"AI is no longer discussed primarily in terms of productivity or economic growth; it has become strategic infrastructure. (...) AI policy is now inseparable from national security, industrial competitiveness and geopolitical influence." Cooperation is even more necessary in this context.

The US Presbyterian Church has just voted to divest from Palantir & GE Aerospace; recognize the genocide in Gaza; and call for an arms embargo and boycott of genocide-complicit Israeli companies. Cites Palantir & GE's tech being used by human rights violators like ICE, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Gently holding the hands of the grassroots cybersecurity left when I say this - if you want to see policy change, you need to organize your community, and it's unhelpful to tell people not to share their contact info with trusted peers. We may seem like it sometimes, but organizers are not psychic.

Chinese intelligence operatives have paid me to remind you that the Memphis grok data center dumps formaldehyde on black toddlers because U.S. regulators are too corrupt to do their jobs

a few bucks off your broadband bill doesn't address the fact that 57 largely unregulated natural gas data center turbines are pumping toxic pollution into predominately black neighborhoods that already see disproportionately high rates of pollution-based illness, hoss

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

NEW: I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users. By @justinelliott.bsky.social

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

oh he on DRUGS drugs

Among other very bad things, the proposed and imminent rules would cause "reduced public access to weather, water, and climate information as recipients of federal funding face new restrictions on public communication of their scientific knowledge and understanding."

democratic presidential candidates should talk about expanding scotus the way trump talked about building the wall

This is a deeply disturbing conversation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

We've reached a point in human history where "Celebrate the love" is some kind of radical statement Embrace it

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

grilled by Rep. Pocan, Russell Vought refuses to acknowledge that people have died as a result to cuts to USAID. Pocan then reads the names of various people who have died because of the cuts.

Statements from Dems like this one make it harder to press for Supreme Court reform. This ruling was a near-disaster and shows how unhinged SCOTUS has become—now just one vote away from overturning the 14th Amendment. But a sitting senator says they "applaud" the ruling.

I'm not criticizing these responses to dunk on Dems. I'm saying that powerful people utterly misunderstand the moment and are missing a critical opportunity to make the case for SCOTUS reform. I even wonder whether they understand the need for it.

And it's such a small number of children this bigotry and hate is targeted at. When Mississippi passed its ban on trans athletes, the lawmakers who passed it and the governor who signed it admitted they weren't aware of any problems involving trans children in sports in the whole state.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

There are some predominant institutional leftist groups and leaders in Buffalo that I will not work with anymore because they flatly refuse to understand this. Not a ton, and far fewer than I find in neoliberal circles, but enough that I've disengaged with some leftist spaces that I used to hang in.

It was never about sports. We’ve been telling you guys for years. Sports were a means to an end. And here we are.

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

But Kavanaugh's concurrence said that the order did not violate the 14th Amendment, but did violate the statute that implements it. Congress could undo that, according to him. It's a 5-4 court on whether the Fourteenth Amendment means exactly what it says.

Bracing for some real bad news from the Supreme Court this morning. I'm so fucking tired, man.

Honestly, I support this - uses less energy and makes users actually use their critical thinking skills rather than just copy/pasting what the AI spits back out. Make this the baseline standard for all AI moving forward.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

That image of a golden eagle on the exterior of the White House is AI-generated. There is no such decoration on the Truman Balcony—at least not at this time.

AOC: “The problem is that these big companies think they are governments – they want to be governments. They want to have totally unchecked power I believe that we need to pursue antitrust. We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far too big - & we need consumer protections for ppl”

To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

A trans woman made history by organizing what is believed to be the first Pride festival in a Kentucky prison, reports Mo Viviane. With the help of peers who made paper Pride flags in the prison's art room & hung rainbow paper rings throughout the yard, Jayda accomplished something extraordinary.

I love her

It even looks like the Spinal Tap Stonehenge.

In Trump America, Kennedys kill you.

also de Blasio froze the rent three times! Mamdani has pushed it up to a two-year freeze, but the main thing here is also that he's very good at *taking credit for doing things.* This is praise, not criticism! It's extremely important for politicians to do this.

"Terrific news for Marine Le Pen: the French left is campaigning *against* air conditioning amid a heat wave while her far-right party is promising a sweeping expansion of cooling equipment." - @alexckaufman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...

After years of every ad being "My OPPONENT wants to give YOUR TAX DOLLARS to MARTIAN TERRORISTS" it's genuinely refreshing to see the likes of Mamdani and this guy just showing practical plans to make life better.

In a full suit, Mayor Zohran Mamdani jumped into one of the city’s public pools on opening day. Our City Hall reporter, Katie Honan, asked the mayor in April whether he would commit to the dip — a tradition that former Mayors Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams skipped.

Did Van Jones just grab a hammer and give himself amnesia once he started getting that sweet cable news talking head cash? Like, sir, Glenn Beck called you a Communist because you thought transitioning to a green economy made sense. You literally founded a non-profit to counter the Tea Party.

Zuckerberg's business model is ADDICTION, quite literally.

People really forget the way that the visibility fight Laverne Cox won was being able to portray a trans woman as a whole fucking human being instead of dead hooker number 5 in CSI Miami.

As a tourist who loves this city deeply, Billy Bishop airport should be closed or limited to non-jet planes, not expanded. The existing air emissions and stink of jet fuel alone should be enough to stop the expansion proposal - expansion is a crazy and dangerous idea that will ruin the waterfront.

French hospitals at 'tipping point' after seven days of heatwave "We also received many patients with extremely severe hyperthermia, elderly people with a fever of 41°C, patients with respiratory or cardiac failure and epileptics experiencing decompensation.” www.lemonde.fr/en/fr...

This is the story of climate change.