Jeanine Finn

To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Boom A rash of data centers planned for western Pennsylvania has residents and environmentalists on edge. The sprawling complexes will be powered by plants that burn fracked natural gas, whose production h...

AI and fracking ride a tandem bicycle.

Which is to say, AI depends on blowing up rocks, extracting 400 million year old vaporous corpses and lighting them on fire.

Also fracking and data centers both consume and destroy a fuckton of water.

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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Librarians have been doing this for decades.

I will never forget traveling in Salta and Jujuy in NW Argentina and seeing the graves (painted in blue and white) of the young men conscripted into that war and killed.

They lived in deserts and their first view of the ocean was being shipped off to be killed on it.

Las Malvinas loom large.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Reservation Dogs though.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

I am so sorry for your loss. Your mother sounds so very special.

Dwight Yoakam has a cover of this that is also pretty great. Love this song.

Conservatives believe getting an A for nonsense is a human right but food isn’t.

Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1

*beijo de chef*

I can think of no more important time to be doing work with this extraordinary community at UW

I totally hear this. I have found a partial solution in enjoying non-US Christmas things right now. I’m listening to a J-pop / K-pop Christmas playlist right now and it has the holiday vibes but it’s not something I’ve heard eleventy billion times.

The contortions that supposedly “progressive” politicians will put themselves into to avoid ticking off the centrist crowd are Olympic-level. I think women who’ve risen to the level of Harris and Hillary are especially good at that - they’ve had to be (they believe).

It’s a huge aggravating mess.

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

My dissertation examined the spread of misinformation related to science topics. I defended in 2016, and after that year’s U.S. elections (and what I’d learned in my research) I had to mostly walk away from those topics for my own sanity.

This is where my colleagues are now.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

November 20, 2025 To: UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk CC: Monroe Gordon, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Steve Lurie, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus and Community Safety Anthony Solana, Jr., UCLA Employee and Labor Relations Subject: End Arrests at Protected Labor Actions Two rights are ironclad in California: the right of organized labor to strike when contract negotiations fail and the right of citizens to speak freely in public. This week, the University of California violated both. Four UCLA undergraduate students were arrested by university police on Tuesday while picketing in support of AFSCME 3299's protected strike. Two UCLA graduate student members of UAW 4811 were detained by university police on Wednesday at a union action about contract violations and labor cuts. We demand the University of California immediately cease and desist from arresting union members and their supporters during actions protected by the First Amendment and California labor law, and that UC leadership ensure none of the six students face criminal charges or student disciplinary proceedings. Drop all charges - legal and disciplinary. Signed, AFSCME 3299 UAW 4811 Teamsters Local 2010 UPTE CWA 9119 UCLA Faculty Association UCLA Chapter of University Council - AFT Undergraduate Students Association Office of the President Undergraduate Students Association Office of the Internal Vice President Undergraduate Students Association Office of the External Vice President Undergraduate Students Association Office of General Representative 2 Undergraduate Students Association Office of General Representative 3 Undergraduate Students Association Cultural Affairs Commission Undergraduate Students Association Office of the Transfer Student Representative UC-AFT Local 1474 UC San Diego Chapter of University Council - AFT UC Berkeley Faculty Association UC Irvine Faculty Association UC Merced Faculty Association UC Riverside Faculty Association UC San Diego Faculty Association UC San Francisco…

Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Kiké Hernandez

On the morning of Thursday, November 13th ICE hit a dozen locations in Pomona within around 90 minutes. Several people were kidnapped.

They’re still very much here and terrorizing communities.

The Mapping Deportations project has an animated timeline of who gets deported in the US. In the 1910s the US starts deporting more Mexicans than any other group & doesn't let up through the present day. You can follow which groups are the targets of immigrant panics pretty clearly.

Kudos to Mary Bruce of ABC News for asking about the bonesaw in the room.🔥🔥🔥

I really can’t with this nonsense anymore.

They lunch at a Peruvian place near me — the owners don’t feel safe refusing them.

Photo of rain falling into a puddle on a red tiled patio

A very happy Tiny SoCal Dogs Peeing on Rugs season to all who celebrate! 🎉

The cool sh*t we could have as a civilization if minoritized researchers could just DO SCIENCE with their energy. Whew.

I did not consider myself particularly naive about working in academia, but I will never, as long as I live, understand a system that forces Claudine Gay to resign in digrace but not Larry Summers.