Remember kids.

The Tax the Billionaires formula is incomplete without Tax the Churches.

All of them. All religions. No exceptions.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.

There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.

Renee Good all over again.

“There are 194 currently-active data centres across Canada… At present, just five of those are “hyperscalers.” The threshold for a hyperscaler is debated, but the York paper defines them as data centres that draw over 50 megawatts (MW) of power, making them large enough to train and deploy artificial intelligence (#AI) models.

The expansion that’s happening now would bring an additional 159 hyperscalers to Canada, in places like Olds, #Alberta; Mississauga, #Ontario; and Vancouver, B.C. These planned #hyperscalers need, on average, over ten times more power than the currently-operational facilities.”

And as they grow in size, they become more disruptive. Larger data centres emit noise, water, and air pollution, and use enormous amounts of #energy—which, in #Canada will largely come from burning fossil fuels—while likely raising the cost of #electricity for local residents.”

https://social.patatas.ca/objects/ae0a1b6e-658c-49a4-8b2c-92c990ec1426

#ClimateChange

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital.

Yet he still has a job, is still getting paid, and is getting unlimited world class healthcare.

The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three when he needs it most. Every person deserves the human dignity McConnell is getting on the taxpayer dime. Anything less is shameless cruel hypocrisy.

Revealed: Four Businesses with Ties to neo Nazi Patriot Front Operating in North Texas. * VETERAN BROTHERS ROOFING & RESTORATION
* GRAND PINE DEVELOPMENTS
* CHARVOLD HOMES
* BLUE COLLAR TREE AND JUNK REMOVAL
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-four-businesses-patriot-front-north-texas/

I never saw a single toot about Taylor Swift getting married. I didn't know she got married until I saw a photo on the national news broadcaster's website. I was away from Mastodon for a few hours today. Within minutes of logging back on, I knew Bonnie Tyler had died and was nodding in agreement at all the toots paying respects to that excellent singer. I feel this illustrates something about the Fediverse.

Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%.

👉 Ireland / elsewhere please take note (!)

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/07/oregon-data-center-general-electric-rate-hikes/

This is just me but if I had foreign billionaires doing stealth ops to farm a fascist movement in my ostensibly sovereign country, I'd maybe seize all their fucking assets in my jurisidiction and issue criminal warrants for their immediate arrest.
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/peter-thiel-and-reform-uks-cambridge-university-pipeline-project/

#Antifa #Wonderwoman

Reminder:
❌Veteran Brothers Roofing & Restoration
❌Grand Pine Developments
❌Charvold Homes
❌Blue Collar Tree and Junk Removal
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-four-businesses-patriot-front-north-texas/

#Texas #NorthTexas #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #extremism #news

Just heard this morning that a second major #hospital in #Ottawa is significantly cutting #nursing staff. This is in a city where we already regularly see 10 plus hour waits in ER (not to mention a ridiculous shortage of family doctors). All due to budget cuts by the Conservative provincial government, which, like conservative governments everywhere, is devoted to privatizing #healthcare. Like many Canadians, I'm perfectly happy to pay a bit more in taxes to ensure that everyone can get the health care they need, but I'm am very much *not* happy when I see the care those taxes are meant to pay for being gutted.

New, by me: Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/felons-fraudsters-flog-offensive-cybersecurity-startup/

#c2iris #irisc2 #cybersecurity #maga

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116882174630299627

I wish we could hold all the regulators and pols that let Musk get away with things one after the other for decades accountable.

These jerks were testing boundaries - what can we get away with? Public beta test of auto-pilot cars? No problem. Proposing "innovative" car tunnels simply to take money away from funding public transit? Sure.

Every thing this feckless fuck has done has been acting as if he were a state unto himself while the people the public entrusted to protect the public interest sold us out.

#Fascism #Techbros #Corruption

give me the serenity to delete my hot takes before posting, the courage to post my analysis when it is useful, and the wisdom to know the difference

In defense of Mitch McConnell's staff and family, maybe they're not manipulatively keeping him technically alive just so that they can avoid a special election and improve Republicans' chances of retaining his seat.

Instead, maybe they're lovingly keeping him technically alive in order to postpone his burning in hell forever.

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In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic swimmer, had just completed a 12-mile run with his brother when they saw a trolley bus crash into a dam reservoir. The trolley bus sank 80 feet offshore at a depth of 33 feet.
Shavarsh immediately dove in and swam to the bus and despite zero visibility, managed to kick in the back window, injuring himself in the process. He proceeded to save twenty people trapped in the bus, one at a time. Making forty dives in 20 minutes.
The combined effect of the cold water and his injuries from breaking the glass window led to his hospitalization for 45 days after the incident, during which time he developed pneumonia, sepsis, and lung damage which ended his athletic career.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116878691038594948

Also, what a lot of "I have nothing to hide" people miss is that stuff-that-needs-to-be-hidden depends on social and political climate at any given moment and changes with time.

Being pregnant while crossing the US border used to be a non-issue, nothing-to-hide type thing. Now US fascist lawmakers are pushing for pregnancy tests at the border.

This is just a very fresh example, there are endless others.

Once our data is out, we have no control over it. Will it be dangerous in 5-10 years? 👀

💯

#TruthTuesday 👇
This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