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Texas Used to Be ‘the Best Place’ to Build Data Centers—But Not Anymore 

Inside Climate News
1 week 5 days ago
When BaRupOn LLC, a California-based developer, bought land in East Texas for a 700-acre industrial campus in 2023, the company received a warm welcome from the state. The developer set out to build numerous data centers and rare-earth manufacturing facilities at the site, as well as its own power plants. At first, Gov. Greg Abbott’s […]
By Arcelia Martin

While Americans Paid $148B Extra on Gas Amid War, Big Oil Made $130B in Profits

Truthout
1 week 5 days ago
“All the excess cash we’re accumulating will ultimately be directed toward our owners,” one oil executive bragged.
Sharon Zhang

Capitalism is destroying the world. Can socialism save it?: A conversation with Ben Burgis and Mike Beggs

The Real News Network (RNN)
1 week 5 days ago
“Should [we] have a society where some people can spend all day giving orders because they have money and some people have to spend all day taking orders because they don't?”
Maximillian Alvarez

CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND TOXIC CHEMICALS

Fridays for the Future
1 week 5 days ago
Global frameworks on chemicals must also reach the family living beside poorly managed waste, the child drinking contaminated water, the young person whose health is harmed by pollution. Africa should not be expected to choose between development and the health of its children.
shriljh1919

Behind the Glass

Fridays for the Future
1 week 5 days ago
What happens behind the scenes at an aquarium? Our young author investigates, recounting the harms that were observed. What does captivity mean for wild things? They ask you to think about positive and negative effects on the animals and sea creatures before your next visit to a zoo or aquarium.
shriljh1919

CLIMATE JUSTICE BEYOND THE CONFERENCE ROOM

Fridays for the Future
1 week 5 days ago
The distance between a climate conference and a village can be measured in kilometres. But sometimes the bigger distance is between a decision and the person who has to live with its consequences. If climate justice is about who gets to decide Africa's future, young people must be at the centre.
shriljh1919

YOUTH SKILLS FOR PEACE

Fridays for the Future
1 week 5 days ago
If peace starts with opportunities, then what kinds of opportunities are needed for young people to develop skills to respond to local needs? Opportunity can build resiliency and peace and hope. Read these reflections that came from attending the Nairobi Youth Skills for Peace conference.
shriljh1919

Big Oil, Big Gas, and Big Tech are Forcing Migration

Fridays for the Future
1 week 5 days ago
Fossil fuel production continues, planetary oceans and vegetation absorb less CO2, and global warming accelerates, driving disasters and migration. Industrial and political leaders kowtow to fossil giants and heap blame rather than aid onto displaced peoples.
shriljh1919

Fuel Your Inspiration

Fridays for the Future
1 week 5 days ago
COP17 on Biodiversity is under way right now in Yerevan, Armenia. Is enough being done to reverse biodiversity loss? Also, an official definition of ecocide, apps to feed your curiosity about birdsongs and birds, the world of funga, weather maps from real-time Earth observatories, and more.
shriljh1919

Can an Independent State Senate Candidate Turn Pennsylvania Blue?

Capital & Main
1 week 5 days ago

Jodi Borello is challenging a longtime GOP state senator in a deep red district, betting that anger over data centers and corporate power can unite voters.

The post Can an Independent State Senate Candidate Turn Pennsylvania Blue? appeared first on .

Audrey Carleton

Maui Prosecutor to Hire Investigator Focused On Post-Wildfire Contractor Fraud

Inside Climate News
1 week 5 days ago
This story was originally published by Civil Beat. The Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney is expected to soon have an investigator working full-time on contractor fraud cases targeting survivors of the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire, county officials say. Mayor Richard Bissen asked Maui County Council Chair Alice Lee to introduce legislation to authorize the […]
By Erin Nolan

Minneapolis Refused to Take Trump’s Bait. It Paid Off.

Jacobin
1 week 5 days ago
The Trump administration was dealt its first major defeat in Minneapolis. But this wasn’t foreordained — it happened because the city’s anti-ICE movement was disciplined in response and refused to play into Donald Trump’s hands.
Eric Blanc

Southern California Event: Towards an Anarchist History in the Inland Empire

Black Rose Anarchist Federation
1 week 5 days ago

The Los Angeles Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra announces this public event on anarchist histories of the past and present in Southern California’s Inland Empire. Towards an Anarchist History in the Inland Empire will explore contemporary anarchism, especifismo, popular power, and local labor struggles and social movements in the Inland Empire. This panel discussion features […]

The post Southern California Event: Towards an Anarchist History in the Inland Empire appeared first on Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.

