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Can’t Defend Dirty John
“Backtalker”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on New Memoir, Voting Rights, Critical Race Theory & Clarence Thomas
The pioneering legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says the failure to believe Anita Hill, who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, had a major impact on the direction of the country. “This intersectional failure not only impacts Black women, not only impacts communities of color, it undermined the security and the democracy of the entire nation.”
Dirty Dirty John Roberts
Americans are bound to obey the court’s rulings as a matter of law, but they are not obligated to respect or have confidence in an institution that does not respect them or the Constitution.
John Roberts Is Trying to Defend the Indefensible
The chief justice insists he and his colleagues are not political actors, but can’t explain what an overtly politicized right-wing court would do differently from the one he leads.
The Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “Only [the American people] have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the members of this Court.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/209677/supreme-court-voting-rights-act
The Guardian just outed Supreme Court Justice Alito for using fake math to strip away Americans’ right to vote. In a landmark Voting Rights Act case out of Louisiana, Samuel Alito justified his ruling using totally misleading data from the DOJ.
Deliberately citing flawed statistics to gut the last remaining protections for minority voters isn’t the act of impartial judges, but GOP operatives rigging the rules so Republicans can never lose.
DON’T LET THEM PRETEND IT’S ABOUT THE LAW
James Carville: “This is an irredeemably corrupt Supreme Court that cannot be reformed through normal measures. It can only be reformed by adding 4 more members. It’s the only fucking thing you can do with these people”
Graham Platner: “I refuse to believe there is some metric of hard work that says the people I know in Hancock County that work 3-4 jobs to keep a roof over their head, that somehow Elon Musk or Peter Thiel or Jeff Bezos worked so much harder than them that they deserve to be a billionaire and these people deserve to live in poverty”
Connecticut just passed a bill banning AI chatbots from having sexual conversations with minors. 17 Republicans voted no. Their reason? “Innovation” and “business climate.” 17 districts. 17 Republicans.
17 no votes on protecting kids.
IT’S NOT ABOUT STOPPING THE DRUG TRADE
I was sentenced to DOUBLE Life In Prison +40 Years, with no possibility of parole, for selling drugs on the internet. I paid Donald Trump a $1million bribe, and received a full pardon.
BANKRUPTING SPIRIT AIRLINES THE TRUTH
Greedy Billionaires chose bankruptcy because they would make more than getting a government bailout.
Why because the government would have been the largest shareholder and would be paid back first.
Ken Griffin Citadel Securities, Ares and Cyrus blocked the bailout which left 17 THOUSAND people unemployed.
Ken Griffin makes 4 Billion a year but chose to make 17K employees and their families suffer.
The Gecko Project (@geckoproj), OCCRP, and @DeutscheWelle are Society of Publishers in Asia (@sopasia) award finalists in the “Excellence in Reporting on the Environment” category. Their investigation into Harita Group’s Indonesian nickel mines — which supply raw materials for EV giants like Tesla, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz — revealed that the conglomerate’s own monitoring showed it had been polluting local waters for years with chromium-6, the toxic chemical made famous by the “Erin Brockovich” case. Winners will be announced June 18th. Read the investigation:
Wishing a happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and other mother figures in America.
PROTECT MOTHER EARTH.
DATA CENTERS ARE POLLUTERS
Data Center Moratorium Act
AI data centers are frying our power grids and hiking our bills. Bernie and AOC just dropped a bill to freeze them. Tell Congress to pass it. Takes 30 seconds:
@SenSanders
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro
Data centers require large amounts of energy to operate — and right now they’re using up much of the energy available on the existing grid, jacking up Pennsylvanians electricity bills.
That’s the last thing folks need right now.
This week, PPL officially agreed to require data centers to pay for their own power generation. This is a key first step, but there’s still more work for PPL and our other utilities to do, and I’m going to keep fighting to protect Pennsylvania consumers and reduce energy prices.
Remember how just a few years ago, using electricity and diesel caused climate change, but now data centers use as much power as cities and it’s no problem…
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation
has issued a Level 3 alert, the highest alert possible,
because of data centers.
