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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
Today on Volts: What should local officials do when a data center comes calling? With Saleem Chapman, I walk through @climatecabinet.org's comprehensive blueprint: what to require of them before they're built and when they are running, so that they benefit communities, not just investors.
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What should state policymakers do about data centers?
A conversation with Saleem Chapman of Climate Cabinet.
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A spot-on analysis by Arundhati Roy on the #CJP, and if this is more than another singular attempt to upend India’s fascist regime or something more. Either way, for the first time, I feel more than hope — I have excitement. اِنقلاب زِنده باد ! m.thewire.in/article/righ...
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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous - The Wire
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In a low-key plaza on Alondra Boulevard in Norwalk, a pathway of LED lights in red, white, and green leads you to Cafe Palestina. It is a coffee shop, but it is also a statement, a room built to make a community feel like it belongs. The full story: lataco.com/cafe-palesti... By Karina Soriano
A man in a back t-shirt and apron stands in front of a large espresso machine making a coffee drink.

Headline reads “L.A.’s First Palestinean Coffee Shop Is Now Open In Norwalk, Against All Odds”
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Re-upping this 2024 @bloomberg.com explainer: Why Older Adults Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Extreme Heat www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Everyone You Know Will Eventually Be Highly Vulnerable to Extreme Heat
As we get older, our bodies become less adept at responding to high temperatures. On a warming planet with an aging population, that’s a problem.
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Local Progress @localprogress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Big win in LA! In November, Angelenos will get the chance to let aspiring citizens vote! Huge S/O to @hugoforcd13.bsky.social for spearheading this effort! www.latimes.com/california/story/20…
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L.A. City Council agrees to put noncitizen voting, police oversight measures on Nov. 3 ballot
City Council approves package of city charter reforms, including noncitizen voting, for the Nov. 3 ballot. A measure to expand the council to 25 members was sidelined for further study.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 11/06/2026
NEW: This week, Seattle become the biggest city in the U.S. to pass a moratorium on new large-scale AI data centers, calling it a “moral imperative” to put people and our planet above tech profits. Olivia Rosane in @commondreams.org:
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'We're Not a Company Town': Tech Hub Seattle Passes Data Center Moratorium | Common Dreams
To celebrate, the network of local activists who fought for the moratorium launched a People’s AI Bill of Rights to advocate for fairness, privacy, transparency, and accountability in technological…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/05/2026
Voters are heading to the polls for this year’s midterms, but the electoral maps are shifting under their feet in real time. SCOTUS's gutting of the VRA has supercharged a redistricting fight that began when Trump urged states to change their maps to mitigate possible losses in Congress.
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How redistricting is upending America’s midterms
Mother Jones national correspondent Tim Murphy examines how court decisions and GOP-led states are redrawing midterm electoral maps in real time.
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In Sept 2020, historian and leftist activist Umar Khalid was jailed amid a wider crackdown on those defying Modi's India. He remains imprisoned. Join @jamhoor.org and @equatormag.bsky.social for this event, featuring Banojyotsna Lahiri and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/05/2026
Authorities in Southern California on Friday were racing to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that has been leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts, as some 40,000 people were under evacuation orders in the area.
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40,000 people under evacuation orders after a chemical tank leak in Southern California
About 40,000 people are under evacuation orders and schools have shut down in Southern California due to a hazardous chemical leak.
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
See y'all in Louisville this fall! Can't wait to share more soon.
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Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Excellent point. Here's the AQI right now. (The World Cup matches will be played at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, near LAX.) bsky.app/profile/awal...
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 21/04/2026
How does the idea of #landscape help us understand wartime harm to people and the environment? Our new post with the Center for Earth Ethics explores land, damage, loss and longing, explaining why people must be at the heart of post-conflict environmental recovery: ceobs.org/landscape-a-...
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Landscape: a human lens on the environmental cost of war - CEOBS
If landscape and community are inseparable ideas, both must be central to post-conflict environmental recovery.
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Local Progress @localprogress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Across the country, the world’s largest corporations are pushing to build massive data centers, promising benefits such as tax revenue and jobs. But while their outlook is rosy, the reality is far more dire. Check out our new resource: localprog.org/DataCenters101
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Local Progress @localprogress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Imagine if everyone had the healthcare, housing, food, education needed to thrive. We have enough to make that a reality. NEW TODAY: a resource from us & @itep.org on how local electeds can tax the ultrawealthy to fund public goods and vital programs. localprog.org/taxtherichfu...
Graphic that says: How local leaders can tax the ultrawealthy to fund our communities.
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If my (re)emergence on BlueSky means more doses of @theferocity.bsky.social in my daily life… habibi, I am here 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 it 👏🏽. Also, same ⬇️ 🤓
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Great Displacement is a gripping read on the silent & loud ways that people across the US are increasingly forced to migrate after climate-intensified disasters & how our systems need to shift to better adapt to this constantly changing future. Spoiler alert: Housing needs to be a human right.
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition.” www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Reckoning • EQUATOR
Hormuz and the end of American hegemony
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
You might have noticed the centrality of the welfare state to Operation Metro Surge. In this essay I show how the Trump administration has turned our social safety net into an infrastructure of mass deportation.
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
David Wolf, thank you for introducing me to @equatormag.bsky.social. I haven't stopped reading this magazine since this edition of the SLR. They are consistently producing incredible writing & reporting the most interesting stories I'm reading in (digital) print right now.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/05/2026
Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
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Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
Our AI future lives inside miles and miles of windowless data centers spreading across the US. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
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Alison Hewitt @ahewitt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
California wildfire season starts up to 2.5 months earlier than in 1990. UCLA research shows climate change is responsible for as much as a 1.5 months of that. theconversation.com/wildfire-sea...
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Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California – a new study shows how climate change is driving the expansion
Parts of California are seeing fire season start more than 10 weeks earlier now than in the 1990s.
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Better World Group @betterworldgroup.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🦋 New platform, new opportunities. Better World Group is an environmental, energy, climate, and conservation policy and advocacy firm headquartered in Los Angeles. We're here to make connections, share insights, and stay curious. Learn more about our work: www.betterworldgroup.com
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
new place, same face. 👋 @bsky.app
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