โผ๏ธโผ๏ธ Trump Admin just accepted permit for an underwater AI data center off Eastport, Maine
- $100 million project covering 27 acres in the Bay of Fundy near Kendall Head. Servers cooled by our ocean turning Western Passage into an industrial heat sink.
- Locals and the Passamaquoddy Tribe have been screaming about this for months.
- Thermal pollution risks cooking the water that sustains our lobsters, scallops, and clams.
- Data Center Developer is a Massachusetts luxury real estate guy who formed the company weeks before filing.
FUN FACT: Mitch McConnell has been on paid medical leave for 51 days now. That's over 7 weeks.
This is a week longer than the 6 weeks of maternity leave that women in the US are not guaranteed after giving birth.
House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) says the U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific had been to maintain the status quo and โkeep China from doing anything stupid.โ
He tells @margbrennan that needs to be rethought: โIn any prolonged conflict with China or Russia, the U.S. will run out of defensive munitions. We already started running out of defensive munitions in a war that lasted less than 60 days, and even against a second-rate military like Iran, they struck multiple U.S. bases. So in any overseas conflict, our overseas bases will be obliterated by Russia and China. We need a new defense strategy, and I call on the Pentagon to deliver that to Congress.โ
1.6 million women and girls displaced in Iran.
In Lebanon, more than an estimated half a million women and girls remain displaced.
Hundreds killed across the region.
Conflict in the Middle East is pushing women and girls to the brink-deepening risks of violence, hunger and loss of healthcare.
#ForAllWomenAndGirls