They claim data center power draw is at a dire risk
of shutting down North America’s entire power grid.
A massive data center in Fayetteville, Georgia secretly drained nearly 30 million gallons of water before residents noticed a drop in their own water pressure. One water connection was installed without the utility’s knowledge & one was not being billed.
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988
The U.S. already has 5,500 data centers that use 449 million gallons of water a day. They’re being built on farmland so in addition to taking away our water they’re taking away our food supply all for mass surveillance, AI slop, and to make billionaires richer. These data centers will ultimately lead to our extinction if we don’t stop them.
The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic.
They’re purposely overwhelming the United states with data centers because they know people are pushing back. People think they’re winning by getting them shut down while the big ones forge ahead. It’s a psychological tactic.
ORACLE’S STARGATE PROJECT SECURES $16 BILLION IN FUNDING FOR A MASSIVE 1-GIGAWATT DATA CENTER IN SALINE, MICHIGAN.
ESSAY @aakashgupta
Residents living within a half-mile of new AI data centers are reporting dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption from sound they can’t hear.
The source is infrasound. Frequencies below 20 Hz sit beneath the floor of human hearing but not beneath human physiology. The body’s vestibular system registers low-frequency vibration directly, triggering the same response as motion sickness. The cooling systems and gas turbines running these facilities 24/7 produce exactly this range.
Noise ordinances were written for audible noise. Decibel measurements start at 20 Hz. Infrasound doesn’t appear. A 200-megawatt data center with tens of thousands of tons of cooling equipment can run around the clock with zero measurable noise violation under any existing zoning law in the country.
The developers know this.
They’re not randomly selecting sites. Rural jurisdictions get targeted because they lack the legal staff, the engineering expertise, and the regulatory framework to mount any challenge. These facilities require new transmission interconnects that take 5 to 10 years to process through utilities. Building behind-the-meter with gas turbines bypasses that queue. Speed to power, zero delay, zero grid dependency.
Households who bought before the announcement have two options. Sell at a price no buyer will pay, or stay and live with symptoms their family doctor has no framework to diagnose as infrastructure-related.
That cost never appears in a hyperscaler’s earnings call.
The regulation will catch up eventually. It always does. But the facilities will already be running. The permits will grandfather everything in place.
The turbines don’t stop when the legal framework finally notices them.
Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta
Colorado just told 1.5 million people they can’t water their lawns. The state is still green-lighting AI data centers that each drink as much water as a town of 50,000 people. Reservoirs at historic lows.
One Colorado Springs utility has 95,000 acre-feet of total water access. Ten data centers are in line asking for up to 117,000. If every project gets approved, the utility has to more than double its entire water supply. None of those data centers exist yet. The inquiries already exceed what the system holds.
On March 16, Governor Polis activated Phase 2 of the state’s Drought Response Plan. First time in nearly six years. Nine days later, Denver Water declared Stage 1 drought and put mandatory watering restrictions on 1.5 million customers. First time since 2013. Federal managers ranked this year’s snowpack 45th out of 46 years on record.
Two days before the Denver Water vote, the only bill that would have required data centers to publicly report water use died in a Colorado Senate committee.
The state has 56 small data centers today. QTS Realty Trust is building Colorado’s first hyperscale east of Denver. It qualified to build in Aurora because city code now prohibits new evaporative cooling. Denver has no equivalent rule.
A single hyperscale pulls as much water as a town of 50,000 people for cooling. The power plants behind it pull more. On-site water use across five Western states is projected at 21,600 acre-feet by 2035. Counting upstream electricity generation, it climbs to 89,700.
Xcel projects Colorado data centers will need 8.5 gigawatts by 2040. Roughly another Denver metro’s worth of power.
Global AI bought 400 acres near Windsor for a campus targeting 1,000 megawatts.
Colorado’s alfalfa farms used 394 billion gallons last year. The water budget was already overdrawn before the cooling towers came online.
Disclosure was the floor. The bill still died.
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