NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.
less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
Happy Earth Day. Walt Kelly's poster for the very first Earth Day, 1970.
"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.
Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
Trump thought he could steal the midterms by making MAGA minions rig the House maps.
They thought blue states would sit back and do nothing.
We proved them wrong. Thank you to VA Indivisibles and organizers across the commonwealth for this huge win and your commitment to protecting our democracy.
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”
the revolution will not be televised but it will be funded with Girl Scout cookies and PTA bake sales
it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.
in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.
Over the course of a decade, I made lots of trips to #Afghanistan and spent time with US troops throughout the country. One thing they all-- every single one-- agreed on:
♦️They felt the US owed Afghan interpreters & other staff far, far more than a mere salary.
This is how we're treating them now:
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice told a federal court Tuesday that it does not intend to use sensitive voter data it collects to remove people from voter rolls — even as its own agreements with states suggest otherwise. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🚨 Talks with Iran have collapsed before they even began.
Iran refuses to negotiate under a U.S. naval blockade and threats, and Trump says he expects bombing to resume once the ceasefire ends.
Iran is warning it will retaliate if attacked—and planned talks in Pakistan appear dead.
+1 (804) 600-0041> CheNew Hork times "Eighty-one percent of Democrats and 66 percent of independents said they opposed plans by political leaders to redraw voting districts to win more congressional seats..." April 20, 2026 Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans all agree: Political Gerrymandering Hi, this is Natalie. According to the NY Times, "81% of Democrats and 66% of independents said they opposed plans by political leaders to redraw voting districts to win more congressional seats." Richmond politicians think they can rig the system. Voters across party lines disagree. Join your neighbors - Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans - who know political gerrymandering is wrong, and vote NO today. Stand together. Vote NO now. Paid for by Virginians for Fair Maps RC + /: Text Message • SMS
Text Message • SMS Today 2:49 PM It's ok to vote "No" today. Stop partisan redistricting & protect fair representation in Virginia. Not left, not right, Forward. Reply STOP to opt out. Reply STOP to opt out Fuck you If you did not expect this message from an unknown sender, it may be spam. Stop or Report Spam
Just a sampling of the ratfucking spam Republicans backed by Peter Thiel have been blanketing Democratic voters in Virginia with on Election Day
This is very good
Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar said today that his country must take Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into custody if he enters Hungarian territory while wanted by the International Criminal Court.
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Dump crowing about E's acumen with those vote-counting computers and E crowing about how he delivered the election to Dump.
The Republicans rigged all three elections. They just didn’t do it well enough in ‘20.
“We know we won in 2020 because we cheated” is the vibe I’m getting.
We know they are actively rigging the mid-terms but we have to make sure it doesn’t work. This is the fight.
The murders continue.
The U.S. Has Now Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
What happened to the combined $63 million that Paramount, Meta, X, and ABC paid to the ‘Trump Presidential Library’ fund after surrendering? It just kinda disappeared. newrepublic.com/article/2092...
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Palantir is calling for universal military service for all Americans.
I’m so tired of this self righteous stuff from men in response to the rape website.
“Not all men. I’m not responsible for the actions of bad men.”
Why not? We make women vessels to carry that shame. You can at least step up and share the burden. It should never have been ours to carry.
Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse.
So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries.
It’s your turn.
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes...
"She was in a state of physical shock...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
WE Pay for
