Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers
Maine has some of the country’s highest residential electricity prices. Officials are concerned that more data centers could inflate costs.
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Washington State creates new tax on incomes over $1 million. Other blue states are considering similar levies on the wealthy.
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When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet.
This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, issues statement on Cesar Chavez raping her
“I am nearly 96 yrs old, and for 60 yrs have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the movement I've spent my entire life fighting for"
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Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls for years, and raped the co-founder of the UFW movement, NYT reports.
“It makes you rethink in history all those heroes."
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Dancer and actress Rita Hayworth and dancer, actor and singer Fred Astaire — both in costume, Hayworth dressed in a light-coloured gown with white floral lace bodice and chiffon skirt, Astaire in white tie and tails — captured facing the camera, turning their faces to the left as they smile, arms outstretched, left legs extended as they jump, mid-performance, in a full-length black-and-white shot for the film You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire in a publicity still for You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Chicago wind gauge
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
Today's weak jobs report underscores that the Iran war comes at a fragile time for the economy.
Before the war, low gasoline prices were helping tame inflation, and mortgage rates were edging down. Now gas prices and mortgage rates are ticking up.
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Russia is sharing location information on U.S. military forces in the Middle East with Iran, which Tehran could be using to guide its missile attacks, U.S. officials say
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Pavilion, McDonald Park, Tower Grove South, St. Louis, Missouri
#iphonephotography #mobilephotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #streetphotography #urbanphotography #nightphotography #stl #stlouis #TowerGroveSouth
also, it wasn't a good movie
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft EO that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
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Gloucester Harbor - 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104451
Gov. Pritzker sent an invoice to the White House demanding a tariff refund of $8.6 billion for all of Illinois's 5.1 million households -- roughly $1,700 each.
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
In today's newsletter, about a week after Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" in his Davos speech, the Iceland amb. to the US hired a big K street firm to "provide strategic advice on navigating engagements with the United States government." www.thebulwark.com/p/so-you-lie...
A year into the Trump economy, Americans are still laser focused on prices.
“A new set of tires now is $500 or $600. Who the hell has $500 to $600?”
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
Jimmy Lai, an outspoken 78-year-old critic of China’s Communist Party, sentenced to 20 years in prison.
China made Lai one of the main targets of its crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong after widespread pro-democracy protests in 2019
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Volkswagen factory workers in Tenn. would receive raises totaling about 20% over four years under a tentative deal between the automaker & the UAW union.
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Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
“.. In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery .. condemned ‘the perfidious lust for unbridled power’ and ‘the imposition of cruelty.’”
@nytimes.com #Ramos
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Highlight of my career, probably
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
Canada isn’t alone in taking steps to mend ties w China. British PM Keir Starmer will travel to Beijing this week to meet with Xi — the first visit by a U.K. PM in 8 ys. South Korea's president said recently he wants “full-scale restoration” of ties w China
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
In Maine, Sheriff Kevin Joyce was among local officials who met with border czar Tom Homan a year ago to hear the administration’s immigration-enforcement plan.
But on Thurs, Joyce issued blistering criticism of federal agents, accusing ICE of “bush-league policing"
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Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday
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