marissa🍒🖤

nonprofit attorney // advocate for human rights always // no legal advice here

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The richest 1% now have as much wealth as the bottom 90% of America combined.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Over 470 hospitals wards, clinics, and nursing homes have shut down after Trump and Republicans cut healthcare funding by over $1 trillion.

[. @Fimiye]

i wish there was a more intense way to express my emotions than crying. i want to burst into flames

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump has fired all federal employees tasked with prosecuting corruption.

[k 🌟 | cher day 🌞 @scrollandquills]

this is the evil version of studio ghibli food

[marissa🍒🖤 @intrepidkitten]

i hate the heat. i hate being hot. any outside temp above 70 degrees sucks. call me maroon 5 bc i am in misery

[Nashville Zoo @NashvilleZoo]

Stand with us to protect the future of Nashville Zoo.

A proposed 69,000-square-foot data center is planned next to the Zoo, but no environmental impact studies have been conducted. Sign our petition to help protect the animals in our care ➡️ https://t.co/q2ISQnxLBK

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

New York officially has become the first US state to mandate disclosures for AI-generated people in commercial advertisements, effective June 9, per ABC

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

U.S. households in the top 1% gained over 100x more wealth than the median household since 1989, per Oxfam.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic Governor primary.

If elected, she will make history as the nation's first Native American governor.

[Aisha Farooqi @AishaforMI]

Michigan holds nearly 20% of the world’s fresh surface water, a sacred trust we are obligated to protect for future generations. That is not negotiable.

So let me be blunt: Governor Whitmer smiling for photos with Sam Altman while handing over Michigan’s water and energy to his data centers is a betrayal of every family that depends on these resources. This isn’t economic development, it’s a sweetheart deal for a Silicon Valley billionaire at Michigan taxpayers’ expense.

AI data centers consume millions of gallons of water and massive amounts of electricity.

Who pays the price? Michigan families, farmers, and communities.

Who pockets the profits? Out-of-state tech oligarchs who will never have to live with the consequences.

I am running for Congress because Michigan’s water, land, and energy belong to the people of Michigan, not to the billionaire class and not to politicians who roll out the red carpet for them.

We will not subsidize the exploitation of our most precious natural resources so the ultra-wealthy can grow even richer.

Enough. Michigan is not for sale.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

27 years ago today, Blink-182 released their album ‘Enema of the State.’

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In the US, spending on data center construction now exceeds spending on public transportation infrastructure — including airports, marine terminals, and all mass transit.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.

And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck