Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution

WIRED@wired.com · 6h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

TODAY: Tucson City Council is voting on data center regulations starting at 5:30pm 🌵Show up if you think temporary jobs are not worth dying for. "Data centers carry a hidden cost that dwarfs their price tag, according to new research. It's not money. It's the health of Americans living near them."

Data centers are dealing hidden damage to environmental and public health—costing the economy $25 billion every year

Researchers are trying to shed light on the externalities and hidden costs of the murky data center economy.

finance.yahoo.com

Dear Climate & Environment Donors, I have a proposal for you. Hundreds of smaller non-profits, academic centers, and community-based organizations are seeing their content and web presence get lost in and displaced by the Generative AI juggernaut.

Insultingly WE pay for TEP propaganda ads, actors & ‘updates.’ Why? They want MORE rate increases from us for dirty power for #projectblue -for billions in profit 😡 As Tucson’s skyline gets ugly & TEP refuses to upgrade OUR infrastructure, will they also coerce our rates to climb 267%, like in VA?

No Desert Data Center Coalition@nodesertdatacenter.com · 2d ago

Our private electric utility company, TEP, poached a local TV news reporter and now he shows up at public meetings to do PR for them.

I signed this petition because council members, city managers and economic development teams all over Arizona are blindsiding citizens by withholding facts about data center deals that will harm them, their property values, their water sources and the environment. Forever. We need facts not fiction.

Sign the Petition

Get data centers out of Arizona

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Secret backroom deals. Years of NDAs. Water theft in the dead of night. Refusal of disclosures data center impacts will have on the futures of Tucson and Marana. Communities sidelined. Lies upon lies. Dystopian corruption is hard to ignore as we watch the desert razed in real time for techbros 🌵

BG BOYD@bgboydphoto.com · 4d ago

This evening, near a plot of land which was once pristine desert, which now features a double border wall and a shit-ton of cameras, a buncha people braved the 105° heat to protest project. #tucson #drone #protest

Meta tried to build a 200-megawatt data centre on farmland in Zeewolde. Twice the electricity of the entire town. 20 rebels occupied the council. "We want Greta, not Meta." They won, and then the Dutch banned hyperscale centres over 70MW. Direct action works! wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/the-...

The data center fight is going global

As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.

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Clapping is now a crime!!! 🙄 😂 But only if you oppose AI Hyper-scale data centers that are meant to ruin any dream you may have of a normal, healthy life.

404 Media@404media.co · 4d ago

Police refused to release the arrest report, saying it could "could interfere with ongoing investigative efforts." www.404media.co/person-oppos...

THIS WEDNESDAY! Tucson City Council is voting to approve large-scale AI data centers, according to their redline ordinance👇 SHOW UP if you care about air you breathe, your property value, your future and your lives. This ordinance is a joke with no accountability. WE SAID NO 🚒 to this 5-alarm fire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d ago

🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”

Hassett’s sales pitch ignores reality. Data centers create surprisingly few permanent jobs once they’re built. They consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, drive up land values, and often leave local communities footing the bill for infrastructure.

"Energy from heaven, not from hell" Watch TA Founder @billmckibben.bsky.social break down how energy from the sun became the best option on Earth — and why this narrow window of time may be our last real shot at a different future. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

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Smart officials can't seem to override the dumb officials who succumb to the billionaire GRifters at all of our peril. RECALL Heinz, Scott & Christy NOW 🤨 before they destroy Tucson and Southern AZ.

No Desert Data Center Coalition@nodesertdatacenter.com · 5d ago

We can either meet the multiple gigawatts of new energy demand for hyperscale data centers (enough for several entire cities) or we can have a livable planet. We cannot have both.

Huge thanks to everyone who has picked up a copy of This Is the Plan and helped spread the word. The book debuted today at #3 on the NYT bestseller list! 🧯🔥

W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · 6d ago

Congratulations to @benwikler.bsky.social! THIS IS THE PLAN is now a New York Times bestseller. "Ben Wikler is one of the most strategic and respected leaders of his generation. If we do what this book says, we will win."—Nancy Pelosi Available now. wwnorton.com/books/this-i...

