Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
The average federal income tax for an individual is 14.5%.
But in 2025, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, paid just an 8% tax rate.
Meta paid just 3.75%.
Amazon paid just 1.37%.
Palantir and Tesla paid nothing.
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Can you spot which one of these things is not like the other?
So the Pope is weak on crime and foreign policy according to the brain-trust we installed in the Oval.
Sure, Jan.
Is Trump resurrecting Jeffrey Epstein?
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center
Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.
“It’s frankly embarrassing.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social discusses the ways the US has failed to keep pace with the world and what the future might look like.
First the city council in this Missouri city approved a $6 billion data center, despite massive pushback.
Then, during yesterday’s election in Festus, MO, residents overwhelmingly voted to kick out the incumbents who voted for the project.
America is fed up with data centers.
Please support Drop Site News. They're pissing off all the right people.
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Here's hoping this day drunk "Christian" nationalist will be the next to be fired.
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ICE loves hurting and killing women.
California, Texas, and Iowa communities near concentrated animal feeding operations are more prone to cancer, according to a Yale University study.
Factory farms are known for contaminants such as ammonia and nitrate that form secondary pollutants and carcinogens.
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Nothing says expert like a weekend talk show host.
When he gets fired the orange balloon will hire Sylvester Stallone as Secretary of Defense because, well, you know…Rambo. 🤨
Fascist bullsh*t
One pound of ground beef now costs more on average than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
There should be a full investigation and prosecution of all criminals who aided and abetted Epstein's crimes. Bankers and corporate elites must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
And then let's also immediately end the war Trump launched to bury this scandal.
No.
Call me a radical, but NO.
We should not be replacing teachers in America with robots.
We should attract the best and brightest in our country to become teachers and pay them the decent wages that they deserve.
AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government.
Trump’s delusions of jointly controlling the Strait of Hormuz with Iran are straight out of the rom-com "Me and the Ayatollah"
Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots.
That’s a declaration of war against the working class.
He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?
🗞️ “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this”: Graham pushes plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island 🔹Sen. Lindsey Graham has urged President Trump to escalate the war by seizing Iran’s main oil export terminal, arguing that controlling Kharg Island would cut off roughly 90% of Iran’s oil revenue and “end the war.” “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this,” Graham said — referencing a World War II battle in which U.S. forces seized a heavily defended island at the cost of ~26,000 U.S. casualties. 🔹His plan, he says, would mean seizing or blockading the island located just off Iran’s southern coast in the Persian Gulf. Analysts warn such a move could remove up to 2 million barrels of oil per day from global markets and drive prices sharply higher. Some military experts have described a ground operation there as “near suicidal,” noting U.S. forces would be exposed to sustained drone and artillery fire from the Iranian mainland just 15–20 miles away. Tehran has warned any such move would trigger “unprecedented” retaliation, including strikes on regional energy infrastructure and key shipping routes. 🔹Trump however has increasingly aligned with Graham’s hawkish recommendations in his second term, marking a shift from his purported “America First” skepticism of overseas intervention toward the maximalist military action long advocated by Graham.
🗞️ “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this”: Graham pushes plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island
🔹Sen. Lindsey Graham has urged Pres. Trump to escalate the war by seizing Iran’s main oil export terminal, arguing that controlling Kharg Island would cut off roughly 90% of Iran’s oil revenue and “end the war.”...
Oh.
So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature.
Got it.
NEWS: Republicans and Democrats blast Trump for comments about Robert Mueller in major rebuke.
Trump to deploy ICE agents to airports.
Iran war quickly expands, Israel suffers worst strike since start of the war.
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Days after the CBS News union held a 24hr walkout over failed contract negotiations, Bari Weiss has announced a 6% staff layoff and the closure of CBS News Radio.
This is the second round of layoffs since billionaire David Ellison acquired CBS-parent Paramount.
Still one of our all-time faves. ✊
Tucked inside the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse farmers for 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies.
The standards governing those tech wouldn't be set by the USDA, but by the tech industry.
This could give Big Tech immense power over farmers.
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