Devin Thomas O’Shea

Devin Thomas O’Shea

@devintoshea.bsky.social

author of THE VEILED PROPHET — writing in The Nation, The Intercept, Slate, Jacobin, Boulevard — he/him — rep Erik Hane, Headwater Literary https://linktr.ee/devintoshea

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...
Devin Thomas O’Shea
@devintoshea.bsky.social

another attack on your trans neighbors as an avenue toward destroying bodily autonomy for women overall — its such an obnoxious pattern that you'd have to be an actual moron to be a turf, or someone who doesn't stick up for trans people

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
@lexmcmenamin.com

trans youth healthcare that is... already essentially banned btw!

Devin Thomas O’Shea@devintoshea.bsky.social

the strategy in MO for banning abortion (after we already voted not to a couple years ago) is to buy hundreds of bill boards that say the amendment bans trans healthcare for adolescents

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Buses are cool actually
@busesarecool.bsky.social

Replying to @stateofstlouis.bsky.social

I am reading The Veiled Profit (by @devintoshea.bsky.social), and I didn't realize how much of protest was marches/parades in the early days. Basically, it was the only way to get any message out. They can be pretty powerful, as the crowd blocks any road they are on.

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Christine Johnson
@christinkallama.bsky.social

My university's endowment surged by $4billion in a year when we have a hiring freeze, have reduced graduate stipends to five years and shrunk the size of graduate programs, and a year after they laid our African-American Studies librarian. What cuts will they make when the AI bubble bursts?

Devin Thomas O’Shea@devintoshea.bsky.social

that money needs to go to a PILOT program www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Devin Thomas O’Shea
@devintoshea.bsky.social

it is insane how wealthy Washington University is, only matched by the insanity of how poor St. Louis is, and how many people here are struggling — WashU will not voluntarily do this, but St. Louis can demand that it help fund public goods with this bullshit Musk money