Harley Jean Matta

DNP, DrPH Epidemiology, PsyD, DBMS, MSEd, MBA, BA-CPA, CCRN, no MAGA/DM’s - happily married granny, pro-science, pro-choice, LGBTQ mom/ally, animal lover

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@Groovindave @OlenaRohoza We voted for Hillary, who won the popular vote. We voted for Kamala, & I’ll never be convinced she lost. It is impossible that 7 swing states that Voted for Biden entirely swung to Trump. The voting location where I dropped off my ballot had 2 bomb threats w/in hours of opening.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is horrifying

Man is suing multiple law enforcement agencies over a wrongful arrest

Artificial intelligence was used and it falsely identified him as a suspect trying to lure a child to a restaurant

The AI even said he was a 93% match. This is so extremely dangerous to be using this for law enforcement

“Authorities were looking for a suspect who tried to lure a child at a restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, more than 300 miles away. To be accused of a heinous crime of that nature, I'm thinking I may not be coming back home. Investigators submitted surveillance images of the suspect into a facial recognition program, which revealed a 93% match of facial features to Dylan. But not only was Dylan incorrectly identified, he's never even been to Jacksonville Beach”

Ready for some horrifying news? This is being used nationwide. From what I’ve found all these states have documented false arrests with AI

Florida
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
Louisiana
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
North Dakota
Arizona

Again, all these states have documented false arrests with AI

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@0nlyk1tt3n Sure, provided equal time is given to every other religion or religious practice. Otherwise absolutely not.

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

The trumps involved in organized crime?! Say it isn’t so! <s>

The Trump syndicate has a long & unsavory history with strong mob ties. They’re not just Nazi’s.

https://t.co/vWNTJlggDM

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

⛔️ This Christian pastor in Lebanon, his wife, and daughters were murdered by the IDF, and their church destroyed. Do you stand with Israel in its crimes against the Christian Church in Lebanon ?‼️‼️

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@bill_westrup @frankstrong You are aware that the Kosher method of slaughter is nearly identical. You are of course going to beat your bigot drum & protest that too, correct??

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is blowing up entire villages in Lebanon, killing 200 to 300 civilians every 48-96 hours, calling it a ceasefire, with absolutely no consequences.

Israel is killing so many Lebanese so regularly that the world has lost interest. Just like has lost interest in Gaza.

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

Such important legislation. Wait until they find out seafood is halal. Ignorant, racist xenophobes that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.

What’s next? Kosher? Vegan? Vegetarian? Same folks that think trophy hunting protected or rare animals is perfectly acceptable.

[frank strong @frankstrong]

The Texas GOP is debating whether to ban halal food. I’m not kidding.

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@GadSaad @Ilhan You’re Canadian. F*ck off.

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@JohnLeFevre You know what Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama & Eleanor Roosevelt have in common? They never had to hold a press conference to defend or deny their relationship to child sex trafficker, & they were never accused of being a prostitute, or lying about their education.

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@netanyahu You’re a murderous genocidal tyrant who lies out of both sides of his mouth. May all of the hell you have unleashed on others be delivered back to you & yours one thousand times.

[J. Dale Shoemaker @JDale_Shoemaker]

It’s happened again:

A migrant was released from jail (charges dropped) and picked up by ICE.

ICE decides not to deport.

ICE drops migrant off far from home.

Migrant dies in the cold.

Manner of death: Homicide.

Nearly identical to Buffalo case.

https://t.co/hHCcIGQfIK

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

This bombshell dropped yesterday in Washington D.C. And if you live near a data center — or near land where one might be built — this news affects you directly.

The head of America’s top environmental watchdog agency just walked up to a microphone and told the entire country that the federal government will not protect you from data center water pollution, air pollution, or any other environmental harm.

Not now. Not ever. As long as this administration is in power.

The decision that just left 330 million Americans without a federal safety net — and handed Big Tech a blank environmental check.

🎤 THE WORDS THAT SHOCKED ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NATIONWIDE

The Trump administration is not going to set nationwide environmental requirements or recommendations for the rapidly growing data center industry, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday at the POLITICO Energy Summit in Washington D.C. 

