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[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@constans @AlanaSmith36127 They’re incomparable: Warehouses average 15,000 sq ft. And are in planned industrial parks and employ more people than data centers. Data centers can be 2 million square feet. Residents living nearby have every right to say no to these.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@bobbyfijan What a working class house used to look like

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@constans @AlanaSmith36127 They’re millions of square feet of industrial buildings in fields next to small towns. They’re not storefronts in cities.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@goatpurple1 @constans @AlanaSmith36127 It isn’t hysteria for a small town to oppose a 2 million square foot data center in fields next to their community, which employs few people, provides no benefit to the community, uses enormous amounts of energy, and serves shitty unethical AI corporations’ job-destroying goals.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@constans @AlanaSmith36127 Your only response to residents who see no direct benefit of a 2 million sq ft data center next to their community is “eat shit” and you wonder why they’re opposed to them.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@goatpurple1 @constans @AlanaSmith36127 Temporary jobs from large construction firms that don’t go to locals. 1 permanent job for every 5k sq ft of data center. In some states they increase utility bills and there are zero guarantees residents will pay lower property taxes.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@constans @AlanaSmith36127 They employ very few people in places where they’re being built. They enrich their owners/ investors and not the communities who have to share space with them. They’re built to accelerate AI driven job losses. Office parks are ugly but at least they employed more local workers.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Voters at the state level are voting to end factory-farming practices that amount to mass animal torture.

But Republicans in Congress are doing their utmost to protect businesses' right to torture animals.

https://t.co/NzkOPNalQ3

[The Detroit News @detroitnews]

Opinion: Howes: Welcome to Poor Michigan, former economic engine of the Midwest https://t.co/AMJlcKUCZ5

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@as_a_worker @DFin24 @mnolangray Federal interstate highways, federal urban renewal, “slum clearing” policies, suburbanization, suburban housing incentives, FHA, offshoring, anti-labor efforts relocating manufacturing away from union activity. Origins of the Urban Crisis.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@page501_ @CameronCorduroy It’s called GAO

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

I don’t know if people understand that what the Trump regime is doing is historic. They are looting the treasury right in front of our eyes as they collapse the economy and start illegal wars of aggression. The corruption is so severe and brazen that it truly boggles the mind to take it all in.

[With Love, JerLisa Nicole @JerLisa_Nicole]

Being an American right now is just waking up and being told how much more money our president is stealing and having to go about our day like normal.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The President is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them.

Got it.

It's just mind blowing that is what's happening in America.

[eric j s p @ericnoterik]

@JeremiahDJohns Mike Johnson has never disclosed a personal bank account in his congressional financial disclosure, and there’s speculation that he funnels it into his church to manage his finances for him, tax free.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.

But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.

[theselongwars @theselongwars_]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

Detroit is one of my favorite places to visit in the states. Yes, everything Patrick says is true, the history and architecture are awesome. The art museum and Motown museums are gems.

But also for one of the best living art scenes. You can see incredible electronic music, then a killer punk/post punk show in a tiny venue (protomartyr are hometown heroes). Then take shots and 4 dollar beers with the band. End the night with a coney (or 3). Amazing artist run galleries and art spaces everywhere, in lofts and warehouses.

If you like art/music/history/fun, highly recommended.

[Dominique Devereaux’s Son @wondermann5]

Leftists were occupying college campuses, protesting movie premieres and stalking Kamala’s book tour over Gaza. I better see that same energy for what’s happening in Tennessee and the south.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

When I say the country is institutionally rigged for Republicans I’m talking about how Virginia gets their maps struck down after a two year process involving multiple legislative sessions and a statewide referendum but Tennessee can just decide not to enfranchise Memphis anymore