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It boggles the mind that after an historic electoral victory the @thedemocrats would slide up to the bar less than a week later and join Republicans in the Senate to eviscerate environmental policy to fast track data centers.
@senschumer cancel Mondayâs vote to move the bs BAAJA legislation forward. đ Stop it in its tracks.
Call Schumerâs office and leave a message this weekend:
You can use the Food and Water Watch phone line, or just call on your own. The FWW # is 855-971-2589. Say âMy name is __. Iâm calling from __ and I urge you to oppose S5653- the âBipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026.â This bill is a handout to the fossil fuel industry that would limit public input for energy and data center development and weaken environmental review.
Get it together Dems. Show leadership. Stop playing the games billionaires devise to harm our communities and our planet. We didnât vote for you for this.
This morning about 60 people came to your house @senschumer , in the rain, to tell you the same.
06 Nov 2026
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa captures the transactional relationship between authoritarians and tech oligarch control of our information platforms
âWithout facts, you canât have truth. Without truth, you canât have trust. Without th[ese], you donât have a shared reality. You canât have journalism. You canât have democracy.
The very platforms that connect us are the ones that are being used to tear journalists apart, 1st by commodifying journalism so that you do not get the best journalism. What you get is froth that goes viral, and then the 2nd part is, those are the platforms where the journalists are attacked after you tear apart the shared reality.â
For years oil oligarchs used their platforms to malign trust in science and avoid culpability. Same playbook: deny; deflect; distract.
NYâs âpay to playâ party system, with its parade of fund raising, leaves the governor beholden to a donor class who profit from their proximity to power.
These đ· are from a recent Sunrise action in front of Apollo Global Managementâs offices in Midtown Manhattan.
Apollo is the private equity asset manager spearheading the $20B STAMP data center adjacent to sacred Tonawanda Seneca Nation territory upstate NY. The plan looks to secure a $1.46B subsidy that will deny Genesee County $385M in tax revenue.
Apolloâs CEO, Marc Rowan, is a billionaire donor to the Hochul campaign.
In June, the NYS legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act. The bill places a year-long moratorium on data center builds along environmental and ratepayer protections. But in July @govkathyhochul issued her own data center moratorium through an executive order (EO) that grabbed headlines and ignores the legislatureâs bill.
Hochulâs EO, filled with vague language and soft timelines feels like a dodge.
Hochulâs EO draft scope ignores impacts, including PFAS contamination and continued operation of fracked gas power plants already set to close. It excludes the possibility of keeping the moratorium in place until economic and environmental benchmarks are set, paving the way for a renewed onslaught of data centers, putting the 50MW STAMP project back in play.
Take action nowđđ»
04 Nov 2026
NYC Marathon Day is always an excellent day. Politics is a marathon. đđđżââïžđđ»ââïžNow run to the polls! #vote #voteblue #nycmarathon
01 Nov 2026
đđ»Join me this weekend at the 3rd Providence Photo Book Fair! Along with my Steidl books, Iâll be selling limited editions and photo gravures! đ· Providence, RI đŻđșđżđ«¶đŒ
15 Oct 2026
A father was shot in the neck while in his car in NYC Thursday afternoon while his five year-old son watched from the back seat, strapped into his safety seat. ICE supervisor to the crew at the scene that shot the man was Brenden Cuni, known for violent outbursts according to observers at Federal Plaza engaged in court accompaniment. At the scene, seven shots were fired into the car, in broad daylight in the busy Marble Hill neighborhood as a school was being dismissed down the street. As the victim bled, his 5 year old son cried out, âPapa, donât die!â
Cuni, the ICE supervisor, was photographed at the scene wearing a construction safety vest and brandishing an assault rifle. Cuni was also the supervisor of a group of ICE agents accused of brutalizing a pregnant woman last December in Minneapolis. Heâs named in multiple lawsuits as being part of ICE crews shooting, tasing or brutalizing subjects, and of being the actual perpetrator in several of those encounters.
Thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets Friday night demanding ICE out of NY and the removal of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for giving material support to federal agents against NYC policy.
(10/12 update: Cuni was the ICE supervisor at the scene though it is not known if he was the shooter. ICE transferred the victim from the hospital, placed him in solitary confinement against surgeonâs orders, who said he needed to undergo surgery to remove the bullet from his neck.)
10 Oct 2026
I voted for @nycmayor Zohran Mamdani.
I worked to help get out the vote to make the change this city needs.
I appeared in viral videos, volunteered my time and my photo talents getting him elected.
And he made promises to us.
He made promises to the climate organizations who endorsed him and threw their weight behind him.
He made promises that, 10 months in, he hasnât moved on.
He traded alliances and gave allegiances to get weak promises that he thought would help his agenda.
His demands of party leaders and early endorsement of Governor Hochul gave the governor cover to gut the stateâs methane accounting rules and drive a stake into NYâs climate law, the CLCPA.
He received endorsements based on his promise to close the loophole that harms the cityâs most substantive climate law, Local Law 97. A law that the former âreal estate mayor,â Mayor Adams administratively diminished to appease his real estate cronies, effectively reducing its effectiveness by 50%.
He abandoned his own platform to green our overheated, aging and toxic schools.
To this day, the mayor has not stood up to stop or speak against the data center frenzy spurring on an unprecedented build out of new fossil fuel infrastructure that is straining demand and raising our bills.
Where is his affordability agenda now when our utility bills are skyrocketing?
1. Close the landlord loophole in LL97
2. Stop the proposed Gowanus fracked gas power plant
3. Retrofit, make resilient and green our public schools
The first two take no money, only mayoral action and the bully pulpit. The third you failed to even put in to your budget proposal â even though you campaigned heavily on the idea of green healthy schools.
We didnât vote for you because you ran a charm offensive.
We took to the steps of City Hall on September 30 to remind Zohran of that fact. Promises were made and we will hold him accountable.
02 Oct 2026
The air was bad despite what elected officials insisted. Giuliani is a criminal and was a criminal then when he uses/used âpatrioticâ blather to condemn a whole group of people, target them, surveil them and twist it for his own political ends. So much of what happened in the weeks and months in and around and after 9/11 was a precursor to the vile xenophobic, racist, anti-scientific, harmful and violent institutional responses we see today.
But in the aftermath of 9/11 we also saw a great public outpouring of love and community that still lives on and is manifested in our resistance to the fascist annihilations being perpetrated on us on an ongoing basis. This love, compassion, this community and commitment for kindness and a better tomorrow, is a continued source of hope and strength in my life. With those precepts as our foundation I know that whatever befalls us can be fought â and through our collective efforts â eventually be surmounted.
I am reminded of Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic philosopher Emperor of the collapsing Roman Empire. He ruled during the great plague that destroyed, some say, a quarter of Europeâs population where, at its peak, the plague claimed 3,000 lives a day in Rome. He told us that our obstacles become our path.
We cannot ignore what befalls us. What befalls us forms and guides us and demands our response and resolve.
Let us work towards light and lift this deepening darkness.
11 Sep 2026
Al is already causing great environmental harm ahead of the potential threats posed by non-aligned agents.
Itâs already
âEliminating jobs
âSpreading disinformation
âAccelerating irreversible climate change.
The hyperscale data centers that power Al create severe air and noise pollution. They consume vast amounts of water and energy âmostly generated by fossil fuels that are causing our climate to collapse. We pay for this tech with our health as its massive energy consumption costs are passed on to us as soaring utility bills.
Al is not inevitable.
We donât have to wait passively while tech oligarchs race to consolidate political and economic power into their own hands. We can pause this technology while we evaluate how to use it for good, not evil.
Three things you can do:
đđ» 1. In July, NY Governor Kathy Hochul signed a watered-down executive order pausing the development of some data centers in NY for up to one year. A stronger moratorium bill she should sign is sitting on her desk. Call Governor Hochul and urge her to sign the Responsible Data Center Development Act passed by the NY State legislature. 519-474-6537
đđ» 2. U.S. school districts spend millions on Al products, mostly distributed by Google Classroomâą. Google enabled Al only for students 18 or older until August, when Google turned on Al by default for children of all ages âeven kindergartners. Gas-powered data centers warm our climate, torching childrenâs futures, while Al does their schoolwork rather than letting them learn how to think. Contact your school district, your PTA and congressional reps to demand a national moratorium on Al in schools. Support S.4214/H.R.9442 for an immediate pause on construction of hyper-scale data centers.
