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Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI xAI aims to win the tech arms race with its “Colossus” data centers, thrown up at lightning speed. The city is divided over the massive power and water demands.

“Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes.”

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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...

Taxpayers and charities helped develop the gene therapy Zolgensma.

Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

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ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch.

Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval.

They won’t air Kimmel tonight.

I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

And a huge thank you to the more than 100 #RhodeIsland residents, incl. @dawneuer.bsky.social, @tanzister.bsky.social and @jenniferboylanri.bsky.social who showed up in #Newport earlier this month to support Revolution Wind.

We won't win this fight unless we show up, and you did. Thank you./4/end

Cheering on our home team @rhodeislandfc.bsky.social
🌊⚓️💙💛 ⚽️ with @tanzister.bsky.social

Crisis-level chaos and corruption.

This is going to be devastating to many of the riders of these nearly 80% of routes. All over $5m.

Great to see 100-150 people show up last night in Newport, #RhodeIsland to support the Revolution Wind #offshorewind project that the Trump Regime has illegally ordered to stop work.

#Trump is making war on our ability to decarb & contain high power prices & people in our state are mad as Hell. /1

This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.

RI State Rep. @tanzister.bsky.social brought up the imbalance between funding for RIDOT & RIPTA at this afternoon's RIPTA service cuts public hearing in South Kingstown!

Rep. Teresa Tanzi providing public comment at today's special RIPTA Board meeting.

thank you @tanzister.bsky.social for your impassioned testimony at today's special RIPTA board meeting 🚌🚏

real leadership for transit riders and Rhode Islanders!

Agreed. An engaging, lively and accurate video ...

#CyclingLife #ShareTheJoy

Montreal has been THE North American model of smart, strategic street transformations into people-places. Each year has seen ambitious new moves that build on the years before — incremental, but NOT “slow” because they’ve been making big moves step-by-step.

Permanent Ste Catherine is a GREAT move.

#RhodeIsland supports Revolution Wind. Outrageous that Republicans shut down this important project, wasting tax payer money, & jeopardizing our progress towards energy independence
#ClimateAction
#CleanEnergy
#ClimateJobs
@climateactionri.org
@sunrisemvmt.bsky.social
@riaflcio.bsky.social

Here's a cool view you won't often see in NYC on Eastern Parkway, unless it is the one day a year car-free Summer Streets is taking place! Saturday was amazing!

Great listen!!

On the relationship of speed limit and CO2 emissions in urban traffic The paper analyzes the relationship between urban speed limits and vehicle emissions. There is an ongoing trend of reducing speed limits from 50km/h t…

STUDY: “Traffic simulations on large urban networks prove that emission reductions of over 10% can be achieved in the case of a well-chosen speed limit policy.”

In other words, smartly lowering speed limits in cities not only saves lives & improves quality of life…it can also reduce emissions.

The design of your city can help make you healthier, study finds A new study in Nature found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.

The design of your city can help make you healthier, study finds.

“A new study in Nature found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.”

Trying to cast a wide net for sourcing on this one, but has anyone in the Boston area found a new apartment since the broker fee change went into effect? I'm curious to see how it's been going for people for a piece in the Globe. Is this you or someone you know? #bostonsky #bospoli #mapoli

CREW requests records on Trump’s DC takeover - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW filed expedited FOIA requests in an attempt to establish the cost to taxpayers of President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in DC and determine which units were rea...

The American people deserve to know exactly how much they are spending to have federal agents patrolling DC so that they can decide for themselves whether the benefits outweigh the costs.

We're investigating.

Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.

YouTube video by Northwest African American Museum Fannie Lou Hamer's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Speech

61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:

“IS THIS AMERICA?”

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Nicole O'Loughlin: Seven reasons raising bus fares makes no sense "...if a service is being degraded and the cost is raised... more riders are sure to seek other means of transportation, triggering a downward spiral of more service cuts and lower ridership."

Nicole O'Loughlin: Seven reasons raising bus fares makes no sense

"...if a service is being degraded and the cost is raised... more riders are sure to seek other means of transportation, triggering a downward spiral of more service cuts and lower ridership."

Whatever job this is, I want it!

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R.I. casino workers have waited years to inhale in a smoke-free workplace. The wait continues. • Rhode Island Current Rhode Island lawmakers gutted legislation intended to protect casino workers from secondhand smoke right before the end of the 2025 legislative session. The measure they passed won’t even take effect ...

🚭R.I. casino workers have waited years to inhale in a smoke-free workplace. The wait continues🚭. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/07/14/r...
🚭 We won’t give up until these workers are no longer get exposed to deadly carcinogens. Fewer that 12% of RI’ers smoke, there are simply no excuses. 🚭

keep thinking about two things from a recent panel on anti-fascism:
- people united to fight fascists didn’t need a shared definition of fascism first (they needed each other)
- not everyone in the group wanted to fight the same way, but they agreed not to denounce one another over those differences

According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020.

Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net.

War is a racket.

Rhode Island has lost a creative giant and an inspiring, dedicated philanthropist in my friend, Alan Hassenfeld. Thank you for the legacy you’ve left, rest in peace, we will miss you.