The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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George Lakey - How We Win: Reflections on Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
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The Rhode Island Congressional Delegation doesn't stand for the change we want, but you'll never know unless you read the fine print. What else is new?
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Meta’s Hyperion data center will sprawl across more than 3,650 acres in northeast Louisiana.
Once operational, it’s expected to consume over six times as much electricity per day as New Orleans. floodlightnews.org/jay-morri…
The @NRC has been captured, bound and muzzled by the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300 for the greater glory of the national "security" industry — peternightingale.substack.co…
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Guaranteed income is gaining ground in the US, not just through pilots, but at the ballot box. The latest elections saw five members of Mayors and Counties for a Guaranteed Income network win higher office. Baltimore voters also approved a new Baby Fund. zurl.co/mShX3
Peter Nightingale retweeted
Our thermal drone caught an AI data center in Vineland, NJ, running an unpermitted power plant and pumping out staggering amounts of pollution.
Our new mini-doc with @njdotcom shows how we exposed it and what it means for the people living next door.
youtube.com/watch?v=aeCyJ6qo…
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NJ regulators say they found no generators at a Microsoft-linked data center in Vineland during a December inspection.
Emails we obtained show 16 unpermitted gas generators were already running there. floodlightnews.org/vineland-…
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Hate me all you want. I personally think that it’s morally abominable to celebrate the victory of a party that orchestrated, funded, and sustained the most heinous live-streamed genocide in modern history.
The most ‘progressive’ public figures in that party continue to condemn legal and righteous Palestinian resistance.
All of it feels to me like dancing on the graves of martyrs.
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Trump's guaranteed veto gives the Democrats cover to vote for a progressive agenda knowing it will never be implemented.
If they can't pass that agenda even with the guaranteed veto, their allegiance to oligarchy will be proven beyond doubt.
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The most important thing Democrats need to do if they win the majority is find some issue they can work with Trump on to betray their voters.
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Election prediction: Putting checks on Trump’s criminal abuse of power (domestically and internationally) is important. But don’t be fooled into thinking the Democrats will save us from the Republicans. Both parties belong to the same donors, corporations, lobbies, and oligarchs. They do not represent you. Regardless of the outcome of the midterms, you lose, and the corporations, bankers, billionaires, Israel regime lobbyists, merchants of war, and tech lords win. Trump, Thune, Johnson, Clinton, Schumer, and Jeffries - and US media corporations- are all paid servants of the same dark forces. As long as this system is in place, the downward spiral will continue. And no election will change this.
Suddenly the phrase "defensive strikes" appears in the US media to describe the next phase of a war of aggression. Totalitarian regimes have long understood this technique. The technical term for this propaganda is "the firehose of falsehood".
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The EPA operates 26 stations across the U.S. that monitor toxic air pollutants.
How many are in Louisiana and Texas, two of the states with the nation's largest toxic emissions?
Zero. floodlightnews.org/louisiana…
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Few places are more impacted by Trump’s environmental policies than the Gulf Coast, where his administration is fast-tracking massive gas export terminals.
Floodlight went to southwest Louisiana to see what that means for the people living beside them: youtube.com/watch?v=XTTI0XIp…
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New Jersey fined a Microsoft-linked data center $1M for running unpermitted gas generators, but never said how much pollution they released.
So we filed records requests, got the technical data and had experts run the numbers.
Here's what we found: floodlightnews.org/vineland-…
I suggest you ask your staff to brief you on this book @SenJackReed, @SenWhitehouse, @Rep_Magaziner, @RepGabeAmo
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David Swanson reviewed my new book for World Without War:
In "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine," Stephen Kinzer gives us deeper understanding of roots and motivations, establishing beyond any possible dispute that the U.S. government...
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Sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter and join a community of readers who want the inside story on who’s stalling climate action: floodlightnews.org/sign-up-f…
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Meet Deneen Wiske, Floodlight's deputy director. She's the glue that keeps the newsroom running, handling budgets, HR, fundraising, contracts and much more hidden work that makes Floodlight's investigations possible! floodlightnews.org/behind-th…
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A data center in Vineland, NJ pumped out huge amounts of air pollution for nearly a year before regulators stepped in. 😤 Our kids were breathing that. If one's coming to your town, ask about permits and monitoring now, not later. 🏭
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