đđ» 3. Google and other search engines must stop making Al the default for searches. Users should have to opt in to Al, not struggle to find a way
to turn it off. Contact Google at [email protected].
đ„Tell them to stop forcing us to use Al. Make Al optional, not default.
đ„And tell them to turn off default Al for kids in Google Classroomâą. Protect childrenâs futuresâŒïž
10 Sep 2026
Billions of tax payer dollars have been given to expand a domestic terrorist organization, a gestapo, an ill-trained and belligerent force, directed by a corrupt, racist and power frenzied administration.
The government-commissioned AI targeting technology is powered by surveillance tools developed by Palantir (through, what are many times, fast tracked, no bid contracts).
With an annual budget of ~ $120B, more than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, DHS is ramping up its national network of privately owned and operated gulags. Dozens of civilians have died in them from neglect, abuse and direct violence (and today we learn they plan to procure $20M for electric âstun glovesâ). Many have been beaten protesting or trying to escape the clutches these â letâs call them for what they really are â thugs â domestic terrorists. Some have been killed resisting their entreaties. Call it murder. Because it is. State sponsored. State sanctioned. State financed. State deployed. And Palantir is at the ready profiting handsomely deploying many aspects of it while polluting our water and air and straining the electrical grid raising our utility rates in the process.
On August 12th @mtrstates marched on the unmarked offices of Palantir at 45 West 18th Street in NYC, part of the national week of action to #dumpbigtech demanding our elected officials stand with people, not the billionaires who are driving climate breakdown and harming communities.
Used against our neighbors and our democracy, billionaire Peter Theilâs Palantir powers energy-hungry AI systems that flout constitutional norms and is at the forefront of a rapidly growing, militarized federal police force responsible for the tracking, targeting, imprisonment, and murder of civilians.
It is up to all of us to push back and resist their transgressions against our privacy, the infliction of generational trauma, the razing of our democracy and the planetary destruction Palantir so shamelessly engages in.
12 Aug 2026
The so called shđ©thole countries, maligned by Trump have endured unspeakable pain and forced penury.
Western nations didnât go to them because they were poor, they set up shop in them to exploit their riches, to strip them of their natural resources. And in the process of exploiting and raping them they reviled them for the suffering they inflicted upon them.
This past week the Trump administration revoked Temporary Protection Status to over 330,000 Haitian nationals in the United States, granted after the countryâs devastating earthquake left a quarter of a million dead and the country in shambles in the largest natural disaster to befall any country in the 21st century. This came atop a history of economic exploitation and political violence rooted in vindictive colonial imperialist âadventurism.â
Haiti was once the richest country in the New World, but was reduced to disfunction as its national reserves were robbed by France and the United States.
As ICE activities continue to escalate across the country, the Haitian people who have found refuge here and built beautiful lives and communities are suddenly facing the prospect of losing everything once again, to be forcibly sent to a place so violent and dysfunctional that the US Department of State has placed a travel ban on it.
A rally was held in Brooklyn on Saturday, decrying the July 27 revoking of TPS status of Haitians by the US State Department after an adverse decision by the Supreme Court on n June 25th.
A call to action for a march and rally is planned for Foley Square later this month.
02 Aug 2026
@nytimes âIndustry knew for decades of higher methane release, papers suggestâ
#lies you grew up with
23 Jul 2026
PSA:
JFC
Air Quality Health Advisory: Air Quality Index (AQI) has reached 201-300. Unhealthy for everyone, especially sensitive groups. Info: https://www.weather.gov/okx/
Weather Update: NYCEM is monitoring forecasts & asking NYers to plan for potential heavy rain starting Sat, 7/18. Never travel over flooded roadways & be prepared to move to higher ground if needed. Info: weather.gov/okx & nyc.gov/BeReady
#PSA
#JFC
16 Jul 2026
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