“The market that emerges under siege is not a sign of resilience—it is a system of predation born of deliberate policy.”

As Israel’s blockade drives Palestinians into daily negotiations with their dignity, women have become the front-line managers of scarcity, Mariam Mohammed Al-Khateeb writes.

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

This week on Full Time, @tamerra-griffin.bsky.social and I take a deep dive into the NWSL attendance dip for 2025, with the help of @chicagostars.com, @gothamfc.bsky.social and YOU, the listeners!

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They have to do more than "attack the autocrat", that's low hanging fruit.

How can they within their states spark the needed reimagining and evolution of democracy and people's relationships to government?

That's transformative work, not just trading insults with a wanna be dictator.

They have to do more than "attack the autocrat", that's low hanging fruit.

How can they within their states spark the needed reimagining and evolution of democracy and people's relationships to government?

That's transformative work, not just trading insults with a wanna be dictator.

It is always a true pleasure to chop it up with @thehometownholler.bsky.social this is a far-ranging conversation but still skillfully on target. Thanks for having me back. (With a special shout out to Milo ❤️)

Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be.

To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ordinary Americans beyond activist circles.

The Most Expensive World Cup of All Time

This is the first World Cup where fans have been asked to pay thousands of dollars just for the chance to buy a ticket at a later date, the first with 'dynamic' pricing, and the first with an uncapped resale platform.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElT...

They're putting a datacenter in Bessemer????

“When you look at the sky in Gaza, you can't differentiate. Is this a cloud or is this smoke? The whole time you're listening to the sounds of drones, quadcopters, airstrikes and bombs,” says award-winning journalist Plestia Alaqad.

The courts are not going to help us

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

the usual useful list:

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AI has the power to enhance our democracy or erode it. We identify 3 pathways it will work through either as a tool for civic good or ill.
👁️ Surveillance || Privacy
📰 Propaganda || Trust
⚖️ Replacing || bolstering checks-and-balances
Join us to shape the path:

8 million people in Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger, part of a strategy of deliberate starvation.

77% of Americans support independent redistricting commissions, a nonpartisan group responsible for drawing states’ congressional maps.

Congressional Democrats introduced a bill to make it happen.

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Trump and Infantino’s bond shapes a ‘MAGA’ World Cup

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They dont seem to mind "nazi"

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Should we be sharing these videos? The folks who tried to help could be identified and targeted. We dont need to help that in any way.

A discussion about my new book, The Second Emancipation, on the PBS program The White House Chronicle, with Adam Clayton Powell III and Llewellyn King: whchronicle.com

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

Now marvel movies like the comics they're based from can go on forever

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Democrats don't believe their base is a legitimate constituency. Unlike Republicans who present their constituency as "real americans". Democrats are constantly trying to demobilize and mute their base, while they chase the votes of a poll tested "median white voter".