"In the first quarter of 2026, the world’s six biggest oil companies—BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies—saw a combined net income of $23 billion. For Q2, that figure is expected to nearly double to $45 billion." Big Oil profits while you pay more and the planet burns.

Big Oil profits are soaring while extreme heat waves scorch the planet this summer

Emissions from the largest oil companies were enough to cause 1 in 4 heat waves over the past 2 decades, according to a new analysis from Oxfam.

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JUST NOW — Schumer Interrupted: “What could be more corrupt than backing genocide? How dare you talk about corruption. It’s amazing you can show your genocidal face in public!”

Please vote Juan Ciscomani and his pedophile cult out of office in AZ06. Besides starving children he votes to surveil us, steal from us, start endless wars and destroy the economy and our environment. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Activists climb rare Arizona cottonwood to shield it from Trump border wall construction

Activists are protesting the construction pathway for President Trump’s border wall in Arizona because it would require the removal of an ancient cottonwood tree.  A demonstrator was arrested on We…

thehill.com

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: No free passes for polluters. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f... Fact: The data centers and power infrastructure our officials have approved in Tucson and Marana will harm us all--faster if we lose our clean air regulations.😡🫁💔❤️‍🔥

No free passes for polluters

Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community, and our nation’s health and safety regulations are designed to protect us at home and work, ensure our drinking water is clean and keep the air we br...

actionnetwork.org

No one has to sue in #pimacounty Tucson-officials give out well permits for as much water as they want no questions asked. Same river. They’ll ask us to drink #datacenter PFAS wastewater next so ADWR, county supervisors and their enablers can make a buck. Let’s sue THEM! 🔥STOP #PROJECTBLUE 🚫ecocide

California's largest AI data center is suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water a year

Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (IVCM), the company behind what could become California's largest AI data center, is suing the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) after the publicly owned...

techspot.com

Now they’re trying to convince us that a data center is not a data center?

Good article 🫣 Gotta love the ineptitude of Pima County Supervisors with their ‘economic development’ plans they appear to know little about—where the developer will get power, or water, how they’ll be regulated, how to treat waste water and other environmental regulatory concerns—quite eye opening👇

The watchdog and the data center

Protecting the environment versus attracting big business in the age of Project Blue.

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I think it’s morally bankrupt to build a political faction around the cause of courting tech executives who have become progressively more dependent on fossil capital back into the Democrat Party, then pretend there is some objective reason to be scared of mentioning climate change

The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...

Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.

Kaiser nurses say surveillance of them is undermining healthcare – The Markup

Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.

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The GOP is trying to kill public transit, full stop.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · last wk.

Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

So true here in Tucson and Arizona. Do they care? Do they not? Who knows.

Grist@grist.org · last wk.

‘Climate hushing’ has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it’s a mistake.

Will Rex Scott and his #Tucson #Pima desert death squad succeed in taking all our water and polluting our air for their data centers? All us inconsequential citizens can do is band together and protest their insanity 👇

No Desert Data Center Coalition@nodesertdatacenter.com · last wk.

Join us for a protest this Saturday at the land where they're building the Project Blue data center

Physicians said the Andy Biggs votes threaten hospitals, insurance coverage and reproductive rights that Arizona voters enshrined in the state constitution story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

Doctors warn Andy Biggs' record on healthcare, abortion should alarm Arizona voters

Andy Biggs healthcare record: Arizona doctors warn GOP governor nominee's votes threaten Medicaid, ACA subsidies and abortion access

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"Since taking office last year, this administration has taken step after step to dismantle this system." Read our latest on the state of National Parks under Trump authored by Cheryl Schreier, chairperson of @protectnps.bsky.social:

America’s Best Idea is in Grave Danger

A former National Park Service leader on the plunder of America’s public lands.

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"It’s shocking for the EPA to take a scientific assessment and simply throw it out,” Dumais, an attorney with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit, said. “Basically, they’re saying: farmers’ lives don’t matter." Article: zurl.co/jeGkY

Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer

EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public

zurl.co

America's national park system is facing a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, washed-out trails, and run-down facilities. Trump, however, is using national park entrance fees to pay for his D.C. vanity projects instead. He is looting our country and destroying our public lands.