Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
For weeks, the activist disappeared from all tracking systems. The best Muhammad’s supporters could ascertain by early April was that they had been transferred to a “confidential location.” interc.pt/4ek7IQQ
really upsetting coda to the case of Calvin Duncan, an exoneree who, as I wrote last month, was elected by New Orleans voters in a landslide, prompting state Republicans to pass a law *abolishing* his position:
Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the law last week
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
It's also the present under Labour. I want to make it really clear: These photos aren't just a threat of a future under the far right. They are the present under a centre-right Labour government. Right now.
Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
So:
*Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of criminal court in Orleans Parish.
*The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position.
*The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now upheld that law.
cases.justia.com/louisiana/su...
At least 106 data centers are being proposed on or near Native land, according to Honor the Earth.
Indigenous organizers are resisting an AI buildout that threatens water, land, wildlife and sovereignty.
1/ A doctor denied care to 28-year-old Harmonie Perrone for her ectopic pregnancy because she believed there was a “1 percent chance” she could have a healthy pregnancy. Now, she’s suing an Illinois hospital and the OBGYN.
In These Times
A lawsuit filed in Illinois raises questions about who can get life-saving reproductive health care, even in states with legal protections.
who wants to bet on which tech company she'll end up at?
Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
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The fundamental, guiding principle of the right-wing political party in this country, however it existed at that point in time, is they only want white people to vote. Every political theory and opinion about how voting "should be run" stems from that ultimate conclusion. That is what they want.
Every day, we let Dr. Refaat's brother Bilal go without help. Make this make sense.
"All the organizations took pictures with us and said they would send us money, but nothing arrived. We became homeless on the street."
www.gofundme.com/f/zrt2cs-hel...
