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Maine passes first-in-nation freeze on big data centers The Maine legislature passed the first state ban in the nation on the development of large data centers on Tuesday.  The temporary measure, which lasts for 1.5 years, restricts the constructio…

12 more states have bills to ban new data centers but Maine passed theirs first. The future is absolutely up for grabs.

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The plane to Ethiopia below is the second private jet owned by MAGA billionaires Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi to do ICE charters. The other one, which I wrote about last month, did a third-country removal to an Eswatini prison, plus ICE stops in Liberia and Ghana. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...

montana constitution stays winning

"...where a coalition of doers... takes steps toward removing legal barriers like investment protections for oil, gas, and coal that make fossil phaseout prohibitive, and opening new legal avenues, like a Fossil Fuel Treaty...”
— @nikkireisch.bsky.social

Idaho Is Ground Zero of Republicans’ Escalating War on Trans People Ten years ago, bathroom bans inspired boycotts and celebrity opposition. Where’s the national outrage now?

Idaho has the most punitive anti-trans bathroom ban in the country, with up to five years in prison for a second offense. I spoke to the folks pushing back—over what just a few years ago led to calls for boycotts, the state legislature shamed on the national stage—on how they fight.

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country.

Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

“The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.” - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

We made ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER to tell this story
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The U.S. Postal Service is just that, a service. It's not a for-profit entity.

Listening to this now. We are always playing catch up... 🙃

Note: these pastors oversee the service Hegseth attends.

“Under their model, voting rights would belong to the head of each household — not to individuals. Women in households led by a husband would not (vote) … women who are widowed, divorced or otherwise head of their own households would vote.”

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows.

Oil executives sold more than $1.4 billion in personal stock, since January, profiting off US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the resulting energy crisis.

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth made $104 million. In March alone, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance made about $54 million.

By Heated's @emorwee.bsky.social:

Perhaps many, many media outlets were also swayed by counterveiling PR as well?

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

Bathroom sign with male and female symbols and text about Idaho’s bathroom law effective July 1, 2026. Transcribed Text: Idaho’s Criminal Bathroom Law Goes into Effect July 1, 2026

HB 752 is effective on July 1, 2026. Until then, the only bathroom restrictions are in public schools, correctional facilities, and domestic violence shelters. If you experience harassment in public bathrooms based on your appearance, file a complaint with us: request.acluidaho.org

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Rude form of enshitification.

Hail Mary is really good climate crisis storytelling about a lonely ken helping to save earth and finding a friend.

“ICE: What everyone should know” is live! It is a primer book, less than 100 pgs on who they are, what they can legally do & what we can do about them. Only available on Amazon e-books at the moment: a.co/d/0i1AfY0v

Data Centers: not popular

Port Washington passes TIF referendum proposed by data center skeptics A Port Washington referendum that sprung from data center pushback, asking whether voters should approve major public financing, succeeded on April 7.

a small town in wisconsin is now one of the first municipalities to pass an anti-data center referendum at the ballot box letting them have the power to stop future projects

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

"Many of those governments will gather in Colombia on 28-29 April for a conference to begin a global transition...Critically, the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels will not be governed by UN rules, which require consensus, but by majority rule"

"It is not too late to say stop. If we don't, we shouldn't be able to fucking call ourselves human"

Greta Thunberg on Trump's threat to commit genocide

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Economy so bad they literally closed the dick-sucking factory

Earthset

Earth Eclipse

Stunning. What a view.

Right now democrats are too busy taking money from tech bros to see the anti data center train barreling towards them

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

District 31: State budget-writer faces rematch with traditional-values former lawmaker Rep. Rod Furniss faces a rematch with former legislator Karey Hanks in this East Idaho district.

Really no good choice here for voters in East Idaho Legislative District 31, but also, @idahoednews.bsky.social does them no favors using the euphemism "traditional values" -- this is a race between a "traditional Republican" vs. a MAGA extremist Republican.

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