Jean Marchetti

Chief Election Office +20 yrs. so no BS. US Navy Nuke. Mayor, Nat'l Acad. of Sciences, Public Health. I travel the world too much.

[PoPville @PoPville]

Please Keep your eyes peeled for Chai – “Missing cat after house fire on South Dakota Ave NE” https://t.co/ZdI69Cw7zF

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

It would be nicer if that “waste” heat could drive low pressure turbines for electric generation that returns to the local grid.

[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.

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@FloridaTweeter @Rainmaker1973 I remember the project!

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@Oksii33 I know that look! The smile…,==>

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@HRHTish Laughing. In this house, it’s the wife who doesn’t listen. She exercises that right 24/7. But the kitties don’t mind.

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@Oksii33 Yeah. The whole nation is mobilized against murderous scum.

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

A 747-8 training aircraft landed at JBAndrews at approximately 1:30am, but it is possible (but unconfirmed) a second aircraft also landed, without a tracker or ATC comms, which is the Qatari-gifted Air Force One bridge aircraft. Still trying to get more details…

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

This photo looks like an alien blood sucker barely concealed.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

OMG - Look at Donald Trump’s angry face during an interview with NBC News Kristen Walker!

What’s up with his angry face? 🤣

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired. 

Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there. 

She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office. 

A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

GPS jamming has reached space, and from orbit a single source can blank an entire continent at once, far beyond any jammer on the ground.

Scientists traced short GPS outages across Europe, from Iceland to Italy, to three Russian satellites in at least 3 of 75 cases logged since 2019, NYT. 1/

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

Just nasty mean.==>

[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.

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@LucasSa56947288 Wow. It looks like Putin!

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@SandraLotusLee Yes, people too!

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

This is the afternoon toe stretch before we go back to sleep.

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@radioactivered And occasionally “home defense.”

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

O gawd. Trump started lying and the heavens opened up to drown him out.

[Kristen Welker @kwelkernbc]

My interview with President Trump on Friday afternoon was unfortunately complicated by weather issues. In spite of those challenges, we still had a substantial conversation on issues from the Iran war to the economy to the so-called “anti-weaponization” fund. Tune in for the full interview this morning on @MeetThePress.

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@juliet_turner6 That appears to be a safe place. 😹😹😹

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@MacFarlaneNews Hey, wait. Is this the one with Scott Bassett?

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

I can’t improve on that.😹😹😹👀

[Dr Tracey Lynn Perez Koehlmoos @DrTraceyK]

Do the rest of you all smirk when you read the name of the Ft Myer Henderson Hall news magazine. This never gets old.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

So Ivanka claims she came across this island swimming in the Mediterranean and she came ashore barefoot to explore the islands😂😂

Here is the problem with this: First, the island is in the Adriatic Sea. Secondly, the Albanians say the island is full of snakes making her barefoot story implausible. Lastly, in the words of Steve Schmidt, the island is full of landmines thus making her extremely lucky or a liar. I’m going with liar.

[Jean Marchetti @HalcombeL]

@DougWahl1 How about we give her a certificate of participation? She can wear a cap and gown and we can pop a “cassette” into the boom box while she walks up to receive the award. And all the parents politely applaud.