Admin101

It’s Time for Labor to Join the Fight Against Data Centers and Tech Oligarchy

In These Times
1 week 5 days ago
There’s no room for dithering—the U.S. labor movement has to choose now whether to be on the right side of history.
Stephen Lerner

Socialists Need Our Own Foreign Policy Agenda

Jacobin
1 week 5 days ago
As socialists expand our footprint in Congress, we will need to articulate a distinctive agenda for US foreign policy — a vision different from both the wanton imperialism of MAGA and the feckless imperialism of mainstream liberals.
Max B. Sawicky

Media invents ‘Democratic divisions’ in Michigan that don’t exist

The Real News Network (RNN)
1 week 5 days ago
El-Sayed has 95% of Democratic voters’ support—the same as the GOP support for Rogers. But “division” narratives hound only one candidate. Why?
Adam Johnson

5 ballot proposals that could drive or derail clean energy

Canary Media
1 week 5 days ago
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter.  Sign up to get it every Friday. The midterm elections are upon us. While most of the country has its eyes on who will control Congress, there’s plenty at stake for clean energy at the bottom of some voters’ ballots, too. Here are five…
Kathryn Krawczyk

A Palestinian Prisoner on the Nightmare Behind Israeli Bars

Jacobin
1 week 5 days ago
Israel imprisoned Khalida Jarrar, a historic leader of the Palestinian left, five times, almost always without charge or trial. She tells Jacobin about how women prisoners copied a library by hand and how Israeli censors never let in Antonio Gramsci.
Khalida Jarrar

Stephen Miller’s Financial Disclosures Show Several Glaring Inconsistencies

Common Dreams
1 week 5 days ago

Financial disclosures filed by Stephen Miller, a senior White House official, contain numerous inconsistencies between reported stock sales, share counts and disclosed family assets, according to a new investigation by Public Citizen. The discrepancies raise questions about the accuracy of the filings and the White House ethics office’s certification of Miller’s disclosures.

Public Citizen’s investigation found that at least 10 of the 27 stock sales listed in Miller’s August 2025 transaction report could not be reconciled with the corresponding certificates of divestiture. In multiple instances, the reported sale values appear too low to account for the number of shares listed on the certificates.

The investigation also identified discrepancies involving Miller’s children and wife, Katie Miller. The stock the Office of Government Ethics certified for sale from the three children’s custodial accounts was worth roughly $443,000 to $507,000 per account on the day of the sales, about $1.4 million in all, and the accounts held another $165,000 to $400,000 in other investments earlier that year. By the end of 2025, each account held just $1,000 to $15,000 in cash, plus $15,000 to $50,000 in Spotify stock in one account. Miller’s disclosures do not show where the rest of the money went. Separately, Katie Miller’s IRA held shares of MP Materials, Alphabet, Viking Therapeutics, Apple, Amazon and Arm in March 2025—none of them appear on Miller’s annual report, and his only transaction report lists no sales of Alphabet, Viking Therapeutics or Apple at all.

In response to Public Citizen’s questions, White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said, “The White House regularly works with appointees to provide ethics guidance and help ensure compliance with applicable federal ethics laws and regulations. Stephen Miller complies with all ethics requirements.” The White House did not address the specific discrepancies.

“Stephen Miller is neither above the law nor the rules, and conflict of interest standards are not optional. This administration has demonstrated an objective to scrutinize alleged errors in other people’s paperwork, with very serious consequences,” said Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen co-president. “If that is the standard set by the White House, then the rules should apply equally to everyone. Stephen Miller included. The American people deserve an answer on why these inconsistencies are present, as well as corrections and consequences.”

It is unclear if the discrepancies in Miller’s paperwork are due to sloppiness, bureaucratic error or another explanation.

What is clear is that the Trump administration has used alleged errors or inconsistencies in official paperwork to justify criminal investigations and prosecutions against perceived political enemies, immigrants and others.

Public Citizen is calling for a detailed explanation of the discrepancies, clarification of the basis of the White House ethics office’s certification, and corrections to the financial disclosures.

“Miller’s own filings don’t add up, and the White House signed off on them anyway,” said Zach Everson, Public Citizen Research Director. “Miller and the White House must explain how these numbers were reconciled and whether corrected disclosures are necessary.”

Public Citizen has provided a copy of this report to the Office of Government Ethics.

Newswire Editor

A Midterm Rout Will Hurt the GOP, but Trumpism Will Endure

Jacobin
1 week 5 days ago
The Republican Party looks headed for losses in November. But Trumpism will outlast the midterms and even Donald Trump’s own presidency. Defeating it will take a left politics that speaks to working people’s economic pain.
Joseph G. Peschek

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