Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma.

For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, @mlk50.com

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

Central Banks Must Stem the Nature Crisis | by Julie McCarthy - Project Syndicate Julie McCarthy urges monetary authorities to use their tools to mitigate the financial risks of environmental disruption.

Protecting the financial system from nature- and climate-related shocks hardly chimes with the current political moment.

But central banks and supervisors have the tools to do just that, argues @naturefinance.bsky.social’s @julienicmic.bsky.social.

Some Afrikaners Cheer as Trump Amplifies Claims of Persecution An executive order from President Trump on Friday put the weight of U.S. influence behind a hotly disputed claim in South Africa that Afrikaners were the “victims of unjust racial discrimination.”

Wait, isn't this DEI? (the white supremacist version) "Some Afrikaners Cheer as Trump Amplifies Claims of Persecution" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...