Let's throw a couple hundred gas- and diesel-powered AI data centers into the mix, shall we?

Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · yesterday

Unusually hot & dry conditions worldwide have fueled a deadly wildfire season, costing lives and destroying communities. “If these infernos don’t bring policymakers to their senses and force necessary changes to grapple with the fossil fueled climate crisis, what will?” writes UCS's Rachel Cleetus:

Dr Assal Rad— "Israel is still targeting Gaza’s medical supplies. The deliberate destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system continues, because the genocide isn’t over."

Fuk you Pat Proctor, and fuk you Dan Hawkins, and especially fuk you Ty Masterson, you fascist pieces of shit.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 5d ago

🚨BREAKING In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kansas Supreme Court deals final blow to GOP bid to throw out late-arriving mail ballots

The ruling is a conclusive defeat for Schwab’s last-minute campaign to enforce a Republican-backed law that attempted to eliminate the grace period and required mail ballots to arrive on Election Day ...

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It's to Kansas' shame that this pathetic toady is our senator

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

My votes in the Kansas Democratic Primary: Amendment: Hell NO Gov: @cindyforkansas.bsky.social Sen: Christy Davis Rep: @sarahpreu.bsky.social BOCC chair: Mike Kelly

Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.

reuters: president trump has announced an agreement to pay the reflecting pool algae $300 billion

WATCH the full discussion: The Right's War on Progressive Philanthropy—and What It Means for Movements. A timely conversation about the attacks on progressive philanthropy, what's driving them, and what they mean for movement-building going forward. www.youtube.com/live/B6Uc723...

The Right's War on Progressive Philanthropy—and What It Means for Movements

YouTube video by Netroots Nation

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We Build Progress@webuildprogress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At #NN26, we confronted the right's attack on progressive philanthropy — and mapped a path forward. Grateful to @womendonors.bsky.social, @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @ramirez.house.gov. A funded movement is critical to win. Thank you @netrootsnation.bsky.social 🧡

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack

The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...

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CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Wikileaks released footage of a very similar incident perpetrated by US soldiers in 2010. The footage triggered global outrage at the highest levels. Now Israel perpetrates this crime over and over again, with total impunity. Zionism is hollowing out humanity and must be ended.

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING: Israel just KILLED a team of rescue workers in southern Lebanon today in a DOUBLE TAP strike. A father and his daughter were killed, then rescue workers were ALSO bombed upon arrival.

Tomorrow night

Moti Rieber@rebmoti.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm giving a presentation about my path through and past Zionism in #kansascity next Tuesday, May 19. Click for details and tickets.

They’re doing reparations for the January 6 guys.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

I'm giving a presentation about my path through and past Zionism in #kansascity next Tuesday, May 19. Click for details and tickets.

Zionism and its Discontents

Rabbi Moti Rieber will offer a brief history of Zionism and the American Jewish community’s relationship with it, to the present crisis

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More news stories like these, featuring actual people, please! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The families going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts

Under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a wa...

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If Keir Starmer had been trained, Manchurian Candidate style, to rise to power and destroy the Labour Party from within, he could not have done a better job than he has done.

Sylvia@sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 3mo ago

😂🍿😂🍿😂 Roll on GE29

New post: "'Losing My Religion -- 10 years later" -- an update to a post I wrote in the aftermath of getting shitcanned (yet again) from a pulpit in 2015.

"Losing My Religion" ... 10+ years later

An update on my decision in 2015, in the aftermath of losing another pulpit, to let go of engagement with the "Jewish community"

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🧵It's time to talk about how we Jews should think about power. Many want us to believe "our-community-first-at-all-costs" is *the* legitimate Jewish path, rooted in text & tradition. That's a lie. Let's reactivate the deep lineage of Jewish thought that sees all as worthy of equal dignity 🧵🧵🧵

New USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.

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Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

Yesterday, Israel used a triple tap attack to kill paramedics in Lebanon. This means that they first bombed, waited for paramedics to come, bombed again, waited, and then bombed again. It was all caught on camera. There is no peace possible with this. www.instagram.com/reel/DXMzlFy...

BBC News on Instagram: "Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of deliberately targeting health worke...

12K likes, 1,233 comments - bbcnews on April 16, 2026: "Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of del...

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Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 4mo ago

L to the M to the A to the O

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

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New post: My aunt's Zionism has driven her to the dark side on a number of important justice issues. This is what happens when Israel breaks your brain. open.substack.com/pub/rebmoti/...

Israel Breaks People's Brains

I have an aunt who is super Zionist.

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