every once in a while it hits me hard: we could've built a good world, a better world. we could've dealt with climate change in the 70s. could've responded to the AIDS crisis with robust protections for queer people. could've completed Reconstruction. and so many more things.
instead, we live here.
Companies building data centers are "targeting" Indigenous communities where there is often less legal infrastructure to hold them accountable, says Krystal Two Bulls from @honortheearth.bsky.social.
"Right now, we're looking at about 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands."
Someone once said, "you don't have to like someone to be their comrade" and that really stuck with me
People who refuse to empathize with others and refuse to have compassion for people who suffer are doomed to have their pet leopard eat their face.
Remember how last September, Trump announced that he would be cracking down on all opposition to fascism, designating it as "terrorism"?
If you are not personally experiencing repression yet, it is thanks to those—for example, in Minnesota—who tied the administration down in other fights.
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
The boss maintains power by keeping workers divided. If they can keep us from and working out our problems together, they’ve won the battle before it even starts.
Adapted from our new book, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard by Ellen David Friedman.
Get your copy: labornotes.org/keepgoing
this is important to get your head around the basic shape of water use out West. farmers get the overwhelming majority of it--far more than all industry and cities put together--and pay almost nothing for it
The Supreme Court will hear from Catholic preschools that say Colorado violated their religious rights by excluding them from a state-funded free-preschool program over their admission policies. The state says religious schools are welcome to participate, but must follow nondiscrimination laws
in the American West, we've got totally nonsensical 174-year-old legal structures about water rights colliding with climate change-fueled drought, with the federal government AWOL prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...
This year’s record-warm spring is pummeling Colorado farmers amid multiple external threats, disrupting the state’s $9 billion agricultural sector and jeopardizing signature crops like Pueblo green chiles, Olathe sweet corn and Palisade peaches. "I am hoping to get through this year," a farmer says
*me sitting on the highest horse I can find, muttering to myself
I hate the word 'countless' so much. You can count, you just don't want to. Same with the word 'endless.' Everything ends actually. 'Limitless' too. All things have limits, except God, but that's not what you're talking about.
I used to be able to tell my phone "navigate to Costco" and it would pull up directions. Now an AI voice tells me the address of the two nearest Costcos and advises me to use Waze or MapQuest to get there. If I open Google Maps and type Costco, I get an ad for Safeway.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
I think we truly don’t appreciate how much the internet has influenced and given rise to the idea that *everything* is debatable and the ultimate arbiter of truth is determined by who is willing to talk the longest.
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The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!
A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United | David Sirota A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America’s legal system ...
screenshot from linked to essay that reads: What is new is that, starting around 2015—in the wake of increased trans visibility in the media (sometimes called the “transgender tipping point”) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell legalizing same-sex marriage—social conservatives began shifting their efforts toward targeting trans people instead. The attacks have since grown into a highly coordinated and well–funded movement that churns out both anti-trans and broader anti-LGBTQ legislation at unprecedented levels. This is the real reason why Republicans have become obsessed with “fairness in women’s sports,” “biological sex,” “social contagion,” “restrooms,” “grooming,” and other soundbites that didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.
...btw I link to evidence that the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated and well–funded (especially via right-wing orgs) movement in this essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school.
Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.
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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
As alarming and hyper-partisan as this is (and it demonstrates how Palantir has be surgically removed from all government influence) it’s also incredibly vacuous.
This is the level of thinking and analysis you’d expect from college freshmen taking an intro course.
Another reminder to get off as many Google services as possible.
Check out my guide to get off US tech more widely: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
I’m really curious why he converted to Catholicism when he clearly is a prosperity gospel heretic. did he go to the wrong Chillicothe Ramada Inn conference room on the first day of classes and stuck with it cause he was too embarrassed to admit his mistake?
"All this is sparking a stampede toward renewable energy and EVs around the world." prospect.org/2026/04/15/a...
NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis.
UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.
The open letter against the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger has now doubled to 2,000 top industry professionals.
Hollywood is in open revolt against the merger.
blockthemerger.com/openletter
New: Thomson Reuters, which runs the CLEAR database ICE uses, fired a longstanding employee for speaking out against ICE, a new lawsuit says. Billie Little led an internal effort raising concerns; was fired. We've shown CLEAR is linked to ICE's Palantir tool
www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
