FIFTY SEVEN. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

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TDLR: No, we need public power. www.consumerreports.org/money/utilit...

Electric Bills Keep Rising. Are These Regulators Protecting You? - Consumer Reports

State public utility commissions are considering rate hikes that could cost ratepayers billions. The AI data center boom is partly to blame.

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“The elected officials who approved this project, are responsible for every drop of precious water that is being wasted on a harmful hyperscale data center that will provide no benefit to the working-class people of Southern Arizona” www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

“If we had a public power utility instead, there’d be no rate of profit & the feasibility study that the city did found that would save us over $200 a year within the first five years of a takeover & over $1,000 a year for the average household longer down the line” news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

TEP says city takeover of electric grid could cost taxpayers $4 billion

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Tucson DSA members have talked to thousands of community members over the past two years. How many 1-1 convos has TEP CEO Susan Gray had with customers? www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

TEP study: Tucson would spend $4 billion to replace utility with public power

Tucson Electric Power said a commissioned study showed proposals to replace the company with a publicly owned utility would be an "astronomically costly, financially infeasible" effort. Last year, the...

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Activists in Tucson, Arizona, are making public power THE priority for the year, driving the city to respond to WE the people. "People's bills are just too high, especially in the summer... people simply can't afford their TEP bills and something has to change." @leemzee.bsky.social

Local group to call for public power utility at Tucson City Council meeting

YouTube video by News 4 Tucson KVOA-TV

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"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt. This is a chance to show people that socialism can work." Love to wake up and read @leemzee.bsky.social in @truthout.org with @derekseidman.bsky.social

As Electricity Bills Rise, Activists Are Demanding Public Control of Utilities

“Public power” organizers are pushing for democratized control and truly public ownership of our energy system.

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I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.

Out After Dark With Late-Night Workers and Zohran Mamdani

New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently spent the night reaching out to workers in Queens who keep the city moving after most New Yorkers are asleep. We tagged along.

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The calls to action are beginning on utility shutoffs. I am asking people for shareable resources; a lot of impromptu messages so far. The key, for those of you who can act without details, is to call the governor and the chair of your state PSC/PUC and ask them to ban shutoffs, just like 2020.

@tucson-dsa.bsky.social has experienced a significant bump in membership since Zohran’s win.

Jonathan Weisman@jonathanweisman.bsky.social · last yr.

"Mamdani momentum withered in the deserts of southern Arizona on Tuesday night." Jack Healy on Adelita Grijalva's convincing win in Tucson against the upstarts who called for a new face and name to succeed Raul Grijalva in the House. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

TEP is trying to raise rates again! People are still struggling to pay TEP's 2023 rate hike. We need a public power utility for Tucson! www.kgun9.com/news/communi...

Take a hike: TEP requests 14% rate hike; critics say customers can’t afford more increases

Tucson Electric Power has filed a petition with the Arizona Corporation Commission to raise electricity rates by approximately 14%

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The summer of shutoffs is here. The left’s answer must advance climate, affordability, and managed decline together. "Public power can begin to build us out of this deep contradiction between the well-being of Americans and the deregulated system." @sevier.io with Winston Yau @cplusc.bsky.social:

The Summer of Shutoffs

By isaac sevier and Winston Yau

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“Right now, bills are very, very expensive because we are paying for TEP’s profit on top of everything else." Public Power for Tucson!⚡ www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Tucson looks to renew TEP franchise agreement as public power advocates push for alternative

Tucson may hold a special election in November in which voters can decide on a franchise agreement between the city and Tucson Electric Power, but progressive advocates are pushing for a publicly owne...

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Cuomo's reputation for "competence" is a totally imaginary media creation, designed to dupe liberals in a blue area into electing a conservative. His governorship was a series of embarrassing fuckups! Over and over! Didn't matter because media understood alternative to Cuomo would be a progressive

Jeff Coltin@jccoltin.bsky.social · last yr.

