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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households, while the largest under development will consume as much power as 2,000,000 homes — according to @npr.org.

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.

These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

At least 10 states already lose more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers, according to @goodjobsfirst.org.

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Cloudy with a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers Are Endangering State Budgets - Good Jobs First

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Mills has jumped into the Maine Senate race against Susan Collins.

Recent polling we did with @ZenithPolls shows that Graham Platner is best positioned to beat Susan Collins, out-performing Mills by 6 points.

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Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Senator Jim Justice is commuting to DC by private jet nearly every day.

The flight takes him about 40 minutes, and he often spends just a few hours in Washington.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

So far in 2025 the U.S. has lost a total of 33,000 manufacturing jobs.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: BlackRock, Elon Musk's xAI, Microsoft and Nvidia are all part of a consortium that is buying major data center builder Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h

U.S. regulators have approved the launch of a new bank backed by tech billionaires with ties to the Trump administration like Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, and Joe Lonsdale.

Luckey is co-founder of military contractor Anduril, and Londsdale is a co-founder of Palantir.

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Top US financiers sound alarm on lending standards

Apollo’s Marc Rowan warns of ‘willingness to cut corners’

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump administration has fired over 4,000 federal workers since the government shutdown began — firings that are likely illegal.

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Trump administration says 4,108 workers have been fired since shutdown began

The number of U.S. federal worker layoffs as a result of the government shutdown was revised downward on Tuesday, suggesting the administration's initial statement about sweeping job cuts was too ambitious.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

Billionaire wealth has gone up by $33 trillion in the last ten years.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

What's really in Trump's Gaza ceasefire deal?

Will Gaza Ceasefire Last? Trump’s Plan “Short on Details” Beyond Release of Captives

As President Trump celebrates his Gaza ceasefire deal, major questions remain over what happens next. Democracy Now! speaks with Khaled Elgindy, visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for ...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

Juan González reports on Chicago's resistance against ICE.

Juan González on Chicago’s Grassroots Movement to Protect Immigrants from ICE

As Trump threatens to send more federal troops to Chicago, grassroots movements have mobilized to protect immigrants from ICE raids. Democracy Now!’s Juan González, who is based in Chicago, reports th...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7h

“Anyone who has any critique of Trump is potentially in the crosshairs,” says @mark-bray.bsky.social, a Rutgers professor who fled the country with his family after receiving death threats for his antifa scholarship.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7h

“Palestinian society on a whole is suffering far, far more" than Israeli society, says historian Joel Beinin, whose niece was held hostage by Hamas for 54 days.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5h

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

Lindsey Boylan, Ex-Cuomo Aide Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment, on Why She Supports Mamdani

There are just weeks to go before the November 4 New York City mayoral election, a virtual rematch of the Democratic primary from earlier this year, when democratic socialist state lawmaker Zohran Mam...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5h

Rutgers professor Mark Bray is author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements. He recently fled the U.S. after receiving death threats over his scholarship.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5h

Rutgers professor Mark Bray has fled the country after Turning Point USA launched a concerted online campaign that dubbed him “Dr. Antifa.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 4h

Amazon Fires Software Engineer Who Criticized Cloud Computing Project with Israel

Amazon has fired a software engineer who had criticized the company's work with Israel. Ahmed Shahrour had publicly opposed Project Nimbus, Amazon's $1.2 billion cloud computing project that Israel has used to store surveillance information on Gaza's population.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h

ICE Agents Disperse Protesters with Tear Gas After High-Speed Chase in Chicago

In Chicago, ICE agents were involved in a high-speed chase to pursue an individual. The federal agents then arrested the person in a residential street when protesters gathered in the area. ICE agents used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 5h

Basically.

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

The consequences of what she did are a year off to write a book (which will be published) and then landing a high prestige job immediately

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

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