I’m sad for Portland

That would be awesome

AI Data Centers in the Land of Diminished Local News “At least some of these big companies look for communities that are news deserts to build projects,” a local journalist said, “because it’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.”

Tech giants are building AI data centers in places with scarce local news. As a reporter in Texas told Lucy Schiller, “It’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.” www.cjr.org/feature/ai-d...

It was kinda meh

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for Lead. For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get ...

Many states have passed laws requiring universal lead screening — but not Nebraska.

So in Omaha, where factories deposited 400 million pounds of the toxic metal, most kids haven’t been tested.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for Lead. For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get ...

For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.

www.propublica.org/article/omah...

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

BofA sees Food at Home inflation rising from 2% as of March to 5-6% in the next 6 months

The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

A surge of crashes with tractor-trailers, all on the same 14-mile stretch of highway in New Orleans, led to a fraud investigation. Then the central informant was shot dead. Patrick Radden Keefe reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Credit to the Block family for selling to the non-profit Banner at a discount. They were offered significantly more by a for-profit chain that would have further gutted the paper. They saw what rhe Banner is doing in Maryland and opted for civic responsibility.

Double dipper and no doubt has a healthy disability percentage to up his USN pension

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

@atrupar.com check this out

This is insane and not in a good way

So just to check the till:

Works in Nevada

Works in Missouri

But from Arkansas

Sure, Jan.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Will he get a pension?

“Retirement” sheesh

‘We’re human beings who have to pay bills’: TSA workers protest at PDX, decry ongoing government shutdown TSA workers at PDX protest ongoing government shutdown, demanding stable pay as uncertainty continues.

TSA workers at PDX protest ongoing government shutdown, demanding stable pay as uncertainty continues.

Every once in a while, I like to watch this video clip of Joe Biden comforting a grieving Parkland family to remind myself what compassionate leadership looks like.

This is the stuff I truly miss.

Camp Mystic director says he didn't see agencies' posts before July 4 flood The director testified during a court hearing Monday in a lawsuit filed against Camp Mystic by the parents of Austin girl who died in the July 4 flood.

The director testified during a court hearing Monday in a lawsuit filed against Camp Mystic by the parents of Austin girl who died in the July 4 flood.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Troutdale, Oregon, said they were told to keep working as a colleague lay dying on the floor.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.

Sounds criminal

It was bad

And wasn’t he one of those guys who was always on the cable news shows? Smdh

Tacky

Also shows that people are still watchin local news 👏👏