Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

"We were praying! Loudly! Did everyone hear our performative prayer? Be sure you write down that you heard us praying! It was very sincere. Be sure to write that too.:"

Iran Dismisses US Ceasefire Plan, Issues Counterproposal as Strikes Land Across Mideast Iran on Wednesday rejected an American ceasefire proposal and issued one of its own as it continued strikes on Israel and Gulf Arab countries.

Amid the dueling ceasefire proposals, at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division will be sent to the Mideast in the coming days, three people with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans.

“Protest politely” -dumb guys

The combination of Interstate (and state) highway construction and transit disinvestment, more importantly, also allows the state to surgically create cordon sanitaires by sealing off chokepoints. This makes spontaneous mass demonstrations impossible without the threat of large-scale kettling

For >90% of Americans, college is the only point in the lifetimes where they will live in dense, walkable, racially diverse places.

That's also why the Interstate Highway System, in the hands of white supremacist urban segregationists, was a social engineering project as much as a jobs project

Inside the Instagram Machine That Got Zohran Mamdani Elected - Manychat Blog Discover how Zohran Mamdani's team leveraged Instagram automation to mobilize voters and win his mayoral election.

Instagram and TikTok were clearly key and innovative forces behind Zohran Mamdani's rise. From everything I read and heard this was led by women. Yet, somehow, it ended up being a white dude taking a huge victory lap in the NYT.
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Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund

the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

What if we kissed at the local salamander crossing @brightsides.bsky.social

Squash the beef! He talks about health care access and closing the coverage gap all the time! We’re good!

I love Doug! He’s the best reason ever to get bumped!

Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, today. Sell all my cameras, buy 600mm lenses and just shoot birds. Don't tempt me, I'll do it. Ft. @brightsides.bsky.social

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

Good catch.

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

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"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

It’s always exactly who you think it is. Every time.

Read. And support mfp.

At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

Fyi one of the Kirk videos is incredibly graphic. If you're looking at media of the event (especially on Twitter) make sure your sensitivity settings are where you'd want them to be.

Bessemer, Alabama. @brightsides.bsky.social hollering at me to pull over, there's a car on the roof. Kentmere 200, Zeiss Nettar that I somehow took apart and reassembled and it still works. I'm as shocked as you are.

Not sure what to do about the fact that this country’s latest illegal war is being waged by a presidential administration that consists, top to bottom, of people who lie about everything, all the time

Being a millennial is just:

Watch a bunch of people die on live television in middle school homeroom

See America get excited about killing Middle Eastern people - literally forever apparently

Being in debt

Everyone asking you why your whole generation is so depressed and anxious all the time

“This is not constitutional!” I cry as the temu-bought katana enters my belly