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CA is a drought state. The central valley is sinking from cities' use of groundwater draining the aquifer. SF Bay is right next to the proposed data center/helipad for the wealthy AI execs. The DNC's guy running for Pelosi's seat is also running an AI generated racist ad. sfist.com/2026/07/09/d...
Developer Eyes Cow Palace In Plan to Build Data Centers at Eight Bay Area Fairgrounds
The historic Cow Palace and several other Bay Area fairgrounds are considering a proposal by a private company to build data centers and helipads across California — with the goal of developing 70 by ...
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Yep, there's a reason that the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) changed its name to CoreCivic in 2016.
Ian B. Bautista@xicanodekcenmke.bsky.social · 3h agoThe name, CoreCivic sounds so wholesome, altruistic, and democratic. The reality is abusive, terroristic, and authoritarian. Those are OUR tax dollars. We should not invest them so horribly.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss The software group Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are likely to reduce its contributions to governments around the world for years to come. The US-headquartered company, which has harnessed AI to secure lucrative work for the NHS and the Ministry of Defence, is growing exponentially. Continue reading...
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Scott Wiener is trying to replace Nancy Pelosi. (Pelosi backs his opponent, Connie Chan.) His history of gutting environmental regulations for developers will escalate as he will sell out us & the planet to data centers & the billionaires who support him. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Wiener, backed by Anthropic PAC, uses Claude to skewer his SF rival
Scott Wiener's team said launching an AI ad is on par for San Francisco politics.
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UPDATE: uh holy shit we’ve raised over $12k since I posted this. that’s enough to give each of the 9 candidates here over $1K each, a significant fundraising boost that they will feel on the ground in these must-win swing districts
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d agoI love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
Trump's golf habits have long been compared with Obama’s, whom Trump criticized for spending time on the course as president.
Trump’s Golf Trips Top $100M After Bedminster Victory. How Obama Compares
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Social Security benefits went up just 2.8% in 2026. That's what we got while the people in charge handed out trillions in tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. But we "can't afford" benefits that keep up with groceries and rent. Make it make sense.
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)
This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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The CEOs aren't smarter than you. They're not making rational, savvy decisions on behalf of shareholders, customers, and employees. They're entitled idiots with their heads up their own asses, endlessly siphoning the fruits of other people's ideas and labor. And they're usually criminals, tbh.
These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.
SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” It encourages police to “own the narrative before someone else does” by championing the technology before citizens can oppose it.
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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"...(the vice-chief justice ruled) the US constitution’s first amendment prevented courts & juries from assessing religious doctrine when considering a clergy member’s reasons for choosing not to report abuse." There is no morally sound reason to not report abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Arizona clergy who learn of child abuse in confessions aren’t required to report it, court rules
State supreme court rules in case of two bishops who were silent about three children abused by Mormon parents
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There are more redwoods in the United Kingdom than there are in North America. Pacific Coast redwoods have older trees, but only 5% of original old-growth coast redwood forests are left. 95% of the oldest forest has been cut down since the 1850s, most of it cut down between 1950-1970.
TODAY - 11 am PT @ #BSidesLV in Florentine F, Common Ground: "Privacy's Defenders: How Hackers Helped and Can Do So Again" featuring former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now, the genetic information of hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime–including children–are held in an FBI criminal database forever.
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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The law is clear: sending armed federal agents, including ICE, to polling sites is illegal. Federal and state laws prohibit voter intimidation and election interference. Our new analysis explains what the law says and why these threats must be taken seriously. bit.ly/4yOProg
Preventing Voter Intimidation by Federal Agents at the Polls
Any deployment that intimidates voters or interferes with elections would be illegal. Should one occur, officials and civil society are prepared to challenge illegal acts so that voting can proceed uninterrupted.
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The ebook for "Hiding in Plain Sight" is $2.99 at Bookshop.org and all those other places. Highly recommend. I read the book and listened to the audiobook when it came out— in addition to Jason Stanley's and Tim Snyder's. And they were all correct.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
Instant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bound BestsellerBestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s a...
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Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d agoFrom "Hiding in Plain Sight", written in 2019, on sale today for $2.99: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/still-hidi...
hey kids it's a quick look at the news www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Headline news 2026
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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A previous report by the EPI found that US employers are charged with violating labor law in 41.5% of all union elections. Through delay tactics and appeals, it takes an average of 465 days for workers to reach a first union contract.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
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“We’re so balkanized in this country that you almost have to have people who are totally outside of your group to join you to get enough of a mass to say, ‘No, this isn’t going to happen,’” Sayles said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
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I called WNET in NY to ask them to remove this video. I told them it was damaging to kids. You can call them, too! Call 212-560-1313 and press 2 to leave a message (the phone prompt seems to indicate 1, but that message directs you to 2). ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ruf...
AI Poetry Lesson | RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS | Grades 3-5 Engineering & Technology Teaching and Lesson Resources
Ruff wants to create a new poem for his fans, but he has writer's block. He ends up using artificial intelligence to help write the poem in this animated video about media literacy from RUFF RUFFMAN: ...
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Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. (Published May w/ @adn.com)
This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.
Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ...
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Their thinking isn't outdated, it's part of their plan. We need to vote them out with the Republicans and get better representation.
