For when people start inevitably doing the "trans people demanded too much too fast" routine in Australia, the lapse between this and the passage of the Sex Discrimination Amendment Act 2013 was thirty-one years

S&P 500 ----> yeah, nah. (sanity prevails) "To ​be included in the S&P 500, a company must be profitable under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in its most recent quarter as ​well as for the sum of its most recent four quarters .... SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.94 billion in 2025" lmao

it's not that surprising. also look up Rachel Whetstone, his wife, who led corpcomm for Google, Uber, and your favourite universe of bigtech cos doing unsavoury things

I’m so upset. It happened today. ICE came to my hometown and took several people as they were waiting for the courthouse to open. Not even our mayor has any information about where they are being detained.

In 1381 England witnessed a #medieval ‘summer of blood’ as the lower orders flexed their muscle in the #PeasantsRevolt. ⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free buff.ly/DJQf3Rn

And it's not like oil and gas extraction is even particularly well-liked in extraction zones. Remember all the opposition to fracking?

Things like oil and gas extraction have well-established and organized support networks that have experience working public opinion and in areas of extraction often provide otherwise rare higher-paying work. Meanwhile the pro-rata center side has been disastrously bad at self-promotion.

The anti-data center coalition has a lot of people concerned about a lot of different things, some real and some fake, and on the merits they kind of suck shit, so it seems logical that there'd be a public backlash.

OK but those things *already* saw intense opposition from the rightward side of the anti-data center coalition. The only difference here is that there is a large hostile leftward side.

gets called nazis for the mildest verbal pushback, does nothing anyway gets called vichy for mild verbal pushback, does nothing anyway gets own citizens ziptied and mistreated, cries and then does nothing anyway

AIPAC was initially happy to claim that Al Green’s loss to Menefee was a victory for the pro-Israel bloc in Congress, now Menefee is a cosponsor on the most important piece of legislation seeking to block weapon shipments to Israeli apartheid.

This is why it was really weird that AIPAC took a victory lap over Al Green losing. Menefee hasn't really said a ton about Gaza but it's not like they replaced Al Green with Richie Torres

Sort of funny how they want to sneak anger over Gaza into this, unfortunately for the Economist anger over Gaza has actually proven to be pervasive across the political spectrum for younger people. And in the US, polling actually suggests it changed older people's opinion of Israel the most.

Backed by AIPAC, marched with Smotrich in the Israel Day Parade, won't commit to blocking even a single shipment of weapons to Israel as a legislator, doesn't admit that Israel has committed genocide, doesn't call settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal as they factually are.

Gottheimer attacking him over Bosnia reminds me of how many weepy editorials there were in the 90s about how what the Serbs were doing in Bosnia and Kosovo was horrible, but the alternative was a jihadist state so nobody would win, complicated, tragedy, etc. and then we didn't get jihadist states.

I think it's bad that the House Democratic Leader can't just unequivocally condemn a racist smear from a racist newspaper against an army combat medic veteran who just won a primary to join his caucus next year.

Sama has a chronic health condition that requires daily medication. Her life is in danger. It’s vital that she’s immediately & unconditionally released. Alongside Sama, Israeli soldiers unjustly abducted 3 other Palestinian students. Call your senators now and tell them to demand her freedom:

Tlaib does not want to wait until mid-June at the earliest for a vote and also does not want to water down the resolution. Also the claim from leadership that the U.S. is not involved in hostilities in Lebanon is a lie by omission because American intelligence sharing is key to Israeli airstrikes.

Interesting situation developing now where House Democratic leadership announces that they will vote against Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon War Powers Resolution and then introduce their own version of a Lebanon Wars Power Resolution (?) and then they'll ask Tlaib to help them with it (?)

Pew: Across 36 countries polled a median of 67% of all adults have an unfavorable view of Israel

Yeah something I've tried to stress to people when discussing public opinion polling is that being pro-Palestine is actually not a left-to-right issue but almost entirely generational and for the young it cuts across the political alignment spectrum, gender, and race.

it's too late, this election cycle, to primary every one of these fuckers, but they absolutely need to be stomped on in 2028.

half my family lives in maine, my cousin is a dem comms consultant in maine, as soon as platner started blowing up I told everyone I knew "you don't want to know about maine politics, it's really best to just stop paying attention immediately" but nobody listened and here we are

Israel is weighing in on the Dreyfus affair, on the side of the accusers, apparently. What a world.

