Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026Finished. Folks have set up some infrastructure to insulate it a bit: street signs have been moved around the vigil 214517
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026It’s basically folks circling through the intersection revving as hard as they can—reclaiming the space from the violence done here. 21549
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026Lots of engine revving and chants of “Chinga La Migra!” Protesters were reportedly pepper-balled at least once earlier today. Not seeing heavy police presence here at the moment. 121230
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital. 171593657
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026OK folks, here’s the water panel, essentially. Execs discussing how the data center industry should learn from the oil and gas industry when it comes to leak detection. They’re also predicting the industry will move away from liquid cooling toward evaporative and refrigerant cooling models. 130
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026Here’s more scenes from the “Data Center Profiteers vs. the People” protest outside. Participating orgs included @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, @resistaustin.bsky.social, @saveoursprings.bsky.social & @xrglobal.bsky.social Austin. 183
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026Fire solutions, AI data center copilots, fracked gas microgrids, transformers, oh my! 171
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026Mauck thinks the industry is going to see higher failure rates in terms of permitting and higher costs going forward. He says the industry has to do more to “educate the marketplace” but sees federal support as critical at the moment. He calls the data center backlash as a “specter of fear about AI” 160
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026Lipman said he expects Abbott’s data center audit order to be lifted by next year. Tax credits and tax breaks are another major theme of today’s “Datacloud” conference. I’ll be adding to this thread as I attend various panels throughout the day. 1181
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 02/09/2026Now: I’m at an opening keynote of a data center industry conference in Austin. Local enviro orgs are protesting outside. Grassroots resistance is a major theme of Morgan Lewis partner Andy Lipman’s remarks. “Something that started on the progressive left but is now, amazingly, bipartisan,” he says 🧵 56519
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 29/07/2026We currently live in a world in which the state is locking up people as "terrorists" for being involved in a book club and in which tech oligarchs are literally shredding books to convince you that you no longer need to read long-form works. 09145
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 08/07/2026Does anyone seriously believe the FBI is going to meaningfully investigate the ICE-perpetrated killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston while agents are clearly more busy knocking the doors of leftists in DFW? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... 34014
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 28/04/2026Heartland Institute climate deniers extremely worried MAHA's campaign against microplastics is a slippery slope that could eventually bring climate politics into Trump's base. For now, sacrificing climate still very much remains the price of admission. www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/g... 0153
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 11/01/2026POLICE JUST KETTLED AND ASSAULTED THE SMALL CROWD OF PROTESTERS. Sorry for shaky cam just staying safe 611945
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 11/01/2026A smaller crowd stayed after the pepper balls and are marching again 1275
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 11/01/2026You can see police starting to fire the pepper balls here 13514
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 11/01/2026After marching a bit protesters have returned to Pickle 1276
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 11/01/2026Chanting “Trump is a pedo.” Police are giving warnings to protesters to exit the roadway at 8th Street 16513
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 11/01/2026About 30-40 folks in front of the J.J. Pickle Federal Building (which houses an ICE processing center) in Austin on a third night of protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and Portland. State troopers and APD have formed a police line in front of the building. 🧵 #ICEOutForGood 327488
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 09/01/2026Folks have taken the parking lot. The facility appears to be abandoned at the moment. There have been Travis Co. Sheriffs driving around 170
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 09/01/2026About 100+ folks have gathered to mourn Renee Nicole Good outside an unmarked ICE facility north of Austin in Pflugerville that agents have been using as a temporary holding facility. #AustintoMinneapolis #AbolishICE 425773
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 04/01/2026Pics from today’s No Blood for Oil protest at Austin City Hall, led by activists with @austindsa.bsky.social, and Students for a Democratic Society, among others. 04915
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 06/11/2025Austin local Stephanie Gómez explains why she helped organize the protest: 0111
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 06/11/2025About 30 folks have gathered here outside the Gigafactory. Not all participated in the blockade. 171
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 06/11/2025Shareholders are set to vote on the largest pay package in history here just hours from now. Musk has threatened to quit if they don’t approve it. 194
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 06/11/2025An APD officer also showed up to the scene shortly after. Protesters chanted “Money for the needy, not for the greedy.” 1132
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 06/11/2025NOW: A small group of protesters briefly blockaded the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin to demand shareholders reject a $1T pay package for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. The blockade dispersed after a Travis Co. Sheriff threatened to arrest protesters without any official warning. 514649
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 03/11/2025If you're in DFW, don't miss the premiere of @abbymartin0.bsky.social's anti-imperialist environmental documentary "Earth's Greatest Enemy" at the Texas Theater. Doors open at 5! www.eventbrite.com/e/earths-gre... 041
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 18/10/2025#NoKings Austin marching from the Texas State Capitol to Auditorium Shores park, where local organizations have set up tables and stations to get folks further organized. 07315
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 18/10/2025Austin #NoKings march to Auditorium Shores has started. Hundreds still at Capitol lawn finishing up speeches. Thousands here today. 127776
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 18/10/2025#NoKings Austin tagging in. Massive crowd at the Texas State Capitol despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s activation of the National Guard. 151101622483
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 15/06/2025We squeeze around a corner on 4th and Red River. 1200