WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR |
- Photos: Faith leaders protest ICE activity in the Chicago area
(Chicago Sun-Times)
- We're Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
(404 Media)
- "'This is so dumb that I have a hard time believing it is true,' he wrote..."
Hegseth imposes new press restrictions, eyes greater Pentagon control over access
(MaddowBlog)
- "Next year, a new subject, 'Spiritual and Moral Culture of Russia,' will be compulsory for students in grades five to seven. The textbooks are being developed with the Russian Orthodox Church..."
(New York Times)
- "Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct 'a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza', with a statue of the him and a sign calling him a 'modern civil rights leader'..."
(The Guardian)
- "The $42 billion initiative, created by Biden's infrastructure bill, aimed to close the digital divide, with a focus on rural communities. Trump's changes to the program have disqualified hundreds of thousands of locations from receiving internet access..."
(News From The States)
- "Key monthly costs for most Americans — shelter, food, health care, electricity — are outpacing inflation.
Rents are up 3.8% — the largest increase since 2011..."
...
"In some regions of the country, electric bills have been soaring. Power-hungry data centers that fuel artificial intelligence and other technologies have been gobbling up energy, leading to higher bills for everybody. At the same time, Republicans are winding down lucrative subsidies for the construction of low-emissions power plants that Democrats created under President Joe Biden, meaning fewer power plants are being built to fulfill the rising demand. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis says the nation's average electricity rate is more than 40 percent higher now than it was in 2019."
From electricity to rent, monthly bills are tipping the inflation scale
(Washington Post)
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