The country we've become. aje.news/ny1cev

#Virginia is now seeing exceptional drought across most of the state. Yet our elected leaders continue allowing water-intensive data centers to set up shop and decimate our environment.

If anyone is interested in helping continue the work of the Sunrise Richmond chapter, in whatever form that may look like, shoot me a DM, I’d like to talk. Thanks! #RVA

Ashland residents! Community meeting this evening at 6:30 regarding yet another data center wanting to set up nearby, Randolph-Macon College Copley Science Center. #RVA

Sunrise Richmond stands with Lewis Ginter employees seeking a reasonable, living wage. If you can’t pay your workers a wage they can live on, what are you doing?

The Richmond hub of Sunrise Movement will, in all likelihood, be disbanding this summer, with several core team members relocating or moving on to new chapters in life. There does appear to be interest in keeping our efforts going, though that could be in the form of a fresh new organization...

GOP - *gerrymanders* DEMS - hey stop that no fair GOP - *gerrymanders even more* DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely* DEMS - *start gerrymandering* GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

New York votes socialism. London votes socialism. Amsterdam votes socialism. Paris votes socialism. Chicago votes socialism. Milan votes socialism. All the capitals of capitalism are voting for socialism. There’s a hint here somewhere.

Hanover County supervisors voted the other night against protecting the county from harmful data centers, approving the Mountain Road data center project by a 6-1 margin. Once again forcing residents to shoulder the costs of developments that harm the environment and contribute to climate change

Disappointing that the Richmond Times-Dispatch doesn’t even bother to fact check guest columns before allowing them to be published. The data center industry is in full panic mode and flooding the paper with bald-faced lies about supposed benefits to the economy from their polluting data centers

Collective bargaining never harmed the economy, and it’s absurd to think that collective bargaining will harm public safety. Everyone wins when people can advocate for themselves for better pay and working conditions bsky.app/profile/rich...

#NoKings protest next Saturday at Monroe Park! #RVA

This week’s calendar of events! #RVA

No one is coming to save us. WE have to save us.

Note that #abolition is not something even on Democrats’ radar, or even sentencing reform. No, it’s “we don’t have enough officers to keep people locked up.”

#NoWar 🚫 End American imperialism

People are struggling to afford housing, afford food, afford health insurance and this regime is instead taking us headlong into an illegal, immoral, unjustified war with Iran. Trump cares nothing for anyone outside his circle of wealthy elites. #NoWarWithIran

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

The federal EPA wants to force Americans to give as much money as possible to oil companies. State and local leaders have a duty to their constituents to fight back. Here are 16 ways to cut pollution – by making HOUSING more available and affordable. via @climatecabineteducation.org

This week's community calendar! #RVA

We need all hands on deck again to stop the next proposed data center in Hanover County. The Hanover planning commission will consider this project this Thursday evening at 6pm. Come on out and tell them no more polluting data centers! #RVA www.hanovercounty.gov/Activities/A...

Shame on @vademocrats.bsky.social for caving to data center and fossil fuel companies. Once again, the two party duopoly fails it's citizens. #Virginia #NoDataCenters

Bills in the General Assembly that aim to regulate data center siting, diesel generator use, and SCC oversight virginiamercury.com/2026/01/19/t...

Those TV ads from Facebook about how great data centers are is related to this phenomenon.

Important #RVA school board meeting coming up that we need folks to show up for! We need RPS to condemn I.C.E. and protect our immigrant families! Tuesday, 2/3 at 6pm at City Hall. #RVA

If we block them, we are arguably avoiding not one but two disgusting turns of events

Lot of opportunities coming up in February to oppose the data center epidemic! #NoDataCenters #RVA #Virginia

We did it! The owner of the property that was going to be sold to I.C.E. for their inhumane detention facility has CANCELED the sale! #RVA

Trump’s EPA protects big business, not people or the environment, critics say [via @theguardian.com]

No funding for a secret police force! #AbolishICE

Plans for Hanover data centers withdrawn #12OnYourSide

The Hanover board unanimously opposes the sale of the warehouse to DHS, but does not have the power to veto it. So, the fight is not over.

Reminder! Protest/rally today at 5:30 at the Hanover County government complex off Route 301 to hammer home the message that we don’t want I.C.E. in our communities! ICE wants to build a detention facility in Hanover near Bass Pro Shops. #ICEOut #AbolishICE #RVA #Virginia

Housing should be free Free/fully subsidized healthcare & childcare Libraries and lots of 'em Public utilities but like really public Climate-resilient adaptation & construction would be nice

Ditch your Ring cameras (Amazon funnels the data to ICE and DHS), cancel Amazon Prime; research companies before you use their products. An educated public is an armed public. bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Still waiting for the rest of those #EpsteinFiles….. cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Please contact your Senator and demand they strip ICE funding out of the budget bill going before them in the coming days! (202) 224-3121 before more people get killed, detained, and deported. #DefundICE #AbolishICE

Cold weather shelters are now full in #RVA and are turning people away. Blessing Warriors is working to get them hotel rooms but they need donations. Please consider helping out if you’re able! blessingwarriorsrva.com

There will be protest today at 1:00pm at the warehouse at 11525 Lakeridge Drive near the Hanover/Henrico line (near Virginia Center Commons) where ICE wants to set up a detention facility. Bring a sign, wear a mask! #RVA

Important clarification regarding @abigailspanberger.com ending VSP cooperation with I.C.E. The new executive order gives the governor the *OPTION* to end that cooperation. We’re hearing that @governorva.bsky.social has not yet terminated VSP’s cooperation, w/ no word on when that might happen

Folks from Sunrise Richmond will be attending No New Gas for Big Tech Lobby Day on January 29th, 7:30am at 701 E. Franklin Street. Join us! You’ll have the opportunity to talk with legislators and share your thoughts about clean energy in Virginia #RVA actionnetwork.org/events/no-ne...

The planning commission recommended denial of the re-zoning for the Hunting Hawk data center! It now goes before the board of supervisors in late February. The BOS doesn’t usually overrule the planning commission

Fantastic turnout and energy this evening at the Hanover County Planning Commission meeting and the No Data Centers rally! Only 2 people spoke in support of the Hunting Hawk data center project, 30 speakers against it. The room was at capacity so they had to have some people wait in the lobby

Watch the Hanover planning commission meeting here: hanovercova.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1549/m... The room is packed!

Climate-conscious legislators aim to revive greater investments in battery storage by #Virginia utilities virginiamercury.com/2026/01/08/s...

This week’s community calendar is up! #RVA

Still looking for folks willing to speak at the Hanover County Planning Commission meeting next Thursday at 6pm to oppose data centers. DM me if you’d like to give comments! #RVA

Reminder that next Thursday at 5pm, the @richmonddsa.bsky.social Eco Socialism working group will be rallying at the Hanover County Planning Commission to oppose four proposed data centers. Wear red, and bring a sign and a friend! 7516 County Complex Rd, Hanover, VA 23069