Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

An alarming and well-researched investigative report on the staggering amount of water usage by data centers and Amazon’s efforts to hide the true extent.

AI has a huge ecological footprint given the amount of energy required for processing.

Reduce use of AI & conserve water 💦

Mass Trauma and Authoritarian Capture A crucial strategic trap that authoritarians deliberately set is to create trauma that drives people toward individualized responses precisely when collective action is most needed.

Mass trauma hurts people & communities. When we retreat into isolation to cope with our shared trauma
that’s when authoritarians move in.
They feed on disconnection and sell control as safety.

I feel this is important reading for today.

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Quote of the day.

“One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.” — bell hooks

go find your community of resistance, and resist.

Corporate profits have hit record highs.

CEOs are paid 280x as much as a typical worker.

We're subsidizing corporations that pay lousy wages by funding food stamps with our taxpayer dollars.

Yet too many focus their ire on the working poor who need help instead of targeting corporate greed.

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.”

@RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

They are creating the violence they claim they are the victims of.

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

SF Chronicle joins the LA Times in confirming MeidasTouch’s reporting

Ahem

THIS is the kleptocratic network called ICE. Call it fascism, corporatism or militarism, it's NOT what We the People need or want.

And they’ll never get it back

Typical of a government who gives no shits about its hard working employees.

1. Shut down the government and don’t even bother to try to work with Dems to figure out a compromise.
2. Threaten for a week to fire employees. Enjoy our trauma.
2. Fire us.
At 9 PM
On Friday of a 3 days weekend.

A false google AI summary: "Based on social media activity, the "leahgreenb ghostberg halloween" query appears to reference a humorous, improvised Halloween costume made by political activist Leah Greenberg in 2024. On October 26, 2024, Greenberg posted on X (formerly Twitter) asking for help with a last-minute Halloween costume she could make with items she had at home. The final result, which she and her husband shared, was an improvised "Ghostberg" costume. It consisted of two people with sheets draped over their heads, with her husband standing slightly behind her and visible through the sheet. The name "Ghostberg" is a play on her surname. The post went viral and the joke was widely shared on social media. "

fun fact: I was trying to find an old tweet I made about journalists accidentally quoting me as Leah Ghostberg during halloween season. instead, I got a fully hallucinated anecdote about me dressing up in a ghost costume with my husband that absolutely, 100% never happened

humanity is so cooked

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ , Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson !" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom , Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

Attention: If you live in Rep. Derrick Van Orden's (R-WI) district, here's what your costs will look like if Republicans don't extend the tax credits:

This one is jaw-dropping. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has a whole lot to explain to her constituents:

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

Thread of what I was thinking so I'll highlight this one. Much better writer than me.

President Trump’s sweeping national security memo directs feds to investigate and prosecute any person, non-profit, or entity displaying what Trump calls political violence: anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, and “extremism” on race, gender, and migration.
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You *need* to contact your reps, all parties, and ask them to stand with their colleagues who demand this be rescinded.
Fire up @resist.bot
This is a very real danger.

The ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits are at the center of the ongoing government shutdown. The tax credits have led to a more than doubling of Marketplace enrollment, but they'll expire at end of this year if Congress doesn’t act to extend them.

Here are some key facts about the credits from KFF

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

Well. I guess we’re all screwed. Can’t even have a different opinion w/o being an enemy of the state.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

This is what Trump is afraid of… By Ben Meiselas

This is what Trump is afraid of… we have to get this message out:

Stop the Trump Shutdown

Republicans shut down the government to gut healthcare and bankroll Trump’s illegal power grab. We must hold the GOP accountable for causing chaos just to appease a wannabe king. app.sosha.ai/s/Mfed4qT5