France is also legally a state of all its citizens and not the state of the ethnic French and the ethnically French state.

If you're born in France, no matter your race, you at least have the right to a pathway to full citizenship. If you are a non Jew, born in "Judea" aka the occupied West Bank, you are permanently stateless and have no pathway to citizenship in Israel while Jews born there get it automatically.

Kinda says a lot about where Israeli politics are at the moment that this is what the leftmost political leader within the Zionist spectrum feels is necessary to do.

So called left wing Zionist political leader Yair Golan has apparently canceled a meeting with the French President Emmanuel Macron because he is afraid that such a meeting would alienate "centrist" Israeli Jews, who oppose Macron because he recognized the State of Palestine.

Another example of this is that a Republican accused Tlaib of being a Hezbollah supporter yesterday and this barely made any news.

This double-standard clearly exists and it would be nice for people to at least acknowledge it.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen is slamming AIPAC and crypto industry PACs for pouring millions of dollars into the race to replace retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer in Maryland. AIPAC bizarrely claims CVH is “discriminating against pro-Israel Americans".

Nobody has a clue what US law says about arms transfers to a country committing gross human rights violations or impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid, nobody has a single iota of a grasp of what constitutes a violation of the Geneva Convention when it comes to prisoners, demography, or land.

Nobody reads the Genocide Convention, nobody reads what the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid says, nobody reads what UNSCR 242 says, nobody reads what UNGAR 194 says, nobody reads what UNSCR 2334 says, nobody reads any ICJ ruling.

Honestly I think the most impressive thing about discussing Israel-Palestine, for a living, is the amount of people who straight up genuinely have absolutely zero clue what the laws they cite actually say

Distributed terrorism as pervasive game/ARG isn't new, but it looks like it's here to stay. This sort of thing was a staple of near-future sci-fi back when "collective intelligence" was cool – think Global Frequency – but it was usually for good. Oh well! www.ft.com/content/58da...

I blocked Stancil Everyone should

there are ample examples of new data centers being built hastily in places where the locals have very little power (like black people who are habitually disenfranchised by their white-power state governments) and i don't think those people are bullshitting about the noise pollution & air pollution

• data centers used to be regulated by the EPA. nobody gives a shit now, the u.s. government is all nazis who masturbate to the idea of polluting harder. • data centers used to be carefully integrated with the power grid. now some of them literally run diesel turbines 24/7?

these "abundance" freaks are lying to you (and themselves, probably) data centers are not *inherently* awful but the land-rush politics of the modern day means the ones being inflicted on you now are literally 100x worse than the ones already built

The myth of the AI bubble is that even if it pops, it'll leave behind "useful infrastructure" like dark fiber. Except AI GPUs have very few other uses, cost both a ton of capex and opex, and require massive, expensive data centers to run. Little will be left. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Imagine looking at a windowless concrete tomb that drinks 5 million gallons of water to employ three guards and thinking, "Ah yes, local commerce!" Trains carry actual human beings who buy things, go to work, and possess a pulse. Data centers just host your dogshit posts on a server rack in Ohio.

this relies on the assumption that data centers actually pay into their communities literally at all, when in reality most states give them (or, increasingly, gave them) generous tax breaks and subsidies to be built in the first place www.ncsl.org/fiscal/polic... www.naiop.org/research-and...

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly

Actually, more broadly- Why do folk, generally, flock to these BlueMAGA, chart-humping, insulated, Joe Biden "return to normalcy"-type libs? These guys champion the same set of material conditions that facilitated the quagmire we're in. Are these your kings?

Honest question- Why is Stancil like this? How has he amassed such a following despite his breathless enthusiasm for a fundamentally unjust set of institutions and socioeconomic policies? Despite his habit of inserting himself in trans women’s spaces?

Forget it, Jake, it's Will Stancil.

A data centre is not just a "building full of computers". Fuck me.

far be it from me to argue directly with will stancil, but it seems pretty clear that data centers are functioning as a sort of metonym or synecdoche for the forcible imposition of AI in all our lives. which is why opposition to them is so widespread. and that seems fine and good to me.

This guy's got a good message that is really resonating with rural people in Texas. The national Democratic party needs to listen to him and take note Also he's a lot smarter than will stancil