MzFitz

she/her. still breathing 🔥 #RacistsCanGoFeckOffInADarkRatInfestedOublietteInADisusedSewer Bernie was the compromise. @MinorMatryoshka is my spawn ❤️

[MzFitz @spilledmilque]

We are the tired, the poor,

The huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The homeless, the tempest-tossed.

And we came to these shores.

We are The Hope of this nation.

We, The Multitude.

And We Organized.

This is Our Time. #NotMeUs #BigUs #BernieSanders2020

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Still a masterpiece in the most depressing way.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling.

[Michael Keenan @CitizenMichael1]

California Brown Act Preamble: “The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is good for them not to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”
The Ralph M. Brown Act, California Government Code § 54950.
Secrecy is for losers. Recall them immediately.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

How the fuck is it even remotely legal for a politician to sign an nda with a corporation to hide information from their constituents

[Heartland Signal @HeartlandSignal]

U.S. @RepCasten (D-IL) says the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision shows they're angry about "the outcome of the civil war" and "Reconstruction era amendments to our Constitution."

"Now, Chief Justice Roberts has said that we now live in a colorblind society, to which I would ask you all, does your answer to those questions depend on whether their robe is white or black? Because make absolutely no mistake: The agenda of this Supreme Court and the agenda of the Klan are far too similar."

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

It’s time to wake up. Data centres are not being built to help you, they’re being built to fleece you. I cannot think of a more sinister revolution than what is taking place in plain site than algorithmic pricing.

I’ve talked about the work that @MorePerfectUS does on many occasions and this is a perfect example of their phenomenal work.

Data centers are quite literally one of the central drivers for growth and employment, they are the 21st Century tools of the oligarch’s ’final solution’

The government has given the tech companies a license to rape and plunder the environment and your bank account, to build an automated legal state sponsored social racketeering network. A network that will control everything from the price you pay for rent, to your wages, to every price you pay for everything you consume.

What’s more,, YOU are paying for them to do it to you in higher energy costs and compliance in advance. Corporate America is building a technology infrastructure to price everything to exploit every consumer to the max. All while using your credit score to drive the wages you are paid depending on how desperate you are to earn money.

The link below is to the full short film on YouTube

https://t.co/YdueF82hXZ

My thanks to More Perfect Union for the clip and their OUTSTANDING continued good work

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/7HlqiEF6sI

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The fossil fuel industry gets 11 million dollars every single minute in subsidies: https://t.co/jIFH3gerOU

We need to stop funding the problem? #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #SDGs

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

If you see a helicopter towing one of these over your neighborhood, bad news: your town is getting a data center. They’re running airborne electromagnetic surveys to map groundwater in the area.

TRANSLATION: figuring out how much water they can divert before people notice.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time.

It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day.

It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7.

Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:

https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ

[Natural Resources Democrats @NRDems]

🚨Republicans just voted 50-49 to hand the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company that will pollute its headwaters & ship every last mineral to China.

Now it goes to Trump's desk, who has financial ties to the billionaire behind the deal. They're not even pretending anymore.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Americans have become lemmings
Willing to see destruction of millions of acres ancient forest from Oregon to Alaska
Millions more acres doused is poison
Rivers lakes and ocean polluted
Mining companies giving a free hand to pollute without even having to consider nature impact

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Amazon is asking permission to destroy 5 acres of wetlands and nearly 1 mile of streams as part of its resubmitted proposal to add 14 data center buildings at a third site at its sprawling New Carlisle, IN campus.

Public comment is due June 12.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Xi Jinping is putting on a clinic:

“The whole world is watching our meeting. The International situation is turbulent. The world is at a new crossroads: Can China and the US overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together.”

The Thucydides Trap is the structural tension that occurs when a rapidly rising power (China) threatens to displace an established ruling power that is in decline (US).

By mentioning the Thucydides trap, Xi Jinping is signaling that China is the new leader of the free world and what’s remarkable is, unlike the U.S., China achieved this without dropping bombs, waging endless wars, or spending $1 trillion a year on its military.

Instead China became the leader of the free world by investing in its people with housing, education, health care, and the best modern infrastructure in the world, and investing in its neighbor countries through its Belt and Road Initiative, which has funded ports, railways, and energy networks across the Global South.

The US became a “superpower” through endless wars, corruption, and selling out its own people to the billionaire class while China became a superpower and surpassed the US by building trade and relations with the world and investing in its people instead of wars. Americans would be wise to take note and then change our corrupt government.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Senator Jim Justice says there is NO TIME to wait and the government MUST ACT NOW against the monopolies taking over our agricultural system.

