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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

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The Trump administration plans to furlough 41% of Health and Human Service workers in the event of a shutdown.

The administration also plans to furlough 64% of the CDC, 75% of the National Institutes of Health, and 47% of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist.

No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.

The silence is deafening.

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Diagnosis: Debt - KFF Health News Featured Stories Debt At A Glance Tell Us About Your Medical Debt Have you been forced into debt because of a medical or dental bill? Have you had to make any changes in your life because of such debt...

More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay.

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The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

Alt text: Screenshot of a press release titled “Genspect Calls for Re-Psychopathologization of Transgender Identification.” Subheading: “Statement for Immediate Release” by Genspect, dated 27th September 2025. Below the title is an abstract graphic of a stylized “G” composed of textured shapes in teal, purple, and pink. The text beneath reads: “On day one of the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, Mia Hughes announced the official launch of Genspect’s Re-psychopathologization campaign in her talk defining transgender identities as extreme overvalued beliefs.”

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.

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🚨 Center for Coalfield Justice v. Washington County Board of Elections Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations.

It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops.

CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Dismissal of Last Democratic FTC Commissioner Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court Monday upheld President Donald Trump’s dismissal without cause of the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) despite nearly a century of court precedent protecting the official. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Linking Tylenol to autism could harm pregnant people’s health, doctors warn Acetaminophen is one of the few drugs that pregnant people can safely use to relieve pain or fever — conditions that, if left untreated, can increase the risk of birth defects and premature delivery.

The federal government’s reported plans to link pregnant people’s use of acetaminophen — the pain-relief drug sold under the brand name Tylenol — as a cause of autism could worsen their health and stigmatize one of the few treatments pregnant people have for reducing pain and fever, doctors warn.

Tired: RFK Jr autism report and recommendation nonsense.

Wired: Waiting for the news of whether they're going to ban shocking autistic and other disabled kids as punishment again.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

One-Stop Real Estate Is A Trap Behind the convenience of Zillow and Rocket Mortgage’s all-in-one homebuying services, experts warn of a debt system that deceives and squeezes consumers.

Behind the convenience of Zillow and Rocket Mortgage’s all-in-one homebuying services, experts warn of a debt system that deceives and squeezes consumers. www.levernews.com/one-stop-rea...

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.

Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.

We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.

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Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers encoded campus open-carry into state law.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.

But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Political violence has no place in a liberal democracy.

It's one thing to lament loss of life and decry political violence, but this revisionism is shockingly dishonest and downright offensive to the millions of people Kirk targeted and upon whom he inflicted pain and misery. The man was a liar and a bigot who gladly hurt others to advance himself.

His work was calling for lynching of trans people.

Political violence is wrong no matter what and he constantly called for it.

The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year.

Only 18% of US individuals earn more than $100,000, per FORTUNE.

JUST IN: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021

September is suicide awareness month. Losing my partner to suicide has almost broken me. It's a pain many don't understand, & I hope they never do. I picture her now at Zeniba's cottage from Spirited Away with a friend who took her life a couple of years ago. #suicideawareness #grief #mentalhealth

This Labor Day, while US markets are closed, crypto traders will have their first opportunity to buy and sell the tokens tied to a project endorsed by President Donald Trump and his family, per Bloomberg.

It is unusual for a school shooter to be trans. It is not at all unusual for a school shooter to be an online Nazi lunatic