Jenny Schurk

#ERANow !!!

Afroman, best known for his 2000 hit song, “Because I Got High,” won a defamation lawsuit on Thursday filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies. The saga begun over a 2022 raid on Afroman’s home, legal name Joseph Foreman, by the Adams County, Ohio Sheriff’s office. The raid was part of a drug and kidnapping investigation according to the original warrant. Nothing illegal was found in the musician’s home, and no charges were filed. Foreman subsequently alleged that the officers vandalized his home, and stole money. In response to the raid, Foreman released a series music videos featuring his home security footage of the raid. The footage included one notable moment where an officer paused to look at a pastry on Foreman’s kitchen counter. That inspired the most popular song of bunch, ‘Lemon Pound Cake.’ The sheriff’s deputies said they were publicly harassed in the wake of the video series release, and sought nearly $4 million in damages. The case sparked conversations around the constitutional right to free speech and the limits of parody, which Foreman noted in an Instagram video after he emerged victorious, stating, “We did it America! Freedom of speech! Right on!”

One of the new goals of the far right is to make it harder for women to vote. The SAVE Act, which the Senate is debating now, would be a major vehicle to achieve that goal. Spread the word about why we need to stop SAVE. indivisible.org/actions/stop-s…

600+ acres of land in California were returned to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians near Palm Springs. The land includes important wildlife habitat, aquifer recharge functions, and cultural resources, which the Tribe plans to manage for conservation, open space, native species protection, and preservation of archaeological and cultural materials.

“I’d also like to honor the 5 presidents who are sitting here today… President Harris, President [Hillary] Clinton, President Bill Clinton, President Biden, and President Obama.” I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT!!!!!

What humans have done with string instruments is enough for me to feel like humanity is worth saving, but we’re on extremely thin ice

Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.

Absolutely delightful. 10/10

@lizaboth It’s so good- it’s my third time reading it- I think it’s probably my favorite book of all time

@schurkit I LOVE EAST OF EDEN SO MUCHHHHHHHH AHHHH I read it in high school and I've been chasing that high ever since

Where are all the Baseball Girlies who are also Book Girlies? I’m trying to see something

@PettyLupone The people vs trump. Let’s go!

AND AGAIN I SAY that we, as US citizens, should be able to file a class action lawsuit towards the trump admin OR his estate for all the ways he is ripping us off and will continue to.

@SketchesbyBoze And school districts!

I love that the villain of the film is a child’s tablet. I love how it’s honest about the effect these devices have on kids: how they rob them of sleep, play, & friends. I hope it starts a discussion of the dangers of letting screens be babysitters. I hope parents will listen.

If there was ever a doubt where Alysa Liu is from...

Google’s single data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of fresh water in 2024. One facility. One year. Enough to supply every home in Iowa for five days. The reason they need fresh water is pure chemistry. Evaporative cooling towers work by running water over hot surfaces and letting it evaporate. 80% of the water a data center pulls in literally vanishes into the atmosphere as steam. You can’t recycle steam. The remaining 20% becomes concentrated mineral waste. Calcium, magnesium, silica. Every cycle through the cooling loop makes the water more corrosive. After enough passes, it starts clogging pumps and eating through heat exchangers. Multi-million dollar equipment destroyed by limescale. Recycled wastewater carries even more of these minerals from the start. You could treat it, but less than 1% of U.S. water is recycled. Most cities don’t even have separate pipes to deliver reclaimed water to industrial customers. A data center wanting to use recycled water would essentially need to build its own treatment plant on site. Meanwhile, municipal potable water costs almost nothing. So they just drink from the tap. Across all its data centers, Google used 8.1 billion gallons in 2024, nearly double what it used three years earlier. The company claims its water stewardship projects “replenished” 4.5 billion gallons. Those projects aren’t even in the same watersheds where they’re pulling the water. Same playbook as carbon offsets. Consume locally, offset globally, call it sustainable. The trajectory is the real story. U.S. data center water consumption could quadruple by 2028. That’s 68 billion gallons for cooling alone, before the 211 billion gallons consumed indirectly through electricity generation. Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are being built in regions already facing water scarcity. Nobody’s asking why they use fresh water. They’re asking what happens to the towns sharing a water main with a facility that drinks like 50,000 people showed up overnight.

nurses strike in nyc, teachers strike in sf, even ice backed away from minneapolis. if the democrats won’t do it, well do it ourselves. now is the time for organizing. ordinary people have incredible bargaining power when they’re united!

Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋‍♀️ Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote. Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop-s…

BREAKING: The San Francisco teacher's strike is over. The 2 sides reached a deal early Friday morning. Educators won fully funded family healthcare, 5% raises, some special education caseload reductions & more. Students will be back in class next week. missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-tea…

San Francisco is so expensive that someone making $109K a year is considered low income. The average teacher salary is $103K. Believing that we can have a functioning school system and therefore a functioning city when teachers are getting paid poverty wages is INSANITY.

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