Data centers are expensive, unpopular — and could be a tipping point in the midterms Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections.

Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections. n.pr/3QfF8I1

This tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.

Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.

100% evil.

Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift NPR also received an anonymous $33 million donation in April

Wife of LA Clippers owner and billionaire Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR with $80M

This is a war based on lies

Rep. Stansbury: Defending our Communities and our Planet YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

It’s Earth Day this week and days after our astronauts returned from their mission around the moon—so it seems particularly ironic that the GOP is using this week to gut our bedrock environmental laws—including the ESA and NEPA.

We’re back at it defending our communities and our planet!

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

#InsiderTrading Duh. Read more: bbc.in/4sIO0TW

Follow the money.

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

🚨BREAKING: Democrat Analilia Mejía crushes the NJ-11 special election, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway by 69% to 30%.

She takes the House seat vacated by now Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Big Democratic hold.

🚨FISA VOTE TONIGHT! 🚨 While you are sleeping, Republicans plan to jam a bill through the House tonight allowing the Admin to spy and collect data for the next FIVE YEARS.

No warrants REQUIRED. No real assurances a shady AG, FBI, or DNI director will follow the law. I am a NO!

Um. Huh. #Iran #Greenland

Federal Reserve: Without tariffs, inflation would have dropped to pre-pandemic levels during 2025 New study finds that tariffs were responsible for the "entirety of the excess inflation in the core goods category."

The Federal Reserve shows that without Trump's tariffs, inflation would be back down to pre-pandemic levels. And this doesn't even include the more recent price spike due to the illegal Iran war. Biden's policies were working.
Anyone who thinks Republicans are better for the economy is flat wrong.

Spot on!

#1 book of the 21st century? Is it a good read? I need something uplifting, but also meaningful. This sounds like it might be a good match.

#reading
#friendship
#booksky

I think we are long past outlasting anything. Http://climateclock.net

Oh, good to know!

I can't read stressful novels anymore. It's the state of the USA and the world. Maybe one day I'll be able to read this one.

#Pulitzer
#reading
#booksky

Keep it LOUD!!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

Waiting for the apocalypse? Walk through the smoke and pull up a chair. • Kansas Reflector The president of the United States threatened genocide against Iran, an acrid veil hung over streets and homes and businesses.

Opinion from Max McCoy: Waiting for the apocalypse? Walk through the smoke and pull up a chair. #ksleg

Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It’s no surprise | Margaret Sullivan The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader

"With his bloodthirsty utterances, his fierce loyalty to Trump and his appalling inability to manage this huge moment in world history, Hegseth is every bit the disaster that anybody sensible could have seen coming," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

‘Enough Of War,’ Pope Leo XIV Says In Latest Condemnation Of U.S.-Iran Conflict The first American leader of the Catholic Church has fiercely criticized the war in Iran, deepening tensions between the United States and the Vatican.

The first American leader of the Catholic Church has fiercely criticized the war in Iran, deepening tensions between the United States and the Vatican.

Why the Cassidy Hutchinson Investigation Should Make Us Very Uncomfortable I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, the former deputy to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who flipped and became a star witness during the January 6 Committee hearings and who is now reportedly under i...

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What will it take? What??

Exactly this.

Good idea!

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.