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What the datacenter boom means for America’s environment – and electricity bills In this week’s newsletter: from Google to Amazon to OpenAI, the economic and climate cost of datacenters continues to grow

One reason your electricity bills will go up: simple laws of supply and demand, as data centers dump huge demand obligations onto local utilities without bringing their own supply to the grid.
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I was not aware invidious was a term that had any legal bearing

Great piece on academic shero labor economist Claudua Goldin picking WNBA advising as a post-Nobel venture. She estimates players should earn 1/3 of what NBA men earn
(It’s currently 1/80)

New rule. If Congress doesn’t work, they don’t get paid.

Who thinks that sounds good? ✋

They don’t get their healthcare or perks, either.

🐾 PLEASE #repost that's how they are seen by potential rescues and adoptive furever homes. This is how we collectively make a difference 🐾

#foster #adopt #rescue
#nycacc #Pledge4Rescue

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

Cmon everybody they’re just kooky 30-year-old kids, give em a break

Good to see Pritzker and Newsom hammering home Trump’s obvious decline.

We need this to be a chorus of Democratic politicians and not just a handful.

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

When a nation that started as colony for convicts decides that you are too troublesome to let in, that should be a sobering wake up call.

Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

Full list of Young Republicans in vile chats exposes rot: racist, antisemitic, misogynist slurs - jokes about Hitler, rape, gas chambers. The national board says it is appalled and demands immediate resignations.

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Never give up HOP.🐸

Where are they taking her? The fact that all these grown men put a young girl in the car and drive off with her in unnerving.

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

1984 wasn’t supposed to be a playbook

Argentina

This should scare the shit out of you.

- Millions of federal employees aren’t getting paid
- 15 million people about to lose their health care
- 24 million Americans could see their insurance premiums DOUBLE

Now Speaker Johnson gives House Republicans another week off work. 4 straight weeks out of DC. Unbelievable.

Republicans really chose ending federal government vs. not taxing billionaires

RIFs require prior notice, at least 30 days. Did Vought or someone send out a notice 30 days ago to every civil servant?

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

We just want healthcare

Not just, there’s lots more our tax $$ should be doing for us, but yes, healthcare, childcare, public education, clean water, clean air, public lands that haven’t been mined to oblivion. . .

that should bring grocery prices down