Sophie Hurwitz

Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers.

The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."

Why are ebikes which have to share the road with cars given a speed limit lower than cars?

This is also just going to push even more delivery people into (polluting) scooters.

A Trump Target List of Environmental Organizations Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories I’m following and issues I’m covering, with palate cleansers at the end. Please consider a paid subscription so I can keep up my independent reporting. C...

Trump keeps turning to the right-wing Capital Research Center for nonprofits to attack. These are the environmental organizations in its crosshairs.

Their alleged violation? Supporting civil disobedience. 1/

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Critical State: US-Canadian Trade Under the Boot of Nationalism If you read just one thing this week … read about the future of US-Canadian relations in an age of tariffs.

Suggested reading in this week's Critical State:

- @donalgill.bsky.social on US-Canada ties @thedialmag.bsky.social

- @nickturse.bsky.social on Trump's deadly Yemen strikes @theintercept.com

- @hrw.org on excessive force in Chicago

- @hurwitz.bsky.social on the Boeing strike

- And more:

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Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...

"If everyone has to cobble together their own constellation of individual creators $5 at a time? That’s not a media ecosystem. It’s a privatized patchwork of tip jars. Counting on people who pay you directly isn’t the same as not having a boss. You have 100 and can’t afford to piss off any of them."

a dispatch from fighterland, USA

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Television Jamaica is streaming hurricane coverage live on YouTube:

ICE is tear gassing schools

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first

Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.
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Chicago-Area Companies Raked In Millions From Feds As Operation Midway Blitz Intensified One Chicago-based company was awarded more than $7 million to relocate ICE employees while a suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5 million in two weeks to supply pepper balls and air-powe...

Federal agencies paid $1.5 million to a local nonlethal weapons manufacturer in Chicago for air-powered guns and pepper balls. It also paid $7.3 million to a downtown real estate company to relocate ICE agents leading up to Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c...

About time New York had a Review.

Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. on.ft.com/3WYgkUI

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

a dispatch from fighterland, USA

Thousands of Boeing union members have been on strike since Aug. 4, and many have had to second jobs and food pantries to get by.

By: @hurwitz.bsky.social

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An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters Sometimes a pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way to reach people but a song about go-bags played on the synth is.

An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters.

"Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is."

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#NY #NewYork #Art #Artist #Climate

Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking?

Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil.

The rainforest nation of Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking?

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#Suriname #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #Oil #Climate

ICE vs. NYC The feds will not have a good time here.

"Building inspectors, yes. And safety inspectors. Is the water in the ICE office clean? Cut it off, to test it. Fire drills. Tickets on their parked cars. Brake light violations. Health inspections. Sidewalk construction. Street closures. More fire drills. More fire drills!"

From genocide to ecocide: After years of war, Gaza faces an environmental crisis ‘above imagination’ A new report by scientists in Israel details the emerging environmental crisis in Palestine.

‘Gaza is covered with an estimated 61 million tons of rubble, much of which contains asbestos, unexploded munitions, and unburied human remains. “The environmental situation in Gaza before October 7 was a disaster,” said Tareq Abuhamed, who leads the Arava Institute and is Palestinian.‘

Devastated by Israel, Gaza faces an environmental crisis "above imagination" Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war's horrific consequences.

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war’s horrific consequences.

Federal Agents Detain Mix of Protesters and Migrants in Massive Manhattan Sweep NEW YORK – At least five federal agencies were involved in a...

At least 5 federal agencies were involved in a massive immigration raid on Canal Street on Tuesday

@jumaane.bsky.social: "I think this simple-minded president is, at some point, going to flood our streets with federal agents and that should concern everybody.”

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Federal Agents Detain Mix of Protesters and Migrants in Massive Manhattan Sweep NEW YORK – At least five federal agencies were involved in a...

DHS confirmed *five federal law enforcement agencies* were involved in the Canal Street raid. They have not confirmed the number of people who were arrested and detained. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables

This is the problem - renewables not replacing fossil fuels but complementing them

We need emissions to at least halve within 50 months, but they continue to head upwards

Our prospects are truly dismal

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Savanah Hernandez v Follow @sav_says_ Some old boomers read "Turning Point USA" on my press badge at the "No Kings" protest and made it a point to let me know that Charlie was a racist antisemite. They then called me a "token" and asked me my "sexual preferences" after I corrected them on the political leaning of Charlie's killer. I'm not even interviewing people today but these old boomers are so radical they couldn't even stand next to me without crashing out. Footage dropping soon on@FrontlinesTPUSA page

Savanah was one of a dozen propagandists who participated in Trump’s anti-antifascist round table, where they called for antifascists to be labeled terrorists on par with ISIS. Here she is running away from a bunch of older protesters. In the replies, someone tells her to “stay safe.”

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

No Kings tomorrow in my East Texas city is cosponsored by SJP and the County Democrats

Everything is the St. Louis Gun Couple and American Shigalyovism, example 2418