With the 2026 midterm elections just four months away, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by election day and received within five days thereafter. The court’s 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee leaves in place voting procedures in several states across the country. “Good news rarely comes out of this…
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As Americans across the nation revolt against the construction of costly, resource-reliant data centers, one budding story out of Tennessee appears to epitomize the exploitation many people have warned about.
Tennessee is just one of several states across the rural South where technology companies have looked to host their data center dreams. This thirst from Big Tech has spurred lawsuits on behalf of Tennessee residents, including one filed by the NAACP over pollution claims involving data centers operated by Elon Musk’s xAI.
And a new fight appears to be brewing over Fisk University’s plan to build a massive data center on its Nashville campus. Capital B reported that some of the project’s backers see it as a means of raising needed revenue for the university, but that rationale doesn’t seem to have assuaged concerns. Per the outlet:
Tennessee already has 60 data centers. In fact, the Fisk project is coming on the heels of another proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo, upsetting residents across the city.
In the weeks since Fisk’s announcement, students and residents have come out in droves to several public hearings opposing the data center.
On June 10, state Rep. Justin Jones stood with residents and fellow Fisk alumni to call out the potential harm the data center posed. He asked other Nashville residents to oppose the center with the same urgency they are using to oppose the one near the city’s zoo.
“If AI data centers are not good for a zoo, then it’s not good for an HBCU,” Jones said.
The NAACP has taken a stand against harmful data centers with its “Stop Dirty Data Centers” initiative. In a statement to
A new lawsuit seeks to shake loose information about a protester database possibly being used by the Trump administration to log and monitor critics of the government.
Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward is supporting digital outlet The Intercept in a lawsuit that asks a federal judge to compel the administration to release documents related to any such database.
The lawsuit comes as Donald Trump’s administration — while it contends with the president’s historic unpopularity — has sought to quash dissent, in a crackdown that has seen federal agents use lethal force against protesters.
The lawsuit cites several instances in which agents either openly talked about a database for tracking protesters or alluded to such a database existing. The evidence includes comments like those in the video below, in which a protester was photographed by an agent and then told that she would be going into a “nice little database” and was now “considered a domestic terrorist.”
The suit, which was filed Wednesday, says the federal government hasn’t complied with The Intercept’s Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the Trump administration’s collection of information on protesters, as required by law.
HOLY SMOKES: ICE agents in Maine just photographed a civilian’s face and name and said they’re putting it in a database.When the woman asked why, the agent’s response was basically: “Now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”This is intimidation. Not law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/68dEiVd2wa— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 23, 2026
“It’s not illegal to monitor the activity of immigration agents inside your community,” Ben Muessig, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, said in a news release. “What is illegal is the U.S. government’s secret list of activists — and its
The establishment wing of the Democratic Party is reeling in the wake of the stunning democratic socialist victories in New York City this week, as races won by progressive challengers exposed different facets of the establishment’s increasingly tenuous hold on its voters. And the drama is not over yet: The next test of democratic socialism’s appeal will come on June 30…
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This week, Minnesota federal prosecutors handed down a blockbuster indictment of 15 activists involved in efforts to resist Operation Metro Surge, part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that flooded 2,700 federal agents into the Twin Cities to target Somali communities. Eleven of the 15 activists are charged only with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.
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Right-wing businessman Abelardo de la Espriella holds a razor-thin lead in Colombia’s preliminary presidential vote count, positioning the Donald Trump ally to clear the way for expanded fossil fuel extraction, including controversial fracking projects. A de la Espriella presidency would mark a sharp reversal for one of the world’s most ambitious experiments in fossil fuel phaseout.
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