Sarah Terry

Career energy geek, photographer, conservation specialist, sometimes chasing storms. Coffee addict and world traveler. DPhil (Oxford)/JD/MBA

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

It was a privilege to raise my voice w others from the Boston area to protest #TigrayGenocide & the involvement of #Turkey in supplying drones to Ethiopia (and #Canada in supporting Turkey’s drone technology.) Never give up! #EthnicCleansing @SecBlinken @JustinTrudeau @USAmbUN

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

EVERY COUNTRY HERE IN EUROPE SHOULD DO THE SAME ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

[Covie @covie_93]

This picture>>>>>

[Native American @_nativeamerica]

Our hearts ache as we announce the passing of John Kinsel Sr., a cherished elder and one of the immortal Navajo Code Talkers. At 107, he leaves behind a legacy of unbreakable bravery forged in the fires of Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. From 1942 to 1946, as a U.S. Marine, he wielded his sacred language, the uncrackable code, to weave the vital communications that defied the enemy and tipped the scales of World War II.

[Michael O’Brien @DrOBrienMD]

Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…

Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A secret society of the world’s elites co-founded by spyware billionaire Peter Thiel has been exposed by hacktivists.

Dialog is a private, invitation-only network, co-founded in 2006 by Palantir chairman Thiel and data entrepreneur Auren Hoffman.

The organisation holds off-the-record summits for powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, military, celebrity and tech.

Frequently compared to the Bilderberg Group and World Economic Forum, Dialog has spent two decades refusing to disclose the identity of its members and has a private website.

However, a directory in the website’s code was revealed by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, who previously leaked the US government’s no-fly list and hacked surveillance-camera company Verkada, WIRED reported.

The directory included “participant profiles” for those planning to attend the group’s summits, featuring contact information, facts about themselves - and even if they were “looking for love” at Dialog events.

Profiles included Texas senator Ted Cruz, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, chief economist at Israel’s finance ministry of Shmuel Abramzon, and a number of Google and Google DeepMind execs.

Other names from the world of entertainment include Hollywood actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin, podcast host and author Sam Harris, and tech entrepreneur and longevity obsessive Bryan Johnson, Straight Arrow News reported.

In many cases it isn’t known if those named are full members, conference participants or merely guests of the organisation.

WIRED reported that a separate source revealed details of an upcoming Dialog retreat at a venue outside Dublin, Ireland.

The retreat, due to be held 12-16 August this year, is set to host NATO’s top US commander Alexus Grynkewich, as well as multiple officials from the Trump administration, two US senators, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States.

Also present will be six members of the so-called “Paypal Mafia”, and a number of those running the US’s most prominent surveillance and data firms.

The conference is set to feature sessions titled “Navigating WWIII”, “Battlefield Technologies”, “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness”, “Bring Back Nuclear” and “Build-a-Cult”, the latter of which will be moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site https://t.co/nbjzqZ95gS.

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

@FreddyLA7 @tGo0110 The tropical system is arriving here on Wednesday.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

MAGA: Obama’s $1.7 billion to Iran to reduce uranium stockpile by 98% = TREASON.

MAGA when they find out 2026 proposal includes: $12B up front, $12B in 60 days, $300B reconstruction plan & conceding Hormuz to Iran & not addressing ballistic missiles or enriched uranium/nukes:

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

@_adamdoug @yashar Such an ignorant comment - Yale Law School, Senator, Secretary of State are “marrying into a career”? At least most people are intelligent enough to know she beat Trump in the popular vote.

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

The Big Bend border wall/etc. story is starting to feel just too big for our local news ecosystem. We’re exhausted and things are only amping up. If you’re a bigger TX outlet consider paying closer attention.

Look at the national park construction plan: https://t.co/naLWIrlpbT

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

@JborgGa @martinplaut I’m so happy for them!

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

@BarackObama @MichelleObama @ObamaFoundation Stunning!!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Now they want to remove the ocean monitoring system so the damage they do can't be measured. It's in project 2025.

