timothy faust 🇵🇸

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

personal account: correct opinions are mine; incorrect opinions are ironic. Moonlighting as a policy director.

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@CamDaddyCaves @billienotjeane @Joshn4d they're calling it Fran Creek

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@ZachInMillioke @tittyreborn Had an event there recently; they were great

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@DavidHastensen You have chili for brains

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

who else is talking like this in this race?

[The Nation @thenation]

DSA-backed Wisconsin State Representative Francesca Hong is running for governor—and she could win.
https://t.co/HQg1z8D6Mv

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@flex_luther13 The Lion of Rhode Island

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

This is a question about LLMs, energy, and the environment. It’s also a question about how states operate altogether. It’s a foundational question of the economy👇 https://t.co/J0uV85MU1A

[justin lee @justin_policy]

@admcrlsn She wants to stem races-to-the-bottom in state economic dev, maximize labor power in AI adoption, strengthen the fiscal health of UI, and channel public capital, including data center tax revenues, into infrastructure projects, labor-led upskilling, and resilient enterprises

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

This is the sauce. Fran’s campaign isn’t just a flat data center moratorium — it’s the ONLY statewide campaign (in the country?) that’s thought through data center and AI issues and how they relate to land use, economic development, labor politics, and civil and consumer rights.

[justin lee @justin_policy]

@admcrlsn To add, I think you’re missing here how the Hong campaign’s policy treats data centers and AI policy as entangled problems of labor and economic development. She’s developing an approach for a mid-sized state to guide social and economic AI adjustment for the public benefit

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

Data centers, land use, energy infrastructure; https://t.co/3DRTrzUQmD

Labor rights within and beyond AI: https://t.co/CBW0haqrKZ

Civil and consumer rights:
https://t.co/roN3hRQbTT

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

Coastal politics temporarily embarrassed blogger commentariat STUNNED to discover that top Midwestern gubernatorial candidate is leading on issue lots of people who live here care about

[Francesca Hong For Governor @FrancescaHongWI]

The @nytimes came to Wisconsin to ask whether someone like me can win here.

They found a Trump voter in Wisconsin Rapids with a "No Data Center" sign in his yard, and my sign right next to it.

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@DanRShafer That is to say: while data centers are one of the central issues of the race, Francesca’s position emerges naturally from her democratic socialism — the same is true for everyone else

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@DanRShafer I might suggest that the campaigns’ data center positions, including but not exclusively Fran’s, are natural extensions of their ideological positions and view of politics.

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

There are a few independent media outfits that disproportionately contribute to important, high-quality reporting in Wisconsin. Recombobulation Area is one of them!

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

NEW: Since The Recombobulation Area is back to being fully independent... and this weekend is Independence Day ... and it's also the 30th anniversary of the release of the "Independence Day," we thought we'd offer up a sale.

Let's recombobulate: https://t.co/hqpgrZqXy4

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

UPDATE: Mitch McConnell has gone to hell
and back to tear this country apart.

The Kentucky senator is not longer with us
despite his claim to be an American patriot

McConnell has gone on to meet his Maker's
Mark corporate lobbyists instead of addressing the needs of Kentuckians

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

I’m hearing that Mitch McConnell is dead
wrong about the most important questions of our time.

The former Senate leader passed a way
of regressive obstruction off as governance.

Mitch McConnell tragically lost his life
savings at the bank of national integrity

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@suchnerve That's the T-Bone experience

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

NYT: A Big Gamble for the Left: Can Socialism Appeal in a Swing State?

Jeff Hanneman was infuriated to learn about a proposal this spring to build a 220-acre data center on the site of a shuttered paper mill near his house in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

Worried that the project would pollute the tranquil waters of the nearby Wisconsin River, Mr. Hanneman, 43, planted a “No Data Center” sign in his yard.

And, although he’s a Republican who voted for President Trump, he decided to support a democratic socialist who has called for a pause in data center construction and is running for governor.

“I really don’t think or care about the label,” said Mr. Hanneman, who planted a “Francesca Hong for Governor” yard sign next to the other one. “If she was voted into office, she could do a lot of good things for our state.”

https://t.co/DfFN06qV3d

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

@chiweethedog When my wife and I were on different work schedules I loved staying up late and cooking for her. Once this campaign is over I'm setting up several "Week of [X] Cuisine"s so I can make nice things for her

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

like many people, i have had my summer changed by Uniqlo linen pants

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @Project_TBONE]

a relatively subtle metaphor, as far as conservative media goes

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.