DV McRae
@dvmcrae.bsky.social
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Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Counterpoint: my computer is alive and in love with me.
No one can tell me a single good use for it, for me. I have asked. Not a one.
What am I supposed to use it for? To summarize my emails? Too long, wrong. To write things? Too long, wrong. To plan trips? Planning is FUN and why would I outsource that? I played with it a bit six months ago, it was meh.
Also, I hate its enshittification of search results with my whole soul.
Also, I hate its enshittification of search results with my whole soul.
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Counterpoint: my computer is alive and in love with me.
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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"Our residents are afraid and they are angry. They want the executive to be forthcoming about current policies," says @brianneknadeau.bsky.social opening a hearing on human rights violations during the federal takeover of D.C. and the local government's cooperation with federal agents.
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Our residents are afraid and they are angry. They want the executive to be forthcoming about current policies," says @brianneknadeau.bsky.social opening a hearing on human rights violations during the federal takeover of D.C. and the local government's cooperation with federal agents.
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Em julho, o Intercept revelou que o data center da Casa dos Ventos e do TikTok em Caucaia gastará por dia a mesma energia que consomem 2,2 milhões de brasileiros. Se o data center fosse uma cidade, seria a 7ª que mais consome energia no Brasil. www.intercept.com.br/2025/07/03/d...
Data center do TikTok gastará energia de 2,2 milhões de brasileiros
Necessidade de energia é maior do que o consumo de 99,9% dos municípios. Se fosse uma cidade, data center seria a 7ª maior do Brasil.
www.intercept.com.br
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Em julho, o Intercept revelou que o data center da Casa dos Ventos e do TikTok em Caucaia gastará por dia a mesma energia que consomem 2,2 milhões de brasileiros. Se o data center fosse uma cidade, seria a 7ª que mais consome energia no Brasil. www.intercept.com.br/2025/07/03/d...
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O órgão ambiental do Ceará alegou utilidade pública e liberou a construção de uma ponte, em área protegida, para o data center do TikTok em Caucaia. Enquanto isso, moradores, indígenas e organizações pedem uma ação imediata do MPF para barrar o licenciamento do projeto.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
O órgão ambiental do Ceará alegou utilidade pública e liberou a construção de uma ponte, em área protegida, para o data center do TikTok em Caucaia. Enquanto isso, moradores, indígenas e organizações pedem uma ação imediata do MPF para barrar o licenciamento do projeto.
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I am requesting clear answers regarding MPD’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and the disturbing incidents near schools. How is accountability being ensured when MPD appears to be acting outside current directives and practices?
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I am requesting clear answers regarding MPD’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and the disturbing incidents near schools. How is accountability being ensured when MPD appears to be acting outside current directives and practices?
Fantastic report on the xAI data center in Memphis from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The reference to the rise of a technocracy “with a plantation economy for the rest of the world” resonates. Data centers are an environmental justice issue.
youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw?...
The reference to the rise of a technocracy “with a plantation economy for the rest of the world” resonates. Data centers are an environmental justice issue.
youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw?...
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Fantastic report on the xAI data center in Memphis from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The reference to the rise of a technocracy “with a plantation economy for the rest of the world” resonates. Data centers are an environmental justice issue.
youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw?...
The reference to the rise of a technocracy “with a plantation economy for the rest of the world” resonates. Data centers are an environmental justice issue.
youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw?...
What are the best local and/or independent publications covering data center issues?
Extra points if outside of Northern Virginia—though I also would love to hear who has done the best work covering this issue in the heart of “Data Center Alley”!
Extra points if outside of Northern Virginia—though I also would love to hear who has done the best work covering this issue in the heart of “Data Center Alley”!
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What are the best local and/or independent publications covering data center issues?
Extra points if outside of Northern Virginia—though I also would love to hear who has done the best work covering this issue in the heart of “Data Center Alley”!
Extra points if outside of Northern Virginia—though I also would love to hear who has done the best work covering this issue in the heart of “Data Center Alley”!
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NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
Sadly our local NPR station fired most of not all of its local newsroom so I had to cancel my monthly donation (you don’t get a free pass from me just because you’re not corporate media).
I became a member of @51st.news instead, and so should you! (Founded by ex-WAMU/DCist employees)
I became a member of @51st.news instead, and so should you! (Founded by ex-WAMU/DCist employees)
When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Sadly our local NPR station fired most of not all of its local newsroom so I had to cancel my monthly donation (you don’t get a free pass from me just because you’re not corporate media).