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very strange.
While the rest of the ocean heats up, it's been getting colder. A new study says it has the answer to this mystery — and it's an ominous sign the world is hurtling toward one of the most alarming climate tipping points.

https://t.co/HNpP5spm5Q

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

Is 14” of rain possible for Houston this week?

[MVPnav🤘🏽 @PNav57]

Every time I refresh a model or rainfall rate prediction it looks worse and worse…not as much hype for this event as events in the past, and that’s what worries me…heads up in the Houston metro area the next few days folks, this could get ugly…

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

Trump Ordered ‘American Flag Blue’ for the Reflecting Pool. It’s Green Again. https://t.co/hCw5vCTg3Q via @NYTimes

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Elon Musk is being given 715 acres of land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A lawsuit has been filed by numerous Conservation groups. They say it violates laws that are protecting refuges and harms endangered species. It’s on a National Historic Landmark.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.

He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.

In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.

“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”

“I felt imprisoned.”

“They took my freedom.”

“They took my livelihood.”

“They took my land.”

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton’s own party impeached him.
His own staff reported him to the FBI.
Now his own defense attorney is endorsing our campaign.

Those closest to Ken Paxton know he's unfit for office.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

This bombshell dropped yesterday in Washington D.C. And if you live near a data center — or near land where one might be built — this news affects you directly.

The head of America’s top environmental watchdog agency just walked up to a microphone and told the entire country that the federal government will not protect you from data center water pollution, air pollution, or any other environmental harm.

Not now. Not ever. As long as this administration is in power.

The decision that just left 330 million Americans without a federal safety net — and handed Big Tech a blank environmental check.

🎤 THE WORDS THAT SHOCKED ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NATIONWIDE

The Trump administration is not going to set nationwide environmental requirements or recommendations for the rapidly growing data center industry, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday at the POLITICO Energy Summit in Washington D.C. 

No requirements. No recommendations. No national standards. Nothing.

Zeldin said: “Ten times out of 10, I’m not going to sit inside of an agency building in Washington D.C. and say that we know that local community in Georgia or Florida or Arizona or elsewhere better than everyone there locally.” 

Ten times out of ten. Zeldin was not vague. He was not ambiguous. He was categorical and absolute.

The EPA — the agency created specifically to protect Americans from environmental harm — just announced it will not protect Americans from one of the fastest-growing and most environmentally demanding industries in U.S. history.

🏛️ WHAT IS THE EPA SUPPOSED TO DO — AND WHY THIS DECISION IS SO ALARMING

For most Americans, the EPA is the government agency that makes sure the air you breathe and the water you drink are safe. It sets national standards — minimum floors of protection — that apply equally whether you live in Montana or Mississippi, whether your local politicians are aggressive environmental protectors or not.

That is the whole point. National standards exist precisely because not every community has the resources, the lawyers, the political will, or the technical expertise to fight billion-dollar corporations on their own.

Just 37% of Americans would support a data center being built in their area, according to a POLITICO poll earlier this year. The reasons cited by opponents are overwhelmingly environmental: water usage and air pollution are among the most common complaints. 

63% of Americans do not want a data center near them. The EPA just told those Americans: figure it out yourselves.

🤔 AND ZELDIN’S ANSWER ON WATER IN UTAH WAS EVEN MORE REVEALING

The EPA chief’s comments in Washington were not the only time this week he dodged accountability on data centers and the environment.

Just weeks ago, Zeldin appeared before hundreds of energy leaders at Utah’s Operation Gigawatt Summit in Deer Valley — where a reporter from 2News asked him directly whether data centers conflict with President Trump’s own pledge to save the Great Salt Lake, which is rapidly disappearing due to water overconsumption. Zeldin declined to give a direct answer. “I’m not coming here today to opine and place judgment like that,” he said. “I’ve had the opportunities to go across the country where they’re doing an awesome job of water reuse.” 

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking before America’s eyes. Data centers in Utah are consuming millions of gallons of water. A reporter asked the head of the EPA a direct, factual question about whether those two facts conflict with each other.

His answer: he would not say.

