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@MrAustinPredict I get Mob Boss vibes from this guy.

[Not Tina Kotex @NotTinaKotex]

On July 11, I joined a DSA bike tour of the Hillsboro data centers. We rode 16 miles, stopping to see the facilities as well as farmland being impacted by their rapid expansion.

While data centers are essential infrastructure for AI, cloud computing, streaming, online shopping, banking, and government services, many people are questioning whether they provide enough local benefit to justify their enormous demands on electricity, water, land, and tax incentives.

Opponents argue that they are driving up the cost of electricity and placing huge demands on water supplies. And while our property taxes go up every year, and municipalities say they are short on funds, the Hillsboro data centers have been enjoying significant property tax breaks while creating few new jobs.

Here are some excerpts from the bike tour of Hillsboro's data centers.

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@MHWowego @WesternLensman @GavinNewsom “Oleanginous” fits him perfectly.

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@deaflibertarian @OnVoodoo We do that as well.

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@tastytradeninja @deaflibertarian I was told this as well. We added a probiotic and our girl is doing well.

[Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11]

Dear @DukesMayonnaise

Your classic Real Mayonnaise lists soybean oil as the very first ingredient. While I understand it’s been part of the formula for a long time, a growing number of health-conscious consumers are actively avoiding highly processed seed oils (soybean, canola, sunflower, etc.) due to concerns about their high omega-6 content, processing methods and potential inflammatory effects.

Not including sugar in your recipe is great but including seed oils is still a deal-breaker.

Many of us have switched to mayonnaise made with avocado oil, olive oil or other more traditional fats and if you wish appeal to us, you should develop a product that is seed oil free.

There is so much untapped potential in the seed oil free market and many of us look forward to you putting your hat in the ring.

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@SamaHoole I only had two eggs today. Next to .8 lbs of beef and sautéed onions. I may do that again tomorrow…

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@CaryKelly11 Not salad.

[Trixie McTaco @MctacoTrixie]

@Goody2Shoes46 Ummmm…. Michigan has been run into the ground by 8years of Gretchen and her “girl boss” friends.
Do us all a favor and go back to the liberal dump of a city, you came from. You’re really gonna hate it up there.

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Note to self: Do not visit parks during rutting season.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A tourist was seriously injured after a bison tossed them about 8 feet into the air in Yellowstone National Park. The attack was captured on video by photographer Mike Macleod.

[Middle Ground Mando @MiddleG11]

Today is July 12th, and Jocelyn Benson is the WORST, most evil and corrupt Secretary of State in MICHIGAN history.

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@mrjoetate @GenFlynn @grok That explains why Eddie Murphy is the handler in the photo 😂

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@Mutnodjmet @ChrisMartzWX @Chris_Meloni Well, I think many are done with “experts” after the fiasco that was forced upon us the first half of this decade.

However, actors for the most part are not experts in anything, so there’s that…

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@Houseofyogi Well said, Yogi.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

RIP Lindsay Graham

The internet will do what it always does: flatten a complicated human being into a villain, a meme, or a collection of his worst clips.

I understand why people disliked him. I disagreed with him plenty. But the man spent more than three decades in Congress and 33 years serving in the Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve.

He deserves a more honest accounting than “sycophant” or “warmonger.”

Graham was a serious public servant.

He came from a working class family in South Carolina, lost both parents while he was young, helped raise his younger sister, and became the first person in his family to attend college.

He served as a military lawyer, retired as a colonel, spent eight years in the House, and more than two decades in the Senate.

That does not make him correct. It does establish that his life was fundamentally organized around public service.

For much of his career, Graham was also the kind of senator people now claim they want. He was clearly conservative, but willing to work with Democrats.

He helped negotiate the Gang of 14 compromise on judicial nominations. He supported comprehensive immigration reform through the Gang of Eight. He repeatedly worked with Dick Durbin on the DREAM Act. He voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan because he believed a qualified president’s nominees generally deserved confirmation.

He took real political risk to solve problems. That matters.

He was also one of the Senate’s most engaged foreign policy voices. He understood alliances, knew foreign leaders, traveled to war zones, supported NATO, defended Ukraine, and believed America had obligations beyond its own borders.

His final public work involved meeting with President Zelenskyy in Kyiv and advancing bipartisan sanctions against Russia.

You can disagree with his worldview. I often did. But he treated foreign policy as a serious responsibility. Q

His shortcomings were also real.

Graham was too interventionist. His default answer to foreign policy failure was often more force, more troops, more sanctions, or more American involvement. He understood the costs of weakness better than he understood the costs of overreach.

His transformation from fierce Trump critic to loyal Trump ally badly damaged his credibility.

The charitable explanation is that he chose access and influence over irrelevance. The less charitable explanation is that he adapted to wherever Republican power moved.

Both are probably true.

Lindsey Graham was not a saint. He was inconsistent, overly hawkish, and sometimes far too willing to trade institutional credibility for political influence.

But he was not useless, stupid, or evil either.

He served his country for most of his adult life. He knew the Senate. He worked across the aisle. He attempted to solve immigration when both parties preferred weaponizing it.

He defended alliances when isolationism became fashionable. He remained engaged with the world until his final days.

My honest verdict is that Lindsey Graham was a flawed but net positive public servant.

A genuine institutionalist who became less institutional over time.

A knowledgeable foreign policy senator whose appetite for intervention often exceeded his strategic caution.

A conservative partisan who still understood that governing requires negotiation.

Criticize him honestly. He earned plenty of it.

But a country that cannot distinguish between a flawed public servant and a worthless one eventually stops producing public servants at all.

I write this to pay respect. Social media has created too many vile content creators who only see the bad. Want clicks. Let the man rest in peace and be honest about it. Hyperbole is just silly.

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@DaveBondyTV Local Walmart at 9:30 am today. Same thing, same fixture in your photo.

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@MiStormChasers Lenawee County, where the sunrises and sunsets are always beautiful

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@SunshineDaisy @Grandbulldoggie @MiStormChasers Does too! 😊

[Middle Ground Mando @MiddleG11]

Today is July 11th, and Jocelyn Benson is the WORST, most evil and corrupt Secretary of State in MICHIGAN history.

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@GeorgeHayduke77 @Flint_Savage000 @PeteHegseth Good answer 👍🇺🇸