Congratulations to the people of Indianapolis for fighting back against a huge Google data center that would have raised electric bills & used massive amounts of fresh water.
The function of new technology must be to improve human life, not just make billionaires even richer.
A dear friend of mine, very careful about Covid, just caught it for the first time. I suggested rest, electrolytes, H1 & H2 blockers, zinc, and Paxlovid or metformin. What else would you suggest?
When historians look back on the collapse of the American empire, the *only* part that will baffle them for centuries to come will be that the poor voted over and over and over and over again to cut their own benefits in order to give more and more benefits to the rich and elite whom they so despised in every other aspect of life.
Just completely perplexing.
🚨BREAKING: The Republican budget doesn’t just cut Medicaid, it weaponizes the cuts.
Per .@ChrisMurphyCT They’re carving out a slush fund to bail out red state hospitals while letting blue state hospitals collapse under the weight of defunding.
This isn’t fiscal policy. It’s political warfare. Punishment by zip code. A targeted strike on states that didn’t vote the way they wanted.
Call it what it is: extortion disguised as budgeting. And it’s shredding what little remains of the “United” in United States.
Stephen Miller’s quotas have broken the systems ICE is supposed to use to keep track of people.
People go missing after they’re arrested. They never get logged into the Detainee Locator System. Files can’t be found. Even DOJ lawyers can’t figure out where people are sometimes.
I’m seeing that this is irreversible. That the only way the country will get lands like this back is if the corps/countries/individuals who buy it, donate it back. Which will not happen.
This is the largest public lands sell off in modern US history.
Late last week the Department of Defense did something interesting: It made four tech executives from Palantir, Meta, & OpenAI lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army.
JVL on the implications
https://t.co/OAxbS8q9Tt
Under the “Big Beautiful Bill,” federal lands like Teton National Forest will be put up for sale to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Enjoy it while it lasts.
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.
Stop whatever you're doing & watch John Morales. Instead of forecasting the weather, he tells Florida viewers why Trump admin cuts to Science and national weather services will make it impossible for him to accurately warn Floridians about this season's hurricanes.
Cases of measles, salmonella, listeria, and hepatitis A and C have spread throughout the country.
But since Trump's inauguration, CDC newsletters, health alerts about disease outbreaks, and other communications have largely stopped.
"Make American Healthy Again."