A proposal to ban new data centers across the country is gaining traction among progressives on Capitol Hill.
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A proposal to ban new data centers across the country is gaining traction among progressives on Capitol Hill.
Map of North and South America showing Cold War missile range. Source: United States. Department of Defense. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis Briefing Materials. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
A new blogcast episode is available now! Listen to Renata Keller’s Process piece about the varied responses Latin Americans had to the Cuban Missile Crisis. https://www.oah.org/podcasts/jah-podcast/
Petrobras claims it can mitigate the impact of rising oil prices in Brazil. Having a state-owned company in control of strategic commodities is fundamental.
For what would have been Mike Davis's 80th birthday today, we've put the Essential Mike Davis collection on sale through the weekend.
"We must fight like the Red Army in the rubble of Stalingrad. Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely."
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
Brazilian President Lula da Silva is calling for a ban on online casinos in the country.
My today's Substack:
“There is a great disorder under the heaven. The situation is excellent”
A review of Westad and Chen, The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
branko2f7.substack.com/p/there-is-a...
After 502 days of bargaining and a strike threat, the United Auto Workers has won its first contract at Volkswagen in Tennessee, USA. Available in IT, AR, EN and PT-BR.
This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]
As investigações da Polícia Federal mostram uma rede de políticos da extrema direita e do Centrão com uma relação muito próxima do banqueiro do Master, o que inclui desde a elaboração de um projeto de lei capaz de beneficiar a instituição até doações de campanha em 2022.
A NOTUS review of federal records and library disclosure documents, coupled with interviews with more than 30 presidential library foundation donors, indicates that available information is routinely incomplete, inconsistent or inaccurate.
www.notus.org/money/presid...
Interesting data.
Parks and Wildlife Commission accepts petition to ban Colorado fur sales in “embarrassing … out of control” meeting
Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”
My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cover of The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo. The cover photograph depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half. The title appears in all-caps centered green text in the top third of the cover, and the subtitle in a black italicized font immediately below. The author's name appears on white text on top of the canes.
In "The Business of Racism," Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/9dd4fNe
Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Andre Galvao was removed from leadership after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. The swift backlash signals the sport may finally be reckoning with a culture that has long enabled abuse, explains a professor of women and gender studies.
Maximo respeito, sempre!
No Feiraguay já tão vendendo copies do terceiro livro de Françuel.
BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%
Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world | Brian McHugh
The Secret Agent, which has been nominated for four Oscars, is set in Brazil in 1977 during the final years of the military dictatorship. We speak with the film’s director and screenwriter, Kleber Mendonça Filho.
The gas price is skyrocketing. I hope someone has a plan to that.
A deeply underreported story. I know so many people struggling to pay their electric bills
The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...
@kelizaw.bsky.social
Nuevo libro del Doctor Jorge Puma:
Solidariedade que alimenta: Sem lacração nas redes, sem atrapalhar os trabalhos de resgate e sem se sujar de lama propositalmente, MST leva caminhão com mais de 25 toneladas de comida para ajudar a população de Juiz de Fora!
VIVA O MST ❤️
For the issue #6 of Peace, Land, & Bread, Gerald Horne and I wrote about "Ho Chi Minh and Black Liberation." We discuss Garveyism, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams & more.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
