They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

Incredibly proud of this piece, where I spoke to dozens of Dalit New Yorkers about their experiences of discrimination and allies who support this bill.

I was doing my junior year in India when the Iraq war started. At my first house party back in the US I saw kids dancing to “Bombs over Baghdaaaaaad” and I left my body for a few minutes.

Many of the replies are so good, heartbreaking, devastating.

@barnalighosh.bsky.social and I have been running an experimental San Francisco South Asian Radical History Walking Tour since 2023, and we just updated it for the current political moment. Need a dose of hope in hard times? Come join us in SF’s Mission District on Sunday, May 24 (1/2)

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

Once in a while I think, surely we’ve reached the limit of irony and absurdity, then they do shit like rolling out a robot trying to find its soul in Seoul. apnews.com/video/south-...

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

“Let me tell you something, kid: everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance - either because they’re too scared or because they don’t recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance, and you shouldn’t let it go by.”

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

Riff on MLK: it is a crime for a country this rich to have a government that deems so many people undeserving of its aid and deserving of its violence.

When it comes to social services, the US is obsessed with distinguishing between deserving and undeserving. Institutions are designed to never reward "undeserving" people and end up punishing "deserving" people in the process. Meanwhile the truly undeserving are rewarded.

ICYMI, the video recording of recent panel "The Data Center Frontier" organized by The Natural History Museum is now available. Featuring yours truly, @krystaltwobulls.bsky.social, Jordan B. Kinder and Vivek Bharathan of @nodesertdatacenter.com thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/the-data-cen...

It turns out that the most unbelievable part of Independence Day wasn't malicious extraterrestrials intent on destroying humanity, the most unbelievable part was that we'd cooperate to defeat them. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/h...

Annual fuck the Met Gala post

Rapper M.I.A. will be M.I.A. from the rest of her latest tour gig, thanks to her onstage remarks about “illegals,” which got her loudly booed and then fired. “I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter,” she said as she was booed

Welcome to everyone who learned today that M.I.A. sucks

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

Honestly, can we get a Satanic Panic about AI, please?

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

What a terrible time to be literate

A group called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners raised money in solidarity with striking miners in the UK. Check out the fantastic movie Pride (2014) and this documentary about them: youtu.be/lHJhbwEcgrA In the doc, you'll see a number of Black folks who didn't make it into the feature movie.

Pride (2014): "All right, take my advice. Don't give it all to the fight. Save some for home. There's more to life, you know?"

My YouTube algorithm is now “this land was returned to beavers and after ten years everything got better” and I’m here for it.

Our Sr. Research Specialist, Jai Dulani, speaks to @counterstream.bsky.social on the false narratives #BigTech is trying to sell you — and how we can flip the script to center our people and the solutions we hold. No #tech product will save us or our planet. www.peaceandriot.org/jamming-the-...

“I do not think that this project will ever be fully built and running in Southern Arizona. I truly believe that with all my heart, as hard as that seems right now, and that is because I believe in our power to stop it and I believe in our power to change the system that allowed this.” Lee Ziesche

“We will continue fighting until we stop this data center,” Spurling said. “Projects like these are not inevitable. We have the power to stop them.”

A “former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public stmt, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, & many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.” 1/

The institution contributing the most to climate change is also preparing for its impacts (they’re doing so much “climate change crap”).

It is April 2026. The Congressional midterm primaries have not yet taken place, let alone the midterms. Yet somehow the Democrats already have an unpopular, unidentified, presumptive presidential nominee, who we all need to support regardless of who they’re willing to throw under the bus to win.

This week, before the ruling was released, before we had a chance to appeal, they started killing the living desert they’ve illegitimately claimed. So much destruction, all in service of the cruelty industry. A new gate on Brekke near Houghton will allow them to clear the east side of the land.

Last Friday, a judge dismissed our lawsuit against Pima County alleging violation of public meeting law. The county misled the public about the zoning plan for Project Blue. They always knew it would be a data center. Our attorneys are planning their appeal.

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

omg, I just learned Raja Krishnamoorthi lost the IL Senate Primary! I'm so late to the party but I still want to celebrate!!

Yesterday, our members in New York, D.C., Chicago and across the country walked out to demand a fair contract. We deserve job security. We deserve to know AI won’t be used to replace us. We know that @propublica.org can and must do better.

What is a country? Is this a country?

Add food to a movie title: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Chapati Mystery (❤️ @sepoy.bsky.social)

Add food to a movie title: Shawarmageddon

Remembering that guy who kept insisting he didn't understand the phrase "the good grammar of civility masking the agenda of cruelty" and wanting to send him this headline and the letter this same publication sent @karenattiah.bsky.social

I’m between 5’10” and 5’11” and the funniest thing to me about the first two is that on the extremely rare occasion in my life when my height is a topic of conversation, the other person usually assumes I’m at least 6’

The first epigraph in my forthcoming book about Appalachia is from hooks’s Appalachian Elegy, which I insisted on dating so that readers could see it published years before Vance’s book and hopefully look it up. For more on the long-term project of Appalachian erasure by racists read Catte:

Figuring out the answer to "Is this genocide?" is among the most enraging human activities. It happens when there have already been too many deaths. It happens in rooms where people can act to prevent more. It happens instead of preventing more.

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

Zuckerberg: good job with DOGE, I’m censoring Facebook for you and Trump Musk: ❤️

Human Rights Watch documented Israel’s use of white phosphorus munitions over the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor on March 3, firing the incendiary weapon over residential areas and sparking fires in at least two homes.

So we're kicking off our Week of Action with our training on how to get ALPR contracts canceled with partners from @mediajustice.bsky.social & guests from @eff.org & on the ground organizers who have been successful with these efforts. Register today! actionnetwork.org/events/flock...

What a relief and how lucky we are to see John’s vital reporting again!!

Last week, in a unanimous vote, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma banned AI data centers on their land. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

This was a really really good read!