Madeline ✨

People don't like me because my opinions are "popular"; they like me because I'm fun at a cocktail party!

[Madeline ✨ @MadelineRobbs]

Me driving into a Chick Fil A https://t.co/QT15PNWHk1

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Video shows Flock walking police through how to monitor a No Kings protest in real time. I do not have to agree with a single sign at that protest to say this plainly: Surveillance aimed at your political opponents today will be aimed at you tomorrow.

[Preston Guy @PGuy77]

I’m going to try not to overreact here.
But I do want to describe what we saw last night - and, more importantly, what it feels like.

With one very important distinction: I am not declaring that this is the truth. I’m describing the feeling.

And tonight, it felt like Lane Kiffin was the perfect fit for LSU, for Louisiana, and for everything this place is about.

Kiffin has spent his entire career being doubted, criticized, and hated on—and he’s never seemed particularly interested in giving a damn.
That sounds a lot like Louisiana.

He went in to the locker room and said “Now imagine if we had Pro players” up 31-3.

He went for two up 44-3…

He IS STTDB made in to a football coach.

Give LSU fans something exciting. Give them something entertaining. Give them a reason to believe that when they walk into Tiger Stadium, they’re going to see something they can’t see anywhere else.

And they will show up.
We saw that last night.
In a huge way.

And now LSU finds itself with perhaps the most reckless entertainer in all of football.
LSU fans have been begging for excitement for years.

Lane Kiffin might be the answer to that call.

Because since Nick Saban left, LSU has often felt like a program that wins in spite of itself, rather than because of everything it does right.

We know the talent this state produces.

We know what Louisiana football looks like when that talent is put on a national stage.

And we know how many championships that talent has helped carry coaches who, frankly, probably weren't good enough to win them on their own.

But somehow, through all of it, LSU has still felt like college football’s sleeping dragon.

Well tonight, the fiddler walked in and woke the dragon and the fiddler’s name is Lane Kiffin.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A US judge has ruled that the US Constitution does not guarantee a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, per Bloomberg

[Sparky1j @sparkie237]

At what point does doing all these recalls become more expensive than just upholding the food safety standards that we had in place for decades?

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

It’s going to be the Argentinian beef that was just rejected by China for being laced with neurotoxic and carcinogenic antibiotics, isn’t it?

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

IDGAF about the grid or conserving energy while they continue to build data centers.

I’m not going to sweat inside my home so data centers can continue to operate.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.

The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.

Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Theo Von: “Nobody wants a data center dude. And the people that want them to me, they seem kind of evil. Nobody wants this shit. One of these companies is gonna own all of this information. There’s gonna become this social or emotional credit score and then AI is gonna try to become our new God”

[Madeline ✨ @MadelineRobbs]

Then consider what Meta, Google, Microsoft and Oracle use.

And I guarantee this is a severe underestimation because big tech has a long history of being anything but transparent…

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Amazon said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

He is not wrong...
The Digital Rust Belt: Inside Ohio’s Billion-Dollar Data Center Speculation Wave

"Whether it’s 16 data centers or 6 data centers there’s always '200 jobs'. Why? It’s enough jobs to look beneficial but not too many to break your school system"

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: TX Ag Commissioner: “What we’ve been doing since 1930 is releasing sterile male flies. The ideal is that the sterile male fly will mate with a female and the offspring will be sterile…but it DOESN'T WORK…We started this in November 2024. We have MORE cases now than we had then…so this is insanity. When you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results, that’s insanity. What we need to implement is the SWASS system—Screw Worm Adult Suppression System. It was invented by @USDA, it was deployed by the USDA in the 70s and 80s…It’s a fly bait…You put out this fly bait, it kills 95% of the #screwworm flies. Problem solved…For some reason, USDA will not consider using this fly bait…it’s extremely safe, no harm to the environment…It’s been deployed, it’s not like it’s a pilot program…so I’m calling on @realDonaldTrump to go ahead and have USDA to deploy this screwworm bait. If they don’t do it, I’m prepared to do it in Texas, well just do it ourselves. In Texas we have to lead the way in a lot of things so this won’t be anything new for us…this is a $32 billion dollar livestock industry, but it’s not just livestock, it’s wildlife, it’s your pets…so this is VERY SERIOUS.”😢

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Wow…this is a tell people. There is no path to profitability.

They need to socialize losses.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In the US, spending on data center construction now exceeds spending on public transportation infrastructure — including airports, marine terminals, and all mass transit.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely think a lot of millennials are reaching the same conclusion at the same time.

We grew up watching technology make life better every year. Cell phones. iPods. Smartphones. An app for everything. It felt like the future was arriving right in front of us, and we couldn’t wait for what came next.

Then somewhere along the way, it changed.

Everything became a subscription. Social media became algorithms. Every day feels like another once-in-a-lifetime event. The things that were supposed to save us time somehow ended up demanding more of our attention than ever.

We were sold convenience.

What we got was a world that feels faster, louder, more expensive, and somehow less human.

And that’s why so many people I know dream about a completely different life now. Not more technology. Not more optimization.

Just a quiet job, a flip phone, a small town, and a place where life feels real again.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

This is indefensible: Spraying glyphosate over wild lands is ecocide, and toxic to humans, of course. But there is one upside: It allows us to see the full corruption of our system, which pretends to be preoccupied with our health, even as it poisons the world behind our backs.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Senate Majority Leader Thune wants nothing more than to protect Senator Cornyn.

So, because Leader Thune won’t pass the SAVE America Act,

I’m asking every Texan to vote FOR Ken Paxton on Tuesday, May 26th.

Early Voting: May 18 - May 22

Election Day: May 26

[End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism]

“A government that shields chemical companies instead of children has forgotten who it works for.”

“If your product is safe, you don’t need immunity.”

Alex Clark delivers a must watch speech on why Bayer should not be granted immunity from harm caused by its products.

“We are asking one simple question: Why does Bayer deserve protection but American families and farmers don’t?”

“A country that can’t protect its children from corporate poison is not a free country, it’s a captured one.”

“If your business model depends on sick kids and silenced farmers, you don’t deserve a liability shield, you deserve prison.”

@realalexclark

[Lauren Lee @laurenlee]

🚨 “WE’RE DONE PRETENDING THIS IS NORMAL” Vani Hari Just Slammed Trump on Behalf of MAHA, Says the Administration is Protecting Bayer/Monsanto:

“You cannot tell Americans to eat “real food” while protecting the cancer-causing chemicals sprayed on it.

You cannot stand with families and side with one of the most evil corporations in the world.

Let's be honest. We wouldn't be here right now if President Trump didn't sign that executive order.

We wouldn't be here right now if they weren't inside this building arguing on Monsanto's behalf.

We wouldn't be here right now if they didn't submit that amicus brief and that recommendation to the Supreme Court to look at this case when they've lost all over this country.

You cannot stand with families and do that.”

👏

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Bayer is a German chemical company. They make Roundup. Roundup gives people non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Bayer has paid over $11 billion in cancer lawsuits.

This week, Congress is going to vote on a bill that gives Bayer permanent immunity from being sued by Americans who get cancer from their product.

Here is how it happened. 🧵