The man whose job is to protect America’s environment — refusing to say whether draining a disappearing lake to cool AI servers is a problem.

😤 BUT HERE IS THE PART THAT MAKES THIS DECISION EVEN MORE OUTRAGEOUS

Zeldin’s argument sounds reasonable on the surface. “Local communities know best.” “States’ rights.” “We trust people on the ground.”

It falls apart completely when you look at what is actually happening on the ground.

Communities trying to fight data centers on their own are being outgunned at every turn. They face billion-dollar corporations with armies of lobbyists and lawyers. They watch their county commissioners vote in the middle of the night without public hearings. They discover secret water wells drilled without permits. They find out their electricity bills are being raised to subsidize facilities they never voted for.

And now the federal government — the last backstop — has officially stepped aside.

This is the same EPA that in January 2026 convened a roundtable with the Data Center Coalition — an industry lobbying group — to discuss how the rapid growth of data centers can make the U.S. the AI capital of the world. The meeting was led by senior Trump EPA officials. The agency’s stated goal was explicitly to advance data center expansion — not to protect communities from it. 

The EPA — meeting with data center industry lobbyists to help them build faster. Then standing at a podium to announce it will not regulate them environmentally.

That is not cooperative federalism. That is the government choosing a side. And it did not choose yours.

⚡ AND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN DISMANTLING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS FOR MONTHS

Yesterday’s announcement did not come out of nowhere. It is the latest in a series of moves that have systematically removed federal environmental guardrails around the data center industry.

In February 2026, the Trump administration repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding — the central scientific finding that has allowed the EPA to regulate climate-warming emissions for over 15 years. The move strips the agency of its most powerful legal tool to control industrial pollution. 

Making the U.S. the AI capital of the world is described as a key pillar of Zeldin’s “Powering the Great American Comeback” initiative — alongside “unleashing energy dominance.” Environmental protection of communities is not listed as a pillar. 

AI capital of the world. Energy dominance. Those are the priorities. The community in Georgia watching their well go dry. The family in North Carolina whose water pressure dropped. The Nashville Zoo worried about its tigers. Not the priorities.

🗺️ SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOUR COMMUNITY?

Here is the direct, honest answer to what Zeldin’s announcement means for every American community with a data center near it — or coming to it:

You are the last line of defense. Your city council. Your county commissioners. Your state legislature. Your petition. Your vote.

The federal government has officially left the building.

While there are technologies and practices that reduce air pollution and water usage, Zeldin said states and communities know what works best for them — leaving all environmental oversight entirely to local and state authorities. 

Some states are rising to the challenge. New York passed a moratorium. Illinois suspended tax breaks. North Carolina is debating protections for its aquifers. Utah passed a first-in-the-nation water transparency law.

But many states — particularly in the South and Midwest where the most aggressive data center buildout is happening — have no protections in place. No standards. No transparency laws. No moratoriums. And now, no federal backstop either.

Those communities — often the poorest, the least politically connected, the most rural — are now completely exposed.

🔮 THE BOTTOM LINE

Lee Zeldin stood at a podium in Washington D.C. yesterday and made a decision that will affect every American community targeted by the data center industry for the next several years.

He decided that the federal government’s role is to help Big Tech build — not to protect the people living around what gets built.

He decided that trillion-dollar corporations deserve a streamlined path to construction — and that families worried about their water, their air, and their electricity bills can take their concerns to whatever city council or state legislature will listen.

He decided, in his own words, ten times out of ten — that Washington will not stand between a data center and your community.

Now the question is: will your community stand up for itself?

Because as of yesterday — nobody in Washington D.C. is going to do it for you!

🎩 The Stoic Way ✨

📰 Sources: E&E News / POLITICO Energy Summit — June 10, 2026 (Published Yesterday) | Newsmax — June 10, 2026 | ABC News 4 / The National News Desk — June 10, 2026 | KUTV Salt Lake City — May 2026 | U.S. EPA Official Website — January 2026 Roundtable | Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program — December 2025

[Sarah Terry @geographer7]

@lorigracewx I need more overlays of differnt types of data!!