Trump math.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

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LA Teachers Strike: Responding to Our Critics - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/20/l...

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world's largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember.

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ #Climate

Meet Cierra Pearl, a second-year apprentice with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 567 in southern Maine. Cierra hopes to see more clean energy projects built to help make life more affordable. Read her full interview: cjnrc.org/cierra/

New 📰 from @betonyjones.bsky.social and @joepeck.co.uk:

Despite claims Biden’s industrial strategy is a “political loser,” the data says otherwise. Durable climate progress depends on capital and organized workers & communities.

Full report: https://bit.ly/4syLnUz

The Stock Market is Not Your Friend The redistribution from wages to profits that fueled the rise is not cause for celebration

The redistribution from wages to profits that fuels the run-up in stock prices is not something most people have reason to celebrate deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-stock-...

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

Trump is angry at the Pope, so he has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone

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Flow chart showing the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration each year.

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush 4/19/23 5/1/24 4/11/26

"No one has ever gotten pregnant while listening to the music of Rush. Clinical studies show that when combined with watching a male sexual partner play air bass along to the extended solo in 'Freewill,' the contraceptive efficacy of Rush approaches 100 percent."

Painting of a woodland carpeted with light purple blossoms

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

OOOF, all of the wage growth over the last year erased in one month

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

"The central finding is clear: when these four states nearly doubled their minimum wage, restaurant employment largely stayed stable, even as pay grew substantially."

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the Unabomber

“Do your own research”, they say… conveniently ignoring the thousands of climate scientists who already did.

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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

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Graph showing mass punishment rates by state as of 2026, including both incarceration and community supervision in one comprehensive rate.

If the number of people on probation & parole in the U.S. right now were its own state, it would be roughly the size of Connecticut, more populous than 21 other states and D.C.

So much for the "land of the free."

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Trump administration's fiscal 2027 budget request asks Congress to cut nondefense programs by 10% and increase defense funding by 42%

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This jobs report does not bode well. Avg job growth over the last two months was just 22,500. The March drop in unemp was people leaving the labor force—not finding jobs. Wage growth slowed, especially for nonsupervisory workers.

And the effects of our war in Iran aren’t even in these numbers yet.

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard?

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Firearms a leading cause of death for Ohio children, compounded by a lack of support for prevention • Ohio Capital Journal A new report from Children’s Defense Fund Ohio shows firearms as a leading cause of death for children, a statistic that has been exacerbated by a lack of funding and support for gun violence…

A new report from Children’s Defense Fund Ohio shows firearms as a leading cause of death for children, a statistic that has been exacerbated by a lack of funding and support for gun violence prevention, the group says. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/02/f...

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

When utilities ask to raise rates, customers pay the legal fees. A bill in Mass. would change that Lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit utilities from passing on rate case expenses to their customers. Instead, the utility would foot the bill, taking the money out of its shareho...

When your utility asks state regulators to let them raise rates, they often hire expensive consultants and outside lawyers to help them make their case.

Then you, the ratepayer, foot the bill.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞

It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it.

Your life is precious.

+1-877-565-8860

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