Rowan Pru

SEU ‘19 // I go to law school now // Politics with sprinkles of Pop Culture // she/her 🏳️‍🌈🌎🗳#VoteTexas #ClimateJusticeNow

[Rowan Pru @rowanpru_tx]

If you missed my Honors Thesis Presentation for College Students, Consent, and Sexual Scripts, you can view it on the Honors YouTube page! My presentation is the longest cause your girls got lots to say. https://t.co/z10mcHkbeL #Consent #YesMeansYes #Metoo #AcademicFeminism

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” https://t.co/Abll3dfrMo

[Rowan Pru @rowanpru_tx]

@screamnhorror Why are so many people defending Ted? WTF did we watch the same show???

[mindy🌷 @mindyisser]

this is genuinely making me patriotic. i believe the US can be an incredibly beautiful and multicultural and democratic socialist society!!!!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico:

“I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas. 

And unlike Ken, I believe that you, James, believe in unity over division and that you know how to assemble not only Democrats but Independents and Republicans and we need that right now. 

We need unity, we don't need any more division and that's why I'm supporting you.”

[Rowan Pru @rowanpru_tx]

@maxhadid30 That’s what she was trying to do with Kyle too until everyone was like you’re the boy crying wolf and that’s a wolf!! She basically admits it in ep 1 in the city at the anniversary dinner!

[Rowan Pru @rowanpru_tx]

@mehdirhasan @Kanew Can’t believe I just blocked the White House

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Erin Brockovich is back, and this time she's coming for the AI industry, calling out Big Tech's data center boom as the next great environmental shakedown of American communities. She launched a self-reporting map at https://t.co/ODEJlqLss3, and within a week over 1,600 residents had filed complaints spanning noise pollution, skyrocketing utility bills, and serious water depletion concerns. The pattern she's seeing looks awfully familiar: corporations dangle promises of jobs and tax revenue, municipalities wave projects through with minimal environmental review, and the people who actually live there get left holding the bag.

The water issue alone should be setting off alarm bells. Data centers gulp enormous amounts of water to keep their cooling systems running, and some are being planted directly above critical aquifers. As Brockovich put it plainly, "Wasting heat is wasting water. We can't afford either." The technology to capture and reuse that waste heat already exists, it's just not being required. That's a policy failure, not a tech failure.

A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities, with many saying they'd rather live near a nuclear plant. Brockovich's demand is straightforward: if Big Tech is going to drain public water supplies and jack up utility bills, the public deserves full transparency. "If you're using public resources, the public has a right to know how much. Sunlight is the best disinfectant."

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Data centers are the leading cause of a 76% increase in the cost of electricity for America's largest power grid over just the first 3 months of this year, according to Bloomberg.

The 13-state grid managed by PJM serves 67 million people, and costs have spiked this year.

This time last year the cost of electricity on this grid was $77.78 per megawatt-hour. Now that cost has almost doubled to $136.53 per megawatt-hour.

Bloomberg attributes that skyrocketing cost to the "booming demand from artificial intelligence data centers, which require vast amounts of energy and are putting a significant burden on America’s aging power grids."

Full story: https://t.co/Naad21enKi.

[silly and whimsy memes 🍭 @sillywhimsymeme]

we love wikipedia

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Onion has successfully acquired Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars’ after 17 months of legal battles and has debuted its new logo.

It will be turned into a parody of itself, with the support of the Sandy Hook families.

(https://t.co/U0k83hA62K)

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I’m tired of every shop, store, restaurant, service center, hospital, police department, airport, hotel, DMV, and government office being ‘understaffed.’

And I’m tired of dealing with frazzled, underpaid workers stuck in a system they didn’t design.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: It doesn’t matter who wins the Republican runoff, because we already know who we’re running against.

We’re running against the billionaire megadonors who have taken over our state and our country, and their corrupt political system.

We are building a movement here in Texas across all these divides to take power back from those at the very top who have corrupted our politics.

And I think we’re gonna see the fruits of that movement in November.

[charles @Charlesblain]

You can't fight local gov if you don't know their tools. Got tired of collecting links so I mapped every county and city's AI implementation in America that I could find https://t.co/6hoQOqxJnb

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

Anyone who supports a wall being built here is a piece of shit

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Who on Earth really thinks it’d be a good idea to build a border wall here?

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

I don’t think people understand just how bipartisan/non-partisan the fight to save Big Bend is. Every single person who lives here is against this project, regardless of political affiliation or interest. They’re fighting this like their lives depend on it, because they do.

[Rowan Pru @rowanpru_tx]

@WhiteHouse @NintendoAmerica @Nintendo get his ass!!

[Rowan Pru @rowanpru_tx]

Ted Cruz on a plane…likely place for him to be!!

[TMZ @TMZ]

🚨 Senators Ted Cruz and John Thune leave D.C. amid the government shutdown.

Exclusive details: https://t.co/CUnFtLge3r

[TMZ @TMZ]

🚨 Senators Ted Cruz and John Thune leave D.C. amid the government shutdown.

Exclusive details: https://t.co/CUnFtLge3r

[Rep. Vikki Goodwin @VikkiGoodwinTX]

The current Lt Governor is corrupt and isn’t interested in good governance. I’m familiar with his games and power plays. Just wait until November. Voters may agree it’s time for change. #Goodwin4Texas