Data centers now account for half of all new U.S. electricity use, just as Americans start to sour on AI | Fortune From state moratoriums to Molotov cocktails, the AI infrastructure boom is becoming a political flash point.

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Excellent news for the state. If only we could make it national (and without any bans.)

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Destroying the US in every way possible ... Putin's dream come true. China is going to own the energy sources of the future, too, because Trump is busy taking us backwards. Trump couldn't have planned it better, even if he were capable of planning.

Tbh I'm not sure what reason anyone in Trump II has to be subtle about the corruption. The guy got reelected after an unsuccessful coup; what's gonna happen if he just steals billions from the Treasury and accepts massive bribes from foreign powers?

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

‘Dark Money’ Floods Virginia Redistricting Fight, With Millions Linked to Peter Thiel The results of Tuesday's referendum could reshape the midterms this November.

This scary F****R Is like all of the super villains rolled into one.

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ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI bots give bad medical tips half the time A BMJ Open study found that five leading AI chatbots often returned flawed health advice, with open-ended questions triggering the worst answers and citation quality falling apart under scrutiny.

Please don't go to AI for important information.

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Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

Don’t be fooled. Hannity is merely confirming the obvious: his politics mattered more than his faith.

NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring.

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Trump’s big housing market solution is dead on arrival, UBS says—its model is Texas from 25 years ago "There isn't a magic wand that will all of a sudden return housing affordability to its historic average tomorrow," ResiClub's Lance Lambert told Fortune.

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President Trump is a racist rapist who has us mired in a mindlessly stupid war. But Zohran Mamdani just raised taxes on the $12 million trophy condo I spend two weeks in each year. I have never felt more politically homeless.

America's next moon mission depends on Elon Musk, for better or worse The US government, unwisely, has "concentrated immense power in the hands of a single individual.”

"NASA helped build out SpaceX," and now America's space agency is utterly dependent on the richest man alive.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

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A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Kevin Warsh is refusing to disclose more than $100 million of his assets. Totally unprecedented.

Warsh needs to release this information now. What is he hiding?

The extreme positions Trump proposes — and Republicans embrace President Donald Trump this month threatened to strike Iranian infrastructure in ways that might well be war crimes. It’s his latest extreme move that polls show his GOP base has embraced.

Words have power. It's not just talk--or just locker-room talk.

It damages society.

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🤦 The Covid vaccine reduced ER visits for adults by HALF.

1/2. 50%.

But Trump and RFK don't want to tell you that.

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The president cannot reach a financial settlement with an executive branch agency! This is cartoonishly corrupt! Just backing the gold-plated moving van up to the IRS and loading up cash.

The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.

Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.

Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

Trump's tax cuts give the richest 5% big breaks while everyone else pays more. How the middle-class is being left behind “There’s no hiding the fact that the last year of tax policy has driven up costs for most Americans [while] slashing them for the wealthy.”

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Stephen Miller cost Trump what was supposed to be his big win Friends,Trump’s chief bigot, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News that immigrants to the United States bring problems that extend through generations.“Not only is the first generation unsuccessful,” Mille...

Stephen Miller cost Trump what was supposed to be his big win

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‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion Linda Bilmes, along with economist Joseph Stiglitz, previously calculated the true cost of the 2003 Iraq war was at least fourfold greater than initially projected.

🤦 Because Donnie has delusions of grandeur & Pete has pickled both of his brain cells--

and bc, stupidly...NO ONE HAS STOPPED THEM--

Americans will be tapped for a trillion dollars.

And tragically, the rest of the world will likely pay in blood and suffering.

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At Least 88 Profitable U.S. Corporations Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2025 At least 88 of the largest corporations in America paid $0 in federal income tax for 2025. Corporate tax avoidance has increased at least in part due to President Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” ...

Obscene.

At least 88 of the largest corporations in America paid $0 in federal income tax for 2025. Corporate tax avoidance has increased at least in part due to President Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Remember this, though: Amazon has calculated that poisoning water & making restitution payouts for sickness & even death is CHEAPER than whatever they plan to make on the Data Center.

They’re STILL gambling with human lives with impunity.

Tax breaks for just four corporations—Amazon, Alphabet, Google, and Tesla—blew a $51 BILLION hole in the deficit last year.

Every penny being taken from healthcare, housing, childcare, and food assistance is paying for that.

This Tax Day, every American should know:

Because of Trump, Amazon avoided paying over 90% of the taxes it owed.

That's $17.5 billion that should be going to health care, schools, child care, and more.

But instead, Jeff Bezos gets wealthier.

Congress needs to tax the rich.

April 14, 2026 There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership on Sunday, April 12.

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