Data center articles we’ve been reading to stay in the loop: 🌿"In 2026, more data center regulations could be coming in Maryland" by Christine Condon, Maryland Matters: marylandmatters.org/2026/01/03/d...

Over on my patreon page, I wrote up a summary of the work I did this year: the maps, drawings, writings, etc. It's a lot! It's free to read, so go take a look if you like. It's mostly images, and it'll give you a pretty good sense of what all I made in 2025. www.patreon.com/posts/2025-y...

Mi última publicación para @proghist.bsky.social Cómo gestionar fuentes primarias con @tropy.bsky.social Ya no es una herramienta nueva (y ya no soy el coordinador de educación) pero sigue siendo útil para organizar las investigaciones de archivo. Compartan con sus redes! 📃 📸

Could someone with FB access screenshot and share Greg’s posts? Get the feeling sensible is going to be in short supply over next few days/weeks/months

Marylanders concerned about data centers: THIS WEEK the General Assembly votes on a veto override for a statewide Data Center Study bill. Write to your elected reps and ask them to support an override so we can have transparency on impacts of data centers. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Maryland is the frontier of data center development, driven by the speculative growth of generative AI and with massive implications for the wellbeing of local communities and the environment. @gonatureforward.bsky.social is pushing for much needed accountability: www.axios.com/local/washin...

The DC I know is worth fighting for. I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor. youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM

Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.

Counterpoint: my computer is alive and in love with me.

"Our residents are afraid and they are angry. They want the executive to be forthcoming about current policies," says @brianneknadeau.bsky.social opening a hearing on human rights violations during the federal takeover of D.C. and the local government's cooperation with federal agents.

Em julho, o Intercept revelou que o data center da Casa dos Ventos e do TikTok em Caucaia gastará por dia a mesma energia que consomem 2,2 milhões de brasileiros. Se o data center fosse uma cidade, seria a 7ª que mais consome energia no Brasil. www.intercept.com.br/2025/07/03/d...

O órgão ambiental do Ceará alegou utilidade pública e liberou a construção de uma ponte, em área protegida, para o data center do TikTok em Caucaia. Enquanto isso, moradores, indígenas e organizações pedem uma ação imediata do MPF para barrar o licenciamento do projeto.

I am requesting clear answers regarding MPD’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and the disturbing incidents near schools. How is accountability being ensured when MPD appears to be acting outside current directives and practices?

Fantastic report on the xAI data center in Memphis from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social The reference to the rise of a technocracy “with a plantation economy for the rest of the world” resonates. Data centers are an environmental justice issue. youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw?...

What are the best local and/or independent publications covering data center issues? Extra points if outside of Northern Virginia—though I also would love to hear who has done the best work covering this issue in the heart of “Data Center Alley”!

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Sadly our local NPR station fired most of not all of its local newsroom so I had to cancel my monthly donation (you don’t get a free pass from me just because you’re not corporate media). I became a member of @51st.news instead, and so should you! (Founded by ex-WAMU/DCist employees)

This is one that feels buried—or superseded by other heinous acts. I remember this being terrifying when it happened, as well as when I learned what an AK47 was. Bizarre that newspapers gave the sniper so much space by printing his photo and “last words” www.reddit.com/r/masskiller...

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

MFP clearly holds a grudge against Mississippi Today, but allowing Haley Barbour to rewrite history is beyond the pale. I’ve canceled my MT membership. Free advice to editors everywhere: you’re not required to publish every wordsmithed opinion essay “written” by a politician that crosses your desk!

America now

“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”

It’s nice to know that in the new fragmented digital media landscape some editors will still make room for the “truly unhinged community voices” op-eds that local papers used to run regularly

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

The best part about the AHA Guidelines for AI pile-on is that if you scroll through the quote skeets, a hapless AHA employee teases that a *second* report (addressing research and scholarship) is due to drop!

Making #icecream #summer

🚨Alert🚨 In the recent weeks, Park Police has been posting up at local parks, like Malcolm X, arresting people for minor things like smoking weed, and then transferring them to ICE. REMEMBER: Most parks in DC are actually federal land. 1/

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is. grist.org/food-and-agr... #App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate

Two Mississippians were arrested for illegal dumping in Jackson on June 16. One, Christy Parker, was quickly released. Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was not. His arrest triggered an alert in a vast federal network of immigration enforcement. Now, it's unclear when and if he will see his family again.

Two Cats — Walter Inglis Anderson, c. 1940

Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The @housedemocrats.bsky.social betrayed DC today: - 30 of them voted to take away the local DC government's ability to discipline DC police officers - 56 of them voted to strip non citizens in DC of their right to vote in local elections Don't ever let them tell you they are a pro-democracy party.

This was confirmed as ICE activity in DC. Park Police and DHS agents working together to arbitrarily stop and detain immigrants in our communities. Mayor Bowser wants to repeal sanctuary protections for immigrants in DC. Tell the DC Council to stand with immigrants: freedcproject.org/sanctuary

#humbled to announce that I’ve been “promoted”…I’ve apparently aged out of postdocs!

ICE operations at immigration courts intensified today. Brief 🧵on what's happening: - A person facing removal shows up for a hearing. - At the hearing, ICE unexpectedly asks the immigration judge to dismiss the case without prejudice. - If the judge says yes, the hearing ends, court is over. 1/4

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

First day of water quality monitoring in Rock Creek Park along the newly renovated Soapstone Valley trail 💦 #RecreateResponsibly @doee-dc.bsky.social @anacostiariverkpr.bsky.social

Tomorrow: #HATM “Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated w/ all this American bicentennial 4th of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, & that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.” - Ms. Stroud

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰

On this day 11 years ago, I heard Pepe Mujica speak at AU! QEPD

As a volunteer Water Quality Monitor (see my pfp), I feel obligated to say that no one should swim or really come into contact with water from Rock Creek. Doesn't mean you can't have fun near it, or that it's irreparably polluted (we *can* clean it up!) but for now: recreate responsibly!

This week, fears of ICE raids at schools and businesses sparked anxiety, fear, and rumors, leaving residents on edge. 51st.news/its-terrifyi...

Congratulations to Pope Leo XIV, our first aprista pope.

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