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Leftist 'cancer' rhetoric spurs global crackdown plan

Truthout reports that White House aide Stephen Miller, alongside Marco Rubio and other top officials, labeled the political left as ‘enemies of civilization’ and a ‘cancer’ threatening society, advocating NSPM-7-style measures to disrupt and prosecute left-wing groups and urging a global offensive against leftist networks in a speech echoing McCarthyism.

2 months ago•Source: Truthout

Organizing to Halt AI Data Centers: A Three-City Playbook

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29.245 min•5 months ago

Organizing to Halt AI Data Centers: A Three-City Playbook

Organizers from Memphis (TN), DeForest (WI), and Tucson (AZ) share tactics to resist AI data centers: rapidly mobilize the community, attend public meetings, file open-records requests, and build coalitions; leverage social media, door‑to‑door outreach, and local experts to counter misinformation; focus messaging on water and electricity impacts and affordability to win broad support; maintain volunteer networks and power-map to target decision-makers. Their efforts have halted or slowed projects (e.g., Wisconsin’s DeForest case, Tucson’s Project Blue) and underscore how local organizing can push back against the AI data-center boom.

via Truthout