No requirements. No recommendations. No national standards. Nothing.

Zeldin said: “Ten times out of 10, I’m not going to sit inside of an agency building in Washington D.C. and say that we know that local community in Georgia or Florida or Arizona or elsewhere better than everyone there locally.” 

Ten times out of ten. Zeldin was not vague. He was not ambiguous. He was categorical and absolute.

The EPA — the agency created specifically to protect Americans from environmental harm — just announced it will not protect Americans from one of the fastest-growing and most environmentally demanding industries in U.S. history.

🏛️ WHAT IS THE EPA SUPPOSED TO DO — AND WHY THIS DECISION IS SO ALARMING

For most Americans, the EPA is the government agency that makes sure the air you breathe and the water you drink are safe. It sets national standards — minimum floors of protection — that apply equally whether you live in Montana or Mississippi, whether your local politicians are aggressive environmental protectors or not.

That is the whole point. National standards exist precisely because not every community has the resources, the lawyers, the political will, or the technical expertise to fight billion-dollar corporations on their own.

Just 37% of Americans would support a data center being built in their area, according to a POLITICO poll earlier this year. The reasons cited by opponents are overwhelmingly environmental: water usage and air pollution are among the most common complaints. 

63% of Americans do not want a data center near them. The EPA just told those Americans: figure it out yourselves.

🤔 AND ZELDIN’S ANSWER ON WATER IN UTAH WAS EVEN MORE REVEALING

The EPA chief’s comments in Washington were not the only time this week he dodged accountability on data centers and the environment.

Just weeks ago, Zeldin appeared before hundreds of energy leaders at Utah’s Operation Gigawatt Summit in Deer Valley — where a reporter from 2News asked him directly whether data centers conflict with President Trump’s own pledge to save the Great Salt Lake, which is rapidly disappearing due to water overconsumption. Zeldin declined to give a direct answer. “I’m not coming here today to opine and place judgment like that,” he said. “I’ve had the opportunities to go across the country where they’re doing an awesome job of water reuse.” 

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking before America’s eyes. Data centers in Utah are consuming millions of gallons of water. A reporter asked the head of the EPA a direct, factual question about whether those two facts conflict with each other.

His answer: he would not say.

The man whose job is to protect America’s environment — refusing to say whether draining a disappearing lake to cool AI servers is a problem.

😤 BUT HERE IS THE PART THAT MAKES THIS DECISION EVEN MORE OUTRAGEOUS

Zeldin’s argument sounds reasonable on the surface. “Local communities know best.” “States’ rights.” “We trust people on the ground.”

It falls apart completely when you look at what is actually happening on the ground.

Communities trying to fight data centers on their own are being outgunned at every turn. They face billion-dollar corporations with armies of lobbyists and lawyers. They watch their county commissioners vote in the middle of the night without public hearings. They discover secret water wells drilled without permits. They find out their electricity bills are being raised to subsidize facilities they never voted for.

And now the federal government — the last backstop — has officially stepped aside.

This is the same EPA that in January 2026 convened a roundtable with the Data Center Coalition — an industry lobbying group — to discuss how the rapid growth of data centers can make the U.S. the AI capital of the world. The meeting was led by senior Trump EPA officials. The agency’s stated goal was explicitly to advance data center expansion — not to protect communities from it. 

The EPA — meeting with data center industry lobbyists to help them build faster. Then standing at a podium to announce it will not regulate them environmentally.

That is not cooperative federalism. That is the government choosing a side. And it did not choose yours.

⚡ AND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN DISMANTLING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS FOR MONTHS

Yesterday’s announcement did not come out of nowhere. It is the latest in a series of moves that have systematically removed federal environmental guardrails around the data center industry.

In February 2026, the Trump administration repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding — the central scientific finding that has allowed the EPA to regulate climate-warming emissions for over 15 years. The move strips the agency of its most powerful legal tool to control industrial pollution. 

Making the U.S. the AI capital of the world is described as a key pillar of Zeldin’s “Powering the Great American Comeback” initiative — alongside “unleashing energy dominance.” Environmental protection of communities is not listed as a pillar. 

