Lanier Isom
@lanierisom.bsky.social
Journalist and author of Lilly Ledbetter’s memoir, Grace and Grit. Peloton addict, dog lover and psychic junkie
The Inheritance of Silence
When generations are exiled from justice
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The latest on the proposed hyperscale data center in Bessemer, Alabama, right outside Birmingham. Once a thriving city steeped in the steel industry, the city now turns to AI infrastructure to solve its economic woes.
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Despite Stiff Opposition, an Alabama City Changes Its Laws to Accommodate Data Centers - Inside Climate News
Residents in and around Bessemer expressed continued disapproval of a plan to build a 14.5 million square foot data center in their back yards. Now, the city is one step closer to final approval.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The latest on the proposed hyperscale data center in Bessemer, Alabama, right outside Birmingham. Once a thriving city steeped in the steel industry, the city now turns to AI infrastructure to solve its economic woes.
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The Soul-Crushing Sameness of Today’s Dorm Décor
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The Soul-Crushing Sameness of Today’s Dorm Décor
From Milk Crates to Monograms
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August 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Soul-Crushing Sameness of Today’s Dorm Décor
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As the climate warms, forests in New England and beyond will rely on genetic material from Alabama’s trees.
Why? Alabama is a refugia—a global hotspot for biodiversity that weathered the last ice age and could help us survive the next environmental shift.
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Why? Alabama is a refugia—a global hotspot for biodiversity that weathered the last ice age and could help us survive the next environmental shift.
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Alabama Research Center Works to Understand ‘One of the Last Great Wild Places’ - Inside Climate News
What conservationists study and document at Paint Rock Valley will inform and influence biodiversity strategies across the globe.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As the climate warms, forests in New England and beyond will rely on genetic material from Alabama’s trees.
Why? Alabama is a refugia—a global hotspot for biodiversity that weathered the last ice age and could help us survive the next environmental shift.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2707202...
Why? Alabama is a refugia—a global hotspot for biodiversity that weathered the last ice age and could help us survive the next environmental shift.
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Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center insideclimatenews.org/news/2507202...
Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center - Inside Climate News
The developer behind the $14.5 billion project in Alabama has suggested residents’ concerns are based on misinformation. Here’s what we know about the project and its impacts.
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July 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center insideclimatenews.org/news/2507202...
Check out my latest essay, "Bad Wife," exploring my mother's life as a cautionary tale for modern day "Trad wives." open.substack.com/pub/lanieris...
Bad Wife
Living "Outside the Magic Circle"
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June 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Check out my latest essay, "Bad Wife," exploring my mother's life as a cautionary tale for modern day "Trad wives." open.substack.com/pub/lanieris...
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but this is the first time I was the guest! Thank you, Estelle Erasmus, for inviting me to engage in a lively conversation about writing and the writing life.
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#144 Coaching Episode: Elevate Your Voice, Expand Your Reach - Estelle Erasmus
Estelle Erasmus chats with award-winning journalist Lanier Isom in a powerful coaching session about how to build platform, juggle multiple writing projects, reframe a book with heart, and move from l...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but this is the first time I was the guest! Thank you, Estelle Erasmus, for inviting me to engage in a lively conversation about writing and the writing life.
estelleserasmus.com/144-coaching...
estelleserasmus.com/144-coaching...
A newly discovered species is already imperiled in the shallow creeks outside Birmingham, AL, near the proposed hyperscale data center. Few people realize it, but Alabama is the biodiversity hotspot for freshwater aquatic species in North America.
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The Darter Fish and the Data Center - Inside Climate News
A newly identified species is already in danger of extinction. A proposed massive data center in Alabama would “nuke” its habitat, scientists say.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A newly discovered species is already imperiled in the shallow creeks outside Birmingham, AL, near the proposed hyperscale data center. Few people realize it, but Alabama is the biodiversity hotspot for freshwater aquatic species in North America.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1606202...
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Project Marvel, if realized, would consist of 18 buildings, each larger than the average Walmart Supercenter, that would house massive server farms for data storage and processing, located on about 700 acres of wooded land outside Birmingham, Alabama.
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Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards - Inside Climate News
Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to si...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Project Marvel, if realized, would consist of 18 buildings, each larger than the average Walmart Supercenter, that would house massive server farms for data storage and processing, located on about 700 acres of wooded land outside Birmingham, Alabama.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1105202...
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I had the pleasure last night of hearing Jared Sullivan speak at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social about his important book Valley So Low which follows a small Tennessee town's fight for justice after a deadly environmental disaster.
March 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the pleasure last night of hearing Jared Sullivan speak at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social about his important book Valley So Low which follows a small Tennessee town's fight for justice after a deadly environmental disaster.
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The New Right wants to trigger a Great Depression. They want to “address” it with an Old Deal that imposes tech-enabled feudalism. It’s an old and simple story. So simple it can be told with a 5th grade diorama project. The Dems better figure out how to tell this simple story in their SOTU response.
The last time America increased tariffs like this, it was 1930 — and it triggered the Great Depression.
March 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The New Right wants to trigger a Great Depression. They want to “address” it with an Old Deal that imposes tech-enabled feudalism. It’s an old and simple story. So simple it can be told with a 5th grade diorama project. The Dems better figure out how to tell this simple story in their SOTU response.
Listen at the 2 hour 47 minute and 22 seconds mark to hear me talk about Lilly Ledbetter for the @hugorifkind.bsky.social Show at Times Radio.
#equalpay
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Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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December 4, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Listen at the 2 hour 47 minute and 22 seconds mark to hear me talk about Lilly Ledbetter for the @hugorifkind.bsky.social Show at Times Radio.
#equalpay
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#equalpay
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Who knew that the word window is an old Norse word that means "wind eye."
December 2, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Who knew that the word window is an old Norse word that means "wind eye."
I've always thought of writing as a spiritual practice and love what Sara Sherbill says on Marion Roach Smith's podcast Qwerty that writing is a prayer. @memoirteacher.bsky.social
#memoir
#memoir
December 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I've always thought of writing as a spiritual practice and love what Sara Sherbill says on Marion Roach Smith's podcast Qwerty that writing is a prayer. @memoirteacher.bsky.social
#memoir
#memoir
December 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
It looks like the new Trump administration will rollback drinking water protections for forever chemicals. Watch the movie Dark Waters which dramatizes Robert Bilott’s case against Dupont after they contaminated a West Virginia town with unregulated forever chemicals and read his memoir Exposure.
November 26, 2024 at 2:24 PM
It looks like the new Trump administration will rollback drinking water protections for forever chemicals. Watch the movie Dark Waters which dramatizes Robert Bilott’s case against Dupont after they contaminated a West Virginia town with unregulated forever chemicals and read his memoir Exposure.
