Taylor Swift’s the problem, it’s her

Swift, whose Eras Tour is the highest-grossing music tour of all time and exceptionally well publicized, wants to censor Sweeney’s data about her for fear it will alert stalkers to her whereabouts. Sweeney also tracked Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest and most vocal “free-speech” advocate. Musk suspended all of the student’s X accounts that publicized celebrity private air travel, including accounts tracking Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump.

But there’s a whole other part to all this. We know private jets exacerbate climate change. But it also, conversely, symbolizes how marginalized communities have to endure pollution throughout the country from all types of transport and infrastructure sources, such as the operators and builders of airports, shipping ports, roads built through Black and brown communities, and those chemical-laden freight trains that keep derailing everywhere — aside from where the wealthy, powerful and elite people live.