@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-14 13:06:16
Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (Tim Craig/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-05-13 20:04:52
From boing boing dot net:
Canada is fast-tracking citizenship for #trans Americans at risk
https://boingboing.net/2026/05/13/canada-is-fast-…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-03-14 18:34:39
Trump keeps winning:
US embassy tells all Americans to leave Iraq immediately after Iran managed to hit its air defence system in Baghdad. Overland, because the country's airspace is closed.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-stat
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-14 19:50:40
Reid Hoffman and Lever for Change award $9M to CalMatters to scale its Digital Democracy tools, which give access to legislative data and use AI for analysis (Lever for Change)
https://leverforchange.org/article/press-release/trust-in-americ…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-14 08:34:36
Trump landed in Beijing last night with Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, and 15 other American CEOs in tow
— the most powerful collection of corporate America ever to board Air Force One
— while at home Republicans scrambled to explain away his statement that he does not think about Americans’ financial situation.
Mike Johnson, asked directly whether that was the right message, said he did not know the context in which Trump made that comment.
The context was a p…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-14 11:51:11
Is Latin America Ready to Abandon Cuba? (Simon Romero/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/americas/cuba-support-latin-america-conservative.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p10#a260314p10
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-15 00:39:04
2026 NFL Schedule Release: What We're Watching For In Every America's Game Of The Week https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-schedule-release-what-were-watching-every-americas-game-week
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-02-15 18:20:34
This👇
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116076016524108627
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io - So many people here are like, oh I wish I could move to (another country, that is also having a hard far right turn, and anti-immigrant horrors, just in a language they don’t speak)
It’s totally fine to feel you need to get away for safety and yes white cis Americans will likely face less of a threat in many places
However
I’m so irritated by the pretense that all of the current problems in the world are limited to US borders. We are going through a rough time of it.. but a lot of these problems are structurally global. ‘America is the worst’ is also a form of American exceptionalism.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-15 07:15:57
When asked what it means to be a good news consumer, 20% of US adults mention being discerning, 17% following the news, 13% getting news from quality sources (Elisa Shearer/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-14 14:24:56
Trump is bringing a lot of his Christian nationalist boosters to the Mall this weekend
to "rededicate" America as one nation under God,
part of his hijacking of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.
