Human Being | Writer | Visual Essayist | Philosophy Fan | Art Lover | @NEIU BA in Media Communications | @BlackandBrave Class XI Graduate @AugustusDraven
The cloud isn't a cloud.
It's land, water, electricity, tax incentives, and communities being asked to support the infrastructure if #AI.
As #datacenters spread across America, one question keeps surfacing:
Who benefits—and who pays the price?
https://t.co/iei6Qi9BEL
Thomas Massie wasn't a perfect politician.
That's not the point.
The point is what happens when a lawmaker challenges too many powerful interests at the same time:
• Epstein transparency
• foreign policy orthodoxy
• donor influence
• party discipline
Sometimes healing isn’t becoming someone new.
Sometimes it’s remembering what grounded you before burnout, depression, trauma & emotional exhaustion pulled you away from yourself.
“The Fire Burned Out. The Ember Didn’t.”
https://t.co/609TmQ2QMR
#MentalHealth
On this day in 1961, the US, UK and Belgium assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral reserves. Remember Lumumba!
Not only has the U.S. invaded 70 nations since 1776, but also it has been at war for 233 out of 250 years. This means for 93% of its existence the U.S. has been at war and these wars are not for “freedom.” They are to extract resources from poor countries to make the rich richer.
Capitalism wants you to pick one interest and choose a niche. Your spirit wants you to express every aspect of your being because authenticity cannot be contained in one box.
We live under constant pressure—financial, mental, emotional—while news cycles and doomscrolling keep us locked in the urgency of the moment.
This essay explores perspective as a practice, not an escape.
🔗 https://t.co/rr0eagPxf3
What happened starting in 1980?
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
There’s no “rift.”
A recent poll showed 78 PERCENT of Democratic voters support Medicare For All, even if it would eliminate most private insurance and raise taxes: https://t.co/ik4QV3nESv
Two of the largest and most alarming media stories in years:
1) Larry Ellison -- the largest-single private donor to the IDF -- bought Paramount, CBS, CBN News, and is trying to buy Warner Brothers/Discover/CNN, right as support for Israel unravels (done through his son).
2) Congress forced the transfer of TikTok into Ellison's hands (which Nentanyahu said was one of Israel's greatest victories) because the platform allowed too much anti-Israel content, and now there's a former IDF soldier in charge of TikTok censorship on all matters relating to Israel and anti-Semitism: