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Raising my voice for nature, justice, & a better way forward. No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. #EndOligarchy #NoKings #ResistAI #AntiWar #ClimateCrisis #Overshoot #Nature #MutualAid #GeneralStrike #ActiveTravel 🚴‍♀️

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10/08/2026
Author and Guardian columnist @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social argues that Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk are powerful men who claim to embody the good life, yet "all radiate misery, resentment, whininess."
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump, Vance, Musk are destroyers – case studies of what NOT to do with your "one wild and precious life” (Mary Oliver ref).
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
USA Today, which owns over 200 local newspapers across the country, has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. Anyone else alarmed by this?
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dr Abdul El-Sayed: "It's not radical to believe that people should be able to afford their groceries, have healthcare, or drink clean water." In a political landscape dominated by fear, focusing on core human needs isn't extreme—it's basic common sense for everyday Americans. #Blues
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
“Elected officials and candidates who oppose the cameras say the quiet proliferation of the technology has eroded trust among constituents.”
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‘Work boots and Subarus’: Local officials say the backlash against Flock cameras is becoming bipartisan
Over 20 local jurisdictions moved toward canceling Flock contracts in July, which the company says represents only a small fraction of its customers.
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Humanity can’t afford the AI the #technofascist billionaires are pushing down our throats, but who needs a livable planet. 😜 A suggestion: we drop the cos putting us in endless AI “customer service" loops. The rich are using AI to get richer. It’s not for our benefit. @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Humanity can’t afford the AI the #technofascist billionaires are pushing down our throats, but who needs a livable planet. 😜 A suggestion: we drop the cos putting us in endless AI “customer service" loops. The rich are using AI to get richer. It’s not for our benefit. @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
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Cami 🐸Truth Matters💙Good Troublemaker💙No DMs🚫No Posts=No Follow🚫 @cami4change.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
France - That's 107.6 Fahrenheit 🥵 #GlobalWarming #FeverishEarth #ClimateChange #Pinks
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France cancels events and restricts alcohol consumption amid brutal heatwave
Sports and nationwide music festival affected, with temperatures for some expected to reach 42C from Monday
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
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jenniferharvey.bsky.social @jenniferharvey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Imagine having enough money to literally end child hunger forever, educate every single person and fully fund a world wide vaccination program but choosing to destroy democracy because you don't want to pay taxes..fucking evil isn't even close.
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If we were a country run by sane people rather than vulture capitalists willing to do anything – including harm to humanity & the planet, all to make more $ for a few billionaire bro #technofascists – we’d speedily break up with Palantir, too. The AI billionaire bros, in their own words:
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The Plot Against America
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record. This site documents their statements, investments, and connections.
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
#auspol @albomp.bsky.social #DitchAUKUS
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Why are European governments breaking up with Palantir?
Critics have flagged Palantir for their links to militaries involved in ongoing conflicts and ICE immigration enforcement in the United States.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 11/06/2026
A friendly request for our fellow journalists covering the World Cup: Make the climate connection when you're reporting on this year’s historic extreme heat — and help fans understand why their favorite teams and players excelled or languished during this year’s tournament.
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The Hottest World Cup in History — Covering Climate Now
This summer’s World Cup will be unlike any other in the 96-year history of the world’s most popular sporting event. Never before have players on the field and spectators in the stands faced the…
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What crossed line would inspire mainstream Americans to help organize & hold a #GeneralStrike? Haven’t we crossed it long ago? Do people still think the corrupted by $ US political system as it is will save us on its own? See generalstrikeus.com for more info. Meanwhile, in Bolivia...👇
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Bolivians Declare a General Strike Against Their President
In Bolivia, the unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines peasant and ...
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
And even scarier is that the masses watched a livestream genocide, illegal attacks on multiple countries, building concentration camps, 1% stealing all the wealth, being put in a surveillance cage & do next to nothing. 340+ million people & cant seem to figure it out like the Bolivians or Albanians.
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is appealing to the public for help after launching brockovichdatacenter.com to report #datacenter concerns as the rapid expansion of #AI -driven facilities across the United States increasingly clashes with local communities." In the US: 4,200+ data centers.
newsweek.com
Erin Brockovich asks Americans for help as she launches data center map
The activist has launched a website to track community concerns as AI data centers proliferate across the country.
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is appealing to the public for help after launching brockovichdatacenter.com to report #datacenter concerns as the rapid expansion of #AI -driven facilities across the United States increasingly clashes with local communities." In the US: 4,200+ data centers.
newsweek.com
Erin Brockovich asks Americans for help as she launches data center map
The activist has launched a website to track community concerns as AI data centers proliferate across the country.
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The whole class of US #technofascist billionaires – many are in the #Epstein files, no surprise – is rotten to the core. They aim to use AI data surveillance to devalue humanity (especially women) & democracies. For quotes, see theplotagainstamerica.com, true for the UK & other democracies, too.
theplotagainstamerica.com
The Plot Against America
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record. This site documents their statements, investments, and connections.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every state should take a page out of Hawaii’s playbook on tackling Citizens United
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Massie has been unseated by AIPAC’s candidate Ed Gallrein in one of the most expensive house primaries in recent years. Another critical voice has been silenced by Trump and Netanyahu.
I TRACK
AIPAC
ED
GALLREIN
CANDIDATE FOR KY-04
U.S. HOUSE [R]
$15,522,757
SPENT BY PRO-ISRAEL PACS
Donations: $63,898
Ind. Expenditures: $15,458,859
via fec.gov
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@TRACKAIPAC
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Artificial Intelligence” sounds colossally stupid.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.
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Here’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months | First Dog on the Moon
Note to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A society that protects and promotes the greedy and the corrupt – despite dire harm to people and the planet  – is a sick society. No wonder so many of us feel ill.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
BREAKING: CODEPINK’s Olivia just disrupted Energy Secretary Chris Wright at an AI expo promoting war technology. Inside, company after company was bragging about AI for warfare, surveillance, and destruction while our communities are neglected. No more wars for oil. No more AI for war.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
💊 Americans are dying in waiting rooms — forced to skip life-saving care — while we pour billions into endless wars. This is the brutal reality. It’s time to choose: Our people or their bombs. Fund healthcare. Save American lives. 👉 Please share if you agree. #HealthcareNotWarfare
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 05/05/2026
My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The 2026 US-Iran conflict has escalated tensions in the Gulf, disrupted oil routes, and driven global price volatility, with rising fuel costs linked to Strait of Hormuz disruptions and ongoing military operations amid an uncertain ceasefire.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking. – Nina Simone
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Open fascism.
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AshHope @ashlove7.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
As a Black woman in America, I’m disgusted with SCOTUS’s ruling yesterday weakening the Voting Rights Act! So awful! My ancestors fought and died for myself and many others to have voting rights
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander
More than 100,000 absentee ballots had been sent to voters across the state. Some had already been completed and returned.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/05/2026
"Why would the Trump administration try to make it harder for families to care for their disabled children? Because they are disgusted by their existence. They want to go back to a world in which such people are sent away."
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MAGA Has a Eugenics Gene
Trump’s movement is repulsed by people who are different.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“Like cigarettes, enormous vehicles can kill those who never used the product…40 years ago, the outrage of secondhand smoke was an eye-opener for many Americans. A similar narrative could help people recognize the havoc that 4-wheeled behemoths now wreak on our streets.”— @davidzipper.bsky.social
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Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
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Uncle David, Fella of Oz (🇺🇸) @dosnoe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“May Day, often referred to as International Workers’ Day, has a long legacy in the labor movement. In the late 1800’s — an era of extreme wealth concentration much like our own — American workers organized a general strike on May 1st demanding an eight-hour workday.”
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BW @bwclimate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The #technofascist AI data surveillance company, Palantir, whose leaders OPENLY aim to end democracies (theplotagainstamerica.com) just inked a $300 mil deal with USDA to “safeguard” U.S. food. Modern societies, especially the U.S., are wayyyy past “rational” thinking. @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
theplotagainstamerica.com
The Plot Against America
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record. This site documents their statements, investments, and connections.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........
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Heather Parsons @heatherbodhi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court ‘demolishes’ Voting Rights Act, gutting provision that prevented racial discrimination
Justices rule in landmark decision Louisiana must redraw congressional map, largely killing major civil rights law
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
OpenAI’s circular deals with other Big Tech giants, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, are helping inflate the stock market. But the company has recently missed its own targets for revenue and new users. If the AI bubble bursts, OpenAI won’t be stuck holding the bag — you will. Watch.
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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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Jan Maxwell @janmaxwell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is one of the problems with the stock market's enthusiastic embrace of AI. To be successful, the AI companies need lots of these data centers built and communities across America are saying "NO".
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
(Bloomberg) - Compass Datacenters is pulling out of a yearslong effort to build a key part of 2,100-acre data center corridor in Northern Virginia after the development faced intense pushback from local residents. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Brookfield’s Compass Pulls Out of Massive Virginia Data Center
Compass Datacenters is pulling out of a yearslong effort to build a key part of 2,100-acre data center corridor in Northern Virginia after the development faced intense pushback from local residents.
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