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Ellwood Thompson's parent company acquired by data center owner as stock drops below 2 cents a share

The cash crunch raised “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern” for the next 12 months.

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Translation: “Ok, climate change is real but we desperately want to soak up as many billions as we can before we all die. So please just let us have our way."

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens still refuses to agree to a living wage for their employees. If you want to show solidarity, boycott the gardens, and join the picketers Wednesday at 5:30pm just outside the garden gates! Bring a sign, noisemakers, etc! #RVA

#Virginia lawmakers call for special session to debate @dominionenergy.bsky.social NextEra merger virginiamercury.com/2026/07/21/l...

Lawmakers call for special session to debate Dominion-NextEra merger • Virginia Mercury

State lawmakers call on Gov. Abigail Spanberger to call a special session to extend the review period for the Dominion-NextEra merger.

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The country we've become. aje.news/ny1cev

This immigrant served in the US military. Now he faces deportation

Benito Miranda Hernandez completed three tours during the Iraq war but now faces removal from the US to Mexico.

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#Virginia is now seeing exceptional drought across most of the state. Yet our elected leaders continue allowing water-intensive data centers to set up shop and decimate our environment.

If anyone is interested in helping continue the work of the Sunrise Richmond chapter, in whatever form that may look like, shoot me a DM, I’d like to talk. Thanks! #RVA

Ashland residents! Community meeting this evening at 6:30 regarding yet another data center wanting to set up nearby, Randolph-Macon College Copley Science Center. #RVA

Sunrise Richmond stands with Lewis Ginter employees seeking a reasonable, living wage. If you can’t pay your workers a wage they can live on, what are you doing?

The Richmond hub of Sunrise Movement will, in all likelihood, be disbanding this summer, with several core team members relocating or moving on to new chapters in life. There does appear to be interest in keeping our efforts going, though that could be in the form of a fresh new organization...

GOP - *gerrymanders* DEMS - hey stop that no fair GOP - *gerrymanders even more* DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely* DEMS - *start gerrymandering* GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

New York votes socialism. London votes socialism. Amsterdam votes socialism. Paris votes socialism. Chicago votes socialism. Milan votes socialism. All the capitals of capitalism are voting for socialism. There’s a hint here somewhere.

Hanover County supervisors voted the other night against protecting the county from harmful data centers, approving the Mountain Road data center project by a 6-1 margin. Once again forcing residents to shoulder the costs of developments that harm the environment and contribute to climate change

Disappointing that the Richmond Times-Dispatch doesn’t even bother to fact check guest columns before allowing them to be published. The data center industry is in full panic mode and flooding the paper with bald-faced lies about supposed benefits to the economy from their polluting data centers

Collective bargaining never harmed the economy, and it’s absurd to think that collective bargaining will harm public safety. Everyone wins when people can advocate for themselves for better pay and working conditions bsky.app/profile/rich...

Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 6mo ago

Virginia must approach proposed collective bargaining rights for deputy sheriffs under HB 1263 and SB 378 with caution, ensuring employee support does not come at the expense of public safety

#NoKings protest next Saturday at Monroe Park! #RVA

This week’s calendar of events! #RVA

No one is coming to save us. WE have to save us.

Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hello? Anybody home? Climate "hushing" and avoidance has allowed Trump and the fossil industry to destroy decades of effort. Where is the climate movement? Where are the Democratic politicians? Vast majorities are concerned about climate change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Note that #abolition is not something even on Democrats’ radar, or even sentencing reform. No, it’s “we don’t have enough officers to keep people locked up.”

ProPublica@propublica.org · 7mo ago

Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “crisis conditions” and “pervasive shortages” of critical staff.

#NoWar 🚫 End American imperialism

People are struggling to afford housing, afford food, afford health insurance and this regime is instead taking us headlong into an illegal, immoral, unjustified war with Iran. Trump cares nothing for anyone outside his circle of wealthy elites. #NoWarWithIran

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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The federal EPA wants to force Americans to give as much money as possible to oil companies. State and local leaders have a duty to their constituents to fight back. Here are 16 ways to cut pollution – by making HOUSING more available and affordable. via @climatecabineteducation.org

Housing Policy that Solves Climate Change - Climate Cabinet Education

State and local policy solutions to address the climate crisis, the affordability crisis, and the housing crisis at the same time.

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This week's community calendar! #RVA

We need all hands on deck again to stop the next proposed data center in Hanover County. The Hanover planning commission will consider this project this Thursday evening at 6pm. Come on out and tell them no more polluting data centers! #RVA www.hanovercounty.gov/Activities/A...

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Public Hearing Speaker Registration — Mountain Road Technology Park

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Shame on @vademocrats.bsky.social for caving to data center and fossil fuel companies. Once again, the two party duopoly fails it's citizens. #Virginia #NoDataCenters

Bills in the General Assembly that aim to regulate data center siting, diesel generator use, and SCC oversight virginiamercury.com/2026/01/19/t...

These bills aim to regulate Virginia data center siting, generator use and SCC oversight • Virginia Mercury

As Virginia grapples with an energy crisis fueled by the proliferation of data centers and growing local concern about permitting for the facilities, lawmakers are mulling how to manage the industry. ...

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Those TV ads from Facebook about how great data centers are is related to this phenomenon.

Luigi de Guzman@ouij.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A really good (but not infallible) way to decide whether a business is a scam or not is to ask: are trying to sell you a product you can actually buy, or are they asking you to invest in the concept of a product eventually

Important #RVA school board meeting coming up that we need folks to show up for! We need RPS to condemn I.C.E. and protect our immigrant families! Tuesday, 2/3 at 6pm at City Hall. #RVA

If we block them, we are arguably avoiding not one but two disgusting turns of events

Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 8mo ago

Just had the thought that if/when the data center bubble bursts the buildings could get turned into detention centers, gross