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AES Corp signs power supply agreements for Google data center in Texas AES Corp said on Tuesday it has signed a 20-year agreement with Google to supply power to a data center planned in Wilbarger County, Texas.

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YouTube video by The Sick Times How to write an op-ed about Long COVID

The recording of our event last week on pitching and writing op-eds about Long COVID is now available on YouTube and on our website! @thesicktimes.org youtu.be/9qS6yFwP0OY?...

Waymo robotaxis are now operating in 10 US cities | TechCrunch Waymo launched services today in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando.

Waymo launched services today in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando.

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

A look at pink slime tactics -

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

NYC public libraries are some of the last places in the city where you can use the bathroom without purchasing anything. Again, we need city government to stop underfunding the libraries.

actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.” So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

Border Patrol is operating as bounty hunters.

Agents are apparently getting paid for each person they put in detention. Even if those people are grandmothers traveling on valid tourist visas.

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Measles cases this year near 1,000. That we know of. Many of the current cases stem from the outbreak in South Carolina, which the administration told Mother Jones they weren’t especially concerned about in December.

Measles cases are four times as high as they were this time last year.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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In search of fighty bastards (affectionate): do you live in SC, are you a user of DW (or any other social media), and would you be willing to tell the court how what sites like us would have to do to comply with SC's terrible law would restrict your speech and association with others?

2 measles cases confirmed in northern Virginia; VDH lists possible exposure sites The Virginia Department of Health has confirmed two measles cases in northern Virginia and released a list of dates, times and locations where the public may have been exposed.

2 measles cases confirmed in northern Virginia; VDH lists possible exposure sites www.fox5dc.com/news/2-measl...

Supreme Court rules librarian’s defamation lawsuit against Citizens for New Louisiana may proceed Amanda Jones, a librarian, wins the right to proceed with her defamation lawsuit against Michael Lunsford and Citizens for a New Louisiana. The Louisiana Supreme Court made the unanimous ruling.

Louisiana Supreme Court unanimously rules librarian’s defamation lawsuit against Citizens for New Louisiana may proceed. Amanda Jones, a librarian, wins the right to proceed with her defamation lawsuit against Michael Lunsford & Citizens for a New Louisiana.
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

National Academy of Medicine - Connect With Us

Do you know someone who has improved health care services in the U.S.? Nominate them for the NAM’s Gustav O. Lienhard Award: namawards.secure-platform.com/a

Refugees in the U.S. could be arrested under new immigration memo The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing the number of admitted refugees and re-reviewing those admitted under the Biden administration.

The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing the number of admitted refugees and re-reviewing those admitted under the Biden administration. n.pr/3OwA9Sb

Share Your Long Covid Experience - Canadian Covid Society We Want People to See the Heartbreaking Impact of Long Covid Long Covid has changed so many people’s lives. Relationships have been affected. Many people have had to leave their careers, or had their…

We’ve already received many stories highlighting how #LongCovid is heartbreaking. We’ll be sharing these experiences publicly at our Long Covid Awareness Day events on March 15.
You can participate by submitting your experience here, by March 1: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...
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Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

The rich really do want y’all to die for the economy.

Masking is resistance. Never thought much about it before sars2 but now?!
Yup.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.

The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people. n.pr/4qGcdJu

US groups sue to block Trump effort to rid parks of history, science information Groups representing park conservationists, historians and scientists filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to prevent President Donald Trump's administration from scrubbing information from parks and monuments, after exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change were removed.

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Lawmakers renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. It failed before — and it must fail again. Tell Congress to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Write Congress Today: Restore $600 million of CDC Cuts in 4 States Last week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed HHS/CDC to cut more than $600 million in funds already given to programs in the states of California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota, ...

Write Congress to Restore $600 million of CDC Cuts! While this public health funding is in limbo, with a judge granting a 2-week restraining order on terminations, its up to Congress to take back the power of the purse!

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Spain to Investigate Social Media Giants, Escalating Trans-Atlantic Tech Dispute The government wants prosecutors to investigate X, Meta and TikTok, adding to a growing clash between the U.S. and Europe over regulating social media.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said on Tuesday that his government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media giants X, Meta and TikTok for allegedly spreading child sexual abuse material generated by A.I., the latest salvo in a Europe-wide effort to regulate big tech companies.

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war. “We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

A twisted ancient apple trunk with moss and other epiphytic growth sprawls towards the sky

Good morning and happy #ThickTrunkTuesday

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

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Common Threads Press call for nonfic writing+art on craft+disability: "often romanticised as therapeutic, relaxing, universal, but whose hands, bodies, rhythms are centered? Disability offers radical reimaginings of craft..." (pays you $200) www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/pages/submis... #DHmakes