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[Truth Matters @SandDune99]

@johnrich Thank you @johnrich
for being a voice for the little guy. I'm thankful the gentleman will live out his life in his home. The home itself is a beautiful piece of #Arizona history. It should be protected against future greedy endeavors.

[Truth Matters @SandDune99]

@johnrich @ASU @michaelcrow Thank you @johnrich for helping this man stay in his home. Hopefully, @ASU will do the right thing and reimburse his legal costs.

[Jen's Two Cents. 🎙 @JensTwoCentsAZ]

"We didn't have this problem a year ago."

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says the backlash over his company's cameras is a recent phenomenon that will pass.

I've spent years investigating how Flock expanded across Arizona through public records, council meetings and interviews. The timeline I've compiled may explain why so many communities are only now asking questions.

🚨 READ THE REPORT: https://t.co/yn26CtkSiv

@JohnKavanagh_AZ @naomibrockwell @juliecbarrett @LPMaricopa @AZGreenParty @AZSenateGOP #FOIA #azleg

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Woman who lives in Virginia says her county alone has over 50 Data Centers and now they are being asked to conserve both power and water

“Our temperatures are about to hit an average of 120° across the state, but you want us to preserve water and power so the data centers can run, and we're going to be the ones fitting the bill for all that power that gets used up”

She’s absolutely correct I verified that parts of Virginia are sending conservation requests to residents

For those that don’t know how bad it is in Virginia

Data Center Alley alone in Northern Virginia hosts the world’s largest concentration of data centers, around 600–685 facilities with many more planned

Things are only going to get worse

[azreader @azreader1]

@GovernorHobbs Why not just cancel it all together and make the data centers pay for their own bills?

[Casey Murph @caseymurph1]

@katiehobbs Gov Hobbs, it is not too late for you to take action to reverse your solar mandate on Arizona State lands, which has destroyed thousands of acres of wildlife habitat and landscape and pushed generational ranch families out of business. You can stop it from being a campaign issue.

[Aussie G-Ma @TaylorBali94342]

"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred.

A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors.

That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success.

Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing.

So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place.

They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition.

And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind.

You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product.

Go back and read her list."

-copied and pasted author unknown.

[Truth Matters @SandDune99]

Thank you @RepEliCrane We need to #StopLavaRun #StopBlackRidge #StopTripleOak and stop @NavajoCountyAZ from destroying the beautiful White Mountains of #Arizona

[Rep. Eli Crane @RepEliCrane]

My constituents overwhelmingly oppose the Camino Madre Renewable Power Project in Yavapai County, and I stand with them.

I recently sent a letter to @USDA and @forestservice urging them to use their full authority to block this proposal:

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Flock cams have been found at:

-Bike paths
-Nature trails
-Public parks
-Wilderness areas
-Community pools
-Reproductive clinics
-Schools & preschools
-Entrance to state parks
-Gyms & recreation centers
-Children’s gymnastics room

It's not plate tracking.
It’s people tracking.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

New app detects privacy-violating recording glasses nearby. https://t.co/Ovn5gGWXNF

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

"We have cameras everywhere in that town and you cannot get a breath of fresh air without us knowing"

When police are admitting this out loud, it's time to admit the cage isn’t coming, we're already inside it.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

America is a place, merged with an idea. Americans are those here who agree to this idea. The idea is that anything is possible and that you can live your life the way you want, so long as that way does not impinge on others’ ability to live the way they want.
As the current custodians of America, we will keep this idea sacred, so that it is healthy and alive for those who come after us. Just like those of the past 250 years did for us. Happy 4th of July.

[Leigh Ann O'Neill @LaLONeill]

.@ASU wants to use eminent domain to bulldoze the Louis Emerson House — a historic Phoenix home owned by 89-year-old Robert Young, who has preserved it for more than 50 years.

For what?

Not a classroom, a hospital, or a lab.

For “open space.”

ASU’s own filing shows the medical campus can be built without putting a building on Mr. Young’s property. So this isn’t necessity. It's ASU flexing its outsized influence and power in order to further its aesthetic desires.

Eminent domain should never be used as a weapon to erase an elderly man’s legacy for a taxpayer-funded landscaping preference.

We have asked ASU and its Board of Regents to withdraw the condemnation action and preserve the Louis Emerson House. Read @A1Policy's letter here.

[Memento Mori @xplorewonders]

Sec Rollins @SecRollins ,

Can you look into this nonsense and intervene?

This farmer has poured 10 years of hard work into his orchard, and he shouldn’t have to face this kind of outcome right at his farm’s peak harvest time.

The farmer's nectarines deserves to be sold... just look at how beautifully ripe they are.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Arizona State University @ASU is in court fighting 89 year old Robert Young to take the home he's owned since 1975 for their "green space." I'm calling on ASU's President, @michaelcrow to reach out to me ASAP. This is not ok. We must defend this man.
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[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

.@ray_ban and @oakley you have truly betrayed your customers, and all of humanity really.
You think it’s ok to manufacture glasses that can casually film people who are giving zero consent nor have any knowledge that filming is taking place?

[Casey Murph @caseymurph1]

My wife and I are going to DC tomorrow to meet with @SecRollins @johnrich and the @A1Policy team to discuss the threat the 'renewable' industrial complex is presenting to ranching and wildlife habitat in the western USA. We will be on hand for the Great American State Fair. Will try to provide updates when we can.
@unwon @yearlins @AJRichards @LonesomeLands

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

so go bankrupt already and save us all the environmental and social problems you’re creating

[Casey Murph @caseymurph1]

We see some examples of this, I still contend that it is a PR move by the solar industry in response to public outrage.
In the midwest and east, perhaps solar can coexist with livestock, but on the western ranges, mechanical installation of arrays damages rangeland for decades.
The installations also displace wildlife like deer, elk and pronghorn.
We maintain that rooftops and parking lots in cities and towns are still the common sense sites for industrial solar. @alex_fasulo

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Been saying that GAl is a type of
"AntiChrist" for over a year.
These Al CEOs promise a
"frictionless god."
"You get a semblance of everything you get with God (love, guidance, wisdom, constant companionship), but without any challenges! You never have to leave your comfort zone!"
We're seeing the throwing of the rods that turn into snakes. And Aaron's ate theirs in the end.

Image: @WrestlerHauser