Feed the body well, nourish the soul, heal the Earth, build community, make peace, wreak joy, and do whatever possible to protect democracy and human rights in our country and around the world. She/Her/Hers
Pittsburg, CA, says “wait a minute” on data centers. What’s all the fuss about? 350contracostaaction.org/pittsburg-ai...
Pittsburg’s AI Data Center Raises QuestionsPittsburg’s planned AI data center has residents concerned about air quality, noise, and environmental impacts as the city prepares for groundbreaking.350contracostaaction.org
Yes. Me too.
Annie M LeonardAnyone else out there feeling heavy as we realize that our leaders are in fact just going to let us all burn? For years, contrary to so much evidence, I thought elected leaders would finally act when it got really bad. I’ll still fight like hell but I admit I am having a hard time processing this.
California has the largest virtual power plant in the world, with 200,000 participants. At the exact moment when the grid is dirtiest and most expensive to run, this program surges in with the cheapest, cleanest power. Newsom's budget would kill it. That's just bad policy.
200,000 Californians create as much power as a nuclear plant to help the grid. Now that's up in the airCalifornia has one of the most successful "virtual power plants" in the world, but it's on the chopping block.www.latimes.com“But that a national press corps is so cowed by government cries of “terrorism!” that they fail to interrogate those legal fictions is a danger to the very freedoms they purport to embody.”
Common DreamsNational reporting on the sentencing missed the actual story almost entirely: that a group of people opposed to the government’s ethnic cleansing policies were given decades-long prison terms for their political views and the exercise of their First Amendment right to protest.
This guy is talking about how things are going in the construction industry and it’s not good. He’s lost double the people since this video. It’s bad enough with the economy the way it is…but, there’s nobody to build the houses that were already in the pipeline. #ICE #Construction #Immigration
Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns, specifically that dozens of backup diesel generators could cause tens of millions of dollars in health damages to people living around the facility owned by Vantage Data Centers. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concernsThe Virginia Department of Environmental Quality stepped into a fight over powering AI facilities with natural gas turbines. It could shape the industry’s future.www.politico.com