“What we have here is a monopoly.”

“We have got to move now or we’re going to awaken to an agriculture industry that is so different than we could ever think.”

“It’ll be bad for all of us.”

“We have got to do something right this minute.”

“We do not have time to wait.”

@jimjustice_WV

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Day 3 of Bolivia's general strike demanding the resignation of neoliberal President Rodrigo Paz.

All major highways blocked by protesters. An indigenous long march is heading to the capital, as it passes through each town and village more people join.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

An appreciation post for the 1.5 billion cattle currently on Earth, quietly holding the whole thing together while receiving nothing but criticism in return.

Consider, for a moment, what these animals actually do:

- They turn grass, a thing no human can digest, into steak, a thing every human thrives on
- They graze the two-thirds of farmland that grows nothing else, asking for no thanks and receiving none
- They carry the most bioavailable iron, B12, and zinc on the planet, and deliver it on the hoof
- They produce butter, which on its own would justify the entire arrangement
- They fertilise the soil for free, through a process we are all too polite to describe in detail
- They build topsoil and sequester carbon into pasture, while being blamed, somehow, for the reverse
- They give us tallow, leather, marrow, suet, and gelatine, with no waste and no complaints
- They restore land that crops have exhausted, turning the worn-out and the marginal back into something living
- They stand in the rain for years on end and never once bring it up

Ten thousand years of domestication. Ten thousand years of being the most useful animal in the field, the foundation of the food system, and a keystone of every landscape lucky enough to hold them.

They are not the problem with the planet's future. They are, quite plainly, the shape of it.

We repaid all of this by putting them on the front of climate reports.

Magnificent animals. Owed an apology.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For generations, modern farming has relied heavily on energy-intensive synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. But groundbreaking work by one scientist is proving that nature’s own microbes can replace much of that dependence.

Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a Brazilian microbiologist, has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate for her pioneering research on biological nitrogen fixation. Her decades-long work shows how beneficial soil bacteria can naturally deliver nitrogen to crops, dramatically reducing the need for chemical fertilizers.

Nitrogen is vital for plant growth, but producing synthetic versions is costly and emits massive amounts of greenhouse gases. Hungria dedicated more than 40 years to studying rhizobia — bacteria that form symbiotic relationships with legume roots (such as soybeans and beans). These microbes convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form plants can use, in exchange for sugars from the crop.

Her practical innovations have delivered impressive results. Treating soybean seeds with specially selected rhizobia strains has increased yields by up to 8% while cutting fertilizer use. She also advanced the use of Azospirillum brasilense, another bacterium that enhances nitrogen uptake and promotes growth through natural hormone production.

The impact has been transformative. Today, Hungria’s microbial inoculants are applied across more than 99 million acres (40 million hectares) of Brazilian farmland. This approach is estimated to save farmers around $25 billion each year in fertilizer costs and prevent more than 230 million metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions annually.

When she began her career, many doubted that microbes could meaningfully compete with industrial fertilizers. Thanks to her persistence, Brazil has become a global leader in sustainable agriculture — proving that tiny bacteria can play a giant role in feeding the world more efficiently and cleanly.

["Dr Mariangela Hungria Named 2025 World Food Prize Laureate." FarmingFirst, 2026]

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

What kind of world are we leaving behind? Unfortunately, it is a world distorted by war and war-like language. This pollution of reason comes from the geopolitical sphere and invades every social relationship. Any simplification that creates enemies must be corrected, especially in universities, through complexity of thought and wise exercise of memory.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

69 US jurisdictions have now blocked new data centers.

Citing the need to protect local power grids and water supplies, a growing number of cities, counties, and towns are pushing back hard against the explosive growth of AI data centers.

At least 69 jurisdictions across the United States have passed restrictions or outright moratoriums on new data center construction — with four of those bans made permanent.

Communities are alarmed by the massive resource demands of these facilities: enormous electricity consumption, millions of gallons of water for cooling, rising utility bills, constant noise, and the loss of local control over land use. What was once welcomed as economic development is now sparking fierce debates about sustainability and quality of life.

The tipping point came in Michigan, where a huge AI data center project backed by OpenAI and Oracle was approved despite strong local opposition. The decision triggered a domino effect, with neighboring towns rushing to pass their own bans to prevent similar developments.

As tech giants race to build the infrastructure needed for advanced AI, they’re increasingly running into resistance from communities unwilling to sacrifice their environment and resources for corporate expansion.

The digital revolution is now colliding with physical reality.