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Stories of data center resistance

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
"Datacenters provide a physical place and focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires," write @astra.bsky.social and Saul Levin.
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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 31/10/2025
BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown. We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The People’s Pantry: A furloughed federal worker-led food drive initiative by DMV FUN & sponsors @indivisible.org @50501dc.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social @27unihted.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @fairshareamerica.bsky.social @moonlightmvmt.bsky.social @networklobby.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This is nightmarish. Thirty to forty-plus inches more rain. No community is designed/built to shrug off teh flooding that come from that kind of deluge.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 26/10/2025
Speaker Johnson should be removed for violating the Constitutional rights of AZ-2, and by extension the rights of all Americans by keeping the House adjourned. The People have business to attend to! Administrate the oath and let all go on record on releasing the Epstein files!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/10/2025
And wait... how much money did Trump just promise Argentina? How much is Trump spending on his new ballroom? 🙄😡 @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We are being shadow banned on Instagram after we posted about Kristi Noem WHINING on TV bc Chicago businesses weren’t letting ICE agents use bathrooms. Who lets a creep trying to abduct you pee?? Ppl are looking up our exact handle @moonlightmvmt or name and not getting results!! Kristi is a loser!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2025
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
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Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Giving up? LOL. We're just getting started. October 18th, Everywhere #nokings
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NPR @npr.org · 12/10/2025
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_
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Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 06/10/2025
Many people noticed plainlanguage.gov was migrated to digital.gov/topics/plain..., where it has been *consolidated*. Our friends at @alt18f.bsky.social posted a version of the original content at plainlanguage.18f.org Unlike other sites that have disappeared, this one just changed.
plainlanguage.18f.org
plainlanguage.gov | Home
Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“More than 2,300 armed National Guard troops are currently patrolling the District unlawfully. That unprecedented deployment is inflicting irreparable harm to the District’s sovereignty, its economy, and public safety.”
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The US govt is now shutdown, Republicans keep illegally dismantling basic services while Dems host pressers and send angry letters. Our leaders have failed us and we need a new approach. The Moonlight Movement is organizing a fresh creative strategy to fight back, but we need your help, a thread ➡️
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
By seeking to make authoritarianism bipartisan in DC, Muriel Bowser has made herself an international disgrace. Top leaders of both parties in DC are now collaborating to drag dads out of car windows and throw moms down on pavement. Meanwhile 80% of DC residents oppose the occupation.
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
RIGHT NOW is likely a pivotal moment in US history. Dictators almost always take over capital cities, usually by force, to assert power and control. A thread to help make sense of this moment and how we fight back:
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New tactic: FreeDC is calling on everyone in the Capitol to make loud noise every day of the military occupation of DC. If you live in DC, take 3 minutes every day at 8pm - play your trumpet on the stoop baby. If you aren’t in DC, text someone who is and ask them to holler nightly at 8! 🎺📯📣🥁🎷🪕
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
NEW: Tucson city council has UNANIMOUSLY rejected the water guzzling “project blue” data center after brave organizing from neighbors. Data centers are being built all over to benefit billionaires at the expense of water, land and people, and Tucsonians are modeling how to say enough is enough.
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Stories of anti-authoritarian resistance - a thread on the Aragalaya in Sri Lanka: In early 2022, Sri Lankans were in a rough place. 🛢 Gas lines stretched for miles. Daily blackouts hit 13+ hours. Food inflation passed 90%. The Rajapaksa regime blamed “global issues.” The people weren’t buying it…
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says. Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.
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PRESS RELEASE: Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions
PRESS RELEASE July 16, 2025 Contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions Nearly three-quarters of Amazon’s data cente...
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Did you know 338 rural American hospitals could be pushed to close by politicians? Senate Republicans are hoping to pass a big horrible bill TOMORROW, and the severe cuts to Medicaid would threaten the closure of hospitals in nearly every state, harming millions of people they “represent.” LIST➡️
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you know someone inspiring, who should run for office on our NEW anti-authoritarian slate with Mamdani style good vibes and low prices, tag them below, text them, let them know. We need everyone. No experience required to run for office, just a hunger to keep our freedoms & pursuit of happiness.
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
ZOHRAN MAMDANI wants you to use your energy this morning to help stop the massive cuts to healthcare, SNAP, clean energy, public lands, and more moving in the US Senate tomorrow! We need to stop the big horrible bill NOW. Hundreds of rural hospitals could close. Let’s go!
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW: we will be launching a slate of anti-authoritarian candidates for 2026 at all levels of govt inspired by Zohran Mamdani-style smile and hustle politics with a gorgeous vision of the future. Immigrants, federal workers, all the beautiful people Trump is attacking will be at the heart. Join us 🍾
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our budget agreement with the Governor is now public. We fully protected public transportation funding — reversing all proposed cuts — & fully protected the $750M loan to Bay Area transit systems we previously agreed to with the Assembly. 🧵
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My parents went to one of several rallies on Long Island. ICE has been targeting families there for abduction, but the regime didn’t realize what they’ve awakened. There haven’t been this many people protesting in this suburb since summer 2020 #NoKings @projectmoonshot.bsky.social
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Hi! We’re Project Moonshot, a new movement space to fight autocracy, build alternate organizing & keep each other safe. We’ve trained 1000+ ppl, hit 10M views on political ed, organized 500+ fed workers, & more since Jan. Will you follow + share so we can reach more and keep building? Solidarity 🙏
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 15/06/2025
No kings— “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to ve the ruler of a free people.”
