~ D

🌻💗 Music ▪ nature ▪ metaphysics ▪ humor ▪︎ Team Brian James ▪ equality
▪ peace ▪ love ▪ keep the faith 🍀 💗🌻

[~ D @D__Courage]

"You're like the FIRE in my whiskey.." 🥃 🔥 Brian James' single "My Horse" rocks 🔥 complete with cool new #linedance 🎶 Add it on digital https://t.co/5L0NLDhzUY and subscribe to his new #YouTube pg for the latest here: https://t.co/HpIvVccoBI
#Warner #BelleChasse #CountryRock

[~ D @D__Courage]

Oh happy day! 🎶
Cannot. Wait.
For
#Detroit.
#Rush

[Mitch Lafon @mitchlafon]

Rush… tonight!

[~ D @D__Courage]

@mitchlafon Yes! I cannot wait.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nashville Zoo has launched a public campaign to block construction of a proposed 69,000-square-foot AI data center that would sit directly adjacent to habitats for endangered animals, including vulnerable clouded leopards.

Zoo officials warn that the facility’s constant noise, bright artificial lighting, and electrical hum could seriously disrupt animal behavior, stress levels, and long-established breeding programs. The zoo is home to more than 3,700 animals representing over 350 species and maintains one of the most important collections of rare and endangered wildlife in the United States.

This conflict highlights a growing backlash against the rapid expansion of data centers driven by the AI boom. These facilities require massive amounts of electricity and operate 24 hours a day, prompting communities nationwide to raise concerns about energy consumption, water use, noise pollution, and environmental impacts. Wildlife conservation groups are now joining the resistance.

More than 180,000 people have already signed a petition opposing the project.

The developer behind the data center states that it will use waterless cooling systems, meet all local noise regulations, and comply with environmental standards. However, zoo leaders argue that the location itself, immediately next to sensitive animal habitats, makes the project unacceptable regardless of technical mitigations.

The dispute underscores a broader challenge of the AI era: how to build the vast digital infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence without placing undue pressure on local communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump just broke his silence as the Middle East is thrust back into active war to whine about the California election and spread more election fraud lies on social media.

[~ D @D__Courage]

@woodwardsports That was some beautiful serious footwork!

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

4/
Americans can contact their Senators using this directory:
https://t.co/MSSSrsxVB0

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

3/
Section 224 is still alive. It would expand U.S.-Israel defense integration across AI, cyber, weapons development, research, testing, and industrial cooperation.

It survived committee and is now moving through the NDAA process. It is not law yet. Which makes this a critical window for those who oppose the merger.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SecWar This isn’t complicated: Get a warrant if you want to pilfer through Americans’ data. That’s what we ask, and what the Constitution demands.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

LITERALLY carved in stone (granite) at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Room Two) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

This is from President Roosevelt's January 9, 1940, greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.

👇👇👇👇

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🚨 Trump's new Medicaid rules just made it official: having cancer is not enough to be exempt from work requirements. You have to PROVE cancer is stopping you from working. While you're in chemo.

This week, the Trump administration released its final 400-page rule on how states must enforce the Medicaid work requirements that were buried inside last year's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Starting January 1, 2027, most low-income adults on Medicaid must prove every single month they are working, volunteering, or attending school for at least 80 hours — or lose their coverage.

For months, advocates for cancer patients and people living with HIV had been pushing for a blanket medical exemption. What they got instead was a trap. The new rule ties the definition of "medically frail" — the exemption category — directly to a person's ability to work. That means cancer patients who are still capable of working, even in between chemo rounds, do not automatically qualify. A woman with early-stage breast cancer receiving radiation treatment? May not qualify. A man living with HIV who takes medication and still reports to work? No exemption.

And here's the part that should stop you cold: Harvard health policy professor Adrianna McIntyre told reporters that even cancer patients who ARE technically exempt could still lose coverage — because the paperwork process is so complex that "a recently diagnosed cancer patient who is employed might lose Medicaid coverage due to errors in completing the necessary paperwork." Cancer will not wait while a Medicaid office sifts through forms.

The American Cancer Society ran the numbers. Researchers at the University of Chicago published a study in JAMA Oncology projecting that over 1 million mammograms and colorectal and lung cancer screenings will be missed within the first two years of these rules. That translates to more than 2,300 undetected cancer cases — hundreds at advanced stages — and an estimated 155 avoidable deaths from just three types of cancer alone.

A coalition of 48 patient advocacy groups signed a joint statement calling the rule "life-threatening." The American Academy of Pediatrics said it will "harm those whom Medicaid is intended to support." The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute's director said bluntly: "We will lose individuals from Medicaid, and many will become ill and die as a result."
68 million Americans depend on Medicaid. The CBO says at least 5 million will lose coverage. And Dr. Oz went on TV to defend it by saying Medicaid recipients watch too much television.

[~ D @D__Courage]

@ThatEricAlper Get on Your Boots, U2
https://t.co/EopMrgBlf1

[~ D @D__Courage]

@Kristin_Mae I can see why! I don't know how challenging it might have been, but it's really cool

[~ D @D__Courage]

@Kristin_Mae That's good!

[~ D @D__Courage]

@DMiller52325459 Thanks, you too 🌞

[~ D @D__Courage]

Wow! First time I've heard this beautiful collaboration 🥲
#LionelRichie
#KennyChesney
.@noshoesnation

[~ D @D__Courage]

@DMiller52325459 Thanks D, it was a fun quick shot discovery! Have a great day 🌞

[~ D @D__Courage]

@crabb_jim For sure. Gotta love em

[~ D @D__Courage]

@G12Rocco Oh my goodness 😊 love it.