Annie Dwyer

PR: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Press contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees Over 1,000 Amazon emplo...

We're firing a shot across the bow!

1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.

And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org

WA! Ask for a public hearing on Sabey Data Centers' request to add extra diesel generators Who: WA's Department of Ecology is soliciting public comments on Sabey Data Centers' request to add additional emergency diesel generators for their facility in Quincy. What: Submit an online comment to demand a public hearing to be held on this matter. You can use the link in the description or visit https://ecology.wa.gov/sabey. When: Submit by Nov 16, 11:59 p.m PST

Washington residents! Tell the Dept. of Ecology TODAY that there needs to be a public hearing for Sabey Data Centers' desired addition of new diesel generators in Quincy.

More pollution, more emissions...shouldn't the community have a say?

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.

capitalbnews.org/snap-crisis-...

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....

Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

A bar graph from King County Elections showing the number of challenged ballots by age, narrowed down to the "City of Seattle" races (Mayor, attorney, etc). City of Seattle has 2,086 challenged ballots, about half were unsigned, the other half the signature didn't match, and 14 ballots need a witness signature. For the 18-24 age, 316 didn't match, 238 unsigned. 25-34 age: 290 didn't match, 229 unsigned. 35-44 age: 207 didn't match, 198 unsigned. 45 - 54: 110 didn't match, 152 unsigned. 55 - 64 age: 66 didn't match, 135 unsigned. 65+ age: 52 didn't match, 195 unsigned.

1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")

an image of a stacked bar graph that shows challenged ballots by age

Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell!

Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message "Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent."

“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

From our friends at @vox.com:

This is sooo important! Please read this whole thread, and the letter, and repost!

I've been working with these folks a little for a few months now, and they are FANTASTIC, and doing all they can to slow and shift the AI juggernaut. Make sure that Amazon employees (and other tech folks) see & sign!

Pointers for Data Center comments Again, here are the recommendations we’re responding to, and here (for the real wonks) is the existing law. Here is some deep background. HERE IS THE FORM FOR SENDING IN YOUR COMMENTS! POINTERS: I...

Live in Washington State? Care about climate/affordability/ecologies/humans?

We have ONE WEEK to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations to the governor. Please do!

The image links to pointers for commenting, and here is a big overview I wrote up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why are we calling for a #BoycottTMobile?
They’ve lobbied to pass Trump’s Big Bill, launched Trump Mobile on their network, partnered with far-right fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink, and their union busting is disgusting.

Sign the pledge + make the switch:
tmobileboycott.org

@teslatakedown.com

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive | CNN Business President Donald Trump pledged to bring down grocery costs. But his administration’s policies are contributing to an acceleration in prices, food economists and companies say.

I’ve said it before and will say it again— anyone who says climate change is not relevant to people’s day-to-day lives is either lying or simply not paying attention

Amendment 102 will not protect the urban canopy – and in fact may do the opposite Seattle needs more affordable housing AND trees. Help us convince the Seattle City Council to do both by opposing Amendment 102, which makes new housing much more expensive and worsens existing inequi...

seattle - CM rivera's amendment 102 is a poison pill that does not protect tree canopy, and will curtail housing in wealth neighborhoods

this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands

please sign & boost

actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Watch how long it takes this clanker to do, well, anything 🤦‍♂️💀 #fail #teslatakedown

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Holy shit:

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.

www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

A black and white cat (a Kazoo) with a splotched nose, slightly crossed eyes, and ear tufts tilts his head with curiosity as he looks into the camera.

Also, isn't he cute?

Christian rock concert in Seattle met with kazoo protest Seattle leaders sought to avoid a repeat of clashes that erupted between counterprotesters and police at a May rally in Cal Anderson Park.

When I saw this headline, I first thought my cat, named Kazoo, had unbeknownst to me led a whole herd of fuzzy Kazoos in protest of Feucht's descent upon Seattle. Turns out the kazoos countering Christian hate were of the instrument variety. Still, nice story.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
theonion.com/epa-to-...

He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil. A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.

Will Alpine co-wrote Microsoft's manifesto on how AI will be a powerful force for good for climate change

In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil

"Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time."

Joanna Macy (1929-2025)

Thinking about this after several touching conversations w students today during office hours. Something about their commitment and courage in the face of all we're facing stirs up that special blend of love and fury that keeps me going, and fighting, and imagining ... not this.

What's striking to me is students' expressed sense that they are living in a world that is not so different from the worlds we encounter in this class. And questions of representation become less about the relative merits of science fiction, and more about a realism adequate to this moment ...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

But added some goodies, like @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social recent incisive essay, "The Rise of End Times Fascism," www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... (pairs well with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, btw)

It's always been a class about the potential complicities and capitulations of the apocalyptic imagination (AND the potentials of the speculative imagination). So I've held onto old standbys like Susan Sontag's classic essay, "The Imagination of Disaster" www.commentary.org/articles/sus...

I'm wrapping up teaching a summer term class I first developed a few years ago, called "Popular Culture and the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination." It's ... a different course, in the current moment ... 🧵

Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says.

Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education.

This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social in this incredible interview, offers clarity, direction, and most importantly, hope, in the fight against the climate crisis.
Pin this, and listen to it, even if it is in the background. It shows the path forward for renewable energy 👇💚