“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

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this is exactly the kind of dirty, backroom politics that charter reform was designed to overcome. they are pissed that socialists and progressives have won power at city hall and have begun using that power to deliver wins to the people, and they don't want that to spread.

🚨NEW @ms.now: A federal appeals court in LA temporarily blocked telehealth access to mifepristone *nationwide* today — so yes, this affects you even if you live in a blue state. As @maryrziegler.bsky.social put it, it’ll make the post-Roe reality crystal clear — for all Americans. What to know:

God almighty, Uzbekistan wasn’t the last stop. This ICE flight continued on to Pakistan via this circuitous route. Migrant passengers onboard will have been shackled for at least 43 hours.

Representative Bynum this vote is a travesty and yet another betrayal of your constituents @bynum.house.gov

Here's my latest peer-reviewed article coming out in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles about safety data for self-driving cars and resulting crash classifications (Waymo isn't safer than the average human driver). www.researchgate.net/publication/... These cars are struggling when faced with uncertainty

BREAKING: The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.

Trump fired the entire board of the National Science Foundation: www.science.org/content/arti...

New to me: Atmospheric thirst columbiainsight.org/could-summer...

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers. The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits." My story:

If you think BECCS (using wood as an electricity source, hoping to capture carbon) will save us, you should really read this paper.

I’m actually not that interested in oil price discourse but I do want to see more recognition that as a major oil producer, the US *benefits* from high oil prices. Our choice to let private interests vs the public own the oil — which is globally extremely unusual — means those profits are private.

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

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Dahlgren is still out in Old Town most days, making money off of people’s suffering. And @mayorkwilson.bsky.social is doing interviews with the guy.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

Absolutely not.

Less than one day after the Trump administration agreed to a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran, Israel struck Lebanon in its heaviest and deadliest attack on the country since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began. At least 250 deaths have been reported.

Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Samir Washah has been killed in Gaza following an Israeli drone strike on his car at Al-Nabulsi roundabout, west of Gaza City. Footage shared from the scene by Drop Site contributor Mohammed Ahmed shows the vehicle engulfed in flames, indicating a direct...

We love our jobs and are proud of our work. But we need a fair contract — just cause, fair wages and basic AI guardrails — to do this work well. So we’re striking today. Don’t cross the picket line.

I love my job. I believe in ProPublica's mission. I have so much work to do today on a story that should publish soon. But today, I'm on strike with my colleagues at the @propublicaguild.org. Hoping we get over the finish line SOON on our very first contract -- and a fair one.

We didn't deserve this day.

"including Lebanon and elsewhere"

I would be a lot more into the Artemis II mission if I wasn't far more worried for a further 90 million people about to be obliterated by a madman tomorrow by the very same nation that made the capsule. Really spoils the amazement, not going to lie.

awesome resource: @mariloupage.bsky.social put together this consistently-updated mediagraphy of pieces of writing that are critical of AI!

Google’s Oregon data centers drank a lot more water in The Dalles last year – they now use 40% of all the city’s water, and climbing. City leaders and conservationists disagree about the implications of Google’s enormous thirst. But they agree the company’s secrecy continues sowing distrust.

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

The world is healing...

Another example of refusing to collect data whose results you don’t like: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi and Spencer Ackerman respond to Trump's primetime address on the war on Iran last night.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

If you live in Oregon, fill this out and remind state leaders that the real problems in our state are related to income inequality and affordability, not a more business friendly (think, data centers, tax cuts and sports arenas) climate.

And in the midst of it all, this.

Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump.

The role the New York Times is to report the news — and to normalize the horrors of the Trump administration. 2 days ago: the Trump regime vaporizes a poisonous cloud of oil over Tehran. Today: the Times 👇

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

Meanwhile, Tina “data center “ Kotek, does knight’s work for him.

Just a reminder that while Trump continues his insane war on Iraq, his ICE goons are still terrorizing and kidnapping people all over the US.

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.” These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Polio. unbelievable. My father had polio and spent a year away from his family in a children’s hospital at age 8. And he died early after suffering for many years with respiratory issues likely due to post-polio syndrome. Get your kids vaccinated, people.