Judy Coode
@judylou.bsky.social
Lefty peace-y Catholic cross-stitcher and Austenphile, fast walker, Tennessee native and longtime DCer.
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
www.wisn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
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"We're sabotaging air traffic in order to protect the President from being exposed as a pedophile."
It sounds like the worst fiction novel plot ever, but this is real life.
It sounds like the worst fiction novel plot ever, but this is real life.
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"We're sabotaging air traffic in order to protect the President from being exposed as a pedophile."
It sounds like the worst fiction novel plot ever, but this is real life.
It sounds like the worst fiction novel plot ever, but this is real life.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
September 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
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"Surely, even if their reasons were wrong, or misinformed, they *had* reasons. Surely there was some theory of the case."
Nope. Richest country in history, just fucked itself because it was bored, tired of peace & prosperity.
Nope. Richest country in history, just fucked itself because it was bored, tired of peace & prosperity.
September 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Surely, even if their reasons were wrong, or misinformed, they *had* reasons. Surely there was some theory of the case."
Nope. Richest country in history, just fucked itself because it was bored, tired of peace & prosperity.
Nope. Richest country in history, just fucked itself because it was bored, tired of peace & prosperity.
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
September 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
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There's no better example of how this entire society is structured around the concept that the white, straight, mainly conservative and "Christian" group must always be shown the utmost respect, while being given the right to decide if/when/how much to respect anyone from any other group receives.
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There's no better example of how this entire society is structured around the concept that the white, straight, mainly conservative and "Christian" group must always be shown the utmost respect, while being given the right to decide if/when/how much to respect anyone from any other group receives.
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Listen to me:
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school.
And our profit from our lives is life.
Our life. Ours.
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school.
And our profit from our lives is life.
Our life. Ours.
September 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Listen to me:
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school.
And our profit from our lives is life.
Our life. Ours.
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school.
And our profit from our lives is life.
Our life. Ours.
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So a few things start to happen. First and foremost the presidency is no longer worthy of respect and deference. In the Republican mind, any role that can be inhabited by a person who’s not a white man is not an important role. (Unless that person is entirely subjugated. See Clarence Thomas)
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So a few things start to happen. First and foremost the presidency is no longer worthy of respect and deference. In the Republican mind, any role that can be inhabited by a person who’s not a white man is not an important role. (Unless that person is entirely subjugated. See Clarence Thomas)
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Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
I think about this all the time. They’re eliminating every federal agency except Homeland Security and Defense.
Building an entire infrastructure for a new program while every government agency that doesn’t directly kill people has been gutted financially. Instead of just giving people money for food the way we have an infrastructure for already.
August 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I think about this all the time. They’re eliminating every federal agency except Homeland Security and Defense.
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Very important to understand that reports of people pretending to be ICE agents in order to terrorize communities is very much the point and the strategy in the first place.
The bedrock white conservative ideal is that white people can do whatever they want to whoever they want for any reason.
The bedrock white conservative ideal is that white people can do whatever they want to whoever they want for any reason.
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Very important to understand that reports of people pretending to be ICE agents in order to terrorize communities is very much the point and the strategy in the first place.
The bedrock white conservative ideal is that white people can do whatever they want to whoever they want for any reason.
The bedrock white conservative ideal is that white people can do whatever they want to whoever they want for any reason.
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New York today.. stop starving Gaza march…
August 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
New York today.. stop starving Gaza march…
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Trump is acting like a mob boss. The administration cannot legally treat Harvard more harshly “as punishment for fighting.” At no point in this article is a legal predicate for these extortionist schemes mentioned.
August 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Trump is acting like a mob boss. The administration cannot legally treat Harvard more harshly “as punishment for fighting.” At no point in this article is a legal predicate for these extortionist schemes mentioned.
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The usefulness of this tech is pathetically narrow. The environmental costs are staggering. The destruction of livelihoods and careers from AI-justified layoffs is only beginning to be felt.
All of this could stop if it was possible to say, no thank you, not for me. So they made it that you can't.
All of this could stop if it was possible to say, no thank you, not for me. So they made it that you can't.
August 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The usefulness of this tech is pathetically narrow. The environmental costs are staggering. The destruction of livelihoods and careers from AI-justified layoffs is only beginning to be felt.
All of this could stop if it was possible to say, no thank you, not for me. So they made it that you can't.
All of this could stop if it was possible to say, no thank you, not for me. So they made it that you can't.
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Trump firing the BLS director for a bad jobs report - days after demanding the Smithsonian remove him from the list of impeached presidents - is banana republic stuff.
If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.
If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump firing the BLS director for a bad jobs report - days after demanding the Smithsonian remove him from the list of impeached presidents - is banana republic stuff.
If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.
If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.
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Thou shalt not starve children.
August 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Thou shalt not starve children.
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If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
July 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
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Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill