Every municipality needs to understand that data center jobs do not exist. There are no people in data centers. When people need to go to data centers they usually come from some big tech company HQ, or from some contractor hired to shove servers into racks. They are built by nonlocal specialists.

Steps that Congress can take to rein in Presidential pardon power to prevent executive branch officials acting with impunity www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Democratic Party leadership need to see that the future belongs to representatives that listen to constituents' needs and not corporate needs.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Things that always work all of the time, with studies to prove it, boosting the economy and productivity, and increasing quality of life and public health, and that will never, ever be implemented within my lifetime: 1. UBI 2. 4-day working week

What if DC changed its borders so that it shrank to just the Capitol grounds, the Supreme Court and the White House (plus Treasury, Old Executive Office bldg and Lafayette square. Then asked Maryland to take it back? Then we would have representation but GOP wouldnt freak about a new state. #freeDC

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Social media sites exacerbate hateful and divisive rhetoric that is fracturing our democracy. We need rules of the road to ensure Big Tech doesn’t profit from inciting violence.

Vaccines are safe and effective- just look around!

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Time-series analysis examined how Vietnam antiwar protests affected congressional voting. Using NYT data, authors tested three mechanisms. Extreme protests increased pro-peace voting/slowed action, while large moderate protests sped voting but reduced pro-peace outcomes. www.jstor.org/stable/3088914

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Comment by Monday on EPA's terrible proposal to remove their previous finding of fact that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. With this gone, they can no longer regulate. www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

Yes, it is!!! Pass it on

Melissa Hortman (1970-2025)

Get out there on Oct 18 and make your voice heard www.commondreams.org/news/no-king... #freeDC #noKings

Canceled my Disney subscription and gave that money to my local NPR instead.

#freedc The house has passed four bills attacking democracy in DC. These bills attempt to strip DC of power over our judicial nominations, high-speed chase laws, youth prosecutions, and sentencing. None of these are things that DC voters want. Sign up to protest freedcproject.org/event-list/d...

Trump thinks hiding our history will erase it, but it won't — it only insults the memory of those who lived it and those who fought for progress. We should be learning from our past, not burying it.

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Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

This week the House will vote on 4 bills aimed at DC courts, youth prosecutions, youth sentencing, and highspeed chase laws. 9 more bills against DC are in the works that would undo local laws in some key way. Help us push back- call your Rep: freedcproject.org/news/make-ca...

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

I sent a message, as recommended. I also think that the FCC should investigate this incident as hate speech against a class of people and consider sanctions against Fox News. Calling for murder is not just horrible and wrong, but a violation of their broadcast license.

Vaccines not only save lives, they save money. Paying a hospital bill for what should have been an avoidable illness could bankrupt families and cost the government billions. Vaccines work and are a cost-effective investment.

Today, September 13, women in England march through the streets of London against racism and fascism. #AntiRacismDay #Resist #Pinks

This is just the direct subsidy. It’s also an economic subsidy if you’re allowed to pollute for free. That subsidy of fossil fuel has hit $700 billion a year. Every year. It’s the biggest subsidy in world history.

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Well, fuck www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...

An abbreviated list for the racist death cult masquerading as a political party under the warming glow of gaslight

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

As much as there is no reason that can justify the killing of #CharlieKirk, there is also no reason to lionize him as a champion of free speech- he was not that. News outlets need to stop looking for good things about him to highlight. Mother Jones explains why www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government

This chart is wild. Near vertical direction on solar capacity globally, led by China. And as Ember notes in a new report today, that trend is accelerating with nearly 400GW new capacity in first 6 months of 2025.

@governor.ca.gov I think "loopy D" sounds like a good moniker for the cheeto in the White House

It occurs to me that perhaps the younger folks didn't entirely understand Trump's movie reference in his tweet about invading Chicago. The scene from Apocalypse Now (1979) was supposed to illustrate the callousness of war. Maybe Trump didn't get that either. youtu.be/uchT2LH3eTY?...