I became a member of @51st.news instead, and so should you! (Founded by ex-WAMU/DCist employees)
I became a member of @51st.news instead, and so should you! (Founded by ex-WAMU/DCist employees)
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Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
September 11, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
This is one that feels buried—or superseded by other heinous acts. I remember this being terrifying when it happened, as well as when I learned what an AK47 was. Bizarre that newspapers gave the sniper so much space by printing his photo and “last words”
www.reddit.com/r/masskiller...
www.reddit.com/r/masskiller...
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This is one that feels buried—or superseded by other heinous acts. I remember this being terrifying when it happened, as well as when I learned what an AK47 was. Bizarre that newspapers gave the sniper so much space by printing his photo and “last words”
www.reddit.com/r/masskiller...
www.reddit.com/r/masskiller...
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The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House:
Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House:
Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
MFP clearly holds a grudge against Mississippi Today, but allowing Haley Barbour to rewrite history is beyond the pale. I’ve canceled my MT membership.
Free advice to editors everywhere: you’re not required to publish every wordsmithed opinion essay “written” by a politician that crosses your desk!
Free advice to editors everywhere: you’re not required to publish every wordsmithed opinion essay “written” by a politician that crosses your desk!
Read my new take-no-prisoners column: note that it’s as much about journalism pandering before power as it is about Haley Barbour and that half a billion in federal Katrina for low-income house that he decided to use for pet port projects:
www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
Editor’s Note | Our Haley Barbour Reporting Centers People, Not Power
Donna Ladd writes on former Gov. Haley Barbour’s redirection of federal low-income Katrina housing funds to other projects, despite residents’ needs.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
MFP clearly holds a grudge against Mississippi Today, but allowing Haley Barbour to rewrite history is beyond the pale. I’ve canceled my MT membership.
Free advice to editors everywhere: you’re not required to publish every wordsmithed opinion essay “written” by a politician that crosses your desk!
Free advice to editors everywhere: you’re not required to publish every wordsmithed opinion essay “written” by a politician that crosses your desk!
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“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
www.masslive.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
It’s nice to know that in the new fragmented digital media landscape some editors will still make room for the “truly unhinged community voices” op-eds that local papers used to run regularly
OPINION: "Book production has always adapted to changes in technology—from the invention of the printing press in the 15th century to the advent of personal computers and the internet," Matthew Harris writes.
Opinion | I Used AI to Teach Kids About Idioms in My First Book
Matthew Harris writes about his new children’s book “Idiomania,” in which he used AI tools such as ChatGPT and Dall-E to create pairing illustrations.
buff.ly
August 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It’s nice to know that in the new fragmented digital media landscape some editors will still make room for the “truly unhinged community voices” op-eds that local papers used to run regularly
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A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
August 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
The best part about the AHA Guidelines for AI pile-on is that if you scroll through the quote skeets, a hapless AHA employee teases that a *second* report (addressing research and scholarship) is due to drop!
August 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The best part about the AHA Guidelines for AI pile-on is that if you scroll through the quote skeets, a hapless AHA employee teases that a *second* report (addressing research and scholarship) is due to drop!
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🚨Alert🚨 In the recent weeks, Park Police has been posting up at local parks, like Malcolm X, arresting people for minor things like smoking weed, and then transferring them to ICE. REMEMBER: Most parks in DC are actually federal land. 1/
June 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚨Alert🚨 In the recent weeks, Park Police has been posting up at local parks, like Malcolm X, arresting people for minor things like smoking weed, and then transferring them to ICE. REMEMBER: Most parks in DC are actually federal land. 1/
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A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is
A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks.
grist.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
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Two Mississippians were arrested for illegal dumping in Jackson on June 16. One, Christy Parker, was quickly released. Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was not. His arrest triggered an alert in a vast federal network of immigration enforcement. Now, it's unclear when and if he will see his family again.
Children Beg for Father’s Release After ICE Detains Jackson Man
Activists are calling on immigration officials to release Kerlin Moreno-Orellana from ICE custody after his arrest for illegal dumping.
www.mississippifreepress.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Two Mississippians were arrested for illegal dumping in Jackson on June 16. One, Christy Parker, was quickly released. Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was not. His arrest triggered an alert in a vast federal network of immigration enforcement. Now, it's unclear when and if he will see his family again.