AI capital of the world. Energy dominance. Those are the priorities. The community in Georgia watching their well go dry. The family in North Carolina whose water pressure dropped. The Nashville Zoo worried about its tigers. Not the priorities.

🗺️ SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOUR COMMUNITY?

Here is the direct, honest answer to what Zeldin’s announcement means for every American community with a data center near it — or coming to it:

You are the last line of defense. Your city council. Your county commissioners. Your state legislature. Your petition. Your vote.

The federal government has officially left the building.

While there are technologies and practices that reduce air pollution and water usage, Zeldin said states and communities know what works best for them — leaving all environmental oversight entirely to local and state authorities. 

Some states are rising to the challenge. New York passed a moratorium. Illinois suspended tax breaks. North Carolina is debating protections for its aquifers. Utah passed a first-in-the-nation water transparency law.

But many states — particularly in the South and Midwest where the most aggressive data center buildout is happening — have no protections in place. No standards. No transparency laws. No moratoriums. And now, no federal backstop either.

Those communities — often the poorest, the least politically connected, the most rural — are now completely exposed.

🔮 THE BOTTOM LINE

Lee Zeldin stood at a podium in Washington D.C. yesterday and made a decision that will affect every American community targeted by the data center industry for the next several years.

He decided that the federal government’s role is to help Big Tech build — not to protect the people living around what gets built.

He decided that trillion-dollar corporations deserve a streamlined path to construction — and that families worried about their water, their air, and their electricity bills can take their concerns to whatever city council or state legislature will listen.

He decided, in his own words, ten times out of ten — that Washington will not stand between a data center and your community.

Now the question is: will your community stand up for itself?

Because as of yesterday — nobody in Washington D.C. is going to do it for you!

🎩 The Stoic Way ✨

📰 Sources: E&E News / POLITICO Energy Summit — June 10, 2026 (Published Yesterday) | Newsmax — June 10, 2026 | ABC News 4 / The National News Desk — June 10, 2026 | KUTV Salt Lake City — May 2026 | U.S. EPA Official Website — January 2026 Roundtable | Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program — December 2025

[Harley Jean Matta @HarleyMatta]

@patriottakes Trump/MAGA loathed Obama because they’re racists. We loathe Trump because he’s racist. This idiotic child’s ranting is proof positive that racism is taught from birth.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

On Friday evening, the Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature dropped a big, unannounced, 36-page omnibus bill stuffed to the brim with new voting restrictions and elections changes.

This thing is a voter suppression wishlist. Just some of its major provisions:
👉 Total ban on encouraging voter turnout: State and county board members are prohibited from any public statement "encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election"
👉 Grants the Republican State Auditor total discretion to audit all machines, county offices and personnel involved in any election
👉 Reduces campaign finance transparency: the bill significantly raises the dollar thresholds for required reporting of dark money contributions or media expenditures, waiving reporting for the rest
👉 Requires voters to register with a political party a full year before voting in that party's primary election (up from 90 days)
👉 Total ban on any ranked-choice voting in any primary or general election statewide
👉 Strips some overseas voters of their eligibility to vote in any state elections
👉 Partisan staffing: changes up to 25 professional staff at the State Board of Elections from career civil staff to partisan political appointees
👉 Bans paid petition gathering

This bill just dropped last night and may not be online yet (they like to take their time). We got a full draft of the bill here: https://t.co/CMBAsV4Mtw

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Fun fact:

Trump bought stock in UFC’s parent company earlier this year.

Now there’s a giant UFC arena on the White House lawn.

I’m sure that’s completely unrelated.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! MS NOW confirms the FBI is actively terrorizing civil rights leaders.

Agents are showing up at homes without warrants, harassing volunteers in front of their children, and following them to work.

The Trump administration is running a fascist police state!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Top journalist Carol Leonnig exposes a massive DOJ scandal.

She confirms the Trump administration literally ordered FBI agents to raid a pro-democracy voter registration group in Ohio.

The White House is actively using federal forces to rig the midterms!