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
David Huerta, President of California's largest union, was assaulted and detained Friday by ICE. Now the @aflcio.org, the biggest confederation of unions in America made up of nearly 15 million active and retired workers, is calling on members to protest on his behalf.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.
U.S. attorneys office in LA just sent an email saying David Huerta, president of SEIU California, has been charged with conspiracy to impede an officer. He’s been in jail since Friday and is expected to make his first appearance in federal court this afternoon
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
7 lessons from abroad for today’s National guard “deployment” in LA. A thread on what research and international movements teach us about effective responses and resistance to attacks on civilians like the one in Los Angeles today:
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Alt National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) 🧬 @alt-thenci.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NIH is getting rotten to the core. If we have any reporters who follow us, this is our outcry to start looking into: Andrew Nixon, Director of Comms at HHS Laci Williams Deputy Director of Strategic Comms at NIH Thomas Buckley, Director of Strategic Comms at NIH. They’re the “let’s be clear” gang
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a man in a hat is screaming with the word heeelp written below him
ALT: a man in a hat is screaming with the word heeelp written below him
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Right now, every US university is at a historic crossroads: follow Columbia and bow to Admin overreach out of fear, or follow the Harvard model and fight back for educational freedom. A thread 🧵 on what research and history tell us, how schools are reacting, and what we can all do:
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NEW: sources in MA tell us hours after banning Harvard from having intl students Trump Admin is already stopping them at Logan Airport in Boston. If you have further info, pls DM, we need all of us to keep students safe 🙏🙏
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 14/05/2025
Trump and RFK Jr.'s "Make America Sick Agenda" is throwing community health centers into chaos, gutting life-saving research, and spreading vaccine misinformation during a measles outbreak. Read their stories at markey.senate.gov/MakeAmericaS...
The MAKE AMERICA
SICK AGAIN AGENDA
Stories from Trump & RFK Jr's first 5 months
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
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NJ 50501 @nj50501.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 EMERGENCY!! CALL TO ACTION! 🚨 ‼️Full disclosure‼️ This is not vetted. There will be risks. If you decide to go, please be aware of your surroundings at all times. Remember to stay peaceful, do not escalate tensions, and be safe. #RasBaraka #Newark
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
TODAY - Democrats are poised to help Republicans overcome a filibuster and move forward a bill that would bless Trump's crypto schemes and give Amazon and Meta new power. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Stablecoin Act Raises Big Questions About the Future of Banking
Emily Mason takes a look at what the stablecoin bill in Congress means for the future of banking.
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Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
When even Josh Hawley is raising big tech concerns - Amazon issuing a stablecoin and forcing buyers and sellers to use it, Meta and Google expanding their monopoly enterprises into financial services - you gotta ask how a single Democrat could vote to move this bill www.axios.com/2025/05/07/s...
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Inside the Senate's last-ditch fight to save the GENIUS Act
It's become clear that it may need up to 10 Democratic votes to counter as many as three GOP defections.
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alt-energy @alt-energydept.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Today we switch on the Alternative U.S. Department of Energy, a community of DOE staff and supporters dedicated to speaking truth to power and exposing corruption at the nation's energy agency.
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Studies show 3.5% of the population actively protesting often leads to major change. Many folks have cited the “3.5 rule” to show how people power can stop tyranny. The Momentum community who popularized the research are hosting a training on the rule TOMORROW, May 6! 🧵on the rule and the training:
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Alt-AmeriCorps @altamericorps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Colorado joins the list of states to sue the Trump administration over the #AmeriCorpsGrantCuts. Just last year, AmeriCorps and its partners brought in over $10.3 million from local businesses, foundations, public agencies, and more — funding that supports real work in Colorado communities!
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Colorado joins 24 other states suing Trump administration over gutting of AmeriCorps
More than 1,000 AmeriCorps volunteers are assigned to projects in Colorado including wildfire mitigation and tutoring students
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Alt-AmeriCorps @altamericorps.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Yesterday, DOGE ordered AmeriCorps to end nearly $400 million in grants, approximately 41% of all agency funds. These cuts will impact more than 1,000 organizations and 32,000 AmeriCorps members and volunteers, limiting necessary resources and people power to communities across the country.
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DOGE orders major cut to AmeriCorps funding, imperiling agency’s work
The agency was directed to terminate nearly $400 million in grants that account for about 41 percent of its total grant funding.
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Alt-AmeriCorps @altamericorps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
DOGE's assault on AmeriCorps is more than just a federal issue. They're punching a hole in every layer of our society to make a headline. Gouging their way to a $150B quota, they're targeting one of the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/my-r...
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My Ranger Origin Story: AmeriCorps And The Attack On The Park Rangers Of Tomorrow
Have you ever asked a national park ranger their origin story? Let me tell you mine. My journey, like that of so many other rangers, started with AmeriCorps, the impactful program that provides young ...
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Why is Senator Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador so important? What does research show about this kind of leadership? A thread on TAKING UP SPACE:
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 15/04/2025
Tax the rich, pass it on. #TaxDay
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The Hum Podcast @thehumpod.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Research: when judicial systems are targeted by a demagogue grabbing power, solidarity between judges and ordinary citizens has helped prevent autocracy from dismantling basic freedoms. A thread on polish judicial resistance 2015-2023:
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