Data centers have contaminated ground water in Oregon.
They've released smog into the air in Memphis.
And they've contributed to electricity bill spikes — all while receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks.
Is it any wonder why a nationwide backlash against AI data centers is brewing?
2/ All votes from the April 21 special election are now invalid, and the state is permanently blocked from using or implementing the new maps.
AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.
1/ REAKING: A Republican-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.”
Your government refusing to prosecute sexual predators, but protect them instead, only makes sense when you realize your government is being run by sexual predators.
Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
“Global prices of jet fuel have risen more than 70 percent since the start the war at the end of February”
Trump is trying to pressure Afghans who fought alongside us in the war to go back to Afghanistan and live under Taliban rule. If not go back, Trump is threatening to dump them in the middle of a civil war in central Africa. That’s evil.
What about Apple? Not safe either.
DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.
The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.
Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.
This is digital sovereignty being taken back
My friend helps put these up.
My friend helps put these up.
Its interesting that regular people can be charged for "standing by" during a shooting, but cops can't (thinking of Uvalde)
www.wzzm13.com/article/news...
Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
5/ Future generations will lament the Supreme Court’s departure from its own practices, both in practical terms and in democratic ones. trib.al/RtPrQok
4/ Then again, perhaps it might show the justices why such consequential decisions do not belong in the shadows.
For now, we can only regret the court’s failures that have already taken place.
3/ But the memos’ leak may prompt members of the court to be even more secretive and guarded with one another in the future, fearing another Dobbs-like leak on the horizon from an errant clerk or renegade justice in a high-stakes case.
2/ These memos provide little insight into the justices’ current thinking, of course. Four justices who took part in the 2016 case have since left the court.
1/ LEAKED MEMOS show how Chief Justice Roberts pressured other justices to lean heavily in favor of the oil and gas industry to kneecap a major EPA climate change regulation even as the court’s liberal justices warned it was an unprecedented, unjustified expansion of the court’s powers.
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”
Reminder: billionaires and corporations buy elections to put people in power who will corruptly give them more tax breaks.
Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”
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