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If you don’t have the patience or energy to read this in its entirety— let this be your takeaway… CTA — please call your Senators and tell them to VOTE NO on BAAJA ☎️ 202-224-3121 The ability to fast track data centers and pipelines with potential to harm communities and indigenous lands should be a HARD NO! 🚫 🍃🍃🍃🍃 The Senate voted today to advance the BAAJA aka the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 aka Senate Bill S. 5653 aka the 2026 Permitting and Transmission Bill Hard to keep track of all the sassy names, right!?! There’s a reason… chaos is a tool The vote was 73-25… 22 Dems voted yes. 🚩Trump backs this bill 🚩It’s being sold to us as a once-in-a-generation upgrade to our power grid and tries to spin AI and data centers as ethical. 🚩🚩🚩 Don’t believe the billionaires marketing scheme— 🚩FTR: AI will never be ethical because it was built on stolen labor. Full stop. 🚩The bill slashes major transmission line timeline approvals from over a decade down to 5-6 years. Why we shouldn’t be picking up what they’re dropping… This is what they’re dropping — It aggressively deploys advanced grid tech to unlock over 100 gigawatts of capacity—enough to power 75 million homes with clean energy—and forces data centers to pay for their massive grid demands. 🤔 Why it’s bad and why we shouldn’t be picking it up — 🚫There are SEVERE rollbacks to foundational environmental laws. 🚩The legislation strips away critical protections within the Clean Water Act, NEPA, and the Endangered Species Act. It diminishes state authority to protect local water quality. 🚩It also drastically limits Tribal Nations' ability to safeguard sacred lands and cultural resources from industrial projects. So let’s be clear — IT’S NOT ETHICAL 😡 Its also incredibly problematic 🚩"project certainty" clauses prevent federal agencies from modifying or suspending permits even if newly discovered, severe environmental harms are found. 🚩Even worse, if a project is changed or delayed, companies can sue the government—potentially forcing taxpayers to pay billions in corporate handouts. While updating our aging electrical grid is vital for clean energy deployment, these deeply flawed provisions risk sacrificing community protections and locking in fossil fuel interests. WHO BENEFITS? — Tech Bros, Big Oil and Trump’s ilk. theguardian.com/us-news/2026… A list of senators who voted can be found here… but I suggest you contact yours regardless, because some of them are often known to change their votes (Schumer, looking at you👀) senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r… Speaking of Schumer, are folks aware that his daughter works for Sam Altman’s OpenAI? They hired her specifically so that they would have more influence in our government. Shady AF. Schumer voted yes today BTW prospect.org/2026/09/11/open…