Assoc Professor, CSU Long Beach #CSULB; Geographer 🌍 Political Ecologist; Biodiversity & Climate, H2O💧; Transdisciplinary Science; Mining & Digitization🤖
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Lily House-Peters retweeted
You can obtain a government issued passport or file your taxes months faster than you can expect to hear back about your student debt plan.
There are student debtors who are waiting for 10, 12 and 14 months for a response on response on their PSLF buyback. That’s untenable.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
“Trespassing on our land to remove the sacred saguaros is like having masked men break into your house and take away your children,” Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Verlon Jose said in a statement. “The ha:sañ are our family, as much a part of us as any blood relative. To destroy them by the thousands carves a wound in our hearts that will not heal.”
Quote from @EmilyBregel's feature story on the thousands of sacred saguaros now targeted by DHS bulldozers on the Tohono O'odham nation to make way for two layers of border wall .
I took this photo at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in 2020, where extensive saguaro destruction took place for wall construction.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
As of today, one man, billionaire Trump ally David Ellison, controls:
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Fandango
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount+
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
& more
Call it what it is: oligarchy.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
It cannot be overstated how every one of these tankers going down either in Europe or the Middle East is its own massive ecological disaster.
Once you add them all up we’re talking about ecocide at that point. We’re killing everything with these wars. Not just us.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
BREAKING: DHS contractors are toppling the last of four ancient cottonwoods to build double border walls across the San Rafael Valley.
The wall cuts through the key remaining wildlife corridor for endangered jaguars between Arizona and Sonora, where human border crossings are seldom seen.
A protest camp had occupied and protected this tree for more than 60 days, halting construction. The camp was raided and campers were arrested this morning.
This wall will effectively lock the remaining jaguars in the U.S. into solitary confinement, while permanently marring one of the last remaining wild places along the Arizona border.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at an ICE facility in Louisiana. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cos…
Lily House-Peters retweeted
America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people.
This merger strikes a chilling blow against that freedom — and hands even more power to billionaires like David Ellison to decide what Americans see and hear, all while lifting scrutiny off the federal leaders who pushed it through. I am grateful to Attorney General Tish James for the protections she secured for workers.
This decision is a shameful monument to corruption and a betrayal that the American people won't soon forget.
apnews.com/article/warner-br…
Lily House-Peters retweeted
I just received a notification of another death in ICE custody – the 57th death during Trump’s second term.
It’s time to shut down these private, for-profit detention centers.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.
That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.
So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."
Lily House-Peters retweeted
Here is a Microsoft executive appearing to admit that AI training is massive theft.
Lily House-Peters retweeted
Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. (It's not clear whether all that money the state waived was needed to attract the construction: in Georgia's case, by the state's own estimate, 70% of the data center construction would have happened anyway.)
Lily House-Peters retweeted
The Trump administration has approved two new datacenter chemicals to which exposure can result in “sudden death” and a range of other serious health risks, like cancer, eye corrosion, neurological damage and reproductive harm — according to a new lawsuit.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Lily House-Peters retweeted
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South.
These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli.
democracynow.org/2026/8/27/d…
