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Country’s Largest Air Pollution Permit Issued to Power Plant for Data Centers in West Texas, Developer Says It’s among a handful of similarly colossal ventures announced during 2025, making Texas the global epicenter of a gas power buildout.

Appalling and inexcusable.

www.texasobserver.org/developer-gw...

YouTube video by APT Bernie Sanders Asks Silicon Valley: Will AI Become Smarter Than Humans? | APT

Well, I am officially frightened of a new thing: "US Senator Bernie Sanders asks some of the world’s leading AI experts a question that is increasingly shaping the global tech debate: Will AI become smarter than humans — and if it does, could humanity be in danger?"
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If we win this, these animals will be spared from extreme cruelty. It takes less than a minute. Will you sign?

You Can’t Rebrand Cruelty: UW Primate Center’s Futile Name Change Proposal | PETA After leaving a live baby monkey in a cooler, Washington National Primate Research Center leaders think they can solve their problems with a name change.

We NEED to shut down monkey experimentation, NOT just hide it ⤵️ www.peta.vg/469s

Autopsy Says Corporate Capture, Support for Genocide Were Key Factors in Democrats' 2024 Disaster | Common Dreams "Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters."

Autopsy Says Corporate Capture, Support for Genocide Were Key Factors in Democrats' 2024 Disaster www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House – A RootsAction Report on the 2024 Presidential Election Our report’s purpose is two-fold: to illuminate why the Democrats lost and to help propel the party toward a different approach and result in the future. Without a full and honest accounting of the…

The @democrats.org choosing not to release their 2024 autopsy is a move designed to protect the failed party leadership and the corporate donors who are responsible for the embarrassing defeat.
We saw this coming. So we made our own autopsy. Read it here: democraticautopsy.org

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report?

“It’s about protecting people who fucked up,” a DNC member told @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com:

“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy” A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democ...

On @democracynow.org today . . . @pdamerica.bsky.social @justicedemocrats.com @ourrevolution.media

Ending GOP Authoritarianism Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership | Common Dreams The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the p...

My article today on @commondreams.org:

To win, Democrats should chuck their leadership The first step in defeating Trump and MAGA is giving Schumer and Jeffries the boot

@pdamerica.bsky.social @justicedemocrats.com @ilhanmn.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @summerlee.bsky.social @reprashida.govpeeps.us

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"Why Progressives Must Work Inside and Outside the Democratic Party" -- podcast interview with @rootsaction.org political director Sam Rosenthal, one of four episodes. @pdamerica.bsky.social @democrats.org @usprogressives.bsky.social @dflprogressives.bsky.social

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Solomon If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?

Corporate Denocrats GET OUT NOW!!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ll be interested in seeing how quickly Olympics clips get taken down for copyright on Bluesky this year.

They’re getting nuked pretty fast over on the MechaHitler app.

Screenshot of a book cover that is peach-ish in color bearing the words "Practices Kicking Jules Boykoff." to the right is thew following text: "Kicking JULES BOYKOFF As a poet, public-facing scholar of sports politics, and former professional soccer player, having represented the United States on the men’s U23 national soccer team, Jules Boykoff draws on his lifetime of athletic experience to reflect on the practice of kicking. With short vignettes blending the personal, the reflective, the historical, and the analytical, Kicking is uniquely positioned to reflect on the most popular sport in the world. From the act of kicking a soccer ball, Boykoff looks outward to his own family history, including his mother’s struggle with polio, which fed her insistence on his athleticism; to broader trends like greenwashing and sportwashing; and to reflections on sport’s toxic masculinity, the poetics of on-field revenge, and the power-politics of both the men’s and women’s World Cups. Kicking is a must-read for all those who love the beautiful game. Special offer: Use coupon code E26KICK to save 30% when you order from dukeupress.edu. "In this poignant memoir Boykoff writes about his passions, family then football, in a way that offers an opportunity to engage with the vulnerability of one of the world’s best public scholars. We know Boykoff won’t stop advocating for better sport, and for the people who love it.” — Shireen Ahmed, sports journalist and Senior Contributor with CBC Sports Practices dukeupress.edu/kicking May 2026 | 176 pages, 25 illustrations 978-1-4780-3890-0 | $19.95 paperback $13.97 with discount"

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Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

Congratulations to @uaw.org workers at Volkwagen’s Chattanooga plant on their historic tentative agreement.

This life-changing first contract shows what is possible when workers stand up to demand their fair share.

Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.

Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.

Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

Negotiators Say Talks to Restore ACA Subsidies Likely Dead New, higher health-insurance bills are kicking in for many households.

Susan Collins refused to extend the ACA tax credits, and now, costs are soaring, and thousands of Maine people have dropped their health insurance.

Once again, she failed to act when it mattered most, and it's Maine people who are left to pay the price.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I love this state, and I love our people. They deserve a leader who puts them first, and that’s exactly what I’ll do in the Senate.

Zohran Mamdani: Why I'm Endorsing Kathy Hochul Exclusive: New York City's mayor explains why he's backing New York's governor in the 2026 election.

I'm endorsing Gov. @KathyHochul because she's someone willing to engage in honest dialogue that delivers results.

Along with the movement that powered our campaign, it's how we secured a historic agreement on childcare. And we're just getting started.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The @uaw.org has won a tentative agreement from VW nearly two years after workers voted to unionize in Chattanooga.

Over 3,000 workers will get:

- A 20% raise
- Better healthcare
- A bonus of about $6,550 per worker upon ratification

And much more.

Here at the Washington Post headquarters after the mass firing of hundreds of journalists.

We won’t let democracy die in darkness.

#savethepost #washingtonpost #wapo

Fuck billionaires

Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

👇🏽

Name them
shame them

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