Hannah Ensor

UMich says the Ypsi Data Center won’t “manufacture nuclear weapons.” What does Los Alamos think? University administration must make a choice: Will it side with the public and live up to its stated ideals of serving the public good and public interest? Or will it side with LANL and spend hundreds...

Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it?

I wrote about it here:

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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

THREAD. Something must be said about the New York Times. We are in the midst of a full-blown fascist takeover, and the NYT let one of its most dishonest reporters publish an article today full of misinformation arguing for massive new investments in police and surveillance.

Farm workers are being terrorized, imprisoned, and deported without due process. Trump's immigration sweeps unjustly target farm workers, Latinos and other vulnerable communities. This goes against American values. This July 4th weekend, take action and message your Congress Members. Link below. ⬇️

Hey.

Two-thirds of people DON'T KNOW what's in Trump's budget bill, even though it will affect all of us. Polls show when people know what's in it, they don't want Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

So let's make sure more people know what's in it 🧵

not great!

I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._

We can do with more defiance. Seeing Mahmood Khalil leading people in protest is a good way to kick off this week. Cowardice is contagious but so it courage.

“Legal path to transition” might be one of the most violent anti-trans phrases I’ve ever heard.

A messy pile of pink and purple rubber stamped and initialed booklet covers.

I prepped another slew of 40 more covers for my booklet Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? The print run is up to 885 since May 1 now. Tomorrow I’ll change gears and start printing a new booklet. halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...

Folks, @resnikoff.bsky.social is right

Listen to what she said. They are "liberating the city" from the ELECTED governor and mayor. Think about what that means.

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

hi, cis folks!

if you’re calling democratic reps about the maga murder budget, you should *specifically mention* it’s unacceptable to pass a bill blocking funding for lifesaving transition care FOR TRANS PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.

if you want to stand with trans people, this is a big moment. 🧵

reps.fyi

"Amends Sec. 44125 to ensure federal Medicaid does not fund gender transition therapies or procedures for minors or adults."

It's eugenics and murder by policy, all the way down.

I have said this before, but I must say it again; it is remarkable how much the GOP wants to kill us and how little anyone outside of our community seems to care.

'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. A An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDT

States chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development. Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT 10 min

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

just a reminder that large scale data centers want unlimited use of giant diesel generators to provide stability for LLMs

enormous diesel generators directly adjacent to major cities. on top of all the demands on the grid and the water use. asthma machines.

great news! also I really loved Woodworking <3

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.

EMU has no plans to close its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion While sadness and anger are being expressed down the road in Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University says its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has this...

Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to.

Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.

The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

i really am not being glib at all when i say that i do not want nazis to know everything about us or crash our planes or forcefully separate our neighbors from their children or detransition the coolest kids in our lives

Part of a handbook which reads, a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision

IBM 1979