Nathan Cross

Dad of an incredible daughter and huge Fighting Illini, STL Cardinals, & STL Blues fan. Hoops over pigskin always.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

I just offered an amendment to prevent anyone convicted of heinous crimes — from attacking law enforcement to molesting children — from getting money from Trump's taxpayer financed slush fund.

Republicans blocked it.

All to please the Dear Leader. It's sick.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.

[Alex Reimer @AlexReimer1]

Everyone likes to shit on Chicago politics and rightfully so. But ultimately, the Bears look silly here. The Chicago Bears playing home games at a hazardous waste site over the Indiana border is comical. It will damage their brand.

[Al Smizzle @AlZeidenfeld]

They published a 900-page book in 2023 that told everyone exactly what they planned to do if/when Trump won.

Many people chose not to believe them.

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

"I hope I've left my imprint on this sport and left it better than I found it."

NiJaree Canady writes a moving letter to softball.

#WCWS x @TexasTechSB

[Oceaiii🐋🐬 @oceaiii]

Unbelievable scenes out in the North Sea today! 🫍
Seeing a fully grown killer whale breach entirely out of the water like this is incredibly rare. Usually, we just see them skimming the surface, so to catch an 8-ton machine putting on a show like this truly rare.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Do You Remember America Before Trump?

NEW VIDEO! WATCH! TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.

Let's get this to 1 million views fast.

Please retweet and quote tweet.

[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

The world just built a machine that drinks clean water like a river.

And nobody is talking about what that actually means.

🚨 🚨 🚨 AI DATA CENTERS WILL CONSUME ENOUGH CLEAN WATER TO SUPPLY 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE BY 2030 — PER A UNITED NATIONS REPORT 🚨 🚨 🚨

A United Nations report just put a number on it. Not a vague warning. Not a projection buried in a footnote. A hard figure: AI data centers will consume enough freshwater to supply 1.3 billion people annually by 2030. That is not a typo. One sector. One cooling system. 1.3 BILLION people's worth of water.

THE WEAPON:
→ Global data center water consumption: 560 billion liters per year right now
→ Projected consumption by 2030: 1,200 billion liters (IEA)
→ US AI data centers alone: 17 billion gallons consumed in 2023
→ US projection by 2028: 38–73 billion gallons annually
→ Single large facility withdrawal: up to 5 million gallons per day — the daily need of a city of 50,000 people
→ Evaporative cooling rate: ~80% of withdrawn water evaporates and is NEVER returned
→ Per-query footprint: every 100-word AI prompt consumes roughly one 16.9 oz bottle of water
→ Indirect footprint: electricity generation adds another 60% on top of direct consumption

THE TARGET:
→ Phoenix region alone: data center water use projected to rise 870% — from 385 million to 3.7 billion gallons per year
→ Google's Council Bluffs facility: 3.9 million gallons withdrawn daily, on average
→ Hyperscale facilities expected to account for half of all future US AI water consumption

THE MATH:
→ 2021 US data center baseline: 163.7 billion gallons annually
→ Five years of AI acceleration later: 300%+ growth for key operators
→ By 2030: one sector's cooling needs rival or exceed the municipal water supply of entire countries
→ 1.3 billion people. That is the population of Africa. That is more than the entire Western Hemisphere.

Read that again.

💀 There are currently 2 billion people on Earth without reliable access to clean water
💀 AI infrastructure is being built fastest in water-stressed regions — Phoenix, the American Southwest, the Middle East
💀 Once evaporated, that water does not come back — it is not recycled, it is not returned to the aquifer, it is gone

⚠️ The world is already withdrawing freshwater faster than it is being replenished
⚠️ Agriculture uses 70–80% of global freshwater — AI is now the fastest-growing new competitor for what remains
⚠️ This is not a future problem. 560 billion liters are being consumed right now, today, this year.

They're showing you the AI boom.

They're NOT showing you what is being drained to power it — the aquifers that took thousands of years to fill, the rivers already running low, the municipal systems already competing with server farms for the same water table.

You don't build a machine that evaporates 80% of everything it drinks in a water-stressed world and call it progress. You don't scale that machine by 300% in five years and assume the water will keep showing up. You do that when you have decided, consciously or not, that the output is worth more than the resource that keeps 8 billion people alive.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Anthony Avon .Art @AnthonyAvonArt]

So stop it maybe? Who are you warning? I can't do anything, YOU are the UN.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

This bird almost vanished once.

Market hunters nearly wiped it out by the early 1900s.

Then federal protections brought it back.

The wood duck — one of the most breathtaking birds in North America — recovered because the wetlands that shelter it were protected by law.

Cattail marshes. Forested swamps. Small seasonal pools tucked into the woods where they nest, feed, and raise their young.

Now those same wetlands are losing federal protection — quietly, through a rule change most Americans have never heard of.

It's called WOTUS. Waters of the United States.

The administration has proposed redefining which waters qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act.

Up to 80% of American wetlands — 73.5 million acres — would no longer qualify.

No federal permit required to drain them. Fill them. Build on them.

The wood duck doesn’t get a vote. Neither do the 700+ other species that depend on these waters.

Millions of Americans depend on them too — for clean drinking water, flood protection, and healthy local ecosystems.

If the Clean Water Act no longer protects most of America's wetlands — what exactly is it protecting? 🦆

#WOTUS #DemsUnited

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

If, at the end of this dark era, we actually have a Democratic president again, there is one thing they absolutely must take to heart:

F*ck forgiveness.

Our country will only unite behind criminal prosecution and prison sentences, before eventually, slowly, beginning to heal.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Gotta get as many of the poors in as possible for the Great Pump and Dump of 2026.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is going to not only put a lot of people on the streets it’s also going to displace poor animals that were trained to help people especially Veterans.

[Bishal Nandi @LearnWithBishal]

STOP SAYING "HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL."

IT'S THE MOST FORGETTABLE EMAIL OPENER EVER.

HERE ARE 10 BETTER WAYS TO START A CONVERSATION 👇

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Agriculture Sec @BrookeLRollins in November: "We have screwworm under control south of the border. Beef prices will come down by spring 2026"

Beef prices continue to rise, and screwworm is now in the US.

[Rep. Vicente Gonzalez @RepGonzalez]

Texas is home to the largest cattle population in the nation, with more than 12 million cattle and calves, supporting a $15 billion industry.

For almost two years now, I've warned Washington about how devastating a resurgence of the New World Screwworm will be for our ranchers, economy, and public health.

USDA experts told me we need to be producing 700 million sterile flies, yet this Administration has not listened. Frankly, their tepid and slow response to protect American livestock has failed the agricultural industry and will cost us greatly. Congress must immediately step in and fund more prevention and eradication efforts.

I strongly urge South Texans to remain vigilant and help USDA track, identify, and report cases by visiting https://t.co/yrShQWvxNs

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966