New York City’s campaign finance regulators rejected mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo’s request for around $2.5 million in public matching funds Tuesday, an embarrassing glitch for a bid predicated on experience and competence. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

an incredibly cursed headline www.eenews.net/articles/big...

Today on Volts: if the market won't build clean energy fast enough, should the state step in? Advocates believe so, and they convinced the NY legislature, which passed a public-power law over a year ago. How's that law doing? And how's the larger public-power push? We get into it.

What's going on with public power in New York?

A conversation with Patrick Robbins of Public Power NY and Johanna Bozuwa of the Climate and Community Institute.

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NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun. Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

Hossam Shabat’s Last Article

Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.

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Join us for our March General Meeting! Saturday, March 22 at 2pm Woods Memorial Library (3455 N 1st Ave) Our chapter was proud to be part of the coalition that defeated Prop 414, but what comes next? It's up to us! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/march...

The future is public, and it is unionized.

The BlueGreen Alliance@bluegreenalliance.bsky.social · last yr.

Workers rights should not be up for debate✊🗣️ The PRO Act strengthens workers' rights by removing barriers to unionization, banning employer interference, increasing penalties for labor law violations, and more. Read here: loom.ly/zvaYEvU

New York can meet its climate targets and lead the country, but the Republican CEO of NYPA is still trying to figure out how to use the authority to benefit private developers instead of New Yorkers who want affordable, public renewables. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Environmentalists push New York Power Authority to go further in renewables plan

Patrick Robbins, coordinator of the New York Energy Democracy Alliance, joins Capital Tonight.

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New York is supposed to be cutting its natural gas consumption - so why did it approve a major pipeline enhancement? Dug into it with maps and graphics for @citylimitsnews.bsky.social citylimits.org/2025/03/12/n...

The city of Tucson’s Proposition 414 failed by an overwhelming majority with roughly 70 percent of voters rejecting the measure. #TucsonCouncil

That group said city leaders should take away from the vote that "if they are going to ask working families in Tucson to pay higher taxes, they must allocate tax revenues to programs and services that actually benefit Tucsonans – …

Tucson Sentinel@tucsonsentinel.com · last yr.

Tucson voters resoundingly rejected a half-cent sales tax measure that would have increased spending on public safety and social services. With the initial vote count showing a 53,350 to 23,084 margin against the measure, Prop. 414 was defeated Tuesday. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Everything old is new again, including diseases people died from on the Oregon Trail. (File under: Housing is healthcare.)

Dysentery cases rise in Portland metro area, health department reports

Dysentery is on the rise in the Portland metro area, according to recent data released by the Multnomah County Health Department.

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Trump’s budget cuts could kill your local weather forecast — and put you in danger. DOGE has its sights on NOAA and the National Weather Service. Gutting them could imperil millions and cost billions. grist.org/extreme-weat... #DOGE #Musk #Trump #NOAA #Weather

Trump's budget cuts could kill your local weather forecast — and put you in danger

President Trump and DOGE have their sights on NOAA and the National Weather Service. Gutting them could imperil millions and cost billions

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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

🚨 Scoop: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to repeal a landmark scientific finding that underpins key climate rules for cars and power plants. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding

The Trump administration is weighing whether to repeal the “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare.

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New York can meet its climate targets and lead the country, but the Republican CEO of NYPA is still trying to figure out how to use the authority to benefit private developers instead of New Yorkers who want affordable, public renewables. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Environmentalists push New York Power Authority to go further in renewables plan

Patrick Robbins, coordinator of the New York Energy Democracy Alliance, joins Capital Tonight.

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An analysis of Pima County medical examiner data finds that rising heat and mobile homes create a deadly combination

‘Suffering hidden from view:’ Mobile home and RV residents in Pima County die from heat at high rates  - AZ Luminaria

Rincon Country RV Resorts on the southwest side of Tucson is surrounded by gently rolling hills populated with saguaros. On the highest hill stands a small church with a white cross.  On the last day ...

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