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Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony

NEW: ICE agents reportedly lied their way into Columbia housing, without a warrant, to arrest yet another student. This comes almost one year after plainclothes ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil at his Columbia residence, also without a warrant. ICE has no place on our campuses or in our streets.

At least 77.2 million people — 32% of the country — now live in a county with a local law enforcement agency that has enlisted in the 287(g) program. Our new report, Deputized for Disaster, examines how these dangerous collaborations between local police and ICE endanger our communities.

Let Faculty Teach! Let Students Learn! The UNC Board of Governors just voted to rewrite the definition of academic freedom to effectively limit students' ability to fully engage in a variety of scholarly topics & limit open inquiry & academic debate in NC higher education. @ncaaup.bsky.social

Da’Quain Johnson was brutally murdered by Grand Rapids police on what should have been an ordinary bike ride. A witness said Johnson was jumped by police as he was biking into the parking lot for his apartment complex. The witness said police released a K-9 on him, then shot him three times.

The Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan killed a Black man named DaQuan Johnson while he was face down. “He was 31 years old, he was a father, and he was somebody,” says his cousin. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThqJk37o/

31-year-old Da'Quan Johnson Shot In The Back Of The Head By Grand Rapids Cop, K-9 Police Dog Also Attacked Victim Mauling At His Neck tinyurl.com/2z6ad3jz

Da’Quain Johnson was murdered by Grand Rapids police. Pinned, hands behind his back, on the ground. Shot in the back of the head. Da’Quain Johnson was executed by Grand Rapids Police on February 18,2026. This is police brutality.

The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ

As the EU explores a ban on forever chemicals, the UK announces a plan to make a plan of what to maybe do about PFAS. How many people are being exposed to harmful chemicals while the government dithers? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#OnThisDay in 1932, Stuart Hall was born. A founding figure of cultural studies, he championed a Marxism “without guarantees” and was among the first to critically examine the links between neoliberal capitalism and racism. His work remains essential today.

How Qigong Can Calm Your Mind and Body greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite...

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

Here are parts of the transcript showing Mobile Fortify returned two different names for the woman being detained. Her lawyer told me both names were wrong www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

The EPA closed a loophole that xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its data center in Memphis. The updated rule means companies need to get air pollution permits before installing & using methane-burning turbines for off grid power at their facilities... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/m...

The AI Data Center Gold Rush Is Leaving The Landlords Behind

20 data center projects, with an estimated $98 billion collective price tag, were blocked or delayed in just one three month period last year. boondoggle.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...

"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night." They were driving home from a son’s basketball game. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Two anti-ICE protesters in Santa Ana say they have suffered severe eye injuries and permanent vision damage after Homeland Security officers shot them in the face with less-lethal rounds. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A court filing made public this week allegedly identifies the ICE agent who killed Keith Porter Jr. in L.A., and raises claims that the officer previously abused his children and made racist remarks. My latest w/ @liborjany.bsky.social & @lacrimes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

A data center boom is coming to the San Gabriel Valley. Residents had no idea LA County residents are being blindsided by proposals that may drain massive amounts of electricity and water. In Monterey Park, a single facility would use more power than the entire city.

Many localities have touted the economic benefits of investing in data centers. However, data center workers and local residents are pushing back against these projects. Don't miss our recent episode of Stories From The States, which explores this issue. www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/stru...

New York plans to require data center operators to shoulder more of the cost of powering their energy-hungry facilities, aiming to prevent surging electricity demand from pushing up household utility bills.

A proposed data center complex in Colleton County would be one of the largest in the South. https://capitalbnews.org/data-center-south-carolina-black-community/

In the most desolate, American techno-fascist story one can imagine: ICE descends on a data center construction site in Louisiana to abduct workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gathered here with fellow citizens to rebuke this data center nonsense. These things are not inevitable!

Trump Admits His Data Center Push Makes Energy Unaffordable Trump: Americans are “paying higher utility bills" due to AI power consumption meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...

"They found that hyperscale data center developers often choose to build in rural communities rather than urban locations, not to create jobs and increase a community's economy, but because of low costs and abundant land." www.kare11.com/article/news...

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. www.wired.com/story/why-th...

i love how many anti-ai data center memes are very obviously made by ai

Environmental law group seeks probe of Meta's $27 billion Louisiana data center financing reut.rs/3LNtRN5

Arizona governor reverses support for data center tax breaks

Data Center Project Cancellations Quadrupled in 2025 as Locals Fight Back gizmodo.com/data-center-...

NEW: I have exclusive new data on whether local resistance is slowing down the data center buildout. Heatmap’s comprehensive review finds that 25 data centers were cancelled last year after sustained local opposition. That’s quadruple the number from a year prior. heatmap.news/politics/dat...

Do you recognize this beautiful view? Have you been here? It's Horseshoe Bend in Page, AZ near Lake Powell The city council and the mayor have made secret plans to sell 500 acres only 1 mile from here for a data center A FUCKING DATA CENTER A noisy, energy sucking, water wasting data center

Trump admits Americans are picking up the tab right now for data center power consumption

While one part is militarizing with ICE - another part is militarizing with data centers in various communities? Where environmental justice and abolition intersect? Petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no... #nodatacenter #cleanair

Very good video; she discusses Remmick’s entrance + Choctaw scene too; chef’s kiss. What I love most about this is Autumn is allowed to discuss her actual craft and not solely respond to questions about diversity. Reminds me of something Ava DuVernay said once… www.theroot.com/academy-dial...

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.

Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.

TOMORROW: On Jan. 4 at 3pm ET, Lawfare's @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org will sit down with @sranderson.bsky.social, Dana Stuster, & @atabatabai.bsky.social to discuss the what we know—and don't—about the US strike on Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro's capture, and the legal issues raised by the operation

Two groups are suing the City of Hermantown, saying it didn’t fully disclose details of a proposed data center project known as “Project Loon.”

Teresa Earnhardt data center will harm their rural community with noise and light pollution, residents tell Mooresville commissioners.

#BigTech's latest scheme expands data centers at all costs, even as it actively hurts Black, brown, and working class communities. Join us next WEDS, 9/17 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT as we break down the first-ever comprehensive regional report of data centers in the South: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth

The West Virginia Legislature is pushing HB 2014, a bill that would strip away local control, making it easy for data centers to be built anywhere without community input. Speak up now to stop HB 2014 and protect Tucker County—and every small community in West Virginia: bit.ly/3FNzI1u