Join our practical workshop to learn how to plan and carry out nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience for justice, Sunday, May 17th, in Seattle. Register for your spot! actionnetwork.org/events/nonvi...
This is exactly right, and it's why the so-called "Quincy Miracle" is not any kind of guide for the new data center proposals across the state. That was a gateway drug--let's call it "a beer". If you liked that, wait'll you see what we have for you; we call it "heroin".
Just: nope.
What could go wrong?
If you read one thing today ...
An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social
billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...
Sure, Trump started the Iran war
But he’s ended it at least six times. Give the man a prize…
If you dig deep enough into the corruption of our democracy, down there at the bottom of the hole you find...a lot of oil
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.
Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!
Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/
Let's get this over 60K letters sent! If you're in Seattle and haven't signed yet....
Great news, we’re putting all the money in all the banks into “What if the phone tree could argue with you?”
I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?
Very glad it's looking like Seattle is leaning towards a data center moratorium—but what keeps nagging at me is: why did they do this? They know our climate goals, SCL's responsibility to its customers, our politics.
How is it serving them to try this? Something is definitely rotten in Denmark.
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
...while causing emissions and power bills to skyrocket, enhancing surveillance and militarism, and serving also to help people make porn and give them terrible advice. yeah, who could have predicted this would alienate folks?
Still just mind-boggled over this:
"Microsoft’s emissions could surge 44% due to just one West Virginia data center that will run entirely on natural gas."
We don't want these hyperscale noise polluters! SEATTLE: send a letter to city council NOW telling them HELL NO to the proposal to build 5 of these clanker factories here. actionnetwork.org/letters/18b9...
This is utterly appalling AND....there's a reason they want to keep this stuff hidden, and it's not (just) competition.
They want to keep it from you and me, because we'll question whether it's worth it, and the answer isn't one that will improve their stock prices.
Especially when it's killing everything we love.
Still just mind-boggled over this:
"Microsoft’s emissions could surge 44% due to just one West Virginia data center that will run entirely on natural gas."
This is utterly appalling AND....there's a reason they want to keep this stuff hidden, and it's not (just) competition.
They want to keep it from you and me, because we'll question whether it's worth it, and the answer isn't one that will improve their stock prices.
Roam Electric, a Kenyan e-motorcycle manufacturer, has seen demand double as consumers shift away from gasoline amid price surges driven by the Iran war.
Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else.
Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
7/5!
In Seattle? Here's something you can do about it! Tell @council.seattle.gov and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social: we need a moratorium on data centers (and also a ban on NDAs)!
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-n...
7/5!
In Seattle? Here's something you can do about it! Tell @council.seattle.gov and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social: we need a moratorium on data centers (and also a ban on NDAs)!
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-n...
Forget sewer socialism. These people need solar socialism.
Given the El Niño, I fear this will be all too real.
But metaphorically, we're in! As long as dogs & others are invited too. Life in all its wonder! Against the machine.
Dang! Forgot to post this, from Sunday night. Excellent show of folks outside Rep. Adam Smith's house to protest FISA. Please call @adamsmith.house.gov, tell him he's right to be concerned about the FISA extension, and tell him to vote NO: 425-793-5180.
Uhhhh....
We're barrelling pretty fast into annual report season, so worth catching up on this v good summary of everything tech-climate-accountability (which also mentions the latest work I led on greenwashing narratives!)
