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Stacey Walker retweeted
New Jersey, you have shocked the nation.
Analilia Mejia, a longtime progressive organizer allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders, has emerged victorious in a crowded Democratic primary in the special election to fill the U.S. House seat formerly held by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill. apnews.com/article/new-jerse…
Stacey Walker retweeted
Dems must face the reality that @AOC describes instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They are a right-wing organization that undermines democracy. They have zero tolerance for any diversity of thought from their line, and pressure elected officials to increasingly place themselves at odds with our responsibility to represent the electorate and the views of the majority of Americans, who find the genocide in Gaza an appalling affront to American values and do not want to see US taxpayer funded weapons used to perpetuate it.
AIPAC also knows this. That’s why none of their political ads discuss their actual issue at all and why they use vaguely named Super PACs so people don’t connect them with their own stated political mission and intent.
Stacey Walker retweeted
The IRS is effectively unable to audit private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firms.
Thousands of workers have been fired from the agency since DOGE and the world's richest man took an ax to it.
Now audits of these giant enterprises have dropped 80 or 90%.
Stacey Walker retweeted
Last month, after I wrote my story about giga-scale data centers, two journalists at The Washington Post reached out to use Cleanview's data for one of their stories. Their piece just came out and it's a great read.
Using our data, and a few other sources, @evanhalper and @niko_tinius found that the average planned data center is expected to be 10x larger than current operating ones.
Yesterday's data centers used as much power as a small town. Today's are expected to use as much as a city with 500,000 people. But the largest ones could use as much power as Philadelphia (population: 5.7m).
These data centers come with important consequences. As Evan and Niko write:
"Such facilities will create a major climate challenge. By the mid 2030s, forecasts show the world’s data centers could drive as much carbon pollution as the New York, Chicago and Houston metro areas combined."
@evanhalper and @niko_tinius consistently publish awesome work. To read more of their work, subscribe to The Washington Post's Climate Lab and give them a follow here on X.
Stacey Walker retweeted
Over 60% of Americans cannot afford basic necessities.
GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition.
People are using buy now / pay later apps for groceries.
Rent, auto loan, and credit card delinquencies are way up.
So no.
Stacey Walker retweeted
All you need to know about Spotify Wrapped:
1. It was a 2019 internship project.
2. The intern was never hired.
3. The intern was a black woman
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Spotify Wrapped released in 2016.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify_W…
Stacey Walker retweeted
These Carville NYT opeds were months apart.
He's gone from demanding Dems play dead to demanding Dems be Bernie Sanders.
A good reminder that thumb-in-the-wind politicos with no principles will change their tune when others do the hard work of shifting the political environment
Stacey Walker retweeted
The legacy of DOGE is not that it failed. It's that it destroyed:
1. faith in real cost conscious governance
2. the careers of committed govt employees
3. scientific research and the biomedical breakthroughs that come with it
4. countless lives of the world's poorest
Stacey Walker retweeted
One of the worst to ever do it
Stacey Walker retweeted
Instead of raising premiums for millions, how about we just get rid of them?
Medicare for All!!
Stacey Walker retweeted
Not enough. Schumer isn’t up for election until 2028. He should at minimum step down from his leadership role. If he doesn’t there should be a vote to remove him.
Stacey Walker retweeted
New Mexico is the first state in the country to implement universal free childcare, and the program will save families an estimated $12,800 a year.
Stacey Walker retweeted
be mindful of the pickets and please don't cross them
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @SBWorkersUnited members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Stacey Walker retweeted
Why have so many Americans been brainwashed into believing that their tax dollars going to things that benefit the community and individuals is a bad thing, but using tax dollars to bail out billionaires and corporations is a net positive? Are you people okay?
Stacey Walker retweeted
Turns out...people will turn out to vote if you give them someone worth voting for...