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No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.

70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.

In this town, one school keeps kids divided.

(Published May 2024)

A photo of Renee Nicole Good in her car moments before being shot and killed by an ICE agent. A verbal exchange is included: Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” *gunshots* ICE: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

Newly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.

They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources.

If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.

Already hate the breathless framing of this as a white flag on the disingenuous brouhaha over fraud allegations.

The man lost his close friends to an assassin last year. And the president and his assorted goons have made it their mission to ruin his kids' lives too.

Who would want to continue?

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.

Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???

The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.

And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵

man it'd been a while since my last real chortle of glee

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

@heysarahgray.bsky.social

Deeply misguided and ahistorical view on organized labor by Vance. As Chris Cooper says in the film Matewan, "Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club!"

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.

The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Birds have been around longer than humans, they're constantly outsmarting us, and they're very offline.

Seems like the play.

It’s important to remember that community care doesn’t have to come in the form of $100s in donations or dropping off pallets of food.

Sometimes it’s picking up an extra rotisserie chicken for a neighbor, or doing a grocery pick up for an elder, or helping someone with laundry or childcare.

If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

OK, I'm getting romantic about baseball again.

(Yes, I am rooting for Toronto but also Shohei Otani and also for everyone to have a good time.)

Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

Appropriate

Someone wished me a Happy Independence Day and I told him this is America, and we say Merry Christmas here, buddy.

MAMDANI'S SOCIALIST PROMISES: BABY BASKETS TO NEWBORNS

The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.

The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice.

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.

grist.org/food-and-agr...

#Climate #Rice #Food #Agriculture #Arsenic #Environment

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...

NO WAR WITH IRAN.

Our Members of Congress need to hear from us right now. Urge them to use their constitutional authority to prevent Trump from entering a war with Iran.

Email your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Email your representative: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Thank you to @startribune.com & @mprnews.org for thorough, timely, & careful reporting this weekend.