Best testimony on data centers I've seen yet. Worth your 4 minutes.

DOGE was foolish and reckless, playing with people's lives snd livelihoods. They need to be self accountable. Take action!

This is sooooo good. Listen up!

The #GreatOhioClimateMarch sounds like lots and lots of fun, and a source of real power!

MOV Climate Corner: Public lands need protection For the first eight years of my life, our family lived in a small rented house in Steubenville, Ohio. We had a tiny yard lacking any trees, so my mom would take my siblings and me to a local park. She...

As Earth Day approaches, Ohioans need to push back against politicians fracking our precious public lands for a buck. Randi Pokladnik for Marietta Times: bit.ly/3PVdfF1

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This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

Wide Amsterdam street jammed with colourful cars in the 1970s.

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.

Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it"

both parts are important!

You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.

Ohio Senators get update on utility overhaul, forecast of future power demands • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Senators recently got an update from state utility regulators and an official with the regional grid operator, PJM Interconnection. The presentations offered an early progress report on a utility...

In 2025, PUCO approved 2,000 MW of behind-the-meter power and received applications for 2,755 MW of traditional natural gas-operating facilities.

What fueled demand? Data centers. @nckevns.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4sQFenF

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People don't camp out at a state park to see the glow from frack wells. This is not compatible with the use of the park.

On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference that make us feel powerless in the face of evil. To the Lord we entrust all hearts that suffer and await the true peace that only he can give. Let us entrust ourselves to him and open our hearts to him! He is the only one who makes all things new (cf. Rev 21:5). Happy Easter!

“Easter is the victory of life over death, of light over darkness, of love over hatred.”

Pope Leo’s Easter message:
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There is no future for humanity in which the basic conditions for life for millions of people can be destroyed on one person’s whim.

The Moon is coming into focus, Artemis II just sent back this first image!

As many as 356,000 Ohioans will lose health coverage under Trump spending law, new reports says • Ohio Capital Journal A Trump-backed law imposes Medicaid work requirements. A report says 356,000 Ohioans will lose coverage. Almost all have jobs or can't work.

As many as 356,000 Ohioans will lose health coverage under Trump spending law, new reports says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/31/a...

As a matter of fact I never have seen this before, and I hope I never do again.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

The US Is Sitting On 161 Gigawatts Of Wind Farm Capacity Repowering old wind farms with new turbines can extend the useful life of the site, add more capacity, or reduce the number of turbines.

Onshore wind repowering could meet 21% instead of 10.5% of 2024 U.S. electricity-- upgrading existing wind projects. Opinion. @tinamcasey.bsky.social @cleantechnica.bsky.social: bit.ly/41cNUc4

Ohio has a fossil fuels problem, not an energy problem.

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Trump-Backed Ohio Gas Plant Could Become Biggest US Power Polluter President Donald Trump's proposal for a massive gas-fired power plant in Ohio would likely create one of the nation's largest sources of carbon dioxide

Wish we were fooling, but we're not.

SoftBank $33 B, $9.3 GW data center in Piketon is in area with cancer clusters and early death rate of 107 times U.S. average. Aaron Clark Insurance Journal: bit.ly/3O3Q7U2

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Recently I've had two conversations with a prominent reporter who doesn't understand when he's being fed oil industry propaganda. I tried to explain what the consensus of science is. You might as well question gravity as sow doubt about climate change.

Outdoor recreation made Ohio $20 billion in 2024 The industry supports 150,000 jobs statewide.

In 2022, Gov. DeWine said he wanted Ohio state parks to be best in the nation.

In 2023, he fracked them-- along with wildlife areas, ODOT rights-of-way, even a prison. @andrewkingcbus.bsky.social @axios.com: bit.ly/41GOwXq

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A Save Ohio Parks billboard is up at Wheeling Avenue next to the All for Kids Daycare in Cambridge. It's 17 miles from Salt Fork State Park in Lore City. Salt Fork is the midpoint for Third Act Ohio's "Great Ohio Climate March," to be held May 16-18. Registration is underway until April 16 to hike from Athens to Salt Fork and Columbus, viewing pristine rural Ohio landscapes along with polluting fracking and data center infrastructure along the way. (Save Ohio Parks Image)

Look what's new at Salt Fork State Park.

Just in time for the Great Ohio Climate March May 16-28. bit.ly/414DGdp

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Geophysicists say there is an increased risks of destructive floods and wild fires due to climate change. A guy who thinks he was teleported to a Waffle House says there's nothing to worry about. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Trump-Backed Ohio Gas Plant Could Become Biggest US Power Polluter President Donald Trump's proposal for a massive gas-fired power plant in Ohio would likely create one of the nation's largest sources of carbon dioxide

$33 B Softbank data center powered by natural gas fracked from Ohio public lands will emit 16-19 M metric tons of CO2 a year, on par with emissions from 3.8 million gas cars over a year of driving. bit.ly/3O3Q7U2

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Where did democracy go? It's MIA on the local, state, and national levels.

They look like they are 12.

Not sure if they are taking lessons from Ohio or if Ohio is taking lessons from them. Either way these lands belong to us and they are meant to be protected.

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown When then-U.S. president John F . Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development in 1961, it was meant primarily to administer health and food aid around the world. In the deca...

Since the closure of USAID an estimated 834,000 people lost their lives as a result of the loss of health assistance. USAID was also one of the largest contributors to conservation ($400m annually). This week on the podcast, Michelle Nijhuis @biographic.bsky.social details the situation a year on.

This is also a pretty standard right-wing tactic — to blame "the left" for the reactionary / authoritarian / anti-science positions the right espouses.

Saying scientists "allowed the science to get politicized" is also an abuser's excuse, as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social notes: "she made me do it."